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70th Bermuda Gold Cup
Menninger, Buckley, Diaz de Leon, Shampain and Canfied win the 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship
Skipper Taylor Canfield and Team Stars+Stripes – Mike Buckley, Victor Diaz de Leon, Mike Menninger and Eric Shampain – won the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship with a penalty-marred victory over Ian Williams’s Team GAC (...) -
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2019 44Cup: Igor Lah’s Team CEEREF wins the final event and the overall ranking
It was supposed to be a heavyweight bout between Chris Bake’s Team Aqua and Vladimir Prosikhin’s Team Nika. These two, among the oldest, most successful teams in the high performance one design monohull class, started the 44Cup Palma, the final event of the season, separated by just one point at the top of the 2019 44Cup (...) -
#RC44Class
Aleph Racing: 44Cup winner finally after nine years of trying
This morning Hugues Lepic’s Aleph Racing scored their third bullet out of four races, increasing their five point lead at the day’s start to a massive 10. Ultimately a fourth place in today’s second and final race handed the French team victory at the Adris 44Cup Rovinj. This was a considerable step up from their third to (...) -
#RC44
2018 RC44 Championship: Nico Poons won the Cascais Cup and the overall ranking
Giant waves kicked up by an Atlantic gale oddly combined with no wind in the vicinity of Cascais resulted in racing being cancelled on the final day of the RC44 Cascais Cup. This made for a surprise, come-from-behind winner of both this last event of the 2018 season for the high performance, one design race boats and in the 2018 RC44 (...) -
#StarClass
Brazilian Jorge Zarif and Guilherme de Almeida are 2018 Star World Champions
This morning when the 62 teams arrived at the Tred Avon Yacht Club with two races scheduled, the discard coming in play after Race 5, and a very windy forecast, anything was possible. Jorge Zarif and crew Guilherme de Almeida had a comfortable eight point lead over the second place team Paul Cayard (USA) and Arthur Lopes (BRA), and even more (...) -
#ClipperRace
Clipper 2017-18 Race: Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman to ever win a round the world yacht race
History has been made as Australian Sailor Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman to ever win a round the world yacht race after clinching the overall victory in the Clipper 2017-18 Race. -
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RC44 Championship Tour : Poons enjoys perfect finish to take the 2018 Marstrand Cup
Dutchman Nico Poons and his crew on Charisma triumphed at the end of a thrilling final day in the 2018 RC44 Marstrand Cup, which came down to the last run of the 12th and last race in sparkling sunshine off Sweden’s west coast. -
2018 RC44 championship
RC44: Nico Poons’ Charisma secures victory in Lanzarote
Nico Poons’ Charisma clung on to her lead from yesterday to win the RC44 Calero Marinas Cup, opening event of the 2018 RC44 championship. But it all came down to the last run of the last race when a last curved ball cut the Monaco-based team’s overall lead to just one point from arch-rival, Team (...) -
Match-racing
World Match Racing Tour 2017: Torvar Topples Robertson To Win His First World Title
Torvar Mirsky has become the Match Racing World Champion after beating defending champion Phil Robertson 3-1 in the 2017 finals in Shenzhen, China. The skipper from Western Australia tore up the script, defied the odds, and sailed out of his skin to beat the form sailor of the past two seasons, New Zealand’s Phil (...) -
One Design
RC44 Championship: Team Nika has won the RC44 Marstrand World Championship
Team Nika has won the RC44 Marstrand World Championship after a dominant performance across the four days of competition. The final day delivered the strongest wind of the week in Sweden, with the north-westerly breeze blowing at 15 knots and with a big, lumpy seaway. Vladimir Prosikhin may not have won any races today but he steered Nika to a (...)