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INEOS Team UK

Team INEOS - The British Americas Cup team, skippered by Sir Ben Ainslie. Shown here in action whist training the Solent on their race yacht ‘Britannia'.Photo: Lloyd Images © Lloyd Images

America’s Cup skipper, Ben Ainslie with Emily Nagle on on the science of performance analysis, or is it really a Black Art? In this video they explain how performance data is used, based on their SailGP experience with the F50. ...

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Swan American Regatta

Swan American Regatta © Nautor's Swan

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the New York Yacht Club to postpone 2020 Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex, which was to include the Swan American Regatta, from its scheduled dates of July 14 to 18 to a to-be-determined ...

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IMOCA news

L'Occitane en Provence - photo © Pierre Bouras

Just over a fortnight after the lockdown ended, the sailors and their teams are now busy catching up on lost time. Many IMOCAs have been relaunched after their winter refits, which took longer than planned. There have been more and ...

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Denmark SailGP Team ROCKWOOL Racing

Sydney SailGP, Event 1 Season 2 in Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia. © Brian Carlin for SailGP

ROCKWOOL announces a unique collaboration with the Denmark SailGP Team athletes, kicking off with an action-packed summer of training, racing and record attempts in preparation for SailGP Season 2 in April 2021. During a virtual press conference today featuring ROCKWOOL’s ...

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Rolex Sydney Hobart

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The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, the Organising Authority behind the Rolex Sydney Hobart, has released a podcast on its annual blue-ribbon race. The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – Podcast #1, featuring a range of news, interviews, stories and items from “The ...

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News from Alva Yachts

Alva Yachts Ocean Eco 90 - photo © Sand People

Heralding a new focus on the environment in the post-Covid world, a young German brand is launching an advanced range of sustainable catamarans, sailing yachts and luxury floating homes. Alva Yachts’ experienced founders believe the world has to decarbonise, and ...

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Lockdown Lecture #3 Svalbard

OCC Lockdown Lecture Svalbard © Simon Currin

The third in the series of webinars is now available to view via the link below. Escape to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Judith, who is Danish, and Haakon, who is Norwegian, live in ...

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International Melges 24 Class

Melges 24 fleet at the final event of the 2019 Melges 24 European Sailing Series - 2019 Melges 24 World Championship in Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy. © Pierrick Contin / IM24CA

The World Council of the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA), which consists of the National Class Association chairs and the IM24CA Executive Committee, voted to move the schedule of the title championship events out one year. This means that the 2020 ...

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PIC Coastal Classic

Miss Scarlett - PIC Coastal Classic - Start - Waitemata Harbour - October 25, 2019 © Richard Gladwell / Sail-World.com

With 150 days to go, the New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club (NZMYC) has announced that the race is officially on for the 38th PIC Coastal Classic Yacht Race from Auckland to Russell in the Bay of Islands. Organizers are now ...

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Brest Atlantiques

Maxi Edmond de Rothschild - Brest Atlantiques © Yann Riou / Polaryse / Gitana SA

Four 100ft trimarans sailed by just two crew each around a 14,000mile figure of eight course in the North and South Atlantic Oceans. Each boat regularly cruised at over 30 knots and hit top speeds well in excess of 40 ...

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