The ISAF Nations Cup is a global competition to find the world’s top match racing nations in both open and women’s events and to develop match racing infrastructure around the world. The Nations Cup encompasses a series of eight Regional
With the America's Cup's immediate future still in the hands of the New York courts the 33rd (and 34th!) Cup cycles are still on hold. Consequently it has been a testing few months for TEAMORIGIN, Britain's America's Cup Team. TEAMORIGIN
There is a group called 180 Degrees, who on April 24th sailed through the Magnetic South Pole, completing their mission of traveling 22,000 miles from pole to pole, and spreading their message about the earth's climate problems. The following report
It was rumored, at least here in Valencia, that right after the end of the RC44 Cagliari Cup, Larry Ellison would drop by the city in order to meet local authorities and discuss the possibility of holding the 34th America's
During the ISAF Mid-Year meeting this past weekend in Qingdao, China, the Council reaffirmed the 2012 Olympic events that were voted on during their November 2007 Annual Meeting. The event list was under review, with the evaluation process first requireing
What happens when you own ten identical 68-foot racing yachts, host a round the world race for the boats, sell crewing positions on the boats... and then two of the boats get dismasted on their way from China to Hawaii...half
Valencia, Spain: The leading French multihull design firm of Van Peteghem Lauriot Prevost (VPLP) is working with BMW ORACLE Racing's design team in developing its new mulithull boat for the America's Cup Deed of Gift match, the team confirmed today.
Green Team Say 'Thank You' to China The Green Team celebrated the completion of their new Volvo Open 70 with a "Thank You China Event" at McConaghy Boats in Zhuhai China. Construction started in October and has been completed on
The Fireball Class has been looking at itself with critical eyes this last year and has reinvented itself. Concentrating on building classes at clubs over the last year rather than working on events it is now ready to launch itself
Over the weekend sailors from Cape Town, Johanesburg, Mossel Bay, and Knysna joined local sailors at George Lakes YC to sail in the 2008 South African Fireball National Championships. With awesome competition the event was always going to be exciting
The Team Shosholoza match race team skippered by Paolo Cian start Stage 2 of the World Match Racing Tour in Germany today (7 May) as hot favourites of a 12 team line up that includes America's Cup skippers and crews
The Algoa Bay Yacht Club in Port Elizabeth has once again found it's sailing roots and hosted a successful four days of yacht racing in Algoa Bay from the 1st to the 4th of May 2008. After two years of
The first day of Match Race Germany in Langenargen on Lake Constance saw a picture perfect landscape with only one slight problem the wind, or lack of it. After the opening ceremony hosted by the Langenargen Yacht Club in the
by Tim Jeffery, Telegraph Want an object lesson in how a governing body diminishes itself in the eyes of those it represents? Then look no further than the twist and turns the International Sailing Federation is making over the selection
Boston, MA (May 8, 2008) -- Ken Read, skipper of PUMA Ocean Racing, officially announced his crew and management for the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009, as the team gathered for official training in Newport, Rhode Island and prepared for
Royal Cape Yacht Club is pleased to announce the second running of the Cape to Bahia 2009 Yacht Race, proudly sponsored by Heineken. Salvador, the Port within the State of Bahia, Brazil will host the finish of the race. This
Hobie Tiger and Dragoon Worlds TV Times. The Hobie Tiger and Dragoon Worlds will be Screened on Tuesday the 13th May 2008 between 20H00 and 20H30, simultaneously on SuperSport 2 as well as CSN. Repeats will be on the 14,
The movers and shakers overnight appear to be Hull & Humber, Nova Scotia and Qingdao. All three have posted better than average 12-hour runs and it makes the top half of the table extremely open for any of the top
Stage 2 of the World Match Racing Tour will head for the southern German town of Langenargen on Lake Constance for Match Race Germany. Fresh from his win at the Brasil Sailing Cup, new World Tour leader Paolo Cian of
The Enterprise Nationals 2008 were held at PSC together with the Dolphin Nationals on the weekend of 26th,27th and 28th April.We managed to secure the obligatory 2 races with 10 boats finishing to allow for an official nationals to be
