Racing

Boats racing boats, from the schooner America round the Isle of Wight in 1851 to foiling monohulls at fifty-odd knots. The America's Cup and the trophy that stayed in New York from 1851 until 1983, the J Class, the offshore classics, Cowes and the Fastnet, and one-design fleets on a start line. Where a claim is contested the caption says who is claiming it.

Part of Sailing

175 moments in this segment.

1852 - Schooner America Off New York by James E. Buttersworth. Photographed under sail, 1852. The schooner America was launched from William H. Brown's New York yard on 3 May 1851 for a syndicate led by Commodore John Cox Stevens, and designed by George Steers along the lines of the pilot boat Mary Taylor. On 22 August 1851 she raced fifteen Royal Yacht Squadron yachts round the Isle of Wight and won the RYS £100 Cup by eighteen minutes over a 53 mile course.
1870 - Great international yacht race, August 8, 1870- from the club house, Staten Island, aroun. Photographed 1870. Boats racing boats is where the sport formalised, in seventeenth century Netherlands and then in England from a 1661 wager between two royal vessels from Greenwich to Gravesend and back, one at times steered by Charles II.
1870 - The Sail/Steam Yacht Emily of the New York Yacht Club Observing a Stakes Race between the. Photographed under sail, 1870. The Water Club of Cork of 1720 is the earliest known yacht club, followed by the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815 and the New York Yacht Club in 1844. Yacht comes from the Dutch jacht, a swift light vessel of war, commerce or pleasure.
1871 - New York Yacht Club Race by James Edward Buttersworth, c. 1871, oil on canvas - New Brita. Photographed as preserved, 1871. The Water Club of Cork of 1720 is the earliest known yacht club, followed by the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815 and the New York Yacht Club in 1844. Yacht comes from the Dutch jacht, a swift light vessel of war, commerce or pleasure.
1887 - Yachts Sachem & Puritan. Photographed out of the water, 1887. Puritan and Genesta contested the America's Cup in 1885, part of the long run of defences that reached 24 consecutive from 1870 to 1980. The 132 year figure often quoted describes trophy custody from 1851 to 1983, not an unbroken racing streak, because the Cup sat undefended between 1851 and 1870.
1888 - NYYC fleet in Newport-7. The New York Yacht Club's annual cruise in Newport Rhode Island on August 11th, 1888. The Puritan won the previous day's lap 6 minutes ahead of the Mayflower and 9 minutes ahead of the Volunteer, which is in the foreground of the picture. Volunteer won the America's Cup in 1887 carrying cotton sails. The sailcloth record shows cotton predominant on nineteenth century American yachts, though the widely told claim that America's flat cotton sails beat baggy British flax in 1851 is not supported by the sources used here.
1888 - Sloops Agnes & Volunteer. The Agnes and General Charles Jackson Paine's sloop Volunteer (Edward Burgess design, 1887) in the Eastern Yacht Club's Annual Regatta, June 28th, 1887. Volunteer won the America's Cup in 1887 carrying cotton sails. The sailcloth record shows cotton predominant on nineteenth century American yachts, though the widely told claim that America's flat cotton sails beat baggy British flax in 1851 is not supported by the sources used here.
1888 - Schooner Magic. Photographed out of the water, 1888. Handicap systems including IOR, IMS, IRC, ORC and PHRF rate length, sail area, displacement and hull shape so different boats can race one another. The Yacht Racing Association, founded in 1875, standardised the rules including the flying start still used today.
1888-08-10 - NYYC fleet in Newport-5. The Puritan won the previous day's lap 6 minutes ahead of the Mayflower and 9 minutes ahead of the Volunteer, which is at anchor in the left foreground of the picture. 1888-08-10: Yachts on their cruise. Volunteer won the America's Cup in 1887 carrying cotton sails. The sailcloth record shows cotton predominant on nineteenth century American yachts, though the widely told claim that America's flat cotton sails beat baggy British flax in 1851 is not supported by the sources used here.
1890 - Cowes, R. Y. S. club house, Isle of Wight, England. ; Print no. "11188". Cowes on the Isle of Wight is the home of the Royal Yacht Squadron, founded in 1815, and the water on which the schooner America won the £100 Cup in 1851. The regatta week held there is among the oldest continuously run in the sport.
1890 - Sloops Priscilla, Puritan & Atlantic. Photographed under sail, 1890. Puritan and Genesta contested the America's Cup in 1885, part of the long run of defences that reached 24 consecutive from 1870 to 1980. The 132 year figure often quoted describes trophy custody from 1851 to 1983, not an unbroken racing streak, because the Cup sat undefended between 1851 and 1870.
1891 - Yachts Volunteer & Gracie-1. General Charles jackson Paine's schooner Volunteer (Edward Burgess design, 1887) fouls Joseph P. Earle's sloop Gracie (Abraham A. Schank design, 1868) in the Ogden Goelet Cup, August 7th, 1891. Volunteer leads the schooners, but may lose on a foul. Volunteer won the America's Cup in 1887 carrying cotton sails. The sailcloth record shows cotton predominant on nineteenth century American yachts, though the widely told claim that America's flat cotton sails beat baggy British flax in 1851 is not supported by the sources used here.
1893 - Yachts Valkyrie II & Vigilant-01. The Valkyrie II lost every race. How the race was won. Valkyrie II and Valkyrie III were Lord Dunraven's British America's Cup challengers of 1893 and 1895, beaten by the Herreshoff defenders Vigilant and Defender. The Cup ran 24 consecutive successful defences from 1870 to 1980.
1895 - Jsj-224-valkyrie iii. The Dunraven syndicate's cutter Valkyrie III in drydock in Brooklyn, NY in 1895. She was the British challenger for the America's Cup at the time. Valkyrie II and Valkyrie III were Lord Dunraven's British America's Cup challengers of 1893 and 1895, beaten by the Herreshoff defenders Vigilant and Defender. The Cup ran 24 consecutive successful defences from 1870 to 1980.
1895 - Cutter Valkyrie III-2. the 90 footer Valkyrie III (George Lennox Watson, 1895) was the Lord Dunraven syndicate's challenger for the 1895 America's Cup. Valkyrie II and Valkyrie III were Lord Dunraven's British America's Cup challengers of 1893 and 1895, beaten by the Herreshoff defenders Vigilant and Defender. The Cup ran 24 consecutive successful defences from 1870 to 1980.
1895 - Yacht Defender. The sloop Defender, which won the 1895 America's Cup challenge. Her skipper and designer, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, is climbing aboard. Nathanael Herreshoff was known as Captain Nat, and ran the engineering side of the Bristol yard while his blind brother John Brown Herreshoff ran the business. The firm was founded in 1878 and its Herreshoff 12½, a 16 foot keelboat, is still built and raced today.
1899 - Jsj-750-Columbia Shamrock 1899. Yachts Columbia and Shamrock, the contestants in the 1899 America's Cup. Columbia defended the America's Cup twice, in 1899 and again in 1901, one of the five Herreshoff defenders that were never beaten. Every winning Cup yacht from 1893 to 1934 came out of the Bristol, Rhode Island yard.
1899 - Cutter Shamrock I-14. the 1899 America's Cup challenger Shamrock crossing the finishing line. Sir Thomas Lipton mounted five America's Cup challenges, all with yachts named Shamrock, and lost every one. Reliance, the Herreshoff defender of 1903, beat Shamrock III in the third of them.
