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Windy, close racing at the 2013 Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week for the 37-boat Melges 24 and 33-boat Melges 20 fleets.Photos: ©2013 JOY | U.S. Melges 20 & 24 Class AssociationClick here to view results.

Four days of racing in Caribbean paradise drew in sailors aplenty for the 2013 edition of Les Voiles de St. Barth.Photos by Christophe Jouany and Tim Wright of the first two days of racing. The event continues this weekend.Click here to read an interview Tim Wright.Click here to visit the regatta website.

Veteran Sailing World contributor and America's Cup historian Steve Tsuchiya is in Italy for the sole America's Cup World Series stop in 2013. He's taken two rides on AC45s during practice and is catching the regatta from shore and on photoboats. Here's his first gallery. Click here to visit the second gallery.

Photos by water and air from the 2013 Baldwin Cup, a unique team-racing regatta hosted by Newport Harbor (Calif.) YC in Harbor 20s, from April 5 to 7.Click here to watch video of the event.Click here to visit the event website.Photos by Jeffrey Thayer and Mary Longpre

Wild and windy photos from the 44 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mapfre (ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma) in Palma, Spain, which ran from March 30 to April 6, 2013.Click here to read an interview with event photographer Jesús Renedo.Click here to view results.

Chinese skipper Guo Chuan completed a solo non-stop circumnavigation in a Class 40 and set a new world record of 137 days, 20 hours, 1 minute and 57 seconds on April 5. Here's what he said after finishing:It is difficult to describe my feeling at the moment. It is still like a dream, I feel like being in a dream. Sometimes during the journey, I do not know if I could go home. In Cape Horn, when I could not see anything in the wave, I felt it might be too far to go back. Several days ago in Taiwan Strait, I suspected if I could go home with the boat safely. But finally, it is all over. I have to say many many thanks to my family, my friends, my sponsors. But I'd like to say 'THANK YOU' to the wind as well. For the whole journey, wind is always accompanying me. It is fighting with me, it is driving me back home.

Eight championship events, including the IRC and HPR North Americans, will be held at the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week this June. Over 150 boats have signed up for the 25th anniversary of the biennial event. New fleets include classic boats, doublehanded boats, and Gunboats. As usual, the regatta will include an 18-mile around-the-island race.Click here to visit BIRW's websiteClick here to watch footage from the 24th edition.

Photos from the first act of the 2013 Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman.Click here to watch video from Act 1.Photos: OC Events and Sabine König for Chili Sports Communication Extreme Sailing Series 2013 Act 1, Muscat, Oman results Position / Team / Points 1st The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan, Ed Smyth, Pete Greenhalgh, Musab Al Hadi, Hashim Al Rashdi 232 points. 2nd Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman Hagara, Hans Peter Steinacher, Matthew Adams, Pierre Le Clainche, Graeme Spence 226 points. 3rd Alinghi (SUI) Ernesto Bertarelli, Morgan Larson, Pierre Yves Jorand, Nils Frei, Yves Detrey 218 points. 4th Team Duqm Oman (OMA) Robert Greenhalgh, Bleddyn Mon, Will Howden, Andrew Walsh, Nasser Al Mashari 185 points. 5th Team Korea (KOR) Peter Burling, Blair Tuke, Mark Bulkeley, Sungwok Kim, Matt Cornwell 173 points. 6th GAC Pindar (NZL) Will Tiller, Brad Farrand, Stewart Dodson, Harry Thurston, Shaun Mason 164 points. 7th SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) Jes Gram-Hansen, Rasmus Kostner, Pete Cumming, Mikkel Røssberg, Nicolai Sehested 153 points. 8th Realteam (SUI) Jerome Clerc, Bryan Mettraux, Arnaud Psarofaghis, Cédric Schmidt, Thierry Wasem 147 points.