The Dolphin regatta at Milwaukee

Some say sailboat racing is in decline. While there are plenty of signs that this may be true there are also others that say that it is not. One of these positive signs is an annual regatta called The Dolphin held in Milwaukee that just concluded its 28th consecutive running on October 5, 2025. The Dolphin is primarily a Soling event organized by the Milwaukee Bay Soling Fleet but with other fleets/boats invited. Traditionally it has also included 470s with local legends like Doug Drak ...  read more

World Championship is around the corner

The Yacht Club Veleiros do Sul a traditional institution in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazi finishes all the details for the 2025 World Championship. The club which could be the envy to most other Yacht Clubs around the world has in its heritage the 100% focus on Sailing, where power boats are rarely seen, mainly used for club tasks purposes, it counts with an entire marine business inside the club that would allow any member to re-build its boat and or create new ones. The expected World Champi ...  read more

Pacific Coast Championship great turn out

The Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego once more hosted the traditional PCC event in the US. 12 teams took the chance to sail the typical weather in the west coast, with lumpy seas, always enough wind and for sure much fun, top four finishers granted all the bullets of 8 races raced, only the winner of the event managed to never be outside the top 5 finishers on each race. The winners were the international South Americans members of the MBYC now longtime residents in San Diego , Claudio Fa ...  read more

CAN 225 Canadian Champions in 2025

At his home waters, Peter Hall sailing with his son William Hall and Antoine Paccarar once more became the Canadian Champion after sailing a perfect last day of racing achieving 4 bullets to compensate a slow start that had CAN 230 sailed by Ross Findlater, John McNeil and Gord Devries as protagonist earlier in the series achieving the remaining bullets of the event. Following the team CAN 230 with origins at BQYC at the Ontario area, it was CAN 233 all the way from Port Stanley in Lake E ...  read more

Virginie Hériot Trophy 2025 in Le Havre

Virginie Hériot is the first French woman to win an Olympic medal; this happened in 1928 at the Amsterdam Games. The Société des Régates du Havre (SRH) has honored her memory for years with this challenge, which brings together sport keelboats and traditional sailboats. This 2025, four Soling teams joined the celebrations, including two Dutch, NED 33 (Rudy Den Outer, Ramzi Souli, and Theo De Lange) and NED 44 (Bram Soedhoudt, Sjors Aensberg, and Gavin Lidlow), and t ...  read more

The Solings Beckons: Irish Youth Sailors Answer the Call

At 13:00 on Monday 16 June 2025, the Tralee Bay Sailing Club Cadet Team comprised of Arann Murphy (helm, 17), Peter O’Connor (17), and Sam Fitzgibbon (16) left Tralee with Santoku the Soling in tow, and headed to Westport. They were accompanied by the crew of Chinook, including Cormac Murphy (boat owner of Chinook and Santoku), Rachel Deasy (former coach of the TBSC Youth Team), and Sadhbh Murphy (fellow TBSC Cadet, 14). Upon arrival at Mayo Sailing Club, Santoku was lifted into the water and ...  read more

GBR161 Loudon, Kimberly and Loudon British champions

Past Saturday evening all the crews and helpers enjoyed a supper of Hog Roast at the Lochaber Yacht Club after a nice day of light breeze where 4 races had been held, the gathering was important to prepare the early start on Sunday. With the first race start at the unsociable hour of 0900 teams were treated to a pleasant southwest breeze of about 0 knots and, some sunshine. These conditions remained until the end of the last race at around mid-day. Then the first of the 35-knot gust arrived i ...  read more