The first day of racing

175 crews taking part in the world championship in the 29er class, which started in Gdynia (Poland). On Monday took place the first race day of the tournament. Here are some of the places the sum of the three is held the Russian sailors: 42. Dmitry Lazdin/ Nikita Kanaplev – 36 points, parishes 15 – 8 – 13. …69. Victoria Lisanova/ Pauline Peresipkina – 54 points, parishes 18 – 16 – 20. …72. Ilya Chuprin/ Brovin Rodion – 57 points, Read more

Racing with an unpredictable result

Yesterday       Racing with an unpredictable result       The first day of the championship of Russia in the class "Dragon", which started on Thursday in St. Petersburg, turned out to be rich and spectacular. According to the website http://russiandragon.ru, a good fresh breeze established in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland allowed the Race Committee to conduct three full-fledged races. Each of them went through its own, completely unpredictable scenario. The first start was better with RUS27 Anatoly Loginov’s success, Read more

Racing simulators

February 18, 2019       Racing simulators       Kirill Shunenkov became the winner of the first ever Virtual Skipper competition in the history of the Yacht Club of St. Petersburg For the first time in history, the St. Petersburg Yacht Club accepted a competition in cybersport – Academy athletes competed in the Virtual Skipper 3 sailing racing simulator. 47 athletes from the Optimist, 420, Laser groups and the Naval School registered for the virtual regatta. Competitions on such simulators allow yachtsmen of the Read more

Associated object: spinbot from Cigarette Racing Team and Mercedes-Benz

During the recent Miami International Boat Show — 2019 was shown speedboat Cigarette Racing 41’ AMG Carbon Edition. He created the Cigarette Racing Team, in partnership with Mercedes-AMG as a result of inspiration “four-door coupe” the Mercedes-AMG GT S. 63 It is obvious that the use of carbon fiber becomes a kind of trend, if we talk about the materials used in high-speed boats of the newest type of. 8X. This is a 12.5-metre racing boat, like a powerful road-going Read more

Racing simulators

Cyril Shanenkov won the first in the history of the Yacht club of Saint-Petersburg competitions in Virtual Skipper For the first time in the history of the Yacht club of Saint-Petersburg was attended competitions in eSports – Academy athletes competed in the sailing races simulator Virtual Skipper 3. Virtual regatta has registered 47 athletes from groups Optimist, 420, Laser, as well as from Marine school. Competition for such simulations allow to yachtsmen around the world to improve your tactical skills Read more

Yacht legends of racing NASCAR for sale

Custom 30,2 metre-long boat that had previously belonged to the cult pilot NASCAR Dale EarnhardtSr. (Dale Earnhardt Sr.), can be yours for $4.2 million Speech about Sunday Money Hatteras built. The driver did not enjoy access to it in the sea when the boat was already close to completion, he died in a crash at Daytona International Speedway. The tragedy occurred FEBRUARY 18, 2001 during the final lap of the race. It is known that the 76-time winner of stages Read more

Best racing cruisers 2019

itBoat is the second part of a series of articles about nominees of the award “European boat of the year” Journal itBoat continues the series of publications about the nominee of the award “European boat of the year”. In the last article we talked about the contenders for the title of “Best cruising sailboats”. In this issue we will focus on the nominees in class Performance-Cruiser — boats, suitable for a relaxing family holiday and to participate in the race. Read more

Series World Match Racing Tour will abandon catamarans

Due to financial problems and change of the main sponsor of the series mactavich regatta of the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) will return to the proven model racing keel monohull yachts, in which each racing tour is conducted in boats of a particular class. In 2016, the organizers abandoned this system in favor of the competition catamaran type M32, thus creating a paradox in which system the match is scheduled regattas for odnoklubnikov topped the competition for Multihull yachts. Read more

The winners of the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image

Today, as part of Yacht Racing Forum announced the winners of the competition sailing photos Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image. The winner of the jury was Ricardo Pinto from Portugal. Second and third place went to French Martin Cerasorb and Pierre Auger, respectively. The results of the voting participants of the forum became the winner of the ILA, Stijelja(Iloi Stichelbaut), second place went to Martin Caruser (Martin Keruzore), third went to Benjamin Sansa (Sans Benjamin). The winner of the vote went Read more

Quantum Racing. Did you doubt it?

Final report Helena Tekinay from Valencia, where he completed the fifth and final regatta in TP52 this season – 52 SUPER SERIES Valencia Sailing Week: © Elena Tekina Unfortunately, on September 23, the final day of the regatta and the season of the 52 Super Series in 2018 – the head of the Race Committee Mary Torrico and failed to start any races. The promised North-East wind, which appeared in the first half of the day, was too light and Read more