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Less than five months out of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games the European season opener for Australian Sailing’s Finn sailors, the Finn European Championship (7 – 12 February 2016), wrapped up in Barcelona, Spain on Saturday, 12 February 2016. The…
A quick-thinking Kiwi yachtie attempting a solo circumnavigation of New Zealand has survived disaster off the coast of Kaitaia. The 48-year-old man activated his rescue beacon when his 15-metre vessel began taking on water 100 nautical miles west of Kaitaia…
With the 2017 America's Cup still more than a year away, the Brits are already planning what to do if they win it – and return the historic trophy to the country where it was made. The News Portsmouth. By…
The latest addition to the myPlates range of personalised plates is a trailer design specifically for Marine Rescue NSW. Funds from the new plate will be directed to Marine Rescue NSW, the volunteer emergency service dedicated to saving lives on the…
Ian Guanaria sailed his Beneteau First 35, One More-No More to its first double win of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Grant Thornton Short Haul Series on the weekend, leaving it until the final race to win decisively, while…
With the ability to deliver fishing, cruising and sailing data to your wrist, Garmin’s quatix 3 marine GPS smartwatch merges features and design qualities from one of Garmin’s most popular watches, the fenix 3. The new the quatix 3 is…
Race 9, the last of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Grant Thornton Short Ocean Pointscore series, was sailed in Sydney on the weekend, with Khaleesi coming out on top in Division 1 and the Jutson 31 Outlandish finishing first…
The 2016 Victorian Etchells Championships concluded today at Royal Brighton Yacht Club with John Bertrand, Bill Browne and Jake Newman backing up their 2015 Championship in Triad. Bertrand and crew did not need to sail the final race, but neither did they…
The Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race will set sail for the 68th time on Good Friday, March 24. With the reported chance of a cyclone forming around the Queensland coast this week the organisers, Queensland Cruising Yacht Club, and competitors…
The two teams still at sea, ClipperTelemed+ and Unicef, are enjoying more favourable winds as they make their way to the finish line of Race 8: The Sailing City • Qingdao Cup. Yesterday and the previous day had seen very light winds following the…
This weekend sees the return of six M32 teams to the waters of the Great Sound in Bermuda for the third stage of the M32 Series Bermuda. Teams from Great Britain, North America and Sweden will compete in a fleet…
Something different happened today in Barcelona. Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) managed to maintain his overnight lead and win the 2016 Finn European Championship. Probably the most popular person in the fleet, if not in the sport of sailing, this is an…
Today, China’s Sailing City of Qingdao put on a spectacular display for the arrivals of the first four of twelve teams taking part in the world-famous Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Delegates from the city joined them on stage…
The Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series is coming to New York on May 7-8, 2016. This marks the first America's Cup racing in New York in nearly 100 years. Skipper Jimmy Spihill is bringing his ORACLE TEAM USA, defending…
Day five at the Finn Europeans had it all. Anticipation, excitement, disappointment and high drama. Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) takes the overall lead for the first time and goes into the final day with a ten point lead over his training…
Derry~Londonderry~Doire has recorded an impressive back to back, clean sweep win in the Clipper 2015-16 Race after taking line honours in The Sailing City • Qingdao Cup following twelve days of racing from Vietnam to China. Once again, as with…
The Open Finn European Championships stalled on the fourth day with no more races on the board despite spending four hours on the water trying. With two days to go and a maximum of four fleet races and the medal…
In a thrilling final race against the long-time participating club, Royal Swedish Yacht Club who made its way up all the way from the Repachage, the GYC- One team with Ben Worbs, Philippe Jann and Timothy Müller had a home-run…
Australian super coach Victor Kovalenko talks to www.boatson.tv ‘s Geoff Waller about the Rio Olympic preparations and the Australian Sailing Team. https://youtu.be/oFOEY_sEM4Q
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (January 8, 2016) – The International Women’s Keelboat Championship (IWKC) returns! The revitalized US Sailing Championship, with a new and exciting approach, is aimed at maximizing opportunities for women sailors to participate in high calibre regattas against top…
