USA Names Youth Sailing Worlds Team
US Sailing has named 13 athletes to its 2016 Youth Sailing World Championship Team. As the premier youth event in international sailing, the Youth Worlds is expected to include competitors from over 70 nations. The event is set to be held in Auckland, New Zealand from...
No Way Out for Sailing Yacht A?
The Sailing Yacht A (known until recently as project White Pearl) is currently under construction at Nobiskrug. She will be the world’s largest sailing yacht and is built for the Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko at a cost of 400 million Euros under great...
RSB Rigging Solutions Complete Full Rig Refit of the World’s Tallest Aluminium Mast
The 56m (183.7ft) sailing yacht ‘Bayesian’ (ex ‘Salute’), arrived at Palma de Mallorca in early June to undergo refit works. RSB Rigging Solutions de-masted the 74m rig, performing a ‘faultless rig-pull’, to refit her masts and rigging just...
Countdown to Red Bull World Final
Americans Quinn Wilson and Riley Gibbs will lead a field of 15 international youth teams when the World Final of Red Bull Foiling Generation takes place on October 22-23 in Newport, RI. Teams will be racing the Flying Phantom, an 18-foot foiling catamaran that can...