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As the OCEAN 50 and ULTIM divisions work south, upwind on the east side of a stormy low pressure, north of them the IMOCA leaders have been working hard to decipher their best way around this system and to position themselves for the next one.

Britain’s Jac Bailey and Ben Sinfield took second in the Final 29er EuroCup circuit event on Lake Garda at Fraglia Vela Riva.

I’m focusing on two very different events today, on different sides of the planet, and with a very different focus, but linked by the adventure of going sailing.

13 Flying Fifteen crews gathered at the CV Moisson Lavacourt Lake on the weekend of 17 – 19 October to compete in the 2025 Flying 15 National Championship.

The opening races of the 2025 Optimist Asian & Oceanian Championship got under way yesterday (Monday) at Oman Sail’s Mussanah Sailing School, Barceló Resort.

In the New York Yacht Club’s iconic Model Room, the Herreshoff Marine Museum/America’s Cup Hall of Fame welcomed James Spithill, Paul Cayard, and Susan Henn as Class of 2025 inductees of the America’s Cup Hall of Fame on October 16th, 2025.

After a tough start in the English Channel and then a tricky light airs ridge in the Bay of Biscay, the Charal skipper Jérémie Beyou, sailing with Morgan Lagravière, is just ahead of early leaders Sam Goodchild and Loïs Berrehar on MACIF Sante Prévoyance.

Forget the Women’s Euros, Rugby World Cup, F1, Cricket or Ryder Cup… the headline event of the year is the Sandy Shell. A limited entry of 25 of the best sailors from across the world (mostly Chichester harbour) gathered for the unofficial RS200 Worlds.

Forecasts of 30-40 knot gusts, weren’t good. Just the opposite to September when we had to abandon our first try for lack of wind but, by the end of the week it looked promising and, arriving at Rutland on Saturday morning, the wind was only 5-10 knots.

At 10:00 local time on Reunion Island, the two formidable duellists of this 2nd edition of the GLOBE40 are separated by only a few 0.3 miles, even though they are 820 miles from the finish line this morning in St. Paul Bay on the west coast of the island.