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F18 Raid Worlds 2026

The 2026 F18 Raid World Championship were held past weeks within the Costarmoricaine rannual raid organized by CVB Erquy.

Crown went to Charles and Maxime Hainneville sailing a Goodall Akurra. The long distance raid format had five stages and took place along Côtes d’Armor coastline in Brittany.

All iamges by CVB Erquy.. Complete gallery here

Top Ten Results, below. Complete list at https://cvberquy.org/costa/resultats/2026/

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I had a busy past weeks in the are where I make an actual living and couldn’t maintain the web updated. Also was playing with some local AI offline 3B development. If some expert AI Nerd around let me know.

Today was an offday in Arg so I felt the need to get the web running again so here trying to get up to date with latest events. This Nacra 17 Regatta at future 2028 Olympics venue was worth to have it in the post records.

Seeing Emil Jarudd & Hanna Jonsson’s progress is an eye-opener. The Swedes are aiming high for the 2028 Olympics. Emil has an F18 World Title and went to test foiling A-Class cats. He caught the rhythm fast enough, and we foresee a possible Triple Crown in his future.

Photos by Lexi Pline / US Sailing Team

Report by Alexia Lahoud / Nacra 17 Class Assoc

San Pedro OCR Crowns Three Champions on LA 2028 Olympic Waters in Final Week of Racing

Across 2 weeks of racing, San Pedro OCR gave Olympic-class sailors their first extended opportunity to compete on the waters of the future L.A. 2028 Olympic Games. The 6-day second week brought together 140 competitors from 20 countries, including 27 Olympians and 7 Olympic medalists.

For the sailors who will ultimately return to this venue for next year’s OCR and for the 2028 Games, the results will be only one part of what they take home. The conditions, start-line dynamics, and tactical patterns discovered across the race area and throughout the week will shape their training plans for the 2 years ahead.

Racing concluded Saturday, August 8. Event details, entry lists, results, and schedules can be found at sanpedroocr.org and you can find the regatta on instagram at @SanPedroOCR.

Generous support for the regatta is provided by Capstan, BP Home, American Marine, and the Pacific Environmental Corporation (PENCO). Race Committee and volunteer support is made possible with the help of World Sailing, Los Angeles Yacht Club, Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club, Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club, Balboa Yacht Club, California Yacht Club, Long Beach Yacht Club, and Newport Harbor Yacht Club.

San Pedro OCR is 1 of only 2 major Olympic Class events that take place in the United States.

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In the Nacra 17 Class

the Netherlands’ Willemijn Offerman and Scipio Houtman finished third overall. The Dutch team said they spent much of the week learning rather than chasing results, emphasizing the value of understanding the Olympic venue and experimenting with different approaches.

“Every day is just a little bit different, and recognizing what works and what doesn’t is an important lesson here,” said Houtman.

“The devil is in the detail,” added Offerman.

Their medal capped a week in which the Nacra fleet experienced some of the most intense racing of the regatta, particularly on the inner course.

Great Britain’ s Gimson and Burnet finished second overall, completing one of the most impressive recoveries of the race week. After opening the regatta in second, they endured a difficult stretch that dropped them back to fifth, starting with a UFD on Day 2 and ending with a DSQ on Day 3.

“I feel like we’ve been collected every letter in the alphabet,” Gimson lamented on Wednesday.

Determined not to let the penalties define their week, the Brits mounted a stunning comeback from Thursday forward, completing 8 consecutive top-3 finishes. The work landed them back into second, positioned within a point of the leaders entering the Final, though the class title was ultimately claimed by Sweden’s Emil Järudd and Hanna Jonsson.

Järudd’s and Jonsson’s slow-motion ascent of the podium started with a third place finish on Day 1. They moved to second after Day 3, and eventually took over the outright lead on the fourth day of racing. They entered Sunday’s medal races with a tight 1-point advantage over Gimson and Burnet.

The Swedes held their nerve. After finishing outside the top 3 in the opening race of the Finals, they returned to post a second-place finish in the last race, securing the overall victory.

