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.
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…
Jul 4, 2024 The 26th annual Nepean One Design Regatta at the Nepean Sailing Club in Ottawa welcomed 80 boats for the June weekend of racing and festivities. NOD is the National Capital Region’s premier one design sailing regatta welcoming keelboats and dinghies. An awesome time sailing finally happened after Mother Nature didn’t want to play…
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…
May 15, 2024 The Lake Ontario Racing Circuit will be kicking off the 2024 season at Ashbridge’s Bay Yacht Club Open Regatta at the east end of the city of Toronto the weekend of May 24th. The weather forecast looks spectacular with sunny skies and warm temperatures and perfect wind conditions… or at least we…
May 15, 2024 Eight sailors from the Queen’s Sailing Team are embarking on the Newport Bermuda Race, a four-day, 1,200 km event from Newport, RI, to St George, Bermuda, featuring 200 yachts in what is one of North America’s biggest sailing races. Skipper Julian Hill says the group will be racing under the name HoldFast…
May 1, 2024 By Roger Renaud For many years, sailors of the Great Lakes have enjoyed competing against each other, both locally, and on an intersectional basis. In the past, the Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes has fostered and promoted competition among the six Great Lakes Yachting Associations. The Yacht Racing Union of…
Apr 17, 2024 RS Sailing is a British-founded company with lines of high tech dinghies and small keelboats that are quickly expanding around the world. RS Fest Miami celebrated the RS Sailing community in the United States over the Easter weekend, hosting the first ever multi-fleet RS regatta to take place in North America. A…
Apr 17, 2024 For boats on this side of the border, LYRA at Rochester has been a favourite for years and this year, after a Covid hiatus with closed borders, may well be the bounce back opportunity. The classic Rochester Yacht Club is charmingly historic and always welcoming to Canadians. Lake Yacht Racing Association, founded…
Apr 17, 2024 Katy Campbell, from Eagle Harbour Yacht Club in Vancouver grew up racing dinghies competitively – Laser 2s back in the day – to the end of high school at which point she found herself somewhat stuck for the next racing “thing”. She ended up in a full rig Laser, but not weighing…
Apr 17, 2024 Port Credit Yacht Club (PCYC) proudly opens registration for two of its largest annual sailing events: the 65th Steerers’ Invitational and the 23rd Four Sisters Open, sponsored by driveHG.ca. Building on many years of success, PCYC anticipates welcoming more than 500 sailors including Optimists, ILCAs and double-handed C420s and 29ers to compete…
Apr 3, 2024 Yesterday (Apr 2) the 37 nautical mile Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup kicked off the 51st BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival. With five days of spectacular racing and boats form 13 countries, crews will be ready for a great week of racing, partying and celebrating with friends, family,…
Mar 20, 2024 By John Curtis Earlier this month, Canadian DN Sailors journeyed to Wisconsin and made a very strong showing at the DN North Americans finishing four boats in the top ten. Over the past 4-5 years a keen group of sailors from Montreal and Kingston have been quietly honing their skills at the…
Mar 20, 2024 By Larry Huibers; Photos by Tim Wright The Serious Racing, Serious Fun regatta lives up to its advertised promotion. After missing this regatta for a few years, the chance to go back came up and I jumped on it. (Ed Note: Larry and Warthog won their Division!) The Boat – Warthog A program I…
Mar 20, 2024 LaSalle Mariners Yacht Club in Windsor a fun, friendly little club on the Detroit River and a ‘Force’ to be reckoned with. Member, Andrea Hill, among others, did her club proud at regattas in Florida this past February. Andrea and her team initially brought her S2 7.9 to the Helly Hansen Sailing…
Mar 20, 2024 The Georgian Bay Regatta is the ultimate test of racing skill and strategy with light air, heavy air and everything in between. What brings it all together is competition among some of the world’s great scenery. History/Background: In 1985, the Georgian Bay Regatta (GBR) began as an ambitious sailing regatta featuring two…
