Concord Ryde Sailing Club start of season
Now is the time for you or your kids to come on down and give sailing a try yourself. The 2022/2023 sailing season at Concord and Ryde Sailing Club (CRSC) kicks off on Saturday the 3rd of September 2022 and…
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New Sharpie documentary celebrates sailing’s grassroots manufacturers
CLASS: Australian Sharpie AUTHOR: Harry Fisher, Down Under Sail IMAGES & VIDEO: Down Under Sail – Available from 6pm this evening Showcasing the importance of grassroots manufacturers in sailing is the focus of a new documentary by Down Under Sail,…
GB SailGP Team sustain damage in practice
The Great Britain SailGP Team is in a race against time to compete in the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix this weekend, after sustaining damage to its F50 race boat during practice racing today in Copenhagen. The team was completing…
Denmark chasing breakthrough SailGP event win
COPENHAGEN – August 18, 2022 – Having made its first ever event final last time out at the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix in Plymouth, the Denmark SailGP Team presented by ROCKWOOL is looking to go one better and make…
ILCA 4 Youth World Champs – Day 4
After 3 glorious days of racing, it was AP over A in Vilamoura, Portugal. No races were sailed today due to lack of wind. Scoring remains the same as yesterday. Three races are scheduled for friday, with the first warning…
Round Britain & Ireland Race – Medallia Takes Line Honours
Day 12 Race Report: Thursday 18 August IMOCA Medallia, skippered by Pip Hare, took Line Honours in the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race in an elapsed time of 10 days 13 hours 23 minutes and 22 seconds. High pressure…
Final day at Airlie Beach Race Week a glamour
A magic day on the water for the record fleet of 178 taking part in the final day of racing at Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) in the Whitsundays, the sun and wind turned on their charms one more time,…
ILCA 4 Youth World Champs – Day 3 video
Take a look at the third racing day of the ILCA 4 Youth World Championship!
ILCA 4 Youth World Champs – Day 3
Vilamoura, Portugal – Two races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships, hosted by Vilamoura Sailing. Another day of excellent sailing conditions, the sea breeze held 12–16 knots for all six fleets to successfully get off…
Kerrie in F18 ‘Driver’ seat at Airlie Beach Race Week
Kerrie Driver is among the off-the-beach F18 multihull sailors competing at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 34th Airlie Beach Race Week this week and all of the class knows who the Sydneysider is. Driver, who has raced in the F18 class…
Aspire wins 5.5 Metre Swiss Open at Brunnen
Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Edward Wright) has won the 5.5 Metre Swiss Open at Brunnen on Lake Lucerne, hosted by Regattaverein Brunnen, on Wednesday. Ali Baba (BAH 23, Flavio Marazzi, Gregoire Siegwart, Max Salminen) won both races…
SailGP announces KPMG as Title Partner of the Australia Sail Grand Prix
Sydney, AUSTRALIA – 18 August, 2022 – SailGP today announced a new sponsorship with KPMG Australia, which sees the leading professional service firm become the Title Partner of the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix I Sydney, in a multi-season deal….
Round Britain & Ireland Race – Day 11
At 1000 BST on Day 11, sixteen teams have rounded Muckle Flugga and turned their bows south into the North Sea. Finally the majority of the fleet are enjoying fast downwind conditions. Four teams are still to round the lighthouse…
Airlie Beach Race Week: It’s come down to ‘take no prisoners’
Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) reached its penultimate day and a lovely 15-20 knot breeze shook up competitors who had been basking in light conditions all week at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s marquee event. Just ask Rohan Veal. The Victorian…
ILCA 4 Youth World Champs – Day 2 Video
Check how the second racing day of the ILCA 4 Youth World Championship went!
ILCA 4 Youth World Championships – Day 2
Vilamoura, Portugal – Two races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships, hosted by Vilamoura Sailing. With another day of beautiful sailing conditions, 12–19 knots of wind, the top sailors are separated by just a few…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Big winds arrive as McVeys vie for Weta supremacy
A super competitive father and son are sailing in the Weta trimaran class at Airlie Beach Race Week in the Whitsundays this week where the results have sea sawed between the pair from Lake Cootharaba Sailing Club in Boreen, Queensland….