1899 - Columbia & Shamrock I-1. the 90-footers Columbia and Shamrock in the 1899 America's Cup after the start, Oct. 19, '99. Columbia defended the America's Cup twice, in 1899 and again in 1901, one of the five Herreshoff defenders that were never beaten. Every winning Cup yacht from 1893 to 1934 came out of the Bristol, Rhode Island yard.
1901 - Detroit Publishing - Shamrock II (Yacht). Photographed under sail, 1901. Every winning America's Cup yacht from 1893 to 1934 was built at the Herreshoff yard at Bristol, Rhode Island.
1901 - 1901 America's Cup trials. Constitution, Columbia, and Independence, one minute after start, in the 1901 America's Cup defender selection trials. Columbia defended the America's Cup twice, in 1899 and again in 1901, one of the five Herreshoff defenders that were never beaten. Every winning Cup yacht from 1893 to 1934 came out of the Bristol, Rhode Island yard.
1901 - Shamrock II & Columbia. the Shamrock II & Columbia in the 1901 America's Cup just after the start, Oct. 1, 1901. Columbia defended the America's Cup twice, in 1899 and again in 1901, one of the five Herreshoff defenders that were never beaten. Every winning Cup yacht from 1893 to 1934 came out of the Bristol, Rhode Island yard.
1901 - Sloop Constitution-1. the 90 footer Constitution (Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, 1901) was the August Belmont syndicate's candidate for the 1901 America's Cup defence. Nathanael Herreshoff was known as Captain Nat, and ran the engineering side of the Bristol yard while his blind brother John Brown Herreshoff ran the business. The firm was founded in 1878 and its Herreshoff 12½, a 16 foot keelboat, is still built and raced today.
1901 - Sloop Independence-2. the 90 footer sloop Independence (Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, 1901) was Thomas W. Lawson's candidate for the 1901 America's Cup defence. Independence and Constitution were built as candidates for the 1901 America's Cup defence, which Columbia won for the second time. The Cup itself was deeded to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 as a perpetual challenge cup for friendly competition between foreign countries.
1901 - Another Case Where the Constitution Will Not Follow the Flag. Uncle Sam and John Bull compete in the International Yacht Race. Uncle Sam's Constitution is pulling ahead of Bull's Shamrock. The United States had beaten Britain in the America's Cup yacht race that year. Boats racing boats is where the sport formalised, in seventeenth century Netherlands and then in England from a 1661 wager between two royal vessels from Greenwich to Gravesend and back, one at times steered by Charles II.
1901 - America's Cup, the Independence, 1901. Photographed under sail, 1901. Boats racing boats is where the sport formalised, in seventeenth century Netherlands and then in England from a 1661 wager between two royal vessels from Greenwich to Gravesend and back, one at times steered by Charles II.
1901 - America's Cup, schooners race, 1901. , showing racing yachts during the America's Cup Race, ca. 1901. [PD] This picture is in the public domain. Boats racing boats is where the sport formalised, in seventeenth century Netherlands and then in England from a 1661 wager between two royal vessels from Greenwich to Gravesend and back, one at times steered by Charles II.
1903 - Reliance & Shamrock III at Starting Line. Reliance (right) and Shamrock III (left) at starting line in the 1903 America's Cup, first day of racing, in 15 knots of wind. Reliance would win by 7 minutes and 9 seconds corrected time. Sir Thomas Lipton mounted five America's Cup challenges, all with yachts named Shamrock, and lost every one. Reliance, the Herreshoff defender of 1903, beat Shamrock III in the third of them.
1903 - Crew handling rigging on the yacht Reliance, winner of 1903 America's Cup. Photographed in detail on deck, 1903. Reliance was Nathanael Herreshoff's 1903 America's Cup defender and the last and largest of his five undefeated designs. She beat Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock III, the third of his five losing challenges.
1903 - Shamrock III in Drydock. Photographed out of the water, 1903. Sir Thomas Lipton mounted five America's Cup challenges, all with yachts named Shamrock, and lost every one. Reliance, the Herreshoff defender of 1903, beat Shamrock III in the third of them.
1903 - President and Mrs. Roosevelt and guests - noted officers and yachtsmen, at Naval review. Photographed in detail on deck, 1903. Every winning America's Cup yacht from 1893 to 1934 was built at the Herreshoff yard at Bristol, Rhode Island.
1903 - Reliance & Shamrock III. Photographed under sail, 1903. Every winning America's Cup yacht from 1893 to 1934 was built at the Herreshoff yard at Bristol, Rhode Island.
1903 - Reliance & Shamrock III-1. 1903, photographed under sail. Sir Thomas Lipton mounted five America's Cup challenges, all with yachts named Shamrock, and lost every one. Reliance, the Herreshoff defender of 1903, beat Shamrock III in the third of them.
1903 - Reliance & Shamrock III-2. the Reliance and Shamrock III nearing finish in the America's Cup, August 25th, 1903. Every winning America's Cup yacht from 1893 to 1934 was built at the Herreshoff yard at Bristol, Rhode Island.
1925 - Yacht MORNA sailing on Sydney Harbour. (cropped), 1925, photographed alongside in port. The Sydney to Hobart starts on Boxing Day inside Sydney Harbour and runs roughly 630 nautical miles south. The first edition in 1945 had nine starters; the eightieth in 2025 had 128 starters and 93 finishers, and Min River won on corrected time as the first two handed yacht and the first with a female skipper to win overall.
1930-04 - Launch of Yacht Shamrock V at Gosport. The Countess of Shaftesbury launches Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V at Gosport on 17 April 1930. Shamrock V was Lipton's fifth and last America's Cup challenger and the first British yacht built to the J Class rule. She lost the 1930 match to Enterprise four races to none.
1931-07 - Yachts Start Race Across Atlantic. Ten yachts cross the line at Newport, Rhode Island, on 16 July 1931 bound for Plymouth, with British boats among them. The 1931 Transatlantic Race was won by Dorade, sailed by Olin and Rod Stephens, who were then in their twenties. Olin Stephens went on to design eight America's Cup defenders.
1937 - Sailing. American defender trials for the 1937 America's Cup, shot 17 June 1937. Selection trials decided which boat would meet the British challenger, a process that ran through every Cup cycle of the J Class years. The J Class was built to Nathanael Herreshoff's Universal Rule.
1937-08 - Yacht Racing. Movietone covers the 1937 America's Cup match between Harold Vanderbilt's Ranger and T.O.M. Sopwith's Endeavour, filmed 12 August 1937. Ranger was the last of the ten J Class yachts built to race for the Cup, and the J Class raced for it from 1930 to 1937. The camera holds on Sopwith aboard Philante and on Vanderbilt working his own afterguard.
1952 - COWES REGATTA (Duke's Yachting Holiday). Cowes Regatta in 1952, filmed by Movietone. The Royal Yacht Squadron was founded at Cowes in 1815 and the week remains the anchor of the British yachting calendar. Crowds line the Isle of Wight shore as the fleet works the Solent.
1958 - YACHT RACING. A second Movietone yacht racing item from 1958. Newsreel coverage of this period is the main moving-image record of club and class racing before television took the sport on. The camera positions are from a chase boat and from shore.
