📸 Photo Credit: Thomas Hawker The road to the 2025 Canada Summer Games is officially underway! After months of training and two fiercely competitive regattas — the Kitten Cup at Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and the Victoria Spring Dinghy Championships at Royal Victoria Yacht Club — the Team BC team trials have wrapped, and the roster is now locked in. A huge thank you to the regatta...
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The “Sailing for All” initiative was created to support grassroots programs delivered by Member Clubs and Schools focused on providing grassroots sailing experiences for individuals from underserved or underrepresented groups, at very low or no cost to participants. Programs must also be designed to engage participants from one or more of the following communities: Black, Indigenous, Racialized, 2SLFBTQI+, Low-Income People, Persons with a Disability, Newcomers...
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2025 Team BC announced for the Canada Summer Games! 📸 Photo Credit: Thomas Hawker The trials for BC sailors for the 2025 Canada Summer Games wrapped up last weekend with the Victoria Spring Dinghy Championships at Royal Victoria Yacht Club following the Kitten Cup Regatta hosted by Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. A big thanks to the regatta organizers, volunteers, and officials who did a great job at...
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St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador is a place shaped by those who have made a home here over millennia. It is a land of firsts — a story of diversity and discovery, steeped in unique cultures and surrounded by natural beauty. This is a place where connecting has changed the world. From August 8 - 25, the 2025 Canada Games invites Canadians to come and connect...
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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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