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2017 America's Cup
2017 America's Cup (35th edition), Bermuda Great Sound, June 2017: Emirates Team New Zealand, with cyclors and helmsman Peter Burling, beat defender Oracle Team USA 7-1 to win the Auld Mug a third time, avenging the 2013 San Francisco loss.
2021 America's Cup
The 2021 America's Cup, the 36th PRADA presentation, was a match race featuring the new AC75 foiling monohull class, won by Emirates Team New Zealand.
2026 SailGP championship
The 2026 SailGP championship is the sixth season of SailGP, an international sailing series with 13 national teams racing identical F50 catamarans, opening in Perth and closing in Abu Dhabi.
470 (dinghy)
The 470 is a 4.70 m double-handed one-design planing dinghy designed by André Cornu in 1963; an Olympic class since 1976, open then men's/women's, and mixed-gender from Paris 2024 and LA28.
America's Cup
America's Cup, oldest international sporting trophy, won by schooner America at Cowes 22 August 1851; governed by Deed of Gift; held by Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (Emirates Team New Zealand, five wins), next Match Naples 2027 in AC75 foiling monohulls.
E1 Series (boat racing)
E1 Series (UIM E1 World Championship presented by PIF): the world's first all-electric foiling powerboat racing championship, founded by Alejandro Agag and Rodi Basso, racing identical RaceBird hydrofoil boats at up to 50 knots.
Mighty Mary (sailing yacht)
Mighty Mary, also America³, was the 1995 America's Cup yacht of the first all-women's crew, funded by Bill Koch and captained by Dawn Riley; it lost the Citizen Cup to Dennis Conner's Stars and Stripes by 52 seconds.
Sailing
Sailing is the competitive sport of racing boats powered only by wind, governed worldwide by World Sailing and contested at every modern Olympic Games since 1900.
Sailing at the 2026 Asian Games
Sailing at the 2026 Asian Games: 14 sailing events at Kaiyoh Yacht Harbour, Gamagori, Japan, 26 September to 3 October 2026, record 22 nations, ILCA medal races, first LA28 Olympic spots.
Sailing at the 2028 Summer Olympics
Sailing at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28), 16-28 July 2028, ten events across windsurfing, kite, dinghy, skiff, and multihull at Belmont Shore, Long Beach, and the Port of Los Angeles.
Star (keelboat)
Star (keelboat): two-person one-design racing keelboat designed 1910 by Francis Sweisguth, fin keel with detached rudder; Olympic class 1932–2012 except 1976; governed by ISCYRA since 1922.
Vendée Globe
Vendée Globe: solo, non-stop, unassisted round-the-world yacht race every four years from Les Sables-d'Olonne on 18.28 m IMOCA monohulls; first held 1989, record 64 days (Charlie Dalin, 2024-25), next start 12 November 2028.
Wangerooger Yachtclub
Wangerooger Yacht-Club e.V. (WYC) is a registered sailing club on Wangerooge, East Frisian Islands, Lower Saxony, Germany, running the western harbor's guest berths and the annual Rund um Wangeroog regatta, whose 50th edition was in 2024.
Water speed record
Water speed record: fastest speed on water. Powered record 275.97 knots by Ken Warby, Spirit of Australia, 1978; sailing record 65.45 knots by Vestas Sailrocket 2, Paul Larsen, 2012, over 500 m.
Wayfarer (dinghy)
Wayfarer: 16-foot sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor in 1957 as a wooden teaching, racing, and cruising boat; GRP from 1965, Mark 4 by Phil Morrison after Hartley Boats bought the copyright in 2007; about 12,000 built.
Yacht club
Yacht club: member-governed sailing organizations, from the 1720 Water Club of Cork and Royal Yacht Squadron to the New York Yacht Club; defined by racing, burgees, commodores, dues tiers, and facilities distinct from marinas.
Yachting
Yachting: racing in sailing yachts for trophies and pleasure cruising. Key facts: Royal Yacht Squadron 1815, New York Yacht Club 1844, America's Cup first contested 1851, 132-year American defense streak ended by Australia II in 1983, Olympic sport since 1900.