Offshore News
Ferrari Hypersail: Why a car company is building an ocean racer
Ferrari has never built a sailing boat. Its first is Hypersail, a 100-foot fully foiling monohull designed to fly across oceans on renewable energy alone and chase records that have only ever belonged to multihulls. It's an...
The week in racing - 13 July '26
Plenty going on across the fleets this week. A sun-soaked Round the Island, three European titles decided ashore, four fresh faces crowned at the iQFOiL Youth Worlds, and a record-breaking offshore epic in Greek waters. Let’s get...
The tech behind Ferrari Hypersail
Ferrari has never built a sailing boat. So it's fitting that its first isn't a boat in any usual sense, but a 100-foot machine designed to fly across oceans. Hypersail is a fully foiling monohull – the first of its kind – 20...
The week in racing - 6 July ‘26
Lots to chew over this week: a record fleet let loose on the Aegean, an America's Cup team finally reaches Naples, and world titles being handed out everywhere from Lake Garda to the Baltic. Let’s get into it. Foiling Week's 13th...
The week in racing - 29 June ‘26
Light air was the great leveller this week, rewarding the patient and the tactically sharp over anyone hoping to just blast their way to the front. As always, there’s plenty to get stuck into… The next wave of sailing talent put...
The week in racing - 22 June ‘26
A world title decided by two points in Sardinia, a maxi charging into Bermuda under the cover of darkness, and SailGP's first-ever four-boat final going right down to the wire. It's been a full-on week of racing, and there’s...
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...
Freddie Carr: How modern foiling revitalised old-school yacht racing
I've been banging on about this since we launched The Foil in January: Grand Prix sailing is as healthy as I have ever known it in my 25 years of professional racing. The rebirth of the Admiral's Cup and the Sardinia Cup...
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...
