Please Subscribe if you like our Global Sailing content, Like and Share. It helps us show our content to more sailors. Thank you. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, The World on Water, September 19 2025. After what could only be described as a disastrous opening day for the Japan Sailing Federation team competing in the 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, the squad roared back into relevance with a fourth and a first to start Day 2 of the five-day biennial competition. A 14th in the third race of the day tempered the comeback, but the Japanese team was all smiles this evening as team principal Masuhiro Bamba, walked up to accept the prize for winning Race 5. Emirates Team New Zealand are four-time winners and Defenders of the 37th America's Cup and as such they get to set the regatta rules. The 38th event will be held in Italy and their design guru, Dan Bernasconi lays out the new rules. The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s inaugural Cowes Offshore Racing Series has signed off in style after seven thrilling, hard-fought races, marking the start of a bold new chapter for Solent-based offshore competition. Launched in the Club’s Centenary year, the series gave over 500 sailors, both Corinthian and professionals, the chance to go bow-to-bow in a compact but demanding programme. With the best five races counting from seven, the fleet faced everything the Channel could throw at them — from glassy Solent drifters where inches mattered, to bruising legs around notorious headlands and into the open sea. With a three-hour-long Bay Tour race as the final test for competitors, the 61st edition of the Rolex Big Boat Series hosted by St. Francis Yacht Club came to a stunning close. The skippers at the top of the podium in the J/105 and ORC B classes were awarded coveted Rolex Submariner Dates. Bruce Stone and Nicole Breault's Arbitrage came away victorious among the J/105s, the regatta's largest fleet, and Peter Wagner's J/111 Skeleton Key was the victor in the ORC B division. After what could only be described as a disastrous opening day for the Japan Sailing Federation team competing in the 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, the squad roared back into relevance with a fourth and a first to start Day 2 of the five-day biennial competition. A 14th in the third race of the day tempered the comeback, but the Japanese team was all smiles this evening as team principal Masuhiro Bamba (below, left with Rear Commodore Peter Cummiskey) walked up to accept the prize for winning Race 5. After two solid days of racing, with nine races completed and one day lost to light winds, Yann Guichard’s Sails of Change 8 emerged as the clear winner, securing the top spot on the leaderboard with a commanding nine-point margin. Eastern Yacht Club calls it the Reverse Rabbit. When Plan A—usually starting close to the pin—doesn’t go to, well, plan, the Reverse Rabbit is the exit strategy. It’s far from easy and success has to be measured against the alternative. But for Race 8 of the 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, it was the only viable option for tactician Bill Lynn and his EYC teammates. They pulled it off, finished sixth in the race and won the day. Many were hoping to claim victory in the opening leg of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, but the honours went to Alexis Loison, (Groupe R E E L), who took the win with a race time of 3 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes, and 26 seconds. Hugo Dhallenne, (Skipper Macif 2025), and Charlotte Yven, (Skipper Macif 2023), completed the podium. For the second time in his career, and after 19 participations, Normandy sailor Alexis Loison secures another victory, following his 2014 triumph in Plymouth.

Please Subscribe if you like our Global Sailing content, Like and Share. It helps us show our content to more sailors. Thank you. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water for September 12 2025. The first two days of racing at the 35th Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup have delivered exceptional competition. The 47 yacht fleet split across five classes, has enjoyed some testing sailing conditions. The Rolex IMA Maxi 1 World Championship fleet, featuring the most powerful entrants, and the Rolex IMA Grand Prix World Championship fleet, featuring pure thoroughbred racers, have both contested one coastal course and two windward/leeward races so far. V, and Django 7X, lead respectively. The three remaining classes have completed two coastal courses apiece. There were light winds at the start this week in Genoa for the 7 IMOCAs in The Ocean Race Europe fleet who were looking for speed at the start of leg 5 in the Med as they headed for the finish in Boka Bay Montenegro. The Luna Rossa team has resumed its program at the Cagliari base in light of the new Protocol, published on August 12. The document regulating the 38th America’s Cup introduces several innovations that affect various areas of the campaign. The Luna Rossa team members explain the key points to better understand how the next edition of the world’s oldest sporting trophy will work. The Sydney 18 Footers are a high tech build. Bret Van Munster is the brains and the constructor behind their 21st century building. He builds these sailing wonders. The Clipper 2025-26 Race started from Gunwharf Quays Portsmouth, UK, marking the beginning of an epic 40,000 nautical mile circumnavigation. Stage 1 of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is from Portsmouth to Puerto Sherry Spain. Our report is of the start and then we have an onboard report from race boat Gosh, one of the 10 boats in the fleet. The 2025 WingFoil Racing World Cup China has come to a close, bringing together 70 competitors from 12 countries on Daishan Island, at the delta of the Yangtze River. The event, which offered 500 points and €60,000 in prize money. The Yangtze River, a lifeblood of China, connecting regions and cultures for centuries, provided a stunning backdrop for the thrilling convergence of global talent.

