Super maxi Black Jack wins line honors at Sydney-Hobart race
HOBART, Australia (AP) — Super maxi Black Jack crossed the finish line early Wednesday morning to win line honors at the Sydney to Hobart race. The Monaco Yacht Club-based Black Jack finished at 1:37 a.m. (1437 GMT Tuesday) in 2 days, 12 hours, 37 minutes, 17 seconds. This year’s 628-nautical mile event (about 720 miles; […]
Super maxi Black Jack leads Sydney to Hobart yacht race
SYDNEY (AP) — Monaco Yacht Club super maxi Black Jack held a 18-nautical-mile lead over fellow maxi SHK Scallywag on Monday in a Sydney to Hobart race hit hard by retirements of nearly half the fleet due to heavy seas. More than 24 hours into the annual race from Sydney Harbor to Hobart on the […]
Slingsby’s Australia does well at home in SailGP Sydney
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia recovered from a poor start to score a vital race win on the first day of SailGP racing on Sydney Harbour, as two of its biggest rivals were involved in a damaging collision. Tom Slingsby’s Australian team finished third and seventh in the first two races and were sitting sixth on […]
3 Aussie skippers set for SailGP showdown on Sydney Harbor
Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi! That’s three Aussies, as in the number of Australian skippers who will lead their teams onto scenic Sydney Harbor for the Australia Sail Grand Prix this weekend. Not only are bragging rights at stake, but Tom Slingsby, Jimmy Spithill and Nathan Outteridge will be using the penultimate Season 2 […]
SailGP adds Chicago, Dubai to Season 3 regatta lineup
The SailGP global league has added Chicago and Dubai to the lineup of regattas for its third season starting in 2022. The Chicago regatta, to be held off Navy Pier on Lake Michigan, is set for June 18-19. It follows the season opener in Bermuda on May 14-15. SailGP will visit the Middle East for […]
37th America’s Cup has a protocol but no venue yet
Teams that will compete in the 37th America’s Cup now know the rules and conditions that will govern the regatta, as well as some tweaks to the high-tech boats that will fly across the tops of waves. But they still don’t know where sailing’s marquee regatta will be held in 2024, and probably won’t for […]
New York Yacht Club pulls out of 37th America’s Cup
The New York Yacht Club is pulling out of the 37th America’s Cup due to the uncertainty about when and where it will be sailed. The decision, announced Tuesday, came less than three months after the yacht club dropped the American Magic sailing team, which represented it in the 36th America’s Cup, and brought on […]
Slingsby steers Aussies to win in wild SailGP regatta
Tom Slingsby and Team Australia won the Spain Sail Grand Prix on Sunday by sailing to an easy win in the podium race after Sir Ben Ainslie’s British team capsized just after the start, effectively knocking U.S. skipper Jimmy Spithill out of contention. The victory on a wild afternoon on the Bay of Cádiz allowed […]
Sir Ben Ainslie buys majority stake in British SailGP team
Britain’s Sir Ben Ainslie now has another title: Team owner in the SailGP global league. Ainslie and business partner Chris Bake have purchased majority ownership in Great Britain SailGP Team, with American tech billionaire Larry Ellison retaining a minority stake. The British squad, which is helmed by Ainslie, is the first of the existing eight […]
Skipper Taylor Canfield wins record fifth Congressional Cup
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Taylor Canfield of Team Stars+Stripes won his fifth Congressional Cup on Sunday, making him the winningest skipper in the 56-year history of one of the world’s premier match-racing regattas. Canfield beat Johnie Berntsson of Sweden, the 2009 Congressional Cup champion, in three straight races in the final. In July, Canfield […]