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The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Vice Admiral’s Cup came to a conclusion on Sunday local time after two days of racing in fresh to feisty conditions in the Solent, and the final day produced more challenging conditions for the high-performance…
Racing got underway at the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Vice Admiral’s Cup on Saturday with four highly competitive races for all eight classes and the gale that had blown through the Solent the previous day had passed, although there was…
After a day of very tight racing in Cowes, Rán is the early leader in the Fast40+ Class at the Vice Admiral’s Cup, Round 1 of the class’s 2021 Race Circuit, while Khumbhu and Jean Genie also won races on…
For the first 44Cup event in 17 months, Portorož in Slovenia, could not have offered better conditions to date; slowly ramping up the wind strength to the third and penultimate day of racing, when the wind was at times solidly…
Current JJ Giltinan world champion, Michael Coxon has been sailing 18s for around 20 seasons and during that time has won four JJ world titles and five Australian Championships as well as numerous other major titles. However, even the world’s…
Thirty one of the 33 skippers who competed in the 9th Vendée Globe mustered in Les Sables d’Olonne today for the official prize giving and closing ceremony in which Yannick Bestaven (Maître-CoQ) received top award as the overall winner. “Winning…
Cruising is not about whipping in under full sail, ropes straining, fuelling up and having a shandy and heading off again. There is more to it than that, if it is to be enjoyed in the genteel fashion to which…
In a fleet as close as the 44Cup’s it is rare for one team to dominate, but perhaps because of the 17-month absence caused by the pandemic, yesterday at the 44Cup Portorož, Slovenia, there was one stand-out performer, Team Nika….
Today marked the final day of racing on the waters of Capri for the boats competing for the title of ORC European Champion 2021, and the Race Committee was on the water at 10 this morning to position the course…
Friday’s opening day for the Fast40 Class in the UK was called off, with average winds of 40 knots sweeping through the Solent, but Saturday’s forecast is much better while Sunday should start with moderate winds, increasing through the day….
With 450+ yachts entered in this year’s 49th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race, the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s biennial flagship event has consolidated its position as the biggest offshore yacht race in the world. The 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race sets…
The final piece of an important puzzle has been put in place today, with Australian Sailing announcing the appointment of performance development specialist Ken Lynch to the role of National Performance Pathway Manager. Lynch will be charged with leading the…
With its light start, brilliant sunshine, and the ancient town of Piran with its still snowcapped Slovenian Alps as a backdrop, the day could not have been better for the 44Cup fleet to blow away any cobwebs after such a…
This morning the fleet of 62 boats competing in the ORC European Championship took to the race course located 4 miles off Capri’s Marina Grande. Conditions were somewhat more stable than yesterday, with about 10 to 12 knots of breeze…
The Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race has reached a milestone, with the 50th entrant – Kevin Whelan and his Beneteau 45F5 Reve – representing the host club in the annual race from Sydney Harbour to Gold Coast. The Cruising…
The 2021 Australian Superyacht, Marine Export and Commercial Industry (ASMEX) conference held at Sanctuary Cove on Tuesday May 18 successfully delivered a diverse and dynamic cross section of speakers and session topics on the Australian marine industry. Now in its…
The Ocean Race, the world’s toughest test of a team in sport, will host a high-level Summit on 16th June to help drive new and improved policies to tackle some of the most urgent issues facing our blue planet. The…
Simon Torvaldsen is having a real blast in his JPK 10.80, ‘Atomic Blonde’, winning the prestigious Siska Trophy as the best performing yacht on IRC Overall during Western Australia’s 20/21 season. The Siska Trophy is based on the overall handicap…
Two of Australia’s fastest men on water; maritime marvels who have been quite comfortable while travelling at more than 130 knots, will go head-to-head in August at Australia’s premier yachting regatta, Hamilton Island Race Week. This time, though, their circumstances…
