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Olympic champions Matt Wearn OAM (WA) and Tom Burton OAM (NSW) will spearhead the Australian Sailing Team (AST) when the world’s best sailors return to the Semaine Olympique Francaise – the French Olympic Week at Hyères, France (23 – 30…
The Royal Malta Yacht Club (RMYC) is pleased to confirm that the notice of race for 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race is available online and yachts may already register their participation. Last year’s race attracted 114 yachts, a remarkable achievement given the ongoing backdrop…
Brisbane is a major step closer to becoming the Asia Pacific region’s premier superyacht destination and a more strategic location for Defence and commercial vessels after Rivergate Marina and Shipyard gained approval for a $200 million expansion. Brisbane City Council…
When SailGP Season 3 commences on May 14 in Bermuda, it will mark an historic moment for Canadian sailing. Canada’s first-ever fully professional sailing team will be on the start line with an all-star crew on board the leading-edge F50…
Long Beach, California: Taylor Canfield (USA), Ian Williams (GBR), Johnie Berntsson (SWE) and Chris Poole (USA) have advanced to the semi-final stage in the 57th Congressional Cup, after a dicey day of sailing for the Catalina 37 fleet. Ten of the…
French skipper Paul Meilhat will fulfil a lifelong dream in January 2023 when he leads Biotherm across the starting line of The Ocean Race on the waters off Alicante, Spain. Meilhat and his team will be racing one of the…
New York Yacht Club American Magic is set to return to Pensacola, Florida for training later this year. This marks the team’s third winter training on the Gulf Coast. In 2018, American Magic was the first America’s Cup team to…
The Mediterranean maxi season gets underway tomorrow with the opening day of racing at the Portofino Regate di Primavera taking place out of the picturesque Ligurian hamlet where the Yacht Club Italiano has a clubhouse. The event is organised by…
Long Beach, California: Taylor Canfield, and his Stars+Stripes Team USA crew finished day two of the 57th Congressional Cup ahead of the leaderboard with 10 points in the qualifying round of the regatta. Past Congressional Cup champions Ian Williams, GBR (Team…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair gets excited…
Monday and Tuesday’s brisk easterlies eased to the high teens for day three of maxi racing at the Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille, the third event of the International Maxi Association’s new Caribbean Maxi Challenge. However the elements…
With nine months to the start of the 2023 Cape to Rio race, the entries are starting to mount up and the race organisers confirmed that there are still a number of boats who are finalising plans and possible entries. Faros, a…
The Race Around, Class40s official round-the-world offshore yacht race, has named La Rochelle as host city for its inaugural event in 2023.
Long Beach, California: A morning of fanfare: an evening of glitz. And in between — five hours of high-octane sailing. The 57th Congressional Cup kicked off today with a bookend of exciting events including a rededication of the racecourse with local…
On winding coastal courses resembling those around the Costa Smeralda, but with a sizeable Atlantic swell added to the mix, day two of Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille took place in similarly challenging conditions to yesterday with a…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair gets some…
The Race Around, Class40’s official round-the-world offshore yacht race, has named La Rochelle, France as host city for its inaugural event in 2023. A location steeped in offshore sailing history, La Rochelle will become the home of The Race Around…
The Lake Macquarie City Council 58th Sabot National Championship and Paul Stivano Sabot Week, was held 9-12 April 2022 on Lake Macquarie, NSW at Teralba Amateur Sailing Club. The annual Sabot event caters for all levels of sailing skill, with…
The mast is a crucial part of any sailboat, but Steve Kozloff wants to make it the crowning glory. The California-based designer has just unveiled a sailing gigayacht concept, known as Glory, which is equipped with three innovative masts that can be…
2022 marks a decade of joint venture partnership between ATL Composites Australia and M.u.H. von der Linden GmbH, based in Wesel, Germany, manufacturing the range of ATL’s lightweight panel solutions including DuFLEX, DuraKore, and Featherlight composite panels to top European boat builders, architects…
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, racing at last resumed at Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille, the third and penultimate event in the International Maxi Association’s Caribbean Maxi Challenge. And what a start it was with…
Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban has won the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s 74th annual Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race overall on handicap. Ichi Ban last won the race and the coveted Courier-Mail Cup in 2018, as well as the overall win in the 2021 Rolex Sydney to Hobart…
Blog day 55Latitude 51 17.05SLongitude 18 05.33WBarometer 1003Air Temp 4cLocal time – 0428 UTC-3LIVE TRACKER Hi all, Well I am happy to say that I basically slept the whole day. It was amazing… I went back to bed after finishing up…
Cowes: Classic Solent conditions prevailed for the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s first inshore regatta of the 2022 season. After eight thrilling races, IRC class winners for the RORC Easter Challenge were: Ian Atkins’ GP42 Dark N Stormy (IRC 1), The Army…
The International Maxi Association’s Caribbean Maxi Challenge resumes tomorrow with its third event, Les Voiles de St Barth Richard Mille. Based out of Gustavia in the paradise French Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy, the event has bounced back, after a…
Peter Harburg’s 100-foot Black Jack has taken line honours and smashed its own race record in the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s 74th annual Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race, crossing the Gladstone Harbour finish line at 3.13am Easter Saturday, 16th April 2022. Black Jack, the largest…
William ‘Bill’ Fisher was a foundation member of the 18 Footers League and sailed his boat Australia in the Club’s first race. After coming to the new League from the Sydney Flying Squadron (SFS) following a split between the SFS…
Cowes: The Easter treats continued for close to 300 hundred sailors taking part in the RORC Easter Challenge as fabulous sailing conditions continued in the Solent for Day 2 of the regatta when some boats moved up the board and…
Auckland, New Zealand: It has been a few weeks since the last Team New Zealand Project Speed update and in that time things have been coming together well and with speed. As the clock ticks down to any launch time,…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair was contemplating…
Cowes: The first day of the RORC Easter Challenge was blessed with sparkling conditions in the Solent, with a light gradient breeze from the south east building during the day to over 10 knots of pressure, while brilliant sunshine throughout…
It was a spectacular spinnaker start for the 37 offshore racing yachts who are now racing 308 nautical miles up the coast to Gladstone for the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s 74th annual Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which started at 11am today (Good…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair finds a…
As entries roll in for September’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, the pinnacle event of the maxi racing calendar, the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, the Yacht Club de Monaco and the International Maxi Association have joined forces to create a novel…
Waszp sailor Hattie Rogers got the chance to sail on GBR’s F50 at the final SailGP Season 2 event in San Francisco.
Gorgeous conditions greeted sailors on day two of the 2022 Waszp European Games at Mar Menor, Spain. The movers and shakers on the leaderboard are Nick Zeltner from Switzerland coming back from an 18th on day one to lead the…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair continues to…
Skippers and crews are notably upbeat and ready for a highly competitive and fast Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which starts tomorrow at 11am from Moreton Bay. At the official race briefing held last night at Sandgate Town Hall, Dr…
This year the world’s leading photo competition dedicated to competitive sailing is proud to launch its 13th edition. Professional photographers from all over the world are invited to submit their best image for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image. Photos must…
Whether you’re a part-time sailor with a passion for the seas or someone who spends all their life on board, you will eventually get onto the topic of watermakers and whether or not they’re right for your vessel. There are…
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