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Maelenn Lemaitre: “Right now I’m a bit tired because after sailing all day I learned so much. I have all this data in my mind, and right now even my name is quite hard to remember!”

In fabulous sunny max A rig weather 14 races were sailed by 12 skippers despite Paul Woodward and Dave Tomlinson being away winning trophies at Cowes Week. But Dave’s big bro Adrian was finally back from being smoked in France.

The race to compete in Saturday’s Final is on at San Pedro OCR as shifting leaderboards and narrow point margins across the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 fleets set the stage for a decisive final day of qualifying at the future L.A. 2028 Olympic venue.

There were 19 entries and the competitors were treated to perfect sailing conditions – a steady breeze, waves & sunshine – what more could you ask for?

After Wednesday’s racing was cut short by increasing winds and the entire fleet remained ashore on Thursday, sailors were finally able to return to Aarhus Bay today for Day 4 of the 2026 ILCA 4 Youth World Championship.

With 30 days remaining before the start, skippers from around the world are converging on Les Sables-d’Olonne for the final phase of preparation for sailing’s original and most gruelling solo, non-stop, unassisted around-the-world challenge.

Fourth in the same class last year at just over one year since he started grand prix big boat sailing, Italian Mauro Gestri and crew lead Abanca ORC Class 0 into the last day of 44th Copa del Rey Mapfre after solid day counting two second places.

While tens of thousands continue to enjoy the atmosphere of the Fleadh in Belfast, another major international event is about to make waves in Northern Ireland as over 200 sailors from across the world arrive in for the 2026 GP14 World Championships.

Conditions were extremely light and practice was delayed several hours. The wind eventually filled in enough for us to get things moving and we ran two rounds of practice starts with a half race.

The Castine Classic Yacht Race, Camden to Brooklin Race, and the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta had some of the season’s biggest classics fleets and featured yet another weekend of champagne sailing conditions.