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(Change)Setting Sails (& Wing): America’s Cup Heads to Spain
After losing their appeal to defend the America’s Cup in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, the Alinghi team and the defending yacht club, Societe Nautique de Geneve, at last...
Read MoreAfter losing their appeal to defend the America’s Cup in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, the Alinghi team and the defending yacht club, Societe Nautique de Geneve, at last...
Read MoreLooking around at the full house at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport, Rhode Island, last night, there was no mistaking that it was old home week for 12-Metre sailors...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Boats.com correspondent Carol Cronin sent us a different kind of race report after the first day of a unique regatta being held in Rochester, New...
Read MoreAlastair Walton, a sailor who works in the Boats.com/YachtWorld.com office in Fareham, U.K., sent me this report of his experience sailing on the new J/97 in a nearby...
Read MoreOur friends at Blur Sailing and RegattaTV sent us these videos of the action at the finish of Tjorn Runt, an annual summer event that takes a large number of sailboats...
Read MoreTwo very unusual sailboats are tuning up on opposite sides of the world. When it’s not flying a hull, one can sometimes be seen flying beneath a helicopter. And at top...
Read MoreFour skippers in the fleet of 13 at Stenungsund, Sweden, last week, had won the IOD Class Championship before, each more than once, and collectively they’d won it 20...
Read MoreLocal sailor, Urban Ristorp, and defending class champion, Charlie van Voorhis finished second and third in a single race on Thursday, setting up a match for the...
Read MoreThree more races and two more days of racing before the prizegiving for the IOD World Championship. The weather continues to cooperate here on the West Coast of Sweden;...
Read MoreOne doesn’t expect to end up on the podium when racing against 1700-plus boats, but that’s what happened to the crew from Boats.com last weekend when we...
Read MoreAs reported in my previous blog, the International One-Design World Championships began this week in Stenungsund, Sweden. Our team had a fantastic opening day, but...
Read MoreWarm summer weather arrived in Sweden just in time for the racing of the World Championship of the ISAF classic class, the International One-Design, a boat originally...
Read MoreArguably Europe’s most influential sailor of the 20th Century, Eric Tabarly is the subject of a superb film shown last weekend on the closing night of the Newport...
Read MoreThe headquarters for Boats.com and YachtWorld.com is in the Union building, perched on the western edge of Lake Union, a small but busy patch of water on the east side...
Read MoreLast Saturday, I was part of the crew of board members from Sail America that lucked into a good seat for the Boston In-Port Race for the Volvo Ocean Race, a Fjord 40,...
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