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The organizers of the Viking Explorers Rally 2026, today announce that the official departure from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has been rescheduled to Thursday, 8 January, following careful review of recent and forecasted adverse weather conditions.

Belgian skipper Quentin Debois will leave the port of Cadiz on Tuesday 6 January between 8am and 1pm to begin his attempt to break the world record for a solo east-west Atlantic crossing.

Official racing got underway today in classic champagne sailing conditions, with clear blue skies and sunshine doing their best to convince everyone it was going to be an easy day (it wasn’t).

Ice Sailing as an Olympic Sport has regained interest with the announcement of the 2026 Ice and Snow Sailing World Championships

Day 3 of the ILCA Oceania & Australian Open Championships sees end of qualifying with Britain’s Matilda Nicholls 7th overall in the ILCA 6

Today’s two races were punctuated by shifty light airs that were hard to read and react to, leading to countless capsizes and one crew falling overboard, but quickly pulled back aboard by his skipper – a day when swimming was second only to sailing.

Stunning Beau Outteridge photos and full results from the huge fleets racing at Belmont 16s Sailing Club.

Zofia Wells (Glwendowie BC), got 2026 off to a great start with very consistent sailing on opening day in the PredictWind Tanner Cup, being sailed from Kohimarama Yacht Club in Auckland.

After some very windy weather over Christmas and the wrong tides over New Year, it was champagne (albeit cold champagne) conditions over the weekend for the oldest Illusion trophy in the programme – the Ice Breaker!

Entering the water at 12.55pm from Waikuku Beach at Otou, North Cape, the 36-year-old will attempt to swim the entire east coast of the North Island, carrying a clear call to decision makers in Wellington: commit to ending bottom trawling.