Please Subscribe if you like our Global Sailing content, Like and Share. It helps us show our content to more sailors. Thank you. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, for September 5 2025. Paul Meilhat's, Biotherm, looked to have an early advantage heading towards the Monaco Scoring Gate. The seven-boat fleet of international crews competing in The Ocean Race Europe 2025 has left Nice France on Leg 4 of the five-stage race which will see the teams round the French island of Corsica on their way to the finish in Genoa Italy. Ambrogio Beccaria’s Italian-flagged entry Allagrande Mapei Racing team has pulled off a spectacular home-team victory after winning Leg 4 of The Ocean Race 2025 in style in Genoa Italy. Beccaria and his all-French crew, renowned multiple Vondée Globe competitor Thomas Ruyant, Morgan Lagravière, Ruyant's regular training partner, and co-skipper for his Route du Rhum in 2022, and Transat Jacques Varb 2023 victories, and 2023 49er F X Junior World Champion, Manon Peyre, finished the 600-nautical mile leg from Neace France after completing the course in two days, eight hours, 41 minutes, and 14 seconds. On the 52 SUPER SERIES’ return to the Mediterranean after two regattas in the Atlantic, 2025 circuit leaders American Magic Quantum Racing scored a resounding victory on the Bay of Palma Mallorca, lifting the top prize at Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. It is the third regatta title in row for Doug DeVos’ US flagged team after wins in Baiona Spain and at last month’s Rolex TP52 World Championship in Cascais Portugal. The Breezy final day crowned three champions on Dublin Bay The weather co-operated once again on Dublin Bay to deliver a nail-biting conclusion to the 2025 Ilca Under-21 World Championships, where three new world titles were decided at the end of a full 12-race programme. After dominating all week, Roos Wind, of the Netherlands won the Ilca 6 Under-21 Women's title, while Ole Schweckendiek of Germany held his overnight lead to claim the Men's Ilca 7 championship. Tenth-placed Omer Vered Vilenchik of Israel won the Ilca 7 Youth Men's title. The Fireball World Championship 2025 concluded on Friday, 29 August, hosted by Circolo Vela Arco, (North Lake Garda, Italy), in what turned out to be a historic edition for both participation and the number of nations represented. These Worlds once again confirmed the vitality of the class, with 136 boats from 14 nations, featuring veterans and established champions racing alongside many young sailors and women, for a week that blended competition, friendship and enjoyment. The yachts participating in the international sailing event, Aegean Regatta, organized by the General Secretariat for the Aegean & Island Policy of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Island Policy, in cooperation with the Offshore Committee of the Hellenic Sailing Federation, arrived in Mytilene on Friday afternoon. With the completion of the 4th race from Plomari to Mytilene, the battle for first place in each category has grown fiercer, and everything will be decided in the final coastal leg of Mytilene. Laurent Hay, from France, is the new leader at the 2025 Finn Gold Cup after two more races were completed in Cascais Portugal, on Wednesday. Italy’s Alessandro Marega is second with Valerian Lebrun from France in third. The race wins went to Hay and Italy’s Arkadii Kistanov. The forecast was similar to Day 1 with a little more breeze on the cards. Though three races were scheduled to catch up the programme, a 14 hundred start and several recalls in Race 3 meant time ran out so only two were completed. The Daishan leg of the WingFoil Racing World Cup Series has kicked off with a bang, with nearly 80 sailors tackling three long-distance races in challenging conditions. The stakes are high, with 500 ranking points, and 60,000 Euro prize money on the line, making this the most important event of the series to date. Kamil Manowiecki from Poland dominated the day, leading every race from start to finish. "I spent two weeks training at the venue to learn the conditions and especially the currents, and it's paid off," said Manowiecki. Sean Herbert from New Zealand had a consistent day with three seconds, and Mathis Ghio, the French king of wingfoil racing, finished third.

Please check your Subscribe feature as lots of Subscribers are not being asdvised of our weekly uploads. If no Subscribed please do so if this interests you. Thank you. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, for August 29 2025. The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup was launched in 1980 by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, and welcomed Rolex as a Title Sponsor five years later. In 2025 the prestigious club will pay tribute to its founder, His Late Highness Aga Khan IV, who passed away in February, but whose forward-looking vision led to the creation of an institution that has become an international benchmark in yachting. An International Jury has awarded redress to Team Holcim-PRB after their Leg 1 collision with Allagrande Mapei Racing in Kiel Germany. Both teams retired from the opening stage, but Holcim-PRB will now earn Leg 1 points based on their average performance across Legs 2–5. No further penalties were issued, and both crews say they’re eager to put the incident behind them and focus on the race ahead. The seven IMOCA teams left the ancient port city to begin the 650-nautical-mile leg 3the Mediterranean to Nice France. The fleet set off in 12 to 17 knots of north-easterly breeze, tacking along the Spanish coast toward the first scoring gate at Cabo de Palos. The conditions on leg 3 are expected to be complex, with a low-pressure system moving into the western Mediterranean that could produce anything from strong upwind battles to fast downwind runs. On the morning of Monday, August 25, the yachts participating in the Aegean Regatta set sail for Agios Efstratios, in the 24th edition of the international sailing race that continues to make history across the beautiful Aegean Sea. Dublin Bay delivered a full test of stamina and skill on day two of the 2025 Ilca Under-21 World Championships, with some clear leaders beginning to emerge. South-east winds gusting up to 25 knots brought exhilarating downwind surfing and short, steep two-metre seas, putting fitness and hiking technique firmly to the test. Tired but upbeat sailors came ashore looking forward to recovery time before more fresh conditions in the coming days. Doug DeVos' American Magic Quantum Racing emerge with a slender one point lead overall at the end of a long mentally and physically demanding three race programme on Day 3 on the Bay of Palma at Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week in Mallorca. The 2025 Fireball World Championship kicked off in record-breaking style, hosted by Circolo Vela Arco and running on the waters of Lake Garda – Trentino until Friday, 29 August. This major international event will be followed in early September by the Italian Single-Handed Championships. A total of 136 boats from 14 nations are competing, the largest Fireball fleet ever assembled outside the Anglo-Saxon countries in the class’s history.

