The 2023 Optimist World Championship is recognized as the most important children's sailing sports event, attracting boys and girls under the age of 16 from around the globe. While the championship ...

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 ...

Series 1 of the Optimist Winter Series sponsored by JLT concluded on Sunday. The racing took place for the BODA Gold and Silver Fleets with 21 boats entered. Near perfect conditions greeted the ...

Digicel Bermuda announced its sponsorship of four Opti Sailing boats for the Waterwise Sailing Programme, which is held at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (RBYC). The RBYC selected a dedicated team of ...

Photo by Mark TatemRoyal Bermuda Yacht Club sailing director Tom Herbert Evans is to sail an Optimist Class sailboat around the Island this week to raise funds for youth sailors to compete in ...

The 2026 NSW Optimist Interclub Series Round 2 kicks off at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, offering junior sailors a chance ...

Going to school and staying focused has been a struggle for 12-year-old Yaqeen Jaffry, whose father was admitted to hospital a month ago with liver and lung cancer. “I think about him every day and ...

NEXT SATURDAY will see the launch of the Optimist Junior Sailing programme 2012 with an Open Day in Carlingford Sailing club. The aim of the programme is to make sailing as affordable to as many ...

The prevailing stalemate at the top of the Optimist Class provisional standings persisted in the waters off St Paul's Bay yesterday. Malta's Benji Borg and Matthieu Mariani, of Monaco, each won a race ...

THE Bahamas came away highly regarded in their role as hosts and for their competition in the water at the biggest sailing event the country has hosted to date. The Nassau Yacht Club and Bahamas ...

A group of children from Heideveld got their first sailing experience thanks to the Little Optimist Sailing Academy based V&A Waterfront’s Battery Park on Tuesday 21 February. The academy, a flagship ...