Special Events News

The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) has announced sailboat manufacturer RS Sailing as Official Partner of the WMRT Academy, the training and development initiative set up by the tour in 2020 to grow participation in match racing around the world.

Saint-Tropez will be hosting the French stopover of SailGP, a World Sailing Special Event, on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September.

World Sailing, supported by leading digital sailing platform Virtual Regatta, will kick off the 2021 eSailing Nations Cup - a nation versus nation knockout challenge to crown the best eSailing nation in the world - this Sunday 12 September.

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance and significance of the of the first race in any America's Cup as the anticipation and build up that proceeds the first day is beyond anything else in sport.

The G.H. Mumm Champagne was flowing for Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli who sailed to victory in the PRADA Cup Final. The Italians won the Series 7-1 over INEOS TEAM UK and now move onto the America's Cup Match.

The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) has announced its 2021 World Championship season with a 17-event schedule across 11 countries, including the inaugural WMRT Final in Shenzhen, China from 15-19 December.

Today all the build up and discussion ended and the points started to count in Auckland as the first two races of the PRADA Cup officially kicked off.

Whether it be for the Challengers or the Defender, the speed at which the whole fleet is developing has already taken even the experts by surprise.

After over three years of waiting, the wins, the loses and the points will really start to count. The PRADA Cup is set to start on January 15 with the three Challengers competing to qualify to race against the America's Cup Defender Emirates Team New Zealand in the America's Cup Match.

As if written into the script, the final race was the one that mattered when it came to who would take the PRADA America's Cup World Series Auckland trophy.

SailGP today announced two new venues that will be added to the European leg of the global championship's second season in 2021.

Four match races have been held on the second day of the PRADA ACWS Auckland on race course C, the preferred playing field as it brings the racing right into the heart of the Waitemat? Harbour, with a shifty and puffy Northwest breezes between 10 to 14 knots.