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AC75 Sails and Sail Shape is looked at by our expert Vittorio d'Albertas CEO Quantum Design Sails Italy. We also have the latest from Alinghi Red Bull Racing and INEOS Britannia in Barcelona. Follow us for more Americas Cup videos.

Winning the Class 40 Transat CIC, Ambrogio Beccaria, said that it was an incredibly close race, with lots of twists and turns. It was not often you win two Transatlantic races in six months, and this is the first solo race that I have won on the boat, that is very, very important to me. And this is one of the best races I have ever done. A lot of the time it is about pain and suffering, this time I was very, very aware all the time of what I was doing, and everything worked very, very well. This is your weekly global sailing highlights show, the World on Water, May 17, 2024. In Cagliari it was a slightly more overcast affair, with a dynamic weather system over the Bay of Angels, and the constant threat of rain showers. A shifting wind that gradually built to 12 knots but averaged 10 knots, was more than enough for Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli to rifle through their standard training drills over a near four-hour afternoon training session, but the introduction of marks, and a virtual starting box, indicated a whole new shift in direction. The Shore Crew in the Azores now have looked at Clarisse's IMOCA, and this is what they found. We also have reports from her after resuming racing, and further in her race to be in New York by the race start, for the returm Transat. She is becalmed in a depression, and not going anywhere. Still she has time to meet her deadline. Torbjörn Törnqvist’s, Artemis Racing, demonstrated herself to be categorically back on form, after winning five races out of nine at the 44Cup Baiona. The second event of the 2024 44Cup concluded in the Galician port, where it has been hosted by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona. This class is nown as "boats in a Box" as they can be broken down and stuffed into a container and delivered to their next venue. Another Kiwi design. 2024, 470 World Champions, Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman of Spain, Claimone more title and are crowned European Champions. The 470 European Championship, held in Yacht Club de Cannes, in France, was concluded with a medal race on Sunday May 12. Following their success as in Palma, two months ago, were they claimed the 470 Mixed World title, Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman from Spain have been crowned European Champions in Cannes. Nicolas Lunven, on Holcim-PRB, came in 14th in the IMOCA class of The Transat CIC, and this is before the jury. Certainly expected to be one of the key contenders for a top five on this race, Nico Lunven’s challenge, was compromised severely when he lost the bowsprit of Holcim PRB. Since then he was unable to fly any code sails, and struggled to find speed and dropped places. Rosalin Kuiper also gives an update on the repairs to the boat in New York.

Once upon a time the foils would have been hidden, but in the new America's Cup we can see everything. Of course the wings of the various teams are quite similar but, if you look closely, there are certainly differences! And Luna Rossa can be confident, as long as the English... With Diego Morani and Vittorio d'Albertas. Also Alinghi latest and INEOS Britannia sailing. Get the latest AC video here at the World on Water.

