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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…
The forecast for the penultimate day of the 44Cup Oman was for either a moderate north-easterly or for a light north-westerly. In fact the near non-existent gradient breeze and the similarly soft sea breeze made it a tricky day for…
The 2023 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series season is about to kick off and the first stop of the year for this largest regatta series in the US takes place in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida from 17-19 February. Don’t…
A NSW 16ft Skiff champion one day, back to the school the next.That was the whirlwind 24 hours for Red Pumps Red skipper Tyler Dransfield after he combined with Chris Williams and Jackson Cranfield to claim a maiden state title…
The Golden Globe Race fleet is stretched 5000 miles across the Southern Ocean and is not short of stories, with just nine sailors still bound for Les Sables d’Olonne in France – and they are not even halfway! The weather,…
Next summer in Newport, Rhode Island a schedule of racing will be punctuated by the 2023 12 Metre World Championship, an International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA) event, organised by the 12 Metre Yacht Club Newport Station (official home of ITMA’s…
After a light start, conditions were optimum off Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina for day two of the 44Cup Oman, the fifth and concluding event of the 2022 44Cup. Three races were held, but today the northerly wind peaked at 15…
Heavy waves on Kata Beach hampered crews’ ability to reach their boats today, so the Phuket King’s Cup race committee delayed racing for just over an hour, as the wind gods didn’t want to come out to play today. After…
After a light World Championship back in October in Portorož, Slovenia the nine teams competing today off Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina at the 44Cup Oman, were well dialled in for the opening day of the 2022 44Cup’s grand finale. However,…
One of Marita Wilmot’s fondest memories of sailing at the Manly 16ft Skiff Club is making the men wait for their post-race shower. “There were no facilities for women so my father used to make all the crew wait outside…
Bruce Taylor is what one would describe as one of the backbones of the Festival of Sails, having competed in every single one since 1979 – and he will be there again when the start gun fires on Port Phillip…
Sandringham Yacht Club’s Gerry Cantwell, skipper of Marten 49 Performance Cruiser Carrera S, credits Victorian boat builder Bernie Webber, with piquing his interest in sailing the Melbourne to Hobart (Westcoaster). “Bernie encouraged me to buy Carrera S and filled me…
7 December 2022, Phuket – The wind gods have been kind to sailors at the 34th Phuket King’s Cup as another full day of racing was completed today off of Naiharn Beach on the southern end of Phuket. It was…
The line-up for the World Match Racing Tour Final 2022 has been confirmed, with 10 teams invited for the inaugural Tour event to be sailed on Sydney Harbour. In just under a week, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, home…
6 December 2022, Phuket – Blue skies, warm water and nice breeze greeted sailors today as they gathered off of Cape Promthep to compete in the second day of sailing at the 34th Phuket King’s Cup Regatta. While the International…
The ‘club versus club’ sailing competition – the VIC Sailing League – will be returning to the 2023 Festival of Sails as local teams battle it out for a shot at the Asia Pacific finals of the SAILING Champions League…
It was a clean sweep for co-skippers Nigel Jones and Cam McKenzie on their J111 yacht ‘Ginan’ in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint 2, where thirty yachts enjoyed what could only be described…
The John Winning Jr-skippered maxi yacht, Andoo Comanche, produced a masterclass of high-speed sailing to win Line Honours in the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge on Sydney Harbour today. Meanwhile, the Jim Cooney-skippered and owned Volvo 70 Willow was declared the…
The latest episode of the World Sailing show goes behind the scenes to look at the first weeks of testing ahead of the 2024 America’s Cup in Barcelona. Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli’s LEQ12 test boat is currently in Cagliari as…
From 2023, Kiel Week will be part of the group of four international top events that make up the World Cup in Olympic sailing. In future, the regatta organisers and World Sailing want to coordinate dates and general conditions such…
The 2022 Australian Maxi Championship will be decided by the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge after an enthralling day of racing in Sydney. Following the Championship-opening Cabbage Tree Island Race over the weekend, the 10 boats (four in the Maxi Division…
Lake Gairdner – 5th December 2022 After what has seemed like endless weather delays over the past couple of months, finally Horonuku got to stretch its legs on a dry Lake Gairdner with breeze that is edging closer into the…
Today’s Trophy: Alice Burton Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: SmegSunday, 4 December 2022Sydney Harbour The Andoo team of John Winning Jr., Seve Jarvin and Sam Newton extended its lead in the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship with another top class exhibition in the…
Mistral is the first two-handed boat to win overall honours in one of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s major races, with co-skippers Rupert Henry and Greg O’Shea leading a two-handed sweep of the podium in the 2022 Cabbage Tree…
In October 2023, the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre will celebrate its 30th anniversary in Le Havre ahead of the famous two-handed Transatlantic race heads to Martinique, where the finish of the race, known as the Route du Café,…
Ask those at Manly Skiffs the original motivation behind seeking an amalgamation with the famous old St George Sailing Club and money and profit is never at the forefront of discussion. Invariably, the talk turns to the propagation of 16ft…
Andoo Comanche set a new record time to take line honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2022 Cabbage Tree Island Race. The 100-foot maxi, skippered by John Winning Jr, finished the 172 nautical mile race in 12 hours,…
Watch how it was born and who is behind the boat designed and built at the Cagliari base. LUNA ROSSA PRADA PIRELLI TEAM The Luna Rossa team was born in 1997 when Argentine yacht designer German Frers proposed to entrepreneur…
A new trophy is announced for the VO65 one design class in The Ocean Race 2022-23. Along with five confirmed IMOCA teams racing around the world, up to five VO65 teams will be on the starting line in Alicante, Spain…
In 1949 The Edinburgh Cup was gifted to the British Dragon Association (BDA) by the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) after the members of the Island Sailing Club presented the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip with a Dragon named…
AC37 Event Limited (ACE) have confirmed both the intended race area and the race dates for the America’s Cup Match 2024. The Racing Area for both the Challenger Selection Series and the America’s Cup Match itself have now been agreed…
Switzerland’s 32nd placed IMOCA Oliver Heer: “I had my doubts I would make it back into the race” Swiss skipper Oliver Heer (Oliver Heer Ocean Racing) crossed the finish line of the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe at 01:37:55hrs TU…
The European designed and built Dragonfly 28 trimaran is setting new standards for what’s possible in a sailing boat. Of course, the perfect boat doesn’t exist – but the Dragonfly 28 comes very, very close. The Dragonfly 28 trimaran is…
Seawind Catamarans, Corsair Marine and Multihull Central brought 21 boat owners together for a spectacular weekend of social racing on Moreton Bay as hosted by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. A mixed fleet of 15 Seawind catamarans and 6 Corsair…
Charles Brodel blazed his way to another hydrofoil world title on Sunday, landing two moves for the first time in competition along the way. On the final day of the Copa Kitley GKA Kite-Surf and Hydrofoil-Freestyle World Cup combo event…
On the eve of her 60th birthday, sailing the famous ‘Cigar Rouge’ – the boat on which she became the first woman to complete the Vendée Globe in 1996/7 – Catherine Chabaud completed a successful, popular return to ocean racing…
Being with Benny: Inside the World of Ben Lexcen A Best Seller here in Australia, Being with Benny, by Bob Ross, with a Foreword by John Bertrand, is the story of how Bob Miller, from a shattered childhood in rural…
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