1958 - America'S Cup. Movietone marks a century since the schooner America beat fifteen yachts around the Isle of Wight in 1851, winning the cup that has carried her name ever since, and observes that no challenger had yet taken it from the United States. The item recalls King George V and the future Duke of Windsor sailing Britannia, a boat that never raced for the Cup. The trophy stayed in American hands from 1851 until 1983, and the defence record is 24 consecutive matches from 1870 to 1980.
1958 - YACHT RACING. Eighteen-footers racing at Brisbane in a squally twenty-knot wind on 23 January 1958, the Queensland boat Jenny 6 leading throughout. The 18 ft Skiff is the Australian development class from which Julian Bethwaite later drew the 49er. Enormous sail area on a light open hull, sailed by a crew constantly on the edge of capsize.
1960 - 12 Metre Yachts Aka 12' Meter Racing (1960). Pathé films 12 Metre class racing at Cowes Week in 1960, with preparations aboard Sceptre. The 12 Metres replaced the J Class as the America's Cup boat after the Second World War and stayed until 1987. The commentary follows the navigator over his charts before the start gun.
1960 - THE HOBART RACE. Movietone covers the Sydney to Hobart race around 1960. Wild Oats XI later took nine line-honours wins between 2005 and 2018, and Freya, Love & War and Ichi Ban each hold three corrected-time victories. The race record stands to LDV Comanche, 1d 09h 15m 24s in 2017.
1962 - The Prince At The Helm. Eight minutes of colour cutting material from Cowes Week on 13 August 1962, with yachts racing, crews at work and the crowds ashore, including Uffa Fox and the Countess of Leicester. Cowes Week has been sailed in the Solent since 1826. The reel is unedited shot material rather than a cut story.
1962 - THE PRINCE AT THE HELM (IN COLOUR). Cowes Week on 13 August 1962, with the designer Uffa Fox sailing Prince Philip's Flying Fifteen Coweslip. The reel names the one-design fleets then racing in the Solent: Fireflies, Dragons, Flying Fifteens, Swallows, Darings and Solent Sunbeams. Colour footage of a mixed dinghy and keelboat regatta at its mid-century peak.
1964 - Atlantic Yacht Race. Competitors gather at Millbay Docks, Plymouth, on 20 May 1964 before the second single-handed transatlantic race, among them Eric Tabarly with Pen Duick II, David Lewis with the catamaran Rehu Moana and Francis Chichester with Gipsy Moth III. Tabarly won the race in 27 days, beating Chichester, who had won the first running in 1960. Movietone films Chichester over his chart and Lewis demonstrating his self-steering.
1965 - SYDNEY - HOBART YACHT RACE - SOUND. A Sydney to Hobart newsreel item with sound, from the mid-1960s. Bass Strait is the part of the course that decides the race and has produced its worst weather. In 1998 an intense low struck the fleet and six sailors died.
1966 - Can818 World Championship Yacht Racing. King Olav of Norway races in the 5.5 Metre world championship off Denmark and Sweden on 4 August 1966. Olav sailed competitively for decades and had won Olympic gold in the 6 Metre class in 1928. The 5.5 Metre was a development class raced at the Olympics from 1952 to 1968.
1967 - CAN947 AMERICA'S CUP CHALLENGE. An America's Cup challenge item from the AP newsfilm library, dated 1967. Australia challenged with Dame Pattie that year against the American defender Intrepid. The New York Yacht Club retained the trophy.
1969 - /7/69 World 5.5 Yacht Races. Thomas Nathorst of Sweden wins the first of seven races in the 5.5 Metre world championship on 19 July 1969. The 5.5 Metre was a development class built to a formula rather than a one-design, and it was an Olympic class from 1952 to 1968. AP filmed the opening race of the series.
1969 - SYND27/12/69 SYDNEY TO HOBART YACHT RACE. The Sydney to Hobart start, filmed 27 December 1969. The race starts on Boxing Day each year from Sydney Harbour. Spectator craft crowd the fleet as it heads for the heads.
1970 - SYND 25/9/70 GRETEL WINS IN AMERICA'S CUP FOURTH RACE. The Australian challenger Gretel II beats the defender Intrepid in the fourth race of the 1970 America's Cup, filmed 24 September 1970. Australia did not win the Cup itself until 1983, when Australia II beat Liberty 4-3 at Newport. A rare instance of a challenger taking a race off the New York Yacht Club in that era.
1970 - SYND 5/1/70 SYDNEY HOBART YACHT RACE AERIALS. Aerial footage of the Sydney to Hobart fleet, filmed 5 January 1970. Aerials are the only way to show the scale of an offshore fleet at sea and were expensive enough that newsreels shot them rarely. The boats are working south across Bass Strait.
1970 - YACHT RACE. A Movietone yacht race item from around 1970. Newsreel cameramen worked from press launches, which is why the footage sits low to the water and close to the fleet. The reel runs without a named event.
1970 - SYND 31 08 70 FINAL TRIALS OF AMERICA'S CUP SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP. Final defender trials for the 1970 America's Cup, filmed 31 August 1970 off Newport, Rhode Island. The New York Yacht Club held the Cup continuously from 1851 until 1983, a span of 132 years of trophy custody. Twelve Metres working upwind in the trial series.
1970 - BRITISH STEEL YACHT. Chay Blyth's steel-hulled ketch British Steel is launched at Dartmouth, filmed 27 August 1970, before his round the world voyage against the prevailing winds. Blyth had rowed the Atlantic and started the 1968 Golden Globe with no sailing experience at all, retiring at East London that September. He completed the westabout circumnavigation in 1970-71 and later founded the Global Challenge race.
1970 - SYND 2/1/70 END OF THE SYDNEY HOBART YACHT RACE. The end of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, filmed 2 January 1970. The race was created in 1945 when Captain John Illingworth RN suggested turning Peter Luke's planned cruise into a race, and the first edition had nine starters. The course runs about 630 nautical miles from Sydney Harbour down to the Derwent.
1971 - SYND 29/05/71 SAIL BARGES RACE AT SOUTHEND. Sailing barges race at Southend, filmed 29 May 1971. The Thames sailing barge is a spritsail-rigged flat-bottomed coastal freighter that raced commercially crewed long after steam had taken the trade. Barge matches on the Thames estuary continue as a preservation event.
1972 - SPEED RECORD SAILING BOAT. A speed record sailing boat item from Movietone, around 1972. The World Sailing Speed Record Council was founded in 1972 at the first Weymouth Speed Week. The outright 500 m record now stands to Vestas Sailrocket 2, Paul Larsen, at 65.45 knots off Walvis Bay on 24 November 2012.
1972 - SINGLE HANDED YACHT RACE. A single-handed yacht race item from Movietone, around 1972. The 1972 edition of the transatlantic race was won by Alain Colas. Four years later Colas sailed the 236 ft four-masted schooner Club Mediterranee single-handed in the same race.
1972 - SYND 15-9-72 FINISH OF THE PLYMOUTH TO NEWPORT, TRANSATLANTIC YACHT RACE. The finish of the Plymouth to Newport transatlantic race, filmed 15 September 1972. The single-handed transatlantic race was conceived by Herbert "Blondie" Hasler in 1956 and first run in 1960 by the Royal Western Yacht Club. Chichester won that first edition in the 40 ft Gipsy Moth III in 40d 12h 30m.
