Qoin Sail Paradise #6
Matchless sails south from Whitsundays to compete in QOIN Sail Paradise 2023 The countdown is on and with just under 60 days to go over 40 of the best Grand Prix level offshore racing yachts from Brisbane, the Gold Coast…
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Race wins for Australians on day one of ILCA Euros
Australia’s sailors came out firing in Hyeres, France on day one of the Senior ILCA European Championships, with three sailors coming home with race wins. After spending the last week training in a predominately on-shore easterly breeze, the Aussies found…
Hanse 460 Australian Launch Event
It’s a long way from the shores of the Baltic Sea to Moreton Bay in Queensland but sailors know an exceptional yacht when they see one – as evidenced by the strong interest shown in the new Hanse 460 at…
Top Multihulls on Display in Western Australia
Western Australia’s cruising enthusiasts have the opportunity to inspect two of the world’s most popular sailing catamarans in Mandurah in November. Multihull Solutions is showcasing the Fountaine Pajot Isla 40 and NEEL 43 trimaran at the Mandurah Offshore Fishing and…
TMG Cruising Guide to the Kimberley
Our friends at The Multihull Group have put together a fantastic guide to the Kimberley. An ancient landscape of raw and powerful beauty, spectacular sunsets, ochre rock formations, prolific wildlife, majestic canyons, freshwater swimming holes, breathtaking waterfalls and Aboriginal rock…
Golden Globe: Half of fleet in Southern Ocean – Lawless and Guillou out
Dateline: Cape Town, Tuesday, 15th of November 2022 Two front runners of the Golden Globe Race have retired into Cape Town with wind vane failures. Damien Guillou arrived in Cape Town this monday having lost his windvane rudder. Pat Lawless…
Preparations in full swing for 50th Melbourne to Hobart
Preparations are in full swing for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 50th Melbourne to Hobart, as entrants make their final preparations for the ‘Westcoaster’ as it is colloquially known, which starts on 27 December at 12pm from Portsea…
Route du Rhum: Deaths after motor boat capsize
This Wednesday morning, November 16, as the first boat was finishing the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe in Guadeloupe’s bay of Pointe-à-Pitre, a motor boat which was carrying 11 people capsized. The circumstances surrounding the accident are still undetermined, but…
Charles Caudrelier breaks course record to win Route du Rhum
In the dark of a Caribbean night to a typically rapturous welcome, French solo skipper Charles Caudrelier on the Ultim 32/32 Maxi Edmond de Rothschild crossed the line off Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe at 05:02:05hrs local time (09:02:05 UTC) this morning. His…
Ivica Kostelic retires from Route du Rhum
Croatian sailor, Ivica Kostelic (ACI), who was racing in the Class40 division in the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe transatlantic race, is heading for Cascais in Portugal, suffering from many technical problems, including the loss of his wind gear. After a…
Welcome back to International Youth Match Racing
The 2022 Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship will host the World’s best youth match racing talent, with competitors coming from across the globe including America, New Zealand, New Caledonia and a strong representation from across Australia. After a two-year…
Sailing’s biggest names line up for Etchells Nationals
Entries are ramping up for the much anticipated Australian Etchells Championships, which will be held at Adelaide’s Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia from 7-12 January next year. A total of 17 boats are already entered into the event, including…
Entries ramp up for Nautilus Marine Insurance SSORC
Billed as the ‘must’ do’ regatta to boost sailing skillsets ahead of the summer season of major yachting events, the 2022 Nautilus Marine Insurance Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) is gathering momentum following the opening of entries in late…
ILCA Europeans set to kick off in the South of France
The 2022 Senior European ILCA Championships are about to get underway in Hyeres, France, with both the ILCA 7 and ILCA 6 classes set to compete simultaneously. It’s been a tale of two seasons for the Australian ILCA 7 and…
Australian Rupert Henry retires from Route du Rhum
Australian Class 40 sailor, Rupert Henry, reported today that he has structural failure of one of the frames in the front of his yacht, Eora, so has decided to withdraw from the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe for safety…
Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe: A sprint finish after all?
