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Light and flukey winds, at times none at all, on Hobart’s River Derwent, curtailed competition today in the Australian Women’s Match Racing Championship. Only half the second round-robin could be completed. Sarah Parker and her young crew from Sydney’s Royal…
It was literally champagne sailing on the opening day of Townsville Yacht Club’s Sealink Magnetic Island Race Week, when on a slow downwind slide, the Pommery champagne corks popped on local, Mal Pirret’s appropriately named ‘Champagne’, and glasses were handed…
Eight teams of women sailors from New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania today began racing for the 2016 Australian Women's Match Racing Championship on Hobart's River Derwent. Sharing the lead with six wins each after the first round-robin…
Oman Air dished out a lesson in consistency to the Extreme Sailing Series™ fleet today to jump into pole position as the action intensified in St Petersburg. With victories in three of the four Acts so far this season Morgan…
The fast and furious M32 catamarans had another perfect day of sailing in the “Battle of Helsinki” on Friday. The fresh breeze picked up towards the end of the day and last two races were sailed without guests on the…
Spectacular British wooden sail ship, the STSTenacious, will be the official start boat for the 2017 Festival of Sails’ dramatic opening event, the Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race. One of the highlights of the annual Festival, the 34 nautical mile…
This year was the 32ndDarwin to Ambon Yacht Race, hosted by Dinah Beach Cruising Yacht Club. A fleet of 16 yachts with more than 100 crew from nine countries set sail from North Australia bound for Indonesia on 13thAugust 2016….
The September issue of Cruising Helmsman is taking a different course this month. While we have the same favourite stories we have added some interesting trips inland through Europe's canal system. One story details the tall mast canal system available…
Three Australian crews, two from Tasmania and one from Victoria, are taking on some of the world’s best sailors when they contest the Cascais 2016 SB20 one-design sportboat World championship in Portugal, with competition starting tomorrow, 30 August. The 73…
The new format Australian Yachting Championship title concluded on the final windy day of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week, Saturday August 27, and two winners from the 2015 series returned to glory after five days of racing in the Whitsunday…
AC Endeavour, the America’s Cup youth sailing program, held a special “Sailorbration” event on Saturday in Bermuda with the first season of AC Endeavour students graduating from the program. The celebration on Saturday provided the ‘AC Endeavour Graduates’ a chance…
Phoenix will compete at the TP52 World Championships in Mahón, Menorca. Experienced American owner Richard Cohen will compete at the TP52 World Championships in Mahón, Menorca, with Phoenix, which will be skippered by Paul Cayard. The carefully assembled team includes…
“I can’t tell you the buzz you get out of sailing the GC32. I’ve spent years and years on the likes of TP52s and other keel boats eking out a tenth of a knot here and there, and with these…
The 10th anniversary Sail Port Stephens regatta is expanding and moving to a new timeslot in April 2017, avoiding a clash with the peak Easter period. The revised dates for the fast-growing event are 3-9 April 2017, preceding the NSW…
Associated Press has reported that Harvey Schiller, a former executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, is stepping down as commercial commissioner of the America's Cup. Will Chignell, the chief marketing and communications officer with the America's Cup Event Authority…
The National Hurricane Center (part of the United States NOAAS) is issuing advisories on recently upgraded Hurricane Gaston, located about 1215 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. A broad area of low pressure located about 200 miles northwest of…
Layday came early for the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week fleet despite best efforts by the race committee to get some divisions racing out on the Eastern course area, in the Turtle Bay vicinity. That fleet of cruisers and cruising…
A light breeze and cloudy skies on the morning of day two of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week saw 12 of the 14 divisions scheduled for various island courses starting from Dent Passage. The Trailables Division led the vanguard at…
The Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349 has been making waves around the world and it isn’t surprising why. The price point is right for a boat that can go from cruiser to round-the-cans racing easily. With over 25 in Australia, and…
North Sails was founded in 1957 by Lowell North in the United States. The company is one of the largest sailmakers in the world with lofts and facilities in almost 30 countries. The brand was established in Australia by John…
