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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 Highlight show, The World on Water, November 07, 2025.This is Part three of our English reports on the Transat Cafe L'or. On November 5 at 22 h 13 min 58 sec local French time, Tom Laperche, and Franck Cammas, were the first to cross the ULTIM finish line in Fort-de-France Bay for the 17th edition of the TRANSAT CAFÉ L'OR Le Havre Normandie. Appearing out of a moody Caribbean night to break the Fort-de-France finish line first at 22 h 13 min 58 sec local time, 28-year-old Laperche, and 52-year-old co-skipper Cammas, win the ULTIM division of the famous biennial double handed race from Le Havre to Martinique. Their elapsed time for the 6670 nautical miles course from the French channel port to Martinique, via a turning mark at the Saint Peter and Sain Paul islets in the South Atlantic, is 10days, 13 hours, 3 minutes, and 58 seconds.

Please Subscribe if you like our Global Sailing content, Like and Share. It helps us show our content to more sailors. Thank you. Welcome to this special English vrsion of the World on Water for November 04 2025. It is part 2 of our coverage of the Transat Cafe L'or a bi annual double handed race for the magnificent Ultims, the high flying Imocas, Ocean 50's trimarans and the Class 40's. They've been through the channel gale and now the fun begins as they jockey for positions. Even for the Class 40s which only restarted their TRANSAT CAFÉ L’OR race to Martinique on Saturday the intensity and pace is starting to tell, maybe especially in the IMOCA class where the leading trio are engaged in a close drag race in the trade winds. The ULTIM leaders, Tom Laperche and Franck Cammas on SVR Lazartigue have 160 nautical miles in hand with just less than 1600 miles to the finish line in Fort De France whilst the Ocean Fifty pack leaders, Man Le Roch, and Basile Bourgnon, on Edenred 5, seem unable to really make a decisive break. Meanwhile the Class40 leaders are very much watching to see their nearest rivals unfold their strategy, making choices which could likely shape the race. The ULTIMS are really into the final leg of their race, gybing down the South American exclusion zone to their west. On course to set a new record for victories on this race, five, Franck Cammas is ‘in the zone’ doing what he loves. In the Imocas After losing 20 or 30 miles when they hit the transition zone first, Jérémie Byou and Morgan Lagravière on Charal are back on track. The US flagged 11th Hour Racing have been quickest for periods early this morning and today, Francesca Clapcich, and Will Harris, pressing extra hard after being required to take a 30 minutes penalty for an inadvertent break of the seal on their liferaft. The Ocean 50's, With a little less than 1300 nautical miles to go to the finish line, have broken south of the rhumb line, the direct course. They have 35 miles of a cushion over Baptiste Hulin,, and Thomas Rouxel, (Viablis),,and should extend their lead as they get into the strong trade winds. The top six duos in the Class 40's are within six miles of each other as they take on a low pressure trough. S N S M Faites un Don, who were first into La Coruña, have a small lead in their most southerly position whilst Spanish duo Pep Costa and Pablo Santurde continue to prefer to be the most northerly on VSF Sports, there being some 35 miles of lateral separation.

