Racing cancelled at KiteFoil World Series
On Day 3 of the 2021 KiteFoil World Series Gran Canaria the breeze gusted too strongly for riders to get out through the shore break at Playa de las Burras. Once again, so once again, no racing to be done…
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Sydney Hobart super maxi’s secret weapon
It took a few goes for the LawConnect team to smash the champagne bottle on the newly extended bowsprit of Christian Beck’s 100ft super maxi, but they eventually got there, christening the rebranded Juan-K 100 ahead of the 2021 Rolex…
Tom Slingsby named male Rolex World Sailor of the Year
Australia’s Tom Slingsby has won the male 2021 Rolex World Sailor of the Year. The award celebrates his achievements in three competitive classes over the past two years. It was announced on Thursday 2 December in a virtual ceremony streamed…
Light winds challenge sailors at ILCA 6 World Championships
The ILCA 6 World Championshipsfinally got underway in the Al-Mussanah Sports City, Oman overnight, with three races completed in a light sea breeze. There was no racing on day one of the event due to lack of wind, so after…
Bali 4.4 yacht share: Live the dream on your doorstep
Yacht Share Mariner has a new Bali 4.4 on order for delivery to Sydney next winter. A share in this yacht could be yours for six weeks across the year and all you have to do is enjoy the experience…
Dates announced for 50th Fastnet Race
Following the success of the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race from Cowes to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) and its French partners are delighted to announce the date for the next edition of its flagship event in 2023. The…
ARC fatality and two yachts abandoned mid-Atlantic
A French sailor has died on the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers and a further yacht abandoned due to catastrophic steering failure. French sailor Max Delannoy (73), who was taking part in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, has died after being…
Income Asset Management joins as naming rights partner for inaugural Australian Maxi Championship
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is delighted to welcome Income Asset Management as the naming rights partner for the inaugural Australian Maxi Championship. This new regatta has been introduced by Australian Sailing to provide additional racing for maxis and mini maxis, with the…
World Sailing Awards 2021
The World Sailing Awards show, hosted by Alec Wilkinson and Hannah White, celebrates the truly remarkable highlights and accomplishments of the last 18 months.
Australian sailor to complete 2018 Golden Globe Race
With the new year around the corner and nine months before the start of the Golden Globe Race 2022, the skippers and organisers are keeping busy. While most boats get in the shed for their winter refit, some sailors prefer…
New Maxi European Championship coming to 2022
The International Maxi Association is to introduce a new European Championship for maxi yachts in 2022. Taking place over 14-20 May out of Sorrento, Italy with racing based around the Gulf of Naples and Capri, the IMA Maxi European Championship…
Huge turnout for Brisbane Seawind and Corsair rally
To cap off a huge year for Seawind Catamarans and sister company, Corsair Marine trimarans, a 24 strong fleet of Seawinds and Corsairs sailed together in perfect conditions on Brisbane’s Moreton Bay in a rally run by distributors, Multihull Central….
CAptain’s Mate: Digital cruising information in one app
The Cruising Association (CA) has today, 1 December 2021, released its upgraded CAptain’s Mate app. CAptain’s Mate is a unique app providing an invaluable and intuitive toolbox of knowledge, designed to empower yacht and motor cruisers. Putting thousands of cruising…
Entry period open for 37th America’s Cup
As of 12am December 1 2021, Challengers can now officially enter the next edition of the oldest trophy in international sport. Kevin Shoebridge, COO of Emirates Team New Zealand said, “The Defender, RNZYS & Emirates Team New Zealand, have had…
2021 Seawind and Corsair Brisbane Rally
Multihull Central had a record turn out for this year’s Seawind Catamaran and Corsair Trimaran Rally hosted on Brisbane’s Moreton Bay by Multihull Central and the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. Special thanks to sponsors Signature Yacht Services, All Yacht Spares,…
Zhik partners with super maxi for Sydney Hobart
Australia’s innovative technical apparel brand Zhik is delighted to announce they have partnered with Christian Beck’s LawConnect, the Australian based Super Maxi, for the next three seasons. Going into the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, owner and skipper Beck…
Winners of the 2021 IMOCA Globe Series Championship: Charlie Dalin and Paul Meilhat
Charlie Dalin and Paul Meilhat have won the 2021 IMOCA Globe Series Championship, following a successful year of competitive sailing. They came first in their division in the Rolex Fastnet Race, first in the Défi Azimut and second in Transat…
Alinghi enters America’s Cup after 11-year absence
Team New Zealand’s nemesis Alinghi is back in the America’s Cup after an 11-year absence. Owned by Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli, Alinghi famously won the Cup for the first time in 2003, sweeping defender Team NZ 5-0 in the Cup…
Record fleet set for Cabbage Tree Island Race
A record fleet of 69 boats is expected to take on the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore’s Cabbage Tree Island Race on Friday 3 December. The 172 nautical mile race will provide an early preview for the Rolex Sydney…
Three rescued at sea after yacht hits sunfish
A dramatic rescue at sea has seen three people saved after their 11-metre catamaran began taking water after hitting a sunfish 13 nautical miles off Green Island near Ulladulla on Monday afternoon, November 30. The three people on board were…
Doyle Sails x Live Ocean: A circular story
After considerable hard work and dedication to create a circular story, Doyle Sails are proud to introduce the limited-edition Doyle Sails x Live Ocean: A Circular Story luggage range. The range has been designed in collaboration with the high-profile ocean…
Swan River Sailing takes home two Australian Sailing Awards
