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The Guardian A recently restored wooden sailing ship has sunk after colliding with a container vessel near Hamburg, northern Germany. Six adults and two children were injured when the gaff-rigged schooner Elbe No 5, originally built in 1883, collided with…
A series of modular steel and concrete pods have been installed underwater around the Sydney Opera House in Australia to test the marine biodiversity enhancement value of artificial structures. The initiative is a result of a three-year partnership between University…
The Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, got off to a great start with three races held under sunny skies and a mix of conditions on Port Phillip today. Race 1, and the Katie Spithill…
Marseille, France: Spain’s Federico and Arturo Alonso wrapped up gold ahead of the Medal Race after another day of dominance. Friday’s racing commenced at the earlier time of 10:00 local time. A strong morning breeze from the south east came…
Le Havre, France: A strong low pressure system passed through Normandy Friday night with winds exceeding 50 knots and left behind huge waves on Saturday, and despite repeated attempts by the race committee to get things started, the boats never…
Porto Cervo, Italy: The 12th edition of the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and hosting 20 boats ranging from 25 to 52 metres in length, concluded today with the classification unchanged from yesterday. Today…
Langenargen: Match Race German is entering a decisive phase; the quarter finals for the best eight of the preliminary round were started in the afternoon when two-time Match Race Germany winner and defending champion, Eric Monnin and his Capvis Swiss…
Forty five solo racers will take the start line on Sunday afternoon at 1700hrs local time, heading out from Kinsale, Ireland on the 615-nautical mile second stage of La Solitaire Urgo Le Figaro to Roscoff via the Irish Sea with…
Sailors preparing for the 2019 Marion Bermuda Race— the first warning for the first start is Friday at 12 noon— have a busy week ahead of them, with many out doing safety drills and making last minute adjustments, stowing provisions…
Medemblik, Netherlands – Gale force winds meant that the practice race for the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019 in Medemblik had to be cancelled, and craning of the arriving boats suspended for a period. With winds regularly gusting to 40…
Two more races put to bed for the 39 crews on Day 2 of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, on a windy and brittle Port Phillip today with the Katie Spithill skippered Ocean…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club and Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron are excited to announce their partnership for the 1250nm Sydney to Auckland Yacht Race 2021. The race will start on Sydney Harbour on 30 January 2021 and finish…
Ninety-five International Dragon keelboats and their crews from across Europe and Scandinavia and as far afield as Australia, Japan, Canada and the United Arab Emirates are converging on the historic town of Medemblik in the Netherlands for the 2019 Yanmar…
Fifteen-year-old sailor Laila Grafton has been sailing on keelboats out of Bellerive Yacht Club since she was a seven-year-old, mostly joining her father Troy in crewing for prominent BYC member Chris Sheehan. In that time Laila has developed excellent skills…
Italy’s Vittorio Bissaro and Maelle Frascari have thrived at the Hempel World Cup Series Final in Marseille, France, finding form that has been unmatched in the 24-boat Nacra 17 fleet. Meanwhile in the 49er, Spain’s Federico and Arturo Alonso wrapped…
From what is considered the most competitive fleet ever, Yoann Richomme won the opening stage of the 50th La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro; a strategic 545-nautical mile leg from Nantes across the Celtic Sea to Kinsale in Ireland proved to…
After a full program on day one in the 22nd Match Race Germany, the qualification round continued on Friday with shortened program when new race director, Sabine Brugger and her team from the Yacht Club Langenargen, could only start six…
The fourth and penultimate day of racing took place in Porto Cervo today for the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and after yesterday's rest day, all divisions started at 11: 30am as scheduled, thanks…
The winds kicked up as racing got underway for day one of Normandie Match Cup – the first event of the 2019 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) season in the Le Havre – where the veterans lead the…
Mattia Camboni (ITA) and Lilian de Geus (NED) hold top spot in the Men’s and Women’s RS:X as the battles heat up at the Hempel World Cup Series Final in Marseille, France. After Wednesday’s blowout, the sailors racing across the…
