2025 Sailing World Regatta Series

The 2025 Sailing World Regatta Series have confirmed the dates for five regattas which seek to build on the moment of past years with a focus on diversity across the one-design class spectrum and further inclusion of youth teams in established one-design and handicap classes.

As has been the case for more than three decades now, Florida’s St. Petersburg YC will host the first regatta of the season from February 14 to 16, and early indications hint at another benchmark gathering of one-design keelboats, handicap fleets (PHRF and ORC), and dinghy classes new and old.

Annapolis YC, with race-management support from Eastern YC and Severn Sailing Association, will host the second stop of the series on May 2-5. In 2024, organizers included the Waszp foiling class for the first time, as well as the local favorite Harbor 20s which are expected to return in even greater numbers now that the event has found its way onto the busy class event calendar.

With a return to Detroit’s Bayview YC in 2024 after a ten-year absence, the regatta series will be back to the Motor City on May 30-June 1, with expectations of increasing fleet numbers in the area’s strongest one-design fleets, as well as inviting new classes to what is a reemergent racing scene keen to bring the once-vibrant racing scene back to its past glory.

The series continues its Great Lakes action at Chicago YC on June 6-8 before heading east for the final US stop, in Marblehead, Massachusetts, this year hosted by Boston YC, with on-water support from nearby Eastern and Corinthian YCs, on July 24-27.

At each of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series events, one overall winner is selected to compete at the Caribbean Championship, which is scheduled for October 18 to 25.

2025 Regatta Series Dates
February 14-16 – St. Petersburg Yacht Club
May 2-4 – Annapolis Yacht Club
May 30-June 1 – Bayview Yacht Club
June 6-8 – Chicago Yacht Club
July 24-27 – Boston Yacht Club
October 18-25 – Sunsail Yacht Charter Base, Tortola, BVI

Details: https://www.sailingworld.com/regatta-series/