Published on November 13th, 2024
The Vendée Globe, raced in the 60-foot IMOCA, is the elite race round the world, solo, non-stop, and without assistance. On November 10, 40 skippers started the 2024-25 edition which begins and ends in Les Sables ... Read More →
Published on December 15th, 2024
The notable offshore races tend to be around 600 nm which are long enough to include sufficient strategy but don’t require too many night shifts. But for offshore races from California to Hawaii, where each day ... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2024
A new edition of the Racing Rules of Sailing is published every four years, and while there were close to a hundred changes in the RRS 2021-24, the revision is less for the upcoming 2025-28 edition. ... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2024
Dave Perry is a welcomed authority on the racing rules. Long time chair of the US Sailing Appeals Committee, he is also an entertaining presenter on the rules and is available for in-person and on-line presentations ... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2024
A recent Scuttlebutt report noted how “events need consistent branding which should not include sponsors in the name. Sponsors are never forever, and change causes disruption.” And this is happening as the organizers of the Transat ... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2024
Iason Panagopoulos (GRE) claimed the 2024 Optimist World Championship title, passing Arthur Back (BRA) and Mateo Carbonell (ESP) on the final day of the competition held December 7-14 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Spain won the ... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2024
While racing in what is almost certainly the most extreme sailing event in the world, Vendée Globe skippers are subjected to particularly testing conditions for the human body. Between the permanent damp and wetness, sudden movements ... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2024
In the Scuttlebutt report ‘Getting ahead of gender disputes‘, there was mention of a local sailing event in which a women’s perpetual trophy winner was male at birth. Here’s a story about that incident: Five times ... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2024
by Eliza Garry, US Sailing In the world of offshore sailing, dedication often comes in many forms: some sailors spend decades perfecting their skills on the water, while others master the art of making racing better ... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2024
Our friend Martha Parker at Team One Newport says there’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad sailing gear, but as Andy Rice reports for Yachting World, there are people that embrace the misery: Unlike ... Read More →
Published on December 12th, 2024
The Best of the Best Regatta draws wooden Bahamian racing sloops from the many far-flung islands of the Bahamas. The 2024 regatta, the largest ever with more than 85 entries, was sailed December 5-8 off Montagu ... Read More →
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