Ocean Race – Lining up for the Horn
Cape Horn is just over 1000 miles away, but they will be hard-earned miles… The teams have the end of the hardest part of the longest leg in the history of The Ocean Race in sight. An epic drone ‘movie’…
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New yacht race sails into Auckland Harbour
What started out as an idea has now come to fruition. The inaugural Harbour Classic starts on Friday 31st March with a welcome party followed by race day on Saturday April 1st 2023. Based on the famous Barcolana Regatta in…
WA brings back the Hobie 14 Champs after a 30 year hiatus
This weekend will be the first Hobie 14 WA State Championships since 1993. Still hugely popular around the world, the Hobie 14 just took a bit of a break in Australia, but this season the class is making its big…
GGR ‘Code Orange’ Paying the price for a Cape Horn rounding!
Way before the start of the Golden Globe Race in Les Sables d’Olonne, the last stretch to Cape Horn was always a concern for Ian Herbert-Jones (GBR) It became more of a worry for him in the South Atlantic when…
Ocean Race – Big conditions ahead on the way to Cape Horn
The weather is forecast to provide one final taste of Southern Ocean conditions on the approach to Cape Horn. For 50 years of The Ocean Race, sailors have considered the Southern Ocean leg, the racing that takes place between Cape…
Relive all the action from Christchurch
The Canadians bested hosts New Zealand and season leaders Australia in the Final to secure victory, earning driver Phil Robertson a deserved win on his home waters. Despite falling at the last hurdle and losing in the Final, neither the…
Oceania & Australian ILCA Masters Championships
The 2023 Oceania & Australian Masters Championships were held at the Bay Sailing Centre Soldiers Point on Port Stephens from 10-13 March (it has taken me this long to recover!). The fleets were split with ILCA 7+5, then the ILCA…
Airlie Beach Race Week 2023 – Early entries reach 100
Berthing for yachts and big multihulls for the 35th edition of Airlie Beach Race Week has been exhausted, as entries reach 100 early on, but organisers at Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) encourage other possible entries to try and source independently….
Woollahra Sailing Club take out the NSW Sailing League Metro Qualifier
Woollahra Sailing Club take out the NSW Sailing League Metro Qualifier securing themselves 1 of the 4 remaining spots for the NSW Sailing League Final Woollahra Sailing Club earn themselves 1 of the 4 remaining spots in the NSW Sailing…
Ocean Race – From Point Nemo towards Cape Horn
It’s a drag race towards Cape Horn with the weather beginning to turn The Ocean Race fleet passed Point Nemo just after 17:30 UTC on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the most remote and isolated place on the ocean in their wake….
47 strong fleet to contest 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race on Good Friday
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: A fleet of 47 offshore racing yachts will line up to make sailing history when they contest Australia’s second oldest blue water yacht race – the Gladstone Ports Corporation 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race (B2G) which sets…
GWA Wingfoil World Cup
Words: Ian MacKinnonPhotos: Lukas K Stiller The US’s Moona Whyte seized victory at the first GWA Wingfoil World Cup dedicated to pure surfing, staged on the world-renowned Ponta Preta break on Cape Verde’s Sal island. It was the American’s second…
Opti Vic State Champs 2023
Story by Ben Jones Mornington Yacht Club hosted the 2023 Optimist Dinghy Victorian Championships over the Labour Day long weekend. 78 entries were spread across three Optimist fleets with competitors coming from WA, SA, Tasmania, NSW and all over Victoria….
Manly 16s – 100th Year Club Champions Confirmed
Why stop at four?That’s what victorious Moonen Yachts skipper Daniel Turner was asking after he muscled himself into rare company with a fourth straight Manly 16ft club championship on Saturday. Turner draws alongside Escapade’s Russell Slade (1939-43) on the list…
Te Rehutai is set to return to the waters of Auckland
Te Rehutai, Emirates Team New Zealand’s 36th America’s Cup winning yacht is set to return to the waters of Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf just over 2 years since the last time it was sailed for the final race of AC36. The…
Ocean Race – Close together, far from home
The Ocean Race fleet is still racing close together as they approach the most isolated place on the planet The four IMOCAs charging towards Cape Horn are approaching Point Nemo on Tuesday. Defined as the most isolated, remote place on…
TP52 Gold Cup
Act 1 of the 2023 Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup series will be hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia this weekend when David Doherty and his Matador team will be back to defend the overall title they won…
GWA Wingfoil World Cup Cape Verde – Day 1
NEW WINGFOIL DISCIPLINE IN WAVES The world’s leading wingfoilers opened their accounts in a ground-breaking new wave discipline in the first elimination rounds of the GWA Wingfoil World Cup on the Cape Verde island of Sal. Few of the athletes,…
Amazing Sunrise
With the 2022 Hobart gone but not forgotten the fact that the JPK 11.80 “Sunrise” sailed over a third of the race with a broken Boom replaced by 2 Pipe cots and went on to win Division 3 IRC and…
GKA Kite-Surf World Cup – Final Day
Spain’s Matchu Lopes came from behind to seize victory in a clash for the ages in the opening round of the GKA Kite-Surf World Cup on the Cape Verde island of Sal. Lopes, who calls Cape Verde home, defeated his…
2025 Melbourne Osaka Cup