Subscribe to our weekly Global Sailing Channel. ​This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, August 22 2025. We commence this weeks' video with Boris Herrmanns' Team Malizias' arrival in Portsmouth at the End of leg one of the ocean race europe. Biotherm was first in and Malizia was second. After the leg one prize giving, Holcim P R B arrived in Portsmouth in time for the start of leg 2. After the crash the shore crew did a good job of fixing the damage. After two and a half days of intense offshore racing, Biotherm (FRA), skippered by Paul Meilhat, once again crossed the line first to claim maximum points at the midway scoring gate. Their move at Cape Finisterre, where they were first to hook into a new breeze on the western side of the fleet, proved decisive. Andy Soriano’s Alegre team kicked off the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week with a solid win in the first race of the competition, marking a successful return to Puerto Portals for the tenth year. For the second successive day of racing at Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, the 2023 circuit champions Platoon Aviation were boat of the day, top scorers among the 13 boat fleet from nine nations. With a fourth and a first Harm Müller-Spreer's German-flagged team extend their margin at the top of the standings to 11 points as their high level of consistency starts to bite, suggesting they now really do have the measure of their potent new boat which they launched in the spring. Unusually for Plas Heli, on day 2 of the Ilca U K Nationals the sailing conditions were rather light with the decision made to fly A P over A. A Race Clinic led by Ilca 6 sailor Iris Singleton on boat settings drew a substantial crowd before sailors limbered up for the Pwlheli Chaser 3km run. here was another foiling saiboat crash over the weekend. Following on to the Ocean Race Europe leg 1 start now in the Germany Sail Grand Prix, last race of the Day we saw a scary moment where USA SailGP team collided with EmiratesGBR at full speed. Fortunately all athletes were all safe and accounted for, and hope both teams return to the water quickly but it is only a matter of time if these crashes continue happening.

YouTube is penalising our channel so check your Subscribe panel and like our video if you want us to succeed. We have only been doing weekly highlights shows since 2008. Thoudands of uploads. This is your weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, the World on Water, August 15 2025. We start with the Ocean Race in crisis. Last weekend, as the Ocean Race Europe started in Kiel, two of the competing Imoca yachts crashed into each other reducing the fleet from 7 to five. Last year in the Vendee Globe, 40 Imoca's started, but only 7 started in the Ocean Race which has now morphed into an Imoca only fleet race. With huge foils protruding from the yachts these boats are not the best for close inshore racing. As we saw in the Kiel crash, the foils acted like medieval sword fighters wrecking much damage to the boats. The Defender of the America’s Cup, The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, represented by Team New Zealand, and the Challenger of Record, The Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd, represented by Athena Racing, have signed the Protocol for the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup set to take place in Naples, in the summer of 2027. The Protocol introduces a groundbreaking partnership that establishes equal authority between all participating teams. The penultimate day of Cowes Week 2025, Day 6, delivered great winds with some fruity gusts and choppy seas to challenge competitors as the competition for the top prizes heats up. With the wind set to build from the benign 10 knots or so that started the day, and forecast gusts in the high 20s, the Yankee flag was displayed on all start lines dictating that lifejackets or buoyancy aids must be worn by all competitors. Watch some slow motion wave windsurfing action filmed during the Double Elimination of the Playa Surf Tenerife - El Medano Windsurf Grand Slam 2025. The event in Cabezo, El Médano saw competitions in three pro fleets, Wave Women, Wave Men, and Slalom X Men, with a total of 92 pros competing. The largest fleet was the Wave Men with the maximum of 48 competitors, followed by the Wave Women with 24 riders. The 2025 Contender World Championship concluded at Fraglia Vela Malcesine and the event was beautiful, frustrating, epic, voluminous, historic, and overflowing with talent, a once in a generation competition. In the end, Mark Bulka from Australia proved that consistency wins regattas with his worst finish being a seventh. He is not always the fastest in a straight line, but he is the best at race management in big fleets. This epic Mini Globe race, is the brain child of Don Mcintyre, the Australian promoter who has already set up the Golden Globe Race and the Ocean Globe Race, both round the world races that harked back to a simpler time when technology was less complex and intrusive. This video in onboard Christian Sauer's 5 80 Argo. Don rates this video as the best onboard so far. Would you build your own plywood boat and sail it around the world?

Our Sailing expert Vittorio d'Albertas of Sail Ring can be found at www.youtube.com/@vdalbertas He is CEO Quantum Sails Italy who uploads in Italian and the English Subtitle version is available on our World on Water Channel. Subscribe for notification for when we upload new videos. The final protocol for the America's Cup in Naples comes late, but compensates with a nice assist for low-budget teams, which will save the hull's design. For those who, then, should not have competitive helmsmen in their country at the highest level, there is the possibility of hoarding two foreign superstars (those that are not already "taken"!). And for those who already have Burling... With Vittorio d'Albertas

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overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race. No other boat still racing on the 695 nautical mile course can catch the French doublehanded duo for overall honours in this, the 51st edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s offshore classic.Loison and Kelbert have won the event in its centenary year. With a record 444 boats on the start line this year, ranging from 30ft keelboats up to the giant 105ft Ultim foiling trimarans, this offshore race is proving more popular than ever. Subscribe to the World on Water as YouTube is sometimes not advising subscribers of our uploads. Check the "All" bell." The Admiral’s Cup is back - reborn after more than two decades. Following over two years of planning and preparation by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, its revival marked a defining moment in the Club’s centenary celebrations and the 100th anniversary Rolex Fastnet Race. Once the pinnacle of international offshore sailing, the return of the Admiral’s Cup was a resounding success, setting the stage for a bold new era. Ptreviously. in the July 25 world on water. We covered the early races. and now this week we can show inshore race 2 and three, from the R O R C and the race start in the Rolex Fastnet from the Admiral's Cup perspective. What else is happening in the Solent? Why, it's Cowes Week time again.The opening day of Cowes Week 2025 dawned, with light north-westerly airs. The weather forecast predicted a sharp change in wind direction, with Storm Floris, moving in from Iceland, later in the day.The bigger boats were moved from the Squadron Line to a Committee Boat start off Beaulieu, with the remaining committee boat fleets starting just off Thorness. All classes were initially postponed for two hours, moving to a single A P as the breeze slowly made its way up the Solent.Our report, at the time of editing, is reports on Days 1 and 2. In the coming Ocean Race Europe, the fleet is a mix of sailingImoca royalty, record-breaking superstars, and ambitious underdogs. From defending champions to crews stacked with Vendée Globe legends, the competition will be fierce as the teams Connect Europe over 4,500 nautical miles.Starting August 10, who will you be backing? e fleet is a mix of sailing royalty, record-breaking superstars, and ambitious underdogs. From defending champions to crews stacked with Vendée Globe legends, the competition will be fierce as the teams Connect Europe over 4,500 nautical miles.

