The women’s Olympic dinghy class is one of the most competitive in all of sailing with massive fleets competing for medals. Maria Erdi races for a nation that has never had an Olympic sailing champion, but hit the headlines last summer when she took gold for Hungary at the Allianz Sailing World Championships in the Netherlands.

The 10th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing club’s transatlantic race was never going to disappoint.  21 teams taking on the daunting challenge from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to Grenada, West Indies.

Following the ILCA 6 World Championships in Argentina, 153 competitors arrived in Adelaide Australia for the ILCA 7 Worlds.

Lanzarote was hosting the IQFoil world championships. ​Two Olympic qualifying places were on offer to the 212–strong field of foiling windsurfers. A fleet that Included all 6 medallists from last year’s World Championships – who were looking to stake their claim to be chosen to represent their nation at the Olympics.

The Macao international regatta attracted a fleet of 37 boats to take part in a4–day event off the southern coast of China

If you thought The Ocean Race was tough, spare a thought for the six sailors circumnavigating the globe singlehandedly in the inaugural ArkeaUltim Challenge.

The fleet had set off in January from Brest in France in their 105-foot Ultim trimarans, on a route that would take them round the world heading west to east.

By the end of the first week at sea the six boats were already stretched out – Tom Laperche on SVR Lazartigue and Charles Caudrelier aboard Maxi Edmond de Rothschild led the way. Behind them, Armel Le Cléach was forced to stop at the Brazilian port of Recife to deal with a hydraulic issue and replace the pulpit that had been torn off Maxi Banque Populaire.