“You really had to keep your head out of the boat,” said Jonsson. “Just try to fly high and go as fast as you can.”

“It’s the most intense teamwork you can imagine, which makes it really fun,” added Järudd.

The final day also highlighted the sportsmanship that has been a constant throughout San Pedro OCR. American 49erFX sailor Helena Scutt, racing with Paris Porter, attended the awards ceremony to support fellow competitors and cheer on their achievements, despite not finishing on the podium and without an American team among the medalists. Scutt had also attended the previous race week’s closing ceremony to support her friend and U.S. teammate Charlotte Rose after Rose won silver in the ILCA 6.

Top Ten, complete results here

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All images by Joe Woodyear / Nacra 15 Class Association, source N15 FB page here

2026 Nacra 15 Worlds Results

Regatta held this past week, more than 50 youth teams gather at Plymouth this past week to race the 2026 Nacra 15 Worlds. Plenty or races completed and good conditions judging from pics above. No report received from the org or Nacra 15 Class.

After 19 races Italians Mattia di Martino & Nina Cittar won the title with a good gap ahead their fellow Italian team Vargui & Lisci. Third overall for Fontanille & Jean-Albert and fourth for Dylan Tomko & Casey Small.

Dylan son of an avid Texan Catsailor John Tomko, father should be proud having his kid competing in Europe at such level, where the majority of the Nacra 15 fleets are based.

The Italians with this new crown have now a total domination over the current Olympic Catsailing path: N17 Gold Medal, Nacra 17 Worlds, Nacra 17 Youth Worlds and now the Nacra 15 Worlds.

From a quick recall in recent years Argentina had a similar Olympic & ISAF/World Sailing Youth Chanps with Lange-Carranza 2016 Gold Medal and Dante Cittadini-Teresa Romairone winning Nacra 15 Euros, Worlds and Youth Olympics (BA 2018).

But the Italian catsailors are showing an impressive control in the entire Multihull Olympic realm. They just need to crown an F18 World Title too, and in the A-Cats Lambi Cesari is already top 3 contender.

Glad to see the Nacra 15 Fleet having multitude of kids racing cats. Let the Olympic path aside, Catamaran racing is about the only performance dinghy class that you will be able to race your whole life. As for ie 29ers are not for grownups and 49er is Olympic oriented.

Instead after Nacra 15, you can go Olympic path Nacra 17 or just go to the F18 / A-Cats for top perf or still big Hobie 16 fleets, Darts, Tornado, etc you name it. You will be able to sail & race Cats till your 70’s!

Top Nacra 15 Worlds below. Complete results here

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Italian sailors dominated the Nacra 17 Youth worlds, thy already have two winning crews in the senior/open Olympic category. Great job done by the Italian sailing Fed. Argentina had the Youth World & Youth Olympic champ team not long ago but the process was abandoned.

We (the F18 Arg fleet) have requested the local sailing Fed to release the two Nacra 15s they had on land collecting dust, and we’ll try to revamp the project with the kids currently sailing F18s with us.

Never expect others to do the work, when complaining you’d better take action yourself.

Congrats to the Italian Youth squad who also took the Youth 49er title at Medemblik.

Report sent by Nacra 17 Class Assoc – Event results available here

Day Five in Medemblik: World Champions Crowned in the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 Fleets

Italy topped the 49er and Nacra 17 fleets, Poland took the 49erFX crown with a race to spare, and the 2026 Junior World Championship wrapped up with three tight, dramatic finishes

MEDEMBLIK, NETHERLANDS, July 26, 2026 Racing wrapped up today at the 2026 Junior World Championship. Organizers moved the start up earlier than the rest of the week, with the first warning signal going up at 10:30 for the 49er gold fleet, the 49erFX and the 49erFX Open, all three sailing three races to close out the regatta. The battles at the top of several fleets had been tight all week, and the final day was no different.

