Sydney Hobart Yacht Race boat tour: Disko Trooper
Jules Hall takes the CYCA on a tour of his J/99, Disko Trooper_Contender Sailcloth. Jules and Jan Scholten are competing in the Two-Handed Division in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. By CYCA
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Pathway to Paris looks strong for Australian Sailing Team
Barcelona, Spain: Conditions failed to deliver on the final day of racing at the ILCA 7 World Championships due to an uncontrollable wave state. A storm rolled through and the swell pushed up to 2.5 meters, which made it highly dangerous…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Another IMOCA 60 forced to retire
A second 60-footer dismasted on Wednesday after Bureau Vallee suffered this misfortune earlier in the week. The 11th Hour Racing Team Alaka’i of Justine Mettraux and Simon Fisher was thus forced to retire from the 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre. The…
Globe 5.80 Transat: Swiss sailor wins qualifier
With late starter Jim Schofield from Ireland arriving safely in Marina Rubicon Lanzarote on November 10, all entrants of this eventful inaugural qualifier are now gathered in Lanzarote (Spain), including Class Globe 5.80 Class founder Don McIntyre. All are celebrating…
International Maxi Association launches new Caribbean circuit
Following on from their multi-event Mediterranean Inshore and Offshore Challenges, the International Maxi Association (IMA) is to hold its first series in the Caribbean in 2022. The IMA Caribbean Maxi Challenge is open to all maxi yachts of 60+ft LOA….
Marine Jobs launches Job Alerts feature
With more than 200 jobs posted and almost 20,000 visits to the site since the launch in July, employers and job seekers alike are reaping the benefits of the new industry careers platform, MarineJobs.org.au. The website is a collaboration between…
Final sprint for Mini Transat leaders
With the front runners now less than 500 miles from the finish and expected into the port of Saint-François this Friday, the battle is becoming more and more fierce within the fleet in this 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef. In the…
Ideal racing conditions at Gascoigne Cup
On Saturday fifteen yachts competed in the third Short Ocean Pointscore of the 2021/22 season – the Gascoigne Cup. The Short Ocean Pointscore is a 10-race series, spread over the 2021/22 summer sailing season, organised by the Cruising Yacht Club…
Transat Jacques Vabre Day 2: New boat gremlins aboard Mālama
Charlie Enright describes the first 24 hours of the 2021 Transat Jacques Vabre onboard 11th Hour Racing Team’s IMOCA 60 – Mālama.
MotorYacht.com.au newsletter launch
In case you missed it, our sister site, motoryacht.com.au, launched the very first edition of their newsletter last week, receiving a great response from their readers and subscribers. Having experienced widespread success as a growing Australian motor yacht news source so…
Australians move into top 10 at ILCA 7 World Championship
It was moving day at the ILCA 7 World Championship, with a pair of Australian Sailing Team athletes making their way into the top 10 on the penultimate day of the event in Barcelona, Spain. Racing was finally able to…
Mini Transat fleet leaders break away
As announced yesterday, the trade winds are now sharing out breeze pretty fairly across the whole of the race zone in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef. As a result, the competitors furthest north are now benefiting from similar conditions to…
Waiting game for Transat Jacques Vabre fleet
All of the competitors racing in the 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre fleet are currently stuck in a ridge of high pressure from Madeira to Dunkirk. As most head south across the Bay of Biscay, the race is on to be…
Ocean Globe Race Classic Challenge under review
Following the first announcement of the 2023 Ocean Globe Race in July 2019, owners of Whitbread 60’s and a few maxis lobbied the organisers for their own modern class to join this 50th anniversary celebration event of the very first…
Soldiers’ course test sailors’ skills at ILCA 7 World Championships
Racing recommenced on day four of the ILCA 7 World Championships following long delays earlier this week due to lack of wind. It was a tough day of racing for the Australian Sailing Team ILCA 7 squad as marginal conditions…
Transat Jacques Vabre Day 2: Battling the current aboard Alaka’i
Twenty-four hours into the 2021 Transat Jacques Vabre and Alaka’i is battling more than just the rest of the IMOCA fleet as they face the strong currents brought on by the spring tides. With Charal to leward and 11th Hour…
Royal Freshwater team wins Women’s State Keelboat Championship
On Sunday, off the coast of Fremantle in South Beach, WA’s female keelboat sailors battled it out on the fleet of Foundation-36s for the 30th edition of the Women’s State Keelboat Championship. 2019’s winner, Lucy Alderson, took it up a…
Less than 1,000 miles to go for Mini Transat leaders
As the leaders of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet pass the ‘1,000-miles to go’ mark in their race to Saint-Francois, the trade winds is finally making its presence felt out on the racetrack. The latter remains fairly wheezy at…
A Hartley TS16 with a difference
Mel Farley introduces the 16ft drinks bar that reefs in a blow! The Hartley 16 is an icon, widely recognised for its role in transforming sailing culture by making the pastime accessible to everyday Australian families. The plywood trailer-sailer, designed…
Australian Golden Globe Race entrant withdraws after yacht wrecked
Australian sailor Michael Davey has been forced to withdraw from the 2022 Golden Globe Race after his yacht was washed onto the cliffs in Tasman Bay. In a Facebook post, the sailor recapped the unfortunate event. After having completed a…
Transat Jacques Vabre: An eventful 36 hours
