World Wide Sailing

The Charity Regatta was originally started in 1987 by Frank Nelson and has always benefitted the March of Dimes foundation. This year the Regatta which is organized by the New Castle Sailing Club has been renamed to honor Frank Nelson for all the time and work that he devoted to making the Regatta a success each year. The day long event has competitive racing which is followed by an awards ceremony, BBQ dinner, and live auction. All proceeds are donated to the March of Dimes. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, July 25, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

QINGDAO, Shandong : China will be hosting its first ever Olympics in Beijing and six other cities in August.

SEATTLE — Turns out the best race was the one to the starting line.

Peter Mather and his crew sailed through lightning storms, heavy rain, thick fog and battering waves on their way to finishing second in the longest freshwater sailing race in the world. The Thornbury man completed the non-stop 536-kilometre Race to Mackinac with a corrected time of 48 hours and [...]

The Return of the Algae sounds more like a horror film than a natural phenomenon which could wreck the Olympic regatta.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has launched their new Olympic Games microsite at www.sailing.org/olympics, bringing sports fans around the world unrivalled coverage of the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition.

Hold those giant catamarans just a minute, you bickering billionaires.

July 29 (Bloomberg) — A New York appeals court declared Club Nautico Espanol de Vela the “challenger of record” for the next America’s Cup sailing race, reversing a ruling that had named the Golden Gate Yacht Club, led by Oracle Corp.

DULUTH, Minn. – Concerns that security issues could sink plans to offer a cruise service between Duluth, Minnesota, and Toronto appeared to have been answered.

Around sixty young people from five schools across Middlesex hit the water last week at the West London Queen Mary inter-school sailing festival.