Hempel Youth Sailing World Championships Opening Ceremony

The Port of Gdynia of Poland had the ambiance of a sun-kissed beach party as 409 sailors across 600 nations gathered around for the inauguration of Hempel Youth Sailing World Championships. The event was hosted by the Polish city for the first time since the year 2004. There was a party atmosphere around the beach as the participant sailors paraded from the village of the event to the opening ceremony location with the beat of the drums.


Each nation has a flask of water along with them according to the tradition at the Hempel Youth Worlds which is celebrating its 49th edition this year. As a symbol to represent unity, team spirit, and sportsmanship, the sailors bring a flask of water from their homelands for the mixing of the waters ceremony held on the opening day which brings all the waters around the world together. Continue reading “Hempel Youth Sailing World Championships Opening Ceremony”

Different Field at the 2019 Cup of Butler

A diverse and global blend of captains met off the Pier Belmont for the primary evening of Long Beach Yacht Club’s twofold round-robin Butler Cup coordinate dashing occasion.

Of the eight captains cruising Catalina 37 clones, two are ladies, two are not mature enough to enjoy a lager with their team in the wake of cruising, one is a Congressional and Ficker veteran Cup whose investment made it a global occasion, and another helmed a boatload of first-class youngsters.
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New World Record Set By François Gabart In The Single-Handed Category

François Gabart, a year 35-year-old Frenchman and one of the best-singlehanded sailors in the world makes a new world record in the single-handed category, by sailing his trimaran Macif skilfully from the Lizard Point in England till Oussant, France on December 17 after a time frame of complete  42 days at sea.

Gabart’s victorious life started from a very young age of 14 bagging several titles in his life like French nationals; French national champion; Tornado Junior World Champion, the Solitaire du Figaro and many other which elevated him to a celebrity position. His accomplishments were noticed by one of the most competitively determined offshore French sailors “big boys” which consisted of Michel Desjoyeaux, two-time Vendee Globe winner. Gabart is identified to be competitive, committed and hardworking. He sailed with Desjoueaux on his IMOCA 60s learning how to manage himself for a non-stop round-the-world Vendee Globe race. He was also introduced to sailing sponsorship by Desjoueaux and his charming looks and determination gained him a partnership with insurance giant Macif in 2010. He broke Desjoueaux’s record by sailing back to France in 78 days and 2 hours. Gabart foresaw the challenges like weather, breakage of boats and skipper. VPLP designed trimaran which is 100ft in length for him to set the new record.
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City Partners With RCYC In Winning Formula For Sailing

The Royal Cape Yacht Club (RCYC) acknowledges the support and contribution of the City of Cape Town to the sailing sport and the local yachting industry.

For the past three years, the City has joined hands and working in partnership with RCYC to deliver the Lipton Challenge Cup (EST 1909); this is the premier inter-club offshore sailing event for as southern Africa.
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For Ireland Inter-Club Sailing Competition Held

Sergio Ramos Real Madrid reaffirmed the loyalty to the club after the Spanish player broke his nose also wrote that he will bleed thousands times for this badge and shirt and thanking to all for their support and will be back in no time.

In the sporting world of athletes there are many examples that have put their physical health on the line in competition, whether it is for club, country, and province. The representative honors resulted in outstanding on-field performance and loyalty to the jersey inspire above average performance levels and team togetherness as physical danger is not present in any sports.

In clubs, Sailing is called as a sport structured game as it is a fundamental aspect and sailing is not different from other sports.

In clubs also sailing introduction and all its access and storage for equipment is given for race organization and social occasions for members.

The question arises that why there is no sailing club competition that seeks to combine with competitive and representative urges? It exists in sailing clubs also as there are Interclub competitions like snooker, quizzes and even cookery after competition there are several prizes which is kept for club entries and these are largely individual entries which are grouped by the home club. Team Racing partially fills the void and this does not represent the mainstream activities in club sailing.

Some parameters are suggested and recommended for the event for a new national club event like designing of fleet racing keelboats accommodate 5 people and no individual entries are allowed team is to be selected by clubs and selection process

Of all the members is open and transparent. The established event of developing an exciting and inclusive event becomes feasible by possible outcomes like regional qualifying, club qualifying.

