Special Events News

The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) today announced its 20th anniversary season with an 18 event schedule across 13 countries, including a new championship format awarding points from all events towards the annual match racing world title.

After an ultra-light wind Quarter and Semi-Finals, the wind on the Nassau's Montagu Bay finally filled in to provide the best conditions for the four boat finale to the 2019 SSL Finals, the event that seeks to determine the 'star of the sailing world'.

After four days of Qualification racing the first major cull took place today at the SSL Finals, the event that seeks to determine the 'stars of the sailing world'.

The 56th edition of the Congressional Cup, organized by Long Beach Yacht Club in California, will play host to the opening event of the 2020 World Match Racing Tour season April 29 - May 3, 2020.

Finals day at the 2019 Bureau Vallée Dream Cup proved to be a day to remember with New Caledonia producing another day of world class racing.

An elite gathering of 23 star-studded teams will be competing at the 2019 Star Sailors League Finals in the Bahamas next month, including a number of wildcards drawn from many parts of the world of high-level sailing.

World Sailing, the world governing body of the sport, and the Defender and Challenger of Record of the 36th America's Cup presented by Prada have reached agreement for the next edition of the America's Cup.

World Sailing is pleased to announce that the 2021-22 and 2025-26 editions of The Ocean Race, the global sailing event that is the toughest test of a team in sport, have received World Sailing Special Event status.

Nicolas Goyard has been crowned the 2019 Men's Foil PWA World Champion as the Mercedes-Benz Windsurf World Cup Sylt concluded over the weekend.

Tom Slingsby today made history, helming the Australia SailGP Team to victory over Nathan Outteridge's Japan SailGP Team in the SailGP Season 1 Championship Final Race.

The 2019 Hvide Sande PWA World Cup couldn't have been much better with the world's best racers undergoing arguably their toughest test of the season as Denmark through every conceivable condition at them - from light winds and flat water to winds over 40 knots and extremely choppy - which truly tested the mettle of the sailors.

Day four of the GKA Kite World Cup Mauritius, taking place in front of the Heritage Hotel's C-Beach Club and the Kite Globing centre, in Bel Ombre started at the quarter final stage for the Freestyle men's division, while the women had already progressed to the semis.