The first boats in the Imoca 60 Class of the Transat CIC have arrived at the Statue Of Liberty New York, after 8 plus days from Lorient France. First in was Yo-ann Richomme, in Paprec Arkea, second was German, Boris Herrmann, in Sea Explorer, and third, Brit, Sam Davies, in the bright red, Initiatives Coeur. This is your weekly global Sailing highlights show, the World on Water, May 10, 2024. It was a big day for New York Yacht Club's, American Magic, who called for all-hands on deck at the base super-early this week, ahead of rolling out their new AC75 at 5 45 a m, with the first set of slightly asymmetric race foils, rudder, and rig, all in place and revealing an interesting deck layout putting the helms and trimmers side by side, and well forward. This is a boat bristling with design features and quirks, and plenty of systems upgrades, translated across from their warhorse AC75, of the last America’s Cup. Now it’s all on to try and bring it home ot the New York Yacht Club. After three good races on day 3 on the Bay of Palma, each with a different winner, Andy Soriano’s brand new Alegre, leads the 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing Week, but only a tie break ahead of Doug DeVos’s, Quantum Racing powered by American Magic. With Aussie Olympic medallist, Will Ryan, and Brit Nic Asher, combining on strategy and tactics, and the owner Soriano steering, Alegre, won the second race of the day complementing a second in the first contest, and a third in the third, scoring best in the fleet. Meanwhile a thrilling Thursday title tussle was on the cards after no racing was possible Wednesday due to very strong winds on Mallorca’s world renowned Bay of Palma. After a two-year hiatus, the 53rd edition of Antigua Sailing Week, was brimming with success. The trade winds blew all week, with the international fleet enjoying exhilarating racing in sailing paradise. The compliments from sailors from the four corners of the earth are over-flowing for Antigua Sailing Week which is back, and here to stay. All of the class winners, bareboat overall, and the Lord Nelson Trophy winner at Antigua Sailing Week, were awarded Locman Italy watches at the Antigua & Barbuda Tourism Final Awards Ceremony, in Nelson’s Dockyard Antigua. The first IMOCAs are approaching New York! This is the latest Race Report from The Transat CIC with Thomas Jullien, measurer for the IMOCA Class. Strategy, weather forecasts, conditions on board. It will explain everything! Ergin Imre’s Provezza crew laid to rest some of their past bad memories of racing on the Bay of Palma when they clinched the first title of the 52 SUPER SERIES 2024 season at 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing thanks to a spectacular victory in the final race. With a new boat due to come on stream later for August their hard earned win is a fitting farewell to the TP52 which took Ergin Imre’s Turkish flagged team to a painfully close second place overall last season as well as two event wins, in Saint Tropez and Scarlino. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is one of the toughest endurance challenges on the planet. People from around the world and diverse walks of life train to become ocean racing sailors. This unique, epic event sees teams battle extreme conditions as they race more than 40,000 nautical miles in a true test of fortitude and determination. It was an exciting start with a stiff breeze and a small but lumpy sea state. The crew on Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam as you can see are committed to making this leg to Panama a competitive one.

The Transit CIC started on Sunday from Lorient and is headed to New York. Of the 48 sailors who took the start, 33 are competing in the Imoca class, 13 in the Class 40 and 2 in the vintage class. First out, at around 153 0 hours on Monday, the skipper of Sharral, informed his shore crew of damage to his J 2 forestay. ‘There was a big boom,’ explains Jérémie, and Although ‘the mast vibrated’, it was not damaged. He headed back to Lorient to carry out repairs as quickly as possible. He will then set off again, with a reduced crew, to make New York to be at the start of New York-Vondée on 29 May. Other major damage is to Holcim P-R-B whose Bough sprit has broken. He is continuing racing. Clarisse Cremer, (L'Occitane en Provence), undertook a routine check of the boat, and has reported to the Race Organisation an issue with the J3 bulkhead. Clarisse is safe and uninjured, and is headed for repairs in the Azores. The bough-sprit of the Class 40, Bleu Blanc Planète Location, has broken in two. After recovering the sail and getting the boat to safety, the skipper is off to a port in Brittany to study the next step. Sébastien Marsset, (Foussier), retired for medical reasons. There are close duels at the top of both the Imocas and Class40's. Racing at just over six miles apart, Charlie Dalin, (MACIF Santé et Prévoyance), and Yoann Richomme, (Paprec Arkéa), continue to lead the Transat CIC Imoca Class where in Class 40, Fabien Delahaye, (Legallais Team Voile,) and Ian Lipinski, (Crédit Mutuel), are only separated by a little over four miles. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, May 03, 2024. May 2 was a big day for INEOS Britannia as the sailing team who took over the programme after countless hours of detailed, relentless design and technical fit-out, led by Sir Ben Ainslie with a midday dock-out, and a superb, if shifting, breeze, in the range of 8-13 knots. New boats, new faces, and an accumulation of pent-up energy and excitement will have to stay on hold as the winds refused to blow today on the Bay of Palma for what should have been the first day of racing for the 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season, at 52 SUPER SERIES Palma-Vela Sailing Week. Rain clouds eliminated any chance of a sailing breeze and the fleet remained poised at the Real Club Náutico de Palma’s race dock for the day, but by mid-afternoon it was clear there was no chance of equable racing. Six of the eight men's and women's dinghy Olympic places on offer at the Last Chance Regatta were claimed by sailors on a rain-soaked final day of qualification. In the women's dinghy Ilxa 6, event winner Ebru Bolat, had already earned an Olympic spot for Romania, before today's medal races, and she was joined in the select group who will be heading to Marseille by Cyprus's, Marilena Makri, and Nethra Kumanan of India. Lin Pletikos, of Slovenia, also claimed an Olympic place today. Close racing action captured from the Calvin Air helicopter, from on-the-water, interviews at the prizegiving, and all the fun at the parties on the first day of racing - English Harbour Rum Race Day 1 at Antigua Sailing Week. English Harbour Rum Race Day kicked off racing action on Sunday 28 April 2024 at the 55th edition of Antigua Sailing Week. The international fleet got their first taste of racing in tropical heat on the stunning South Coast of Antigua. An easterly breeze of 7-13 knots and flat sea state provided sweet conditions, but the competition was full of spice. Nico is off in the CIC Transat for what promises to be an extreme North Atlantic crossing. This first solo transatlantic race marks the beginning of the season. See you on the other side, Nico! But not before you have a damage problem. This is the calm before his storm. A broken bough-sprit has not taken him from the race. He will fix it in New York. Tony Langley’s Gladiator team took the first race win of the 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season at 52 SUPER SERIES PalmaVela Sailing Week after profiting from a bold call on the first downwind leg allowed the British flagged team to move up from eighth at the first windward mark to lead by the leeward gate. The sailing squad for Australia’s 2024 America’s Cup challenge in the Unicredit Youth and Puig Women’s competitions in Barcelona has been announced, with a combined team of 13 sailors including several Olympic and Sail GP athletes. The Australian squad has been selected from across the nation to contest this high speed, high-tech, and extreme skills competition, making history in the world’s oldest sporting trophy event and returning Australia to the Cup spotlight.

