The effort to win the America’s Cup has led to innovation which has trickled down to recreational sailing, and while these advancements have improved equipment, most have also increased the cost to compete.
On Saturday 8th June, the RS200/400 Eastern Sprint Championships took place at Greystones Sailing Club in Co. Wicklow. In total 19 boats arrived between 200s and 400s in eager anticipation with a great forecast.
The B14s are heading West to Royal Torbay for their championship sharing this fabulous venue with the International 14s from 13- 16th June. The weather gods are up to their usual tricks with big winds and waves forecast for 3 of the 4-day event.
SailGP, the world's most exciting racing on water, announced today that internationally-acclaimed dance music duo Loud Luxury will perform at the upcoming Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix.
The Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC), along with Olympic Marine, are pleased to announce Rolex as the Official Timepiece of this year's edition of the AEGEAN 600 yacht race.
Lloyd Stevenson Boatbuilders update on the new Catalyst GT build. This high-speed, luxury guest transfer vessel and water sports tender has been commissioned for a private resort in the Caribbean.
The marine industry lost one of its best-known yacht dealers and sailors when Russell Hodgson died in April.
Doing a couple of half windward legs before the start, I felt there were frequent large shifts and gusts meaning the sides would be dangerous and the right side approaching the windward mark may have less wind in general.
The Merlin Rocket Class has launched their latest edition of their class magazine and it's now available in digital format.
The forecast was for showers and a wind strength for somewhere in the twenties, straight down the lake. On arrival we had 6 skippers debaating to whether or not they should have maybe just stayed at home.
The weekend saw 16 diehard mothies travel up to GWSC to join 2 locals for the well forecasted Inlands. For those that couldn't make it, the FOMO will have set in hard at a particular family wedding, on some keelboats and at a children's birthday party.
The RS800s joined the party for the Lymington Dinghy Regatta last weekend, which was also part of the Rooster National Tour. The format was 3 races a day in a gusty Northerly and normal Lymington amounts of tides.
Not only testing the physical and mental limits of the modern foiling waterman, but also enabling action for the environment with beach clean ups being organised in both Denmark and Sweden.
As the XVIII edition of the SW Rendezvous draws to a close, it's time to cheer the winners-that is everyone- and look back fondly on five days of pure pleasure.
Having had a great social at the Club, the fleet gathered for what appeared a steady westerly. Mike Cowan and his race team aboard the good ship Siesta set a cracking course of A,1, G with a finish back where we started just to the west of the river.
Eric Twiname once described sailing racing as like 'Going up the down escalator', by which he meant that the boat that made the fewest mistakes got to the finish line first.
The ECB (European Central Bank) cuts rates for the first time in five years, as expected, offering relief to borrowers. Markets anticipate that the ECB will cut again, at least once, this year.
On the final day of the Australian Women's Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), competitors and officials alike were seduced by a forecast of up to 8 knots on Port Phillip, but the breeze did not break 8 knots.
Electric power on board is becoming an ever-more popular option, but what will we do with old batteries? The auto industry may have a solution Rushing to wean ourselves off fossil fuels it seems we’re building another problem for the future.
Twenty-four X boats appeared on the start line for day one of Lymington Respect Gin XOD Week 2024. A very shifty and patchy wind and a turning spring tide gave Mike Cowan and his team a tricky time on David Da Cunha's Committee boat Siesta.
For Saturday the racing was based on the Redwing's 'Edwardian' race for the Bembridge Harbour Trophy; a race that uses as many of the pre-war buoys with as close to a harbour start and a harbour finish possible.
Expectations were high for the Eastern Area ITCA Championships at Snettisham Beach Sailing Club. The last two years of events at Snett', the weather has been glorious.
Justina Kitchen and Lukas Walton-Keim become New Zealand's first ever Kite Olympians. The pair have been added to the NZ team for the Paris 2024 Olympics, and will compete in the Women's and Men's Kitefoil events.
The night before an Open even tends to be a quiet affair, not at Budworth! We played host to an evening with Craig Mitchell who is an Umpire in the Sail GP series and we had 40 members and guests from the Open.
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