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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 October 24th, 2025. First off, our appologies for running late this week, but the circumstances were well beyond our control. And as a prior notice, next week could also be effected. In the meantime the the TRANSAT CAFÉ L’OR Normandie Le Havre started and were then reated to muscular wind conditions and leaden skies as they made a fast start to what should be an express exit from the English Channel. On the first night Three Ocean 50s capsized, the Ultims powered ahead while vthe 18 Imocas battened down as the class 40s had a mandatory stop into La Coruña on the North West corner of Spain. Punishing conditions. The 46th edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race is underway. An impressive international fleet of 117 yachts are contesting the 46th edition of this compelling and historic offshore race. Following the captivating start from Valletta’s imperious Grand Harbour, a 606-nautical mile challenge lay ahead featuring an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of Sicily before finishing back in Malta. After the scarest moment in life, Eric Marsh aboard his yacht, Sunbear, finally arrives in Mauritius, and for the first time, he opens up about his terrifying man- overboard experience. It’s the kind of moment every sailor dreads, and Eric’s raw story captures the real danger, courage, and determination behind the Mini Globe Race 2025. We thank Christine Turner who was on the dock in Mauritius for capturing this special moment! Monohull line honours has been decided at the 2025 Rolex Middle Sea Race. Crossing the finish line in Marsamxett Harbour, Malta, at 05:44:07 CEST, Black Jack 100 took the title in an elapsed time of 2 days, 17 hours, 44 minutes and 7 seconds. Success for the 100-foot Maxi yacht, skippered by Tristan Le Brun and owned by Remon Vos, was highly coveted. Last year, Black Jack 100 had to settle for second on the water after a thrilling duel with Scallywag 100. The two yachts met again in July at the Rolex Fastnet Race, where this time Black Jack 100 claimed line honours, turning the tables on her rival. This week, eighteen double-handed crews will depart from Le Havre to embark on the Transat Café l’OR, a storied transatlantic race that has traced this oceanic course since 1993. Covering 4,350 nautical miles, from the English Channel down into tropical trade winds, their destination is Fort-de-France, Martinique. In this 17ᵉ edition, the IMOCA fleet joins Ultim, Ocean Fifty and Class40, four classes, four courses, four winning duos. Almost a year to the day since Emirates Team New Zealand won the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup the team are back out sailing with their AC40 from their home base in Auckland. At the same time, announcing a new mix of exciting young Kiwi sailing talent and multiple Olympic medal winning experience joining the sailing team in their defence of the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup in Naples in 2027. With one last Foil elimination round on Sunday, the IFCA Funboard European Championships Slalom Foil & Fin came to a close after five days of spectacular racing. Once again, the “funboard” boards – both Foil and Fin – returned to take centre stage on Lake Garda, hosted by Circolo Surf Torbole under delegation from the Italian Sailing Federation. Racing took place every afternoon in perfect Ora winds from the south, which consistently stayed above the minimum range required for Foil (below 15 knots) and Fin (above 11 knots) racing.

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 October 17th, 2025. It was an unfortunate opening to the Australian 18 Footers League's 2025-26 summer season when strong westerly winds, gusting to more than 30 knots, forced the club to abandon Race 1 of the Sixth Spring 18ft skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour. Eleven of the fourteen teams entered for the race attempted to reach the start in the dreadful conditions that prevailed and only three were able to cross the start line after a 30 minutes delay. After being becalmed on Monday, Jasmine Harrison’s week in the Mini Globe Race turned into pure endurance at sea. A long, sleepless night brought relentless squalls, freezing cold, and then, disaster, her Hydrovane self-steering broke. To make it worse, Starlink went down for 48 hours, cutting her off from weather updates and the outside world. Then with advice from Hydrovane support, and spare parts on board, she’s now back on track, the wind’s picked up, and Starlink’s back online. In Stage 2: Y C P E Cup the Home boat heroes arrive, They’re home is the cry! It’s been a tough fight for the crew, but the achievement of crossing the Atlantic Ocean is what matters most. Talk about a close finish! What an end to a race after 27 days at sea. Hear from Team Qingdao, Team Washington D C, and Team Scotland, as they touch down in Punta del Este! After two days of strong Bise winds and fiercely contested racing for the high-performance foiling TF35 fleet, and the final in Geneva offered a complete contrast, four technical races sailed in a gentle 5 to 8 knot breezes. Returning to the circuit after a break earlier in the season, Jérôme Clerc, at the helm of Realteam Spirit with crew members Sébastien Col, Gurvan Bontemps, Léo Tetaz, Eliot Merceron, and Benjamin Amiot, showed remarkable consistency across the 14 races to claim the Grand Prix victory with a narrow two-point margin. The 2025 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 World Championships wrapped up in spectacular style with a double-race medal series that crowned three deserving world champions. Under brilliant Sardinian skies and a lively mistral breeze, Spain swept the skiff fleets while Britain claimed the foiling crown.It all came down to last day, and what a finale it was! In the Nacra 17 class, John Gimson & Anna Burnet edged out home hopes Ugolini & Giubilei in a tactical duel to claim the world title. The bi weekly, live, Sailing blog, Sailing Illustrated, helmed by "The Chairman," Tom Ehman interviewed Sail World New Zealand expert Richard Gladwell, on the latest developments in the 38th Americas Cup. If the cup interests you, then you will want to watch this.

