America’s Cup end of year report
It has been a very busy lead up to the Christmas break with the America’s Cup teams all at full tilt either on the water or in preparation for what is shaping up to be a very intense New Year….
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MRV sets new record in Cock of the Bay race
The city of Melbourne is a sports mecca in summer and fans were treated to a sporting spectacle today with a 100-boat fleet competing in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s Cock of the Bay Yacht Race. The stunning summer…
Fast and dramatic start to Rolex Sydney Hobart
The 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race got off to a fast and dramatic start today. The assisting downwind conditions once the boats turned right at the Heads could see the first boat cross the finish line as early as…
Race record under threat in 50th Anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race
The 50th Anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race is set to be one of the most memorable in history with the weather gods sending a late Christmas gift to the fleet, a swift sail to Hobart and potential entry into…
NSW Sailing League debuts its first season
Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC) and Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) have entered into a partnership to launch the NSW Sailing League (NSW-SL) for the 2022 / 23 Season. The NSW-SL is a part of the wider pathway of…
Cock of the Bay Yacht Race Hosted by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria
The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Cock of the Bay Yacht Race, or Boxing Day Dash, is living up to its reputation as a hugely popular 21 nautical mile post-Christmas race with over 100 boats entered in this year’s…
Australian Sailing Team members ready to set sail to Hobart
Representatives from the Australian Sailing Team will be boarding boats on Boxing Day to take part in the iconic 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Nacra 17 helmsman Jason Waterhouse and 49er crew Joel Turner will be teaming…
18ft Skiffs – Random Images
The competitors racing the 18ft skiffs each weekend in the Australian 18 Footers League’s fleet on Sydney Harbour are very talented and prepared to go ten-tenths to claim the big prize, but sometimes things don’t go the way they intend…
Two-handed high hopes
The race for Overall victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race can often remain wide open for several days and hinge on the slightest and most unexpected shift in weather conditions. But for the first time, this year the…
The Warren Jones is BACK!
International & interstate competitors will return for the 19th Warren Jones International Youth Regatta for the first time since 2020 In it’s 19th year, the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta will again be a Grade-2 Match Racing Event with locals,…
Wind powered landspeed World Record ratified
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 joins the IOC as a founding signatory of the Sports for Nature framework
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…
Haylee Outteridge joins Performance Pathways Coaching team
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…
Youngest Golden Globe entrant faces retirement and Race leader under threat
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…
Melbourne to Hobart fleet ready to set a cracking pace
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,…
Hamilton Island Wild Oats’ shot at 10 line honours in Sydney-Hobart
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…
13ft and 16ft Skiff National Champs Preview
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…
WMRT – Kiwis crowned champions
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…
Consistency Secures Medals at Sail 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,…
18ft Skiffs – The Barnett Family
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…
Fee-free marine courses for NSW residents
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,…
eSailors ready for live return of eSailing World Championship Finals
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…
2023 Inverloch classic wooden dinghy regatta
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.
Globe 40 – Leg 5 winners
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…
Close finishes set for final day of Sail Sydney
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…
WMRT – Semi-finalists line up
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…
RPAYC launches new Australian Ocean Racing Championship
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…
Brickwrecks – Sunken Ships in LEGO® Bricks
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…
ETNZ AC40 back out on the water
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….
WMRT – Sydney’s southerly turns on for quarters-finals
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…
Tight racing determines midway standings at Sail Sydney
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…
MarineJobs.org.au closes the year with 600+ job postings
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…
Australian Sailing celebrates landmark AIS High Performance Strategy
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…
WMRT – Poole and Borch fasttrack to quarter-finals
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 return on Day One of Sail Sydney
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…
13′ Skiff Nationals – 7-14th January
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…
Woody takes wind out of his son’s sails
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…
Opening day of WMRT Final
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…
First Female Trifecta at the Manly 16s
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…
Path to Paris starts at Sail Sydney
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…
