Heavy rain and an ominous forecast of thunderstorms for the Auckland area put paid to Friday’s scheduled SailGP practice session. Nevertheless, anticipation is high for a thrilling couple of days of racing action, with the tantalising possibility of a new SailGP speed record adding some extra spice.
Preparations are well-advanced for the first Preliminary Regatta of the 38th America's Cup cycle in Cagliari, Sardinia.
PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan takes a closer look at Benoit Marie remarkable transatlantic-crossing foiling Mini 650 and discovers how this new design is impacting the performance cruising space.
SailGP announced today that the ROCKWOOL Racing SailGP Team has been acquired by leading sports investor and American Magic Co-Founder, Doug DeVos.
The 2026 RORC Nelson’s Cup Series returns to Antigua with racing from Tuesday 17 February 2026. As the final inshore proving ground before the start of the RORC Caribbean 600, the series blends short, intense coastal racing with one of the most distinctive courses in the region, the Antigua 360.
The fifth and final day of the iQFOiL International Games in Marina Rubicon was dedicated to the Medal Series, but patience was required as the wind was slow to settle in.
Are Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa already way ahead in the 38th America’s Cup? These two teams look like the only ones anywhere close to being ready to launch their modified AC75s – and whoever does so first will be making a bold statement of intent about their AC38 campaign.
Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC75 ‘Taihoro’ has returned to its Wynyard Quarter base, completing a stealthy midnight run across the Harbour Bridge from the team’s dedicated North Shore build facility.
Day 4 of the iQFOiL International Games in Lanzarote, hosted at Marina Rubicon, brought another test of patience and adaptability for sailors and race officials alike.
World Sailing is inviting responses from the global sailing community as part of its review of Olympic events for the post-LA28 Games programme.
This weekend’s SailGP event in Auckland, New Zealand looks set to be an all-action affair with strong south-westerly winds predicted for both days. That’s great news for the fans watching onsite and around the world online – but which teams might the fresh-to-frightening forecast suit best?
The Germany SailGP Team presented by Deutsche Bank has closed out its latest funding round, welcoming a consortium of new shareholders, including some of the leading names in global sports investment.
After two days of fast-paced Sprint formats and constantly evolving conditions, Day 3 of the iQFOiL International Games in Lanzarote marked a clear shift in intensity, as stronger breeze and classic Course Racing reshaped both strategy and the provisional rankings.
The ‘Road to Naples 2027’ begins in Cagliari in 2026 from May 21-24 with the opening Preliminary Regatta of the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup.
Giuliano Luzzatto reports from the helm of the wallyrocket51 off the coast of Valencia at the end of the boat’s very successful first racing season.
After a 2025 season which seems to have been largely dedicated to consolidation, extended, enjoyable cruising and - for some, a little bit of competition - 2026 looks set to see a promising surge of activity for the historic J Class.
TUUCI Racing locked up M32 Miami Winter Series Event No. 2 in commanding fashion, winning the first three races on the final day and clinching the regatta before the final race was even sailed.
After an action-packed opening day that set the tone for a high-intensity week in Lanzarote, Day 2 of the iQFOiL International Games delivered another full schedule of racing, with evolving conditions and tactical challenges testing the world’s best windfoilers.
John Bassadone’s Peninsula Racing came out on top on Sunday afternoon as the 44Cup Calero Marinas in Lanzarote came to an exciting climax in tricky offshore breezes.
The conditions off Lanzarote are providing the complete test for the RC44 owners and crews this week at the 44Cup Calero Marinas, held out of Puerto Calero.
The 2026 Lanzarote International iQFOiL Games, the first event of the newly inaugurated season, officially got underway today at Marina Rubicón in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote.
The apple cart remains firmly upturned after day two of the 44Cup Puerto Calero, where the 2025 champion is currently residing at the unfamiliar bottom position on the leaderboard.
Long Beach Yacht Club has announced the first eight entrants for the 2026 Congressional Cup, one of the world’s premier match racing events and a founding event of the World Match Racing Tour.
After the first event of Season 6 in Perth saw both Los Gallos and the Black Foils sidelined by serious damage to their boats, SailGP’s technical teams have executed a remarkable turnaround – ensuring both teams will be back on the water for the Auckland Sail Grand Prix next weekend.
The opening day of the 2026 44Cup was a fine one with a southwest wind that built to 15 knots and skies that cleared to reveal the long-awaited Canary Islands sun.
Guest presenter Matt Sheahan from the PlanetSail website catches up with British ocean racing yachtswoman Dee Caffari just over a week since she and the all-women crew aboard The Famous Project CIC 103-foot long trimaran completed a tortuous nonstop lap of the planet.
The International Finn Class has announced the launch of the World Tour for Finns Grand Slam 2026.
The 19th season of the 44Cup sets sail today from the familiar setting of Puerto Calero Marina in Lanzarote. What is unfamiliar is that due to heavy rainfall recently Lanzarote’s usually barren landscape has become lush and green, full of life and new vegetation.
