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The sailing season starts in St. Petersburg!

Randall G. Lucchesi

May 30, 2019       The sailing season starts in St. Petersburg!       A press conference is devoted to this, which will be held on June 4 at 14.00 in the Media Center of the Government of St. Petersburg (Zvenigorodskaya St., 22). In 2019, the Northern Capital will host the RS: X (Windsurfing) Junior World Sailing Championship for the first time. In addition, there will be one of the largest yachting festivals of Russia “Baltic Yacht Week”, the stage of the European Champions Read more

World Cup final starts

Randall G. Lucchesi

Yesterday       World Cup final starts       In Marseille (France), the draw of the 2019 World Cup finals begins, in which 325 sailors from 40 countries will take part. The first races are tomorrow. Competitions will be held in the ten current Olympic classes, as well as in kiteboarding, which will debut at the Games-2024. And in Marseille, men and women will compete together. In five types – 49er, 49erFX, Nacra 17 and RS: X for men and women – medal races Read more

Igor Zaretsky starts in November

Randall G. Lucchesi

January 14, 2019       Igor Zaretsky starts in November       Urgent news from Esmeralda OK: "Friends, as a result of consultations with doctors, we are forced to officially announce the following: Igor will not be able to go to sea and continue the race in January. Under the terms of the race, as we have already written, Esmeralda can complete it in the Chichester class at any time – with the same conditions and restrictions that were in effect before stopping in Read more

Starts a famous photo contest!

Randall G. Lucchesi

March 27, 2019       Starts a famous photo contest!       The organizers of the world's largest sailing photography competition – Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2019 – have announced that they are starting work. Works of professional photographers made from September 13, 2018 to October 13, 2019 are allowed to participate in the competition. This year, as the organizers of the contest proudly remind, it is being held on the anniversary – 10th time. Over the past decade, 312 photographers from 47 countries Read more

The European Championship starts!

Randall G. Lucchesi

April 8, 2019       The European Championship starts!       The 50th Trofeo Princesa Sofia IBEROSTAR 2019 regatta has just ended, and tomorrow, in the same place, in Mallorca, the first races of the European Open Windsurfing Championship in the RS: X class will be held. The starting championship promises to be extremely representative: if one of the strongest chose to miss “Princess Sophia”, preparing for “Europe”, now there are practically no “refusers”. For example, in Mallorca, the winners of the Games-2016 in Read more

44Cup starts

Randall G. Lucchesi

April 9, 2019       44Cup starts       Season 2019 is fast picking up speed. Tomorrow, another popular class of ships will join the battle: in the Bay of Kotor (this, we recall, Montenegro) the first races of the sailing series will be held, which is now briefly called 44Cup. © Pedro Martinez / www.sail-world.com In the regatta RC44 Porto Montenegro Cup 2019, which is the starting point of this series (it is held for the 13th time), 9 teams will take part, Read more

The third stage of the World Cup starts

Randall G. Lucchesi

April 15, 2019       The third stage of the World Cup starts       Today in Genoa (Italy) the first races of the third stage of the 2019 World Cup will be held. The yachts of classes 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 will start. The remaining 5 classes will enter the fight on Tuesday. Why only five? It's simple: this time there are no windsurfers among the participants of the cup stage, because in Mallorca, only on Saturday the Open European Championship in Read more

“Friendship” starts

Randall G. Lucchesi

May 1, 2019       “Friendship” starts       The Russian sailing season of cruising yachting opens in Sevastopol on May 1 with the regatta “Friendship 2019” The jubilee, the fifth all-Russian regatta "Friendship" already traditionally opens the sailing season of cruising yachts of Russia. A feature of the competition is participation in the regatta of joint crews from different parts of our country. More than 160 yachtsmen from Moscow and the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Taganrog, Saratov, Novorossiysk, Sochi, Sevastopol and Read more

Starts with a yacht

Randall G. Lucchesi

May 4, 2019       Starts with a yacht       Did you hear the news? James Bond has retired and is just now sailing in Jamaica! Perhaps it is with these shots that the new film will begin (he doesn’t even have a name yet!) About Agent 007 with Daniel Craig in the lead role. In any case, the scene on the yacht (produced by Spirit Yachts), as experts say, has already managed to shoot. The very first. But, they say, Bond's deserved Read more

Starts 44Cup

Randall G. Lucchesi

Season 2019, quickly gaining speed. Tomorrow, another popular class of ships will fight in the Bay of Kotor (which, recall, Montenegro) will be the first sailing race of the series, which now briefly is called 44Cup. © Pedro Martinez/ www.sail-world.com In the RC44 Porto Montenegro Cup 2019, which is the starting point of this series (it is the 13th time), will take part 9 teams, including three under the Russian flag. Here’s the full list: Aleph Racing (fra) – skipper Read more