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Day 260: At 04:00 UTC today, American/Hungarian Istvan Kopar and his Tradewind 35 yacht Puffin was within 250 miles of the finish line and expected to reach Les Sables d'Olonne around 09:00 UTC on Thursday 21st March. Kopar was making 5.1…
It was clear that the fight to take the Paul & Shark Trophy, International Dragon Cup, would be tough and decided down to the very last race for the teams aiming at the podium. Going into the last racing day…
2019 is set to be a year of great changes in the Copa del Rey MAPFRE. Following the recent announcement of the new classification system (including a final stage and the new distribution of the ORC classes), a new Women’s…
March 18, 2019 – The annual Mirabaud Sailing Video Award celebrates the best sailing videos produced each year across the world and their authors. Building on the lessons learned from the first two editions, the competition continues to evolve and…
Some of the largest and fastest multihulls, both catamarans and trimarans, will descend on Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing to compete in the 2019 Australian Multihull Championship, to be held from 8-15 August. The…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2019 – and members, guests and yachting enthusiasts alike are in for a treat with a year-long celebration planned. The club famous for the world-renowned Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht…
Mount Gay Rum was one of the original sponsors of the BVI Spring Regatta (BVISR) having first partnered with the popular Caribbean regatta in 1972 through its distributor, Road Town Wholesale. The brand, synonymous with sailing, has always been an…
Eighteen adventurers, including a professor, an engineer and a student, have been chosen to represent the city of Zhuhai in China as ocean racers in the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race. The candidates, who went through a tough…
Following the press release sent out by the Defender in the early hours of 15 March 2019, regarding the most recent decision of the Arbitration Panel, the Challenger of Record wishes to clarify that the New York Yacht Club was…
Sail Port Stephens 2019 has welcomed aboard Bannisters Port Stephens as a new sponsor for its entrée event, the Commodores Cup, starting April 8. The three passage races that constitute the Commodores Cup take competitors on a scenic loop around…
The America’s Cup Arbitration Panel decision finding all three Late Entry challenges to be valid has been released today. The Challenger of Record and the Defender had already reached a settlement agreement under which the validity of the Challenges was…
Among the newcomers to the IMOCA class, Maxime Sorel and Clément Giraud come from different backgrounds, but share the same dream – they wish to take part in the 2020 Vendée Globe. We found out more about their two projects….
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is the first club to enter a team for the April National Sailing League Final in Sydney. CYCA Youth Sailing Academy head coach Jordan Reece won’t name his youth team just yet. He still…
According to a marine trade newsletter, Yamaha Motor and Fujitsu will collaborate on trials of a 470 Class dinghy to improve the performance of that sailing dinghy. Known world wide as a manufacturer of motorboats and engines, as well as…
Following the founding of the International Schooner Association (ISA) at a meeting during last September’s Regates Royales in Cannes, so the first ever event purely for classic schooners will take place off Capri in May. The ISA, the Circolo del…
Whitsunday bareboat charter company Cumberland Charter Yachts posted up a great story recently. It relates the story of how one young bloke went from being an itinerant penniless backpacker to owning his own yacht, now available for charter through CCY….
