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The Mediterranean has lived up to its reputation, transforming the sprint to Cartagena into a crawl. After storming through Gibraltar at 30 knots, Paprec Arkéa this morning were drifting at barely a knot, watching as Biotherm and Holcim-PRB slipped past.

The Royal Malta Yacht Club (RMYC) and the Yacht Club de Cannes announced the first official entry for the 2025 edition of the Cannes-Malta Race — Black Jack, a striking 100-foot (30.48m) monohull designed by the acclaimed Reichel-Pugh naval architects.

Our club supports a wealth of different sailing activities, but it is all too rare that we all join together as a club. The Regatta on Saturday 16th August was a delightful exception, where over 30 boats sailed together.

An IMOCA initiative designed to increase female participation in the marine and ocean racing industries is expanding this year and setting ambitious goals for the cycle up to the next Vendée Globe in 2028.

Following on from the club’s Junior Disco on Wednesday 20 August, nineteen juniors took part in Overy Staithe SC’s Wilson Stephens Trophy on Thursday 21 August. The trophy is for those under 17 and it was great to see such a large fleet out on the water.

After leaving Mondello, just north of Palermo, at midday on Tuesday, competition in the Maxi class, part of the 41 boat fleet in the annual Palermo-Montecarlo, was decided on Thursday.

The front-runners are comfortably out of reach in several divisions while in others, Saturday’s final island passage race will decide the victors and the spoils at the 40th anniversary of Hamilton Island Race Week, presented by AMEX.

In the thrilling world of Race 6, the tricky north-easterly winds had everyone strategising like chess grandmasters. The first gate start was cancelled after a large shift after about 30 seconds.

From 28-31 August, the 12-strong fleet of high-performance one-design owner-driver RC44s will compete for their 2025 World Championship title in the heart of Dutch sailing: Scheveningen, The Hague.

The Mirror Nationals is being held at Netley in just over a weeks’ time (28-30th August), sponsored by Hyde Sails, Winder Boats and Clamcleat. You may think of the Mirrors as a youth class, but in recent years the class has found a new niche.