Michael Zankel of Portugal, sailing with Diogo Pereira and João Matos Rosa, is the third day leader of the Dragon Class 2026 European Championship. With the discard in play, Zankel was able to drop the 13th from race 5 and then took second behind Albin Boman of Sweden in race 6, taking him to a…

Day 2 of the Dragon Class European Championship taking place in the waters outside Helsinki, has a new leader; Jan Woortman, Michael Koch and Marcel Vockel of Germany. Sailing GER 1221 Sapphire, they have a 4, 5, 1, score of 10 pts giving them a one point lead ahead of Michael Zankel, Diogo Pereira and…

The first phase of the 13th edition of Foiling Week in Malcesine, Italy, has come to a close, 30 June 2026. In the Switch One Design fleet, Finley Dickinson GBR finished the opening phase at the top of the standings, ahead of Federico Bergamasco ITA and Magnus Overbeck NED. Other GBR competitors were 7th Simon…

Hayling Island Sailing Club will host the 505 World Championship, opening the regatta with a UK Nationals/Pre Worlds event this Friday 3 July. The 2026 World Championship will start Monday 6 July with over 90 crews entered from nine countries. The last time the Championship was held at HISC was in 2006 when home club…

The French America’s Team, La Roche-Posay Racing Team, unveiled the new livery of their 2023 AC75 hull on Monday in Lorient. This is the third AC75 to be relaunched by a team competing in the 38th America’s Cup, the La Roche-Posay Racing Team’s boat – now resplendent in the azure blue and white colours of…

Manuel Bragança of Brazil delivered an outstanding performance in Tangier, Morocco, to win the 2026 Optimist World Championship. Finishing first overall in the 284 strong fleet with a net score of 65 points, Bragança received the Beacon Challenge Cup, and the Peter Barclay Trophy as the first boy. The overall podium was completed by Elliot…

The one-race Prince of Wales (POW) National Championship was won by Andy Shaw and Rob Struckett of Itchenor SC. Second were Tim Saxton and George Yeoman also of Itchenor SC, and third Andy and Tom Partington of Hayling Island SC. The iconic event – first raced for at Cowes on 1 August 1927 – was held…

The 2026 Newport Bermuda Race’s most prestigious prize, the St. David’s Lighthouse Trophy, went to Cal 40 Nicole, owned and skippered by Thomas Campbell for winning the St. David’s Lighthouse Division overall title. Line honours, as well as the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Trophy and division title was secured by the largest boat in the race,…

The overall title at The Superyacht Cup Palma Richard Mille regatta went to the expertly sailed ‘Win Win’, which became only the second yacht to ever win the event three times. The distinctive 33m Baltic Yacht had been a previous winner in both 2016 and 2019, and now joins Rose – which last year took…

The opening races saw three of the few surviving Herreshoff NY 40s duelling on the stunning Argentario sea, along with 130-year-old Cariad and other pages of 100+ years of yachting history battling it out on the water. The fifty-strong fleet of classic and vintage yachts is divided into eight classes: Big Boats, Gaff Vintage, Marconi…