This is the World on Water 2025 Rolex Fastnet Race special for August first. Spectators in their thousands swarmed Cowes Green and the shores of the western Solent to witness the starts of the 51st Rolex Fastnet Race. This year’s event marks the centenary of the first Fastnet Race that saw seven boats set sail from Ryde and finish in Plymouth in 1925. Fittingly the start saw a new record entry of 444 competitors, up from the previous largest of 430 in 2023, confirming the event as the world’s largest offshore race. With Cowes and the Solent overcast thanks to an occluded front, the starts took place beneath an overcast sky in a 10-12 knot southwesterly and a building ebb tide.  Our report starts with a race preview and then the race start. As dawn was showing its first rays off Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, so the sleek light blue triple-hulled form of the Ultim trimaran SVR Lazartigue sped across the finish line of the 51st Rolex Fastnet Race to collect overall line honours. Given this year’s relatively light winds, her time of 1 day 17 hours 18 minutes 4 seconds was well outside the 1 day 8 hours 38 minutes 27 seconds record time she set in 2023’s gale-force conditions. Skipper Tom Laperche commented: “The race was different, more strategic and tactical. The windiest part was 20 knots, whereas last year it was 35. Versus Banque Populaire, early on we made a good decision to go close into the English coast and managed to cross them coming back on starboard. We got in front. It was difficult returning from Fastnet to Scilly, because the wind was stronger behind, so they reduced their deficit. Since yesterday afternoon we knew that it will be tactical between the gybes when they have a good speed.” While little known outside of France, the Ocean Fiftys (ex-Multi 50s) are a trimaran class on the ascent with nine boats competing in the centennial Rolex Fastnet Race, as part of their annual calendar. Despite being a speedy box rule class they enjoyed some of the closest racing across the fleet. Highly surprising was just how competitive the doublehanded Ocean Fiftys demonstrated themselves to be in the Rolex Fastnet Race, with the leader reaching the Fastnet Rock on the transom of the MOD70 Argo and even the Ultims not fully shaking them off until they had passed Plymouth.  Exiting the Solent, Matthieu Perraut, and Jean-Baptiste Gellée, on the Neyhousser-designed Inter Invest led Erwan le Roux, and Audrey Ogereau, on the VPLP-penned Koesio out of the Solent alongside Banque Populaire, the mighty Ultim literally twice their length. That evening they passed Portland Bill, hanging on to the coattails of Actual Ultim 4, with Koesio now out in front heading deep into Lyme Bay. Inter Invest timed their tack back out of Lyme Bay better than the others, overtaking Koesio, but the whole class remained tightly grouped.  The French sailor Elodie Bonafous’ spectacular start to her career in the IMOCA Class continued today as she followed up second place in the Course des Caps earlier this month with her first victory in the Class in the Rolex Fastnet Race. Racing with French veteran Yann Eliès, alongside Basile Bourgnon and Gaston Morvan of France, Bonafous, 29, reached the finish line off Cherbourg in the early hours of the morning just eight minutes ahead of second-placed Jérémie Beyou and his team on Charal. Bonafous’ crew on board Association Petits Princes-Quéguiner had taken two days, 14 hours and 7 minutes to complete the highly technical 695-nautical mile classic course from Cowes on the English south coast to Cherbourg, via the Fastnet Rock off the southwest tip of Ireland. This year’s course was mainly upwind to the Rock and then downwind on the way back, as the six IMOCAs that completed the race sparkled close to the front of a Fastnet fleet of 444 boats.' Another heavyweight is currently prevailing in IRC One. In a truly impressive performance, the team on Australian Linda Goddard's Swan 53 cruiser Bedouin continues to hang on to first place in IRC One, ahead of several class favourites. These include past overall Rolex Fastnet Race winner Géry Trentesaux’s Sydney 43 GTS Long Courrier, who this year has been leading the RORC Season’s Points Championship, and Ed Bell and the Mark Spearman-led crew on the JPK 1180 Dawn Treader. Skippered by Linda Goddard, the Swan 53, Bedouin, representing Australia, has taken the top spot in IRC One, outperforming a highly competitive fleet in the 50–60 foot range. Racing with her daughters and close crew, Goddard’s campaign combined Corinthian spirit with impressive offshore performance to deliver a memorable class win in the centenary edition of the race. It was a truly impressive performance, for the team on Australian Linda Goddard's, Swan 53, cruiser, Bedouin.

