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Which sailing nations dominate the global maritime quiz? Cumulative scores by country.

# Flag Country National flair Pts / user
🥇 🇵🇱 Poland Mazury lake sailors who scale up to ocean racing every season. 1283.4
🥈 🇮🇹 Italy Espresso, opera and the most stylish foredeck crew on the Med. 1218.3
🥉 🇷🇸 Serbia Danube sailors with championship-level grilling skills. 1175.5
4 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda Antigua Sailing Week is basically a national holiday with sails. 1110.0
5 🇧🇲 Bermuda 437.0
6 🇬🇮 Gibraltar One enormous rock, one tiny runway, two oceans to choose from. 405.0
7 🇧🇸 Bahamas Exuma cays with swimming-pig anchorage attractions. 385.5
8 🇮🇳 India Goa-to-Mumbai coastal hops with chai watch breaks. 345.9
9 🇨🇦 Canada Maple syrup on the pancakes, ice in the cockpit, smiles all round. 321.9
10 🇬🇧 United Kingdom They sail in horizontal rain and call it "a bit fresh". 310.6
11 🇦🇲 Armenia Lake Sevan sailors with apricot brandy in the watch bag. 310.0
12 🇩🇪 Germany They optimize a tack the way they optimize an autobahn. 294.6
13 🇨🇿 Czech Republic Landlocked, but they crew everywhere with surprising skill. 287.8
14 🇮🇪 Ireland Storm-force winds and zero complaints — there's Guinness ashore. 269.4
15 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Galle harbour to Trincomalee — paradise routing. 247.8
16 🇭🇷 Croatia One thousand islands, every one of them photogenic. 240.5
17 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates Dubai marina at 45°C — air-con cockpit mandatory. 233.7
18 🇸🇾 Syrian Arab Republic 225.0
19 🇦🇺 Australia They sail Bass Strait for fun. Bass Strait is not for fun. 220.4
20 🇮🇱 Israel Eilat reef-dive then Haifa beat upwind — same day, different sea. 200.4
21 🇬🇭 Ghana Accra dock parties with kelewele snack stops. 191.8
22 🇦🇷 Argentina Buenos Aires asado, Cape Horn humility — same week. 184.4
23 🇱🇻 Latvia Riga to Stockholm with a thermos of black-currant tea. 182.5
24 🇳🇱 Netherlands Invented the yacht. Literally. The word is Dutch. 179.9
25 🇺🇸 United States From Newport-to-Bermuda to Honolulu — they've sailed it all. 165.7
26 🇸🇰 Slovakia Dam-lake sailors who out-tactic alpine winds. 158.4
27 🇳🇿 New Zealand Team New Zealand basically built modern foiling. 152.0
28 🇴🇲 Oman Muscat-to-Salalah passage with date-palm anchorages. 149.0
29 🇸🇮 Slovenia Forty-six kilometres of coastline, infinite ambition. 146.5
30 🇫🇷 France Home of the Vendée Globe — they sail oceans like the rest of us walk to the bakery. 135.5
31 🇧🇾 Belarus Landlocked but the rivers know them by name. 117.5
32 🇸🇨 Praslin to La Digue — the world's most photographed beach hop. 111.8
33 🇲🇹 Malta Knights, forts and the most photographed luzzu in the Med. 105.6
34 🇨🇭 Switzerland Lake Geneva sailors who somehow win Atlantic races. 104.2
35 🇧🇷 Brazil Carnival on the foredeck, caipirinha on the helm. 103.2
36 🇩🇰 Denmark They sail like they cycle: relentlessly and beautifully. 90.8
37 🇱🇹 Lithuania Klaipeda crews who out-pivot continental drift. 83.4
38 🇪🇸 Spain Flamenco rhythm in the rigging, paella at sundown. 83.1
39 🇷🇴 Romania Constanta crews with mămăligă energy reserves. 81.3
40 🇧🇪 Belgium Tiny coastline, enormous appetite for offshore racing. 81.1
41 🇹🇷 Turkey From Black Sea to Med via your living room — Istanbul style. 72.6
42 🇦🇹 Austria Wolfgangsee skippers with classical music in the cockpit. 70.3
43 🇦🇱 Albania Riviera quiet, mountain wild, regatta hungry. 63.5
44 🇺🇦 Ukraine Odesa breeze, Crimean roots, unbreakable spirit. 63.3
45 🇬🇷 Greece Three thousand years of sailing tradition, still using the same olive oil. 58.0
46 🇨🇾 Cyprus Aphrodite's home waters — they take love seriously here. 52.5
47 🇻🇬 Tortola-to-Anegada beam reaches in champagne breeze. 51.7
48 🇯🇪 51.0
49 🇷🇺 Russian Federation From Sochi to Vladivostok — eleven time zones of sailing weather. 48.8
50 🇲🇻 48.0
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