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I lived in Ohio for two years and admired the legendary lake sailors of the Midwest. I also mastered driving backwards down long launch ramps, learned not to sit over a Lightning centerboard on lakes with stumps, and found it […]

Thirteen men and two women from eight countries set sail February 24 from Antigua for the solo round the world 2025 Mini Globe Race in 19-foot Globe 580 yachts. This multi-stage race begins with a 1200nm leg to Panama, with […]

Why do some one design classes thrive while others fade? There are several variables at work, but none of it matters without a reliable supply of equipment. The Sunfish Class, strong by many measures, had a supplier that held the […]

Hurricane season isn’t for a few months, but the National Hurricane Center has released the names of all storms expected for 2025, marking the return of a familiar list last used in 2019. Male and female storm names are rotated […]

It’s hard to find a boating community without a Safe Harbor Marina. Since beginning operations September 2015, the Dallas-based company had been on an aggressive acquisitive path, and today own and operate 138 marina and service centers across the U.S. […]

The 2025 RORC Caribbean 600 got underway February 24 with 57 monohulls and nine multihulls starting from Antigua. The 16th edition, which navigates 11 islands, is led at sunset by Bryon Ehrhart’s JuanK 88-foot Lucky which as Rambler 88 set […]

Justin Chisholm’s guest on the latest episode of the Yacht Racing Podcast is the American sailor, meteorologist, and navigation expert, Anderson Reggio. Anderson has just returned home with his family to Newport Rhode Island after a two year assignment in […]

The website used for the 2024 J/24 World Championship was j24worldsseattle.org. The website used for the 2025 Etchells World Championship was etchellsworldsmelbourne.com. Both sites were created specifically for the event, they hold all the history from the event, and they […]

One design class rules not only maintain level racing, but they also define the character of the class. Restrictive rules can maintain affordability while looser rules might attract tinkerers. All of this impacts participation, so class officers need to decide […]

The National Hockey League hosted the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off on February 12-20, replacing its annual All-Star Game with this in-season tournament featuring Canada, Finland, Sweden, and the United States. Games were held in Montreal and Boston, with fan interest […]

by Wendy Mitman Clarke, SAIL magazine Even if you know it’s coming, 30 knots is a lot. And we—and presumably the whole fleet competing in last September’s Naval Academy Sailing Squadron Fall Race to Cambridge—knew it was coming. It’s safe […]

Bristol, RI (February 21, 2025) – US Sailing, the national governing body for the sport of sailing in the United States, today announced a strategic restructuring of its organization to optimize support for its core programs, including Olympic and high-performance […]

In their bid for the 2016 Olympic Games, Brazil made assurances that the pollution in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay would be resolved. However, Olympic bidders have a history of not following through on promises, and this failure required emergency […]

Following his arrest for three cases of aggravated sexual abuse, Argentine sailing coach Leandro Tulia was removed from his position by the Yacht Club Olivos (Buenos Aires, ARG), where he worked as an instructor at the Optimist school for more […]

The 2025 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) marks the 25th Anniversary of the Tour, the longest running global professional sailing series and Special Event of World Sailing. The 2025 season features a 16-event schedule across 10 countries including five ‘World […]

US Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Cole Brauer will join Team Malizia as co-skipper on their 60-foot IMOCA alongside skipper Boris Herrmann and co-skipper Will Harris. Brauer made history as the first American woman to race solo nonstop around the […]

The 2025 RORC Caribbean 600, which starts from Antigua on February 24, has 97 entrants for the 16th edition across IRC, CSA, Class40, and Multihull divisions. The non-stop 600nm race around 11 islands is a navigator’s dream and nightmare rolled […]

The Magenta Project (TMP), a pioneering force in advancing equity and inclusion in the world of sailing, has appointed Victoria Low as its first Chief Executive Officer. The UK-registered charity works with individuals and organizations around the world to make […]

The Global Solo Challenge is a single-handed, non-stop round the world yachting event, and for the second edition on 2027-28, Ronnie Simpson (USA) returns with unfinished business. During his participation in the 2023-24 edition, he had rounded all three of […]