Although it’s often Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton’s shoot-from-the-lip soundbites making the headlines, chief operating officer Kevin Shoebridge has also been key to the team's many America’s Cup successes. I caught up with him in Naples to get his take on the latest Kiwi campaign.
The Reuters news agency has reported that the 38th America’s Cup deadline for late entries has been extended beyond January 31 for two further months.
From SailGP’s globe-trotting Season 6 to the return of the America’s Cup, new ocean-going foilers, classic offshore races and packed dinghy championships, and much more besides – 2026 is shaping up to be a blockbuster year for yacht racing fans. Here’s a guide for what to look forward to...
The 44Cup begins its new season this week in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote. After a practice day on Wednesday the 11-boat fleet will race Thursday through until Sunday.
Emirates Team New Zealand have beefed up their sailing team line-up with the addition of Australian double Olympic medallist Iain Jensen – previously a long-term member of the British GB1 syndicate.
Italian America's Cup challenger Luna Rossa and the Italian Sailing Federation (FIV) have announced a new partnership aimed at supporting and accompanying Italy’s Olympic, youth, and para sailing teams on their road to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
An incredible seven decades of experience at the sharp end of both yacht design and active offshore sailing have been distilled into the new Swan 51.
PlanetSail takes a closer look at the success of the all-female crew's around-the-world passage aboard The Famous Project CIC...
In this episode of the Yacht Racing Life podcast, I speak with navigator Will Oxley about his recent experience racing the foil-assisted superyacht Raven in a transatlantic race.
The latest video from PlanetSail takes a closer look at how the closing stages of this season's two Jules Verne Trophy around-the-world record attempts played out for Thomas Coville's Sodebo and the all-women crew of The Famous Project CIC.
Rather than simply enlarge an existing model to increase its payload, Balance Catamarans took the opportunity to carry out a full redesign.
The Spanish leg of SailGP Season 6 will take place in the Mediterranean city of Valencia over the weekend of September 5-6, 2026 as part of a three-year deal announced by the international circuit today.
The eight-woman crew aboard The Famous Project CIC Ultim multihull completed their Jules Verne Trophy attempt in a time of 57 days, 21 hours, and 20 minutes, after crossing the finish line off Ouessant in northern France today.
It looked touch and go over the final few days of their 28,000-nautical mile nonstop circumnavigation of the planet, but yesterday Thomas Coville and his five-strong crew aboard the Ultim trimaran Sodebo set a new Jules Verne Trophy benchmark time of 40 days, 10 hours, and 45 minutes.
Our weekly curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
I caught up with the key protagonists of the newly rebranded GB1 campaign in Naples this week for a deep dive into the team's new-look challenge for the 38th America's Cup.
Against all odds one of the great offshore yacht designs of the late 20th Century – Peter Norlin’s fast and elegant Omega 42 – is back in production.
The first official gathering of the 38th America's Cup was a glitzy affair as five teams and the America's Cup entourage rolled into Naples.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club has confirmed Mach 50 Palanad 4 (FRA), owned by RORC Member Olivier Magre and skippered by his son Antoine Magre, also a RORC Member, as the overall winner of the 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race on IRC corrected time.
The America's Cup Partnership agreement has been officially initiated at a glitzy ceremony in the grand hall of the Palazzo Reale in Naples, in the presence of the world's media, an audience that included the five competing teams and many of the key players behind the move to stage AC38 in Italy.
With less than a year until the start of The Ocean Race 2027, the world's top fully-crewed offshore sailing competition has revealed that the opening leg will be a a record-breaking passage that will take crews halfway around the world non-stop.
As a founding member of the new governing structure overseeing the organisation of the America’s Cup, K–Challenge – the company founded by Stephan Kandler and co-managed with Bruno Dubois – has officially registered the French Challenger for the 38th edition of the America’s Cup.
When the conditions align it's the dream trade winds course and this year the Royal Ocean Club's Transatlantic Race was a stunner. Perfect conditions saw flat out performances across the board and records tumbled.
Britain’s America’s Cup Team, representing the Challenger of Record, Royal Yacht Squadron Racing Ltd, has unveiled GB1 – the bold new team name and identity that signals a new era of British racing on the world’s most demanding sailing stage.
Emirates has renewed its more than twenty year naming sponsorship of the Defender of the America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand – extending one of the longest-standing and most iconic sponsorships in international sailing through the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup and Preliminary Regattas.
PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan reviews this weekend's spectacular opening event to SailGP Season 6 which took place down in Australia on the windy and wavy waters off Perth.
The Genoa International Boat Show renews industry confidence, reporting further increases in exhibition space, visitor numbers, turnover and more.
In this episode of the Yacht Racing Life podcast, British sailing journalists Justin Chisholm and Magnus Wheatley dive into the thrilling opening event of SailGP Season 6 which took place in Perth, Australia over the weekend.
