World Sailing (WS) is the international sports governing body for sailing; it is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International...
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The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition...
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World championships in sailing are world championships organised or sanctioned by World Sailing (formerly the International Sailing Federation or ISAF)...
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Sailing craft and their rigs Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship,...
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The Sailing World Championships (formerly ISAF Sailing World Championships) are World championships in sailing for the 10 events contested at the Summer...
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The Etchells World Championship is an annual international sailing regatta for Etchells keelboats, organized by the host club on behalf of the Etchells...
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420 (dinghy) (redirect from 2011 420 World Championships)
designed to plane easily. The 420 is an International class recognised by World Sailing. The name refers to the boat's length of 420 centimetres (4.2 m; 13 ft...
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The World Sailing's Sailing World Cup is a series of sailing regattas. The World Cup came into existence during the 2008–09 Season. The series includes...
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The World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) was founded in 1972, initially to ratify records at the inaugural Weymouth Speed Week held every year since...
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refers to sailing on water, even though sailing on land and ice is progressively faster because of the lower friction involved. The World Sailing Speed Record...
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The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing...
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A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. As the craft increases its speed the...
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2023 Sailing World Championships were held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 8 to 20 August 2023. It was the sixth edition of the Sailing World Championships...
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Games) by World Sailing, the sport's world governing body. Full information on the rules can be viewed at World Sailing. The Racing Rules of Sailing were most...
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Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum...
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Sailing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics were held from July 28th to August 8th at Marseille Marina. The number of sailors competing across ten...
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and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body. "World Sailing - F16 Page". World Sailing. {{World Sailing regatta}} template...
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World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body. {{World Sailing regatta}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata. {{World Sailing regatta}}...
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Sailing Yacht A is a sailing yacht launched in 2015. The vessel is a sail-assisted motor yacht designed by Philippe Starck (exteriors and interiors) and...
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Speed sailing records are sanctioned, since 1972, by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). Records are measured either by average speed over...
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The sport and practice of single-handed sailing or solo sailing is sailing with only one crewmember (i.e., only one person on board the vessel). The term...
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and are among categories recognized by the governing body of sailing sports, World Sailing. The term yacht originates from the Dutch word jacht (pl. jachten...
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Yacht (redirect from Motor sailing yacht)
portal World Sailing List of keelboat classes designed before 1970 List of large sailing yachts List of motor yachts by length List of sailing boat types...
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The Topper World Championship is an annual international sailing regatta of Topper (dinghy), organized by the host club on behalf of the International...
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Ellen MacArthur (category ISAF World Sailor of the Year (female))
hours, after over seven days of sailing. She began her attempt to break the solo record for sailing non-stop around the world on 28 November 2004. During...
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The World Sailor of the Year Awards were launched in 1994 by World Sailing (formerly the International Sailing Federation) to reward individual sailors...
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Circumnavigation (redirect from World cruise)
40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds. The absolute speed sailing record around the world followed the North Atlantic Ocean, Equator, South Atlantic...
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470 (dinghy) (redirect from 470 World Championship)
boat's length of 470 centimetres (4.7 m; 15 ft 5 in). The 470 is a World Sailing International Class and has been an Olympic class since the 1976 games...
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The ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships was first held in Sweden in 1971 and it has been held every year since. It is one of the key events of the...
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The South African Sailing is the national governing body for the sport of sailing in South Africa, recognised by World Sailing. Saldanha Bay Yacht Club...
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