Welcome to this special Admiral's Cup edition of our weekly Global Sailing Highlights Show, The World on Water, July 25 2025. The Admiral's Cup is back for 2025 and it will be held biennially by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Established in 1957, The Admiral's Cup is honoured throughout the world of sailing as the unofficial world cup for offshore racing. Teams from Great Britain have been the most successful, winning the trophy on nine occasions. Germany has won four times, USA and Australia three times each, with Australia being the holders of this prized trophy. Victories have been achieved for France, Italy, the Netherlands and New Zealand. First off, we have the preview of what is taking place. Then there's highlights of the Channel Race and Day One of competition. In France Team Actual are building a new, huge, Trimaran to take on the world's best. Here is the design and launching of the beast. “This race is live” — and with that, the 2025 Wasp Games were officially underway. With 247 sailors across four fleets, Portland Harbour and Weymouth Bay were transformed into a theatre of foiling. Sailors launched as the breeze filled in from the west packed with a punch at 18 knots and steadily built to 23 knots as the racing went on with gusts up to 29 knots. The 2025 Moth World Championship has officially come to an end on the waters of Lake Garda, closing a week of exceptional technical and sporting level hosted by Fraglia Vela Malcesine. The event brought together 137 top-tier sailors from 25 nations, including Olympic champions, America's Cup helmsmen, and SailGP stars, a truly unprecedented concentration of talent and competition in the Moth class. The wind was lighter than usual, holding at around 12 knots at the start and gradually dropping throughout the morning. In today's first, and ultimately only, race, Australia's Tom Slingsby took the win, followed by New Zealand's Jacob Pye and fellow Aussie Iain Jensen. Decay by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Night Runner by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is your weekly global sailing highlights show, the World on Water, for July 18 2025. The RORC Cowes Offshore Racing Series is designed for corinthian international teams, racing in boats of all shapes and sizes. Seven races all starting from Cowes with the Cowes Dinard St Malo Race bring the fifth with over 170 teams taking part. Farr 100, Leopard 3, skippered by Joost Schuijf, completed a remarkable hat-trick, taking Line Honours, winning IRC Zero, and claiming overall victory on corrected time, under IRC to win the historic King Edward 7 Challenge Cup. Also from the RORC they are hosting the rebirth of the Admirals Cup. Our video is of the last edition which was held 22 yars ago. There are 17 teams entered in this edition of the Admirals Cup. The teams consist of two boats representing a club or country. There is no limitation on professional crew or crew nationality. There is two classes with teams to have one boat in each class. After the successful editions of 2017 and 2021, the Moth World Championship comes back to Malcesine to break new records! The 2025 Moth World Championship officially kicked off on the waters of Lake Garda, hosted by Fraglia Vela Malcesine. A total of 137 sailors representing 25 nations faced the first day of racing in conditions that were anything but typical for Malcesine, with unstable weather creating a complex, yet exciting, opening. With an outstanding line-up featuring some of the biggest names in international sailing, the first day delivered a thrilling—albeit partial—debut An incredible finish to a monumental race. After nearly four days at sea, the first monohulls have crossed the line, with the duel between AIOLOS and Daguet 5 coming down to the wire. The two boats battled through everything from dead calms to 50-knot gales. In a stunning display of seamanship, Daguet 5 suffered a broken wind instrument in the final, brutal Meltemi blast but continued to fight, finishing just 11 minutes behind the larger Aiolos. See the exhausted smiles and hear from the crews who pushed themselves and their boats to the absolute limit. The third day of racing at the 2025 Moth World Championship on Lake Garda was another start-stop affair. The first blue fleet race was sailed in a brisk 22–25 knots, while the second saw slightly lighter conditions around 18 knots, but the wind dropped again, and at 5 P M, A P over A was displayed for both fleets, postponing further racing. Having departed from Venice on June 1, after 43 days of sailing, the 5th edition of the Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Tour, (Sailing Tour of Italy), concluded in Genoa in the magnificent setting of the Palazzo Ducale. We look back at this years tour. Day four of the 2025 Moth World Championship opened at dawn with another early start for the 137 athletes from 25 nations competing on Lake Garda. The first warning signal was scheduled for 8:30 a.m., and the early morning brought a solid northerly breeze, ideal for completing the final two qualifying races before the split into Gold and Silver fleets.

This is your weekly global sailing highlights show, the World on Water, for July 11 2025. After an exciting, nail biting, edge-of-our-seats conclusion to the 2024 season which marked 12 glorious years since the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit started in Barcelona in 2012, the 52 SUPER SERIES again follows the preferences of its passionate, committed owners in 2024 with an itinerary which is a mix of popular proven locations which offer a good variety of racing conditions. For the first time the circuit visits Newport, Rhode Island, one of sailing’s real epicentres where two regattas will be raced, hosted by the historic, famous Newyork Yacht Club. It's neck and neck racing around the British Aisles. A close and steady match between Association Petits Princes–Queguiner and Vulnerable, captured during La Course Des Caps. Sailing side by side  For the second successive day of racing at Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, the 2023 circuit champions Platoon Aviation were boat of the day, top scorers among the 13 boat fleet from nine nations.With a fourth and a first Harm Müller-Spreer's German-flagged team extend their margin at the top of the standings to 11 points as their high level of consistency starts to bite, suggesting they now really do have the measure of their potent new boat which they launched in the spring. Marin Le Roux, Onboard Reporter, onboard Charal, captured some amazing drone footage during the Course des Caps race. Watch the Charal Imoca fly over the waves in perfect conditions, pure speed and power, from one of the most iconic boats in the fleet. The Banque Populaire, du Nord Boulogne-sur-Mer Cape Race, is a new event on the Imoca circuit, starting and finishing in Boulogne-sur-Mer. The race wich started on June 29 2025, with a mixed crew, including a women, men, and a media player, counts towards the Imoca Globe Series championship. Participants covered nearly 2,000 miles around the British Isles, over a period of 5 to 8 days.Lou Berthomieu, Tom Dolan, Nicolas Andrieu: a promising crew with Jérémie Beyou for the Cape Race.For his return to competition after the Vendée Globe, Jérémie Beyou is competing in the Cape Race around the British Isles. A challenge he will not face alone as the race is taking place with a crew, and has formed a close-knit team to face it. With the passion of Lou Berthomieu, the knowledge of the terrain of Tom Dolan, the know-how of Nicolas Andrieu and the vision of Marin Leroux, their On Board Reporter, the Charal Sailing Team has all the assets to be among the major players in this race. Sixty crews spent “race-eve” at Olympic Marine poring over rigging, sails, electronics and provisions before tackling the 605-mile AEGEAN 600. Italy’s all-female double-handers Elisabetta Maffei & Alice Baldon felt ready after a shakedown on 25Nodi, the fleet’s 6.50 m pocket rocket, while U.S. skipper Chris Hemans assembled a Euro-American squad aboard the Cookson 50 VARUNA to chase his long-held Aegean dream. Τhe fleet of Figaro3 of the Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Tour left Cagliari to face the 165 miles that will take them to La Maddalena.This is the penultimate stage of the tour that will end in Genoa on July 11th where we will discover the winners. In the meantime the Wasp and Wing categories have started the warm up in La Maddalena with a lot of enthusiasm and energy and are preparing for their spectacular regattas. As the Rolex TP52 World Championship passed its midway point today in Cascais, Portugal it is the French underdogs on Paprec, led by ocean racing legend Loïck Peyron, which has taken the overall lead as the 2025 season’s pinnacle event heads into what promises to be a fabulous weekend of big winds and seas on the Atlantic.Jean-Luc Petithuguenin’s crew, a few of whom are amateurs with normal ‘day jobs’, now narrowly overshadow American Magic Quantum Racing the mighty US team, seven times world champions, on 4th July, by two points with five races still to sail. After passing the Temple’s exciting start, the fleet switched to offshore mode. Light winds on the leg towards Milos put course records out of reach this year and west of Serifos the fleet compressed as daylight faded. July 7th, early afternoon, the fleet leaders reached the entrance to the caldera at Santorini. The caldera’s shifting breeze rose and fell, dividing the fleet once more and the fight continues toward the second half of this challenging edition of the race.

