Sailing News

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International Tempest Worlds set for Portsmouth in 2023

Portsmouth (UK) is ramping up the major sailing events for 2023 hosting the International Tempest World Championships

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Unprecedented level of interest in 52 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca

The Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca regatta is set to break attendance records with entries approaching 1000 in the ten Olympic classes

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SailGP – ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix to go ahead

SailGP is confident that at least eight boats will be on the start line in Christchurch, New Zealand next month.

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RORC Caribbean 600 – Pyewacket 70 declared overall winner

By dawn on day four of the RORC Caribbean 600, 29 teams had finished the race with nearly all of them crossing the finish line in a hectic overnight period.

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Jim Saltonstall – My Life in a Blue Suit

Jim Saltonstall MBA, the man credited with making Britain great at Olympic Sailing . . . His remarkable freewheeling autobiography

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INEOS AC40 ‘Athena’ takes flight in Palma

INEOS Britannia, have launched their AC40, the yacht they will use to race in the initial Preliminary Regattas for the 37th America’s Cup.

RORC Caribbean 600 – Pyewacket 70 takes Monohull Line Honours

Roy P. Disney’s Pyewacket 70 (USA) has taken Monohull Line Honours in the 2023 RORC Caribbean 600 in an elapsed time of 42 hours 45 mins 06 secs.

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SailGP – Matt Gotrel ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’

Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team grinder Matt Gotrel has relived the moment he slipped through the fairing of the British F50 and into the water during racing in Sydney.

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RORC Caribbean 600 – Zoulou Triumph by 11 Seconds

MOD70 Zoulou sailed by Erik Maris of France won Multihull Line Honours in the 2023 RORC Caribbean 600 by just 11 seconds.

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GB Olympic 470 champion Eilidh McIntyre retires from Olympic campaigning

Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Eilidh McIntyre is to retire from Olympic campaigning

2023 RORC Caribbean 600 Start
Seventy boats start RORC Caribbean 600 off Antigua

At the RORC Caribbean 600 seventy boats started racing under IRC, Class40 and MOCRA Rules at 11:00 AST on Monday 20 February.

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Europe Class – Jonathan Llado of Sweden is 2023 European Champion

Jonathan Llado of Sweden is the 2023 European Champion of the Europe Class.