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London, 25 June 2015: Today marked a historic day for sailing's longest-running professional series with the purchase by Sweden's Aston Harald AB of the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT). Pro Match Tour Ltd, the Bermuda-based owner of the Tour and…
Leg 1: Alicante (Spain) to Cape Town (South Africa) Winner: Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker/GBR) Highlights: It was a tactical and long race, passing Gibraltar, Cape Verde, and negotiating the Doldrums and the St Helena High. After breaking a…
Blazing sunshine and a 10 knot South Easterly greeted the 59 boat Moth Nationals fleet at Stokes Bay Sailing Club. A number of new innovations were on display including Dylan Fletcher's solid wings, Mike Lennon's boom fairings and James Phare's…
With twelve races now sailed at the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Cowes Cup, still just one point separates the leaders and this was only decided in the final metres of today’s last race. Compared to yesterday, conditions were equally sunny,…
The 9th annual Seawind Whitsunday Rally, hosted by Multihull Central last week, saw over half a dozen catamarans and thirty crew enjoy island hopping around the beautiful Whitsunday Islands for a week of social racing, sundowners plus onshore and offshore parties….
PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) — Leading Swiss yachtsman Laurent Bourgnon was reported missing by authorities in French Polynesia on Thursday after a diving incident. The Papeete rescue center in Tahiti said the 49-year-old Bourgnon, who twice won the Route du Rhum…
Tomorrow sees the UK foiling Moth community descend on Stokes Bay Sailing Club for the International Moth National Championship. To date, 57 helms have entered and more are expected to enter on arrival. Defending champion Mike Lennon said, “It will…
RHADC, Bermuda- June 24, 2015: ‘TI’ skippered by Greg Marston can now be confirmed as the overall winner of the 2015 Marion Bermuda Race Founders Division. As expected yesterday, the leader for the overall corrected time trophy— The Founders Trophy—…
Cowes and the Solent turned on their maximum appeal for the opening day of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Cowes Cup with brilliant sunshine and eventually enough wind to get the GC32 catamarans fully foiling. With the course set up…
In some quarters Tom Spithill is known as “Spare Parts”. As in, if brother James Spithill breaks anything they will use Tommy’s limbs to put Jimmy back together again. But according to Jimmy’s Oracle Team USA Australian team mates, Tommy’s…
Martime Executive Two New Zealand sailors and their Mexican skipper have been rescued from a liferaft 280km south of the tiny Pacific Ocean coral island Niue after their yacht caught fire just after midnight last night. The 15m United…
Many people sail in their local waters, dreaming of one day being able to sail across an ocean. Well, maybe now you can. Cruising Helmsman has received a request from noted doctor Alan Profke looking for crew to assist in…
Nautor’s Swan launched an addition to its SwanLine range: the Swan 54. A pure bluewater cruiser designed by naval architect German Frers, who has been working alongside Nautor's Swan for more than two decades. With the first of four Swan…
Dozens of foiling craft are preparing for take off at Malcesine, on Lake Garda, to take part in the second edition of The Foiling Week from Wednesday 1st to Sunday 5th July. Foiling Week 2015 unveils a full programme of…
Ian Walker, freshly crowned winning skipper of the Volvo Ocean Race, woke up this morning with the familiar feeling to all sailors in the nine-month offshore marathon: How on earth do I follow that? That’s a particularly tough challenge for…
Stage two of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour sets sail on the Solent, off Cowes, Isle of Wight tomorrow with 10-12 knot winds forecast in which the GC32 one-design catamarans will be foiling at speeds approaching three times that of…
Saturday morning, sailors woke to ideal conditions for racing offshore in race one of the Pantaenius Australia 2015 WA IRC State Championship, the Arlene Race. A steady 15-20 knot WNW breeze with a moderate swell and gustier conditions out to…
‘Mischievous’ grabbed the line honors in the 2015 Marion Bermuda Race with a splendid performance. She crossed the finish line at St. David’s Lighthouse Bermuda during the twilight Lighthouse committee cocktail party at the finish tower on Monday evening at…
Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania director Michael Cooper and his crew of David Chapman and Gerry Mitchell have finished fifth overall in the SB20 Italian nationals in an impressive lead-up to the World championships on Lake Garda in Italy. Sailing…
The Yachting Journalists’ Association (YJA) has expressed concern over the use of Guanabara Bay for the sailing events of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next year. Despite continued protests over the state of the pollution of the water…