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, first produced in 2008, and weekly since then, todays edition is dated, October ten 2025. The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is synonymous with excellence and ranks among the most impressive events on the yachting calendar. Organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with the International Maxi Association, it offers crews a spectacular race setting in the emerald waters of north-east Sardinia, with varied conditions and testing courses. Extreme winds restricted racing in this year’s edition but the patience and perseverance of the crews and the race committee made it possible for a spectacular conclusion, with good weather for competition on the final day. After four days of uncertain weather, resulting in only three races, the 2025 Melges 24 World Championship, organized by the Yacht Club Adriaco in collaboration with the International Melges 24 Class Association and with the support of the Italian Melges 24 Class, delivered its verdict on the final day. On the final day of the 5.5 Metre French Open in Cannes, the wind died initially but then picked up to 15-18 knots, leading to two races where New Moon III (BAH 25), with an unbeatable lead, won the first race, and then won the final race as well to claim the overall title.  On October 26th, the TRANSAT CAFÉ L’OR, will be off to a great start! In the meantime, onboard 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺 𝟰, experience the intensity of a start alongside Anthony Marchand, Navigator and Julien Villion, his co-Navigator. Day 8 in Sylt was one for the history books, as the Freestylers lit up the North Sea in perfect conditions. Lennart Neubauer was unstoppable, smashing the 40-point barrier in every heat and landing the first-ever contest triple culo on his way to victory in the Single Elimination. He sealed the win in the final with 44.2 points, edging Yentel Caers, who stays firmly on course for a third world title. Day 6 of the 2025 ILCA Master World Championships in Formia proved to be one of the longest and most demanding days on the water. The fleets launched under light and unstable conditions, with the A P Delta signal at 14:00 starting an afternoon of patient waiting and tactical challenges. Norway has taken the top spot in the women’s skiff at the end of day two of the 49er FX World Championships. Pia Dahl Andersen and Nora Edland have taken a two-point lead from the Spanish team who were on top at the start of the day. But there’s only four points splitting the top four teams from Norway, Spain, Australia and Canada. Riccardo Pianosi and Jessie Kampman resisted enormous pressure in the medal series to become the 2025 Formula Kite World Champions. After a week of drama, it was a climactic finale on day six of the Formula Kite World Championships in Quartu Sant’Elena, Sardinia.

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, first produced in 2008, and weekly since then, todays edition is dated, October three 2025. The fantastic Lorient-La Base was once again buzzing with excitement for the Défi Azimut. Now in its 15th year, the event brings together 12 pairs of skippers on their Imoca foiling 60 footers for what was to be another intense, festive and friendly week. Ray Davies of Emirates Team New Zealand recently made a vibrant stop in Naples, Italy, ahead of the upcoming Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup, and was left in awe: of both the city and its sailing conditions. “This is Naples. It’s unreal!” said Davies. “From what I’ve seen in just two days, it’s absolutely sensational.” Having competed in Naples during the America’s Cup World Series events in 2012 and 2013, Davies returns with fresh eyes, now envisioning the AC75s racing across the iconic Bay of Naples. Thomas de Dinechin's mast broke during the 56th edition of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec in September 2025. De Dinechin was sailing aboard the boat, Almond for Pure Océan, when the dismasting occurred. From roll-out at dawn to dock-in at sunset, here is a full day at the Cagliari Base lived through the team’s eyes. The fleet leaves the dock for the sailing session while design team and shore team monitor every detail, from onboard systems to radio communications. The conditions for the day were similar to Tuesday but with a forecast of strong southerly winds arriving mid-afternoon, so expectations were for one or two races. After a timing error from New Moon, Otto made the best of the start of Race 3 and led uop the first neat and down the run. However, they picked the inshore gate mark while New Moon rounded the offshore gate into the slowly shifting breeze. New Moon took advantage and took the lead to win from Otto with Enez C'las II a solid third. Week 6–8 of the Mini Globe Race 2025 brings a mix of paradise, emotions, and new beginnings. After thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean, skippers reach the stunning Cocos-Keeling Islands — white sands, turquoise waters, and a brief taste of heaven before the challenge continues. But even in paradise, homesickness creeps in… and sometimes a new haircut means a fresh start!

