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2026 WASZP Games
Foiling for All Ages: Blockheads at the 2026 WASZP Games The 2026 WASZP Games marked the largest foiling regatta in North America to date, with Pensacola Yacht Club hosting over 60 sailors from around the world on Pensacola Bay. Competitors
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2025 E Scow Nationals – Where Blockheads Beat the Breeze
The 2025 E Scow Nationals were not for the faint of heart. Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club hosted 50 boats for this year’s championship. Never seen an E Scow? Picture a 28-foot planing surfboard with an asymmetrical kite—and no “off
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WHERE MOUNTAINS MEET THE SEA…
WHAT IS THE CAMDEN CLASSICS CUP? "Sailing Classic Yachts Where the Mountains Meet the Sea" 1 & 3 - Carol Chu Photography / 2 - Nathan Pablo Photography For the past nine years, the Camden Classics Cup has welcomed sailors
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ILYA DINGHY CHAMPS 2025
Harken Blockheads headed to Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota for the Paragon Insurance and Auto-Owners Group Dinghy Championship Week, presented by Helly Hansen. Also known as the Inland Lake Yachting Association (ILYA) Dinghy Championships, this event brings together ILYA clubs for an
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BLOCKHEADS TAKE OVER OPTI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CUP
Harken was proud to be present at the Optimist International Summer Cup (CIE), a global event for youth sailors, held over July 12-18 in Brest, France. A key event of the season, it brought together nearly 400 young sailors from
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First Blockheads to the Island 2025
In 2025 THREE Blockheads made it to the Island first during the Race to Mackinac. Jack Reiske, Murphy Roszak, and Torston Thiel were sailing aboard Vogue, a C&C 41 in the cruising division. It was a light upwind race for
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WASZP FRENZY IN FRANCE
WASZP FRENZY IN FRANCE! It's a summer full of foiling and Blockheads are jumping around from regatta to regatta getting their fix in. Most recently, Harken France stopped by the 2025 French Waszp Nationals in Carnac, France. Twenty-nine competitors from
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The First Blockheads to the Island 2024 are BACK for 2025
2024 First Blockheads to the Island are BACK for 2025 on Andrews 70 “Illuminati" John Sullivan, along with crew member and fellow-Blockhead Charlie Burris, were the First Blockheads to the Island 2024 AND the First to Finish in the Racing
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We Love X Boats!
Blockheads was on site supporting the ILYA X Boat Championship this week giving 200 young sailors the tools and confidence to take care of their own equipment. Over 80 sailors signed up for Blockheads this week and now have access
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And the First Blockhead to the Island is…
And the First Blockhead to the Island winner is… ᴍᴇɢᴀɴ ɢᴇɪᴛʜ ‼️ Megan sailed the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac® aboard the Beneteau 47.7 ‘Dakota’ from Chicago Yacht Club. Megan and her team finished the legendary freshwater distance race
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Miles Gordon Wins Harken Opti Series
The annual Harken Optimist Challenge came to a close recently at St. Francis Yacht Club of San Francisco, California. Now in its 19th year, this four-regatta series features two regattas in NorCal and two in SoCal, attracting nearly 50 Optimist
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Postcard from DN Worlds
Put on your spikes and step up to the starting line with us at the DN World Championship!
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Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship
Consisting of four days of match racing, youth teams (under 23) compete each year for the Rockin’ Robin Perpetual Trophy — They race on the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club's Elliott 7 performance keelboats with a crew of four or
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Respect the Leeboard
Photo by Bronny Daniels Harken Blockheads took to Junior Sabot Nationals to give sailors the tools, skills, and confidence to take charge of their own sailing. We learned all about the leeboard lifestyle and the Southern California phenomenon that is
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Sabot Nationals Photos
We took tons of photos. And we're making them available to you. We have no plans for them other than that. Open the gallery. Find your sailor(s). Download. Print. Send to Grandma. Simple. Open the gallery right here: Want more Sabot content?
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No Tears!
