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…
August 22, 2024 By Penny Sundstrom McLaren, Chair, 2024 PCYC Steerers’ Invitational and Four Sisters Open 2024 It was fair winds and beautiful sunny weather for the 65th Annual Port Credit Yacht Club Steerers’ Invitational (July 18-19) and the 23rd PCYC Four Sisters Open (July 20-21) this year, thanks to a record number 415 total…
Winning Zingara crew Gordon Delgaty-Cook, Brian McKay, Geoffrey Moore, John Kerr, Chris Johnston, Andy Baker, Richard Reid, Marc de Verteuil August 7, 2024 Four Canadian boats (out of 252 total) that raced in the Chicago to Mackinac race July 12, and 13 Canadian sailboats raced in 100th Anniversary Bayview Mackinac Race July 20 out of a…
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…
