How to properly apply vinyl stickers
Knowing how to apply vinyl stickers to the hull of a boat is one of those things you are used to if you race often or have sponsors or technical partners. When we talk about vinyls with separate letters, we…
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White out hits day four of ILCA Europeans
A white out and another six-hour day on the Black Sea meant race officials were only able to squeeze in one race each for the Laser and Radial classes at the ILCA European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria overnight. Both fleets…
Mini Transat: Nineteen-year-old reflects on race win
This Thursday at 15:05 UTC, Melwin Fink crossed the finish line of the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef, completing the 1,350-mile course from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma in first place among the…
Spain SailGP: Female sailors jump on board
SailGP’s road to creating a more inclusive championship reaches another milestone this weekend at the Spain Sail Grand Prix taking place in Cádiz-Andalusia. The sixth event of the season will now include six athletes on board all F50s for racing…
RC44 World Championship: Opening day blown out
While the forecast indicated that it might be sailable, the opening day of this 11th RC44 World Championship was blown out with the northerly winds off Scarlino, Italy regularly reaching the high 20s and gusting into the high 30s. After a…
Les Voiles: Rambler 88 takes lead
After Wednesday was blown out due to excess wind, day three of racing for the maxis in week two of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez nearly didn’t occur as come start time the wind remained elusive. Fortunately at around 1330, the…
Major Events Gold Coast backs Sail Paradise Regatta
Southport Yacht Club is pleased to announce that South-East Queensland’s largest Sailing Regatta, Qoin Sail Paradise, is partnering with Major Events Gold Coast. Since its inception at Southport Yacht Club 13 years ago, Sail Paradise has become south-east Queensland’s premier…
Sailing Champions League: Day one of racing cancelled
Adverse wind and sea conditions meant racing could not take place on the first day of the Sailing Champions League Final. The event, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo, is scheduled to run through Sunday 10…
Mat Belcher tries hand at ocean racing
Australia’s dual Olympic sailing Gold medallist, Mat Belcher, has decided to make his ocean racing debut in next month’s South-East Queensland Ocean Racing Qualifier, a 220-nautical-mile passage race from Brisbane’s Moreton Bay to Main Beach on the Gold Coast. He…
Destination Western Australia: Fascine fever
Cruising Helmsman September 2016 edition: It is difficult to get much further west than Canarvon, Western Australia, so Condy Clark finds it is a good place to hang loose. I have been up the Fascine Channel to Carnarvon a few…
Route planning with a GPS
Alan Punch, an RYA Navigation Instructor with Navathome Australia, explores the most effective methods for approaches to route planning with modern navigation tools. The GPS has integrated into modern navigation practices, as well as route planning. Whether you have a…
Nautor’s Swan diverse fleet
The Swan world presented through the Swan Line, with the new Swan 55, the new Maxis – Swan 88, Swan 108 and the launch of Swan 120, and Swan Shadow, the first Swan motor boat.
ILCA Europeans: Aussies set for gold fleet
It was another long and wavy day on the Black Sea as the 2021 ILCA Senior European Championships in Bulgaria hit the halfway point. Luke Elliott is feeling good being back in competition and knows the significance this has for…
Sailing community mourns loss of AC designer Laurie Davidson
Yacht designer Laurie Davidson, a key figure in Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup breakthrough, has died. Davidson passed away in Auckland, aged 94. He designed NZL32, better known as Black Magic, which Team New Zealand sailed to win the Auld…
Ben Ainslie takes franchise ownership of Great Britain SailGP Team
Ahead of the sixth event in the global racing league’s second season in Cádiz – Andalusia, the Great Britain SailGP Team has become the first of the existing eight SailGP teams to evolve to a third party owned franchise with…
Mini Transat: Melwin Fink continues great escape
The fleet competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef is making headway with a very fluky NE’ly breeze both in terms of strength and direction. As a result, the 84 competitors still out on the racetrack must not only optimise…
Female skipper joins RC44 World Championship
Nine teams are in Scarlino, Italy this week to contest the annual RC44 World Championship. This is fourth event of the 2021 44Cup, following Portorož, Slovenia; Marstrand, Sweden and Cowes, UK, before the circuit concludes with the 44Cup Calero Marinas…
Isle of Wight regatta record attempt
Led by the irrepressible Charlie Egerton-Warburton, the Brewin Dolphin International Grand Prix 2022 is expected to attract the biggest ever fleet of RS Elites, to assemble in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron,…
SailGP: New Zealand leads impact league
The criteria range from driving sustainable solutions using technology and innovation to removing single-use plastics, to diversity and inclusion and using the team’s voice for good. The New Zealand SailGP Team has led the Impact League since its inception in…
Thirty teams attend Sailing Champions League Final
The Sailing Champions League Final regatta, an event organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, will get underway tomorrow with 30 teams from all over Europe competing aboard the club’s J/70 fleet in the waters off Porto Cervo. The regatta,…
Les Voiles: Crews take advantage of race abandonment
Powerful winds on Wednesday, with 42 knots (gusts up to 50 knots) recorded in the bay, meant that the 45 Maxi Yachts competing in the second week of Les Voiles de Saint Tropez regatta remained tucked away in the harbour….
