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The opening day of Sail Sydney 2014 exploded with a bevy of sailing’s A-Listers rolling into Rose Bay to tackle gusty 20 knot summer nor’easters and a choppy Sydney Harbour. Finn champion Jake Lilley slept on the plane from Abu…
The Sunshine Coast Yacht Club (SCYC) will once again be hosting the Sunshine Coast Ocean Regatta on Friday 31st July to Wednesday 5th August 2015. The popular event will be held in the sparkling coastal waters off the Sunshine Coast between…
Australian Sailing Team’s Laser and Men’s 470 World #1 crews Tom Burton (NSW) and Mat Belcher (QLD) with Will Ryan (QLD) have become the first ISAF Sailing World Cup Champions by winning Gold at the inaugural ISAF Sailing World Cup…
November 30, 2014 – Team Alvimedica has resumed racing today toward Abu Dhabi, after diverting yesterday afternoon to stand by until early morning today to assist in the rescue of fellow Volvo Ocean Race competitor Team Vestas Wind after they…
Emergency beacon manufacturer GME has released the MT600G in a special promotional bonus pack in time for Christmas. Coupled with the MT600G GPS equipped EPIRB is the versatile ET80 waterproof, twist-to-charge torch. The MT600G features a GPS functionality for faster…
ALICANTE, Spain, November 30 – Australian skipper, Chris Nicholson, spoke on Sunday night of his immense pride at the way his Team Vestas Wind crew came through the ordeal of being grounded and being forced to abandon their boat in…
A new catamaran brand has arrived in Australia and New Zealand. “A yacht designed to create a perfect blend of style and function,” is how Isara Yachts describes its Isara 45, 50 and 55 luxury catamarans. The 50 was the…
Woollahra Sailing Club is ready to host more than 320 entries and 400 competitors for the 2014 Sail Sydney regatta split across two sessions, Tuesday December 2 to Thursday 4 for Olympic classes and Friday through to Sunday December 7…
After two delays to the start due to horrendous weather conditions, the RORC Transatlantic Race in association with the International Maxi Association started from Puerto Calero Marina at 1000 UTC, Sunday 30th November. It was third time lucky as the…
NZ Herald. By Audrey Young. With just two days to go before the next America's Cup venue is announced, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce has confirmed it would be harder to justify government funding if the venue were Bermuda in…
Statement from Team Vestas Wind and Volvo Ocean Race: At 1510 UTC, Saturday, November 29, Team Vestas Wind informed Race Control that their boat was grounded on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. Fortunately, no one has…
World Champions Mat Belcher (NSW) and Will Ryan (NSW) will lead the 470 Men ten-boat medal race line up on Sunday (30 November) after a solid 2, 2 scoreline from Saturday’s two races at the ISAF Sailing World Cup Final…
Darryl Hodgkinson sailed his Cookson 50 to first place on Day 1 of Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s 37th Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC), in the race from Sydney Harbour to Lion Island and return today. Hodgkinson, representing the CYCA, is…
The local MC38 Dark Star took the early series lead on the opening day of the Blackmores MC38 Open regatta, a result of tidy crew work rather than local knowledge assures owner John Bacon. Four races into the seven race…
Australian MC38 class President John Bacon and his Dark Star crew proved consistency is the key to winning a high performance one design series when they clinched the Blackmores MC38 Open regatta that wrapped up on Pittwater today, Sunday November…
Strong wind specialists David Witt, Tom Clout and Matt Wark thrived on the conditions today to bring home their 18ft Skiff, Smeg, winner of the 18ft Skiffs W.C. ‘Trappy’ Duncan Memorial Trophy on Sydney Harbour. The Smeg boys revelled in…
In big gusty winds, Bob Cox (Nine Dragons) and Phil Dash (JustaDash) came from behind to claim the Division 1 and 2 premier trophies respectively in Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s 37th Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) this afternoon. Cox’s…
ALICANTE, Spain, November 30 – Team Vestas Wind crew were rescued in the small hours of Sunday morning after the Danish team's Volvo Ocean Race boat was grounded on a reef in the Indian Ocean, forcing them to abandon it….
Australia's Tom Burton added ISAF Sailing World Cup Final gold to his 2014 medal haul that includes top honours at World Cup Mallorca and Hyeres. Burton has been a class apart in the Laser throughout 2014 and delivered a…
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…
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