1974 - ROUND BRITAIN YACHT RACE - COLOUR. Yachts of many designs leave Plymouth for the start of the Round Britain Yacht Race on 15 July 1974, contending with an intermittent wind as they set course for Ireland. Plymouth was the start port for most British offshore racing of the period. Colour newsreel of a mixed offshore fleet.
1974 - World Yachting Championships. AP's silent coverage of a world yachting championship on 27 July 1974. The record carries no class name or venue beyond the date. The footage is racing rather than sail training.
1974 - SYND 18 9 74 US retains America's Cup.. The United States retains the America's Cup against an Australian challenger, filmed 18 September 1974. This was the first Cup match sailed in aluminium-hulled Twelve Metres. The defence run from 1870 reached twenty-four consecutive successful defences by 1980.
1975 - Pen Duick III, Spain 1975. The large dark hulled yacht is Pen Duick 3, it won the 1967 Sydney to Hobart. It had no motor & was sailed backwards into its pen. Éric Tabarly won the OSTAR in 1964 in the purpose built Pen Duick II and again in 1976 in Pen Duick VI. His family acquired the original gaff cutter Pen Duick in 1938 and he restored it, naming every successor after it.
1975 - SYND 16 7 75 QUARTER TON WORLD CUP YACHT RACE. The Quarter Ton World Cup, filmed 16 July 1975. The Ton classes raced small offshore boats to a rating band rather than a single design, one of several handicap systems alongside IOR, IMS, IRC, ORC and PHRF. Level rating racing was at its height in the mid-1970s.
1977 - SYND 30 8 77 AMERICAS CUP ELMINATION ROUND. America's Cup elimination racing filmed 30 August 1977 off Newport. Challenger and defender selection series each ran for weeks before the match itself. Twelve Metres under spinnaker on a downwind leg.
1978 - Manureva StMalo 1978-11 2. Manureva, the trimaran of Alain Colas. Photo taken in Saint-Malo (France) a few days before the start of the first transatlantic yacht race, «Route du Rhum». Éric Tabarly won the OSTAR in 1964 in the purpose built Pen Duick II and again in 1976 in Pen Duick VI. His family acquired the original gaff cutter Pen Duick in 1938 and he restored it, naming every successor after it.
1978 - Manureva StMalo 1978-11 1. Manureva, the trimaran of Alain Colas. Photo taken in Saint-Malo (France) a few days before the start of the first transatlantic yacht race, «Route du Rhum». Pen Duick is Breton for coal tit.
1978 - Olympus StMalo 1978-11 1. Olympus photo, the trimaran skipped by Mike Birch during the first «Route du Rhum». France has supplied 642 of 768 total starters across all editions, and 33 women have competed since 1978.
1978 - M30 1978 Bretagne, préparatifs de la Route du Rhum à Saint-Malo, trimaran Disque d'Or II. Photographed 1978. The Route du Rhum is a solo transatlantic race run every four years in November from Saint-Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe. Michael Birch won the first edition in 1978 in Olympus Photo by 98 seconds over Michel Malinovsky, one of the closest finishes in ocean racing.
1980 - SYND 29 8 80 AMERICA CUP YACHT FINALISTS ARE IN DRYDOCK IN NEWPORT. America's Cup finalists in drydock at Newport, filmed 29 August 1980. Hauling a Twelve Metre exposes the keel, the part of a Cup boat teams guarded most closely. Three years later the winged keel on Australia II, designed by Ben Lexcen, ended the longest defence run in sport.
1980 - SYND 21 8 80 AMERICAS CUP YACHT RACE FINALS. Final round-robin defender trials for the 1980 America's Cup, filmed 21 August 1980, with racing between Freedom and Clipper abandoned for bad weather and rough seas. 1980 was the last successful New York Yacht Club defence. Australia II took the Cup three years later.
1980 - SYND 31 8 80 YACTH RACING SCENES FROM THE AMERICAS CUP. Racing scenes from the 1980 America's Cup, filmed 31 August 1980 off Newport, Rhode Island. This was the final year of the New York Yacht Club's twenty-four consecutive defences, which had run since 1870. Twelve Metre yachts on the Rhode Island Sound course.
1980 - UNUSED 17 8 80 AMERICAS CUP YACHT TRIALS CONTINUE. Unused AP footage of America's Cup trials continuing, filmed 17 August 1980. Unused rushes carry the material a news cutter discarded, which is often the calmer and longer sailing footage. Twelve Metres manoeuvring before a start.
1987 - Kookaburra III KA-15 (12m JI, 1987), arriere droit. Photographed alongside in port, 1987. Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes 87 beat Kookaburra III 4-0 at Fremantle in 1987. Team New Zealand's Black Magic then beat Young America 5-0 in 1995, carrying the Cup to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for the first time.
1994 - AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY TO HOBART YACHT RACE FINISHES. Finishers arriving at Hobart in the mid-1990s. The finish is on the Derwent at Hobart, and boats trickle in for days after the leaders. Constitution Dock fills with the fleet as it arrives.
1994 - AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY TO HOBART YACHT RACE. AP coverage of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in the mid-1990s. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has organised the race since 1945. Handicap systems let boats of very different size race one another on corrected time.
1994 - AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY TO HOBART YACHT RACE. A longer AP item on the Sydney to Hobart from the mid-1990s. The fleet crosses Bass Strait in the first two days, which is where the race is usually won or lost. Boats are shown both at the Sydney start and on the Derwent.
1995 - AUSTRALIA: 51ST SYDNEY TO HOBART YACHT RACE. The 51st Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, filmed for AP in 1995. By the mid-1990s the race drew a fleet of well over a hundred boats each Boxing Day. Line honours and corrected time are two separate contests within the same race.
2001 - Waterspout hits Sydney to Hobart yacht race. A waterspout crosses the Sydney to Hobart course, filmed by AP. Sudden local weather is a standing feature of the race and of the Tasman generally. The fleet sails on around it.
2003 - Swiss celebrate winning the America Cup yacht race. Supporters at the Geneva Nautical Club celebrate Alinghi's America's Cup win, filmed 2 March 2003. Alinghi beat Team New Zealand 5-0 at Auckland and took the Cup to the Societe Nautique de Geneve, a landlocked country. Alinghi defended successfully at Valencia in 2007, beating Team New Zealand 5-2.
2005 - Sydney Hobart 2005 Wild Oats crew. 2005, photographed under sail. Wild Oats XI holds nine line honours wins in the Sydney to Hobart, taken in 2005 to 2008, 2010, 2012 to 2014 and 2018. On corrected time the record is held jointly by Freya, Love & War and Ichi Ban with three each.
2006 - 12-metre class America's Cup sailboats, Auckland - 1120. IACC class America's Cup sailboats in the Westhaven Bay Auckland, New Zealand. The 12 metre class carried the America's Cup from 1958 until 1987, the era in which Australia II beat Liberty 4-3 at Newport in 1983 to end the New York Yacht Club's 132 year custody of the trophy.
2007 - Wild oats xi city index leopard skandia going through heads. Sydney to Hobart yacht Race 2007 - Wild Oats XI, followed by City Index Leopard and Skandia going through Sydney heads. Wild Oats XI holds nine line honours wins in the Sydney to Hobart, taken in 2005 to 2008, 2010, 2012 to 2014 and 2018. On corrected time the record is held jointly by Freya, Love & War and Ichi Ban with three each.
