Groupama Race: First spinnaker start in history, and fleet recovers after strong southerly
June 20, 2022
The forecast for the start was a low pressure system with a front bringing gusts of up to 30 knots from the south. The 160 sailors all prepared for it, but what eventuated was a light northerly.
The seventh edition of the Groupama Race got away under spinnaker…
Dare to Dream
August 8, 2021
When I was eight years old, I announced to my family after winning my 50 metre backstroke race at primary school that I was “going to go to the Olympics”. I believe in the same year, I also announced that I was going to star in a Broadway show… as kids, we dare to…
Rolex Fastnet Race – big or a small boat race?
August 8, 2021
The start of the Rolex Fastnet Race will take place from the Royal Yacht Squadron line off Cowes on Sunday.The largest offshore race in the world, the Rolex Fastnet Race fleet represents a complete pantheon of almost 350 yachts, ranging from giant Ultime trimarans and brand…
470 Gold Medals for Australia and Great Britain
August 4, 2021
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition concluded with two Medal Races in the 470 Men and 470 Women.With the 470 becoming a Mixed Event for Paris 2024, today was the last time that these partnerships would race side by side in the same boat.The 8 to 10 knot…
Gold Medals for Italy & Brazil and two for Great Britain at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition
August 3, 2021
It was a sensational day of racing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition on the day that IOC President Thomas Bach experienced the sport for himself.
Brazil repeated Rio gold in the Women’s Skiff – 49erFX, Italy claimed Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17…
Lack of wind sets up for four medal races on Tuesday
August 2, 2021
HOW TO FOLLOW TOKYO 2020 – FULL RESULTS, SCHEDULE & MORE!
Lack of wind across Sagami Bay meant no racing on Monday, Day 9 of the Sailing Olympic competition. This means the skiff classes, the 49erFX Women and 49er Men, will have to wait another…
HOW TO FOLLOW TOKYO 2020 – FULL RESULTS, SCHEDULE & MORE!
Great weather returned to Enoshima for Sunday, with sunshine and moderate winds for the sailors to really stretch their legs and put some physicality back into their racing after the light-wind stress…
HOW TO FOLLOW TOKYO 2020 – FULL RESULTS, SCHEDULE & MORE!
We thought the three-way battle for the Women’s Windsurfing – RS:X medal was exciting but then there was perhaps one of the craziest, most unpredictable Medal Races of all time in the Men’s…
HOW TO FOLLOW TOKYO 2020 – FULL RESULTS, SCHEDULE & MORE!
Matt Wearn has wrapped up the gold medal in the Men’s One Person Dinghy – Laser at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition, making him the third consecutive Australian to have achieved the…