Couta Nationals starting action
Start line action from the Passage Race on Sunday. Just a reminder of how close things can get on the beautiful boats. Sometimes a bit too close for Southerly given that red flag being waved at them.
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INEOS Britannia launches LEQ12 prototype in Mallorca
They have been building up the excitement all week with teaser shots on social media, but today (Thursday) the veil was lifted out at the INEOS Britannia training base in Palma, Mallorca of the British team’s LEQ12 – its prototype…
Plattners’ Phoenix keeps pressure on
After a challenging three race day at the 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week which saw the Tina Plattner steered South African flagged Phoenix score a third, first and a second while the American Quantum Racing netted 14pts, Doug DeVos’…
Patience and persistence key at 470 Worlds
The conditions on the Mediterranean Sea are making for challenging and exciting racing at the 470 World Championships in Israel. A persistent offshore breeze has kept the sailors’ heads on a swivel as they seek to link the gusts together…
Record numbers for Australia’s oldest yacht race
A change of start date and the large numbers taking part in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 50th Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race (Westcoaster) has prompted record numbers for the Club’s annual Melbourne to Devonport Race – or…
David Tillett AM awarded World Sailing’s Beppe Croce Trophy
Prominent Australian sailing administrator David Tillett AM has been awarded World Sailing’s prestigious Beppe Croce Trophy, which honours an individual for their outstanding voluntary contribution to the sport of sailing. Tillet was presented with the Trophy at the World Sailing…
GKA Freestyle-Kite Neom results and highlights
Neom, Saudi Arabia is firmly on the event map after four consecutive days of excellent conditions, delivering sensational and heavily contested Freestyle finals in both the men’s and women’s competitions on Saturday. Claudia Leon’s unmatched consistency in the women’s final…
No racing at 52 Super Series in Barcelona
Although the ten boat fleet went afloat for most of the afternoon and a race course was set up, in the end there was not enough wind off the Barcelona waterfront today for competition to take place at the 52…
IMOCAs conclude pre-race arrivals into Saint-Malo
With a few exceptions, all the of the solo skippers who are set to take part in the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe will have arrived safely in Saint-Malo by the end this Wednesday evening….
Middle Sea Race: Teasing Machine confirmed winner
At 1600 CEST on Wednesday, 26 October, the winner of the 43rd edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race was announced as Eric de Turckheim’s French NMYD 54 Teasing Machine. The Royal Malta Yacht Club has confirmed that none of…
Aussies bounce back at 470 Worlds
Conditions got funky in Sdot Yam, Israel for the second day of the 470 World Championships, with a rare offshore breeze making for shifty racing. After a disappointing first day for the Australian Sailing Squad members, Nia Jerwood and Conor…
Day 1 highlights – 52 Super Series Barcelona Sailing Week
Light winds prevailed for the first day of the 2022 season title deciding regatta, the 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week, which saw a comfortable win for Doug DeVos’s Quantum Racing. With De Vos steering they started sharply and with…
Italian duo sweep World Sailor of the Year awards
The unstoppable Nacra 17 duo of Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti have added more awards to their impressive collection after being named Male and Female Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2022, respectively, at the World Sailing Awards at the…
Japan celebrates major Para Sailing Championship milestone
Japan is celebrating after hosting its first simultaneous Para World Sailing Championship with the Hansa Class Asia Pacific Championship in Hiroshima, marking a major step forward for diversity and inclusion after the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A total…
Middle Sea Race: Leopard 3 takes monohull line honours
The Farr designed 30.48 metre/100 foot maxi, Leopard 3 (NED), skippered by Chris Sherlock, crossed the finish line of the 2022 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 10:54:29 CEST to take Monohull Line Honours in an elapsed time of 70 hours…
Sunseeker engulfed in fire at Hamilton Island Marina
ABC Tropical North has reported extensive damage to a luxury yacht during blaze at Hamilton Island Marina The 25 metre Sunseeker 82 model has been engulfed in a fire at the marina of Hamilton Island, in Queensland, Australia. The yacht…
Middle Sea Race multihull line honours to Mana
25 October, 2022 Riccardo Pavoncelli’s MOD70 Mana (ITA) crossed the finish line of the 2022 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 00:32:38 CEST on Tuesday 25 October to take Multihull Line Honours in an elapsed time of 61 hours 32 minutes…
Battle begins on first day of 470 Worlds
The Mixed 470 World Championships are now well underway in Israel with three races completed on the first day of the Qualifying series. A building sea breeze, very typical of Sdot Yam at this time of year greeted sailors on…
Couta Boat Nationals – Avalon Sailing Club
Couta Boat Nationals return to NSW. Avalon Sailing Club on Pittwater hosted the National Couta Boat Titles over the weekend, at least 14 boats made the trip from Melbourne for the regatta along with Jim Wilshire and his boat Southerly…
IRC rating races positively into 2023
This year’s international IRC Congress was held in Malta ahead of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, giving delegates the opportunity to see some of the impressive fleet arriving for the race. The meeting was chaired by Michael Boyd, also Chairman…
Middle Sea Race: Multi layers of movement
The 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race came alive today, for some at least. It really is a race of two halves, as those crews to the west stretch their legs metaphorically in a stiff southerly, and those still to the…
Swiss team wins first of two events in Puerto Portals
Gran Prix 4.1 of the Persico 69F Cup has just finished in Puerto Portals, Mallorca, after a week of training and racing in the world-famous Bay of Palma. Two bullets out of 11 races were enough to claim victory in…
52 Super Series Barcelona
Two official training races today gave the ten 52 Super Series Barcelona Sailing Week teams a final chance to re-acquaint themselves with the race course area and reading the light winds which are likely to prevail this week, on the…
Australia SailGP headed to Sydney in February
The most exciting racing on water arrives for the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney on 18-19 February 2023. Witness the world’s best sailing athletes from nine nations go to battle in flying F50 foiling catamarans on Sydney Harbour….