2008 - Cowes Yacht Haven during Cowes Week 2008. 2008. Cowes on the Isle of Wight is the home of the Royal Yacht Squadron, founded in 1815, and the water on which the schooner America won the £100 Cup in 1851. The regatta week held there is among the oldest continuously run in the sport.
2009 - Alinghi V Ouchy. 2009, photographed alongside in port. Alinghi beat Team New Zealand 5-0 at Auckland in 2003 and carried the America's Cup to the Société Nautique de Genève, making landlocked Switzerland the holder. The team defended 5-2 against Team New Zealand at Valencia in 2007 before losing the 2010 Deed of Gift match to BMW Oracle Racing.
2009 - Alinghi V Ouchy 2. 2009, photographed alongside in port. Alinghi beat Team New Zealand 5-0 at Auckland in 2003 and carried the America's Cup to the Société Nautique de Genève, making landlocked Switzerland the holder. The team defended 5-2 against Team New Zealand at Valencia in 2007 before losing the 2010 Deed of Gift match to BMW Oracle Racing.
2009 - BMW Oracle BOR90. BMW Oracle racing BOR 90 trials off San Diego, pictured with its sail rig, instead of its wing-sail rig. BMW Oracle Racing's 90 foot trimaran USA-17 beat Alinghi 5 two races to nil in the 2010 Deed of Gift match at Valencia, making the Golden Gate Yacht Club the defender of the America's Cup.
2009 - BMW Oracle BOR 90 B. Photographed under sail, 2009. BMW Oracle Racing's 90 foot trimaran USA-17 beat Alinghi 5 two races to nil in the 2010 Deed of Gift match at Valencia, making the Golden Gate Yacht Club the defender of the America's Cup.
2009 - BMW ORACLE Racing 90 in Port of San Diego. Photographed alongside in port, 2009. BMW Oracle Racing's 90 foot trimaran USA-17 beat Alinghi 5 two races to nil in the 2010 Deed of Gift match at Valencia, making the Golden Gate Yacht Club the defender of the America's Cup.
2010 - Alinghi 5's Mast. Imatges de València en 2010, durant la 33 Copa de l'Amèrica de Vela. Alinghi beat Team New Zealand 5-0 at Auckland in 2003 and carried the America's Cup to the Société Nautique de Genève, making landlocked Switzerland the holder. The team defended 5-2 against Team New Zealand at Valencia in 2007 before losing the 2010 Deed of Gift match to BMW Oracle Racing.
2010 - Hamilton Island Holiday 2010. 2010. Wild Oats XI holds nine line honours wins in the Sydney to Hobart, taken in 2005 to 2008, 2010, 2012 to 2014 and 2018. On corrected time the record is held jointly by Freya, Love & War and Ichi Ban with three each.
2010 - Gitana 13. Photographed alongside in port, 2010. Charles Caudrelier set the Route du Rhum record of 6 days 19 hours 47 minutes 25 seconds aboard Edmond de Rothschild in 2022. The same programme's Maxi Edmond de Rothschild holds the Fastnet multihull record of 28 hours 2 minutes 26 seconds, set by Franck Cammas in 2019, the first sub thirty hour multihull run.
2010 - BMW Oracle o. 2010, photographed under sail. BMW Oracle Racing's 90 foot trimaran USA-17 beat Alinghi 5 two races to nil in the 2010 Deed of Gift match at Valencia, making the Golden Gate Yacht Club the defender of the America's Cup.
2010 - Cowes Esplanade during Cowes Week 2010. The Esplanade, Cowes, Isle of Wight seen during Cowes Week 2010. Many people can be seen standing along the esplanade, watching yachts racing. Cowes on the Isle of Wight is the home of the Royal Yacht Squadron, founded in 1815, and the water on which the schooner America won the £100 Cup in 1851. The regatta week held there is among the oldest continuously run in the sport.
2010 - Yachts racing at Cowes Week 2010 10. Various yachts racing in the Solent off Cowes, Isle of Wight, during Cowes Week 2010. The photograph was taken from along the Esplanade (not to be confused with Princes Esplande). Cowes on the Isle of Wight is the home of the Royal Yacht Squadron, founded in 1815, and the water on which the schooner America won the £100 Cup in 1851. The regatta week held there is among the oldest continuously run in the sport.
2011 - Extreme 40 Emirates Team New Zealand at Cowes Week 2011. Photographed under sail, 2011. Team New Zealand's Black Magic beat Young America 5-0 in 1995, taking the America's Cup to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for the first time. The squadron holds it again after wins of 7-1 at Bermuda in 2017, 7-3 at Auckland in 2021 and 7-2 at Barcelona in 2024, with the 38th match scheduled for Naples.
2011 - America's Cup, Plymouth - Artemis leading past Drake's Island. The Artemis Racing yacht leading the America's Cup fleet, past Drake's Island during the fleet race on 2011-09-11. Team New Zealand's Black Magic beat Young America 5-0 in 1995, taking the America's Cup to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for the first time. The squadron holds it again after wins of 7-1 at Bermuda in 2017, 7-3 at Auckland in 2021 and 7-2 at Barcelona in 2024, with the 38th match scheduled for Naples.
2011 - Extreme 40 Luna Rossa at Cowes Week 2011 2. Photographed under sail, 2011. Prada's Luna Rossa lost 5-0 to Team New Zealand at Auckland in 2000 and returned as Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli to lose the 2021 match at Auckland 7-3, again to Emirates Team New Zealand, this time in AC75 foiling monohulls.
2011 - Extreme 40 Groupe Edmond de Rothschild at Cowes Week 2011 2. Photographed under sail, 2011. Charles Caudrelier set the Route du Rhum record of 6 days 19 hours 47 minutes 25 seconds aboard Edmond de Rothschild in 2022. The same programme's Maxi Edmond de Rothschild holds the Fastnet multihull record of 28 hours 2 minutes 26 seconds, set by Franck Cammas in 2019, the first sub thirty hour multihull run.
2011 - Wild Oats XI about to finish 2011 Sydney to Hobart. Photographed 2011. Wild Oats XI holds nine line honours wins in the Sydney to Hobart, taken in 2005 to 2008, 2010, 2012 to 2014 and 2018. On corrected time the record is held jointly by Freya, Love & War and Ichi Ban with three each.
2011 - America's Cup, Plymouth - Oracle Coutts and Tinside. The Oracle Racing yacht, skippered by Russell Coutts, passing Tinside Pool on Plymouth Hoe. This was after the conclusion of the America's Cup fleet race on 2011-09-11. Russell Coutts founded SailGP with Larry Ellison in 2018 and is its chief executive. The circuit's identical F50 foiling catamarans took the technology proven in the America's Cup and turned it into a one design series.
2012 - G-LA841-312-Americas Cup. Photographed under sail, 2012. Prada's Luna Rossa lost 5-0 to Team New Zealand at Auckland in 2000 and returned as Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli to lose the 2021 match at Auckland 7-3, again to Emirates Team New Zealand, this time in AC75 foiling monohulls.
2012 - Ben Ainslie moments after winning a 2012 Olympic Gold in Weymouth. Photographed under sail, 2012. INEOS Britannia won the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2024 to become the America's Cup challenger, then lost the match 7-2 to Emirates Team New Zealand at Barcelona. Their AC75 Britannia recorded 55.5 knots on 1 October 2024, during the challenger final.
