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John Bacon’s Dark Star from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club minimised errors and maintained composure in the puffy westerlies on Sydney Harbour to take out the MC38’s Autumn Regatta by a single point. Autumn and winter breezes typically come…
Kentra, the 1923, 84ft Fife Classic has emerged from the Fairlie Yachts shed at Hamble in the UK this month, looking truly stunning with her shiny new re-coppered hull. The traditional re-coppering process was carried out by the skilled shipwrights…
The Finn class is making a welcome return next week to the beautiful city of Split, Croatia, for its 2015 Junior and Senior European Championships. Around 80 sailors from 29 countries have entered for the first major championship of the year….
Roger Hickman, owner/skipper of Wild Rose, the overall winner of the 70th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, last night received the Governor’s Cup, the most prestigious perpetual trophy awarded each year by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. A Tasmanian…
London, UK (7th May 2015): The World Match Racing Tour has added two new events to its 2015/16 world championship schedule. ‘The Sails of White Nights’ held in St Petersburg, Russia and the Internationaux de France in Pornichet, France both…
NEWPORT, Rhode Island, May 7 – Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR) rounded off Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Thursday on a perfect, sun-bathed Newport morning with their heads held high, but a burning sense of what might have…
A bumper fleet of over 50 boats from 20 different countries will take part in World Cruising Club's Spring rallies – ARC Europe and ARC USA – set to depart on Saturday 9th May. Venturing west to east across the…
BBC News Underwater explorers in Madagascar say they have discovered treasure belonging to the notorious 17th-Century Scottish pirate William Kidd. A 50kg (7st 9lb) silver bar was brought to shore on Thursday on the island of Sainte Marie, from what…
The Sultanate of Oman’s MOD70 Musandam-Oman Sail has smashed the record for sailing around Ireland. The six-man crew, skippered by Sidney Gavignet, and including Omani sailors Fahad Al Hasni, Yasser Al Rahbi and Sami Al Shukaili, key members of last…
According to The Guardian newspaper, a six-year-old French girl died from hypothermia on Thursday after a yacht she and her family were on capsized during the night off the mid-Atlantic Azores islands. “The little girl spent seven and a half…
The Bureau of Meteorology advises that Weather Observations Website (WOW) live wind observation maps have been added to www.bom.gov.au/marine/ Two links have been added: Live wind maps for major cities and live wind maps for each state. About the Live…
Bob Mott, who runs Charter Catamaran in Thailand has sent us photographs of a cruising catamaran that has been severely holed after a collision with an unchartered reef near Phuket. Bob reports that the owner, Andre, is a French Canadian…
Sipa Boards (SIPA) is hoping to open up a world of stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) by providing extra convenience, safety and fun to water sport enthusiasts of any age. Let’s first consider the problems associated with conventional paddle boards for yacht…
ALICANTE, Spain, May 8 – Team Vestas Wind have recruited two talented and experienced offshore sailors into their crew for the planned return to the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 from Leg 8. The team will be joined from the Lisbon…
The Auckland Stratis loft has launched a new product; Stratis Sail Art, which allows photo-quality printing on sails for the first time ever. The New Zealand production facility has pioneered custom printing on Stratis membranes before the sails are laminated,…
ALICANTE, Spain, May 6 – Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) felt the familiar presence of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker/GBR) to their stern on Wednesday as the thrilling Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race headed for a potential…
So you are in the chandlery looking at two shackles: same size, both galvanised and they both look strong. The rated shackle (the one with a painted pin usually) is $10, the other one is only $3.50. Tony Little’s photo…
The entry form and Notice of Race for Airlie Beach Race Week 2015 are online and organisers are expecting a good roll up for the annual event’s 26th edition, with some well-known multihulls among the early entries already received. Open…
Dorset Echo A YACHT escaped its moorings, ran aground and sank off Portland Breakwater. While heading out on routine training on Tuesday evening, Wyke Reis Coastguard Rescue team spotted the yacht in Portland Harbour. On investigation it was found the…
