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Published on August 24th, 2017
(August 24, 2017; Day 4) – Light winds continue to challenge the fleet of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race during the fourth day of racing, which have caused the fleet to condense by 20 ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
San Francisco, CA (August 23, 2017) – Pre-racing excitement is already blowing around the docks at St. Francis Yacht Club, where the 2017 J/111 World Championship is set to take place from Thursday, August 24 through ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
Newport, RI (August 23, 2017) – After winning Tuesday’s 20 nautical miles opening race, Hanuman paired an initial fourth place to victory in the second of the two windward-leeward races today. They open up their leading ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
Ken Legler, as a longtime coach at Tufts University and traveling Principal Race Officer, is an expert at watching how fleets of boats start. In Tips4Sailing, Ken shares advice on how to improve your odds at ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
By Dave Powlison, Sailing World One of the last vestiges of sailing’s past, the ubiquitous anchored race mark, might be going the way of aluminum spars. One day not long ago, Detroit’s Kevin Morin, a J/70 ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
By Karen Price, TeamUSA.org Olympic sailing hopeful Erika Reineke’s favorite part about racing, other than crossing the finish line first, is downwind sailing. At the moment where she rounds the mark to head downwind she thinks ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
The weather started out gloomy, then got downright nasty for the 13th edition of the Ida Lewis Distance Race, which started Friday, August 18, 2017, off Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI. Photos courtesy of ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
The Sailing World Championships Test Event was held August 5 – 7, 2017 in Aarhus, Denmark. In the Laser Radial, Erika Reineke (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) found her way to the podium after an impressive late-regatta surge ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
Cala Galera, Italy (Aug. 23, 2017) – The first day of the 2017 Melges 32 Boero World Championship in Cala Galera, Italy hosted by Circolo Nautico e Della Vela Argentario has concluded with two races, leaving ... Read More →
Published on August 23rd, 2017
In the August 2017 edition of Mainsail, Shirley Robertson looks at The Bridge – a sailing race featuring catamarans versus the historic Queen Mary 2. Source: ... Read More →