August 24, 2024 On Saturday, August 17, 12 teams and over 100 women sailors competed in the 4th annual J105 Ontario Women’s Championships hosted by RCYC in Toronto. The regatta was founded four years ago to encourage and support women’s racing. It has grown into an empowering event: sailed by women, run by women; with…
August 22, 2024 Written in Partnership with the Annapolis Sailboat Show Nestled on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, Annapolis has long been a pilgrimage site for sailors. Dubbed America’s Sailing Capital, the city’s narrow streets are steeped with a maritime legacy that spans over three centuries. The Annapolis Sailboat Show (October 10-14, 2024) was…
Jul 26, 2024 As has become tradition, the event will kick off with registration and party at Mimico Cruising Club on Friday, August 16. Racers will muster for 1000 on the Saturday for the start from the Mimico Club racing area and head down lake for the finish off the break wall at Kingston Yacht…
Jul 26, 2024 By Jessica Perraton The 2024 J105 Ontario Women’s Championship is coming to the Royal Canadian Yacht Club on August 17th, 2024. This Championship is all about women sailors putting their racing skills into action and about creating opportunities to gain experience and learn from each other. Participants range from teens to seniors,…
Over 170 sailors will be in action this weekend, July 19-21, at the St. Margaret Sailing Club in Nova Scotia, as they will take part in Sail Canada 2024 Sail East Championships.
Canadian Sailor Carlos Charabati from Montreal, QC, won the gold medal at the 2024 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships which ended June 30 in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Charabati’s gold medal is a first in Canadian sailing at the annual ILCA 4 Youth World Championships. The first edition was held in 2002.
Everyone was slightly nervous, but with the 2024-25 SailGP Schedule now announced, the disappointment will be tangible and enormous. Halifax is NOT on the Season Calendar.
Jul 6, 2024 The Whitby Yacht Club is proud to be hosting this gathering of enthusiastic Shark 24 sailors from North America and Europe in 2024. There are already almost 40 entries for the regatta, which is still two months away running from September 7-13, 2024 It’s a Canadian institution and deserves to be on…
Jun 25, 2024 Join us this year as we celebrate with an official send-off to Canada’s 2024 Olympic Sailing Team! This occasion marks the pinnacle event of the season for Sailing in Canada where our nation’s high-performance sailors of past, present and future will reunite with each other and welcome guests to celebrate outstanding performances…
Jun 25, 2024 Phil Robertson and the Canada SailGP Team have bounced back from disappointment in Halifax this weekend at the Mubadala New York Grand Prix finishing top of the leaderboard in the fleet races. In the finale, the Canadians couldn’t hold off the NZ Team finishing second overall and moving two places up the…
Jun 24, 2024 The Transat Québec Saint-Malo (TQSM) is the oldest ocean race from west to east, non-stop and crewed. Every four years since 1984, ocean runners set off on the St. Lawrence River, between Quebec and Lévis, to take on the challenges of navigating the St. Lawrence and its pitfalls, currents and tides, crossing…
Jun 24, 2024 Last weekend the Viking Cup & Breadbasket Championship at the Gimli YC and was scheduled as that last qualifier for the Manitoba Games to be held in Dauphin August 11-17. Planned as a weekend of races, 35 sailors from the C420, 29er and ILCA classes plus a group of Optis took part…
Jun 13, 2024 Last Thursday (Jun 13) Scott Shawyer, the skipper of the IMOCA Be Water Positive, has completed his first solo transatlantic race from the US to France. By crossing the finish line, the Canadian also became the first from his country to complete the New York Vendée race. After 14 days of racing,…
Jun 13, 2024 ILCA 6 sailor Lilly Rainham from the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron in Halifax earned the prestigious title of Top Female North American at the ILCA North American Championships held in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts last week. This event serves as a qualifier for the 2025 ILCA World Championship. Lilly’s success comes at a pivotal moment…
Jun 11, 2024 Canada won a race adding to the home team’s exciting Halifax showing at Canada’s first SailGP event but it was Emirates GBR which weathered the storm, rising to the top of fleet racing to go head to head against France and ROCKWOOL DEN in the three-boat showdown. The winners battled through some…
Jun 11, 2024 Chester Race Week is one of those events you always want to put on your calendar. With a long history and competitive classes, sailors flock to small town Chester for the four day racing spectacle; which is of course, accompanied by lively post racing socials, in true East coast style. Over 140…
