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It was the longest day yet at the 2026 MUSTO iQFOiL World Championships, as light and unstable winds stretched the Men’s final day of qualification over more than four hours of Sprint Slalom racing.

Strong mistral winds once again set the conditions for the fourth and penultimate day of racing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, with breeze ranging from 18 to 23 knots and gusts of 28 knots.

After a strong start to the season, highlighted by a victory in the 1000 Race and a second-place finish in the Vendée Arctique, Sam Goodchild is approaching the final stretch before the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe with ambition.

Class 40 is again the biggest division in the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe and in many respects it’s a microcosm of everything the key elements of the race’s DNA.

The National Firefly Class Association’s 80th anniversary boat draw was designed to get Fireflys sailing again, not simply to find one lucky winner. Club fleets that had gone quiet are back out racing.

The 2026 GBR IRC National Championship was held as part of the Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta Sailing Week during the final week of August.

Sunday the 6th of September sees the start of the Devon Eyes Autumn Series at the Royal Western Yacht Club. Offering classes for IRC, VPRS, YTC and Devon Yawls with two races scheduled each Sunday of the series.

World Sailing has announced that the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) in Auckland, New Zealand, has been selected to host the 2027 World Sailing Youth Match Racing Worlds and the 2027 World Sailing Women’s Match Racing Worlds.

Following four fantastic days of racing on the Welsh Riviera, I fully intended to get this report written whilst travelling for work. The plan was simple: charge the laptop at Heathrow, write the report and bask in the glow of another brilliant event.

For 25 years, racing yachts have been granted a rare opportunity to compete on one of the most extraordinary stretches of water in the world.