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…

The 2026 Junior World Championships wrapped up in Medemblik with Italy winning the 49er and Nacra 17 fleets, while Poland took the 49erFX crown with a race to spare. The 49er gold fleet delivered the tightest title fight of the week, Lorenzo Pezzilli and Tobia Torroni taking the win and the 2026 49er Junior World…

Spain’s Los Gallos SailGP Team with Skipper Diego Botin took the overall win at the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix in Portsmouth. The Final winner-takes-all Race Sunday were: 1st ESP Los Gallos SailGP Team – Diego Botin 2nd SWE Artemis – Nathan Outteridge 3rd CAN Northstar – Giles Scott 4th SUI Explora Journeys Swiss…

Jean-Luc Petithuguenin’s French team on Paprec win Marina Rubicón Lanzarote 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, the third event of the season for the leading Grand Prix monohull circuit. They held their nerve across two difficult, breezy final races, making no significant errors when their main title rivals both faltered, to win their first ever regatta…

After Saturday’s performance of the Emirates GBR Team continued to fall well below last season’s League winning standard, the hunt is on for the cause. Emirates GBR helm Dylan Fletcher  described the courses as, quite a difficult course in terms of it being very processional from the start and not many overtake opportunities – so…