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With classes moving into the Gold fleet phase today at the 54 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca on Mallorca’s Bay of Palma, so the intensity stepped up and consistency became most important.
You don’t need a big budget, a shiny new boat, or a crew stacked with pros to be competitive offshore these days. That’s not some clever marketing line—it’s reality.
“There are no bleachers offshore.” With this simple phrase, Swiss photographer Daniel Forster sums up the ethos behind a career spanning over five decades spent chasing light, wind, and waves in some of the most challenging—and beautiful—conditions on earth.
A day of warm sunshine and steady thermal breeze brought the Bay of Palma to life on Tuesday, offering textbook conditions for the second day of the 54th Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mallorca.
Ed Gorman speaks to the Royal Yachting Association's performance director, Mark Robinson – the man tasked with returning Great Britain to the top of the sailing medal table at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
Sunshine, steady breeze, and the unmistakable hum of Olympic ambition—Day 1 of the 2025 Trofeo Princesa Sofía offered the kind of conditions that make the Bay of Palma one of the Olympic classes' favourite spring playgrounds.
For the second consecutive America’s Cup cycle, the holders will not defend the trophy on home waters. Despite months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and public hope for a return to Auckland, Emirates Team New Zealand confirmed today that it will not stage the 2027 regatta in the City of Sails.
After a lifetime of Olympic campaigning and high-performance sailing, Martine Grael was ready for something different—and SailGP was waiting.
For Olympic sailors around the world, there’s something about the Bay of Palma in early spring. The sunshine might be hit or miss, but the signal is clear: the long road to the Los Angeles 2028 Games has officially begun.
You don’t come to Pittwater in late March expecting bluebird skies and trade winds. But no one quite anticipated the kind of wild mood swings Mother Nature dished out on the penultimate day of the 2025 Hansa and Para World Championships.
If you’ve spent any time on the docks at a major West Coast offshore regatta, chances are you’ve heard the whispers. “That’s the Ragtime.” It’s never just Ragtime. There’s always a pause, a little reverence in the voice.
In the offshore apparel market, where heritage counts and habits are hard to break, you’ve got to admire a company like Zhik.
Yacht Racing Life Editor Justin Chisholm shares what's caught his attention in the sailing world this week
At Europe’s major superyacht crossroads of Palma de Mallorca, the three key experts at the Doyle Sails loft are each involved in projects widely diverse in nature but all sharing a commitment to extract maximum benefit from the company’s groundbreaking Structured Luff technology.
We are five events deep into the 2025 SailGP season and the fleet has split into two tiers. In the top group six teams are all jostling for the podium places with just an 11-point gap separating them. Below that, though, there’s a gaping 10-point gulf down to the second tier.
A Yacht Racing Life Podcast Episode | Yacht Racing Life editor Justin Chisholm is joined from the UK by Magnus Wheatley as the pair give their independent analysis and commentary on the fifth event of the Rolex SailGP Championship 2025 season which took place in San Francisco, CA this weekend.