Flagstaff Marine was created in 2014 in conjunction with Vicsail Sydney. While the brand is known for their association with Beneteau, they are also the agents for Amel Yachts, CNB Yachts and Sly Yachts. We spoke to Graham Raspass about…
On board navigation systems have evolved to the point that they are common place on almost every level of racing yacht. This includes Med Cup TP52s, offshore “thoroughbreds” and club cruiser-racers. There are many reasons why these systems are so…
The ‘Manly Graduate’ 14ft sailing skiff has been on the Australian sailing scene for a long time now, and while many other ‘traditional’ classes have dwindled and almost disappeared, the MG is embracing its development roots and forging ahead. The…
Tom Slingsby is expected to resume training with his Oracle Team USA team-mates this month. The Oracle sailing team manager, helmsman and tactician is on the mend after having surgery to replace a damaged disc in his back at the…
It's time to celebrate all Australian Sailors, their achievements from these Olympic Games, past games and future games. Australian company Zhik is an official supplier to the Australian Olympic Team and has released a limited edition run of caps, spandex…
Despite grey skies and showers, it was a busy and colourful start to Audi Hamilton Island Race Week with a record 252 yachts across 14 divisions sent on their way for a 22-nautical mile race around Lindeman Island and back,…
The finish of the final race for Division 1 of Bellerive Yacht Club/Tilford Auto Group Winter Series was a real nail-biter for Michael and Michelle Denney in their Z39 Wild West on Hobart’s River Derwent today. Wild West took line…
Harry Price (AUS) and his Down Under Racing team of young guns, Ben Robinson and Murray Jones, won the Chicago Grand Slam at Chicago Yacht Club. Price swept both the Semi-Finals against Peter Holz and the Finals against local favorite,…
As the athletes walk into the opening ceremony at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on September 7, it will be a bittersweet moment for the sailors. In February 2015, the International Paralympic Committee made the decision to remove sailing from…
They say nothing is over till it’s over – and never has that proven more true than by what went down at the final day of the Scandinavian Series event in the city of Aarhus today. British Ian Williams claims…
Today’s light conditions didn’t stop Swedish Nicklas Dackhammar’s impressive sailing at the Scandinavian Series event in the Danish city of Aarhus. The young skipper is now leading the pack heading into tomorrow’s final day. The racing in Aarhus got off…
Going into the Men's 470 medal race at Rio 2016, it was obvious that Croatia was going to win its first sailing Gold. On just 27 points after the 10 race qualifying series, Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic held a…
Although the London Silver medallists Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark of Great Britain had secured the Gold at Rio 2016, leading by an insurmountable 20 points going into the medal race, the battle for the minor placings was always going…
Sailing a Finn is a demanding occupation. Every one of the 23 Finn sailors who made it to Rio made huge sacrifices to be here and many will go home with unrealised goals and unfulfilled ambition. Some will be back,…
No-one could deny that the best crew won the 49er Gold medal at Rio 2016. Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) had won every major event since they finished second to Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen (AUS) at London 2012….
Like most of the women's events at the Rio Olympics, the 49erFX was a close and exciting contest. Three crews were tied on 46 points going into the medal race and a fourth was just a point behind. The leading…
Airlie Beach Race Week started with three unbeatable days of sailing under the sun and then conditions became testing for the remainder of the regatta, with even more dismastings, a boat aground and two crew were taken to hospital after…
Going into the Laser Radial medal race at Rio 2016, London Silver medalist Marit Bouwmeester was in a strong position. She had finished the qualifying series of 10 races on 47 points, eight clear of second-placed Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark….
In our excitement at the amazing performance of Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin to bounce back from an awful final day of qualifying in the Nacra 17 at Rio 2017, to win Silver after starting in fourth place, we probably…
Anyone missing a yacht? A reader has sent pictures to WAtoday showing a sunken sailing yacht near East Fremantle. All that's visible above the Swan River waterline is a metal mast with a wind vane and crosstrees hovering above a…
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