The 2026 ILCA 7 Men’s World Championships is taking place in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland at the Royal St. George Yacht Club and National Yacht Club from 23 to 31 August. There are 141 entries from 45 countries. The United States fields the championship’s largest national team with ten sailors, while Australia, Spain, Great Britain and…

I had to check several times but, unlikely as it seemed, this is the first Edinburgh Cup win for the iconic Royal Dragon, Bluebottle GBR192. After receiving Bluebottle in 1948 Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh) presented the Edinburgh Cup in 1949 to the British Dragon Class for the winner of the annual National Championship. After…

The Rolex SailGP Championship circuit returns from its midsummer break for a three event swing through Europe, before heading to Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the Middle East for the season’s Grand Final events. The first event will be this weekend, 22-23 August, in Sassnitz, Germany on the Baltic Sea. Followed by events in Valencia,…

Only one race on day three of the 2026 Edinburgh Cup and UK Dragon Grand Prix off Cowes, but what a race it was, with gusts of up to 30 knots, torrential rain squalls and nasty short seas. For some it was a case of survival, while others revelled in the lively conditions. At the…

Jamie Harris and Ellen Main gave it their best shot, even winning the final race, but the weeks gold-plated leaders Ian Martin and Emma Hivey were not for turning, the title was theirs. Martin and Hivey started the day with a six point lead, stretched it to an event winning advantage with a fourth in…

The 2026 Edinburgh Cup and UK Dragon Grand Prix completed two more races in the Solent with stronger winds and some new faces at the front of the fleet. One that needs no introduction is Bluebottle, GBR192 of Graham and Julia Bailey which took a 1 and 6 in the second two races on Wednesday…

Ben Whaley and Isobel Stewart hit the front, not once but twice, to open up a late charge, while leaders Ian Martin and Emma Hivey hit the wall with a double discard day. Whaley and Stewart won the first race of day 4, ahead of Brendan Lynch and Ellen Clark (2, 8), with Jamie Harris…

Johnny Vincent’s Volvo 70 Pace has been declared the overall winner under IRC for the 2026 RORC Round Britain and Ireland Race. With no remaining competitor able to better Pace’s IRC corrected time, the result gives Vincent and his crew the race’s top prize, adding overall victory to Monohull Line Honours. Pace crossed the Royal…

Pierre Le Boucher’s Class40 Penfret crossed the Round Britain finish line first . . . but at a Protest Hearing, Penfret was deemed to have not sailed the course. Penfret crossed the finish line first in an elapsed time of 9 days 29 mins and 40 secs. They still celebrated, even though they knew a…

The 2026 Edinburgh Cup and UK Dragon Grand Prix opened with two tough races in shifty and at times very wet conditions in the Solent. With its biggest fleet in 30 years, the 2026 Edinburgh Cup and UK Dragon Grand Prix got underway off Cowes with the first two of eight windward-leeward races completed in…