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The 2021 ILCA European Championships will commence on Monday in Varna, Bulgaria. The event is a key milestone for the Australian Sailing Team (AST) and Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) athletes who have their sights firmly set on Paris 2024. Fresh…
The latest Global Solo Challenge (GSC) entrant Olivier Jehl lives in Brest, Brittany – the centre of the French offshore sailing scene. Jehl worked his way up the sailing world first by becoming an instructor for the famous Glénans sailing…
Alerted to the issuing of a severe weather warning affecting the areas of North Finisterre and South Finisterre, all but a few competitors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have taken the decision to take shelter – and for one,…
Several rival teams left the island of Menorca today, regretting small mistakes that ultimately cost them chances of lifting the TP52 class’s prestigious Royal Cup, which ultimately went to Platoon. Harm Müller Spreer’s can point to a consistent series as…
While the top four prototypes in the Mini Transat EuroChef are continuing to power along in the Portuguese trade wind offshore of Nazaré, and Cape Finisterre now in the wake of the first production boats, a large part of the…
The 44Cup returns to Italy next week for the first time since Porto Cervo in 2017, and this time the high-performance owner-driver one designs will be racing around the mainland area, at a new venue for the 2021 44Cup World…
With no racing possible due to a lack of wind off Mahon today, Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon team goes into the final day of the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week with a lead of two points. Nacho Postigo, navigator of…
Australian sailing legend Iain Murray AM has many accomplishments on his resume, but the man affectionately known as “Big Fella” can now add leading an Olympic campaign that netted two Gold medals to it. Murray has completed his contract in…
Menorca, Spain: Platoon has overtaken Alegre, and are now the overall leaders of the Menora 52 Super Series Sailing Week.
This Australian Sailing webinar features Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gold Medallist Matt Wearn. Matt brought home Australia’s third consecutive Olympic medal in the Laser class and impressively assured gold before the medal race.
Harm Müller Spreer’s Platoon crew, who won the event in 2019, took the lead at the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week after a fourth place and a race win saw them overtake Andy Soriano’s Alegre on the overall leaderboard….
While the front runners of the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet, taking competitors from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma, have negotiated Cape Finisterre and are now powering along in the Trade Winds,…
Three-time Olympic medallist in the 470 class, Mat Belcher, chatted to me from the Gold Coast, where he is winding down with his family following a successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. For Belcher, Tokyo marked the end of his 470…
Alegre has established a 10-point lead after two days of racings at the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week.
Menorca, Spain: Not since Quantum Key West Race Week in 2014 has a 52 Super Series team opened a regatta with three back-to-back race wins, but Andy Soriano’s Alegre team matched the record of Quantum Racing on Wednesday. Alegre won…
As expected, the front which swept across the Bay of Biscay last night during the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat, taking competitors from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma, whipped up some strong winds, gusting up…
Andy Soriano’s Alegre holds the lead after the first day of racing at the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week, comfortably winning the only race which could be contested due to very light, shifty and unsettled northerly breezes which kept…
The France SailGP Team will have a new driver for the Spain Sail Grand Prix in Cádiz, Andalusia, following the announcement that Quentin Delapierre will be taking the helm of the team’s F50. Fresh off the back of the Tokyo…
Having left Les Sables d’Olonne on Monday afternoon in 15-20 knots winds, the 90 sailors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef saw the wind abate a few hours after the start as forecast. At that point, they began weaving their…
A weepy, funeral-like procession in midtown Manhattan and an empty champagne bottle turned upside down: two striking images from the day the US lost the America’s Cup for the first time after more than a century of dominance — exactly 38…
Australia’s largest premium marina and hospitality network d’Albora, have launched an exclusive member focused app that enhances personalised experience by allowing their members to make bookings for selected marina services and hospitality in real-time and manage their boating lifestyle across…
