2025 CICSA Match Racing National Champions – UofT Mar 13, 2025 Richard Rychlik Jr., Maya Mills, Take Kawashima, and Sabrina Simon representing the University of Toronto have been crowned 2025 Canadian Intercollegiate Sailing Association Match Racing National Champions after 3 days of intense racing. Dalhousie’s Cameron Bruce, Harrison Bruce, and Elsie Gillis were runners up,…
Feb 27, 2025 The Canadian Melges 24 Class, and International Viper 640 Class are both pleased to announce that their 2025 Canadian Championships will be jointly held at the South Port Sailing Club, (Tecumseh Ontario, just outside of Windsor), on the weekend of Sept 5-7. The event will see these two high performance boat classes…
Feb 27, 2025 Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance from Chester, NS recently announced their official campaign towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games in the 49erFX class. The sisters represented Canada at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games where they finished in 11th place overall, one position shy of qualifying for the Medal Race. At all four major…
Jan 23, 2025 The CSCA Board announces a nine regatta schedule for the 2025 season, plus the Shark Worlds in Austria in May. Shark of the Year will be calculated based on competitors’ best five regattas and must include the Canadian, World, or Continental Championship.
Jan 23, 2025 The Toronto International Boat Show is on until Jan 26th; LOOR is at booth #1797. The 2025 season will see a big change as the LOOR has switched to Nautical Cloud for all race registrations. This new system works far better for our multiple race events and streamlines many of the function…
Dec 19, 2024 This year’s M242 Fleet 2 Championships were held at Royal Victoria Yacht Club during the Thermopylae Regatta on October 5/6. The winning Royal Vancouver Yacht Club Team was Michael Clements (Skipper), Adrienne Mennell (RVYC), Erica Crilly (RVYC) and the fourth member of the team was Luzzara Mazariegos on Too Wicked! Mike and…
Dec 19, 2024 The Collingwood ON-based Be Water Positive Sailing Team is announcing its participation in The Ocean Race Europe, one of the most prestigious and challenging offshore sailing events in the world. In August 2025, the race will start from Kiel, Germany and see the latest generation foiling IMOCA boats racing to The Ocean…
Dec 5, 2024 With a new owner, new brand and new skipper, we can look forward to a full season of Sail GP fun. Being alive in the Sail GP Series is particularly important since the consensus is that fleet racing catamarans is the future, especially since the America’s Cup was widely viewed as a…
Nov 25, 2024 Picking up where they left off in January, Peter Burling’s ‘Black Foils’ have claimed their third consecutive win in the UAE, soaring ahead of the Emirates Great Britain and U.S. SailGP Team on the pristine waters of Port Mina Rashid. The Black Foils are back-to-back-winners of the Rolex SailGP Championship’s season-opening event. …
Nov 21, 2024 Congratulations to Dalhousie University who won the last CICSA 2024 Fall season event, the Fleet Racing National Championships, held by McGill University at the Pointe-Claire Yacht Club at the end of October. A total of 10 teams were in action and completed 16 races. University of Toronto finished in second place, followed…
Nov 7, 2024 Benjamin Daniel and Sarah Nicholson took the 8th position overall at the first-ever Offshore Double Handed World Championships held in Lorient, FRA last month. After taking the fifth and last spot available for the Final Race in their overnight elimination race including 11 boats, the Canadian Team finished 8th out of ten…
Oct 10, 2024 Seven Canadian boats headed to Cleveland for the 2024 J105 NAs September 24-29. Consistency proved to be the highlight, as now four-time winner Terry McLaughlin and Rod Wilmer’s Mandate came out on top at the J/105 North American Championship in Cleveland, OH. Fraser Howell, Ian Howes, Andrew Kenny and John Millen from…
Oct 10, 2024 The 2024 LOSHRS race to Port Dalhousie (and the next day back to Port Credit YC) was notable in a few unusual ways, not least of which was the start of the race being delayed – almost cancelled – due to a rolling fog that made it difficult – at times impossible…
Sept 26, 2024 Melges 24 Canadians The 2024 Melges 24 Canadian National Championship ran September 20 to Sunday, September 22nd at the West Vancouver Yacht Club in West Vancouver with racing in the beautiful Howe Sound, English Bay and Salish Sea areas. Results are here RVanYC Women’s Invitational September 21-22 The event was sailed in the…
Melodie Schaffer at the dock after finishing Sept 12, 2024 The race started at 1015 on Saturday morning with a forecast of light winds, occasional storms and a slow run. What happened was the wind built in from the South and from reports from various competitors, held steady at 15-20 knots – all from the…
Photos: Andrew Madding Sept 12, 2024 M242 North Americans The 2024 North American Championships were held in Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island this year on the August long weekend, sailed in perfect conditions of 8-14 knots of breeze. Mike George of Los Angeles on “All In” put on a master class in speed and tactics to top…