According To Mark Orams: Monohulls Of America’s Cup Are “Extremely Fast And Dramatic”

According to the professor of sailing, Mark Orams, monohulls will offer spectacular America’s Cup racing to match; it will do same charisma what the catamarans did in Bermuda.


He is also the Team member New Zealand previously, he further added that the foiling monohulls suits the conditions of Auckland in a better way, and now monohulls would witness a welcome comeback to more basic sailing techniques, which includes more crew members. For sure, it would see an end of motocycle-grinding.

Orams said the declaration that the regatta of 2021 would involve foiling monohulls, has left an interesting question in everybody’s mind, and the question is will catamaran specialist and TNZ skipper Glenn Ashby remain on board.

He said, Grant Dalton the boss of TNZ had talked about bringing sailing together already, especially in unifying the championship America’s Cup with the race Volvo round-the-world (VRW).

When asked by Rachel Smalley of NewstalkZB if monohulls would be as stunning as catamarans, Orams replied: “Certainly they can Continue reading “According To Mark Orams: Monohulls Of America’s Cup Are “Extremely Fast And Dramatic””

Navy Rules The Trinco Blu Regatta

The Navy yachtsmen of Sri Lanka took major honors in Trincomalee at the 8th Trinco Blu Sailing Regatta (TBSR). The regatta held in Trincomalee.


This event of this year featured the fleet of 43 sailboats, which is the record and more than 60 sailors competed in the championship and tried to win the Royal Colombo Yacht Club (RCYC) trophy of the Trinco Blu Challenge.

In the race Optimist Class was won by Zai Pestonjee, eh second position was secured by Jehan de Silva and the third position was taken by Sahanya Wevita.

In another race Laser Class, the first position was secured P.D.D.S. Rajapaksa, who is from the Navy, the second position was secured by P.N.P.K. Dissanayake and the third position were taken by Devin Goonewardena.

In the Enterprise Class (EC) race, the first position was secured by W.A.R. Nishantha of Navy and N.G.M.U. Gunawardhana and teammates K.C. de Soyza and W.M.C. Marambe came second.

In the championship N.G.M.U Gunawardhana and W.A.R Nishantha secured the first position overall first-place and declared as the winners of the Regatta, on the other hand A.S.K. de Soyza and J.M.P.L. Jayasuriya, in association with K.C. de Soyza and W.M.C. Marambe was declared second and third winners overall.  Continue reading “Navy Rules The Trinco Blu Regatta”

Bausele Super 11 Won By Poco Loco

The 2017 Festival of Sails has drawn to a close and it was one of the most challenging sailing that the 220 odd keelboat crews had to face in the four days of the event.


The event was held at the Port Phillip and Corio Bay and the busy water program kept everyone on their toes.

The Bausele Super 11 Australian Championship, the top title of the 2017 Festival of Sails, was won by Poco Loco. The Super 11s final day race saw SSW winds touch 23 knots at the start and then finally moderated to 16 knots and this cause a problem for all sailors during the final day race. The winner Cam Rae said that they did not do much wrong in the 8 race series and was happy to have won the biggest regatta that they have sailed so far. Continue reading “Bausele Super 11 Won By Poco Loco”

Still hope for Jules Verne Trophy

On 22nd November, two maxi-trimarans began their journey in an attempt to get their hands on the Jules Verne Trophy, an award for the fastest circumnavigation of the world.

The 40 meter maxi-trimaran Spindrift 2, captained by Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard, and Francis Joyon’s maxi-trimaran IDEC SPORT were in a surprising battle against each other as they look to beat the clock.
The present holder of the award was Loïck Peyron as well as his crew on Banque Populaire V (also called Spindrift 2), which in 2012’s January had fixed a time of forty-five days, thirteen hours, forty-two minutes and fifty-three seconds.
The primary forecast began the two maxis on record speed, but a sequence of highs and lows soon followed them. AS they both came at the Cape Horn within reach of the prize, the teams recognized on Day forty-three that their efforts would be for nothing.
It is expected that both teams would arrive at the marked start-finish line, situated between the Le Créac’h Lighthouse off the Brittany as well as Lizard Point in Cornwall, on 8th January, which was the 48th day in their journey calendar.

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