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INEOS Britannia, the British Challenger of Record representing Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd for the 37th America’s Cup, has revealed its AC75 race boat for the very first time. The 75ft vessel, code-named RB3, emerged from the INEOS Britannia base in Barcelona on Saturday 20 April for rig stepping and checking in preparation for her first sail. It was the first time the race boat had been in public view after two-and-a-half years of design, build and fit-out.

The British Challenger of Record for the 37th America's Cup this November in Barcelona rolled out their yacht, the A C 75 last Saturday before dawn. We thought only politicians did that so no one would look at their plans. The first three 75 boats look similar but Ineos Britannia is different. Now things are getting interesting. Our expert on the World on Water channel says it has a "Strange Hull." This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, April 26, 2024. As the locals celebrated shoreside with the tradition of books and roses to celebrate the ‘Diada de Sant Jordi’ or St George’s Day, out on the beautiful waters of Barcelona it was a building breeze through the day that saw the Swiss, Americans and French all training hard. The 28th Edition of Charleston Race Week at Patriots Point Wraps Up while the spectrum of conditions put the best to the test. The Palmetto Cup, presented to the most competitive handicap fleet, went to Bottle Rocket, the Cheetah 30 sailed by a group of great friends - Jay Greenfield, Nick Johnstone and Nate Fast – who took two bullets to win class. The Sportsmanship Award went to the Bermuda 40 Custom Yawl Lioness, owned, and skippered by Sheldon Haynie racing in Pursuit Spinnaker C. We all saw the terrible cloud-burst weather during the naming ceremony of Emirates Team New Zealand's new A C 75 so it was not difficult to know that sailing in that weather was out of the question. Not fo the beautiful Auckland classic yacht Ariki. It was out on the harbour and so was our shooter Mike Millett from Air-Flow New Zealand who captured the yacht at full sail. Ariki is a racing yacht which was built in Auckland New Zealand in 1904 by Logan Brothers. She had a distinguished career as a racing and cruising yacht. From the time of her launch in Oct 1904 she dominated first class Auckland yacht racing until the appearance of the yacht Ranger in 1938. She has the sail number A3. After the disappointment of the session on Saturday being curtailed by a small technical issue, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli docked-out their achingly beautiful AC75 into near-perfect conditions for a Sunday commissioning sail of the highest order. Bristling with power, poise and real stability despite the legacy appendages, Jimmy Spithill and Francesco Bruni (later swapped out with Marco Gradoni), ramped up the intensity and began releasing the boat’s potential. The Transat CIC is set to bring solo ocean racing’s biggest, most modern IMOCA and Class40 fleet to the very heart of New York City. The city of New York is inextricably linked to the long history of solo ocean racing. Some years before anyone had really worked up the idea of racing solo around the globe, in 1957 English yachtsman Colonel Herbert ‘Blondie’ Hasler proposed a solo race across the Atlantic from Plymouth to New York We are viewer supported sailing media. Please subscribe, share, like and check to alerts bell. Big Tech has demonetised our channel so if you would like to help us then we can be found on Patreon and PayPal (geoff.waller@bigpond.com) Thank you

