SailGP speed record under threat
New Zealand's Black Foils head into the Rockwool Germany Sail Grand Prix this weekend looking to put together a complete performance as strong offshore winds put SailGP's F50 speed record under threat.
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Kaleo Shirts: Celebrate Dads on Father's Day
This Father's Day, we're celebrating the dads, grandads and father figures who got us out there in the first place. Give your Dad a Kaleo Kiwi Classic - designed in Aotearoa. Inspired by the places Dad loves.
Melges 15 UK Nationals Preview
GP Watercraft are delighted to announce the Melges 15 UK National Championship will now be held at Warsash Sailing Club between the 18th and 20th September.
Phantom National Championship runners and riders
It's an odd time for your humble turf accountant and sailing raconteur. Some say the country is going to the dogs and, sadly for me, Walthamstow lost the dogs some years ago.
Newport Harbor YC sailors' Team Racing triumph
USA 1, winner of the World Sailing Open Team Racing World Championship, held in Stockholm, Sweden, August 12 -16 included two Newport Harbor Yacht Club sailors who sailed for the same College nearly 3,000 miles away and eight years apart.
From Dublin Bay's Startline
Matt Wearn AUS arrives in Dun Laoghaire on a perfect season, Willem Wiersema NED arrives as the defending champion, and 141 sailors from 45 nations arrive ready to make sure neither of them has it easy.
Emirates GBR 'excited to get racing'
Emirates GBR Driver Dylan Fletcher MBE said the team was "excited to get racing" as SailGP returns to the fastest racecourse in the championship this weekend.
Home Water, Higher Stakes
The Rolex SailGP Championship returns to the Baltic this weekend for the ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix. Thirteen international teams will race meters from the shoreline in front of a sold-out crowd of 13,000 across the weekend.
B14 Nationals at Mumbles Day 1
The B14 Nationals is being hosted by the very hospitable Mumbles Yacht Club with a plentiful supply of bacon butties to prepare the fleet for the windiest day of the Champs.
DF95 Summer Series at Barton's Point week 5
14 races were sailed with 13 boats competing on a good course set by Dave Tomlinson. But unlucky for some the wind direction made top marks distant, proving tricky. All but one used A rigs under a blue, white and dark grey sky.
Hurricane 5.9SX Nationals at Thorpe Bay
25 boats came and joined us in the sun. Travellers from: Starcross SC, Datchet SC, Weston SC, Gurnard SC, Stone SC and Stokes Bay SC. Campers and tents parked and pitched, boats rigged and ready, beer flowing, we were off.
Les Sables-d'Olonne welcomes McIntyre Golden Globe
The public is invited to meet 16 skippers and view their classic yachts from 22 August, following Damien Guillou's SITraN Challenge victory and the fleet's first multi-boat GGR Live Window test.
Bala Sailing Club Multihull Open
Bala SC was not the original home of the Bala Cat fleet, they use to reside at the bottom end of the lake, but due to a change of circumstances they joined us and have been an integral part of club life and culture.
Sunset Series at Dell Quay Sailing Club
Dell Quay Sailing Club ran a new series for 2026 over four mid-week evenings. To say the 'Sunset Series' was a success would be a huge understatement! With 30 individual boats registered over the four evenings it was hugely popular.
Noble Marine RS200 Nationals at Torquay overall
Black rain clouds and bonkers wind - what a finale for the end of the 2026 Noble Marine RS200 UK National Championship.
The America's Cup at 175yrs
On August 22, 1851, at 8.37pm the schooner America crossed the finish line to win the £100 Cup donated by the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and which became the America's Cup, arguably the preeminent trophy in international sport.
International Dragon Edinburgh Cup Day 3
There may have been only one race on day three, but what a race it was, with gusts of up to 30 knots from the west-south-west, torrential rain squalls between sunny spells, nasty short seas and plenty of shifts for the sailors to contend with.
52 Super Series Royal Cup Puerto Calero preview
Next week's Puerto Calero Lanzarote 52 SUPER SERIES Royal Cup is the 4th regatta of the 5 events which form the 2026 season and the second back-to-back regatta in breezy Lanzarote after last month's Marina Rubicon Lanzarote 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week.
RS Tera SW Traveller Series at Starcross preview
The annual Starcross Yacht Club Tera Open is happening once again, this year on 5 September. It is part of the RS Tera SW Traveller Series, which is a series of events running throughout the region over the summer months.
Have it all. Do it all.
One hundred and eight feet that is so utterly convertible, adaptable, and versatile, along with being augmentable, as well as safe, ultra-efficient, genuinely eco-friendly, and that's not just because it is all-alloy, as well as having solar panels.
Abersoch Mirror Week 2026 Day 4
The forecast promised strengthening winds, so PRO Phil - armed with hope, a whistle, and the kind of determination usually reserved for people assembling flat-pack furniture - announced that racing would begin at 11:00 sharp.
Palermo-Montecarlo Line Honours for Black Jack 100
The timeless and invincible 100-foot (30-meter) supermaxi, Black Jack 100, strikes again: she wins the 21st edition of the Palermo-Montecarlo 2026 in real time, taking Line Honours and thus the Giuseppe Tasca D'Almerita Challenge Trophy.