Remember to Subscribe, Like Share etc. This is your weekly global sailing highlights show, the World on Water, July 4 2025. Christian Zugel's, Volvo 70, TSCHÜSS 2 caps off a blistering ride across the Atlantic by claiming line honors in the Transatlantic Race 2025. The 2025 Transatlantic Race, the west-to-east challenge remains a defining milestone for offshore sailors. This is not simply a race across an ocean, it is a passage through time, a continuation of a seafaring tradition that has shaped modern yachting, and a stage for the next generation of offshore legends to write their chapter in sailing history. The Superyacht Cup Palma 2025, swung into action, with captains and crews across the varied and inspiring fleet seizing the opportunity to take the measure of the competition out on the racecourse at the opening day's Pantaenius Race. Here we cover Days 8 and nine. It was a dream day for Day 8 of Kiel Week. Moderate to fresh westerly winds with strong gusts, alternating sun and clouds, provided ideal sailing conditions for all participants. In the Olympic 470 class of the Sailing Grand Slam, Martin Wrigley and Bettine Harris from Great Britain continued to dominate. However, their compatriots John Gimson and Anna Burnet had to relinquish the lead in the Nacra 17 to the French duo Tim Mourniac and Aloïse Retornaz. Welcome to Initiatives-Cœur, the racing car of the seas where Violette Dorange, the legendary Sam Davies, and their two incredible teammates, Joseph Brault and Vittoria Ripa Di Meana, are preparing to lock themselves away... uh, set off for the Cape Race! 5 people in 5 square meters, for 5 days, zipping around the British Isles at full speed. ⁠ Spoiler: the real challenge isn't the waves... it's sharing bunks. History was made at the Superyacht Cup Palma today when the 24 meter Wally yacht, Rose, became the first ever three-time winner of the iconic event, remarkably completing the achievement over three successive years on the Bay of Palma. Team Malizia Off To A Strong Start In Challenging Course Des Caps Race! Their crew set sail from Boulogne-sur-Mer, kicking off the inaugural Course des Caps race in light winds, and challenging conditions. Led by skipper Will Harris, the crew aboard Malizia - Seaexplorer, now faces a demanding 2,000-nautical-mile course around the British Isles, marked by tactical complexity, unpredictable weather, and fierce competition. The final six medals in the mixed classes of the Olympic Sailing Grand Slam at Kieler Woche were awarded on Sunday. In the 470, the British team Wrigley/Harris entered the final with a ten-point lead. In the Nacra 17, Mourniac/Retornaz of France held the top spot, three points ahead of Brits Gimson/Burnet, again with no German teams in the top ten. However, local sailors are leading in five international classes. Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Don't forget to Subscribe to our channel if you want to keep up with the top sailing events worldwide. Welcome to our special Kiel Week, days one to four, Sailing World on Water, for June 27 2025. The Kieler Woche opened under bright skies and summer-like Mediterranean conditions, welcoming more than 4,000 sailors across 1,500 boats for the start of one of the world's biggest regattas. While light and shifty winds delayed the start of racing into the afternoon, the competition in the Olympic classes as part of the Sailing Gran Slam competition was fierce from the first signal – especially in the high-speed Women’s Skiff (49erFX) class. Eleven teams crossed the start line on June 18 for the Transatlantic Race 2025, leaving Newport, RI for the 3000nm course to the finish off Cowes, England. The second day of Olympic class racing at Kieler Woche brought more bright summer weather and light, tactical conditions on the Kiel Fjord. In the 49er Men’s Skiff class, both the Yellow and Blue groups completed four races in around 7 to 9 knots of wind, wrapping up the qualification series ahead of the final rounds beginning tomorrow. The 2025 Finn World Masters has been an exceptional event in all aspects, from the competition, race management, onshore socials, partners programme but most of all for the weather. The 2008 Finn World Masters was also held in Medemblik and also had exceptional weather, so perhaps Finn Masters are just exceptionally lucky. For sure everyone in Medemblik this week felt lucky and privileged to be there. The atmosphere was just incredible. Please help us by Subscribing to this Global Sailing Highlights show. The curtain has closed on an unforgettable week in Porto Cervo as the 2025 Swan One Design Worlds wrapped up in true Mediterranean style. The final day brought a light north breeze around 11 knots, gradually decreasing through the afternoon. Two races were completed across all classes, fulfilling the full race programme—eight races for the ClubSwan 50, 42, and 36 fleets, and ten races for the ClubSwan 28s, competing in their inaugural Gold Cup. Six days into the race, Christian Zugel’s Volvo 70 Tschüss 2, co-skippered by Johnny Mordaunt, has raced over 2,000 miles and is the clear leader for both Monohull Line Honors and the overall IRC win. “For the first few days of the race, we had a variety of conditions, mainly driven by sea temperature changes. The plan is panning out—but everybody sticks to the plan until it punches you in the face,” commented Tschüss 2 navigator Campbell Field, taking nothing for granted. A standout feature of their progress has been precision navigation through the Gulf Stream’s meanders. “We picked up over three knots of current in one area and nearly four in another,” explains Field. “Sea temperature has been a big indicator—we saw it drop from 25°C to just under 8°C in a matter of hours.” The 2025 5.5 Metre World Championship was finally won on the last race by The Jean Genie, skippered by Peter Morton, along with crew Andrew Palfrey, Ruairidh Scott. For Morton it was the culmination of five years’ work and, along with Scott, their first world title in the class, while for Palfrey it was his third world title. The owners, captains and crews of the spectacular array of yachts gathered for the 29th edition of the Superyacht Cup Palma are making their final preparations ahead of the start of racing. With the regatta's new home base in the prestigious Club de Mar-Mallorca, the race crews aboard the 11 yachts entered are now able to size-up the competition in their respective classes — which have just been announced — at Europe's longest running superyacht festival of sail.