2012 - Velsheda - J Class Yacht - J-K7. 2012, photographed under sail. Velsheda is a British J Class yacht of 1933, one of only three originals still surviving by the 1980s. Elizabeth Meyer led the restoration effort that brought the class back, the J Class Association was founded in 2000, and nine boats were racing as of 2017.
2012 - Tonnerres de Brest 2012 Krys464. Photographed 2012. Charles Caudrelier set the Route du Rhum record of 6 days 19 hours 47 minutes 25 seconds aboard Edmond de Rothschild in 2022. The same programme's Maxi Edmond de Rothschild holds the Fastnet multihull record of 28 hours 2 minutes 26 seconds, set by Franck Cammas in 2019, the first sub thirty hour multihull run.
2012 - Ben Ainslie. Most decorated Olympic sailor of all time. INEOS Britannia won the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2024 to become the America's Cup challenger, then lost the match 7-2 to Emirates Team New Zealand at Barcelona. Their AC75 Britannia recorded 55.5 knots on 1 October 2024, during the challenger final.
2013 - LouisVuittonCup. Emirates Team New Zealand in San Fransisco, CA. Team New Zealand's Black Magic beat Young America 5-0 in 1995, taking the America's Cup to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for the first time. The squadron holds it again after wins of 7-1 at Bermuda in 2017, 7-3 at Auckland in 2021 and 7-2 at Barcelona in 2024, with the 38th match scheduled for Naples.
2013 - Emirates Team New Zealand at the Louis Vuitton Cup 2013. Photographed 2013. Team New Zealand's Black Magic beat Young America 5-0 in 1995, taking the America's Cup to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for the first time. The squadron holds it again after wins of 7-1 at Bermuda in 2017, 7-3 at Auckland in 2021 and 7-2 at Barcelona in 2024, with the 38th match scheduled for Naples.
2013 - AC 72 Team Oracle boats photo Don Ramey Logan. Photographed under sail, 2013. The 2013 America's Cup on San Francisco Bay was sailed in AC72 foiling catamarans, the edition that brought foils into the Cup. Oracle Team USA won 9-8, having started two races down as a penalty for illegal modifications to their AC45s, so they needed eleven wins to New Zealand's nine.
2014 - Route du Rhum 2014 - Multis Ultime. Photographed 2014. The French ocean racing trimarans dominate the outright records. Thomas Coville's Sodebo Ultim 3 took the Jules Verne Trophy in 2026 with 40 days 10 hours 45 minutes 30 seconds, and Coville holds the single-handed transatlantic record of 4 days 11 hours 10 minutes 23 seconds set in July 2017 at an average of 28.35 knots.
2015 - The America's Cup. Photographed under sail, 2015. The Water Club of Cork of 1720 is the earliest known yacht club, followed by the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815 and the New York Yacht Club in 1844. Yacht comes from the Dutch jacht, a swift light vessel of war, commerce or pleasure.
2015 - Kieler Woche 2015 (18). Photographed alongside in port, 2015. Kieler Woche in Germany is one of the largest sailing regattas in the world, running fleets from Olympic dinghy classes to tall ships across a single week in the western Baltic.
2015-07-25 - 2015-07-25 - Americas Cup World Series - Portmouth - Sir Ben Ainslie. Sir Ben Ainslie celebrates the end of Race Two, as his Team BAR finish Day One of the Portsmouth Americas Cup Series with the points lead. Poor weather on Day Two makes this the final result for the regatta. INEOS Britannia won the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2024 to become the America's Cup challenger, then lost the match 7-2 to Emirates Team New Zealand at Barcelona. Their AC75 Britannia recorded 55.5 knots on 1 October 2024, during the challenger final.
2016 - Spindrift 2 aux Glénan. Photographed 2016. Handicap systems including IOR, IMS, IRC, ORC and PHRF rate length, sail area, displacement and hull shape so different boats can race one another. The Yacht Racing Association, founded in 1875, standardised the rules including the flying start still used today.
2017-06-02 - Frustrated Russell Coutts lashes out 3 Sport Video 3 News. A New Zealand television report on Russell Coutts reacting angrily during a 2017 event. Coutts skippered New Zealand to America's Cup wins in 1995 and 2000 and Alinghi in 2003, and by 2017 he was running the Cup's commercial side. The item is a short news clip rather than race coverage.
2017 - Comanche, TRANSPAC 2017 Record Finish. Comanche finishing the 2017 TRANSPAC setting a new record for monohulls. LDV Comanche set the Sydney to Hobart record of 1 day 9 hours 15 minutes 24 seconds in 2017, beating the previous mark by over four hours. As Comanche under Casey Smith she also holds the monohull transatlantic record of 5 days 14 hours 21 minutes 25 seconds set in 2016, an average of 21.44 knots.
2017 - J Class Ranger and crew by Don Ramey Logan. Photographed under sail, 2017. Ranger of 1937 was the last J Class yacht built for the America's Cup and the last defender of the era. The class raced for the Cup from 1930 to 1937 and was never used for it again.
2017 - J Class Yachts Velsheda, Topaz and Svea downwind legs by Don Ramey Logan. Photographed under sail, 2017. Velsheda is a British J Class yacht of 1933, one of only three originals still surviving by the 1980s. Elizabeth Meyer led the restoration effort that brought the class back, the J Class Association was founded in 2000, and nine boats were racing as of 2017.
2017 - Fastnet weekend 2017-115. Photographed under sail, 2017. The Fastnet Race was conceived by Weston Martyr and first run in 1925 with seven entrants, won by Jolie Brise, over 608 nautical miles from Cowes to Plymouth round the Fastnet Rock. From 2021 the finish moved to Cherbourg, extending the course past 700 nautical miles.
2017 - "Mighty Merloe" TRANSPAC 2017. "Mighty Merloe" just after crossing the Diamond Head Finish Line in 2017, setting a new multihull record for the TRANSPAC yacht race. The Transpacific Yacht Race has run since 1906 over roughly 2,225 nautical miles from California to Hawaii, one of the two oldest ocean races still sailed alongside the Newport Bermuda Race founded the same year.
2017 - Fastnet weekend 2017-109. Photographed under sail, 2017. In 2015 the 340 boat limit filled in four minutes and twenty four seconds, and in 2023 a record 424 boats started and 258 finished.
2018 - Route du Rhum 2018 - Sodebo Ultim' - Trimaran MACIF - IDEC SPORT (Saint-Malo) (vue latérale). Photographed 2018. The French ocean racing trimarans dominate the outright records. Thomas Coville's Sodebo Ultim 3 took the Jules Verne Trophy in 2026 with 40 days 10 hours 45 minutes 30 seconds, and Coville holds the single-handed transatlantic record of 4 days 11 hours 10 minutes 23 seconds set in July 2017 at an average of 28.35 knots.
2019 - 'The American Clipper Ship Black Warrior outward Bound' by James Edward Buttersworth. Photographed 2019. Handicap systems including IOR, IMS, IRC, ORC and PHRF rate length, sail area, displacement and hull shape so different boats can race one another. The Yacht Racing Association, founded in 1875, standardised the rules including the flying start still used today.
