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Following two successful editions ARC Channel Islands, entries are now open for this summer's rally which features a new route for 2018 with Dartmouth as the start port. Run in association with RYA Active Marina, the Rally is popular with…
Skipper Simeon Tienpont’s team made the most of slightly better wind and angle as they sailed round the outside of previous frontrunners Turn the Tide on Plastic along with Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag. A little bit of luck then came…
Celebrated yacht designer Ron Holland drew his first yacht at 19 years of age and rapidly made a name for himself as one of the most successful and sought-after designers in the highly competitive world of international ocean racing, before…
South Australia’s former America’s Cup yachtsman Robbie Deussen, sailing Red Mist, today won the final two heats of the Musto Melges 24 Nationals, but it was too little too late as he secured second place overall behind six-time 505 Australian…
The Jerwood/de Vries family combination is well known at Australian Sailing headquarters, where Nia Jerwood and Monique de Vries are Australian representatives in the 470 class before jumping back to 420’s in January to claim the World Women’s title in…
George David's American Maxi Rambler 88 has won the 2018 RORC Caribbean 600 Trophy, scoring the best IRC corrected time, after revelling in the heavy airs race, setting a new monohull race record and winning IRC Zero, completed a hat-trick…
They have done it – at 13hours 20minutes 26seconds UTC, Maserati Multi 70 and her crew crossed the Tea Route, Hong Kong to London finish line, passing under the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. Giovanni Soldini and his crew of Guido…
A delightful breeze developed on Boston Bay today for the final day of racing for the Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta. The final day saw Geoff Boettcher's Secret Men's Business claim the overall IRC victory in dominant fashion with a…
It seems that all our headlines include the word 'Higgins', however with two heats yet to be sailed in the Musto Melges 24 Nationals at Port Lincoln, Sandy Higgins and his team on Scorpius is now certain to take the…
Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race to Sanya, China, will finally conclude today after more than three weeks racing but light winds are causing a feeling of insecurity across the fleet as teams push hard in a slow drag…
In perfect conditions on Perth’s picturesque Swan River in Western Australia, another four races of the program were completed, leaving just two to go on tomorrow’s final day. Today’s breezes remained relatively steady between 250 and 260 degrees, ranging in…
British yachtswoman Dee Caffari was preparing to lead her Volvo Ocean Race team through the middle of the world’s second-largest barrier reef on Thursday in a bid to defend first place in Leg 6 as the finish line draws nearer….
French skipper Catherine Pourre, racing Eärendil, has won the Class40 division for the RORC Caribbean 600, setting a new record for the 600-mile race around 11 Caribbean islands. Philippe Frantz French NM43 Albator has finished the race and is the…
B&G, official supplier of sailing instruments and navigation electronics for the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race, is pleased to introduce the new Zeus3 Glass Helm series. Designed specifically for blue water sailing, multihulls and superyachts, this fast, large-screen, multifunction display sits…
Shaun Carroll's Australian modified Sea Cart 30 Morticia is the smallest yacht to finish the tough 2018 RORC Caribbean 600. The team of four Aussies from North Queensland and New South Wales came a long way to Antigua, with one…
Current weather routing is predicting that this year’s Bunbury and Return Ocean Race will be a record breaking one. The 170 nautical mile blue water event is run by Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and will take the fleet from…
Keel boats participating in the Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta set out today on what was a short two-hour passage race across Boston Bay, finishing in the beautiful Spalding Cove. Competitors stretched their legs with a northward tight reach in…
South Australia’s Sandy Higgins, sailing on Scorpius, took a stranglehold on the Australian Melges 24 Championship, taking out the fifth heat of the series on the second day today in tricky and light breezes off Port Lincoln. It was the…
The finish line is tantalisingly close for the leading teams but, with the wind filling in for the boats at the back of the fleet before it reaches those at the front, it’s going to be a nail-biting end to…
Turn the Tide on Plastic became the new leaders of Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Wednesday as the sprint from Hong Kong to Auckland moved inside 1,500 miles. Dee Caffari’s talented young sailors ghosted past Team Sun…
