Giles Scott joins RC44 owner John Bassadone on Peninsula Racing for the first event of 2022 in Lanzarote hosted by Calero Marinas in Puerto Calero starting Wednesday 9 February
Billionaires new clothes . . . time to pay the piper?
The super-rich have been on a spending spree throughout the covid pandemic that has taken the superyacht business to new heights.
Improved Fleet Rankings model issued for Feb 2022
World Sailing have published the Olympic classes World Rankings for 2022 updated as at 8 Feb 2022. Of the British Sailing Squad only John Gimson and Anna Burnet in the Nacra 17 class hold a No.1 world ranking. These rankings…
Monaco J/70 Winter Series – Britain’s Brutus II take podium place at Act 3
Fifty-two J/70 teams were again on the start line for this third and penultimate meeting of the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series.
Gilbert and McGrane Tame the Tiger
Overnight leaders Roger Gilbert and Ben McGrane sailing a 505 took overall victory at the John Merricks Tiger Trophy with four points from a 2, 1, 1 score line.
Olympics for UK in 2040?
According to the newly published Levelling Up White Paper, Britain could launch another bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
470 to 49erFX for Kiwi Olympic gold medalist
The New Zealand Sailing Team has announced changes to the squad preparing for the Paris 2024 Games
SoloInteractive – Solo class lead the on-line trend
Online interactive class and club magazines are a fast-growing trend and leading the charge, the fourth edition of SoloInteractive has just been released . . .
29er Winter Championship – Peters and Bradley by a whisker
Olly Peters and Ben Bradley took the 29er Winter Championship on count-back after finishing the event at Grafham Water SC, tied on 13 points with Ben O’Shaughnessy and James Dwyer Matthews
World Sailing release new look website
The World Sailing website has a new look and hopefully an improved format/logic to guide users to the massive amount of data it contains
Beadsworth victory at La Coupe de l’Amitié Dragon
Winner of the Dragon class La Coupe de l’Amitié hosted by the YC de Cannes was TUR1212 skippered by Andy Beadsworth with Simon Fry and Arda Baykal
Alexandra Rickham Joins World Sailing
World Sailing has appointed sustainability expert and Paralympic medalist Alexandra Rickham as Head of Sustainability