2021 - Prada Cup Final Race One - Luna Rossa Sails Away!. Photographed under sail, 2021. Prada's Luna Rossa lost 5-0 to Team New Zealand at Auckland in 2000 and returned as Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli to lose the 2021 match at Auckland 7-3, again to Emirates Team New Zealand, this time in AC75 foiling monohulls.
2021 - Prada Cup Final Race One - Luna Rossa Sails past INEOS!. Photographed under sail, 2021. INEOS Britannia won the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2024 to become the America's Cup challenger, then lost the match 7-2 to Emirates Team New Zealand at Barcelona. Their AC75 Britannia recorded 55.5 knots on 1 October 2024, during the challenger final.
2022 - SailGP Season 2 Grand Final - San Francisco - March 2022. Crowd at SailGP Season 2 Grand Final in San Francisco on March 2022. Australia is the most successful team with three titles and Great Britain under Dylan Fletcher took the 2024-25 championship.
2022 - SailGP Season 2 Grand Final - San Francisco - March 2022. Photographed 2022. SailGP was founded in 2018 by Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts and first sailed in 2019, using identical one design F50 foiling catamarans. A France SailGP Team F50 recorded 54 knots at Saint-Tropez in 2022.
2022 - SailGP Season 2 Grand Final - San Francisco - March 2022. Teams racing at SailGP Season 2 Grand Final in San Francisco on March 2022. SailGP was founded in 2018 by Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts and first sailed in 2019, using identical one design F50 foiling catamarans. A France SailGP Team F50 recorded 54 knots at Saint-Tropez in 2022.
2022 - SailGP Season 2 Grand Final - San Francisco - March 2022. Teams racing at SailGP Season 2 Grand Final in San Francisco on March 2022. Australia is the most successful team with three titles and Great Britain under Dylan Fletcher took the 2024-25 championship.
2022 - SailGP Season 2 Grand Final - San Francisco - March 2022. Crowd at SailGP Season 2 Grand Final in San Francisco on March 2022. SailGP was founded in 2018 by Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts and first sailed in 2019, using identical one design F50 foiling catamarans. A France SailGP Team F50 recorded 54 knots at Saint-Tropez in 2022.
2024 - MasterLock Comanche and LawConnect at starting gun 2024. Photographed 2024. LawConnect, owned by Christian Beck, took line honours in the 2024 Sydney to Hobart in 1 day 13 hours 35 minutes 13 seconds. That edition had 104 starters and 74 finishers and was marked by two deaths on the first night.
2024 - LawConnect in the lead, 2024, 1 minute on. In the 2024 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, LawConnect leads Master Lock Comanche after their first turn, one minute into the race. LawConnect, owned by Christian Beck, took line honours in the 2024 Sydney to Hobart in 1 day 13 hours 35 minutes 13 seconds. That edition had 104 starters and 74 finishers and was marked by two deaths on the first night.
2024 - Starting cannons, Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. Photographed under sail, 2024. The Water Club of Cork of 1720 is the earliest known yacht club, followed by the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815 and the New York Yacht Club in 1844. Yacht comes from the Dutch jacht, a swift light vessel of war, commerce or pleasure.
2026-05-29 - \"Can we pull this thing off?\" The New American Challengers | Inside Americas Cup Talks. A discussion with the new American America's Cup challengers about mounting a campaign. The Cup is defended by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, which has held it since 2017. Emirates Team New Zealand won 7-1 at Bermuda in 2017, 7-3 at Auckland in 2021 and 7-2 at Barcelona in 2024.
2026-06-14 - USA & Australia reignite rivalry in the America's Cup | AC38. American and Australian teams renew their America's Cup rivalry for the 38th edition. Australia II ended the New York Yacht Club's run in 1983, beating Dennis Conner's Liberty 4-3 at Newport. Conner took the Cup back at Fremantle in 1987, beating Kookaburra III 4-0.
2026-06-20 - \"A Siege Mentality\": The Reinvention of British America's Cup Challenge GB1 | AC38. The British America's Cup challenge regroups for the 38th Cup after losing the 2024 match. Britain challenged for the first Cup in 1851 and has never won it. INEOS Britannia lost 7-2 to Emirates Team New Zealand at Barcelona.
2026-06-23 - When will a Woman helm an America's Cup AC75? | Inside America's Cup. An America's Cup panel discussion on when a woman will helm an AC75. The Cup has been sailed by all-male afterguards for most of its history, and the Women's America's Cup was introduced alongside the 2024 Barcelona edition. Emirates Team New Zealand beat INEOS Britannia 7-2 in that match.
2026 - RECON | First Sail For La Roche-Posay Racing Team. First sail for the French La Roche-Posay Racing Team's AC75, filmed by the Cup recon unit. An AC75 carries eleven crew plus one optional guest and has no keel at all, its righting moment coming from the canting foil arms. Pre-race simulation for the class suggested speeds around fifty knots.
2026-07-11 - \"To Reach What Looks Impossible\": Inside the French Mission to Conquer the America's Cup | AC38. France's La Roche-Posay Racing Team prepares its 38th America's Cup campaign. French offshore racing is the strongest non-Anglophone thread in the sport, running from Eric Tabarly through the Vendee Globe and the Route du Rhum. A French syndicate has never won the Cup.
2026-08-04 - RECON | Luna Rossa Monthly Sailing Recap. Reconnaissance footage of Luna Rossa's monthly AC75 sailing at Cagliari. Cup teams are required to allow independent recon units to film their training, a rule introduced to level the intelligence gathering. Luna Rossa lost the 2021 match to Emirates Team New Zealand 7-3.
2026-08-11 - Is AI this America's Cup's Secret Weapon?. How America's Cup teams use machine learning in AC75 design, from the Cup's own channel. Cup design has always been a simulation and testing arms race, from Herreshoff's tank work to modern computational fluid dynamics. INEOS Britannia recorded 55.5 knots on day five of the Louis Vuitton Cup Final on 1 October 2024.
2026-08-21 - SailGP’s Craziest Event Ever!?. A SailGP round-up billed as the series' most eventful event. Close-quarters racing between foiling catamarans produces frequent penalties and occasional contact. Umpires rule on the water in real time.
2026-08-22 - 🔥 Germany's NEW Home Race Win in Sassnitz! | 2026 ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix. Germany wins its home SailGP event at Sassnitz. Germany is one of thirteen teams on the SailGP circuit. All thirteen have been privately owned since SailGP sold the New Zealand team in June 2026.
2026-08-22 - 107.63 KPH! NEW SPEED RECORD IN SAILGP. SailGP records 107.63 kph at Sassnitz, a new mark for the series. The outright world sailing speed record over 500 m remains Paul Larsen's 65.45 knots in Vestas Sailrocket 2, set off Walvis Bay on 24 November 2012. Foiling raised achievable speeds across every class after entering the America's Cup in 2013.
2026-08-22 - Day 1 Recap // ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix | Sassnitz 🇩🇪. Day one recap from Sassnitz. Fleet racing on the opening day sets the three qualifiers for the final. Sassnitz sits on Ruegen on the German Baltic coast.
2026-08-22 - Quentin on Breaking SailGP Speed Record | Drivers React | ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix. SailGP drivers react to the new series speed record at Sassnitz. Driver reaction interviews immediately after racing are a staple of the series' own coverage. Russell Coutts is SailGP's chief executive.
