All systems go at Match Racing Worlds

After a year in which regattas were postponed or cancelled due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, the specter of International One-Design (IOD) sloops thrashing about Hamilton Harbour begins for 16 teams tomorrow with the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match...

COVID-19 forces early end to Optimist Europeans

The 2020 Optimist European Championship, to be held October 20-24, had the final day cancelled due to COVID-19 development in the area surrounding Portorož, Slovenia. Thirty-four countries, including Brazil, Thailand, and Hong Kong, China, had travelled to compete,...

Defender vows to restore Cup courses

Team New Zealand say they will “move heaven and earth” to try to get the two axed America’s Cup courses back into play. However, that will take some delicate mediating with relations strained between the defenders and challengers. Team New Zealand and Auckland City...

America’s Cup: The race course debate

The 36th America’s Cup race course will be a windward-leeward configuration between 1.1 to 2.2 nm, with boundaries keeping the racing within a tight arena for spectating. Five course areas were selected, with two of them alongside North Head for land viewing, but a...