Boating Rendezvous-Sydney 2021 highlights
One-hundred and fifty boating enthusiasts attended Boating Rendezvous-Sydney on November 12-14 at Cockle Bay Marina, Darling Harbour.
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SailGP Inspire: Meet Tré
Meet Tré Maxwell, an incredible SailGP Inspire Careers participant who had the opportunity to join the SailGP team at three events this season. Tré truly embodies the goals of the program and the future of our sport. Warning: his enthusiasm…
Blue Water Classics – Portraits of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Blue Water Classics – Portraits of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is a book on Australia’s most famous blue water classic, the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race that has become a best seller and collector’s item for anyone who has an…
Wet and challenging conditions for Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series
Race two of the Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series, hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club, was held on Sunday in a fresh, damp and cool southerly. After a beat from The Sound to Rose Bay and a run down to…
Transat Jacques Vabre finish line just hours away
The first boats competing in the Transat Jacques Vabre are expected to arrive in Martinique overnight. The three fastest classes are slipping slowly through an area of light winds whilst the Class 40s are loving the trade winds. Ultimes –…
Boating Rendezvous-Sydney: A celebration of boats
As the second edition of the Boating Rendezvous – Sydney was completed successfully on November 14th, we were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the sailing aficionados and keen boaters in Australia. Over 150 visitors attended the three day event took…
Short-Handed Bermuda Return: Fun and safe delivery alternative
What goes down must come up; and the boats that race to the Onion Patch next June in the 2022 Newport Bermuda Race—the vast majority of them, at least—must make their way back home to the Eastern Seaboard of the…
Convexity defends M32 World Championship title
The M32 World Championships came to an exciting close on Sunday. Eleven teams came from all over the world for 18 races in conditions ranging from six to 22 knots on the warm waters of Miami, Florida. When the dust settled Convexity, with Don Wilson…
Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship stokes turf tussle
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s annual Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship reignites the good-natured rivalry between Sydney and Pittwater sailing crews – each believing they have the better pedigree, particularly within the Premier Divisions. These turf battles play out a few…
Little separates Transat Jacques Vabre fleets
All four classes are on a direct route to the finish of the Transat Jacques Vabre in Martinique. The Ocean Fifty multihulls lead the race with just 645 miles to the finish line but the doldrums await them for a second time as…
Non-stop action at 18ft skiff NSW Championship
The Noakesailing team of Sean Langman, Ed Powys and Josh Porebski had to battle hard against some strong challenges before taking out Race 1 of the 2021-22 NSW 18ft skiff Championship on a bleak Sydney Harbour today. In an 18…
British and Dutch teams win at Nacra and Skiff Worlds
Mussana, Oman – Odile van Aanholt and Elise de Ruyter (NED) won the 49erFX world title, while countrymen Bart Lambriex and Floris van der Werken took matching gold in the 49er fleet. Both teams are new pairings this summer, both…
Team Aqua claims 2021 44Cup
Over four of the most difficult days of racing in 44Cup history, an impressive seven races were still held at the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote frequently in 5-6 knots wind, conditions, frankly, in which most other yachts would have been…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Full speed ahead to the finish line
The hoped-for grandstand finish of the Transat Jacques Vabre in Martinique is beginning to look likely as the Ultimes and Ocean Fiftys begin their approaches to the line, as the IMOCA leaders continue their high-speed cat and mouse chase whilst…
44Cup: Charisma shines on difficult day
With a light-to-no wind forecast for the penultimate day of the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote, the weather gods did tentatively oblige, and after more than an hour’s wait ashore, a race did get going but was abandoned when the wind…
Inverloch Classic Wooden Dinghy Regatta 2022
After missing out last year, we are pleased to advise that the 8th running of the Inverloch Classic Dinghy Regatta is scheduled for the weekend of February 19-20, 2022. Hosted by the South Gippsland Yacht Club, the regatta provides a…
British and Dutch in front at Nacra and Skiff Worlds
Mussana, Oman – John Gimson and Anna Burnet foiled into the lead of the Nacra 17 World Championship with an impressively composed display of high-speed tactics and strategy at the Nacra Worlds today. Scores of 5,1,2 could so easily have…
M32 Worlds: Wet and wild day
Day two of the M32 World Championships in Biscayne Bay, Florida began with calm winds, bright skies and temperatures in the mid 70s, so the Race committee attempted an on time start, but squalls forced the fleet back to shore…
GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle World Cup Brazil finals
Congratulations to Charles Brodel from France for taking the event win and becoming the Men’s Hydrofoil Freestyle World Champion and Maike Elisa Mueller from Germany for taking the event win. It was another perfect day for the GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle…
America’s Cup: Design work continues for American Magic
Newport, R.I. – American Magic, the U.S. Challenger for the 36th America’s Cup [AC36] and a prospective Challenger for the 37th, was pleased to receive the AC37 Protocol and updated AC75 Class Rule as part of a joint release earlier…
Globe 5.80 Transat Leg 2: Heading west or going south?