Langenargen / Lake Constance (6 June 2019). Will Boulden and his Australian Alpha Sailing Team have almost ideally opened their premiere at the German duel sail classic Match Race Germany. The number nine of the Match Race Rankings and his…
Overall winner in 2016, Yoann Richomme was doing all he could to hold on to a lead of just under half a mile late this afternoon, seeking to close out what would be a well deserved victory on the first…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 6 June 2019. The Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and underway until Saturday 8 June, hosted racing only for boats from the Southern Wind Shipyard today, while the rest of the…
The pinnacle event of the quarter ton class season, the Quarter Ton Cup, starts in less than a week, and it’s set to be an open stage with all of the fleet capable of winning races when the competition gets…
Sailors racing at the Hempel World Cup Series Final in Marseille, France needed to use all the strength and fitness they could find with strong winds bringing the second day to an early close. Gusts well in excess of 30…
Race direction of the 50th anniversary La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro have made it their clear policy to make each stage as open as possible by minimising the number of marks of each course. They have rewarded avid followers of…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 5 June 2019. The second day of racing at the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, an event organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, was characterised by ideal wind conditions for big boat racing. Winds of 18 to…
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year. The outlook forecasts a 40 percent chance of a near-normal season and a 30 percent chance of an above-normal season. The hurricane season…
Safety and survival specialist ACR Electronics has launched the ACR OLAS (Overboard Location Alert System) product range. ACR says the addition of the low-cost ACR OLAS platform to its portfolio ensures that they are the only company to provide a…
By Jean-François Ghiglione, CNRS, ecotoxicologist, at Banyuls Oceanography Laboratory and Romain Troublé, executive director of the Tara Ocean Foundation. Powerful images of marine animals choking on plastics; frightening statistics on the amount of trash found at sea; discovering that even the…
Australian Sailing (AS) is currently undertaking a review of the National Trailable Yacht & Sportsboat committee and its Terms of Reference. The review is intended to help inform the future direction AS takes in this space and gain a greater…
By Burnham-On-Sea.com Police are still trying to trace missing yacht skipper David Moore, whose abandoned boat was mysteriously washed up on Berrow Beach on Monday (June 3rd). Police say David used to live and work in Avonmouth near Bristol but…
Among the 300-350 boats in this August's record-sized Rolex Fastnet Race fleet, many of the 3,000 crew members are competing to fulfill a personal challenge or to tick the world's largest offshore race off their 'bucket list', but several crews…
After he eked out a dream 18 nautical mile lead on stage 1 to Kinsale, Ireland, runaway amateur Henri Lemoncier appears to have had his wings clipped to have been overturned by three times La Solitaire winner Yann Eliès this…
Spain’s Jordi Xammar and Nicolás Rodriguez got off to a flying start at the Hempel World Cup Series Final in Marseille, France, winning both of their races in the Men’s 470. In a variable 7-12 knot south easterly breeze, the…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 4 June 2019. The first day of racing took place today at the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, an event now in its 12th edition and organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which sees 20 boats ranging…
Denmark is the host country for the 49th Finn World Masters, which starts next week at Skovshoved, just north of Copenhagen. Almost 270 Finn Masters have registered to take part in what will be the first ever Finn World Masters…
A bight is a long, gradual bend or recess in the shoreline that forms a large, open bay. Bights are shallow and may pose hazards to navigation, so their depths, in addition to any submerged features like sand bars and…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) is to host the 5.5 Metre Class World Championship 2020 to take place from 9-13 January, with the Scandinavian Gold Cup, Alfreds Gold Cup, the Royal Kaag Classic Cup and Hanko Evolution Cup…
For over 35 years Australian catamaran manufacturer Seawind Catamarans has made a successful run at producing catamarans up to the forty foot mark suitable for family cruising and predominantly the charter boat market. Ever since its move to the Vietnam…
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