14 NOVEMBER 2022 After five days and nights of tough, physical, racing which has taken them to the edge of exhaustion, there are just 1100 nautical miles of direct runway left to sail to the Pointe-à-Pitre finish line for the…
Fire aboard IMOCA Nexans – Art & Fenêtres: Fabrice Amedeo recovered by a cargo ship
14 NOVEMBER 2022At 1132hrs UTC this morning, while French skipper Fabrice Amedeo was en route to Cascais in Portugal after suffering damage during the Route du Rhum-Destination Gudeloupe solo Transatlantic race, there was an explosion aboard his Imoca, Nexans –…
18ft Skiffs: Spring Championship, Races 5 and 6
18ft SkiffsSpring Championship, Race 5 and 6Today’s Trophy: Chris Webb Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: YandooSunday, 13 November 2022Sydney Harbour Races 5 and 6 of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2022-23 Spring Championship were sailed over two windward-leeward 3-buoys courses, on Sydney…
TasPorts 75th Maria Island Race 2022
Kraken Scoops the Pool in TasPorts Maria Island Race Kraken 42S, a Cookson 12 owned and sailed by Mark Bayles and Andrew Sinclair, won all three handicap divisions in last weekend’s TasPorts 75th Maria Island Race. In one of the…
Black Jack claims clean sweep of Bird Island Race
Skipper Mark Bradford says Black Jack reached its peak performance to win both line and overall honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2022 Bird Island Race. The 83nm race around Bird Island – approximately 3nm north east of…
Thibault rescued after capsize in Route du Rhum
After capsizing around 2000hrs yesterday evening while leading the Ocean Fifty class of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo race, French skipper Thibaut Vauchel-Camus was rescued this morning from the upturned Solidaires En Peloton – ARSEP some 240 miles north…
Australia pulls off incredible win to take control of SailGP Season 3
DUBAI – November 13, 2022 – Tom Slingsby’s Australia SailGP Team delivered one of the more remarkable victories seen in SailGP to dramatically overtake both France and Great Britain from what had seemed respective winning positions to storm back onto…
Pauline Coutous wins double World Title
Auckland (13 November, 2022) Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink match racing team from France have successfully defended their world title winning the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson World Women’s Match Racing Championships in Auckland, New Zealand. The team were…
Route du Rhum: ARSEP capsized – skipper safe
Ocean Fifty Class leader, ARSEP has capsized in rough weather between Portugal and the Azores, her solo skipper, Frenchman, Thibaut Vauchel-Camus is not injured and is sheltering in the central hull of his trimaran. Vauchel-Camus, 43, who had taken the…
Bureau Vallée dismasted in Route du Rhum
French skipper Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée) has dismasted on the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe while lying in ninth place on the solo race from Saint Malo to Guadeloupe which started on Wednesday at 1415hrs. Burton reported the accident at 1700hrs…
Aussies can’t beat the heat in Dubai
Tom Slingsby and the Australia Team couldn’t hide their disappointment after suffering a dismal first race day of the Dubai Sail Grand Prix on Port Rashid, Tom Slingsby confessing, “We had a shocker.” The race course, described by SailGP CEO…
Route du Rhum: Gabart leads Azores face off in Ultims
Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe leaders, Charles Caudrelier (Maxi Edmond de Rothschild) and François Gabart (SVR Lazartigue), are less than 15 miles apart and on converging tracks as they negotiate the Azores islands, looking to get through the next cold front…
SailGP: Great Britain dominant on day one in Dubai
On a day of light winds and close racing, Sir Ben Ainslie mastered conditions to take control of the inaugural Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas, meaning the British team sits five points clear at the top of…
Class40 skipper Gerckens abandons Route du Rhum
Belgian Class40 skipper, Jonas Gerckens, has been forced to retire from the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe this Friday evening local time due to a combination of technical problems which are exacerbated by his poor state of health. The 42-year-old solo…
Route du Rhum: Dalin and Caudrelier to the forefront
The title favourite, Charlie Dalin (APIVIA) has been enjoying something of a rich-get-richer scenario at the front of the 36 strong Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe IMOCA fleet, his lead of 60 miles ahead of Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOUt) increasing by the…
Aussies set for tight racing at SailGP in Dubai
Tom Slingsby and the other SailGP drivers are expecting adrenaline fuelled racing and possible carnage after practising on the tight race track ahead of the first ever Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas this weekend. In the press…
GKA Freestyle-Kite Worlds – title chances come… and go
There are days in competition that truly go down in the history books and day two of the Copa Kitley GKA Freestyle-Kite World Cup Brazil in Taiba is one of them. As the final Freestyle event of the season, the…
Route du Rhum: Request for redress granted to Maxi Edmond de Rothschild
Since Wednesday at 14:15 hours, Charles Caudrelier, deemed to have crossed the start line of the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe too early, was the subject of a procedure, but the latter was lifted last night. In the Sailing…
New frontiers as SailGP makes Middle Eastern debut
Dubai: The SailGP title race has never been more wide open, with three different winners in the last three events, as the sport’s best athletes prepare for the inaugural Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas. On the spectacularly…
Route du Rhum: APICIL struck by cargo ship and dismasted
Damien Seguin’s IMOCA Groupe APICIL was hit by a cargo ship and dismasted around 0330hrs (French time) this morning. The French skipper is racing on the Route du Rhum Destination Guadeloupe solo race across the Atlantic and was lying in…
Courtois wins crucial match ups to lead World Championship
World number 1, Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink team from France, lead the qualifying round at the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship after two days of racing in challenging conditions on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour….
Women’s Match Racing World Championship
Auckland, New Zealand (10 November 2022) The home of the America’s Cup delivered thrilling conditions for the opening day of the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the final stage of the Women’s World Match Racing Tour….
Into the Route du Rhum race rhythm as first big front is anticipated
10 NOVEMBER 2022With the first 24 hours of racing completed and the record sized fleet of solo racers settling into their ocean racing rhythm, the biggest threat to the lead of Charles Caudrelier and the Ultim 32/23 pacemaker Maxi Edmond…
SailGP breaks into mainstream
SailGP on CBS delivers best U.S. broadcast sailing viewership in 30 years NEW YORK – November 9, 2022 – SailGP, one of the world’s fastest growing sport leagues, is proving that high-octane, hydrofoiling sailboat racing is ready-made for the mainstream….
Concord Ryde Sailing Club Discover Sailing Day
The annual FREE Discover Sailing Day, which offers the experienced and beginner alike the opportunity to try life under sail, is scheduled for Sunday 20th November(10am-3.00pm) at Concord and Ryde Sailing Club located at Kissing Point Park Corner of Waterview…
