When's the last time you saw spinnakers raised to start a match race?

Or a leader spin off a penalty at the finish line with his opponent tickling his transom?

Representatives from 14 ISAF Member National Authorities and a number of ISAF Classes including two Olympic Class representatives have confirmed that they will be meeting in Muscat, Oman for the 2013 ISAF Development Symposium frin 13-14 April 2013.

Act 2 of the 2013 Extreme Sailing Series has begun in Singapore under the gaze of the towering downtown city skyline where the Extreme Sailing Series Race Village is nestled in the heart this bustling city.

Sailing Cook Islands (SCI) will host the final Santander 2014 Emerging Nations Programme in Aitutaki from 18-24 May 2013.

Mathieu Richard of France hadn't match-raced in seven months and Great Britain's Ian Williams was off for five, but they dealt better with weird conditions than anyone else in a 10-boat international field to share first place each with four wins and one loss after day one of the 49th Congressional Cup.

In the afterglow of the 2012 London Olympics, the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) is making the success of the Olympic legacy a personal goal, by helping to inspire the sportsmen and women of the future.

The French city of Lorient will return as the penultimate stopover in the Volvo Ocean Race for the 12th edition in 2014-15, completing a route that will test the world's best professional sailors to the limit in a race around the world lasting almost nine months and 40,000 nautical miles.

The ISAF World Sailing Rankings for 8 April 2013 have been released.