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Italy’s Federico Figlia di Granara and Caterina Sedmak (ITA 46) were crowned Nacra 17 world champions, a result that surprised nobody given how dominant they had been all week, stringing together close to all ones and twos across the regatta. Heavy rain moved in for the closing races, making for a dramatic finish on the water, but Figlia di Granara and Sedmak had already wrapped up the title with a race to spare, so they were able to sail the final race without needing to push. Figlia di Granara has spent time training alongside Caterina Banti, one half of Italy’s two time Olympic champion pairing, while his regular teammate Ruggero Tita has been tied up with America’s Cup commitments, and picking up some of their speed secrets along the way has clearly paid off. Sedmak has been the engine of the boat all week, and the pair have looked genuinely faster than the rest of the fleet on the foils. Their training partners, Arto Hirsch and Sofia Borgia (ITA 76), backed them up with a great week of their own to finish second, well clear of Switzerland’s Andrea Aschieri and Tine Rossel (SUI 370) in third, a result that shows just how strong Italy was in the Nacra 17 fleet this year.

The 49er silver fleet only managed to complete one race today. The wind built well beyond what had been forecast, capsizes piled up across the fleet, and the race committee made the call to wrap up racing for the silver fleet for the week.

Switzerland’s Henri Rothacher and Noah Strempfer (SUI 434) topped the FX Open fleet from start to finish, holding onto the lead they took on day one all the way through to the final race. The United States’ Samantha Gardner and Noah Nyenhuis (USA 49) held on for second, with fellow Swiss crew Jacob Ryu Bruendler and Thierry Stucki (SUI 515) rounding out the podium in third.

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https://nacra17.org/event/2026-junior-world-championship/#nacra17-results

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Nacra 17Youth Worlds 2026: Day Two in Medemblik

Still breezy but a notch down from yesterday, three more races in the books for every fleet, and a couple of familiar names starting to make their move

MEDEMBLIK, NETHERLANDS, July 23, 2026  The running order flipped today, with the 49er fleet first off the line, yellow and blue groups both racing from 11:00. The wind was still up, just not quite as strong as day one, and once again every fleet got its full three races in without a hitch. Conditions stayed lively out on the water, with teams needing sharp technique to handle the famous Medemblik chop upwind and the strength to hang on through the downwinds.

One theme is already standing out after two days of racing. In three of the four fleets, the current podium is held by two teams from the same national squad, a reminder that sailing is every bit a relative sport and that a great training partner can matter as much as raw talent.

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The Nacra 17 fleet produced the tightest racing of the day, and it turned into a proper battle between Italian training partners. Federico Figlia di Granara and Caterina Sedmak (ITA 46) lead the way with a scoreline of nearly all firsts and seconds, save for one blip in yesterday’s racing. Their training partners and closest challengers, Arto Hirsch and Sofia Borgia (ITA 76), are hot on their heels in second, with Switzerland’s Andrea Aschieri and Tine Rossel (SUI 370) third. France’s Clement Martineau and Eloïse Clabon (FRA 44) sit fourth and Spain’s Daniel Garcia and Nora Garcia (ESP 591) fifth. Sixth placed Lorenzo Sirena and Flavia Maltagliati (ITA 437) have a story of their own today. It is Lorenzo’s birthday, and he happens to be the son of Massimiliano Sirena, the team director and CEO of Luna Rossa’s America’s Cup campaign. Lorenzo and Flavia are a brand new pairing in the Nacra 17 fleet, and sitting sixth ahead of several crews who have been sailing the boat for years is a strong start for two sailors just getting going in the class.

Racing resumes tomorrow at 11:00, with the 49er fleet out first once again for what is also the final day of their preliminary series. After tomorrow’s three races, the top twenty five boats move into the gold fleet, with the rest continuing in silver for the remainder of the week. The other fleets keep racing as a single group all the way through to Sunday. The forecast is calling for noticeably lighter air tomorrow, which could easily shuffle the order at the top.

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Report pics, results sent by Maria Tsaousidou
Class Manager
International Tornado Association

Tornado Worlds 2026

Strong Winds Bring Racing to an Early End as World Champions Are Crowned

The fifth and final day of the 2026 Tornado World Championship in Quiberon was brought to an early close as strong winds exceeding 30 knots swept across the race area, making racing unsafe.