The eagerness of sailing to capture commercial attention has led marketers toward car racing comparisons: • SailGP is the NASCAR of sailing • America’s Cup is the F1 of sailing “We have always said SailGP is for the racing fan […]

Since 1976, the US Sailing Championship of Champions is that annual competition when one design title holders gather to compete in the same boat for ultimate bragging rights. The 2025 edition will be held in the Sandpiper, a 15-foot catboat […]

Since the Royal Yacht Squadron was announced as the Challenger of Record for the 38th America’s Cup, the British team which represented the club for the past three editions had imploded. With skipper Sir Ben Ainslie and team sponsor Sir […]

As the Port of Barcelona reveals losses from hosting the 37th America’s Cup, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown wants to play a role in bringing the America’s Cup back to the New Zealand city if he’s elected for a second term, […]

Before the USA won an Olympic medal in the Men’s Skiff event at Paris 2024, the nation was far from the world standard in the 49er Class. After legacy teams moved on, the USA was 15th of 20 in 2012, […]

The United States SailGP Team has no shortage of swagger, but their racing performance has not kept pace. Their recent calamity of incorrectly pressing the wing invert button caused sufficient damage to keep them from racing. Only Germany has caused […]

To profit from hosting the America’s Cup has once again proved elusive as the Port of Barcelona recorded a financial loss of €3.5 million from hosting the 2024 edition between August and October. Perhaps the City Council sensed this when […]

Following three competing teams abandoning their yachts during the 2024 Newport Bermuda Race or return delivery, the Bermuda Race Organizing Committee (BROC) partnered with US Sailing and the Cruising Club of America to conduct an in-depth safety review from the […]

It is a healthy exercise to consider what impacts participation in the sport, and Scuttlebutt found the jib in-haul system on the J/70 Class boat to be an adjustment with marginal benefit that makes the boat harder to sail across […]

The Ocean Cruising Club has revealed the winners of its 2024 awards for sailing and voyaging accomplishments featuring its Seamanship Award to British Vendée Globe racer Pip Hare (above) and the Lifetime Award to Canadian Victor Wejer. The Ocean Cruising […]

The Colorado Springs Olympic and Paralympic Training Center (CSOPTC) is a world-class training venue open to all Team USA athletes, focusing on the full athlete experience with lodging, a dining hall, sports medicine clinic, science lab, and state of the […]

US Sailing Board President Henry Brauer offered these remarks to open the 2025 US Sailing Leadership Forum held February 6-8 in Coronado, CA: Good morning. Let me first introduce myself. I am Henry Brauer the recently elected President of the […]

Using the Ocean Fifty offshore trimaran circuit as the platform, two time Olympian Francesca Clapcich launched in 2024 a new racing program – Upwind by MerConcept – to provide women with racing opportunities at the highest level. Following her end […]

The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association is seeking a passionate and highly organized Executive Director to lead the administrative operations of collegiate sailing in the United States. This is a full-time, remote position (East Coast preferred) with required travel to major collegiate […]

Port Washington, WI (February 13, 2025) – SAILING Magazine’s long run as a print magazine has ended. The publication that started as a newspaper for Lake Michigan sailors and grew into a glossy, oversized national sailing magazine respected by readers […]

by Carol Cronin Halfway through a group dinner at my first regatta of 2025, I realized: I’ve been sailing Snipes on Miami’s Biscayne Bay for 34 years. Though on my best days I feel almost as fresh and eager as […]

The World Sailing Speed Record Council is managing a new category for wingfoils, posting national records along with the outright speed of 33.55 knots by Alessandro Tomasi (ITA). – Details SCUTTLEBUTT News Link ! DemirHindiSG 13 Şubat 2025-20:09

The World Sailing Speed Record Council confirmed the establishment of a new Singlehanded 60-foot and Singlehanded Monohull 24 hour records. Sébastien Simon (FRA) on his IMOCA Groupe Dubreuil completed the distance of 614.91 nm on November 26-27 at an average […]

All 12 solo skippers completed the 2025 McIntyre Globe 580 Transat on their home-built 19-foot plywood Globe 5.80 Mini Class boats. Leaving the Canary Islands on January 11, Renaud Stitelmann (SUI) on Capucinette won the third edition, covering the nearly […]