2026-08-22 - 175 Years of The America's Cup. The America's Cup organisers mark 175 years since the schooner America won the Royal Yacht Squadron cup around the Isle of Wight on 22 August 1851. America beat fifteen Royal Yacht Squadron yachts by eighteen minutes over a fifty-three-mile course. The trophy was deeded to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 and sat undefended until 1870.
2026-08-23 - Slingsby Talks Momentous Win | Drivers React | ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix. Tom Slingsby talks about a win at Sassnitz. Slingsby drove the Australian team to SailGP's first season championship in 2019 and to two more in 2021-22 and 2022-23. Australia is the most successful team in the series with three titles.
2026-08-23 - FASTEST SAILGP SPEED! | Race A3 in FULL | 2026 ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix. A full SailGP fleet race from Sassnitz in which the series' fastest recorded speed was set. The F50's previous benchmark was 54 knots, set by the France SailGP Team at Saint-Tropez in 2022. Foiling catamarans sail several times the true wind speed on a reach.
2026-08-23 - GROUP A | Extended Highlights | ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix. Extended Group A highlights from Sassnitz. The F50 is a strict one-design, so the racing turns on crew work and tactics rather than on boat speed bought in the design office. Great Britain under Dylan Fletcher took the 2024-25 season championship.
2026-08-23 - Day 2 Recap // ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix | Sassnitz 🇩🇪. Day two recap from the Germany Sail Grand Prix at Sassnitz. Each SailGP event runs fleet racing on day one and finishes with the three-boat final on day two. The recap format is the series' standard daily summary.
2026-08-23 - GROUP B | Extended Highlights | ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix. Extended Group B highlights from the Germany Sail Grand Prix at Sassnitz. SailGP runs two-day events with fleet races and a winner-take-all final, plus a season championship race. Thirteen national teams compete, with Sweden joining in 2026.
2026-08-23 - Tricky Conditioned Final! | 2026 ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix. The winner-take-all final at the Germany Sail Grand Prix, sailed in tricky conditions. Every SailGP event ends with a three-boat final rather than a points total. Light and shifting wind makes foiling catamarans hard to keep flying.
2026-08-23 - Wrapping up the FASTEST SailGP Weekend in History!. A wrap of the fastest SailGP weekend on record at Sassnitz. The series exists to make sailing legible to a broadcast audience, with short courses and identical boats. Its format was designed by Russell Coutts, who has also won the America's Cup as a skipper.
2026-08-24 - Top 10 Fastest Speeds in SailGP. The ten fastest speeds recorded in SailGP to date. The F50's peak speeds sit above fifty knots, several times the true wind speed. These are boat speeds over a short burst, not ratified records.
2026-08-24 - Weekend Highlights | ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix | Sassnitz 🇩🇪. Weekend highlights from the Germany Sail Grand Prix at Sassnitz. SailGP stages events in a different city each round, racing close to shore so spectators can see the boats. Rolex is the series title sponsor.
2026-08-25 - The FASTEST race in #SailGP History // Breaking down Sassnitz. A breakdown of the fastest race in SailGP history at Sassnitz. Baltic conditions at Sassnitz gave the fleet flat water and steady breeze, which is what a foiling catamaran needs for speed. The analysis walks through the telemetry.
2026-08-25 - The Entire Sassnitz SailGP Event in 2 Hours! 🇩🇪. The full Sassnitz SailGP event in two hours, from the series' own channel. SailGP was founded in 2018 by Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts and races identical one-design F50 foiling catamarans. Australia has taken three season championships, in 2019, 2021-22 and 2022-23.
2026-08-26 - 5 Moments You Might Have Missed | ROCKWOOL Germany Sail Grand Prix | Sassnitz. Five moments from the Germany Sail Grand Prix at Sassnitz that the main broadcast missed. Race coverage cuts to the leaders, so most of the fleet's incidents go unseen live. The series posts these as a follow-up each event.
2026-08-27 - 🤩 Speedy Sassnitz in Slow-Motion | SailGP. Slow-motion footage of F50s at Sassnitz. Slow motion is the only way to see what the foils are doing under a boat travelling at fifty knots. The F50 rides on T-foils under each hull plus a rudder elevator.
2026-08-28 - The BEST Mic'd Up Moments in Sassnitz | SailGP. On-board microphone audio from the SailGP fleet at Sassnitz. Every F50 carries crew microphones, which is the closest a viewer gets to how a foiling catamaran is actually sailed. The calls are almost entirely about wing trim and flight height.
2026-09-01 - Diego Botin is changing the rules of Sailing // Sailing As Diego Botin. A profile of Diego Botin, who drove the Spanish SailGP team to the 2023-24 season championship. Botin came through Olympic 49er sailing before moving to the F50. Spain's title broke a run of three consecutive Australian championships.
2026-09-02 - Why Nicolai Thinks Group Racing Favors Fast Teams | SailGP Today. A SailGP analysis segment on whether group racing favours the faster teams. Group racing splits the thirteen-boat fleet so the course is not overcrowded. Course width is a real constraint when boats sail at fifty knots.
2026-09-02 - 🔥 One of the GREATEST Race Finals EVER in SailGP?. A SailGP event final the series rates among its closest. Three boats qualify for the final and the winner takes the event outright. The format compresses a weekend of fleet racing into a single decisive race.
2026-09-04 - Lisa's Walkabout // Spain Sail Grand Prix | Valencia 🇪🇸. A walk around the SailGP technical area at Valencia. The F50s are shipped between venues and reassembled by a central technical team rather than by the individual crews. That shared shore operation is what keeps the boats identical.
2026-09-04 - Only 3 Teams Can Make it! The Battle For the SailGP Grand Final. Three teams remain in contention for the SailGP Grand Final. The season championship is settled in a single winner-take-all race between the top three. That format has decided every SailGP season since 2019.
2026-09-04 - SailGP Countdown: All You Need to Know Ahead of Racing in Valencia. A preview of the Spain Sail Grand Prix at Valencia. SailGP's season runs across multiple continents with the championship decided in a final race. Thirteen teams contest the 2026 season.
2026-09-04 - What It ACTUALLY Takes to Coach a SailGP Team. What coaching a SailGP team involves, from the series' own channel. With identical boats the coaching load shifts entirely onto manoeuvres, starts and data review. Each team runs a small permanent squad between events.
2026-09-05 - Day 1 Recap // Spain Sail Grand Prix | Valencia 🇪🇸. Day one recap from the Spain Sail Grand Prix at Valencia. Valencia's harbour was rebuilt for the 2007 America's Cup and has hosted grand-prix sailing since. The fleet raced inside the outer breakwater.
2026-09-05 - These Are Technical America's Cup Secrets the Teams Can't Share. Designer Juan Kouyoumdjian talks through what actually decides an America's Cup design contest, in an interview for the 38th Cup organisers. The AC75 is a 22.86 m foiling monohull with a soft wingsail, canting T-foil arms and no keel, weighing about 7,600 kg loaded. The 38th Cup is scheduled for Naples with Emirates Team New Zealand defending.
2026-09-05 - Reigning SailGP Champions Under Pressure | Drivers React | Spain Sail Grand Prix. Drivers react under pressure at the Spain Sail Grand Prix in Valencia. Valencia also hosted the 2007 and 2010 America's Cup matches. The reigning champions came into the event needing results to hold their position.