The Luna Rossa team was born in 1997 from the meeting between the entrepreneur Patrizio Bertelli and the Argentine yacht designer German Frers, who proposed them to launch a challenge at the 30th America's Cup in 2000. Since then the team has taken part in five editions of the 'America's Cup, winning the Challenger selection regattas twice - the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2000 and the PRADA Cup in 2021 - and competing in the final in 2007 and 2013. In the final match of the 36th America's Cup presented by PRADA against the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand, the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team recorded the best score by an Italian challenger in the history of the America's Cup. Luna Rossa will once again represent the Circolo della Vela Sicilia yacht club in the challenge at the 37th edition of the America's Cup to be held in Barcelona, ​​Spain, in September and October 2024.

Defenders of the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona have launched their race boat, Boat 3 AC75 and they went for a sail on the first day. Two global Sailing experts, Sail-Worlds Richard Gladwell and Sailmaker, Italy's Vittorio d'Albertas give their view on the new boat.

Alinghi Red Bull launched their new AC75 Race Boat, took it for a test tow then their first sail. Interviews and a review by Quantum Design Sail Italy's Vittorio d'Albertas.

The America's Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand, wheeled their new 75-foot defender out of the shed and immediately dropped it into the water and went sailing. The crowd Cheered , and challengers were astounded. They, in turn, showed their boats and went back into lockdown. Round one to the defenders. This says, we are ready, are you? It's going to be interesting. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, April 19, 2024. High on a hill in Greece, they conducted a well-practiced ceremony to light a flame from the rays of the sun. At the time of our editing, it is 100 days until the Paris Olympics. It didn't go without a hitch but it did combust and the torch is on its way. They couldn’t resist it and who could blame them? Emirates Team New Zealand took to the Hauraki Gulf on Sunday in their brand new AC75 with the sailors itching to get going and push fast through the commissioning phase. No nonsense as always, the day was efficient, despite the team leaving the mainsail inflatable bag that sits between the mainsail skins, back on the dock and having to send a chase boat in to get it. Dan Bernasconi, Chief Technical Officer: Emirates Team New Zealand is interviewed. The French legend Pen Duick VI FR (14), skippered by the indomitable Marie Tabarly, has taken provisional line honors in the final leg of the inaugural McIntyre Ocean Globe Race, – and in the days ahead could potentially win the O G R Overall! At 22 52 UTC, on 11th April the stunning black-hulled, 73-foot Bermudan Ketch, revered amongst sailors around the world, sailed gracefully across the Royal Yacht Squadron finish line in Cowes UK. With Marie at the helm, leading her loyal troops, it was fitting that this yacht, sailed by her father Éric Tabarly in the 1973 Whitbread Round-the-World Race, should take line honours in such style. With almost a two-day lead on nearest rival L’Esprit d’équipe for line honours, Pen Duick VI’s dominance on the final leg was unquestionable. The other Corinthian sailing round-the-world race, the British Clipper race is currently transiting the North Pacific. It is day 18 of the current leg and the crew on, Dare To Win are feeling tired. The team has entered the low-pressure system coming off of Hawaii. In this report, we hear more about life on board from the crew on Dare To Lead. With new boat launches, all around them, NYYC American Magic stayed true to their programme on Tuesday, and executed an intense afternoon of two-boat race practice in perfect ‘champagne’ conditions off a sunny and increasingly warm Barcelona. Team Boss Terry Hutchison explains to the official interviewer. We have subtitles. If boys can do it, so can girls. This has been proven as the all-female crew brought the classic yacht Maiden across the Mcintyre Ocean Globe Race in Cowes. Whitbread history was reinvented in Cowes, UK as Maiden UK crossed the finish line of the McIntyre Ocean Globe Race in a suitable style. The sun came out, Abba tunes blared, and the beers and food were shared around the excited crowds as a carnival festival took over the windy Yacht Haven marina.

