Small boats, huge show The new, 7.5 metre Diam 24 trimarans will hit the headlines as they compete in the Spi Ouest-France for the first time.

The Real Club Nautico Barcelona (RCNB) and the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) announces that with passing of the first pre-entry deadline last weekend, 72 teams from 17 countries on four continents have already registered for the 2015 ORC World Championship being held at RCNB over 27 June - 4 July.

It was a long day in Palma with the late coming sea breeze delaying racing. Patience paid off and the second day in the Trofeo Sofia IBEROSTAR provided great racing and allowed to complete the qualification stage.

The second edition of the biennial Rolex Swan Cup Caribbean will be held from 3-7 March and hosted by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) from its base in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. A fleet of more than twenty Swan yachts will take part.

The iconic sea-faring City of Plymouth (UK), known as Britain’s Ocean City, has won the bid to host the start of the next edition of The Transat in 2016, ensuring that The Transat, the successor for professional sailors to the original solo race across the North Atlantic that was born as the OSTAR in 1960, will start from its historic ‘home’ of Plymouth on Sunday, 8th May 2016.

The majesty of the J Class era will return to the America’s Cup eighty years after the class last raced for the oldest trophy in international sport.

After winning both the Vulcain Trophy (Lake Geneva) on its Decision 35 and the 2014 Extreme Sailing Series (global), Alinghi is proud to announce that it will compete in the 2015 Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour.

With more than 110 entries and 1500 competitors, it is a truly international event where X-Yacht owners, families, guests, sponsors and employees come together to celebrate the true spirit of sailing.

Finishing touches were today being put to preparations for the fifth edition of the Loro Piana Caribbean Superyacht Regatta & Rendezvous taking place in Virgin Gorda from 11th to 14th March 2015.

With four months to the start of the 46th La Solitaire du Figaro – Eric Bompard Cachemire, 20 intrepid Figaro skippers have signed up to the 2185 mile, month long solo offshore race.

In a few days, the world’s finest sailing yacht fleet will gather in the pristine waters of St. Barthélemy to participate the St. Barths Bucket Regatta 2015.

When it comes to regatta headlines, nothing beats having Comanche and Rambler 88, the yachting world's two newest and most sophisticated (a.k.a. mind blowing) racing machines, compete head-to-head for the first time ever.

It could be said that challenge to be fully race ready for the new 52 SUPER SERIES season stepped up a gear when Germany's Harm Müller Spreer launched his new Vrolijk designed Platoon in Dubai.

The future of sailing is, quite literally, flying. The catamarans that soared above the waves in the 2013 America’s Cup in San Francisco have taken the sailing world by storm.

Competition at the second edition of the Rolex Swan Cup Caribbean gets underway in Virgin Gorda, the British Virgin Islands tomorrow, Wednesday 4 March.

Dongfeng Race Team claimed a key landmark in the 41-year history of the Volvo Ocean Race on Tuesday when they emphatically won Leg 3 in their home port of Sanya to take the overall lead with six stages to go.