While the respective champions of the 2024 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series regattas prepare for the ultimate race of the season at the Caribbean Championship in the BVIs in late October, the regatta management team is full speed preparing for the coming
2025 season with dates now announced for all five regattas. Organizers aim to continue to build on the moment of past years with a focus on diversity across the one-design class spectrum and further inclusion of youth teams in established one-design and handicap classes.
As has been the case for more than three decades now, Florida’s St. Petersburg YC will host the first regatta of the season from February 14 to 16, and early indications hint at another benchmark gathering of one-design keelboats, handicap fleets (PHRF and ORC), and dinghy classes new and old.
Annapolis YC, with race-management support from Eastern YC and Severn Sailing Association, will host the second stop of the series, which remains one of the strongest multiclass one-design events on the Eastern Seaboard. In 2024, organizers included the Waszp foiling class for the first time, as well as the local favorite Harbor 20s which are expected to return in even greater numbers now that the event has found its way onto the busy class event calendar. May 2 to 5 is when the action gets underway in this Chesapeake Bay season kick off.
With a triumphant return to Detroit’s Bayview YC in 2024 after a ten-year absence, the regatta series returns to the Motor City from May 30 to June 1, with expectations of increasing fleet numbers in the area’s strongest one-design fleets, as well as inviting new classes to what is a reemergent racing scene keen to bring the once-vibrant racing scene back to its past glory.
The series continues its Great Lakes action at Chicago YC from June 6 to 8 before heading east for the final US stop, in Marblehead, Massachusetts, this year hosted by Boston YC, with on-water support from nearby Eastern and Corinthian YCs, from July 24 to 27.
At each of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series events, one overall winner is selected to compete at the Caribbean Championship, which is scheduled for October 25 to November 1.