Defenders of the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona have launched their race boat, Boat 3 AC75 and they went for a sail on the first day. Two global Sailing experts, Sail-Worlds Richard Gladwell and Sailmaker, Italy's Vittorio d'Albertas give their view on the new boat.

This is finals day, day 5 of the 53 Trofeo Princess Sofia Miyoka, by Ibro Star, at the World Cup Series event in Palma. And there was another day of light breezes on the Bay of Palma. In the men's Formula Kite, winner, 17-year-old Max Mater of Singapore, closed out his second Sofia title triumph in succession.The Ilka 7 men's dinghy title had already been won with a day to spare by Team GB's Miki Beckett, and the Nachras 17 mixed multi-holes was won by Italy's Olympic champions Rugo Rotida and Catarina Barnati. This is your weekly global sailing highlights show, The World on Water, April 12, 2024. There was a dramatic conclusion to the women's kiting event where twice, the overall leader Daniela Moroz of the United States, started a fraction too soon and falsely started, picking up two costly UFD disqualifications. This left the door open to Australian kite boarder Brianna Whitehead to win the kites and the trophy for overall winner.Winner of the women's Formula kite event, Brianna Whitehead, held her nerve under pressure, as USA's outstanding favorite Daniela Moroz, false started twice, to become the only the second Australian winner ever of the overall top award, as the 53-trophy Princess Sophia Malluca, by Ibro star, Olympic regatta, concluded on the Bay of Parma. Competitors racing in the 51st edition of the BVI spring regatta experienced a week of mixed conditions which put the best to the test, light for spring regatta and typical windy trades for the sailing festival, so those who competed in the full week can attest to just how exhilarating the breeze can be in the beautiful BVI. This is their rap video which shows the highlights from the 51st edition of the BVI spring regatta and sailing festival. South Australia's Dan Turner will take part in the 2025 mini globe race after launching his class globe 580 immortal game this past weekend. All 30 entrants must build their own 5.80 yacht and the race starts in early 2025 from Lagos Portugal and heads west around the world via the Panama Canal.This race for 19 footers is promoted by Aussie adventurer Don McIntyre. Good luck Dan, we will be following you. Over 300 of the UK's best young racing talents battled it out in tough conditions at the 2024 RYA Youth National Championships held at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The latter half of the week saw strong winds leading to a disrupted schedule but race management teams made the most of improved conditions when they came with winners crowned across six classes as IQ Foil Windfowlers joined sailors in the 420, NACRA 15, 29-0, ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 fleets at the Pinnacle Youth Racing Event. After a self-confessed slow start, Dare to Lead has been inching up the standings. Hear from the team's skipper Ryan as he talks through how the tactical decision to take the easterly route has so far paid off. First mate Charlie then looks at the next few days ahead for the fleet on time zero, showing by the last mandatory gates before the North Pacific proper.The Clipper around the World Yacht Race is one of the toughest endurance challenges on the planet. People from around the world and diverse walks of life train to become ocean racing sailors. The dockside chatter is ablaze at the moment in buzzing Barcelona.The reveal of the Alinghi Red Bull Racing AC75 kicked it off, followed quickly by the arrival of the INEOS Britannia and Orient Express racing boats by low loaders over the weekend, fueling the intrigue further. See our report on the arrival of the AC75s on our World on Water YouTube channel. We're here in Barcelona with Harry Melges, Hellsman for American Magic Team.Harry, morning sailing session.

n conjunction with Tom Ehman of the twice-weekly sailing podcast, Sailing Illustrated, this is our first, exclusive preview, of the 37th Americas' Cup, to be held later this year in Barcelona Spain. The racing is between Americas' Cup, 75 Foot yachts, and they are assembling now in Spain, in readiness for testing, and competition. Tom, over the years, has led many Americas' Cup syndicates who have won the cup, and others who have challenged. He is regarded as The Cup expert.

