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Fireball Worlds at Torbay – Gray and Pepperdine Day 2 Leaders
Second day of racing at the Fireball Worlds at Torbay on the South coast of England and after four races completed Peter Gray and Richard Pepperdine have a 21 point lead. Gray and Pepperdine are the only pair still in all single figure finishes 3,4,8,5, with Australia’s Heather Macfarlane and Chris Payne in second with…
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Rolex SailGP Championship – Rules is Rules but beating them is a winner
‘Rules is rules’ and the unwritten rule of SailGP racing is that first at the first mark, is first to the finish. And that rule of thumb was working throughout the ten SailGP fleet races at Portsmouth and was only overturned in the winner-takes-all Final. Sweden lead from the start until Spain’s Los Gallos, who…
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The Winners of the Race No One Can Predict – 2025/26 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race Results
The teams of the 2025/26 Clipper Round The World Yacht Race have been hurtling around the globe since last August and the finish line has now been crossed – here are the results
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The “Google Maps” of Boating – Expert Tried and Tested Review of the new Savvy Navvy App
Boating expert, respected sports writer, and photographer Barry Pickthall, took the ‘Google Maps for boating’ out for a test – here’s what he found
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‘A Prepreg-Carbon Act of Defiance Against the Laws of Nature’ – Gitana 18 and the new ‘Flying Offshore’ Documentary Series
The next must watch documentary series on how Gitana 18 was radically engineered for 100% offshore flight
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World Champions Crowned in the Junior 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 Fleets
The 2026 Junior World Championships wrapped up in Medemblik with Italy winning the 49er and Nacra 17 fleets, while Poland took the 49erFX crown with a race to spare. The 49er gold fleet delivered the tightest title fight of the week, Lorenzo Pezzilli and Tobia Torroni taking the win and the 2026 49er Junior World…
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SailGP Sail Grand Prix Portsmouth – Victory for Spain’s Los Gallos SailGP Team
Spain’s Los Gallos SailGP Team with Skipper Diego Botin took the overall win at the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix in Portsmouth. The Final winner-takes-all Race Sunday were: 1st ESP Los Gallos SailGP Team – Diego Botin 2nd SWE Artemis – Nathan Outteridge 3rd CAN Northstar – Giles Scott 4th SUI Explora Journeys Swiss…
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52 Super Series – Paprec Gets The Win at Marina Rubicon Sailing Week
Jean-Luc Petithuguenin’s French team on Paprec win Marina Rubicón Lanzarote 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, the third event of the season for the leading Grand Prix monohull circuit. They held their nerve across two difficult, breezy final races, making no significant errors when their main title rivals both faltered, to win their first ever regatta…
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SailGP Sail Grand Prix Portsmouth – Emirates GBR not happy with processional courses
After Saturday’s performance of the Emirates GBR Team continued to fall well below last season’s League winning standard, the hunt is on for the cause. Emirates GBR helm Dylan Fletcher described the courses as, quite a difficult course in terms of it being very processional from the start and not many overtake opportunities – so…
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Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix Portsmouth – Day 1 does not go to plan for the Brits
Day 1 of the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix Portsmouth opened in blazing sunshine and a decent seabreeze over a Mediterranean cloured sea. With the press conference dispatched without anything revealed that startled the media, and Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal having given the British team her seal of approval . . .…