On Saturday, May 10th, the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston and Sail Canada honoured two illustrious designers who put Canada at the forefront of yacht and dinghy design in the period when traditional wood and steel gave way to fiberglass. The opening of the Marine Museum’s New Age of Sail exhibit recognised [&hellip...
(May 18, 2014) – A search has been called off for four Britons missing in the Atlantic after their yacht began taking in water, reported BBC News. The men were delivering the Beneteau First 40.7 Cheeki Rafiki to the UK after it had competed in 2014 Antigua Sailing Week on April 26-May 2. Southampton-based Stormforce [&hellip...
Annapolis, MD (May 18, 2014) – Michael Marshall of Jamestown, Rhode Island earned his first J/22 North American Championship at the Annapolis Yacht Club on May 16-18. With crew Mark Sertl and Matt Gowell, team Bad News Too topped 38 teams from across the United States and Canada. Four races were held on Sunday, after light and fluky breeze allowed just one race on Friday and no races on Saturday....
Long Beach, CA (May 18, 2014) – The Finn class North American Championships (May 16-18) were supposed to be fleet racing, but San Diego’s Caleb Paine turned the last two races Sunday into match races to take the title from Canada’s Greg Douglas. Local veteran Henry Sprague finished third overall in the 18-boat fleet. Click on headline for full report. ...
Chicago, IL (May 18, 2014) – After two days of racing in wildly varied spring sailing conditions on Lake Michigan, Chicago Match Race Center (CMRC) founder Don Wilson and his team of Jordan Reece, Sam Rogers, Matt Woodworth and Steph Kapinos have won the Grade 3 CMRC Spring Invitational today, the opening event in the 2014 CMRC season. Click on headline for full report. ...
With over 90 entrants signed up for the 2014 Etchells World Championship, teams are starting to narrow their focus for the competition on June 24-28 in Newport, RI. For the teams already at the venue, the Ida Lewis Yacht Club Spring Regatta (May 17-18) hosted 19 teams for the 5 race series. Topping the fleet [&hellip...
During the week the Eurocat was taking place, the Phantom Sailing Team took the opportunity to set up training sessions with the Flying Phantom and also invited guests along for “flights”. Among the invited young sailors was Henri Demesmaeker, one of the most promising multihull sailors of his generation and 2013 Formula F16 World Champion...
Long Beach, CA (May 17, 2014) – A fair breeze Saturday erased Greg Douglas’ opening stumble of a day earlier and lifted the 23-year-old Canadian into first place in the Finn class North American championships at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. “No major missteps at the top mark,” Douglas said, referring to Friday’s failure to round [&hellip...
The 13th International Sailing Summit will take place in Amsterdam on Monday 17 November 2014, one day before the start of METS. The International Sailing Summit will be hosted by British Sailing, one of the British Marine Federation’s group associations. The International Sailing Summit is a worldwide sailing forum bringing together the best in the industry to drive positive change and promote sailing...
Recreational boat sales growth in March amounted to just a trickle, but the solid single-digit increases the industry saw in April 2014 show promise for certain sectors. Unfortunately for the sail category, there was a 7.7% decrease over April 2013. – Trade Only Today, full report...
The final day of the 1O1O 4G Match Racing International Regatta took place in glorious conditions, with 10 to 14kts of swinging south westerly enticing the Race Officer to set her course in Kowloon Bay for the third day in a row...
I mentioned in SPLASHED: In Early May! First Time Ever that I didn't sail at all this year in February, March or April. I can't remember taking these months off for a long time. Or does my memory fail me? One of the beauties of writing a sailing blog is that blogs have archives and so I can look back and answer questions like, "How much Laser sailing did I do in the early months of the year ...
SPLASHED: In Early May! First Time Ever Yacht owners from around here write posts with titles like that. No self-respecting New England Laser sailor would. Surely? Charles Doane explained the problem facing the poor yacht owner in a post with that title on his Wave Train blog. Every spring I've launched a cruising sailboat in New England, I always swear I'll be afloat as early as ...
Annapolis, MD (May 16, 2014) – The J/22 North American Championship, hosted by the Annapolis Yacht Club in Annapolis, Maryland, got underway Friday, but Mother Nature did not cooperate, allowing only one race. Thirty-eight teams from across the United States and Canada were postponed on shore in the morning, as storms and heavy rain passed [&hellip...
Long Beach, CA (May 16, 2014) – Caleb Paine has his sights set on representing the U.S. in the 2016 Olympic sailing at Rio de Janeiro and is making friends along the way to help him get there. One is Greg Douglas from Toronto, who won these Finn class North American championships at Alamitos Bay [&hellip...
With a crew lineup that reads like a “who's who” of the world's top professional sailing, Menorca Maxi will undoubtedly be one of the season's highlights next week. A brand new venue for most of them, the crews of the nine Wallys and three J-Class yachts look forward to an exciting regatta...
May 16, 2014) – The major question on the minds of the Clipper Race skippers is whether to take the gamble of tacking to the east now or hoping the wind will fill in in time to clear Morant Bay, on the south east corner of Jamaica, without putting in a costly tack. The Spirit [&hellip...
A group of Mini 6.50 race from Hamble to La Trinite. Nikki Curwen and Lizzy Foreman sail solo. Photo and video by LPB Aerial Imagery...
With less than five months to go until the start of the round the world Volvo Ocean Race, Team SCA has today set off on its second transatlantic passage, sailing from Newport, Rhode Island back to the squad’s training base in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote...
The 2014 Finn Europeans, sailed in La Rochelle, France in May 2014, in winds of over 20 knots, this was filmed using stern cameras on each Finn. Giles Scott had already won the championship but went on the lead round the medal race for a seventh race win that week. Vasilij Zbogar did just enough [&hellip...