Sailing News

VG2024 Vulnerable Sam Goodchild
Vendée Globe leaders starting to fly downwind towards the Cape of Good Hope

Monday morning the leaders of the Vendée Globe are riding a secondary depression north of Rio de Janeiro and starting to fly downwind towards the Cape of Good Hope

SailGP GBR Dylan Fletcher
Dylan Fletcher returns to SailGP circuit like a duck to water with second place finish in Dubai

In his first event as Driver of the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team, Dylan Fletcher steered the team to a second place finish.

SailGP Dubai ESP Washdown
SailGP Season 5 – Day 2 Racing delayed

SailGP has confirmed that the live broadcast window of Dubai’s second day of racing will be delayed by one hour ie 11:00 hrs UK

SailGP Dubai Day 1 Fleet
SailGP Season 5 kicks off with slo-mo action at Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix

The first event of SailGP Season 5 -Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix – was delayed while what little wind there was settled on Dubai’s Mina Rashid

VG2024 Charlie Dalin Macif
Vendee Globe – Charlie Dalin (MACIF) is the leader Saturday morning

Of the 39 boats still racing in the Vendée Globe most are now out of the Doldrums and almost half are now across the Equator in the Southern Hemisphere

SailGP GBR Dylan Fletcher
Everything is bigger and better for the start of the 2025 SailGP Season 5 in Dubai

SailGP F50s are ready, the teams are primed and the wait is almost over. Everything…

SailGP GBR Kai Hockley
London teenager joins Ainslie’s Emirates GBR SailGP Team for F50 training sessions in Dubai

A London teenager selected by Sir Ben Ainslie as a development sailor for his British sailing teams has joined the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team on-board their race boat for the first time

Performance People Ben Ainslie Pod Cast
On the Record – The inside take from INEOS Britannia skipper Ben Ainslie

Now the dust has settled on the 37th America’s Cup, it’s the perfect time to look back on how things played out both on and off the water with Ben Ainslie

Oyez, Oyez, Oyez . . . Call for Bids for the 49er and Nacra 17 Classes

Call for Bids – 2026-2028 Europeans and 2028 World Championships for 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 Classes

VG2024-Paprec Arkea
Vendee Globe – Yoann Richomme sets a new solo 24 hours monohull distance record

Paprec Arkéa solo skipper Yoann Richomme dramatically bettered the solo 24 hours monohull distance record set just a week ago by Nico Lunven (HOLCIM-PRB).

iQfoil Asian Championships
iQFOiL Asian Championships hit by typhoon off the coast of Shenzhen

The first day of racing at the iQFOiL Asian Championships and iQFOiL International Games in Shenzhen, China, faced challenging conditions

OK Dinghy Roger Blaase AUS
Aussie Roger Blasse is new OK Dinghy World No. 1

For the first time ever the former two time OK Dinghy world champion, Roger Blasse, from Australia, is the OK Dinghy World No.1