The 9th Melbourne Osaka Cup, the longest longitudinal short-handed crewed race in the world, is open for entry. With 152 expressions of interest from around 11 countries, the 5500 nautical miles which traverses the Pacific from South to North is…
2023 Fireball Australian Championships
It was great to have the Fireball Australian Championships sailed back in Adelaide at a “country club” in the “city”: Somerton Yacht Club. The very friendly Somerton volunteers turned on the hospitality and organisation to make it a fun event…
March episode of the World Sailing Show
The main feature of the March episode of the World Sailing Show returns to the Canary Islands for the Lanzarote International Regatta where 360 sailors from six classes took to the water for eight days of races. Big winds, even…
GKA Kite-Surf World Cup – Day 2
Reigning world champion James Carew was dumped from the GKA Kite-Surf World Cup on the second day of the contest on Cape Verde in epic waves. The Australian, who was hoping to land a third successive title, lost the day’s…
Countdown is on for TP52 Gold Cup Series
Eight TP52s are slated for the Sydney Harbour start line for the second edition of the 2023 Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup Series on March 25-26. Inshore and offshore courses in NSW are the settings for the four-part series, organised…
2023 Tasar Victorian State titles
A large and competitive fleet of Tasar sailors from all over Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania descended on the Sandringham Yacht Club (SYC) for the 2023 Victorian Tasar State Titles sponsored by Rooster Sailing. The event was…
Globe40 – Arrival of iconic Canadian Skipper Melodie Schaffer
Canadian competitor Mélodie Schaffer rounded off her circumnavigation of the globe today by crossing the finish line of the final leg in Lorient at 09H20 hours UTC. Aboard her WHISKEY JACK with American Tom Pierce, she completes the course in…
18ft Skiffs – Queen of the Harbour
Karly Zinga became the Australian 18 Footers League’s Queen of Sydney Harbour when she teamed with John Winning, Fang Warren and Josh Porebski on Yandoo to win the annual event today. Yandoo’s crew grabbed the lead soon after the start…
Ocean Race – All lined up with one way to go
Incredibly, the 4 IMOCAs are lined up alongside each other in a slow drag race to the east On Saturday it seemed as if the race couldn’t get any closer. By Sunday morning UTC that was proved wrong. Today, all…
WingFoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi – Final Day
After three intense days of competition, the Ad Ports Group Wingfoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi concluded with no racing on the final day due to a lack of wind. So the wearers of the yellow bibs, Paula Novotna (CZE)…
Canada claims maiden SailGP event in Christchurch
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND – March 19, 2023 – Canada became the fifth different team to win a SailGP Season 3 event with a thrilling victory over New Zealand and Australia in the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Christchurch…
Kite-Surf Opener in Cape Verde
DAY ONE: PONTA PRETA DELIVERS The legendary waves of Cape Verde were firing for the first clashes of the opening GKA Kite-Surf World Cup which has drawn the globe’s top athletes to fight for honours. The women’s competition kicked off…
Wearn finishes third at ILCA European Championships
Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Matt Wearn (AST) has finished best of the Australians competing at the ILCA European Championships in Andora, Italy, while Tokyo Olympian, Mara Stransky (ASS), has come out the top Australian in the ILCA 6 in what…
WingFoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi – Day 3
Eight short course races completed on day three of the Ad Ports Group Wingfoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi, and there were some very tired wingfoilers coming ashore at the end of racing. Light winds are the hardest work for…
Australians and Kiwis battle at the NZ Sail GP
Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND- 18 MARCH, 2023 – The Bledisloe Cup style rivalrybetween the New Zealand and Australia teams was on full display on the first day ofracing at the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix in Christchurch. The two teams…
2023 ILCA Senior Europeans – Final Day
A great day of sailing to wrap the 2023 ILCA Senior European Championships & Open European Trophy in great shape at Circolo Nautico Andora in Italy. Good breeze of around 10 knots and good swell accompanied the action during the…
Venue announced for first Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup
The historic Catalonian port of Vilanova i la Geltrú, has today been announced as the Host Venue for the first Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup, with racing to take place over four days between 14-17th September 2023 in…
Ocean Race – Coming together in the not-so-Furious 50s
Unusual conditions have seen fleet compress further to the point of a ‘re-start’… As forecast, lighter than usual conditions just ahead of the fleet have provided an effective re-start of leg 3, just after the four IMOCAs reached the halfway…
GRYPHON SOLO 2 crossed the GLOBE40 finish line
GRYPHON SOLO2: THE END OF THE GREAT ADVENTURE AROUND THE PLANET The American competitor GRYPHON SOLO 2 crossed the GLOBE40 finish line today in front of Lorient at 07:53 UTC. In 3rd position on this leg Joe Harris and Roger…
Wingfoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi
Six short course races in one afternoon, it was a busy second day of competition at the Ad Ports Group Wingfoil Racing World Cup Abu Dhabi. In the women’s fleet, new girl on the block Karolina Kluszczynska (POL) took a…
