Cobham-Ultra GB2 has confirmed the eight young sailors who will represent Great Britain at the Youth America’s Cup in Naples in 2027, with the final four racing crew to be selected from the squad ahead of the event: The British team will be looking to build on its performance at the 37th America’s Cup in…

2026 Bermuda Gold Cup Round Robin Stage is complete and the Repechage has begun . . . Latest reports show British skipper Christian Hamilton (Khumbu Racing) topped the Round Robin leaderboard with eight wins, in a four-way tie with Aurelien Pierroz FRA  (Match Again), Oskar Engstrom SWE (Team Libros) and Jeppe Borch DEN (Borch Matchrace).…

Denmark’s Jeppe Borch (Borch Match Race Team) and Sweden’s Oscar Engström (Team Liros) made a flying start to the 2026 Bermuda King Edward VII Gold Cup. With five wins from six matches, the Scandinavian duo are the early frontrunners at the penultimate stage of the 2026 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT). British skipper Christian Hamilton…

The 47th Rolex Middle Sea Race will start on Saturday, 17 October 2026 from Grand Harbour, organized by the Royal Malta Yacht Club. Its anti-clockwise 606-nautical-mile course takes competitors from Grand Harbour in Valletta through the Strait of Messina, around the volcanic island of Stromboli and past the Aeolian and Aegadian archipelagos, before returning to…

Following the current disruption of international travel to Saudi Arabia, the World Match Racing Tour Final events in AMAALA will be postponed to January 2027. The 2026 Women’s World Match Racing Tour Final and World Match Racing Tour Final were scheduled over the 2 to 14 November at the spectacular AMAALA Yacht Club located on…

SailGP are pushing the 2027 championship circuit as hard as they can go, with tickets on sale for its debut in Hong Kong in January 2027 for the American Express Hong Kong Sail Grand Prix. From there the circuit will pack-up and head to Fremantle for the Australia Sail Grand Prix Perth on 20-21 February,…

Italy’s Olivia Castaldi and Francesco Carrieri come out on top after 13 high-intensity races each over two days, each claiming €5,000 (£4,223) in prize money. The invitation-only WASZP All-Stars Cádiz delivered an action-packed weekend of high-speed foiling, with an elite fleet of 16 sailors, eight men and eight women from across the globe . .…

Furio Benussi’s Arca has won the Barcolana in Trieste for the fourth consecutive year, with 1,858 sailing boats on the starting line. After several days of uncertain weather forecasts, a splendid easterly wind blowing from 110 degrees welcomed the more than 15,000 sailors who had chosen to take part in the world’s largest and most…

Now it is the America’s Cup defenders Emirates Team New Zealand who have resorted to Lawyers and filed its response to North Sails US lawsuit. In a statement issued Friday 9 October, ETNZ claimed that they had been given no choice but to defend its valid patent, intellectual property, and a number of factually inaccurate…

Lauriane Nolot of France and Riccardo Pianosi of Italy are the champions of Poetto Beach in a dominant final-day performance at the Sardinia Kiteboard Grand Slam. After four days of qualifying, the Sardinia Kiteboard Grand Slam came down to a series of knockout finals. The offshore Mistral breeze was again blowing hard, between 18 and…