Team Alvimedica’s skipper Charlie Enright (USA) won the final offshore battle of the Volvo Ocean Race here today, but the overall glory and trophy belonged firmly with his rival from Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Ian Walker (GBR). The Turkish/American boat…
Water Police currently searching the water after a yacht was located washed up near Mallacoota this morning. Crew on an abalone boat spotted the yacht on the rocks around 9.45am and raised the alarm. It’s believed the boat belongs to…
The pro Sailor and sports journalist Sébastien Destremau, is entering into the next Vendée Globe with FaceOcean’s project. After the race, one of his supporters will have the opportunity to win his boat for free. “As far as I know…
As of 1300hrs EDT on Monday June 22 ‘Mischievous’, the scratch (fastest) boat in the fleet was still leading the fleet. As she rockets down the rhumb line to Bermuda at 10-11kts, she keeps clicking minutes off of her ETA…
The measurement data is in and ratings calculated for most entries in the 48th biennial Transpac, and so Division splits have been made and the start dates determined for the 61 boats in this 2015 fleet. All starts will be…
It was a case of survival of the fittest for the final day of racing at the Extreme Sailing Series Act 4, Cardiff presented by Land Rover, that demanded all of the teams strength and skill to avoid collisions and…
En Route to Bermuda- June 21, 2015: Happy Fathers Day to the Fathers in the race and Sweet Solstice Sailing to all. Marion Bermuda 2015… what could be better, as John Masefield wrote, than “a tall ship and a star…
Chris Bake's Team Aqua, on this occasion with Jim Richardson steering, proved that she has lost none of her winning ways, when she claimed the Audi RC44 Porto Cervo Cup, albeit by a mere point, after a final day of…
The Kiwis prevailed in round three of the MC38 Australian Season Championship, the Winter Regatta staged by Middle Harbour Yacht Club in lighter, showery conditions at the four way junction just inside the sandstone cliffs of Sydney Heads. John Bacon’s…
An icy cold, wet and miserable day nevertheless attracted the diehards to Race Eight of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Land Rover Winter Series, because there is everything to play for with just two weeks of the pointscore remaining….
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, June 21 – The Volvo Ocean Race fleet were facing one last roll of the dice later tonight before nearly nine months of fluctuating offshore fortunes come to a fitting climax here tomorrow. Team Alvimedica (Charlie Enright/USA) were…
Hamilton, Bermuda— June 21, 2015: With great regret, the trustees of the Marion Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race Association are sad to announce that one of the sailors on the 2015 race now in progress has died of natural causes. On Saturday…
Mailonline. By Jane Flanagan. When Peter and Carly Hill set sail around the coast of South Africa, it was supposed to be just another trip to add to their long list of adventures. But the journey turned into a nightmare when…
En Route from Marion MA to Bermuda- June 20, 2015: The 45-boat Marion Bermuda Fleet is out of sight, but not out of mind. By following the fleet on Yellow Brick Tracking, spectators on shore will be able to track…
Hugues Lepic's Aleph Racing was last in today's second race when she was penalised and had to carry out a penalty turn for preventing Artemis Racing from crossing the finish line, but went on to win the next race. Similarly,…
Another relentless day at the Extreme Sailing Series Act 4, Cardiff presented by Land Rover saw the Extreme 40 fleet complete eight fast paced races on a course that varied from 10-23knots over the short 550m track. With no runaway…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, June 20 – Team Alvimedica (Charlie Enright/USA) led the Volvo Ocean Race fleet out on the final ‘sprint’ to Gothenburg today, as the seven teams bade farewell to The Hague after a hugely successful pit-stop in the…
MC38 crews were rugged up as Sydney’s clear skies and south westerly winds added a wintry chill to the Winter Regatta raced off Middle Head. So far this season the waves from the Manly Ferry on the Sydney Harbour racetrack…
It was high tide but before high noon under a grey sky and lumpy seas as the fleet ventured onto Gage Roads Fremantle for the first race of this years Valmadre Series and Pantaenius I.R.C. State Championships. There has been…
Hobart’s senior sailor, 87-year-old Tom Kirkland, today completed a hat-trick of winter race wins on the River Derwent, steering Ragtime to a handicap victory in the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Cascade Winter Series. Kirkland, who has been racing yachts on the…
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