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Hobart’s Combined Clubs fleet will take to the water on Saturday February 5 for the second last day of the Harbour Series. The leading teams will be fighting it out to consolidate their spots in the point score. The predicted…
The International 5.5 Metre Class Association has appointed a new Technical Committee from 2022 consisting of some new and old names to the class. The prime roles of the technical committee are to monitor the existing rules as well as…
Australian maritime experts claim the final resting place of Captain James Cook’s ship, Endeavour, has been found, in an announcement that has drawn criticism from the principal research team as “premature”. At an event in Sydney at 11am, the Australian…
It is one of the most unreachable shipwrecks in the world. We know with good accuracy where Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance vessel ended up after sinking more than 100 years ago. So far, however, all attempts to sight its wooden…
For its 15th season, the 44Cup will see 10 teams on the start line for the first event of 2022 in Lanzarote, hosted by Calero Marinas in Puerto Calero over February 9-13. Alongside the long-term regulars within the fleet, new additions have…
Once more, Lagoon is stretching its legs and moving ahead with bold statements and a clear intention towards a greener future. Not only is the future greener, but it is also smarter, with the integration of our exclusive Seanapps technology. …
The 2022 Historic 18 Footer Australian Championship for the Galloping Ghost Trophy was conducted by the Sydney Flying Squadron (SFS) in conjunction with the Australian Historical Sailing Skiff Association (AHSSA), on Sydney Harbour over 3 races on 15, 22 and…
Using offshore sailing as an analogy to sailing one’s own life in the autobiography Sailing Bear Cub, author Paula Vickery reflects back on her life-long affiliation with water and boats and how they are intertwined with relationships in her life….
The Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday walked back plans to dismantle part of the historic Koningshaven Bridge so that a superyacht built for Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, could pass through the city’s river, saying that a decision had not…
Jo Aleh always insisted she hadn’t retired as a high-performance sailor and will now make a tilt for a third Olympic medal, this time teaming up with Molly Meech in the 49erFX. The 35-year-old, who won Olympic Gold (2012) and…
The Australian Sailing Team have settled their coaching appointments for the Paris 2024 campaign, and the world is on notice. There are new faces, the return of an old one and new roles for others in the team assembled under…
SailGP coach Robbie talks ‘game-changing’ Oracle Cloud data, used live during racing and back onshore to review performance.
Sailing expert Niall Myant-Best is let loose in The Ocean Race HQ in Alicante, Spain, with a simple mission – to find out what’s going on behind the scenes during an unprecedented period in the race’s history. In part one…
Outremer’s latest catamaran, the Outremer 55, took first place in the bluewater cruiser category at the European Yacht of the Year 2022’s ceremony on Friday, January 21, 2022. Usually held during the BOOT boat show in Düsseldorf, the event was…
Today, World Sailing, attended a virtual briefing by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as it outlined the terms and timeline for sports seeking inclusion in the 2028 Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, USA. International federations (IFs) seeking inclusion were invited to…
The Translated 9 team announced today the addition of Vittorio and Nico Malingri, members of Italy’s most famous ocean sailing family, to support its efforts in the Ocean Globe Race 2023 (OGR). Vittorio Malingri will join the team as co-skipper,…
Buoyed by a successful participation in the first round of the Bacardi Winter Series, the 69F fleet now tools up to welcome the future of sailing in the Youth Foiling Gold Cup (February 4-10). The 69F fleet has successfully completed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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. …
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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’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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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