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Hello folks from D-Zero 333 aka Zippy, checking in with you after a magical 600 mile summer tour to the stunning sailing club of Dittisham on the West Bank of the tidal Dart, some 2 miles upstream of Dartmouth.

A new chapter begins at this year’s Specsavers International Cadet Inland Championship as Rutland Sailing Club prepares to welcome the UK’s best young Cadet sailors for a weekend of close racing on 19th and 20th September.

Competitors in the Knight Frank Champagne Challenge, the cruiser race from Exmouth to Brixham, faced challenging conditions last Saturday.

Spain’s Luís Bugallo has taken the overall lead at the J/70 World Championship after a demanding third day of racing off Cascais, where a strong northerly breeze and building Atlantic swell put boat handling, speed and crew work to the test.

The Hamble Classics Regatta has an extensive invitation list and so each year the emphasis can change, last year Spirit yachts were in town, this year it was big gaffers strutting their stuff.

Racing was delayed on the water today at the 2026 ILCA 6 Women’s World Championship, with sailors held out at sea as the wind sat at just 2 knots.

The leading pack in The Ocean Race Atlantic has been enjoying fast reaching conditions as the top four teams began to count down the final 500 nautical miles of their 3,000 nm passage from New York to Lorient, France.

Fog, sunshine, shifty wind, broken trailers and enough Cornish pasties to feed a small navy. The Osprey Nationals had all the ingredients of a classic MBSC Nationals, but as ever it was the people as much as the racing that made the week so special.

The 2026 MUSTO iQFOiL World Championships are entering their decisive phase, with the final three days of racing to be streamed live from Weymouth and Portland.

Beneath the mist shrouded peaks of Pen-y-Fan and Cribyn, Merthyr Tydfil Sailing Club can have “tricky” winds. However, today, the nine entrants were greeted by a good steady southerly wind, straight up the reservoir.