Sailing World

BONDS Flying Roos SailGP Team driven by Tom Slingsby pose for a selfie and celebrate winning the final race on Race Day 2 of the ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix in Sassnitz, Germany. Tom Slingsby’s Bonds Flying Roos ended a two-event wait for a Final with a flawless win on the Baltic Sea, as NorthStar took second and Los Gallos third. Australia moved 14 points clear at the top of the 2026 Rolex SailGP Championship standings.

Fifty-seven years after his first ride as a $10 extra, Gary Jobson joins the 1938 Sparkman & Stephens yawl Black Watch for three days on Maine’s classic circuit — and finds the same welcome, and a very fast NY50 to beat. The start of Classic Group B at the Castine Classic Yacht Race, with Black Watch to leeward. The year was 1969, and at the age of 18 I stepped aboard a 42-foot sloop in Annapolis for a race to Newport.

Sweden’s Emil Järudd and Hanna Jonsson clinched the Nacra 17 win after a week-long climb through the standings. The second week of San Pedro OCR closed with three pairs of Olympic-class sailors crowned champions on the waters that will host sailing at LA’s 2028 Olympic Games.

From lawn ornament to vintage mooring candy, the 1986 Catalina 22 floats on its lines. My web browser knows perfectly well what I’ve been up to, and the algorithm is now screaming “Catalina 22” into my feed. This means that I’ve done something stupid and bought a boat. A project boat, nonetheless. So, yes—I’ve joined the club of wide-eyed, shallow-pocketed sailors who see an old boat on a trailer and think, “doesn’t look too bad.” And here we go.

The 2026 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta event team (l to r): Priscilla Scollin, Dave Reed, Paul Todd, Walter Cooper and Carly Starck pause for a snap on the porch of Marblehead’s Corinthian YC. For the headline of my welcome letter printed in the official regatta program of Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series at Marblehead Race Week, I chose the cliché, “Best for Last.” It is a nod, of course, to this storied regatta being the final US stop of our 2026 series.

470 Racing at the San Pedro OCR 2026. Six days of racing at the home of the L.A. 2028 Olympics closed for the ILCA 6, ILCA 7, and 470 classes last week, with Great Britain’s Hannah Snellgrove, Australia’s Matt Wearn, and Brits Martin Wrigley and Bettine Harris taking the top spots in their fleets. With a new Final Series format that included 2 short high-intensity races for each class, San Pedro OCR concluded with tightly contested battles on the waters outside the Port of Los Angeles.

Los Gallos SailGP Team driven by Diego Botin leads Artemis SailGP Team driven by Nathan Outteridge in front of the grandstand on Race Day 2 of the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Spain’s Los Gallos claimed their second consecutive event win – defeating Artemis, Explora Swiss and Northstar – in a four-boat final that went down to the wire.

Charlie Garrard’s J/105 Merlin charges upwind on the final day of racing at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series at Marblehead Race Week. The team’s performance earned the team its dominant class win and a berth at the Helly Hansen Sunsail BVI Championship.

Jordi Xammar Hernández and Marta Cardona Alcántara, the Spanish mixed 470 team, on the first day of racing off San Pedro. SAN PEDRO, CA – On Sunday, nearly 200 Olympians and Olympic hopefuls from 34 countries took to the water at San Pedro OCR for six days of sailing in the L.A. Harbor.

The power grid of the Ferrari HyperSail project.