WoW July25 25 Admiral's Cup Special, The Ocean Race, Waszp, Moths, Team ACTUAL's New TRi more

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/