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Team Canada to Participate in the First-Ever Women’s America’s Cup in 2024   History will be made in October 2024 when Canada sends a team to race in the first-ever Women’s America’s Cup in Barcelona, Spain. After 137 years as a men’s-only sport, women will compete for their own America’s Cup trophy led by Vancouver’s Isabella Bertold, Canada’s top female racer who ranks second in the world. Team...

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Team BC brought home three Gold in the ILCA 6, 29er Female, 29er Male and a 5th in the ILCA 7 at the 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara! 🥳   Results: 🥇29er Female 1st place, Grace Poole & Jessica Hirschbold 🥇 29er Male - 1st place, Colin Gilley & Matt Young 🥇 ILCA 6 - 1st place, Victoria Coady ⚓️ ILCA 7 - 5th place, Tim Mendham   Huge thank you to...

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Team BC Kicks off the 2022 Canada Summer Games!   Sailors from across Canada head to Niagara-on-the-Lake Sailing Club, in partnership with the Dalhousie Yacht Club;  to compete in the 2022 Canada Summer Games! The Canada Games, held every two years, alternating between summer and winter, are the largest multi-sport event in the country and represent the pinnacle of interprovincial/territorial sport competition.  The Sailing competition is being held...

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Canada Summer Games Trials are complete! ⛵ Congratulations to the following sailors that qualified to represent BC:   29er Female: Grace Poole & Jessica Hirschbold 29er Male: Colin Gilley & Matt Young Radial Female: Victoria Coady Laser Male: Tim Mendham   Spring Dinghy Champs at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club saw some very breezy conditions on Saturday with gusts to 30 knots. It was second of 2 Trials Regattas for Canada Summer...

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When SailGP Season 3 commences on May 14 in Bermuda, it will mark an historic moment for Canadian sailing. Canada’s first-ever fully professional sailing team will be on the start line with an all-star crew onboard the leading-edge F50 foiling catamaran. Since the beginning of the year, Phil Robertson, Driver for the Canada SailGP Team, has been trialing and training a curated selection of Canada’s top...

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April 20th, 2022 4:00PM PT via Zoom   Sail Canada will hold an information session for Cruising Instructors as well as Cruising Schools and Provincial Sailing Associations to discuss some changes impacting their operations and updates to the content of training delivered. This session will communicate information about initiatives from Transport Canada and changes for 2022 in Sail Canada programs.   Register for the session here!...

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Ocean Ambassadors Canada   Ocean Ambassadors Canada is excited to announce their new Ocean Health speaker series. This series will feature leading experts in a wide variety of topics associated with ocean health – from plastics pollution to aquaculture to whale research to the effect of the ocean on mental health.   Their goal is to bring people together to start conversations about ocean health. This speaker series is free!   The...

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