After monitoring the conditions throughout the morning, the Race Committee abandoned all scheduled races, bringing the championship to a conclusion with the results standing as they were at the end of Day 4.

Overall Championship

With no further racing possible, Markus Betz and Nicolas Betz (GER 2) were confirmed as the 2026 Tornado World Champions. The German team moved into the overall lead on Day 4 after a superb series of races and held a narrow advantage to secure the title.

The Czech mixed crew Zdenek Pavlis and Klara Pavlisova (CZE 62) finished as World Championship runners-up, only 3.2 points behind the winners after an outstanding and remarkably consistent regatta.

Australia’s Allan Gamble and Stephen Gamble completed the overall podium in third place, while Michaela Pavlisova and Marek Pavlis (CZE 72) finished fourth overall.

Mixed World Championship

The Mixed World Championship title was claimed by Zdenek Pavlis and Klara Pavlisova (CZE 62), whose second-place finish overall highlighted an exceptional week of sailing.

Second in the Mixed category were Michaela Pavlisova and Marek Pavlis (CZE 72), while Jan Coppens and Marie Coppens (BEL 7) completed the Mixed podium after another consistent championship.

A Championship to Remember

Although the final day offered no racing, the championship had already delivered four days of highly competitive action across twelve races 35′ races.

The Tornado International Class thanks the Société des Régates de Saint-Pierre Quiberon, the Race Committee, Jury, volunteers, partners and competitors for delivering another outstanding World Championship in Quiberon. Congratulations to all the new World Champions and medal winners.

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Pics by Worrell 1000 .

First pic a proper ia enhancement, good enough to use and give this guys and the event a renewed drive. There is a major lack of HQ pics of the Worrell race, someone needs to dig archives or scan printed ones. The incredible legacy of this race must be preserved.

Check below info on the next edition sent by Beverley J Simmons / worrell1000race.com

Worrell 1000 Returns in 2028 for Legacy Run

The organizers of the legendary catamaran race, The Worrell 1000, have announced the event’s return, officially scheduled for 2028.

Following the 2024 event, the organizers elected to take an operational pause to address administrative challenges. Acknowledging a period of silence on public platforms and media channels, the newly reorganized leadership team has spent the interim months quietly executing a top-down restructuring to ensure the race’s long-term survival and integrity.

“We know our community, sponsors, and media partners have been waiting for answers, and we deeply appreciate their patience during this time,” said John Williams, newly appointed Board Member and Race Officer. “We’ve taken the needed time to work on the administrative fundamentals, and we are returning with total structural alignment, absolute transparency, and the organizational support this historic race deserves.”

With a legacy spanning over half a century, the Worrell 1000 remains a cornerstone of the international catamaran racing community. The leadership team is actively re-engaging with past participants, local municipalities, and corporate partners to build a robust, multi-year runway leading up to the 2028 event.

Further details regarding the race’s new roadmap, registration timelines, and logistical updates will be shared during an upcoming Facebook Live broadcast to be announced soon via their official page.

About The Worrell 1000 Race

Born from a bar bet between brothers back in 1974, Mike Worrell had a vision to create a premier catamaran long distance race, known for its demanding courses that would attract the best sailors from around the world. Running annual races from 1976-1989, there was then a 6-year absence, with races returning in 1997 and continuing until 2002. With financial issues, broken promises and the passing of Mike Worrell in 2010, the event faded away. A small group of dedicated sailors and past Worrell race staff successfully revived the event in 2019 and enjoyed additional events in 2022, and 2024, which celebrated 50 years and the “Spark that Lit The Flame”, referencing the 1974 bar bet that started it all. 

To learn more about the event, visit their official website at worrell1000race.com and be sure to like and follow them on social media: Facebook: 

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Instagram: @w1krr

Warmest Regards,

Beverley J Simmons
Worrell 1000 Race
Communications Director

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