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, first uploaded in 2008 and weekly since then, dated September 26 2025. Please ceck your Subscription to our service as YouTube has throttled our service. Subscribe once again. Thank you. To start with following two days of intense competition on the Sea of Marmara, the 24th Bosphorus Cup concluded with the race on the Bosphorus Strait. The busy waterway is closed once a year to allow this impressive contest to take place, and as usual a sumptuous spectacle was laid on for both competitors and spectators. Racing in a 15 knot northerly winds, and starting from Kuruçeşme, the 55 boat fleet contested a looped course that went as far north as Anadolu Hiasari, and the impressive F S M Bridge, and south to Beşiktaş, with the finish line near Beşiktaş. Hugo Cardon on his Figaro 3, Sarth'Atlantique, won the second leg of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec. This young rookie managed to cover the distance in 4 days 2 hours 14 minutes and 29 seconds. He is ahead of Alexis Loison in Groupe Reel, winner of the first leg, and the formidable Charlotte Yven, on Skipper Macif 2023. In the provisional general classification, Alexis Loison strengthens his lead before the third and final leg. The Ocean Race Europe 2025, came to a spectacular close in Montenegro’s Boka Bay with a dramatic coastal showdown that saw French, Paul Me-hat’s Biotherm put the icing on the cake and win again in the final coastal race in style. Team Paprec Arkéa, crossed in second to secure the overall runner-up spot on 40 points, with skipper Yoann Richomme praising his team’s consistency throughout the six-week race. Here are the best bits on Leg 5. With summery sunshine warming the dock at Lorient La Base, the skippers, exhausted by the two-day frenzy of manoeuvres, congratulated themselves on the diversity of the course in this 48H Azimut. "Fun", "intense", "fantastic", "tortuous", "demanding"... there was certainly no shortage of adjectives to describe the 48 H and its 'Figaro leg' vibes. Tougher than ever, this 14th Défi Azimut-Lorient Agglomération required the skippers to dig incredibly deep to hold rank. After a much needed stopover in Puerto Sherry, the Clipper Race fleet is back at sea! The teams set off on the YCPE Cup, to Punta del Este 🇺🇾. This stage brings the second half of the Atlantic Trade Winds - a test of tactics, patience, and teamwork. From navigating the Canaries to the unpredictable doldrums near the equator, crews will face wind holes, squalls, and soaring heat. Crossing the equator will be a huge milestone, marked by the legendary King Neptune ceremony - a rite of passage for every sailor. Four days of close racing in Scarlino brought the Swan Tuscany Challenge to a spectacular conclusion. Sunshine, a mix of conditions, and the tightest of margins set the stage for a memorable regatta on the Tyrrhenian coast. Here is their Wrap video report. Hitman by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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

Vittorio, our Sailing expert of SailRing (https://youtube.com/@vdalbertas?si=Xm1CVOgtMRAIkJV5) Italian with English subtitles. Subscride to our Sailing Highlights channel. Ambrogio Beccaria's Alla Grande Mapei IMOCA 60 got off to a flying start, colliding with Rosalin Kuiper's Holcim-PRB just after the start of the first leg of The Ocean Race Europe 2025. Luck was not the best, but the choice of the large sail (the Code Zero Masthead) was not only legitimate, but perhaps even correct, and certainly well-managed. Everything came to a head when PRB yawed in the wide blind sector of visibility that IMOCA 60s have... with Vittorio d'Albertas

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/