The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania plays host to another huge sailing regatta this week with 150 Optimist dinghy sailors converging on Sandy Bay for the 2026 Australian Optimist Dinghy Championship.

Entries are still open for the 33rd annual International Optimist Regatta – one of North America’s biggest junior sailing races -- and its accompanying events.

When I was watching “Sesame Street” as a member of the program’s target demographic back in the ’70s, one of the central messages I took from Grover, Gordon, et al. was “Don’t Litter.” Now, when I ...

It’ll be hard to miss Tor Svendsen’s ear-to-ear smile when he lands in the Bahamas on Thursday to compete in the 2019 Optimist North American Championship. The 15-year old from Ross is one of just two ...

Digicel Bermuda announced its sponsorship of four Opti Sailing boats for the Waterwise Sailing Programme, which is held at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (RBYC). The RBYC selected a dedicated team of ...

Series 1 of the Optimist Winter Series sponsored by JLT concluded on Sunday. The racing took place for the BODA Gold and Silver Fleets with 21 boats entered. Near perfect conditions greeted the ...

IT HAS NOT been that long, in the big picture, since Jim Barton returned to Marin with the bronze medal he won in the Soling Class at the 1996 Olympics Games with fellow Marin sailors Jeff Madrigali ...

Seven countries and a gaggle of cities from all over the United States are represented in the Opti Nationals now sailing on Sarasota Bay. There are 234 individual competitors represented at the event, ...

The youth sailing curriculum with the most success to date, the Sarasota Sailing Squadron's Youth Sailing Program, has been in existence for 23 years. Incorporated on May 12, 1980, the YSP began, ...