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Alessandro Tomasi and Vaina Picot were crowned champions at the Wingfoil Racing World Cup in Calabria after mastering a dramatic final day in which they were challenged by the weather as well as their rivals.

Monday got off to a promising start with a steady westerly breeze as the fleet assembled at Itchenor for the Senior Schools Firefly Championship. However, the sailing gods had other ideas, with the wind fading and swinging round.

Day three of the 2026 Flying Fifteen National Championship at Tees & Hartlepool YC dawned with slightly cooler weather, a light but consistent wind and – mercifully – no sign of the visibility-reducing haze that had delayed proceedings previously.

With two years to go until the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, Australia’s Olympic sailing athletes are set to race on the very waters where Olympic medals will be decided.

Peter Thornton’s 104-foot ketch, Whitehawk, claimed line honors for the fifth year in a row, finishing the 117th Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac presented by Wintrust at 3:31 p.m. ET / 2:31 p.m. CT on Sunday.

The 2026 J/70 U.S. National Championship concluded Sunday with David Jannetti’s Odd Racing winning the Open title, Ryan Cox’s DJ securing the Corinthian Championship, and Scott Deardorff’s CAKE taking Mixed-Plus honors.

The regatta of two distinct halves, with survival conditions testing the fleet over the opening two days before light, shifty breezes created an entirely different challenge through the second half of the week.

New Zealand’s Seb Menzies and George Lee Rush have cemented their status as one of the world’s premier 49er crews after successfully defending their European Championship title in Eckernförde, Germany – their third major championship in just over a year.

There was more than a little trepidation amongst the Yawl sailors gathered on the Yawl pontoon in anticipation of the fourth race of the Salcombe Yacht Club Summer Series, with wind speeds topping 43 mph at Prawle Point.

The final day of the 2026 European Championship turned out to be the hardest of the whole regatta, and in the end it was the one day the Baltic refused to play along.