Cutting the lines
If you don’t want your long-term cruising dream to remain a dream, Dini Martinez outlines a few steps that might help cut your dock lines. A family of four, two children under three, a husband who has barely done any…
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Dee Caffari and Shirley Robertson talk double-handed sailing
Without question, one of the biggest trends in offshore sailing has been the rise in global popularity of double-handed (AKA two-handed) racing. Double-handed teams now compete in all of the great offshore races. And it’s caught the attention of many…
Rotterdam to dismantle bridge for Jeff Bezos’ superyacht
A historic steel bridge in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam is to be partly dismantled to allow a superyacht built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to pass, local authorities have announced. Bezos’s gigantic, 430-million-euro ($485m) yacht is too big for the…
Australian 18ft skiff Championship’s 100th edition starts Saturday
When the 23-boat fleet from NSW and Queensland lines up for Race 1 of the 100th Australian 18 footers Championship on Sydney Harbour this Saturday, the type of boat competing and number of crew members on each boat will be vastly…
Juno wins J/70 NSW Championship
Reg Lord’s Juno has prevailed over a small but competitive fleet to capture the 2022 J/70 NSW Championship title contested on Sydney Harbour on January 22-24. The three-day series hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron was raced in predominantly…
Mornington Yacht Club secures spot in Sailing Champions League – Asia Pacific Final
The Mornington Yacht Club has redeemed itself after missing qualification for the Asia Pacific Final last season, clinching the SAILING Champions League qualifier event in Geelong last week in an epic finish and booking their spot for Newcastle in March….
World Sailing appoints Paralympian as Head of Sustainability
World Sailing has appointed sustainability expert and Paralympic medallist Alexandra Rickham as Head of Sustainability. Rickham brings a wealth of expertise across sustainability, diversity and inclusion as a sports executive and professional athlete. Since transitioning from her 10 year sailing…
Double circumnavigators awarded 2021 Blue Water Medal
Ginger and Peter Niemann have been named winners of the 2021 Blue Water Medal by the Cruising Club of America for two sailing circumnavigations that took them to the high latitudes, north and south. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the second trip…
Round the world upside down: Taking on Cape Horn
Romain Pilliard and Alex Pella, accompanied by Christian Dumard, their router and meteorologist on land, finally seem to see a weather window to launch an assault on the legendary Cape Horn. On Tuesday January 4, Pilliard and Pella set off…
Dog found under boat in Thompson River, Canada
A dog believed drowned in Kamloops, B.C.’s Thompson River, Canada, returned home last week in a recovery being described as something of a miracle. Sammie-Marie, a two-year-old Boston terrier cross, had just been adopted by Joshua Knaak and his partner on January 11…
Vendée Arctic Race Director announced
Accompanied by the Department of Vendée and the town of Les Sables d’Olonne, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Vendée, which is the organising entity for the Vendée Globe, will this summer take on the organisation for the Vendée Arctic –…
Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race is set to return
The Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race is set to return on Saturday 30 July 2022. After consecutive cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s annual 384 nautical mile challenge is back on the racing calendar. …
Peter Brulisauer appointed CEO of Hamilton Island
The Oatley family are delighted to announce the appointment of Peter Brulisauer as the new CEO of Hamilton Island. Peter joins the Hamilton Island family from Vail Resorts, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of their…
Spindrift postpones Jules Verne Trophy attempt
On November 1, 2021, Dona Bertarelli, Yann Guichard and their team began the standby for a fourth attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy around-the-world sailing record. Since this date, there has not been a suitable weather window for the crew…
Upgraded Whitsundays fuel facility makes boating a breeze
Boating just got a little easier for vessel owners in the Whitsundays with the installation of ProFender’s super fender at the region’s busiest fuel facility. Prior to the busy holiday season Coral Sea Marina installed ProFender’s super fender across its…
Raymarine’s radar range wins Good Design Award
Raymarine is pleased to announce that its Cyclone™ open-array radar series has won a Good Design® Award in the Research and Technology category. The accolade follows shortly after the open-array radars were recognised by the Dame Design Award jury in the ‘Marine Electronics and…
Solaris Yachts on tour
Our 2022 begins in spring, with an important meeting that will kick off the Solaris Yachts events season. At the end of April in the setting of the Marina Monfalcone, Italy there will be the in-water presentation of the new…
Marine tech company smashes fourth crowdfunding round
Marine technology company savvy navvy founded by ex-Google software engineer, Jelte Liebrand from the UK, has started overfunding on investment platform Seedrs only hours after opening its doors to investors today, with offers still pouring in. savvy navvy has raised…
Swan River Sailing takes home Colin Mullins Youth Regatta trophy
Ethan Prieto-Low and his Swan River Sailing team have won Royal Perth Yacht Club’s 2022 Colin Mullins Youth Regatta after a tight three-race series with fellow club mate, Marcello Torre and his Columbus Racing Team. After a day of match…
Tech2 wins NSW 18ft skiff Championship
Tech2’s team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake became the 2021-22 NSW 18ft skiff champions when they dominated the fleet to win today’s final race (Race 8) of the series on Sydney Harbour. After trailing the leader Noakesailing over…
