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Entries are still open to the 49th Ronstan International Fireball Australian Championships. The regatta is being sailed on the Brisbane Waters at Gosford Sailing Club, NSW from the 27th December 2014 through to the 3rd January 2015. The Fireballs have been…
New Zealander George Brasell was crowned Champion of the 2014 Musto International Youth Match Racing Championship, after defeating local Harry Price in a four-match thriller. A clearly elated Brasell was “over the moon,” with a performance that sees the Royal…
Just over 100 nautical miles south of Mauritius – but no time for a holiday report Dongfeng Race Team in its continuing battle with hardware. “We won’t be able to relax until the end of the leg, it’s the kind of problem…
China’s Dongfeng Race Team were forced to carry out repairs on Thursday to a detached mast track that could have hampered their challenge in Leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race. The track runs the whole length of the 30-metre…
The new Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349 Team Jeanneau sailed by a crew of four recently acquitted itself well enough to convince Jeanneau agents to open the boat for inspection. Middle Harbour Yacht Club race officials elected to enter the 349…
Summer is in full swing and while the urge to take advantage of the nice weather and get out sailing grows we remind you to preplan and check first. To help you do that the December issue of Cruising Helmsman…
Just a few months after its launch, three Dehler 46s are now on order off the plan by Australasian sailors. For two of the buyers, time enjoyed at the helm of Hanse yachts has fuelled their appetite for fast sailing….
Artemis Racing and the City of Gothenburg will host an America’s Cup World Series event during the last weekend of August (28th – 30th) 2015. The America’s Cup World Series is the first stage of competition in the 35th America’s…
A big make-or-break moment for Leg 2 is almost upon the Volvo Ocean Race fleet in the Indian Ocean: do they take on an approaching tropical storm in the next 24 hours or so, or dodge it? If they try…
A fleet of 119 will line up for the Boxing Day start of the 70th edition of the legendary Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – considered among the world’s most significant blue water races. Beneteau will have twelve yachts competing…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has once again launched its eBay auction that provides an exclusive opportunity to bid for places onboard one of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race favourites, when they compete in the CYCA’s SOLAS Big…
Thirty one yachts are gearing up for the Rockingham Race Weekend, hosted by Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. Contested off the coast of WA, racing will be on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November. The weekend incorporates the Dolphin Race…
There’s a distinctive swagger amid the Australian Farr 40 class. Four top ten finishes at the recent international title, a new batch of super keen owners for the 2014-15 season and preparations underway to host the Rolex Farr 40 World…
Portsmouth, a city on the south coast of the UK that is home to Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR), will host two America's Cup World Series events over the next two years.The America's Cup World Series is the preliminary race series…
MAPFRE, the Spanish boat which finished last of the fleet in Leg 1, has bounced back in style to challenge for the lead in the next stage between Cape Town and Abu Dhabi. Skipper Iker Martínez (ESP) acted decisively after…
Evidence continues to mount that Bermuda will host the 2017 America's Cup with a San Diego official claiming his city's bid was scuppered on financial grounds. The formal announcement will be made by America's Cup bosses in New York on…
Jimmy Spithill is heading for surgery to rectify an elbow injury he claims he disguised during last year's remarkable America's Cup victory over Team New Zealand. Spithill, who won the world sailor of the year award on the back of…
Tom Slingsby, Australian Olympic Laser Gold medalist, and member of Oracle Team USA, has signed up as skipper of Oman Air, one of two Oman Sail Extreme Sailing teams, for the final act of the Extreme Sailing Series in Sydney,…
After November 30, entrants for next January’s Festival of Sails will be no longer be able to take advantage of the $50 early entry discount, and will sadly miss the chance to win a holiday for two to tropical Fiji…
A northern New South Wales river better known for its temperamental entrance bar than the positives upstream, the Richmond empties into the Coral Sea at the town of Ballina, 45 miles south of the Queensland border. Up-river from Ballina are…