Please Subscribe, Like, Share and check the Uploads Alert Bell for notice when we upload new videos. Welcome to the June 20th Global Sailing, World on Water Sailing Highlights Show. Bedfore we begin, YouTube was started in 2005 and we uploaded our first video, the 2007 Sydney Hobart Race in early 2008, and after the Global Financial Crisit hit in late 2008 we started the "World on Water" weekly global Sailing Show, uploading every week, until now. During that time there have been many sailing highlights but none more spectacular than this week in the Loro Piana Giraglia, the Yacht Club Italiano’s offshore race from Saint-Tropez to Genoa via the Giraglia Rock.Owner, S H, has had faith in David Witt and his Scallywag crew that they could produce a race winning 100 foot Superyacht, and this week he was rewarded, as Sun Hung Kai Scallywag, won the Loro Piana race beating the newest and best maxis in the Northern Hemisphere. Witty had onboard as tactician, ex skipper of Peter Harburgs' maxi Black Jack, North Sails Mark Bradford. Together they found the lifts and shifts during the race to beat off Lindsay Owen-Jones' brand new Magic Carpet E. Not bad for a ten year old boat? Congratulations S H and the crew of Scallywag. It's an emotive visit to the boat in Caen for Pip. There is a long and uncertain road ahead for Pip, but it is with huge thanks and gratitude to everyone who has shown incredible support in helping get the boat back to France. Here is an update from Pip on what is next. Relive the highlights of the Bol d’Or du Léman with Sails of Change.More than 15 hours of racing, night-time finishes, and a tight battle until the very last miles for both boats! The Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Tour moves on to Brindisi where the Regatta Sports Program Takes Place but Village Events are Cancelled due to Mourning. The second day of regattas reserved for the WASZP and WING classes took place regularly in the Brindisi basin. The particular wind conditions allowed the entire scheduled competition program to be carried out and there was no shortage of excitement. The teams challenged each other with adrenaline-filled tacks and evolutions, attracting many citizens and tourists who populate the Salento city these days to the docks. It's one of a kind. The RRD One hour classic Foil 2025.It consists of an hour and a little more flight on the water, 21 sides completed, and an international podium thrilling day 2, which saw a much higher performance than on day one thanks to more favorable conditions. The Jean Genie has won 5.5 Metre World Championship in Sopot. The Jean Genie, GBR 43, with Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey, Ruairidh Scott, has won the 2025 5.5 Metre World Championship in Sopot Poland, after the final day of racing. Aspire finally ended up second with Ku-Ring-Gai III in third. Race wins on the final day went to Ku-Ring-Gai III and The Jean Genie in the slightly lighter northerly breeze.