Big breeze at Bacardi Winter Series
Day two at Bacardi Winter Series, January 28-30 2022, dawned as forecast with a big breeze of 27 plus knots and gusts up to 39 on Biscayne Bay, Miami, forcing the three fleets – J/70, Melges 24 and 69F –…
French and Spanish sailors win first IQFOIL International Games of 2022
Lanzarote, Canary Islands has surprised during the grand final of the Lanzarote iQFoil Games 2022 with strong winds of more than 20 knots of southeast component and many waves that no one expected. In addition to typical ‘calima’, which has put on alert the…
Kovalenko returns as Australia’s first Master Coach
Victor ‘The Medal Maker’ Kovalenko will continue to help guide Australia’s Olympic sailing champions after signing on to become Australian Sailing’s first ever Master Coach. Kovalenko is Australia’s most successful Olympic sailing coach, and the new role will reflect the…
Sail-powered USV tested in Persian Gulf
The U.S. Navy is seeing success in trials of small unmanned surface vessels in the Middle East, particularly a militarized version of the ubiquitous Saildrone, a self-sailing instrument platform which is popular in the scientific community. “The initial Saildrone assessment…
Introducing Ronstan Triggersnap™ Shackles
Ronstan’s newest shackle range features a latch mechanism for quick and intuitive one-handed operation. Release under load is easily accomplished by using a spike (available as RF1322) to safely actuate the trigger. Heat treated, investment cast 15-5PH stainless steel components…
Man dies after catamaran capsizes on NSW South Coast
A man has died and another has been rescued after a catamaran capsized on the NSW South Coast yesterday. Emergency services were called to Plantation Point, Jervis Bay, after it was reported a catamaran had capsized with two men onboard…
Mixed results in Bacardi Winter Series opener
A slow start to the opening race for all fleets at Bacardi Winter Series event 2, with a light fluky breeze ensuring the notorious Biscayne Bay race track lived up to its reputation. Plenty of leaderboard shuffles as the crews…
Near tragedy after second boat capsizes on Nepean River
Just days after a 33-year-old woman died on Australia Day, another group of boaters were involved in a near tragedy on Nepean River in Penrith this afternoon. A family boating day turned to trouble as three adults and two children…
Trofeo Princesa Sofía joins Hempel World Cup Series
The 51st Trofeo Princesa Sofía, the first key test of 2022 in the build up to the Paris 2024 Olympics, will be held in Mallorca, Spain from 1-9 April and the largest Europe-based event for Olympic classes is expected to…
RORC Transatlantic Race blockbuster
The eighth edition of the 3,000nm 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race attracted a record entry of 30 boats racing under the IRC and MOCRA Racing Rules. The 100ft Maxi Comanche set a new Monohull Race Record and was the overall winner….
New spinnaker pole ends from Ronstan
Australian sailboat hardware company, Ronstan has launched new keelboat spinnaker pole ends suitable for tube sizes from 50mm to 100mm. The new outboard spinnaker pole ends, RF1664 and RF1665, feature anodised aluminium bodies with grade 316 stainless steel hardware. Opened…
SailGP announces title partner of Season 2 Grand Final
SailGP has announced a new partnership with Mubadala Investment Company as Title Partner of the Season 2 Grand Final. The Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix is the culmination of the world’s most exciting racing on-water and will take place…
Royal Navy delivers relief aid to Tonga
The Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Spey arrived at Tonga on Wednesday. Her crew have unloaded disaster relief supplies for communities hit by the Tonga-Hunga volcanic eruption and tsunami. The forward-deployed vessel delivered UK aid stores, including 30,000 liters of bottled water; 300…
NSW 18ft skiff Championship decider
Despite a lack of traditional Northeast winds throughout the 2021-22 NSW 18ft skiff Championship, the racing has been fast, exciting and has produced some great finishes with four different teams crossing the finish line first in the seven races so…
Boat sinks at notorious reef
A skipper and his daughter who “didn’t even get wet” when their launch capsized on a reef has praised the skills of marine search and rescue organisations. The man, who wants to remain anonymous, said he and his daughter were…
Exhibitors on board for Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show
Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show (SCIBS) is ready for a blockbuster of a year when it returns from 19 – 22 May 2022. Attending the show will be a showstopping line-up of exhibitors across everything from the latest marine gadgets…
Sailing Champions League debuts at Festival of Sails
The SAILING Champions League – which is a ‘club versus club’ sailing competition that has taken off across the globe – made its official Geelong debut on the closing day of the Festival of Sails. Launched in 2013 and now…
Acoustic Life of Boatsheds review
Immersing audiences in the history of Sydney Harbour, with music specially created for each site, Acoustic Life of Boatsheds is everything you could want from a festival celebrating its city. Acoustic Life of Boatsheds from Big hART, happening as part of…
Transatlantic Race: Winners are grinners in Grenada
The final class and trophy winners were decided on the 18th day of the RORC Transatlantic Race. Richard Palmer’s JPK 1010 Jangada (GBR) has won IRC Two-Handed, racing with Jeremy Waitt. Martin Westcott’s S&S Swan 57 Equinoccio (CHI) has won…
Transatlantic Race: Arrival of two-handed sailors
Richard Palmer’s JPK 1010 Jangada (GBR) has won RORC Transatlantic Race IRC Two-Handed. Jangada, co-skippered by Jeremy Waitt, finished the race in an elapsed time of 16 days 11 hours 59 minutes 46 seconds, winning IRC Two Handed and placing…
