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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…
Double Olympic champion Malcolm Page and his skippers Nathan Wilmot and Mat Belcher are well-known for naming their boats after Nicole Kidman movies. But another two Australian Olympic champions have dedicated their new skiff to a legend of the one-liner…
Team Vestas Wind is back in the race. This is the movie that has been shown exclusively at our cinema in the Race Villages around the world, the full story from when Team Vestas Wind were shipwrecked in the middle…
Published on May 29, 2015 In April 2015 Skiffs Australia hosted the inaugural National Sprint Series. The event was hosted in South Australia in West Lakes and Largs Bay. Filmed by RJ media and Swarm UAV.
Malcolm Page is Australia’s most successful Olympian, with two gold medals from three attempts. Add in his six world championship victories and he is the most successful 470 sailor in the history of the class. But those eight victories may…
An oldie but a goodie… Unfortunately, mishaps like this are not a very rare occurrence in the BVI’s… this was just an extreme case and we happened to have the camera running from the onset. Still amazes me how many…
Gillette World Sport visited Wangi, Lake Macquarie in March for the final 49er training camp ahead of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Hyères, France (22-26 April) and spoke to Australian Sailing Team’s Olympic gold medallists Nathan Outteridge (NSW) and Iain…
Trans World Sport travelled to the ISAF World Cup event in Miami to meet up with Australian Sailing Team’s Men’s 470 duo of Mat Belcher and Will Ryan and coach Victor Kovalenko on their road to the 2016 Rio Olympic…
Their media releases may be very ordinary (that’s being kind) but one thing the VOR is doing well in this edition is the provision of great on-board video. Here are a selection from the Southern Ocean over the past few…
In the spirit of progression, Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher have devised a new 6 meter catamaran that is redefining what’s possible on the open ocean. It’s a vessel that can reach eye-popping speeds of 36 knots while hardly…
On the occasion of the 2015 International Women Day on May 8 2015, Australian Sailing is celebrating our female Australian Sailing Team and Squad athletes this week.
Instead of celebrating a major milestone in his sailing career, ETNZ’s newly-appointed co-helmsman Peter Burling was left to answer awkward questions about the way the team’s management had handled the sacking of Dean Barker. Burling did well in a very…
The roof of a Norris Lake marina in Campbell County, Tenn., collapses after being covered with ice and snow. Damage is estimated to be near $800,000.
Geoff Waller from www.boatson.tv sat down with Roger Hickman the IRC winner of the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and he described his incident filled race to win the Tattersall Trophy. This is an important video as it tells the full…
With the Moth World Championships in the rear view mirror for ORACLE TEAM USA, the sailors reflect on what they have learned and how it will translate to the new foiling AC45s.
Join Jeanneau’s Jean-Francois de Premorel and Phillipe Laperche as they race double-handed in the Transquadra Race aboard the Sun Fast 3600 (YOLO) from St-Nazaire to Madeira, hitting 21 knots.
Peter Burling has a lock on the title, but Nathan Outteridge had a good day and moved back into second place. Watch the video highlights from his brother Beau Outteridge here:
HAve you ever wondered why ocean racers who are sailing around the world go almost to South America rather than hugging the Africa coast? Barcelona World Race strategiest Marcel van Triest explains the key strategies for getting through the South…
Filmed at the 2015 McDougall + McConaghy International Moth Australian/World Championships by Hartas Productions. No racing. Just crashing.
It’s been a frustrating couple of days at the Moth Worlds – no wind, followed by too much wind. Here, Oracle Team USA’s Kyle Langford talks about the challenge of learning a new class.
The Moth Worlds feature most of the best America’s Cup sailors in the world, along with a plethora of former Moth World Champions. Videographers Beau Outteridge and Ollie Hartas are shooting all the action and you can watch their videos…
The busiest person at the prelude to the Moth Worlds has been the man hoisting and lowering the AP flag. But various America’s Cup sailors, world champions and Olympic medallists took to the water and gave interviews to Ollie Hartas
The brand new 100ft maxi Comanche led the Rolex Sydney Hobart for the first 24 hours. Here is footage from on-board the yacht, edited by Geoff Waller of Boats on TV.
On Monday, we were fortunate enough to have a tour of Jim and Kristy Clark’s new 100ft weapon “Comanche”. Here is Ken taking us around the boat and showing Comanche in a perspective that isn’t seen by most. It’s a…
Michael Coxon, Managing Director, North Sails Australia talks to Geoff Waller of Boats on TV about the present sail making technology, the future, the current Rolex Sydney Hobart and building the biggest race spinnaker in the world for Anthony Bell…
From CYCA interview: Comanche’s owner, Jim Clark talks on all things including “breast feeding”. He concedes that a Rolex Sydney Hobart isn’t the ideal first race for such a big, complex machine, but: “I am married to an Australian, and…
Overtaking to windward, Nathan Wilmot and the GAC Pindar crew crossed the bows of Realteam, who clipped their port rudder, leaving the Australian boat with no control. In 15 knot winds and in front of a crowd of thousands, the…
Beau Outteridge was in Melbourne for the ISAF Sailing World Cup and shot some great footage of the Olympic and Paralympic classes in action, as well as conducting interviews with leading sailors. You can review the action in this five…
Hear what Nathan Wilmot, Tom Slingsby, Sir Ben Ainslie and the other skippers had to say about racing in Australia. Does Tom Slingsby really keep an eye on Ben Ainslie to “see which way to go”?
A large spectator fleet watched Bob Oatley’s 100 foot maxi Wild Oats XI declare that Sydney Harbour is still her back yard, the brand new, revolutionary American upstart, Comanche notwithstanding. Wild Oats XI sliced across the finish line beside Fort…
Every Volvo Ocean 65 in the Volvo Ocean Race is equipped with a Cape Horn Xtreme 330. Watch the video to get an inside look at the MAPFRE team’s watermaker.
Team Abeam Goto/Tabata training in Melbourne. During bow down, dig the water, and I was swung away to the front. Everybody thought we will capsize, but luckily came back from the other side! – Goto Hiroki
Here’s what the onboard cameras captured as Team Vestas Wind hit a reef off Mauritius. Warning: Some coarse language, but you have to expect that from a man who was in the heads when the impact happened.
Sitting side by side at Woolwich Docks in Sydney Australia it is easy to see the changes in yacht design thinking over the past few years. Wild Oats XI the older Super-Maxi will this year fight for line honours against…
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.
The 2015 International Moth World Championships are coming to Sorrento, Australia. Another year of record breaking entry numbers, with over 140 boats from around the world. Sponsored by McDougall + McConaghy, the 2015 Worlds are shaping up to be one…
As the fleet crosses the Equator the king of the deep pays a visit to all the debutant sailors. Shenanigans ensue.
Today, Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) took to the water for the first time from their temporary base in Southampton, sailing their foiling AC45. The boat originally raced under BAR colours during the America’s Cup World Series in 2012-13, and has subsequently…
A new, lightweight catamaran has been designed for offshore racing. The boat is easy to put together and four complete cats fit in a shipping container. The intention is to have a fleet of four available for charter at events…
Olympic Gold medalist and member of ORACLE Team USA Tom Slingsby talks about competing at his first Alpari Word Match Racing Tour event at the Chicago Match Cup, and how he has had to adapt to the style of racing…
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