By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Sailing history is rife with tales of monster-sized rogue waves — huge, towering walls of water that seemingly rise up from nothing to dwarf, then deluge, vessel and crew. Rogue waves can measure eight…
Ben Cornish (GBR) won the only race possible on the third day at the Open Finn Europeans in Barcelona, steeling the win from the race leader from the first mark, Jorge Zarif (BRA). With many of the leaders having a bad…
It has been a tumultuous night, with the fleet experiencing a violent storm which delivered some of the worst conditions of the entire circumnavigation. Gusting winds of 70 to 80 knots tested the teams’ will, with extended periods at 55 to…
The 2016 Sail Port Stephens Regatta added a Sports Boat division to the entry options this week and within 24 hours four crews were signed on. Larger sports boats have entered the autumn regatta in previous years but now there’s…
For the first time in its 10-year history the Extreme Sailing Series is set to go foiling as the 2016 season kicks off in Muscat in one week’s time. Eight teams from 14 different nations, return to the Almouj Golf…
If the initial burst of entries for the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2016 is an indicator, this year’s regatta will once again be something very special. Nearly 40 yachts representing a diverse cross-section of the sport have already nominated…
A front is moving over the fleet, with north-easterly wind between 30 to 40 knots and a swell of three to four metres as the teams beat upwind in the final 400 nautical miles to China. With shifty conditions over…
A model boat of Team SCA, made entirely of 100,000 LEGO® pieces, will be exhibited in the Volvo Ocean Race museum from today. The launch of the Volvo Ocean 65 replica boat, which safely delivered the all-female crew of Team…
The one thing all Australian Melges 24 sailors love is big breeze and flat water, and that is what they had for two days of racing at Lake Macquarie during the East Coast Championships over the weekend on March 5-6….
Milan Vujasinovic (CRO) capitalised on his first day victory at the Finn European Championship today with two great races to extend his lead to eight points after two more races. Josh Junior (NZL) is up to second with Zsombor Berecz…
Wind holes, thick fog and enormous fishing fleets are making for very stressful racing for the teams as they make slow progress towards Qingdao on Day 9 of The Sailing City • Qingdao Cup to China. Derry~Londonderry~Doire (first position) and Garmin (second) have…
Three renowned Queensland identities – each a pioneer and internationally recognised in his area of expertise – have teamed up to head a bid to bring the America’s Cup downunder. The trio and their supporters are not considering entering a…
Wind holes, thick fog and enormous fishing fleets are making for very stressful racing for the teams as they make slow progress towards Qingdao on Day 9 of The Sailing City • Qingdao Cup to China. Derry~Londonderry~Doire (first position) and…
With the decision being made to remove sailing from the Paralympics, the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation pledges to use the funds raised through Bart’s Bash in 2016 to help promote and develop disabled sailing globally. The funds raised from the…
Artemis Racing officially declared their new America’s Cup base open and fully operational on Friday. Nearly 500 guests attended the glamorous opening ceremony held indoors, including Torbjörn Törnqvist, Artemis Racing team principal, Michael Dunkley, the Premier of Bermuda, local dignitaries,…
While the onshore deciduous trees begin the long journey to bare branches, Cruising Helmsman April issue makes sure there is still plenty to learn and do. Have you ever wondered about how to read boat plans and figure out what…
It has been a day of mostly frustratingly light and unstable airs on The Sailing City • Qingdao Cup to China, with a dying breeze. Garmin, which was leading the fleet yesterday, is now in Stealth Mode until 1150 UTC today, and Derry~Londonderry~Doire, which…
Tasmania’s SB20 one-design sports boat fleet has the sailing talent to produce strong contenders for the class world championship to be sailed on Hobart’s River Derwent in January 2018 with an expected fleet of 100-plus. This was clearly evident by…
The champion Smeg team continued the form which has seen it take victories in both the JJ Giltinan and Australian Championships when Lee Knapton, Ricky Bridge and Mike McKensey led nearly all the way in Race 10 of the League’s…
Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban and Bob Cox’s Nine Dragons clean swept Division 1 and 2 respectively at Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s 2016 Sydney Harbour Regatta, which ended this afternoon, while Phil Dash did what he is best at, coming from…
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