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The forecast for Race Day Two had the best breeze in the eastern Solent. The race team sent the fleets in that direction where sailors were rewarded with 8 to 14 knots of breeze and bright sunshine. The Royal connection continues. Her Royal Highness Princess Anne fired the first starting gun at the Royal Yacht…

Mattia Di Martino and Nina Cittar of Italy are the 2026 Nacra 15 World Champions, despite a strong final day challenge by compatriots Alessandro Vargiu and Noa Lisci. Vargiu and Lisci won the two final races but Martino and Cittar had done enough to confirm their overall victory. Third place went to Anahita Fontanille and…

Following a two-hour postponement, over 6,000 sailors were rewarded with definitive Solent conditions. A building 20-knot sea breeze and more than 640 boats racing across the Solent met the ebb tide to produce the short, steep chop for which the racecourse is famous. The new Vintage Class opened the racing, followed by a fleet of…

Two hundred years after seven yachts gathered off Cowes for the first race in 1826, The Princess Royal returned to the Isle of Wight for the opening weekend of the Bicentenary Regatta, which this year has brought more than 630 boats to the Solent. HRH The Princess Royal joined sailors, organisers and the Cowes community…

As Cowes Week celebrates its landmark 200th anniversary, Sir Ben Ainslie will return to the Solent to race alongside the Athena Pathway Youth Squad. Competing across four days of the regatta, Ainslie, GB1 sailor Ben Cornish and Emirates GBR SailGP Team sailor Neil Hunter will race with members of the Athena Pathway Youth Squad. The initiative forms part…

2026 Fireball World Champions are DJ Edwards and Vyv Townend, finishing 18.5 pts clear of Simon Kings and Jono Loe. Kings and Loe’s boat was holed on the penultimate day and they received redress. But a 68 in the first race (discarded) of the final day spoiled their championship hopes, despite recovering with a second…

AC38 GB1 GB1 CEO, Ian Walker, checks in on the build of GB1’s AC75 race boat ahead of the 38th America’s Cup in Naples. The British America’s Cup team – GB1 – Has finally broken cover to reveal the latest build stage of their AC75, currently undergoing conversion to meet the AC38 protocol design changes.…

An independent antifouling study on seven types of leisure boat coatings has found that biocide-free silicone paint worked best, and a paint marketed as environmentally friendly was ‘extremely toxic’. After six months – sections where no paint was applied show the most growth. Credit: Ann Larsson/University of Gothenburg Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in…

Dreaming of a boating holiday exploring the British coastline? Barry Pickthall has the answer for you with West Country sailing

The Royal London Yacht Club (RLYC) hosted an epic edition of the Rovika Open UK SB20 Nationals and Open Championships at Cowes. Gathering 31 teams from across Australia, France, Belgium, Singapore and the UK, four days of action spanned from 25-knot Solent blasts to nail-biting light-air tactical battles setting a new benchmark for the UK…