All Entries in the "Inshore Sailing" Category

18s dominate Bridge to Bridge but pay a price

Competitors in the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta gathered around John Craig on Crissy Field early Wednesday afternoon as the St. Francis Yacht Club race manager offered fair warning before they launched their [...]

Rolex Big Boat Series

New Division for Sport Boats Announced; Event Website Launched

With two weeks until the early registration deadline of September 1 for the 2010 Rolex Big Boat Series, organizers at St. Francis Yacht Club have announced the inclusion of a new IRC class for light displacement sport boats. In addition, the new official website [...]

Gale-Force Winds Ground Little America’s Cup Cats

Six boats and wings are ready to fly, on day two of the 2010 Little America’s Cup, aka the International C-Class Catamaran Championship. Instead of racing as planned yesterday, internationally accomplished sailors from five countries played show and tell under the tent at New York Yacht Club. A collection of designers, America’s Cup evaluators and [...]

18ft Skiff International Regatta – Top four turn the heat on in torrid San Francisco

It was a different look for sailing on Day 3 of the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta on San Francisco Bay.
On the City’s hottest day of [...]

Persistent Storm Delays Day One Races at The Clagett Regatta

The arrival, on Monday (August 23), of a summer nor’easter has slightly rearranged the competition schedule at the  eighth annual C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Regatta being held from Sail Newport, Rhode Island’s public sailing center.  The clinic that is the hallmark of this event took place Monday morning as planned, however, a north-northeasterly breeze [...]

Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week

Sometimes an idea is just meant to be!
Just four years ago, Townsville Yacht Club with the strong support of Townsville based Sunferries staged the first Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, a winter regatta following on from Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week and Audi Hamilton Island Race Week.
It was a brave step; [...]

Hayling Island SC counting down to Laser World Championships

With one week until racing starts for the 2010 Laser World Championships, hosts Hayling Island Sailing Club are primed and ready to play their role in delivering one of the biggest and most prestigious Olympic class World Championships each year.
The Laser World Championships have grown substantially since they were last [...]

18ft Skiff International Regatta Day 1

Observing the sailing rivalry between the Winnings, father and son, on opening day of the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta, one could conclude it’s intense, but it doesn’t stop there.
John Sr.—or, [...]

Dempsey and Goodison lead the way in Weymouth

Windsurfing World Champion Nick Dempsey, and Laser Olympic and World Champion Paul Goodison lead British fortunes at the halfway stage of the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in Weymouth and Portland on Wednesday (11 August).
Dempsey, who won the RS:X world title at the same venue 11 months ago, took the [...]

NAUTOR’S SWAN YACHTS SUCCESS AT COPA DEL REY REGATTA

As is the annual tradition, the first week of August marked one of the most prestigious regattas in the Mediterranean sailing calendar, the Copa Del Rey Audi Mapfre. Hosted by Real Club Nautico de Palma, in the fantastic racing conditions off of the coast of Palma de Majorca, a [...]