Team Racing World Championship

Sustained winds in the low 20-knot range and choppy seas brought on another challenging day in the final stretch of the 2025 Team Racing World Championship. After four exhausting days of intense combat, Corinthian Yacht Club (CYC) prevailed, finishing with 20 points; the highly polished team from Marblehead, Mass., led the charge from Day 1, only losing five races of the 25 races they sailed throughout the competition.

Following the completion of Stage 1 on Sunday, six teams advanced to Stage 2, a single gold Round Robin including New York Yacht Club (USA), Kiwi Racing (NZL), Newport Harbor Yacht Club (USA), Baltimore SC (IRE), Corinthian Yacht Club (USA) and West Kirby Hawks (GBR). Finishing with 17 points each, a tie break for second, third and fourth resulted in Kiwi Racing placing second, Baltimore SC in third, and West Kirby Hawks in fourth; notably, a different nationality in each of the top four positions highlights the truly international spirit of this event.

Following the announcement of the 2025 Team Racing World Championship 18 months ago, the winning team set a goal for the regatta: to be as well prepared as possible. Corinthian Yacht Club skippers Will Bailey, sailing this week with his wife Allison Ferraris, and Tim Wadlow, who won the Team Racing World Championship in 2005, raced events including the Global Team Race Regatta and the Baldwin Cup, and put in many practice weekends over the past few months to finesse the game. They’re thrilled to be taking home the 2025 Team Racing World Championship title.

Kiwi Racing had a slow start to the regatta sitting mid fleet for the first few days before finding their pace. What they lacked in team racing experience compared to other top-tier teams they made up for in characteristic Kiwi common sense and hard work.

Baltimore SC slowly but surely clawed their way to the top of the fleet throughout the regatta. They proved to be as strong contenders as anticipated. The team has been sailing together for a long time, which they attribute to their success.

While it’s not the result that they would have liked given their previous winning performances in Team Racing World Championship events, the team representing New York Yacht Club is finding their groove with the 2v2 team racing format.

Reviving World Sailing’s Team Racing World Championship after a ten-year hiatus has come at a time when the niche is gaining traction worldwide as indicated by the mix of countries present at this year’s edition of the event.