Alistair Murray AM and Shevaun Bruland to lead Australian Sailing Board
Australian Sailing has announced that Alistair Murray AM will be its new President, and Shevaun Bruland the new Vice President after their election at the 2022 Annual General Meeting. Murray has been the Vice President of the Board since 2019…
Finn Class launches new World Rankings
After months of development, the Finn Class is excited to announce the launch of its new World Ranking list. The new ranking platform includes more than one thousand sailors from 37 nations, and provides an excellent illustration of the spread,…
Festival of Sails Passage Race celebrates 180 years
Geelong’s Festival of Sails will be celebrating a major milestone when it returns in January 2023, as it salutes the 180th anniversary of its Passage Race between Melbourne and Geelong. The Passage Race normally attracts more than 200 entries as…
18ft Skiffs – Spring Championship Race 2
18ft SkiffsSpring Championship, Race 2Today’s Trophy: Alf Beashel Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: The Kitchen MakerSunday, October 23 2022Sydney Harbour The young Oak Double Bay-4 Pines team of Alex Marinelli, Matt Doyle and Darcy McCracken won their first 18 footer race when…
Middle Sea Race: It’s been a hard day’s night
This time last year the Rolex Middle Sea Race reporting was struggling to keep up with the pace of the frontrunners, as the Maxi Multihulls had scorched 450 nautical miles of the 606nm course. What a difference a year makes:…
Young Australian set to mix it up at 470 Worlds
Two Australian teams are gearing up in Sdot-Yam, Israel, ready for day one of the Mixed 470 World Championships which commence today. Sixty teams will take to the water from Monday 24th through to Saturday the 29th of October on…
2022 WMRT Final moves to Sydney
Organisers of the World Match Racing Tour have announced the 2022 WMRT Final has been re-scheduled to 13-18 December in Sydney, Australia. The event will be co-hosted with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) and the winner will be…
Middle Sea Race: Light on wind – large on spectacle
Malta: Grand Harbour performed some magic today, as an assembled 118 yachts set off on the 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race, behind them the ancient limestone walls of Valletta seemed to come alive in bright sunshine, duly offering the gathered…
Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe official entry list
Three days before the opening of the village in Saint-Malo on Tuesday, Race Direction have released the final list of ratified entries for the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe, with 138 solo skippers setting off on Sunday November 6…
11th Hour Racing: Training mode on!
There are now less than 100 days until the start of The Ocean Race, 85 to be precise, and our team is in full training mode. Based out of our second home in Concarneau, Brittany, France, the shore crew is…
St Malo readies for Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe
From Tuesday, the historic start town of Saint Malo, in the heart of the Brittany region, will welcome more than 138 boats that are set to compete on the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe. This…
Blown away at 2022 iQFOiL Worlds
Wind, and plenty of it, was the hallmark of the penultimate day in Brest for the Aussie sailors contesting the IQFOiL Worlds. In the earlier part of the afternoon, it peaked at 45 knots, along with plenty of rain. Later…
VS wins after Coastal Classic goes down to the wire
For only the second time since 2009, a monohull keelboat has won the PIC Coastal Classic when V5, an Alan Andrews TP52 skippered by Brian Peterson of the RNZYS, crossed the line at 23:46:23. It was a race with many…
Middle Sea Race: Fine fleet in for long haul
A global fleet has once again answered the call of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, with the 43rd edition, which starts at 1100 CEST, tomorrow Saturday, 22nd October, attracting a fleet of 120 yachts from 25 countries, including Australia, New…
GKA Freestyle-Kite World Cup Neom
Most leading contenders are safely through to the finals, with Mario and Chabloz surprisingly swept aside at Qatar Airways Freestyle-Kite World Cup Neom after a strange passing rain system overnight delivered super strong conditions in the morning as the weather…
Kiel Week 2023 starts with Olympic sailing
The first Warning Signal on the triangular courses will be given at the next Kiel Week (June 17-25, 2023) in the Olympic disciplines, with five regatta days planned for all, with the final Medal Races at the end. In contrast,…
