Benedict Donovan
How Beccaria stole the Vendée Arctique in the final miles
For eight days, the Vendée Arctique looked like Sam Goodchild’s race to lose. He’d led since the first night out of Les Sables d’Olonne, built a healthy cushion in the tens of miles, and pointed MACIF Santé Prévoyance at home...
The week in racing - 15 June '26
Three titles changed hands across Europe this week, from a Frenchman running away with the Moth Europeans on the Costa Brava, a new Musto Skiff world champ, and a Dane finally ending a 46-year wait at the OK Dinghy Worlds. And...
Canada's SailGP stars are squeezing into Optimists before Halifax
Three days before SailGP’s F50s tear up Halifax Harbour at close to 50 knots, the NorthStar Canada crew will climb into Optimists – the bathtub-shaped dinghies every sailor learns the ropes in – for a race billed as ‘the fastest...
Everything we know about Ferrari Hypersail
Ferrari has never built a boat. So when the most famous name in motorsport finally decided to make one, it was never going to be a weekend cruiser tied up in Portofino. Hypersail is a roughly 30-metre flying monohull built with a...
Vendée Arctique: Goodchild first to Arctic Circle at the race’s turning point
Sam Goodchild has taken the Vendée Arctique somewhere it’s never been. At 09:45 on Thursday morning, the Franco-British skipper of MACIF Santé Prévoyance steered across the Arctic Circle, becoming the first competitor to reach 66...
AC Recon: Luna Rossa's AC75 hits 40 knots on day one
The America's Cup has never been a sport for early finishers, and on Wednesday Luna Rossa proved that point once again. The Italians waited until the Cagliari sun was sliding towards the sea before lifting their AC75 off the...
After the New York crash, what should SailGP actually do? The Foil community weighs in
Nothing gets people talking quite like a crash. The pile-up at the New York SailGP has set off the loudest debate we’ve seen in The Foil community since, well, the last major collision in Auckland, just four events prior. With...
The week in racing - 8 June '26
Plenty to get stuck into this week: the Sardinia Cup back from a 14-year exile, a three-time Solitaire winner crowned in Le Havre, a back-to-back match racing win in Annapolis, and the Vendée Arctique under way on its dash to the...
The week in racing - 1 June ‘26
It's been a week of firsts, finales and a fair bit of frustration – Gitana 18 finally airborne, fresh champions crowned off Sorrento and Marseille, and SailGP staring down a logistical mess on both sides of the Atlantic. Let's...
Flying Roos pip Great Britain for victory in the Big Apple
Australia’s Bonds Flying Roos came back from a damaging collision with debris in the pre-race warm-up to fight off Emirates Great Britain in a thrilling flying finish at the New York SailGP. The result marks a third consecutive...
Chaos reigns on opening day of SailGP New York
New York was supposed to be the big one, and in a way it was – just not for the reasons anyone wanted. A gusty, blustery Hudson, with a peak of 36 knots clocked, made craning the F50s in and out of the water a genuine hazard, and...
Reynolds and Jackman take the Flying Roos to Disney+
Sailing has spent years trying to muscle its way into the mainstream, and it just got its biggest boost yet. Disney+ has greenlit a docuseries following the BONDS Flying Roos – the Australian SailGP team co-owned by Hugh Jackman...
The week in racing - 25 May '26
If you spent the weekend at a barbecue rather than glued to the racing, there’s plenty for you to catch up on. The AC38 fleet finally switched to race mode in Cagliari, Olympic class crowns were handed out across Europe, and...
Burling delivers Luna Rossa home glory in Cagliari
The sun was out for the final day in Sardinia along with 11 knots of breeze and a sheet of flat water. Three races to round out the first preliminary regatta of the AC38 cycle: races 7 and 8 of the fleet series, and the match...
Luna Rossa lead into final day after strong Saturday in Cagliari
Day one wasn’t entirely smooth for most of the teams gathered in Cagliari. The French boat nosedived at 30 knots, each of the British boats posted DNFs, and the Swiss never quite found their rhythm. All of which made the...