The Australian Sailing Awards were announced last Thursday during a one-hour online special on the Australian Sailing Facebook page and website with the virtual event hosted by Gordon Bray AM. Western Australia’s Swan River Sailing had a fantastic night; taking home both…
Oman Sail kicks off ILCA 6 Radial Worlds
Oman Sail will welcome ILCA Radial sailors from around the world this week for the 2021 ILCA 6 World Championship. Commencing on 29 November through to 6 December 2021 at the Barceló Mussanah Resort, racing will take place every day for the male and female fleets before medallists are decided. Both fleets will…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Croatian and Japanese Class40 sailors finish
The dream of completing the Transat Jacques Vabre race has become a reality for Olympic skier Ivica Kostelic and Japanese sailor Masa Suzuki. Former world champion skier Ivica Kostelic and his French co-skipper Calliste Antoine also turned their dream of…
Globe 580 Transat fleet propelled by trade winds
After several days of calm weather that tested everybody’s nerves, the Globe 580 Transat fleet has finally caught the trade winds. The four leading boats are currently leaving the Cabo Verde Islands in their wake while Jim Schofield (Ireland) in…
JPK 1180 Sunrise stars at the RORC ‘Oscars’
The 2021 Royal Ocean Racing Club Annual Dinner and Prize Giving was held to celebrate a spectacular season of racing. Dubbed the RORC Oscars, over 300 attendees enjoyed a cocktail reception and a three-course gourmet dinner. A glittering array of…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Class40 podium shared by three nations and an Olympian
The Class40 victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre has gone to Redman, co-skippered by Frenchman Antoine Carpentier and Pablo Santurde Del Arco of Spain. Second place went to Banque Du Léman, third to Seafrigo-Sogestran. The pair, who started the race as…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Bittersweet arrival for 11th Hour Racing Team’s Mālama
On November 28 at 2204 local time, 11th Hour Racing Team’s brand new 60-foot race boat ‘Mālama’ crossed the finish line of the Transat Jacques Vabre in Fort-de-France, Martinique, taking 13th place in the 22-strong IMOCA Class. Starting in Le…
Boating Guide to NSW
Residing on an island continent, Australians have always been drawn to the sea, with approximately 85 per cent of Australians today living within 50 kilometres of the coast. From First Nation Peoples who sustained communities for tens of thousands of…
Australian Marine Enterprises reaches exciting milestone
Since opening their doors in 2007 at Gold Coasty City Marina & Shipyard (GCCM), AME has now had a hand in refitting and repairing over 2,000 vessels. A milestone that, Owner and Director, Graham ‘Scooter’ Eaton credits to passion and…
Sailing Arabia: Team France in good form
The second leg of this year’s Sailing Arabia – The Tour ended with Team France still in the lead as the gap to DB Schenker in second grew to four points. Team Oman Sail remain in third with Team Oman Investment Authority in fourth, Barceló Mussanah Resort fifth and Nastro Rosa of Italy in sixth. Racing…
Electric motor company wins Metstrade Boat Builders Award
More good news for electric boats today as Torqeedo wins Metstrade’s Boat Builders Award in collaboration with Groupe Beneteau’s Excess brand and mobility technology company ZF. The E’Lab, an Excess 15 catamaran with Deep Blue Hybrid, was nominated in the category of Collaborative Solution between…
True Colours celebrates first ORCV offshore race with a win
John Strahan’s and his True Colours crew are celebrating after winning both AMS and ORCc divisions in the season opening Ocean Racing Club of Victoria offshore race. The 55 nautical mile Bass Strait race, starting off Queenscliff, was a real test for crew and equipment in windy and choppy conditions. Sailing an easterly course to Cape Schanck with a 25 knot south easterly the fleet set sail with reefed mainsails. It was a quick refresher course of sailing into the wind in Bass Strait. “The conditions were challenging,…
Narrabeen Lakes Sailing Club fire
Jamieson Park Paddle shop and Narrabeen Lakes Sailing Club has been destroyed by fire. At 5.30pm on Saturday November 27, emergency services received numerous triple zero calls reporting the Sailing Club and Kayak Hire building was on fire at Jamieson…
Sydney 38 crew celebrates first regatta win at SSORC
Paul Jenkins and his Sydney 38 crew on board Mille Sabords won their first ever regatta on a wild and wet Sydney weekend, racing for the host club in the annual Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship. The event attracted 55…
18ft skiff NSW Championship: Comeback performance for Tech2
The defending champion Tech2 team was back to its best form on Sydney Harbour on Sunday when the crew of Jack Macartney, Lewis Brake and Luke Parkinson produced a come-from-behind performance to take an exciting victory in Race 2 of…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Minutes between IMOCA finishers
After more than twenty days at sea the difference between fourth ( Britain’s Sam Davies on Initiatives Coeur) and fifth (an all-French crew aboard Arkéa-Paprec) in the Transat Jacques Vabre IMOCA class was just 21 minutes 40 seconds. Italian Pedote took sixth (Prysmian Group)….
Young guns surprise at Fuerteventura IKA KiteFoil World Series
Big offshore gusts and sunny skies delivered an eventful conclusion to the 2021 KiteFoil World Series Fuerteventura. Max Maeder of Singapore came out on top in a thrilling duel with Axel Mazella from France. Poema Newland of France dominated the women’s division, winning the trophy…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Charal’s arrival completes IMOCA podium
Charal’s arrival in Martinique completes IMOCA podium of Transat Jacques Vabre, but the racing rages on, especially for fourth and fifth between Initiatives Coeur and Arkéa-Paprec, while the front of the Class 40 remains incredibly close with the current leader…
Langford takes SailGP Championship trophy tour to hometown
Ahead of the upcoming Australia Sail Grand Prix taking place on Sydney Harbour on 17 and 18 December, defending SailGP champion, Kyle Langford and helmsman for the Japan SailGP Team, Nathan Outteridge, surprised the Lake Macquarie community by visiting with…
