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Auckland – 20th December 2022 It’s official, the speed of 222.43km/h (138.21mph) achieved by Emirates Team New Zealand and Glenn Ashby in Horonuku on 11th of December at Lake Gairdner in South Australia has been officially ratified and confirmed as…
World Sailing has joined 20 sports organisations, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a founding partner, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, in signing the first-ever Sports for Nature Framework. Signatories pledge to adhere to four key…
Australian Sailing’s National Performance Pathways team has secured a major coup in attaining the services of Haylee Outteridge to lead the New South Wales performance pathways program. The program is run in conjunction with the New South Wales Institute of…
Elliott Smith, fortitude incarnate. What a difference an ocean makes. Elliott Smith (USA) had a hard time sailing South, dealing with intense frustration in wind holes. He rose up to the challenge and after numerous repairs and eventually found the…
Skippers and crews from the near 50 boat fleet are counting down the days to the start of the 50th anniversary of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race and as final preparations are made,…
In any other sport, a scoresheet listing nine line honours wins and a combined 238 Rolex Sydney Hobarts among the crew of 21 would suggest that team is the pre-race favourite. The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, however, is a…
If you want to know what it takes to win an Australian 16ft Skiff Championship, why not go to the bloke who’s won more of them than anyone? Lee Knapton lifted the famous old shield eight times, winning his first…
Sydney, Australia (19 December, 2022) – Nick Egnot-Johnson, Sam Barnett, Zak Merton & Bradley McLaughlin, representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have been crowned 2022 Open Match Racing World Champions after an epic five days of racing on Sydney…
Varying conditions and a gusty southerly set down a challenge for athletes on the final day of Sail Sydney, with consistency the key for podium finishes. After delays and cancellations to the racing schedule on day three of the regatta,…
110 years of 18 footer racing on Sydney Harbour The Barnett family name and 18 footer racing in Australia goes back at least 110 years to the time when Sid Barnett (Snr) sailed as forward hand on Billy Dunn’s 1912-13…
As part of the NSW government Skilled Fee-Free Training initiative, Superyacht Crew Academy offers courses running through the Superyacht Crew Academy that are FREE to eligible students. If you’re interested in getting into the maritime industry or upgrading your qualifications,…
The 2022 eSailing World Championship Finals will take place in Alicante, Spain, in front of a live crowd, bringing together the world’s best players to compete the ultimate prize in eSailing. A total of 40 sailors began the semi-finals in…
Entries are now open for the largest off the beach classic dinghy regatta in Australia. We look forward to welcoming you back over the weekend of 18th-19th February 2023. Click here for further information.
December 16th at 20H54 hours UTC the Franco-Japanese crew of MILAI Around The World was first across the leg 5 finish line at the entrance to the Beagle Channel, which leads to the Argentinean town of Ushuaia. Hours earlier, Masa…
Multiple classes will have to wait until the last day of racing to decide their winners at Sail Sydney, after wet and windy conditions saw racing delayed or cancelled today on Sydney Harbour. One class that did get racing in…
Sydney, Australia (17 December, 2022) – The four semi-finalists were decided today at the World Match Racing Tour finale event on Sydney Harbour, being co-hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. The winner of the event will be crowned…
Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) has launched the new Australian Ocean Racing Championship (AORC) today, an annual event that will be inaugurated with the Bunbury and Return Ocean Race (Western Australian) in February 2023 and conclude with the Rolex…
This exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum is a unique combination of Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught’s stunning LEGO® models, plus real shipwreck objects, hands-on interactives and audio visual experiences that bring to life astonishing shipwreck stories. Come and try…
Auckland – 16th December 2022 Emirates Team New Zealand made a return to Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf today on their newly repaired and rebranded AC40 for its first sail since the nosedive causing bow structure damage just over three weeks ago….