During the summer break, while you dear readers were enjoying your Christmas fare, mysailing works hard to deliver a daily Sydney Hobart Yacht Race newsletter. During the last race the newsletter included a competition in collaboration with Ponant Cruise Lines:…
The Australian MC38 class will commence its national regatta with weigh ins taking place on Thursday 14th March, to compete across the following three days. Hosted at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, the weekend will see the fleet in…
In this modern era of nationalist fervour it would appear there is a growing discord between geographic neighbours Spain and Portugal in regard to who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe. The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is often…
In 2019 the International Maxi Association (IMA) celebrates the 40th anniversary of its establishment by notable maxi boat owners of the day, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Raul Gardini, John Kilroy and William Whitehouse-Vaux. From its modest, relatively low-key beginnings, today…
Entries are open for Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron’s (RMYS) 29th Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) and Victorian competitors are throwing down the gauntlet; many will come fresh from competing in the 2018/19 Port Phillip Women’s Championship in Melbourne, ending on…
Tom and Alan Quick’s Outlaw sailed in a league of its own at the three-day Farr 40 National Championship: John Calvert-Jones Trophy, eight wins from 10 starts creaming the rest of the fleet and creating an extraordinary 22-point buffer back…
After moderate sea breeze conditions on the first day and even lighter northerly winds on the final day, the SA Youth Champs are now in the books with the champions crowned across the five classes. Competitors from the 420, International…
New Zealand’s Honda Marine 18ft Skiff team of David McDiarmid, Matt Steven and Brad Collins became the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan champions today, when they successfully defended the title they won last year on Sydney Harbour. Honda Marine completed…
Maritime Executive On March 6, the offshore survey vessel Seabed Constructor helped to rescue an injured sailor from a damaged yacht. The Constructor had just finished a successful mission to recover the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the wreck of…
NZ Herald. By: Tom Dillane A German tourist owes his life to a pair of jeans he used as a makeshift lifejacket while lost at sea for over three hours off the Gisborne coast. Arne Murke was knocked from a 12-metre…
Stuff.co.nz. By Harrison Christian and Nicole Lawton. Former America's Cup sailor Simone de Mari has been badly injured in a surfing accident. The incident reportedly happened last Sunday, and the Italian-born athlete was taken to Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. A spokesperson…
Dateline: 10/3/2019 Les Sables d’Olonne, France Uku Randmaa crossed the Les Sables d’Olonne finish line at 09:00 UTC today to secure third place in Golden Globe Race. Thousands lined the river entrance to catch a glimpse of this quiet spoken…
Sunsail has launched its ‘Sail by the cabin’ experience, suited for adventurers, couples or friends who want to experience cruising fun in safety. Sailing in a flotilla of up to ten other yachts, with a private cabin for two and…
Multihull Central in partnership with the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron announces a new hardstand area exclusively for the out of water storage and display of preowned cruising catamarans and trimarans. This display now opens up a convenient location for multihull…
A new chapter in the world of multihulls has just begun with the formation of the Multihull Cruising Yacht Club Inc. (MCYC). This club has been formed to allow multihull owners (both sail and power) to liaise with others who…
Famous former America’s Cup challenger Gretel II showed her evergreen racing ability in yesterday’s final race of the Cygnet Regatta Weekend, winning both the Classics and Division One. The regatta, first held in 1863 and revived by the proactive Port…
Points are starting to spread out at the Farr 40 Australian National Championship: John-Calvert Jones Trophy after three more races on a gloomy day two offshore, but Tom and Alan Quick’s stronghold on the national championship tightened with two further…
The New Zealand champion ASCC team of Josh Porebski/Jack Simpson/Dave Hazard produced a brilliant performance to win Race 8 of the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour. Despite the brilliance of the ASCC victory, the…
In what is possibly a world first, two winning America’s Cup skippers from different eras – John Bertrand and Glenn Ashby – will sail together to compete in the Victorian Etchells Championship from 9 to 11 March at Royal Geelong…
In building nor’easters, Outlaw seized three bullets from four races on Day 1 of the Farr 40 Nationals, only Sam Hill’s Forty able to slow the Quicks’ momentum. “My team was fantastic; it was a pleasure to go sailing today,”…
On International Women’s Day 2019, Australian Sailing is pleased to announce the launch of our national female participation brand, SheSails. Australian Sailing has a strategic objective to increase female participation. The SheSails brand is designed to be a focal point…
Southern Tasmania has a unique heritage in yachting that can be traced back to the 1830s: the annual sailing regattas that start at Hobart and on the Huon River in the spring and end up down at Dover on Port…
Registrations have opened for the 2020 Mediterranean Escapade, which is set to become one of the most popular international rallies when it is staged from 7-12 May. Hosted by Mariner Boating and Multihull Solutions, Mediterranean Escapade is expected to draw…
Part of the French Sailing Federation’s Class40 program, this new event, organised by Grand Pavois Organisation, will depart from Guadeloupe on Saturday 23 March. Crews (minimum of two people aboard) will arrive in Horta in the Azores, then in La…
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