A group of four Spanish boat builders planned a trip to Lanzarote to surprise the Globe 5.80 Transat entrants before their Atlantic crossing, only to find out the start was moved forward before their landing time! Just as they decided…
44Cup: Hero to zero and back in Lanzarote
Conditions off Lanzarote’s moon scape south coast took on a different character for day two of the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote, with much improved sailing conditions albeit with the 8-12 knot wind blowing either along or off the shore. To…
Tears and rationing as Transat Jacques Vabre moves into deciding stages
Whilst one Ocean Fifty celebrates a birthday, another suffers the huge frustrations of a blown spinnaker, just when it’s most needed in the final stages of the Transat Jacques Vabre. As the fleet speeds towards Martinique, Solidaires En Peloton-ARSEP has…
Maxi Edmond de Rothschild on home straight
This morning, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild rounded the rocks of São Pedro and São Paulo; this final course mark of the Transat Jacques Vabre was first negotiated on the outward leg early afternoon on 15 November by the Cammas-Caudrelier…
M32 World Championship: Five races four winners in opener
Biscayne Bay showed a steady 10-15 knots of breeze blowing down from Bear Cut Bridge in the east and a few glimmers of sun poked through the high cloud cover at the start of the M32 World Championship Nineteen races…
TJV: Doldrum sailing aboard Mālama
Charlie Enright and Pascal Bidégorry reporting live from the middle of the doldrum onboard Mālama in the Transat Jacques Vabre. Enright gives his own account of what the doldrums are, and what it’s like sailing through them.
World Sailing Awards 2021 nominees revealed
The World Sailing Awards 2021 – celebrating the outstanding achievements and exceptional contributions to sailing – is now open for online voting!
Iain Brambell set to lead sailing’s path to Paris
Highly regarded international sports administrator and Olympian Iain Brambell has been charged with leading Australian Sailing’s High Performance program after being announced as its new High Performance Director. “We are delighted to have secured Iain’s services as our new High…
Vee Jay celebrates 90th birthday at Vaucluse Yacht Club
Many will agree that widespread dinghy racing was born in Australia due to an 11ft 6” two-handed skiff, conceived by Sylvester ‘Sil’ Rohu and designed by Charles Sparrow in 1931. Named the Vaucluse Junior or affectionately the Vee-Jay (VJ), the…
44Cup Lanzarote: Light and tricky winds
The 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote, the final and deciding event of the 2021 44Cup, got off to a difficult start. Only five to six knots of wind is needed to race the nimble RC44s. On several occasions the race committee…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Class40 competitor retires
A breakage aboard HBF-Reforest’Action forces her to become the first Class 40 boat to abandon the race. Sam Davies chases the IMOCA leaders whilst Leyton wins a night-time duel in the Ocean Fifty. Class 40 – down to 44 The…
Voting open for World Sailing Awards 2021
The World Sailing Awards 2021, celebrating the outstanding achievements and exceptional contributions to sailing, is now open for online voting. A record number of athletes and projects have been nominated in this remarkable period for global sailing. This year’s winners…
Leaderboard shuffles at Nacra 17, 49erFX and 49er Worlds
Musab Al Hadi with Waleed Al Kindi (OMA) moved into 25th place and qualified for gold fleet in a first for Oman at a 49er World Championship. The pair have been sailing 49er for almost a decade, and became quite…
Anyone’s game at 18 foot skiff NSW Championship
Many of the Australian 18 Footers League’s new team combinations will go into next Sunday’s Race 1 of the NSW 18 Footers Championship on Sydney Harbour practically untested due to mostly poor conditions since the 2021-2022 season began on October 24. …
ePropulsion appoints Australian distributor
ePropulsion, a global leader and market challenger in marine electric propulsion systems and services, announced today that it has selected a distribution partner. ePropulsion Australia is the sole licensed representative for the company and its products in the Australian market in…
New kids on the block at Nacra 17, 49erFX and 49er Worlds
The 49er fleet saw teams go from hero to zero on some of the beats today at the 2021 Nacra 17, 49erFX and 49er World Championships at Mussana, Oman. In the 49er fleet, Korean and Indian teams felt the pain…
A crucial 48 hours for Transat Jacques Vabre fleet
The next two days could be crucial in deciding the winners of the Transat Jacques Vabre. Lead changes are expected across three of the four classes today as the weather roles the dice. Ocean Fifty – searching for a way out…
Man with a vision
A story in Cruising Helmsman in 2004 sparked a visionary dream in Robert Latimer that he has lived to see fulfilled — delivering life-changing eyecare services to the remote islands of Vanuatu by yacht. But now he needs a new partner…
AC37 Protocol announcement
The Protocol of the 37th America’s Cup was released today by the Defender, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand and the Challenger of Record – Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd and their representative team INEOS Britannia,…
AC37 Protocol and Class Rule announcement
The Protocol of the 37th America’s Cup was released today by the Defender, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand and the Challenger of Record – Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd and their representative team INEOS Britannia,…