Sydney, Australia (16 December, 2022) – The southerly breeze increased again today on Sydney’s iconic Harbour for Day 3 of the World Match Racing Tour Final 2022 at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Completing the repechage round, the top…
Australian Sailing Squad athletes in the 49er and 49erFX classes were locked in a battle with one another and the swells of Sydney Harbour on a busy day two of Sail Sydney. The gusty conditions proved tricky again for the…
With more than 600 jobs posted, 70,000 visits to the site and 180,000 job views since launch in 2021, employers and job seekers alike continue to reap the benefits of the marine industry online careers platform, MarineJobs.org.au. The Marina Industries…
Landmark national strategy launched by Australia’s Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games peak sporting organisations to build success towards Brisbane 2032 and beyond. ‘Win Well’ initiative launched, with sporting leaders making a renewed commitment to balancing success and wellbeing in high…
Sydney, Australia (15 December, 2022) – USA’s Chris Poole/ Riptide Racing and Denmark’s Jeppe Borch / Borch Racing excelled in perfect conditions again on Sydney Harbour today, finishing at the top of the first qualifying stage, advancing both teams directly…
Olympians Matt Wearn, Mara Stransky, Tom Burton, Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin all marked their return to domestic competition with race wins on day one of a windy Sail Sydney. Across the day competitors were met with big breezes across…
13ft Skiff Nationals at home in Manly for the club’s 100th year anniversary 7-14th January Subjected to a range of challenges and coming through the other side to win the NSW 13ft Championships earlier this month has convinced the team…
Legendary 18 footer sailor and former JJ Giltinan world, Australian and NSW champion John ‘Woody’ Winning (Yandoo), along with Fang Warren and Josh Porebski, lowered the colours of the previously unbeaten Andoo, skippered by his son John ‘Herman’ Winning in…
Sydney, Australia (14 December, 2022) – Spectacular conditions today welcomed the ten teams on the opening day of the 2022 World Match Racing Tour Final on Sydney’s iconic harbour. USA’s Chris Poole leads the opening round undefeated with five straight…
The smiles said it all. Minutes after crossing the finish line in the sixth long course heat of the season, the first three females to “trifecta” a club race at Manly 16ft Skiff Club shared a special moment 100 years…
With a fleet of almost 250 boats on the entry list, the 2022 Sail Sydney regatta is set to shape a huge domestic summer season for many of Australia’s top sailors. From Thursday 15th December to Monday 19th December, Woollahra…
The East Coast Classic. Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) invites competitors to participate in the Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race 2023. The race commences on Friday 31 March 2023 at 1300hrs with a race presentation on Sunday at…
Press release n°35 – 12th December 2022 Around 1,000 miles from Cape Horn, the GLOBE40 crews are having to contend with a succession of depressions, the latest one fuelling winds of up to 50 knots. Though the skippers aren’t currently…
11 races were sailed on Biscayne Bay, right in front of Miami, FL, from Friday December 9th to Sunday the 11th for the third event of the 69F US Select Series 2022. The conditions of the Bay were unlikely very…
The Ares Racing Team, skippered by Tasmania’s Will Sargent, won the SB20 Australian sailing championship in Hobart on Monday, with a perfect score of nine points after a one race discard. Sargent, the reigning SB20 youth world champion, who also…
Today’s Trophy: Syd Barnett Jr. Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: Shaw and Partners Financial ServicesSunday, 11 December 2022Sydney Harbour The Yandoo team of John Winning Sr., Fang Warren and Josh Porebski closed the gap to Andoo (John Winning Jr., Matt Stenta and…
Kite Foil racing is one of the classes making its debut at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and Townsville local Brieana Whitehead will be one of the athletes to watch in the exciting foiling discipline. Whitehead, who started kiting just…
On the concluding day of the 2022 44Cup’s final event, the 44Cup Oman, PRO Maria Torrijo defied the odds and was able to stage three races. As is usual with this fleet of high performance owner-driver one designs, the results…
Lake Gairdner – 12th December 2022 Emirates Team New Zealand and Land speed pilot Glenn Ashby have sailed ‘Horonuku’, their wind powered land speed world record craft, faster than any previous records. ‘Horonuku’ named by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei meaning ‘gliding…
Kathy Veel and Bridget Canham are two experienced sailors and the only two-handed female crew from among the 22 entered in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this year – and on the second smallest boat in the fleet. Veel,…
If you are looking for that special Christmas present, Blue Water Classics – Portraits of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is a book on Australia’s most famous blue water classic, is a best seller and collector’s item for anyone who…
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