In their Extraordinary Boats series, Yachting World profiles the Globe 5.80, a 19-footer designed specifically for the Mini Globe Race. “Go small, go cheap, go now,” famously said Lin and Larry Pardy, who sailed for decades aboard small engineless yachts […]

What happens after the solo skippers in the 2024-25 Vendée Globe cross the finish line in Les Sables d’Olonne, France? For Boris Herrmann (GER), his IMOCA yacht Malizia – Seaexplorer is back into the shed for a well-earned post race […]

Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea started their Olympic campaign in 2017 for the Women’s Skiff event, and endured the difficult baptism new teams face when learning how to sail the 49erFX boat. But that was then, with Roble providing this […]

The SailGP league requires each team to have at least one female on the crew, and for 11 of the 12 teams, the women fit into the strategist role behind the helm. But for the USA team, the 26-year-old Anna […]

The 2025 Women’s World Match Racing Tour will have six events in four countries – USA, France, Sweden, and Bermuda. Now in its fourth consecutive season, the tour remains the only all-female global series in sailing, designed to promote and […]

When the 2024 Newport to Bermuda Race incurred dismastings, abandonments, and assorted retirements, organizers initiated a review of the incidents to understand the circumstances and implications. The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee, in collaboration with the Cruising Club of America and […]

After a five-year hiatus, the J/24 Canadian Class Association has appointed a new council and has scheduled the 2025 J/24 Canadian National Championship on June 20-22 in Ottawa, Ont. The Nationals will be hosted by Nepean Sailing Club and held […]

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” – from The Wind in the Willows SCUTTLEBUTT News Link ! DemirHindiSG 12 Şubat 2025-15:09

  Success at the Olympic level requires a long-term commitment, with Canada getting good news as Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance from Chester, N.S. will continue their campaign towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games in the Women’s Skiff event. The […]

One design class boats are managed by organizations to manage rules and promote activity such as the… • International Laser Class Association – ILCA • International Sunfish Class Association – ISCA Remember the acronyms, for these two World Sailing classes […]

It is not a stretch to say the healthiest area of the sport is class racing. This isn’t necessarily because people dislike rating rules, but rather class organizations manage the limits to maintain interest. In this report by Matthew Sheahan […]

The Great Britain SailGP Team claimed their inaugural 2025 Season victory at the third stage held February 8-9 Sunday in Sydney, Australia. The win was also a first for driver Dylan Fletcher after a hard-fought three-boat showdown against the Canada […]

The Polish port city of Gdynia has been chosen to host the 2025 World Sailing Youth Match Racing World Championships, taking place July 21-27 as part of the annual Gdynia Sailing Days festival. Sixteen teams – an increase of four […]

The 2025 RORC Transatlantic Race, marking its 11th edition, commenced on January 12th from Calero Marinas Marina Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The 3,000-nautical-mile race across the Atlantic attracted sailors from 19 different nations, bound for Camper & Nicholsons Port […]

Les Sables d’Olonne, France (February 2, 2025; Day 85) – Arnaud Boissières (FRA), skipper of the recently dismasted La Mie Câline has been forced to retire from the race in the end. He took this decision today and made it […]

Teams hoping to be involved in the 2027 America’s Cup are meeting in London under the shadow of the Ainslie-Ratcliffe falling-out. Since INEOS Britannia announced that it had parted company with Sir Ben Ainslie and would enter a challenge for […]

The next SailGP event is on February 8-9 in Sydney, Australia, and there may be no better ambassador for the league and country than Tom Slingsby. Will Lennox from GQ Australia provides this report: For many Australians, our greatest association […]

by Ross Tibbits, Latitude 38 One of sailing’s most iconic yachts, Ragtime, the 1965 Spencer-designed 62-ft sloop first made famous for winning her first two Transpacs in 1973 and 1975, has a storied history like few others. It began in […]

by John Arndt, Latitude 38 American Magic, the US challenger for the 36th and 37th America’s Cup, and Nautor Swan recently announced a partnership aimed at energizing sailing in America. We’re skeptical. We’re reminded that the peak growth of participation […]