Nasdaq takes first Clipper Race bonus point
The 10th day of racing in Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race saw the race to the Scoring Gate come to a close for the three teams chasing for bonus race points with two of the three teams making…
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America’s Cup conqueror feels pressure for homecoming race
Geelong: One of Australia’s most decorated sportsmen – America’s Cup winner Glenn Ashby – will return to racing on familiar shores for his first home regatta since claiming the world’s oldest trophy the Auld Mug. The multiple world champion, Olympic…
Two people on troubled catamaran off coast of Coromandel Peninsula
Story: https://www.stuff.co.nz/ A mission is under way to rescue those on board a catamaran suffering a broken mast off the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Two people are aboard the 12-metre double hull lying in rough seas off Port Jackson,…
Volvo Ocean Race: Short-term pain for Scallywag and AkzoNobel as battle rages on
Early numbers from Race Control suggest that the northern gamble isn’t paying off for team AkzoNobel and Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag on Day 3 of Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race from Hong Kong to Auckland. The two boats tacked…
Euroflex survives scare with a Perfect Ten
Geelong: Just two seconds split Euroflex and Pavement in the final race of the opening day of the SuperFoiler Grand Prix on Geelong’s Corio Bay – with Euroflex finishing supreme. Phil Robertson’s Record Point turned the final marker ahead and…
Light winds and an elusive scoring gate dog Clipper fleet
It’s been slow progress in light winds for the fleet on Day 9 of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race, with no team managing to sail more than 50 nautical miles in the last twelve hours. And it’s all…
Brunel leads Volvo fleet into the Luzon Strait
The six Volvo boats are tucked towards the southern tip of Taiwan, anticipating a turn to the north after leaving Taiwan to port. On the 0700 UTC position report on Thursday, Brunel had eked out a narrow lead, but most…
Big steaks as Finn sailors beef up for tough season
‘Classic’ – Definition: judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. ‘Power’ – Definition: the ability to exert a maximal force. While strength is the maximal force you can apply against…
Team New Zealand the big winner at Kiwi sports awards
Emirates Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup victory in Bermuda in 2017 was recognised with both the Sports Team of the Year and the Halberg Supreme Award at last nights 55th Halberg Awards, the country's pre-eminent event to honour and celebrate…
Landmark Hardy Cup win to Clare Costanzo
For the first time since its inauguration in 2001, a female led all-women crew captured the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron's longstanding Hardy Cup Sydney International Match Racing Regatta trophy at the end of four days of intense competition on Sydney…
AkzoNobel leads fleet out of Hong Kong towards Auckland
Skipper Simeon Tienpont’s team AkzoNobel led the Volvo Ocean Race fleet away from the Hong Kong start line on Monday morning as Leg 6 got underway. Racing started in a light, 8-10 knot easterly with AkzoNobel, SHK/Scallywag, and Team Brunel…
Records broken at windy 2018 The Bay Regatta
PHUKET, Thailand – A strong line-up of 33 boats and almost 300 sailors from around the world competed in 21st edition of The Bay Regatta from 31st January to 4th February, 2018. A travelling regatta that sails through three of…
Classy fleet for Saturday’s Bruny Island Race
The coming weekend’s JJ Richards Bruny Island Yacht Race has attracted a classy fleet of 16 yachts for the 89-nautical mile circumnavigation of the elongated island south of Hobart. The race starts at 9.30am on Saturday, 10 February, from a…
Update on Nacra foil strike incident
Danish Nacra sailor CP Lubeck was injured when he fell overboard and was struck by the rudder during a regatta in New Zealand recently. Thankfully CP is in recovery and was released from the hospital after two nights there. We all…
Nebo Sponsors the 2018 Club Marine Geographe Bay Race Week
Nebo is honoured to be an official sponsor of the 2018 Club Marine Geographe Bay Race Week which runs from 18-23 February on the pristine waters of Geographe Bay in Busselton Western Australia. Club Marine Geographe Bay Race Week is…
Harold Cudmore's Yendys takes out Historical 18ft Skiff Championship
Class: Historic 18-foot Skiffs Event: 2018 Australian Championship Venue: Sydney Harbour Organising Authority: Sydney Flying Squadron Class Association: Australian Historic Sailing Skiff Association – AHSSA Top 3 Places + crew names, + pts: YENDYS, Harold Cudmore, Michael Van…
AIS: A sailing must have in SE Asia
The port light looked like it was getting closer but was somewhat difficult to tell as the wind howled and the rain sheeted down. It is always the way, I thought, as I wondered how far away the ship was….