In the early hours on the third day of the 2018 RORC Caribbean 600, Paradox, Peter Aschenbrenner's American 63' Trimaran crossed the finish line in Antigua completing the 600-mile race in an elapsed time of 1 day, 13 hours 5…
Bad weather has hampered the search for Keith Jones, a 65-year-old solo sailor who is believed to have left Hervey Bay in Queensland a week ago. Mr Jones was reported missing on Monday after he failed to notify anyone of…
The strong conditions experienced at the start of the RORC Caribbean 600 continued through the first night. At 06:00 AST on 20 February 12 yachts have officially retired from the race. Reports of wind speed in the region of 30…
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet is facing another 48 hours of excruciating sailing as the teams plugged deeper into a massive expanse of windless ocean on Tuesday. Lying ahead of them is a 400-mile gulf that stretches as far south…
Less than 30 nautical miles separates the top two teams, and they are nervously looking over their shoulders at the chasing pack, as a wind hole has once again appeared on Day 21 of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise…
Palm Beach Post. By Eliot Kleinberg – Staff Writer Lewis Bennett murdered his wife, Isabella Hellmann, on the high seas in May, then deliberately sank his catamaran in an ultimately failed attempt to stage an accident, prosecutors allege in a federal complaint…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Dean Barker has strengthened his links to the New York Yacht Club's America's Cup challenge with confirmation he will be at the helm of their Congressional Cup and TP52 Super Series campaigns this year. Barker will…
The Gold Coast’s customs clearance port, which is now in operation, has paved the way to drive growth in the superyacht and tourism industries. The new port, which opened mid last year at Southport, means foreign superyachts and other international…
After the second day of the Schweppes Viper Worlds in Perth, Western Australia, a total of eight races have been completed and scores recalculated to include a single drop. A second drop will be allowed if thirteen or more races…
Tasmania’s champion sailors in the one-design SB20 and International Dragon classes were decided on the River Derwent as part of the weekend’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta. Tasmania’s largest regatta saw close to 150 boats, involving more than 600 sailors, young…
This year’s Banjo’s Shoreline Crown Series Bellerive Regatta on Hobart’s River Derwent has again underlined the depth of sailing talent in Tasmania’s most popular junior and youth off-the-beach classes. Just two points separated the top two boats in the high-performance…
Strong breezes greeted sailors on the first day of the Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta as the fleet headed out into Boston Bay for two races around the cans. Geoff Boettcher's team on Secret Men's Business was once again…
The finish line for Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race to Sanya is just days away and some last-minute tactics are being deployed to keep Race Viewers sweating on who is going to win. Race leader Qingdao, which is…
Britain’s Lawrence Crispin heads the points table after four races in the Schweppes Viper Worlds 2018, being sailed on Perth’s Swan River in Western Australia. As forecast, the weather turned brutal. The first race, started in a southerly of about…
It will have been a massively stressful 24 hours for the leading pair on Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race to Auckland, New Zealand. As team AkzoNobel and Scallywag bumped up against an area of calm, those chasing were…
Ludde Ingvall’s CQS starts the Caribbean 600 ocean race today with a top crew and a new DSS foil, in what is expected to be a very fast race. Watch leader Chris Dickson commented, “The forecast is for about 25…
World Sailing announced today that it has put up for review the events represented by the 470 M/W, Finn, and RSX M/W. By choosing not to review the other 5 events; Laser/Radial, 49er/49erFX, and Nacra 17, these events and the…
A record 84 yachts started the 2018 RORC Caribbean 600 in Antigua today; the largest fleet assembled in the ten-year history of the race. The impressive armada set off in unstable conditions with squalls producing a wind range of over…
There are fears for the safety of a man in his 60s, missing for almost a week after sailing out of Hervey Bay Marina on a 10-metre yacht. The man left the marina on February 14 but had not been…
Ludde Ingvall and his CQS team have taken the very difficult decision to retire from the RORC Caribbean 600 race, this was due to an undiagnosed problem with the engine that runs the hydraulic systems on the boat. Explaining the…
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