Latest edition of Brown’s Nautical Almanac now available
Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. is proud to announce that the 2022 publication of Brown’s Nautical Almanac will be the 145th Edition. The Almanac will be available in the UK and abroad from October 2021. Established in 1850 on the…
Peter Davison named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year
Victorian yachtsman Peter Davison, the owner/skipper of the Archambault 40 Arcadia, was named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year by Australian Sailing last evening. An ORCV and Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) member, Davison has successfully competed in several of…
Laser Europeans: Australian sailors savour wind and waves
Luke Elliott continued his fine form at the 2021 ILCA Senior European Championships, winning the only Men’s Laser class race completed on a day impacted by long delays. When the second day of races in Varna, Bulgaria did get underway…
Impressive entry list for Rolex Middle Sea Race
With three weeks to go to the start of the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race, the entry list augurs the possibility of a fabulous and fascinating race. 124 yachts are currently entered, just shy of the 130-boat record set in…
Excitement for 50th Finn World Masters
After nearly two and a half years of waiting, the 50th Finn World Masters will finally take place next week at Los Alcazares on the Mar Menor in Murcia, Spain. Despite the challenges of travelling, around 120 entries from 27…
Mini Transat: All about positioning
Whilst the first four competitors in the prototype category of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have now arrived in Santa Cruz de La Palma, there is still an intense battle underway throughout the remainder of the fleet still out on…
RORC Caribbean 600 back in action
The hiatus is over – the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Caribbean 600 is back and set to start in Antigua on February 21, 2022. Early entries include teams representing a dozen different countries from around the world. The RORC Caribbean 600…
Bo Petersen wins Art of Racing Euro Series
Bo Petersen has won the 2021 Art of Racing Euro Series in the OK Dinghy class, which came to a windy conclusion at the German Championship at Wismar over the long weekend of 30 September to 3 October. Sixty-six sailors…
Australian Sailing Olympic webinar with Mara Stransky
In this Olympic Webinar Series, Ash Brunning chats to Laser Radial sailor Mara Stransky. Stransky made her Olympic debut in the Laser Radial class at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. She finished 14th at the Games with highlights include winning…
Women leaders in sailing
Leaders from officiating, coaching, administration and sailors themselves talk about their journeys in sailing.
Tricky return to international competition for Aussie sailors
Day one of 2021 ILCA European Championships saw 220 sailors from 45 nations battle it out in gusty and shifty winds. The racing in Varna, Bulgaria was a timely reminder of the intricacies of racing for the Australian Sailing Team…
New partnership offers luxury yacht shares
Two major players in sailing have joined forces to offer shared ownership in luxury yachts out of Airlie Beach in Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands. Yacht Share Mariner and Dream Yacht Charter will offer the yacht share service under the tagline: Share…
Next chapter for INEOS Britannia
INEOS Britannia today confirmed its core leadership team to lead the British challenge for the 37th America’s Cup live from the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team HQ in Brackley, UK. The America’s Cup is sport’s oldest international trophy, predating the modern…
SailGP: The wind whisperer
This episode of the behind-the-scenes docuseries we get to know Japan SailGP Team driver Nathan Outteridge. Find out why he earned the nickname “The Wind Whisperer”, how he keeps his cool under pressure, and what coming this close to winning…
Man dies while in Sydney Harbour
The body of a man who went swimming in Sydney Harbour on the Labour Day public holiday has been recovered by police divers. Emergency services were called to Obelisk Beach, Middle Head about 5.10pm on Monday following reports a swimmer…
Sydney Hobart Yacht Race entrants raise money for charity
Port Stephens based offshore sailor Kevin Le Poidevin and his Adelaide based co-skipper Darrell ‘Daz’ Greig, are two long serving Air Force aviators preparing themselves and their 1983 Sigma 36 Rogue Wave, to race in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart…
Tanguy Bouroullec reflects on first Mini Transat leg win
On Monday at 3pm UTC, Tanguy Bouroullec was the first skipper across the finish line in the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef taking competitors from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma. Bouroullec is now…
America’s Cup: INEOS Britannia launches world-class team
INEOS Britannia has confirmed its core leadership team to lead the British challenge for the 37th America’s Cup at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team HQ in Brackley, UK. The America’s Cup is sport’s oldest international trophy, predating the modern Olympic Games by…
J Class rivalry resumes in Saint Tropez
The enduring, friendly rivalry between J Class duo Velsheda and Topaz will resume on October 5-9 at the famous Les Voiles de Saint Tropez regatta in the south of France. The crew of the Frank C. Paine designed, 2015 launched…
