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Sail-World News

Racing sailing, cruising, and leisure marine industry news updated every hour
  1. Sit back, get the popcorn ready and enjoy this event film; with interviews and spectacular footage from the 16th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's 600NM race around 11 Caribbean Islands.
  2. For two days each year, Kohimarama Yacht Club is taken over by young girls keen to race in an encouraging environment where they can be themselves, have fun, and compete fiercely on the waters of the Waitemata Harbour.
  3. This weekend's racing venue of San Francisco poses the ‘most extreme conditions of the circuit', which require ‘a lot of bravery' to compete, Australia driver Tom Slingsby remarked at this morning's media conference in San Franciso.
  4. The International Wing Sports Association has become the first non-boat class to be awarded Clean Class status by Sailors for the Sea.
  5. The entry lists are now almost definitive and confirm a historic post-Olympic edition, with almost 850 boats registered comparing favourably to the 779 which took part at the first Sofia regatta of the Paris 2024 cycle.
  6. The Rockwool Denmark Racing SailGP Team will not compete in San Francisco after damage sustained in Los Angeles was deemed too extensive to repair in time for the weekend.
  7. Dakhla, squeezed between the desert and the ocean in Morrocco's south, is famous for its strong and consistent winds. Sometimes things don't go to plan.
  8. A key race in the calendar and in the French Elite Ocean Racing Championship, the first transatlantic race to be sailed on equal terms and to be entirely mixed since the previous edition, the Transat Paprec promises a great battle across the Atlantic.
  9. World Sailing sends its warmest congratulations to new IOC President Kirsty Coventry.
  10. The Mubadala Brazil SailGP team secured the top spot in the first Focus Area of the 2025 season Impact League - SailGP's "Podium for the Planet" - the season-long competition that rewards teams for driving environmental action.