Los Gallos welcome SailGP to a new home event as they chase Australia, France arrive with a 107.63 km/h record from Sassnitz, Canada have momentum with three finals from four events, and reigning champions GBR fight to stay alive. Spain come home 14 points off the championship lead. Australia arrive with five wins. France have just broken SailGP’s speed record. New Zealand are finally back. And the defending champions are running out of weekends. Valencia is making its SailG

A city that knows what one second can mean. A Spanish team that went from last place to champions. And a driver whose road to Olympic gold began in a 49er that kept filling with water. Valencia has seen sailing become absurdly serious before. In 2007, Alinghi defended the America’s Cup here by beating Emirates Team New Zealand in a final race decided by one second — still the closest finish in America’s Cup history. Three years later, Larry Ellison’s BMW Oracle Racing took th

Is the Atlantic about to expose the new IMOCA hierarchy? New York to Lorient gives two new boats their first serious offshore benchmark against proven machinery. Skipper-Press Briefing from New York Two new boats, one record-holder and the fleet’s only non-foiler leave the skippers guessing before The Ocean Race Atlantic There are six IMOCAs leaving New York and almost no sensible way to rank them, yet. Boris Herrmann has a boat launched in July that has never raced. Kojiro S