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Alicante add Sailing events to their Mediterranean Beach Games Bid

The candidacy of Alicante to host the 2031 Mediterranean Beach Games includes the addition of sailing, in the form of the ILCA6 and ILCA7

Palamós Christmas Race Winners

The 48th Palamós Christmas Race crowned its winners after four days of intense competition in the waters of the Bay of Palamos

Reflections on challenges and opportunities facing the RYA club network

In an open letter published on the RYA website, the retiring Commodore of Sea View YC, shared his thoughts with his club members on the challenges facing UK sailing clubs

Vendee Globe – Goodchild forced to stop after headsail failure

Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) suddenly lost his headsail during the night and was forced to stop to untangle the sail from the keel. He stopped the boat and found the 180sq m sail partly wrapped around his port foil. Fortunately he…

Vendee Globe – Dalin and Richomme in Yo-Yo battle for race lead

Then there were two – Yoann Richomme and Charlie Dalin have opened a 200+ nm lead over the Vendee Globe fleet after Point Nemo

Palamós Christmas Race – Day 2 has upsets with restricted racing conditions

Britain’s Archie Munro-Price kept third place in the ILCA6 fleet. While Joe Jones and Hennie Burlton dropped out of contention in the 420 event

Palamós Christmas Race – British pair lead 420 fleet on day 1

The first day of the Palamós Christmas Race regatta resulted in Britain’s Joe Jones and Hennie Burlton leading the 100+ 420 class

48th edition of the traditional Palamós Christmas Race opens in Girona

The 48th Palamós Christmas Race will take place from December 19 to 22 in the waters of Palamós Bay with 30 British crews competing

Vendee Globe – Seb Simon takes race lead as Charlie Dalin suffers sail problem

Seb Simon (Groupe Dubreuil) takes the lead of the Vendee Globe. He last led the race under the Cape of Good Hope.

Christmas comes early for RYA with record Olympic World Class Programme funding

UKsport reveals record £330 million funding for Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games cycle and an increase of 7 percent  (£1,227,992) for Sailing

Yoann Richomme closes on long-time Vendee Globe leader Charlie Dalin

Vendee Globe – Yoann Richomme, skipper of PAPREC ARKÉA has closed to within 2nm of Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) who has led since 2 Dec

Smash and Grab – Jason Panagopoulas claims 2024 World Title in final race

Jason Panagopoulas of Greece sweept to victory at the 2024 Optimist World Championship with his two final race scores, a 2 and 4