Entries for next week’s Sail Sydney are closing in on the 300 mark and the decision to waive the late entry fee and final surge in registrations is pushing organisers of the annual sailing regatta hard to process the resulting…
The 29th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) set sail today bound for Saint Lucia following a delayed start due to strong winds locally in the harbour of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria yesterday. For only the third time in the…
John Bertrand was both excited and apprehensive about returning to Newport, Rhode Island, USA, to compete in the 2014 Etchells World Championship. He had not sailed there since he skippered Australia II to its historic victory in the 1983 America’s…
Late afternoon was a fitting time of day to take the Elan E3 out for a sail. The owner, Jefferson Smith, joined us for his first sail and in a blustery, winter’s day we skimmed eastward along Sydney Harbour; leaving…
Navico has announced the launch of its newest brand: GoFree. Designed to deliver content and services to consumers in the way they have come to expect from modern household electronics, the GoFree brand works with Lowrance, Simrad and B&G multifunction…
World Champion crew of Mat Belcher and Will Ryan as well as World Championship Silver medallist Tom Burton, the current ISAF World Rankings #1 crews in the Men’s 470 and Laser classes, are aiming for gold at the inaugural ISAF…
The Rolex Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race has stood the test of time. Australians share its rites of passage between Christmas and New Year. Since 1945 starters in the Sydney-Hobart have raced the equivalent of two circumnavigations of the world, almost 45,000…
PBS will be the naming sponsor for the first Sydney Yachts regatta being hosted by the RPAYC next February the 20th to the 22nd. Fifteen Sydney 38s and ten Sydney 36s are expected along with an assortment of the 32s,…
The 2014 RC44 Championship Tour has seen the 13-strong fleet compete in five events across three continents, with the finale played out this week on the Gulf of Oman. With no team able to discard the last event of the…
Sydneysiders cooked under a spring blowtorch that took the temperature in the CBD past 30 degrees at 9am last Friday morning, November 21, 2014. Out on the harbour the real sizzle came from the class rivalry in the 23rd annual…
Strong winds blowing through the harbour of Las Palmas have caused ARC organisers World Cruising Club to announce a delay to the start of ARC 2014. Whilst the front that has brought 4 days of heavy rain squalls to Gran…
Lake Macquarie turned on spectacular summer weather for the 2014 Pusser’s Rum Melges 24 New South Wales State Championships. Lake Macquarie Yacht Club hosted the three day event (21-23 Nov), the largest Melges 24 fleet competing at a State Titles…
Zhik’s hiking PowerPads II are designed to be worn either inside a wetsuit or under waterproofs to fit around your thighs. The fully enclosed neoprene sleeve design ensures there is no external pad that can be easily snagged or ripped…
Former World champion Fireball sailor and Olympic Flying Dutchman skipper Gary Smith, a member of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, has been inducted into the Tasmanian Sporting Hall of Fame. Smith is only the fourth yachtsman to be inducted…
It’s a big world. And 71% of it is salt water. But with more than 100,000 ships plying the oceans, it’s not unusual for a small sailboat to find itself in exactly the same piece of water as a “trading…
The start of a sailboat race is a focused test of a crew’s ability across the range of sailing skills: tactics and strategy, boat handling, rules and speed. The last skill of boat speed may not initially seem related to…
What does it take to design sails for the Volvo Open 65? There is no better person to answer that question than North Sails’ Gauiter Sergent, VO65 Designer of Record. Based at the North sails loft in France, Gautier has…
I was quite excited to be asked to go for a sail and do a review on the new HH42 Simply Fun. Owned by Phil Coombes, the boat had been attracting quite a lot of attention around Port Phillip. I…
The 10 competing teams at the RC44 Oman Cup enjoyed a great sailing day on the Gulf of Oman for the penultimate day of the 2014 Championship Tour. Racing started in a seven-knot north-westerly breeze which built steadily throughout the…
In an interview with CNBC International in October, Sir Ben Ainslie confirmed his America’s Cup budget is £80 million ($US128 Million), making it bigger than the reported $US100 million budget that defender Oracle Team USA is working with.
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