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Three weekends into the fall college sailing season, Brown is stacking trophies, Georgetown owns the Chesapeake, and new conference champions are crowned across four conferences.

An afternoon of high winds and rain didn’t stop four hardy teams from taking to the water on Saturday for the third instalment of the Autumn Series.

The 2026 Offshore Double Handed World Championship gets under way in Marseille, France, this week, with a highly competitive fleet of 17 teams representing 13 nations preparing to take to the water.

Dutch sailors Simeon Tienpont and Christiane Walta have arrived in Marseille for the Offshore Double Handed World Championship, which runs from September 23 to October 2.

Thirty-two K1 sailors descended on Torbay Royal Yacht Club from 18th-20th September for the 2026 K1 National Championships, generously sponsored by Ovington Boats and Craftinsure.

On 18 September, Team Norfolk set off for the Inland National Championships at Rutland Water, with a brief overnight stop in Kettering to collect Baxter’s boat, before rolling into Rutland promptly the next morning.

Loreto Rodriguez, who has written for Practical Boat Owner, has won the Yachting Journalists’ Association’s Young Journalist of the Year Award for 2026 Loreto Rodriguez was presented with the YJA Young Journalist of the Year Award 2026 at the Southampton Boat Show. Credit: Emma York/YJA Loreto Rodriguez has been named the Yachting Journalists’ Association (YJA)…

The Royal Western Yacht Club is delighted to announce that the next edition of the prestigious OSTAR and TWOSTAR races will start from Plymouth Sound on 7 May 2028.

On this first day of autumn, it was more like an Indian summer in the bay of Cannes. The 85 competitors waited for more than three hours under a blazing sun, the thermal breeze blocked by a synoptic south-easterly wind, having refused to establish itself.

The best marine equipment and services as chosen by the sailing public have been announced at the inaugural Sailors’ Choice Awards Run by sister sailing titles, Practical Boat Owner and Yachting Monthly, the aim of the awards is to highlight the products and services that boat owners and sailors genuinely value, trust and recommend. The…