Back for 2025, the revived Yachting Monthly Celtic Triangle Race offers solo and double-handed crews a 600nm offshore challenge starting in Falmouth, UK and with stopovers in Ireland and France. It's a classic race reborn—with big ambitions and a growing following. Ed Gorman finds out more.
A lot of us have heard of the quadrennial AZAB Race – a classic short-handed test in the north Atlantic from Falmouth to the Azores and back. But not so many know of its alternate – the Yachting Monthly Celtic Triangle Race.
Like the AZAB, this goes back a long way and, like the AZAB, it was originally organised by the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club in Falmouth. The first race set sail from Carrick Roads in 1984 bound for stopovers in Ireland and then Brittany, before returning to Falmouth.
In the final installment of our exclusive three-part feature on Enzo Balanger's victory at the 2025 Moth World Championships at Malcesine on Italy's Lake Garda the French sailor talks about dealing with pressure and explains how two breakdowns meant his win was far from a walk in the park.
British Sailing Team members Micky Beckett and John Gimson have made their feeling's public on World Sailing's proposed plan to modify the Medal Race format at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
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In the final installment of our exclusive three-part feature on Enzo Balanger's victory at the 2025 Moth World Championships at Malcesine on Italy's Lake Garda the French sailor talks about dealing with pressure and explains how two breakdowns meant his win was far from a walk in the park.
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British Sailing Team members Micky Beckett and John Gimson have made their feeling's public on World Sailing's proposed plan to modify the Medal Race format at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