Welcome to the June 13th Global Sailing, World on Water Sailing Highlights Show.All of these videos have been released in the last seven days. After a bitterly disappointing first regatta of the season when they finished in an uncharacteristic last position in Saint-Tropez, France last month, the fortunes of the German flagged 2023 52 SUPER SERIES overall champions Platoon Aviation seem to have turned for the better.Harm Müller-Spreer's crew were the top scoring boat of the day at the GALICIA 52 SUPER SERIES Royal Cup in Baiona today posting a second and first to elevate themselves to second place on the regatta scoreboard.  The Scandinavian Gold Cup opened Thursday in Sopot, Poland, with seven 5.5 Metres competing for this historic and iconic trophy that dates back to 1922. Unfortunately, there was not enough wind to even complete one race.Meanwhile, next week's defending World Champions Ku-Ring-Gai 3, Australia 66, with John Bacon, Edward Wright, and Joost Houweling, won the only race completed in the President's Cup just six minutes inside the time limit. The Kiwis Shone on Day 3 of the 2025 49 er, 49 er F X and Nacra 17, European Championships, with Smart Racing and Strong Rivalry.The standout performers of the day were undoubtedly New Zealand’s Seb Menzies, and George Lee Rush, who delivered an impressive 2 3 1 scoreline, despite a grueling seven-hour day on the water. With long waits before races, the duo showed they’ve mastered the "on-off" switch, staying mentally fresh until it was time to perform, and perform they did. It was the Guardia di Finanza team that won this first stage of the 5th edition of the Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Tour, followed by the Marina Militare team and the Goztepe Yelken team from Turkey that won third place.For the Waswzp category, the victory went to the Marina Militare team, followed respectively by the Royal Madras team, and the Ocean Cruising team that closed the podium. Delivering an impressively consistent series across 10 races sailed in broad range of weather conditions, Doug DeVos’s US flagged crew of American Magic Quantum Racing, won the second regatta of the 2025 season to lift the prestigious Royal Cup for the fifth time since 2012.Although as Quantum Racing, powered by American Magic, they won the 2024 overall 52 SUPER SERIES season title, the young crew never quite managed to close out an event victory through 2023 and 2024.  Sails of Change 8, skippered by Yann Guichard, delivered an impressive performance on the final day of the T F 35 Mies Grand Prix, winning three out of four races, and solidifying their dominance throughout the event. Held from June 6 to 8, the regatta showcased the unpredictable nature of sailing on Lake Geneva, where mixed wind conditions kept teams on their toes. A long standing member of Annapolis Yacht Club supplied new Snipes, new sails and coaching to create a novel opportunity for junior sailors at both Annapolis Yacht Club and Severn Sailing Association. The concept is for juniorr. sailors to experience "adult" sailing on a large scale, and the Snipe is the perfect platform requiring tuning, tactical excellence, and athleticism. With over 50 boats, including four junior. teams, this year's Colonial Cup at Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, saw the successful launch of the Snipe Junior Program. The 2025 ILCA Masters Nationals were proudly hosted by Hayling Island Sailing Club, drawing nearly 120 entries, including 60 Ilca 6's. Over three days of challenging conditions, competitors delivered exceptional racing in conditions that tested their mettle but were embraced with enthusiasm and resilience. It was a true showcase of the grit, courage, and skill that defines this remarkable community of sailors.

Like, Subscribe, Share and check to Uploads Alert Bell for all our Global Sailing Highlight videos. Welcome to the June 6th Global Sailing World on Water Sailing Highlights Show. All of our videos have been released in the last seven days. Comments from owners and sailors in the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta 2025 at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda. . The 2025 Two-Handed IRC National Championship was decided over two races within the RORC Season’s Points Championship, combining the results of the Cervantes Trophy Race and the Myth of Malham Race. With 33 entries from Austria, France, Great Britain and the Netherlands, the competition was intense. Tim Goodhew & Kelvin Matthews racing Sun Fast 3200 Cora were crowned national champions by a whisker from Sam White & Sam North racing JPK 10.80 Muzungu!. Simon Bamford’s Sun Fast 3300 Kestrel racing with Ollie Grogono completed the podium. Meet the Principal Race Officer, Eric Reitenger, a St. Mary's alumni, and several of the seniors who just graduated college, sailing their final event of their college sailing career. Bent Christian Wilhelmsen’s Otto has won the 2025 5.5 Metre German Open in Warnemunde after only one final race was possible on Saturday in very light winds. New Moon III took second with Ali Baba in blue ) in third and the first German boat. It was always going to be the lightest day of the event, but again the reality was much lighter than the forecast. Starting in just 4-5 knots the wind got lighter and lighter ending in barely a zephyr as the fleet inched around the course. Further racing was abandoned. The 52 SUPER SERIES now has a proud history of continued success since being established in 2012 very soon becoming renowned as the world’s leading grand prix monohull yacht racing circuit. Indeed 2022 saw the tenth anniversary celebrations, back in Barcelona where it all began at the Trofeo Conde de Godo regatta in May 2012, and really the circuit has gone from strength to strength with new teams continuing to join and owners building new race boats as they seek potential gains. For the Luna Rossa team, the month of May marked the full resumption of activities ahead of the 38th America’s Cup: the Cagliari base is fully active and the sailors have begun training on the AC40, getting ahead of their rivals. Around the same time, the Defender announced Naples as a future Cup venue, and the Vespucci ship met with the team upon returning from its World Tour. The spotlight is back on Luna Rossa. The Maxi Banque Populaire XI received 2 wins out of 2 at the start of the season. With a start and a night in a small time and the arrival of more favourable conditions, the Maxi Banque Populaire XI, will have experienced different navigation configurations during its victory over the ArMen Race. A strategic race that allowed Armel Le Clerk, Sébastien Josse and the crew to test the Ultim and prepare for future deadlines.

Please Subscribe, Like, Share this video and check the bell for alerts on all our uploads. This is the weekly Global Sailing Highlights show, World on Water, May 30, 2025. These videos have been published in the last seven days, and the World on water, has been on YouTube, weekly, since 2008. First held in 1958, the Myth of Malham Race has built a rich legacy for more than six decades of offshore racing. A total of 140 yachts carrying over 900 sailors from 28 nations lined up for the 235-nautical mile offshore challenge. 12 Boats destined for the 2025 Admiral’s Cup were among the diverse RORC armada with professional sailors and passionate corinthians racing with the Royal Ocean Racing Club. The 78th edition of the Block Island Race, hosted by the Storm Trysail Club, delivered classic Northeast spring conditions and a course that tested every sailor's resilience, tactics, and teamwork. Sixty-two boats departed Stamford for the 186-nautical-mile lap around Block Island, facing a mix of light air starts and heavy upwind slogs in the race's signature "around-the-island-and-back" format. In its 144th year, Kieler Woche will take place from 21 to 29 June, 2025 An extraordinary, international atmosphere. One of the largest sailing events in the world. Regatta sailing at the highest level. Unbeatable class diversity. This is Kiel Week. Having Iconic Mount Vesuvius as the backdrop, it was the outstanding setting for the Official Host Venue Presentation of the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup, unveiling the next chapter in the America’s Cup’s 174 year history with the warmest of receptions for the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand.