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One recurring question among the novice offshore sailor is how to optimise your route when sailing. The practice is known among sailors with the French name of routage or the English name of weather routing. To optimize the route you will inevitably need…
Katie McCabe has finished sailing around Great Britain in her quest to become the youngest person to have ever done so. The 14-year-old from Devon set off from Exmouth in her eight-metre long wooden yacht, Falanda, on June 30. It…
Julia Jones discusses Good Little Ship; Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the Goblin by Peter Willis. When I first reviewed Peter Willis’ biography of Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett on its publication in 2017, I had enjoyed it far more than I’d necessarily…
The final voyage of the historic SY Aurora, even after 104 years, remains a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, as they say. The three-masted steam yacht from the heroic age of polar exploration vanished after sailing from the port of…
After careful review of the materials submitted to support his application, a review panel from the Transpacific Yacht Club have determined that Jesse Osborn wins the Mark S. Rudiger Celestial Navigation Trophy for the recently completed 2021 Transpac. Osborn was navigator aboard Justin Waite’s Stevens 47 Mikmaks. The trophy is…
Limone Del Garda: Sailors are in the ring at the Youth Foiling Gold Cup; fighting to remain in the competition. After the qualifying round, the scores reset to zero and the pressure ratcheted up because, at the end of every…
Interest in a sport, outside of the fanatics and those who regularly take part in that discipline, requires great rivalries, and thanks to SailGP we now can regularly see the greatest names in sailing compete in some of the most…
In August 2021 despite Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns, the Beyond The Barrier Rally once again ventured into the Coral Sea, Queensland, Australia albeit with a reduced fleet of just 12 vessels. – Down Under Rally Pty Ltd
Where and when will the next America’s Cup be and who will be competing for it? Matt Sheahan considers the inside chat on when, where, who and how the 37th America’s Cup might take shape and provides some background and…
After two days of practise races on the Bay of Palma, the sailors competing in the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week are primed for action and ready to start racing for points and prizes on Tuesday. The atmosphere…
Although light winds plagued Aarhus Bay on the final day of racing at the Rockwool Denmark Sail Grand Prix, the on water-spectacle was nothing short of dramatic and Tom Slingsby’s Australia SailGP Team emerged as victors. The Australians beat Japan…
Two final races in glorious sun and moderate breeze completed the six-race Dragon Gold Cup 2021 in Marstrand, with Peiter Heerema (NED) coming out on top from Pedro Andrade (POR) and Australia’s David Gilmour, with the regatta ending in high…
Helsinki: All nine of the vintage 12 Metre fleet competing at the 2021 Evli 12 Metre World Championship returned to the race course this morning after an evening of cooperation between crews to repair damages sustained during Friday’s heavy-weather sailing….
The Australian SailGP Team has secured its position on the top of the leaderboard, following an action packed first day of racing at the Rockwool Denmark Sail Grand Prix. Slingsby was able to navigate through the minefield of shifty wind,…
Australian Sailing is officially launching its inaugural National SheSails Leadership Conference, to coincide with World Sailing’s first ever women’s sailing celebration, Steering the Course. Steering the Course is an international festival that aims bring together women across all generations in a…
The battle between two of the world’s greatest sailors, Australia’s Tom Slingbsy and Great Britain’s Sir Ben Ainslie, is expected to erupt in Aarhus, as the teams go head-to-head at the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix this weekend (August 20-21)….
The Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week finished on a high note, with 10-17 knot winds for the final race on a triangle course on Pioneer Bay deciding the day’s victors and the overall winners in the various divisions….