A lovely 10 to 12 knots north easterly breeze made for an exciting start to the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's Rolex China Sea Race 2024.) All 21 boats got off to a clean start at 11.20 hours in the stunning Hong Kong Victoria Harbour. The fleet gathered before the start at Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's Kellet Island Clubhouse for a lion dance to wish the competitors a safe journey across the ever-challenging South China Sea. This is your weekly global sailing highlights show, the World on Water, April 5th 2024. The popular sailing podcast, Sailing Illustrated, is always covering the latest in sailing and this week had the mail on the New York Yacht Club's Big Americas Cup Yacht and its delivery from the US to Barcelona via the big Ukrainian heavy-lift Antonov cargo plane. The boats are assembling in Barcelona as Ineos Britannia's AB3 boat is also in transit down the A35 from Carrington Boats, not quite the entry as made by the Americans. Tom Ehrman of Sailing Illustrated reports. It may have been April Fool's Day, but the weather in Palma de Mallorca was no joke. Sailors faced steep, mountainous waves and 20 to 30 knot winds, for the opening day of the Trofeo Princesa Sofia, keeping the IQ Foil Men and Women, 49er, 49er FX, and NACRA 17 fleets from racing. The Women's Kite, 470, and Ilka 6 and 7 fleets, were able to get racers off despite a challenging day. The North Pacific Ocean. Big One. The ultimate test of physical and mental fortitude, our intrepid race crew, are set to face. On previous editions, teams have encountered mountainous waves as tall as 14 metres, in sea states classed as phenomenal. Hurricane-force winds, freezing temperatures, and a true sense of remoteness, are all a possibility, but that is what the teams train for. Here's a look into the Italian Luna Rossa Prado Pirelli Americas Cup team. What I really like is the compttion, comparing yourself with others and trying to bring out your best. Ruggero Tida is channeling precision, decisiveness, and a quest for the extreme, into conquering the 2024 Americas Cup. The Royal Ocean Racing Club has big plans to promote youth sailing in 2024. Over the years, through the generosity of RORC members, the Griffin Fund has assisted in providing race boats and experienced sailors, to improve young sailors' understanding of offshore racing. An exciting evolution has started with quite a bang for 2024. Nearly 300 sailors, 18-30 years of age, contacted the RORC with 200 attending a Griffin Zoom webinar held by the Griffin project team. Few yachts are more iconic than Pen Duick 6, with its long and colourful history with the Whitbread Round-the-World Race. (3:09) Designed specifically for the 1973 Whitbread, and sailed by the legendary Eric Tabarly, Pen Duick 6 had to be built in record time to make it to the starting line. She was an unofficial entrant in the 1977-78 Whitbread, and in 1981-82 as Euromuck. Marie Tabarly is now owner and skipper of the 73ft, 33m Pen Duick 6, the flagship of the Ellermann Terra project, raising public awareness of major environmental and social issues.