The first-year sailors of the Inland Lakes Yachting Association gathered on Lake Beulah on Monday for the 'No Tears' regatta — This is an event for the most inexperienced sailors in the region. For many, it's their first regatta! Forget
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29th Harken Youth International Match Racing Cup
“The Harken,” as it is known in youth match racing circles worldwide, stands out as one of the premier events for youth sailors on the international match racing calendar. For 29 years, it has served as a launchpad for a
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2022 Harken New Zealand National Secondary Schools Keelboat Championship
Video by Live Sail Die The 2022 Harken New Zealand National Secondary Schools Keelboat Championships after movie is here! This year's event was a fantastic 3 days of sailing out of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, showcasing the talented
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Let’s Talk Tokyo
In less than a month, the curtain opens on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. We sat down with 470 World Champs Silvia Mas and Patricia Cantero of the Spanish Sailing Team to discuss the venue. What are the conditions like? Does
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Keeping It Fair and Square
Before most major international one-design class championships, competitors’ boats must pass a measurement check to ensure it complies with the Class Rules. This official measurement procedure is used by World Championship and similar-level regattas to enforce fair racing, where all
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Harken Blockheads Day
Pure happiness. That's what happens when a group of Blockheads gets a chance to sail on a VO65 that raced in the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018. Harken Blockheads Polska and Sailing Poland came together to give these young sailors the
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Harken Youth Match Racing World Championship
Australian James Hodgson and his crew of Harry Hall, Louis Schofield and Nick Rozenauers, have been crowned HARKEN 2020 Youth Match Racing World Champions after defeating American Jack Parkin three-nil in the final. https://youtu.be/NQT396DGU4I The Semi-Finals were poised at one
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28th Harken Youth International Match Racing Cup
The next generation of match racers is active, passionate, and ready for battle. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is hosting back-to-back weeks of top-tier youth match racing. Sailors under 23 years old duked it out at the Harken Youth
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Ask A Rockstar
Today, they are some of sailing's rockstars. At the front. Foiling, Skiffing, Podium—ing all over the world. But just a few years ago, they were junior sailors. Maybe just like you. How did they do it? What were they like
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Monaco International Optimist Team Race
Some of the best Optimist racing teams in the world just wrapped up the Monaco International Optimist Team Race. In this format, a team of four boats races against another team of four. The team with the lowest score wins
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The Draw of Offshore Racing
Beau Geste, a MOD70 Trimaran, blasted to a new race record in New Zealand's PIC Coastal Classic coastal race this year. Onboard -- and in an important navigation role -- was 16-year-old Carrington Brady. “Offshore sailing. That’s what I’m drawn
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OAKCLIFF: A Blockheads Documentary
Oakcliff Sailing is on a mission to build American leaders through sailing. What is Oakcliff? A nonprofit, a sailing facility, hands-on job training, and an accelerated pathway for sailors aspiring to the America's Cup, the Olympics, and the around the
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27th Harken Intl. Youth Match Racing Championship
“The Harken,” as it is known in youth sailing circles worldwide, stands out as one of the premier events for youth sailors on the international match racing calendar. For 27 years, it has served as a launchpad for a number
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Watch Solo Sailor Pep Costa’s Mini Transat Vlog
A few weeks ago, we introduced you to Pep Costa, a 20-year-old singlehanded offshore racer who raced in the Mini Transat across the Atlantic Ocean in his Mini 6.50 Class sailboat. Well, Pep's Mini Transat story has just come to
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Catching up with the Youth Match Racing World Champions
Learn how to prepare for success from the 2019 Youth Match Racing World Champions -- Tom Grimes, Jess Grimes, James Hodgson, and Harry Hall. Tom and his team traveled from Australia to Russia to race against the world's top young
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Blockhead Advice: Regatta Prep with McLube
Blockhead Advice: Before every regatta, Madeline Torrey always does one thing. She cleans, polishes, and protects her boat with a fresh coat of McLube HullKote.
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Big Regatta Opti-Village: What’s Going On Over There?
It takes a village to bring hundreds of Opti kids together for an event. What happens when a sailor forgets a critical piece of equipment? We caught up with the people in the trailers -- supporting youth sailing. Why do
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Opti Green Fleet Experience
What's it like to get started in the Opti? USODA Executive Director Genoa Fedyszyn shows Harken Blockheads what the green fleet lifestyle is about: learning, friends, and just plain fun.
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Blockheads Do Opti Nationals
The Blockheads Team was boots-on-the-ground at the 2019 USODA National Championship dishing out rigging tricks & tips, getting to know what makes our Harken Blockheads members tick, and proudly displaying the ever-famous, fan-favorite 'FREE STUFF' sign. Hear from sailors like
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First Blockhead to the Island
Step onboard with Aiden Martin, the first Harken Blockhead Member to the Island. At age 14, Aiden is the first place champion in Section 1 (!!!) of the 2019 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac®. Aiden's team finished in 1
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Pre-Regatta Postcard from Poland!
