Groupama 34 win the first two in-port races at Dunkirk Sobedo win the third Three triangle courses planned for Sunday (8:30am departure time from the dock) before departing on the first offshore leg to Breskens (7:00pm from the dock) This afternoon the Tou...
This morning the sailors walked down the docks to find extreme fog obscuring the boats at the dock! The fog never lifted, so only a few classes got a race off.
A big part of an America's Cup campaign is having contingency plans for when things don't go as planned. One area perhaps more important than most is the fitness of the sailing team and if key members were to get sick or injured. The team is rotating the c...
Out of 19 classes, 16 (four IRC, five PHRF and seven One-Design) fit in three races today, while the remaining three (Cruising Spinnaker, Cruising Non-Spinnaker, and Double Handed) sailed their scheduled single navigator-style race. On four different race ...
One day before the finals of the Kiel Week in the Olympic disciplines, the Germans can already celebrate the first winner of the German teams at the European Champions Sailing Cup (ECSC).
The final day of the PWA Catalunya World Cup witnessed a mammoth final elimination, which took four hours to complete due to the gusty and shifty winds. After a long and largely frustrating afternoon, Antoine Albeau (RRD / NeilPryde), eventually powered to...
Light winds eased the twelve competing teams gently into day one of the RC44 Sweden Cup in Marstrand, owners and pro's took to the helm for the sole match race day of the event. Team Aqua, with Cameron Appleton at the helm, won the day with a 6-1 scoreline...
The Myth of Malham on board 'Monster Project', a Volvo 70, and the De Guingand Bowl on board 'Rho', a Sigma 38. The Myth of Malham race was Cowes to Eddystone and back to North Head, in Christchurch Bay. Mostly light airs and quite a tactical race, 'Mons...
The new race format for the olympic classes at the Kiel Week makes the result lists more dynamic. After the first two racing days, the sailors have only taken their position as a point score into the first elimination round. So the first race of the best t...
After a short windward-leeward loop off Dun Laoghaire at the start the course goes to Bardsey Island off the Anglesey coast, which is expected to be a 60 miles downwind leg in NW'ly winds starting off at a moderate 10-15kts and building later to 25kts. Bar...
The Team Volvo sailors including four times gold medallist Ben Ainslie, a former Optimist sailor, are helping to try and bring the Optimist World Championships back to the UK and supporting grassroots sailing in the UK.
Wind from South East, with heavy gusts for the start, dropping a bit later on with nice sunny weather for the sailors on the triangle courses in front of Schilksee on the first race day of Kiel Week (22. - 30. June) made it a perfect hard-workings sailing ...
MOD70 Spindrift which capsized at the start of the first inshore race is towed back to dock and with a crane, righted. Now all they need is a new mast, rigging and sails etc. A sad sight.
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The MOD70 Spindrift capsized on the first leg of the Route des Princes inshore races in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. All crew are safe and sound, but Jacques Guichard, Yann's brother and a key member of the crew, was hurt in the accident. ...
AC UNCUT's Genny Tulloch catches up with Luna Rossa skipper Max Sirena to hear about challenges the Italian team faces against the clock in this 34th America's Cup, and the anticipated arrival of 'new toys' in the coming days.
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1845 UTC and the Figaro fleet is in the process of breaking free of the French mainland and heading across the northern entrance of the Chenal du Four towards the north coast of Ouessant. The 39 boats - Vincent Biarnes has had to re...
At sunrise, the MOD70 Spindrift won the second stage of the Route des Princes between Lisbon and Dublin-Dun Laoghaire. Spindrift crossed the line at 05:37hrs and 48 sec (local time), after 2 days, 15 hours, 37 minutes and 48 seconds of a race that was thri...
To Ireland's 19th century emigrants who were heading for a new life across the Atlantic in America the Fastnet Rock became known as Ireland's Teardrop. But for Ireland's Damian Foxall this morning, passing the legendary rock was reason for Irish sailing's ...
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