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After their dramatic earlier nosedive during training on the 15 July, Luna Rossa’s B3 AC75 has spent the last 14 days in the team’s hangar being inspected and modified. Returning to the water off Cagliari, Sardinia, Wednesday 29 July, with near perfect conditions of flat water and a thermal breeze of 11-13 knots that faded to…

As the Westerly Owners’ Association marks its diamond anniversary year, we explore the history of these beloved GRP classics The Westerly 25 followed the 22 in 1964. Both had simple, open plan layouts and were powered by gunter or Bermudan rigs. Credit: Genevieve Leaper/Alamy The Westerly Owners’ Association is a force to be reckoned with;…

The Nacra 15 World Championship is underway in Plymouth, UK and with seven races completed over the first two days, there have been seven different winners. European Champions Alessandro Vargiu and Noa Lisci of Italy are overall leaders with five finishes in the top three including a win in race 3, they have 15 pts…

Discard Day duly shuffled the fleet on the third day of the 2026 Fireball Worlds at Torbay. The new leaders all dropped a maximum point discard after six races. New leader is DJ Edwards and Vyv Townend who added a 5 and 1 to lead with 12 pts, second Georgia Booth and Oliver Davenport, recovering…

SailGP chief Russell Coutts picked the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix at Portsmouth as the event to introduce Group Racing – splitting the 13 teams into two Groups – involving more races. And he choose well, conditions were ideal and 20,000 paying customers got more quick-fire racing under the new format. More races and…

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…

‘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…

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

Boating expert, respected sports writer, and photographer Barry Pickthall, took the ‘Google Maps for boating’ out for a test – here’s what he found

The next must watch documentary series on how Gitana 18 was radically engineered for 100% offshore flight