The SailGP Christchurch event, was dominated on the first day by a dolphin on the course, and it's presence stopped the racing. The 22,000 audience had their attendance money returned by the organisers. Day 2 was filled with drama. The Australians suffered the most, when they crashed over a piece of sail g p furniture. Here is a clip from Emirates GBR. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, The World on Water, March 29, 2024. Last year saw the inaugural Sydney to Auckland Yacht Race organised by Sydneys' Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. The bi-annual race's next edition is in 2025. Now another Sydney Sailing Club has announced its intention to also run a race to Auckland in 2025. That means there will be two Sydney to Auckland, 2,155 mile Yacht Races, within 7 months of each other. We wonder what was behind that sort of thinking. Day 3 of the 2024 Etchells World Championships brought a new level of frustration for the 40 competing boats, with light and shifty conditions across the race course all afternoon. Tensions were as high as the thermometer as the fleet was met with an oscillating and unsettled breeze. For Race 5, the Race Committee set a course of 1.6nm and aimed for a duration of 60-70 minutes. . Magpie, Graeme Taylor, James Mayo, and Richard Allanson managed to outsmart the conditions and claim their second bullet of the regatta, pushing them ahead of the fleet. Emirates Team New Zealand were out on the rugged waters of the Hauraki Gulf in the area the Kiwis call the ‘Back Paddock, ’ their next generation of outstanding New Zealand foiling talent shone in windy conditions with the breeze clocking 20 knots at times. Day 3 of the 2024 Formula Kite European Championship came as a bit of a shock to the system. With the wind gusting close to 30 knots at times, the decision was whether to go for an 11 square metre kite or maybe even change down to the rarely used 8 and 9 square metre options. Whereas the lighter breezes see a monotone of identical Flysurfer kites in the sky, today produced a rainbow of multiple colours as riders unpacked their lesser-used small kites from brands like Ozone and F-One. The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club's Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Line honours went to XS Moment with Jupiter winning the overall Honours. Fortune favoured the sticklers in the 2024 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race, just three entries hung on in the light to non-existent breezes, Ray Hudson’s XS Moment taking line honours, just after midnight, while the two-handed crew of Ian Smith and Billy Sykes, on Jupiter, crossed the line second to claim overall honours. James Mayo (1999) and Richard Allanson (2019) have previously won the Etchells World Championships, but this is the first time in 20 years that Graeme Taylor can claim the honour. Sailing AUS1486 Magpie, the trio were ecstatic when they crossed the finish line of the final race. Taylor was on board Andoo Comanche when they had the line honours win ripped away from them in the final moments of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after LawConnect rolled them at the finish, so this win brings something extra special for him. No matter how much the standard of the fleet improves, Max Maeder continues to be very hard to catch. That was the conclusion from the first day of Gold Fleet racing on day four of the 2024 Formula Kite European Championship, in Mar Menor Spain. The 17-year-old from Singapore has been setting the standard in men’s kitefoiling for the best part of two years, and after winning all four of today’s heats it’s Maeder who continues to push the bar higher. Huge congratulations to Our Isles and Oceans on its first FIRST place, and UNICEF who took the second place spot on Race 9: Sailing City - Qingdao Cup. With a carnival of colour and celebration, there is no welcome ceremony like a Qingdao welcome ceremony.

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Le Mans starts come to sailing. In the latest Clipper Round The World Race Start video, they show how they adapted the French Motor race, Le Mans start, to their fleet Leg start. This is the Clipper's third Le Mans start and all the creww like the concept. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, March 22, 2024. There are many hidden parts to an America’s Cup campaign where innovation, performance and talent remain unseen. Hydraulics is one such area, so much so, that when Emirates Team New Zealand’s new race boat is launched next month, there will be very little of the department's work on display to the public or reconnaissance cameras. Three months ? THREE MONTHS ! Yes, three months of construction was something! Take the boat out of the water, remove the mast, then the keel, inspect the parts one by one, maintain or replace them, optimize the systems, adjust the settings, check the measurements. . . Their technical team did it brilliantly. Put the boat back in the water after weeks of work. The end of another top-class training camp for Alinghi Red Bull Racing who concluded their final trip to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with some real demonstration sailing in the upper wind ranges but had to wait for the wind to drop after two slow-mo capsizes – one for each AC40 in the opening part of the session. When Race Officer Ross Wilson called for an early start, the competitors knew they were in for an exciting first day of racing for the 2024 Etchells World Championships in Fremantle, Western Australia. "Freo is a beautiful spot to go sailing, and I'm sure that all the competitors will really love what the Fremantle Sailing Club and the organising authority, Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, have in store for them here on the West Coast, " said Wilson ahead of hitting the water for the opening day.