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SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week 2020 cancelled



The SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) 2020 committee has made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s regatta, which was to ...

Two Hands Is Better Than No Hands

The YRA Announces 2 Double Handed Events That Will Move Forward (we hope)

Get on it!




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3rd August 2020

DESIGNED TO FLY

It was August 2012 when the sailing world was turned upside down by a 72-foot catamaran flying in the Hauraki Gulf. Emirates Team New Zealand had brought foiling to the America’s Cup and changed the face of top-level yacht racing forever.

Since then the increase in performance for America’s Cup ...

11th Hour Racing Team Adds America’s Cup Winner and Former Ocean Race Champion to Transatlantic Sail
July 31, 2020 (Newport, Rhode Island) – 11th Hour Racing Team announced the addition of several high-profile sailors to its training crew this week with five-time Ocean Race veteran ...

Thrust plus lift minus drag equals pucker ...

Women at the Helm
by Kurt Hoehne

The Pacific Northwest has a proud tradition of women "being at the helm." All woman racing crews have participated in all of the areas major events including the Vic-Maui race. The Seattle Women's Sailing Association and Tacoma Women's Sailing Association have both been successful ...

Kingdom Team Netherlands wins the second Event of the Persico 69F Cup


There are many different ways to send messages to your opponents. For example, if your goal is to train for the Youth America’s Cup, you could go to Gargnano, participate in the Grand Prix 1.2 of the Persico 69F CUP – the only foil monotype for crew currently available to train on for the important event in February 2021 – and win; perhaps in the last available race, perhaps even beating some crews with Olympians on board; you could also win five runs out of 12 raced, including – and decisively – the last run worth double-points.

Here, in summary, ...

Registration is now open for the 2020 SSS Round the Rocks Race on Saturday August 8th! Note that there will be both Singlehanded and Doublehanded divisions. Please ...

Hurricane Douglas is approaching the Hawaiian Islands, and is forecast to weaken before impact
is felt, but large surf and torrential rains with inundate the Island over the next 48 hours!


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