The 34m Baltic 111 Raven has rewritten the limits of monohull offshore performance, taking monohull line honours to win the IMA Transatlantic Trophy and setting a new monohull race record in the 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote to Antigua – writes RORC communications manager Louay Habib
Defending champions Emirates Great Britain have sent a defiant message to their SailGP rivals with a commanding victory in the opening event of Season 6 after a supremely dominant second day of racing in blustery conditions on the choppy waters off Perth, Australia.
The Rolex SailGP Championship’s 2026 Season opener has already wrought havoc across the fleet – with New Zealand out for the weekend after a shocking collision with the Swiss in race one. Artemis top the event leaderboard after a commanding performance that included two race wins.
Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo (USA) has claimed Multihull Line Honours in the 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race, crossing the finish line off English Harbour, Antigua, on Friday 16 January at 12:31:15 UTC.
The first Preliminary Regatta of the 38th America’s Cup cycle will take place in Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia from May 21 - 24, with all five of the currently entered teams taking part in four days of racing in AC40 one-design foiling monohulls.
There are never enough superlatives to adequately describe the Aegean 600, especially after its fifth edition held in 2025 when Poseidon threw a wide range of seamanship challenges at the fleet – ranging from fickle wind shadows to a 50-knot storm.
Today's landmark strategic partnership further reinforces the Red Sea’s emergence as a significant sailing destination and confirming AMAALA’s role as a long-term home for elite competition, talent development, and international events.
With its radically innovative architecture, ground-breaking appendages and a silhouette that is both striking and refined, the latest addition to the legendary Gitana lineage has set a new benchmark in the French programme’s ongoing quest for performance.
A fresh approach to function, form, fit and fabric. Henri-Lloyd ambassador Sam Goodchild on the new range that aims to redefine offshore sailing apparel.
Miles Julien’s time is here. After a string of second place finishes, including silver at the 2024 M32 World Championship, Youngblood takes the cake at the 2026 M32 Miami Winter Series kickoff.
Ian Williams (GBR) and his Pindar by Manuport Logistics team of Gerard Mitchell, Richard Sydenham and Jon Gundersen made history today by winning a record-breaking ninth Match Racing World Championship title at the 2025 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) Final in Shenzhen.
The 12th RORC Transatlantic Race began in commanding fashion off Marina Lanzarote. Framed by the dramatic coastline of Lanzarote and a palpable sense of anticipation, the start marked the opening chapter of one of offshore sailing’s most revered ocean races.
Defending match racing world champion Ian Williams of Great Britain has advanced to the final of the World Match Racing Tour in Shenzhen, overcoming former world champion New Zealand’s Nick Egnot-Johnson/ Knots Racing in a light-wind semi-final match
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Day 4 at the WMRT Final Shenzhen Baoan for the 2025 Match Racing World Championship saw the final four skippers emerge from a challenging and hard fought quarterfinals in light and unpredictable airs.
The new limited series inspired by the Italian America’s Cup AC75 makes its world premiere at the 2026 Brussels Motor Show
Three elite strategists explain to RORC communications manager Louay Habib how they are reading the Atlantic racecourse for the upcoming 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race.
We catch up with Giles Scott, skipper of the Canadian NorthStar SailGP team, as the British double Olympic gold medallist reflects on his up and down first year in charge and shares some of the team's plans for Season 6.
The knockout stage of the 2025 World Match Racing Tour Final is set after a high-pressure day of repechage racing in the heart of Shenzhen, where survival was the only objective and mistakes proved costly. In ultra-light, shifting winds on OH Bay, New Zealand’s Nick Egnot-Johnson / Knots Racing and
Two-speed and three-speed electric versions of Ronstan's Orbit winch are now available.
SailGP has established its first long-term training base at the state-of-the-art American Magic performance and innovation center, which officially opened today in Pensacola, Florida.
Two of the highest-ranked skippers in world match racing were eliminated on Day 2 of the 2025 World Match Racing Tour Final in Shenzhen Bao’an, as treacherous light-wind conditions delivered a major upset and blew the competition wide open.
The 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race starts from Marina Lanzarote this Sunday and will see 21 teams take on the 3,000 nautical-mile voyage west across the Atlantic to Antigua – writes Louay Habib.
PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan shares his personal thoughts on the current state of play in the 38th America's Cup.
The opening day of the 2025 World Match Racing Tour Final, running from 6-11 January in Shenzhen China, delivered high-intensity racing from the first start, with no shortage of close calls and razor-thin margins amongst the sixteen competing teams.
Last year Andrea Lacorte won the owner-driver title in his first 52 Super Series season, powered by Doyle Sails – and with four Doyle sailmakers on board.
Happy New Year everyone! 2026 is here and the first event of SailGP Season 6 in Perth, Australia is under a fortnight away. There will be 13 F50s on the start line for the first time ever and each and every team will aiming to make a strong start to the year.
The 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race will showcase two extraordinary yachts that could not be more different in design and yet share the ambition to race cross the Atlantic fast, safely and competitively – writes RORC communications manager Louay Habib.
When the start gun fires in Lanzarote for the 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race on 11 January, two of the most extraordinary offshore racing machines will once again go head-to-head across the Atlantic – writes RORC communication manager Louay Habib.
