Last words with the skippers on the pontoon: Liz Wardley (Sojasun):  “This is my 5th participation and I am really happy to be here. Each year it is slightly different, this year it is the course, the competitors, and new ...

Quantum Racing sit on the threshold of back to back regatta wins after a second and a first today on the Bay of Palma to go into Saturday?s one final race of the 14th Breitling Regatta with a lead ...

The 50 sailors competing in this year’s Solitaire du Figaro finally got off today on the first leg from La Rochelle in France to the Galician port of Vigo in Northern Spain.  This is the first of three legs ...

12 to 18 knots of wind and rolly seas greeted the sailors for a sunny day two of racing. Course five, a four island passage race was selected for all racing classes and the Classics were sent on a ...

Top sailors from 18 nations will meet for the Aberdeen Dragon European Championship in Oslo, Norway at the beginning of August. 62 boats will take to the water including defending title holder Marcus Wieser (UKR). The biggest contingent this ...

Approaching Newfoundland, the bulk of the troops in the 7th Quebec Saint Malo are making headway on a beat in the waters of the Cabot Strait. Within the Class 40 fleet the battle is raging off Cap Ray, to ...

ICAN Marine becomes official supplier of the AIS System for Derek Hatfield and the Spirit of Canada campaign to race around the world in the Vendée Globe 2008. Derek Hatfield, Skipper of Spirit of Canada commented: “We are very ...

Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA), host venue for the 2012 sailing events, was privileged to attend the 1908 Olympic sailing centenary celebrations on the Isle of Wight.  The event was run by the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, ...

The international Quebramar GP42 Cup is ready for the 4th event of the season, the famous Copa del Rey. The 7-strong GP42 fleet will be battling on the waters of the Palma bay from July 28th to August 2nd ...

 Around the Audi MedCup Circuit village this morning the mood is part morning after, part anticipation. As well as yesterday’s pivotal Coastal Race which was won by Quantum Racing (USA), collecting maximum points, and the tough day for Mean ...

I got involved with the Audi MedCup circuit mostly because I had spent a number of years working with Cristabella first with their IMS boat and later with their TP52 and I got to know all the guys, Puro ...

  iShares Cup:  Top-class line up for iShares Cup at Skandia Cowes Week There's just one week to go until Round 3 of the iShares Cup Sailing Series, and the UK leg of the Extreme 40 circuit is shaping ...

Thursday 24 July 2008: Today we have been sailing along the Portuguese coastline in light winds of between 8 - 13 knots. We are now only about 600 nautical miles away from Lanzarote, which means we will arrive on ...

Christian Radich (Norway) has now regained the lead overall on corrected time. Close behind her is fellow Norwegian Sorlandet clearly trying to give her a run for her money, with Mir (Russia), who always a great competitor in these ...

The old "dark and stormy day" cliché applied perfectly to the opener for the second-half of New York Yacht Club's (NYYC) sixth biennial Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex. Sent to race courses in northern Narragansett Bay to ...

The Vintage Yachting Games, The “Olympics” for the Former Olympic Classes reached, two months before the start of her first edition, the same magnitude of the sailing part of the 1948 London Olympics. The 1948 Olympics and the Vintage ...

In what is currently proving to be an upwind version of the Transat Quebec Saint Malo, all 27 of the competing yachts are slamming against the waves and not one of them, be they multihulls on a beat beneath ...

Hervé Cléris and his "Prince de Bretagne" are still making heading in the wake of "Forget Formation" skippered by Pascal Quintin. He tells of us his rounding of the Gaspésie yesterday, a fabulous day 'surrounded by a school of ...

Four races in lighter winds and eleven in heavier was an excellent test of all-round skills. The race committee, headed by Orhan Tüker and aided by the two IROs - Alen Kustic and Luis Ormaechea - did a great ...

The Regatta Breitling is clearly a great source of pride for me because I would never have imagined that it could ever have become what it is today! Especially if we look back a little at the history of ...

For Chris Welsh a victory, for Doug Baker a record, and both accomplished what they set out to do in the Transpacific Yacht Club's 13th Tahiti Race. "First overall on our bucket is pretty neat," said Welsh, reflecting on ...

 The strongest wind of the event so far, confused chop, and a building ground swell marked the first day of freestyle competition in Fuerteventura. From the outset, Normen Günzlein (JP, NeilPryde) made his intentions clear, as he cast team ...

Ralfie and I just came off watch from the best night of sailing we have experienced yet. The clouds have finally cleared and the stars couldn't be brighter. With a blazing half moon all of our headlights have remained ...

A perfect day for Quantum Racing and a black day for Mean Machine sees the Audi MedCup Circuit leaders take over the lead of the 14th Breitling Regatta off Puerto Portals, Mallorca. Their best Coastal Race of the Audi ...

The first yachts home during the second leg of the record-breaking Baltic Sprint Cup 2008, the 4th annual edition of the race, have now arrived in Klaipeda. The yachts are expected to continue arriving through Friday afternoon - just ...

Light and predominantly light airs. In these conditions the fleet of the 7th Transat Quebec Saint Malo are certainly not going to beat any speed records. With the exception perhaps of the trimaran Crêpes Whaou! which has gained some ...

The weather gods smiled once again on the 2008 British Yacht Club Regatta, providing bright warm sunshine and twelve to fifteen knot breezes, as the classic boats left the Cowes Yacht Haven this morning for day four of the ...

Race three and four were completed yesterday, the second day of racing, at the Junior 470 World Championships for Men/Mixed and Women crews. Lavie LIOR and Amir YAM (ISR) hold their lead in the Men’s 470, and Tara PACHECO ...

The concerns about having wind for the regatta where put to rest around eight this morning the SW Monsoon arrived with an a vengence. Over three inches of rain bucketed down at Phuket airport before the sailors braved their ...

The passage mark positioned just a stone's throw from Percé and its infamous pierced rock is reminiscent of Picadilly Circus at rush hour. 24 hours after the passage of the first yacht competing in this Transat Quebec Saint Malo, ...