Sydney's Walter Heeley has been crowned the 2026 Australian Optimist Open Champion after a blistering week of sailing on the River Derwent in Hobart.

Walter Heeley wins the 2026 Australian Optimist Open Championship in Hobart, dominating the event with six wins across eleven ...

MONACO, Jan. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nice winds and bright sunshine accompanied the Monaco Optimist Team Race. On the first day of competition at the Yacht Club de Monaco, the 15 teams of young ...

Some 200 young sailors from around the state and beyond will be tacking and jibing this month along Blackwater Sound in Key ...

Light winds frustrate 150 Optimist sailors at the 2026 Musto Australian International Dinghy Championship in Hobart ...

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

In conjunction with the Southeast Dinghy Championships, North Sails hosted the inaugural North U Leading Edge Optimist Clinic at Key Biscayne Yacht Club to get sailors ready to take on the winter ...

RIVA DEL GARDA, BS, ITALY, March 29, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- 10-year-old Villiams Osipovs writes a book about the largest Optimist regatta in the world, featuring ...

Monaco Optimist Team Race 2026 At the Yacht Club de Monaco, young sailors are ready for the Monaco Optimist Team Race. MONACO ...

The Bermuda Optimist Dinghy Association is among the many mourning the death of founding member and coach Paul Doughty. Doughty, who died on Tuesday following a bout of illness, helped to create the ...

It was a frustrating day for 150 Optimist dinghy sailors and race management today with light winds causing the postponement of sailing for most of the day in the 2026 Musto Australian International ...