New project for Sailors With DisAbilities
Sailors With DisAbilities (SWD) has launched its latest project ‘Wright of Passage’ – involving a wooden boat and getting disengaged and disabled young people back on their feet – and it is supported by the Oatley family, who have given…
Aussies win three medals at New Zealand regatta
Australian Sailing Team and Squad members will return from New Zealand with three medals after a tightly-contested Oceanbridge NZL Sailing Regatta at Murrays Bay Sailing Club, Auckland, rounded out the inaugural Tasman Series. Australia’s top two 49er crews, David Gilmour…
Return to the Northern Hemisphere for Clipper crews
The Clipper Race fleet has begun to spread out after a full week of racing in Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race with 167 nautical miles (nm) now separating first and eleventh place as teams prepare to head back…
RS100 Nationals held at Wangi Wangi
Wangi is a beautiful sleepy hole 1.5 hrs north of Sydney – on a huge tidal Lake Macquarie Wangi RSL Amateur SC stage many national events – and are well experienced. The sail set up area is a huge lawn…
Sandringham Yacht Club turns on the ‘Sandy Hospitality’
Sandringham Yacht Club in Melbourne recently hosted a myriad of major events, the most recent being the J24 Nationals and the Australian Yachting Championship (AYC), inclusive of the Australian J/111 and Multihull Championships this month, continuing to position itself as a…
Unpredictable conditions test Clipper fleet
Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race has served up some of the most unexpected conditions of the 2017-18 edition so far and unforecasted weather conditions have continued to challenge the fleet during the sixth day of racing. After PSP…
Vestas 11th Hour Racing will not compete in Leg 6 of Volvo Ocean Race
5 February 2018 (Hong Kong) – Vestas 11th Hour Racing has undertaken steps to repair their Volvo Ocean 65 yacht, which was involved in a collision with a non-racing vessel at the end of Leg 4 near Hong Kong. The time…
Smallest yacht wins Pot of Gold in WA offshore series
The smallest boat in the Pot of Gold weekend of offshore racing in Perth also turned out to be a giant killer. Ryan Binedell’s little S97 Low Flying Duck, sailing in the double handed division with 17-year-old crewman Nathan Stacey…
Volvo Ocean Race fleet departs Guangzhou, China
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet slipped lines at the Nansha Marina in Guangzhou, China on Monday morning in preparation for Leg 6 to Auckland, New Zealand, which will start this Wednesday following a short stop in Hong Kong. For Liu…
Team Maserati Multi70 rounds Cape of Good Hope after 16 days of navigation
Modena 5 February 2018 – Maserati Multi70 rounded the Cape of Good Hope on Saturday 3 February at 12:20 UTC after 16 days, 1 hour and 37 minutes of navigation. The arrival in South Africa happened a few hours earlier,…
Compromise solution for America's Cup bases in Auckland
Newsroom. By Tim Murphy. A compromise base for America's Cup teams on the Auckland waterfront is now likely to be readied for planning consent after a standoff between the Government and Auckland Council over where best to invest up to $140…
Countback cliff-hanger at Farr 40 NSW title
At the end of two long days and seven races in mixed conditions, a countback cliff-hanger split first and second at the Farr 40 NSW Championship which wrapped up on Sydney Harbour on Sunday February 4, 2018. Martin Hill and…
Australian 18ft Skiff Championship hanging in the balance
The Australian 18ft Skiff Championship is wide open after another day produced two different winners in Races 3 and 4 on Sydney Harbour on Sunday. Smeg's team of Lee Knapton, Mike McKensey and Ricky Bridge dominated Race 3 in the…
Clipper Race: Tactics play out
Key tactical decisions have been made during day five of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race as more predictable Doldrums Corridor conditions of light airs and rain squalls return. On the fifth day of racing, PSP Logistics heads up…
Low flying rocket ship wins Pot of Gold
The smallest boat in the Pot of Gold weekend of offshore racing in Perth also turned out to be a giant killer when Ryan Binedell’s little S97, Low Flying Duck, sailing in the double-handed division, set the standard with a…
Great day for HillPDA
Skipper Martin Hill, tactical weapon Tom Slingsby and the rest of HillPDA’s credentialed crew produced a very worthy set of scores on day one of the Farr 40 NSW State Title staged off Manly in Sydney. HillPDA is perched three…
Warren Jones: Harry Price crew claims the title
It had been yet another really challenging day for PRO Kim Laurence and his race management team with very light and fickle easterly early in the afternoon of Day 4. Having struggled to get some early Round Robin Two flights…
Clipper Race: Finally some breeze
And they’re off – much to the delight of the majority of Clipper Race skippers and their crews, the fourth day of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race to Sanya, China, has brought about some long-awaited breeze which has…
MAPFRE conquers China
After winning the Guanzhou, China, in-port race, MAPFRE, skippered by Xabi Fernandez, is now at the top of the leaderboard for the Volvo Ocean Race In-port series, and with a five-point advantage. It proved to be a very fast race…
Maserati rounds Cape of Good Hope
After 16 days, 1 hour and 37 minutes of navigation, Maserati, Multi 70 skippered by Giovanni Soldini, rounded Cape of Good Hope at 12.20 UTC. After a night spent fighting with light winds, the arrival in South Africa occurred a…
Champion sailors launch Crown Series Bellerive Regatta
Three champion sailors, one a keelboat racing veteran and a teenage girl crew heading for the World Youth Championships, today helped launch Tasmania’s biggest sailing regatta for keelboats and off-the-beach racing dinghies. Bellerive Yacht Club member Troy Grafton will be…
2018 EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour
The waiting is over, the teams have gathered, and it’s all systems go for the all-new 2018 EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour. Sunday, February 4, will see the opening skirmishes in a highly competitive fleet of eight Diam 24…
Clipper Race: Doldrums before the Doldrums return
The third day of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race to Sanya was meant to bring high winds from a low-pressure system but instead, the Clipper Race fleet has seen the return of the dreaded Pre-Doldrums, Doldrums. This is…