Gdynia welcomes the world’s best youth sailors for the 2019 Hempel Youth Sailing World Championships For more info, check out the Events page
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Blockheads Do Sarasota Youth SailFest
The Blockheads team visited Sarasota Youth Sailing's 32nd Annual SailFest regatta to spread the good word of rigging and repair self-reliance.
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Olympic Insights for Blockheads
Hear about the journey of Polish 470 sailors and Blockheads Ambassadors Agnieszka Skrzypulec and Jolanta Ogar as they re-team in their attempt for gold at Tokyo 2020. Watch part two and three of our interview below. Part 2: https://youtu.be/hqkR3l4EsiQ Part
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¡Hola desde Chile!
¡Gracias a nuestro increíble socio Windmade, Harken Blockheads se lanzó oficialmente en Chile en el Campeonato Nacional de Escuelas de Vela este fin de semana pasado! Los jóvenes navegantes chilenos pueden unirse a Blockheads hoy mismo a través de una
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Hello From Chile!
Thanks to our awesome partner Windmade, Harken Blockheads officially launched in Chile at the National Sailing School Championships this past weekend! Chilean youth sailors can join Blockheads today through a new Spanish language version of the Blockheads website by clicking
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26th Harken Intl. Youth Match Racing Championship
The 26th Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship is in the books! Four days of intense competition culminated with defending champions Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron besting the local team from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. "The Harken" as
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O Canada!
Tucked away along the mountainous coast of British Columbia is the West Vancouver Yacht Club, host of the Pumpkin Bowl Regatta presented by Harken and Pro-Tech. A must-attend on the annual BC sailing circuit, the Pumpkin Bowl prioritizes a fun
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Fly-By at Put-in-Bay
The Blockheads team visited Put-in-Bay, Ohio for the 63rd Junior Bay Week to see just what this famous regatta is all about.
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Blockheads Do The Dinghy Race
The Dinghy Race is unlike any other youth sailing event. Throwing out the typical windward leeward playbook, the event aims to be an offshore adventure that presents juniors with new challenges and experiences. Setting out from Niantic Bay Yacht Club
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Build It and They Will Come
Most sailors dream of building their own boat. What would it look like? How would it sail? What crazy appendages could I add? Very few ever realize this dream. One group of engineering students, however, has built two C-Class catamarans
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Blockheads Do Newport!
The sailing capital of the U.S. knows how to put on a show, and this week was no exception. Two lucky winners of the Harken Blockheads Volvo Ocean Race Newport VIP Experience Sweepstakes and their guests joined the Harken team for
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Lift Off in Miami
Earlier this month, speed-loving sailors of all varieties descended on Miami, Florida for the most recent edition of the Foiling Week regatta. A coming together of all matters foiling, the event played host to classes like the Moth, UFO, and
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Youth Sailors Take Flight in Sydney
A group of eight Australian youth sailors spent two days learning the ins and outs of foiling from some of the best in the world at the recent Foiling Week / Harken Kidz Trials. The event kicked off with Andrew McDougall,
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25th Harken Intl. Youth Match Racing Championship
In a first for a Japanese representative team, rising match racing talent Leonard Takahashi and his crew claimed the 25th anniversary 2017 Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship convincingly and in unique style on finals day, Sunday November 26, 2017. North-easterly
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Hobie Days at the 32nd Piñata Regatta
Each October, as Harken HQ prepares for winter, Hobie sailors from Tucson Fleet 514 hitch-up their trailers for the annual Piñata Regatta. Hosted in the small Mexican beach town of Puerto Peñasco, crews are welcomed by friendly people and the
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
Follow the journey of Annie Samis and Peter Barnard, two awesome Blockheads. They went from true-blue Opti sailors, to learning how to wrangle a double-handed boat, to racing in Bermuda during the America's Cup!
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Blockheads Go The Distance
This summer, five local Chicago yacht clubs teamed up for the first ever Chicago Junior Race Week. The event brought together teams from across the country for three days of close racing. Unique to the regatta was a distance race
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Breeze-On for Blockheads at Charleston Race Week
Sail22 and Harken Blockheads teamed-up again in support of two youth teams competing in the J/70 fleet at Charleston Race Week 2017. Hailing from Annapolis and South Carolina Yacht Clubs, both groups jumped on the opportunity to hone their keelboat
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Blockheads Race Bacardi Sailing Week
Blockheads made a splash at Bacardi Miami Sailing Week 2017. Of the thirty six J/70 teams that competed, only eight raced without pro sailors, and only ONE was crewed entirely by youth sailors. Say hello to Team Sail22 / Harken Blockheads!
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