According to Stuart Alexander, a reliable America's Cup correspondent and sailing writer for Britain's The Independent, the luxury Louis Vuitton brand may be poised to return to the America's Cup at the World Series in Plymouth, with a possible involvement…
NEWPORT, Rhode Island, USA (May 7) – Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) edged overall Volvo Ocean Race leaders Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker/GBR) by just three minutes and 25 seconds to win Leg 6 to Newport after an enthralling…
I had the good fortune to encounter a charming couple doing a circumnavigation in a rather large cat some weeks ago. Their boat is massive, an opulently appointed floating apartment that had me justifiably jealous. We got to talking about…
The Volvo Ocean Race’s only North American stopover in Newport, Rhode Island, was set to open with a fanfare on Tuesday, while less than 500 nautical miles (nm) away at sea, six boats were battling desperately to become the first…
How does a charter company celebrate its 30th birthday? For Cumberland Charter Yachts the answer is to give away free hampers with every charter. How quickly time has passed for Terry Kemp and the crew at CCY. Little did he…
Over the past 10 years, the market for cruising multihulls has been growing steadily. With more room, more comfort and more speed than a similar-sized monohull, the only real drawback has been the lack of marina berths and the costs…
Solar? Wind? Engine? A recurring question in the cruising fleet is how best to connect a variety of charging methods to charge the batteries. Here is what regular CH electrical writer John Tylor has to say: “This is an interesting…
A group of thirteen Australian Sailing Team and Squad athletes will compete at the EUROSAF Garda Trentino Olympic Week in Italy (6-10 May), the second leg of five in the 2015 EUROSAF Champions Cup. Racing is scheduled to begin at…
This month’s tip is relevant to any rig with stainless steel fittings on aluminium, but I particularly want to highlight a problem with modern production boats. Many of these have stainless steel slides in the lower side of the boom…
Like me, Kim Klaka has never fully understood the recommendation to have a safety harness clipping point near the companionway. Kim writes: “I realise you are extremely vulnerable when exiting and entering the cabin, but there is a much safer…
The 2015 Top of the Gulf Regatta came to a close today after four days of exciting racing. The dinghy classes and Thailand Optimist National Championships finished their three-day series yesterday with today the last day of racing for the…
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet found fair winds rather then the ill fortune of repute as they raced through the Bermuda Triangle in the thrilling Leg 6 race towards Newport, Rhode Island, USA, on Monday. They all have under 1,000…
AMSA coordinated the rescue of a solo yachtsman from rocks off the West Australian coast on May 5. Peter Cook, aged 68, was sailing his 44ft yacht from Fremantle to Adelaide when bad weather forced him to seek shelter near…
B&G has released the new Vulcan chartplotter. The company says it is “packed full of B&G’s dedicated sailing features and easy to use with 7-inch multi-touch display”. The Vulcan has been designed for cruising and racing yachts of all sizes…
Fresh from the class’ national championship in April, the Australian and New Zealand MC38 contingent is pulling on the gloves again, this time on Sydney Harbour May 9-10, 2015 for the Autumn Regatta. Two-time Australian MC38 champion Ginger, crowned consecutively…
Gen XY are the hot team at the moment in the lead up to next month’s Marinepool Etchells Australasian Winter Championship after winning last weekend’s Brisbane Fleet Etchells Championship being conducted by Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. Matt Chew, Ashely Deeks, Brian…
ORACLE TEAM USA became the first America’s Cup team to sail an AC45S boat on the Great Sound in Bermuda. On Monday, the defending champion of the America’s Cup launched its training boat for the first time and put in…
With only two more races to sail, competition is tight for top honours in the Derwent Sailing Squadron/Quantum Autumn Short-Handed Series 2015 being sailed on Hobart River Derwent. The 52-boat fleet enjoyed a good breeze in mild autumn weather for…
Charlie Cumbley (GBR) has won the OK Dinghy Spring Cup in Medemblik for The Rüdiger Prinz Trophy at the first attempt after a win in race 7 sealed the event for him. Jim Hunt (GBR) finished second with Greg Wilcox…
The Land Rover Extreme Sailing Series Act 3, Qingdao came to a nail-biting conclusion today, as SAP Extreme Sailing Team took their first ever Act win – and just for good measure, they scooped the Land Rover Above and Beyond…
PATTAYA, Thailand – There was some shuffling of the results overnight as the results of a series of protests on Day 2 made for a tense start on Day 3. Fujin were DQ'd from Race 3 after not turning up…
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