Louis Burton and co-skipper Davy Beaudart reached the port of St Malo tonight with their damaged boat Bureau Vallée. They are the first boat forced to abandon this 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre race following a dramatic dismasting…
Dates set for Long Beach Yacht Club’s 57th Congressional Cup
Long Beach Yacht Club has announced the 2022 dates for the prestigious Congressional Cup and Ficker Cup regattas, according to Chair Lisa Meier. Congressional Cup will commence Monday April 18, 2022 with one practice day, followed by five days of…
Mini Transat fleet continues to head south
The fleet competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef now boasts a lateral separation of nearly 600 miles. That is a colossal figure, which is also reflected in the gaps between the competitors. To the north, Antoine Bos (825 –…
Lisa Blair unpacks lessons learned from dismasting
Climate Action Now skipper Lisa Blair talks technical about her 2017 dismasting in the Southern Ocean. By sharing the lessons learned from this terrifying experience, Blair aims to educate fellow sailors on important boating practices. Lisa Blair has graciously offered…
MC38 Australian Championship: Lazy Dog’s back-to-back victory
Back-to-back national MC38 titles for Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart’s Lazy Dog was no picnic: hours of floating around Sydney Harbour expectantly on the final day yielding an empty scoresheet meant that victory reverted to Lazy Dog’s narrow lead on day…
11th Hour Racing Team’s boats set off on Transat Jacques Vabre
On November 7 at 1327 CET, 11th Hour Racing Team’s two boats crossed the start line off Le Havre, France in the 2021 edition of the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre. With two entries in the IMOCA Class, the team’s four…
Whisper and Disko Trooper secure overall wins in Flinders Islet Race
David Griffith’s JV62 Whisper set the early tone to open the 2021/22 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore, winning fully-crewed overall and line honours in the Flinders Islet Race. Jules Hall and Jan Scholten were the first ever two-handed overall winners in…
GC32 Mar Menor Cup: Game, set and match for Alinghi
Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team today won both the GC32 Menor Mar Cup on Spain’s Costa Calida as well as the 2021 GC32 Racing Tour title. This week’s GC32 Mar Menor Cup has been supported and hosted by the Club Náutico…
Flukey conditions for 18 footers Spring Series
It was a crazy, frustrating day for the crews of the Australian 18 Footers League’s fleet on Sydney Harbour today as they tried to complete the two races scheduled as part of the seven-race Spring Championship series. There was little,…
Sunrise to sunset racing at ILCA 7 World Championship
Sailors’ patience was tested on day two of the ILCA 7 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain as all the sunlight of the day was required to squeeze two races in. The Australian Sailing Team Laser squad responded well to vastly…
Mini Transat at the midway point
This Saturday local time, after eight days of racing, the leaders in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet are at the midway point in this second leg between Santa Cruz de La Palma and Saint-François. Though the remaining 1,350 miles…
Sled joins 52 Super Series elite
Winning by the slimmest of margins, Takashi Okura and his TP52 Sled team were crowned 2021’s 52 Super Series champions and Rolex TP52 world champions Saturday in Palma, Mallorca and doing so, join Azzurra and Quantum Racing as only the…
Red Bull and Rockwool on form at GC32 Mar Menor Cup
A chilly start to the penultimate day of the GC32 Mar Menor Cup after Spain’s Costa Calida experienced an overnight deluge, turned into a perfect day with the full schedule of five races held with Red Bull and Rockwool the…
Vale Greg Prescott – 15.11.1962 – 28.10.2021
We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of respected Tasmanian sailor and friend, Greg ‘Enzo’ Prescott. A champion across a variety of classes, Enzo raced in 29 Sydney Hobarts, his first in 1980 as a 17-year-old aboard the…
GC32 Mar Menor Cup: Alinghi claims lone race
A tricky day with a weather front located off Spain’s Costa Calida meant that despite the best efforts of the race committee, only one race could be held on day two of the GC32 Mar Menor Cup, before the wind…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Weather and course 48 hours ahead of start
In less than 48 hours’ time, the 15th Transat Jacques Vabre will set sail off Le Havre, below the high cliffs of Cap de la Hève, and in the Bassin de l’Eure, where the maxi Edmond de Rothschild has been…
Sled pitching for double title win
Takashi Okura’s Sled team emerged from a dramatic penultimate day of the short, intense 2021 52 Super Series season carrying a lead of just one single point in the chase not only for the Rolex TP52 World Championship title, but…
Mini Transat: Advantage shifts to the south
As expected, those in the south have regained the advantage on the leader board in both the prototype and production boat fleets in the Mini Transat this Friday local time. The reasoning behind this is that the front runners are…
Searide presents hydrogen powered luxury catamaran
Designed by the London based company Searide International, the Searide 66 embodies the concept of green-autonomy. It is 100 percent eco- friendly with zero-emission, green-hydrogen powered, assisted by artificial intelligence for sailing autonomy and anti-Covid certified. The Searide 66 is…
11th Hour Racing Team takes on Transat Jacques Vabre
11th Hour Racing Team is getting ready for take off on the Transat Jacques Vabre offshore transatlantic race, starting on November 7 from the French port of Le Havre. Taking part in the 5,800-nautical mile marathon (10,750 kilometres), which finishes…
