As Cowes Week celebrates its landmark 200th anniversary, Sir Ben Ainslie will return to the Solent to race alongside the Athena Pathway Youth Squad. Competing across four days of the regatta, Ainslie, GB1 sailor Ben Cornish and Emirates GBR SailGP Team sailor Neil Hunter will race with members of the Athena Pathway Youth Squad. The initiative forms part…

2026 Fireball World Champions are DJ Edwards and Vyv Townend, finishing 18.5 pts clear of Simon Kings and Jono Loe. Kings and Loe’s boat was holed on the penultimate day and they received redress. But a 68 in the first race (discarded) of the final day spoiled their championship hopes, despite recovering with a second…

GB1 CEO, Ian Walker, checks in on the build of GB1’s AC75 race boat ahead of the 38th America’s Cup in Naples. The British America’s Cup team – GB1 – Has finally broken cover to reveal the latest build stage of their AC75, currently undergoing conversion to meet the AC38 protocol design changes. This involves…

The Royal London Yacht Club (RLYC) hosted an epic edition of the Rovika Open UK SB20 Nationals and Open Championships at Cowes. Gathering 31 teams from across Australia, France, Belgium, Singapore and the UK, four days of action spanned from 25-knot Solent blasts to nail-biting light-air tactical battles setting a new benchmark for the UK…

After their dramatic earlier nosedive during training on the 15 July, Luna Rossa’s B3 AC75 has spent the last 14 days in the team’s hangar being inspected and modified. Returning to the water off Cagliari, Sardinia, Wednesday 29 July, with near perfect conditions of flat water and a thermal breeze of 11-13 knots that faded to…

The Nacra 15 World Championship is underway in Plymouth, UK and with seven races completed over the first two days, there have been seven different winners. European Champions Alessandro Vargiu and Noa Lisci of Italy are overall leaders with five finishes in the top three including a win in race 3, they have 15 pts…

Discard Day duly shuffled the fleet on the third day of the 2026 Fireball Worlds at Torbay. The new leaders all dropped a maximum point discard after six races. New leader is DJ Edwards and Vyv Townend who added a 5 and 1 to lead with 12 pts, second Georgia Booth and Oliver Davenport, recovering…

SailGP chief Russell Coutts picked the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix at Portsmouth as the event to introduce Group Racing – splitting the 13 teams into two Groups – involving more races. And he choose well, conditions were ideal and 20,000 paying customers got more quick-fire racing under the new format. More races and…

Second day of racing at the Fireball Worlds at Torbay on the South coast of England and after four races completed Peter Gray and Richard Pepperdine have a 21 point lead. Gray and Pepperdine are the only pair still in all single figure finishes 3,4,8,5, with Australia’s Heather Macfarlane and Chris Payne in second with…

‘Rules is rules’ and the unwritten rule of SailGP racing is that first at the first mark, is first to the finish. And that rule of thumb was working throughout the ten SailGP fleet races at Portsmouth and was only overturned in the winner-takes-all Final. Sweden lead from the start until Spain’s Los Gallos, who…