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The second day of the Optimist World Championship saw lighter winds as the fleets were held ashore, waiting for the breeze to build. The first race saw the lightest conditions so far with about 8 knots.

Conditions turned decidedly damp for the second day of racing at the Argo Group Gold Cup, stage six of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour.

After more than 17 years with the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Jerome has decided to pursue other professional challenges.

An ISAF Level 1 Technical Course for participation related coaches was successfully delivered in Savu, Fiji in September 2014. The eight participants on the course learnt new techniques of teaching or the delivery of participation related sailing during the week long course.

Day 5 of the Rolex Middle Sea Race has proved a day of reckoning for the competing fleet. The forecast strong northwesterly wind has arrived and consistently blown over 25 knots with gusts exceeding 40 knots. The effect has been to catapult the previously slow moving yachts towards the finish line in Malta.

Dante Citadini, from Argentina and Dimitris Papadimitriou from Greece are the provisional leaders of the Optimist World Championship, as they both won their two races.

Despite the best efforts of Tropical Storm Fay and then Hurricane Gonzalo, the Argo Group Gold Cup, the sixth stage of the 2014 Alpari World Match Racing Tour, set sail on Bermuda's Hamilton Harbour , albeit postponed by 24 hours.

After two days of intense racing at the 2014 RS:X Youth Worlds in Clearwater, USA, both fleets have completed a full schedule of 6 light-wind races, and they've earned their lay day.