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Another top Solent photographer, Martin Augustus, positioned himself at Hurst Castle for the Centenary Rolex Fastnet Race start, and has sent us this great gallery focusing mainly on the IRC classes who make up the majority of the 444 yacht fleet.

Day 3 of the 2025 iQFOiL Youth & Junior World Championships kicked off with a celebration of a historic milestone: a record-breaking 101 women are competing in this year’s edition, among a total of 375 athletes from 36 nations.

While better known as an America’s Cup tender, the Catalyst 45 proved the versatility, and seaworthiness of the design completing a 1,290nm Pacific Ocean delivery voyage to Fiji. Here’s the story…

Palm Beach Motor Yachts is proud to be the naming rights sponsor of the Palm Beach Motor Yachts Trans-Tasman 49er Series, which will debut at the 2025 Hamilton Island Race Week, celebrating its 40th edition in August.

Five US sailors traveled to Nishinomiya, Japan for six days of challenging conditions, hot temperatures, and world class sailing. USA sailor Lucas Doran was in third place in the U17 fleet before the final day of racing.

Today marked the End of the Beginning of the 2025 Admirals’ Cup with the conclusion of Inshore racing on what is known as the “Central Solent” – the patch of water that separates the Isle of Wight from England.

Battle lines are being drawn up for the RORC’s centenary Rolex Fastnet Race. As the final day of Admiral’s Cup inshore racing took place in the Solent, so several yachts due to take part in Saturday’s main event were out training.

The Offshore Racing Rule’s (ORR) Forecast Time Correction Factor (F-TCF) rating system, used in this year’s Transpac race from Los Angeles to Honolulu, resulted in exceptionally close results.

The WASZP Games 2025, being held at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy in the UK, has attracted 248 of the foiling dinghies to take part in a week of varied and high intensity racing.

David Maynard was out on the water to catch the action from the first on Thursday of the Admiral’s Cup Inshore Racing.