Propspeed, leading innovator of underwater foul-release coatings, announced today it has received an endorsement from Riviera Australia. The luxury yacht manufacturer applies Propspeed as a factory standard for all new models and recommends the use of Propspeed for existing owners…
Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Simon Fry) secured the 2021 5.5 Metre French Open at the Régates Royales on Friday in Cannes to win from Momo (SUI 229, Dieter Schön, Markus Wieser, Thomas Auracher) and Ali-Baba (BAH 23, Craig Symonette, Flavio Marazzi,…
The first leg of the Mini Transat EuroChef started on Monday afternoon in France. Propelled along by a NW’ly breeze between 16-20 knots, the 90 competitors set sail from Les Sables d’Olonne bound for Santa Cruz de La Palma, with…
The Plattner family’s South African flagged Phoenix laid down a marker that they should again be podium contenders when they won today’s light winds official practice race prior to Tuesday’s start of the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week. With…
Andrew O’Neill, director at O’Neill Shipwrights at Gold Coast City Marina & Shipyard, is working on a massive teak deck project aboard the 60-metre motor yacht, Oceana. With his team of seven craftspeople, Andrew has worked to exact templates to…
The 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race – which exceptionally finished in Cherbourg, France, rather than Plymouth – marked 20 years of Rolex’s partnership with the event and its organiser, the Royal Ocean Racing Club, as part of its wide-ranging support for…
Italian team Claudia Rossi & Pietro D’Alì have been crowned winners of the 2021 Hempel Mixed Two Person Offshore World Championship after a hard-fought final leg to Venice. When the final leg started at lunchtime on Friday, Rossi and D’Ali were slow out of the starting blocks of the 100-mile overnight race…
With an impressive eight-point lead Esteban Garcia’s Realteam Sailing, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc has dominated in Scarlino this week.
By the time Australia gets the first of its next fleet of submarines, J-7 will be 113 years old, and won’t have sailed anywhere in a century. J-7 may be a familiar sight to dozens of sailors who stride past…
With ominous black clouds rolling over Scarlino, Italy, the morning of the final day racing looked borderline from the start with a forecast of 18 knots, building to gusts of 25 knots by lunchtime. After the morning briefing, Principal Race…
The Peugeot Beneteau Cup and Peugeot French Yacht Challenge will be held over the weekend of October 30-31 in Manly, Queensland. The Peugeot Beneteau Cup will be run over the two days, with the Peugeot French Yacht Challenge on the…
One of the world’s most exciting sailing races, Sail GP, will return to Sydney in December making it the first major global sports tournament to be held on the harbour since the outbreak of COVID-19. Tickets are on sale now…
ePropulsion, a global leader and market challenger in marine electric propulsion systems and services, announced today it has expanded its distribution network in Australia by launching ePropulsion AU. This new business unit will handle all sales, service, support and any repairs…
In another top of the range day off Scarlino, Italy, for the TF35 season, Esteban Garcia’s Realteam Sailing claimed two bullets from three races, further extending their lead over the chasing pack. “On the racetrack the fleet is regrouping,” observed…
The Coral Sea Marina community came together last week to showcase the spirit of the Whitsundays in a bid to raise much needed funds and promote awareness for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) by holding the ’ Big…
At the halfway stage of the TF35 season final in Scarlino, Esteban Garcia’s Realteam Sailing, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, has risen to the top of the TF35 leaderboard, but is challenged at every move by Alinghi and Spindrift. The second…
With two years to go until the start of Class40’s official round-the-world race, The Race Around’s organisers, 5 Ocean Sports Marketing and their US counterpart Manuka Sports Event Management, are delighted to officially open registration. The event’s preliminary Notice of…
Brett Campbell has interviewed over 20 live-aboards after he and his wife moved onboard their yacht. These and their own experiences form the basis for a series of articles on living on board which Brett wrote for Cruising Helmsman. In…
Aspire (POL 17, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Przemysław Gacek, Simon Fry) moved into a six-point lead on the penultimate day of the 2021 5.5 Metre French Open at the Régates Royales in Cannes, following a day of changing conditions and some very…
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