Following a few days training here in Slovenia, owners and crews of the eight RC44s are now back in the saddle and ready for tomorrow’s start of the 44Cup Portorož. The last time the 44Cup fleet raced was in Palma…
The first edition of The Ocean Race Europe, scheduled to start on May 29 from the Lorient, France, has partnered with Quirónprevención of the Quirónsalud group for the design and implementation of a strict Covid-19 prevention protocol. A multidisciplinary team…
New Zealand’s packed summers of superyacht racing are set to continue with entry open and the release of the 2022 NZ Millennium Cup Notice of Race Four superyacht owners have already declared their interest in racing in the world’s longest-standing…
The Boating Industry Association joined with TAFE NSW recently to deliver the Green Light Day webinar as a promotion of skills, training, and career opportunities in the marine industry. BIA and TAFE used the webinar to showcase job opportunities and…
Five years ago we were at a remote Pacific island with just a few other yachts. There was socialising ashore and chatter on the VHF. This year we sailed to another remote island: Lord Howe. It was an easy 470…
After a successful 2020 event in late October last year, a fleet of 38 women and 69 men for a total of 107 windsurfers gathered on Lake Garda for the 2021 iQFOiL International Games hosted by Univela Sailing in Campione…
Rolex Capri Sailing Week 2021 The first day of mark racing got underway today in ORC European Championship 2021 with a fleet of 62 hulls from 12 different nations taking to the waters off Capri this morning to do battle…
A UK man who entered Australian waters on a yacht he sailed from Tahiti has been rescued and placed in hotel quarantine after his vessel sank in rough seas off the coast of Newcastle. A gruelling 26-hour operation ended in…
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High performance racing with the Royal Ocean Racing Club is back with the Vice Admiral’s Cup taking place in the Solent from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd May and over 50 teams have taken up the challenge for 2021. The…
The newly implemented air travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand, combined with an existing sea border exemption for vessels, means New Zealand is now open to business for cruising yachts and superyachts coming from Australia. The yachts can visit…
The new IMOCA rule, which will be applicable from 2022 to 2025, was voted on at the class association’s general assembly on April 15. To understand the main developments, Tip & Shaft interviewed the class president, Antoine Mermod. Also interviewed…
The Port of Eden is set to become a safe small boat harbour, with construction of a wave wall to begin this year. Member for Bega, Andrew Constance, confirmed Austral Construction has been awarded the tender for the project, which…
With just two points separating the leader, Realteam and second-placed Alinghi, there was the potential for an exciting showdown at the TF35 Nyon in Switzerland, but the weather decided otherwise, and racing cancelled, Realteam prevailed. Looking at the forecast overnight,…
British skipper Pip Hare and her sponsors, Medallia, have confirmed they are the new owners of the IMOCA Bureau Vallée 2, which Louis Burton sailed to third place on the last Vendée Globe, and which Armel Le Cléac’h sailed to…
I had not been in control of a boat since I was 16 years old. Sure, that is not exactly true. We hired a tinny on the Sunshine Coast with the view to catching a fish. Fortunately, no fish were…
While on day one there was no stand-out team, today Esteban Garcia’s Realteam Sailing, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, had the bit between her teeth, posting an almost perfect 1 1 2 1 scoreline. Race 1 got underway in a steady…
Every new MC38 team knows it takes a season or two to get a handle on the nuances of the slippery one design keelboat, and usually much longer to climb past the class stalwarts – a couple of them with…
As well as beating Australia to win the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess, Great Britain also dealt a further blow to the Aussies by breaking their SailGP racing speed record. Tom Slingsby’s team had held the F50…
World Sailing’s Council have approved the Men’s and Women’s Kiteboarding (Formula Kite) and Men’s and Women’s Two Person Dinghy (470) as the first and second alternative event proposals to Mixed Offshore at Paris 2024 following their meeting at the 2021…
The opening day of the TF35 Nyon was an unusually high scoring for all but Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard’s Spindrift. The French team, helmed this weekend by Xavier Revil, claimed the second race of the day after splitting from…
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