Boating Royalty on display at Uffa event
UF50 Celebration 18 – 21 August 2022, Cowes, Isle of Wight Flying Fifteen boat Coweslip returns to its original home in Commodores House on Cowes waterfront for the UF50 for a few days. The boat – owned by His Royal…
69F – Dutch beat Argentina in last-gasp Garda victory
Act 4 of the Youth Foiling Gold Cup in Torbole, Lake Garda, was the closest competition yet seen Torbole, 16 August 2022 – The Dutch team, Team DutchSail – Janssen de Jong mixed, rose to the pressure to win Act…
Aspire returns to 5.5 Metre circuit to dominate day 1 of Swiss Open
The 5.5 Metre class is famous for going to nice venues, but no one was really prepared for how nice the first day of the 2022 Swiss Open turned out. Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Edward Wright) took…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Two days left to make a difference
The Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) continued today, with multiple classes and a record 178 entries where some pointscores are becoming clear and others are so close they are tied on points. Trailable Yachts Graham Turner ‘s…
Cracking the F50 code
The rising trajectory of the New Zealand SailGP Team, which topped the podium for the first time in Plymouth, has been captured in the latest episode of the league’s behind-the-scene docuseries Racing on the Edge. With unprecedented access into the…
Denmark SailGP hits the water in Copenhagen
The Denmark SailGP Team has hit home waters ahead of the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix, which gets underway later this week in Copenhagen. Driver Nicolai Sehested has been putting his crew through their paces as practice begins for the…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Pioneer Bay Race today
With another light on for breeze weather forecast today, the record fleet of 178 boats competing at the 34th Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) will shift gears as the much anticipated Bay Race, which normally occurs on the final day,…
Ant Arctic Lab – circumnavigation has begun
Les Sables d’Olonne, 15th August 2022 Skipper Norbert Sedlacek Koch has set sails to accomplish his ANT ARCTIC LAB record challenge, to sail around the world nonstop, single-handed, without assistance through all five oceans including the most dangerous oceans on…
ILCA 4 Youth World Championships – Day 1
Vilamoura, Portugal – Two races were completed today in each fleet at the 2022 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships, hosted by Vilamoura Sailing. All 426 boats launched efficiently in under 45 minutes for a smooth start to the day. The…
Round Britain & Ireland Race – Joy & pain on assent to Muckle Flugga
Monday 15 August, 2022: After nine days of racing 21 teams are still competing in the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race. All bar three of those teams have rounded St Kilda, the isolated Scottish archipelago in the North Atlantic….
What is the most dangerous sector in low pressure system?
The Global Solo Challenge starts in September. This will be a non-stop, single-handed race around the world. Boats will be starting based on handicap, with the first starters off on 2nd September and the last ones on 28th October. First…
Video from final day of 505 Worlds in Cork
The final day delivered with picture book conditions, 3 races and great sailing… If you’ve never seen a Pathfinder start, have a look at the start of the video to see how to do it as well as how not…
Gold Coast Race 2022. A thinker’s game!
By Jules Hall – Owner of J/99 Disko Trooper After two years of COVID cancellations it was very special to have the Noakes Sydney to Gold Coast race back in action, and the inaugural running of the two handed division….
Team Hollywood makes it 2 from 2 at Airlie Beach Race Week
Following an hour’s delay in racing at Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) today as officials waited for the breeze to fill in, Ray Roberts and his Team Hollywood (NSW) added a further win to their Day 1 victory to take…
Olympian ‘home’ at Airlie Beach Race Week
Australian Olympian Mara Stransky is among the record numbers taking part in the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 34th Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW), which started off Airlie Beach in the Whitsunday Islands on Friday. The 23-year-old competed at the 2020 Tokyo…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Wind gods make call – racing abandoned
On Day 2 of Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW), competitors in the record fleet of 178 boats were initially held ashore, as organisers Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) monitored a very light and variable breeze, but eventually all headed out to…
505 Worlds title goes to McNay and Paine
Cork, Ireland: The final day of the 505 Worlds again dawned with no wind, but again the wind filled in from the north-east out to sea and conditions were even better than yesterday, with the wind filling in slightly stronger…
Families soak up sailing and celebrate at Airlie Beach Race Week
Families that sail together stay together – just ask those whose enthusiasm for sailing has rubbed off on the younger generation and other family members at Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) – among them is Geoff Dews, whose family have…
Charlie Cumbley lifts 2022 OK Dinghy World title
Charlie Cumbley from Britain has won the 2022 OK Dinghy World Championship after a stressful final day in Marstrand, Sweden, while Niklas Edler (SWE) took Silver with Lars Johan Brodtkorb (NOR) taking Bronze. No more races were possible on the…
Struggle of the 505 Worlds is over – wind finally arrives
Cork, Ireland: Yesterday was a lay day and the plan was to catch up some races at the 505 Worlds, but again there was no wind, so the locals pulled out their boats and we cruised the harbour to Cobh…
Dates set for 58th Long Beach Congressional Cup
California: Dates have been announced for the 58th Congressional Cup regatta and Ficker Cup qualifier hosted by Long Beach Yacht Club: with Congressional Cup slated April 18 to 22, 2023 preceded by the Ficker Cup April 13 to 15, 2023….
Airlie Beach Race Week: Mass start enthralls onlookers
A stunning day for the Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) opener, a mass start of 178 boats on Pioneer Bay, in winds of 15 knots from the south-east blowing down on those taking part in the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s marquee…
Fuels ain’t fuels #2 – Regular or Premium?
This article is reproduced from the May 2019 edition of our Cruising Helmsman Magazine. In the second of this series on outboard maintenance, Andrew Norton discusses the issue between the different fuels available and how they interact with both the…