Day five of the Dragon Gold Cup 2021 by Yanmar in Marstrand, the second day of racing, produced perfect sailing conditions that allowed races three and four of the six race series to be completed. For Russia’s Anatoly Loginov it…
The United States SailGP Team’s bid to climb the SailGP Season 2 overall standings faced a new challenge today, less than 24 hours before the start of racing at the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix, when veteran Wing Trimmer Paul…
Aarhus Bay, playground to the inaugural ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix, is proving itself as a drama-filled stage for this week’s return to SailGP racing action. With a capsize by the Danish team and a new speed record for the…
In one month’s time the GC32 Racing Tour is set to return to the idyllic Sardinian seaside resort of Villasimius for the headline event of its 2021 season: the GC32 World Championship. While the first two events of the 2021…
Hardware and software refinements are making sailors safer, better informed and more confident in their decisions than ever, writes Greg Wells, UK Sales Account Manager, Raymarine. Spontaneity is a valuable asset in certain contexts: no one could deny the importance…
Windy and choppy conditions kept the fleet at the 2021 Evli 12 Metre World Championship on the docks of Nyländska Jaktklubben on Wednesday and again today. Earlier this morning, the NJK Race Committee considered a course in the lee of…
A couple have packed up their life and bought a yacht in an attempt to escape to the never-ending cycle of lockdowns on land. Melbourne-based reporter Kristina Costalos and her pilot partner John Tilley started their life on the water…
Three years ago, Beneteau and Seascape joined forces to co-develop the new generation of First. After launching the sport-cruiser part of the range: First 14, First 24 and First 27, we are excited to unveil the first model from the…
Volvo Penta’s Assisted Docking System is a hybrid between manual and automated docking, allowing users to manoeuvre their boat precisely. To operate, Assisted Docking requires Volvo Penta’s Inboard Performance System and its GPS-based Dynamic Positioning System antenna. It also leverages…
11th Hour Racing Team presents “The Making of” a series of videos that dive below the surface of the design and build process for our new IMOCA 60 11.2. In the series we’ll explore three themes: Design, Art, and Innovation,…
UK: In 2019 the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboats were called out to assist people on the water over 8000 times. Here’s why…
This is the final day at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) Airlie Beach Race Week and the stakes are high in some divisions where the pointscores are so close that the top three will be decided by a triangle course…
Lake Garda finally fulfilled its promise as one of the best sailing venues in the world and the Persico 69F fleet ran seven races in perfect conditions at the Youth Foiling Gold Cup (YFGC). The experienced teams and newcomers alike…
Great Britain SailGP Team CEO and driver Sir Ben Ainslie returned to the wheel of the British F50 today as the team began training ahead of the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Aarhus (August 20-21). It was an eventful…
At the Dragon Gold Cup 2021 by Yanmar in Marstrand the long wait for racing finally came to an end as day four of the regatta brought perfect sailing conditions, allowing the Race Committee to run the opening two races…
As SailGP’s eight national teams ready themselves for the fourth event of Season 2, the waters of host city Aarhus played a key role in the continuing development of our cutting-edge F50 catamaran. The City of Smiles this week hosts…
The weather gods were smiling down on competitors at Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing again, offering up a superb 10-17 knot south-easterly wind, and bucket loads of sunshine on the penultimate day of the week-long regatta in the…
The winner of the America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand, has committed to developing hydrogen-powered chase boats for its sailing yachts. It is also pushing for this to be included in the ‘Protocol’ (the official rules for the race series)…
In late 2018 my wife, Roxy, and I took a few suitcases of belongings and moved aboard our 47 foot Cheoy Lee monohull to start the cruise of a lifetime. So far, a familiar start to a familiar sounding story. Except unlike…
Two days of racing remain at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week, which continues today with a mix of windward/leewards and passage racing, all starting on Pioneer Bay in the stunning Whitsunday Islands – or Paradise, as it is…
Tim McCall and the Hairy McClary crew from the Capricornia Cruising Yacht Club in Queensland had their day in the sun at Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing, their race win taking Tim McCall’s Trailable yacht to a one…
It’s rare to loose three consecutive days of racing at a major sailing championship, and even rarer to loose three days of racing in the Swedish yachting capital of Marstrand, but sadly that is now the case for the Dragon…
Official competition for the 2021 EVLI 12 Metre World Championship commenced today with two races held in the Gulf of Finland. In Race 1 keeping an eye to the sky paid off for the hometown Blue Marlin (FIN-1) team, skippered by Henrik…
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