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2024 IOM World Championships in Gladstone Queensland, Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day Four. Day four was magnificent. Perfect conditions greeted the competitors today, 10-15 knots from the East, which…
No two of 67 starters in this year’s PIC Coastal Classic are identical. That is where the handicap system kicks in, giving opportunity to any boat no matter how big, small, new or old, to take away a victory based…
Australia’s Paul McKenzie finishes 5th overall and 1st Grand Master. Italy’s Alessandro Marega has won the Finn European Championship in Cannes after the final day brought even more drama and turnarounds. Valerian Lebrun, from France, ended up second, and also…
Following the announcement yesterday of the overall winner of the 45th Rolex Middle Sea Race, attention has turned to the remaining boats at sea, class winners and other podium places. Since Wednesday afternoon, a further 26 boats have finished, leaving…
67 yachts set sail from Auckland this morning in the much-anticipated 2024 PIC Coastal Classic, one of New Zealand’s premier yachting events. The fleet departed from Devonport in nearly perfect conditions, with a moderate breeze of 10 to 12 knots…
The fourth day of the 2024 Finn Open Europeans was, and is, filled with drama and uncertainty after a day of waiting for wind, then multiple restarts and finally multiple hearings in the jury room. As this report goes out…
2024 IOM World Championships in Gladstone Queensland, Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day Three. It was deja vu all over again at the IOM World Championships in Gladstone. For the…
Final team sales set to unlock a range of shock athlete transfers and exciting appointments. Both New Zealand and France will race in the 2025 Season alongside two new national teams, as SailGP confirms a new points sytem and expanded…
Here’s an interesting little breakdown from the team over at the 49er and Nacra 17 organisation on the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup. It points out some interesting facts and observations. You may not agree with all their observations, but…
The Sydney International Boat Show contributed $353m in total economic output from the 2024 event at Darling Harbour, according to the Boating Industry Association Ltd CEO Andrew Scott. Scott said the show once again proved its worth following an independent…
ARC and ARC+ rally fleets gather in Gran Canaria ahead of their Atlantic adventure With less than three weeks before the first departure, ‘ARC Season 2024’ is now underway. 1,300 people on 240 yachts sailing in the ARC and ARC+…
2024 IOM world Championships in Gladstone Queensland Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day Two. Day two of the IOM World Championships in Gladstone Australia was almost an exact repeat of…
At 17:00 CEST on Wednesday, 23 October, the winner of the 45th edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race was announced as the German TP52 Red Bandit, skippered by Carl-Peter Forster. The Royal Malta Yacht Club has confirmed that none…
After a windless second day at 2024 Open Finn Europeans, the third day of the event also started windless with a long postponement on shore in increasing temperatures. Confidence was reasonably high that some wind was coming, but it took…
After being battered by a 20-25 knot southerly wind on Sydney Harbour last Sunday, the Australian 18 Footers League fleet returns to the harbour waters again next Sunday to contest Race 2 of the Sixt Spring Championship and Mick Scully…
2024 IOM world Championships in Gladstone Queensland Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day One. Day one of the IOM World Championships was intense. It was a slow start, with an…
Emirates Team New Zealand have completed one of the most successful America’s Cup campaigns in history. For the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand having won the America’s Cup three times in a row, it now presents an unprecedented opportunity for…
Multihull Central are excited to announce an all-new Regatta on Sydney Harbour dedicated to Multihulls, with an offer extended to all cruising and racing catamarans and trimarans with accommodation, including owners of Seawind, Corsair and all other brands who would…
The Port Jackson Championship is regarded as one of the most unforgiving races on the 16ft skiff calendar. One small mistake or miscalculation and your day can be over as Sydney Harbour shows who’s boss over two gruelling hours. The…
Fremantle Sailing Club (FSC) and its Women’s Racing and Mentorship Program (RAMP) are pleased to announce their successful bid to host both the 2025 and 2026 Australian Women’s Match Racing Championships. Hosting this event will see world ranked athletes from…
Huang-Seng Lee’s Scallywag 100 (HKG) crossed the finish line of the 2024 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 09:43:29 CEST on Tuesday 22 October to take Monohull Line Honours in an elapsed time of two days 21 hours, 33 minutes, 29…
Italy’s Alessandro Marega is the early leader at the 2024 Finn Open European Championship at the Yacht Club de Cannes after three great races in a building breeze. He won all three of his group races to sit five points…
The 2024 Finn Open European Championship was opened in sunny Cannes Sunday evening with more than 150 boats completing registration and equipment inspection. This makes it the largest Finn European Championship of all time and heralds the start of what…
The Ronstan Junior Foiling Cup is a revolutionary new sailing series, specifically designed to inspire Junior sailors from 10 to 16 years old, by providing them the opportunity to compete in the very latest, one design foiling dinghies. The concept…
Friday 18 October marked the start of the third race of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2024/25 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore – the 260 nautical mile Tollgate Islands Race. Twenty-six competitors ranging from 32 to 100-feet and…
LONG BEACH, CA (21 October, 2024) – The Long Beach Yacht Club today posted the Notice of Race for its milestone 60th Anniversary of The Congressional Cup, the club’s flagship event, from April 30 – May 4, 2025. The event…
The Australian 18 Footers League’s 91st season of 18ft skiff racing began on Sydney Harbour today when the club conducted Race 1 of its 2024-25 Club Championship and Race 1 of the Sixt Spring Championship, for the Alf Beashel Memorial…
The most successful British Challenge in over 90 years ended in defeat in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match after a spirited series against the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, that was closer and more hard-fought than the 7-2…
The 45th Rolex Middle Sea Race fleet was let loose from Grand Harbour, Valetta, this morning, with crews experiencing lively conditions as they exited the historic port. In contrast to recent years, the breeze was up and held throughout 90…
Emirates Team New Zealand concluded a historic chapter, winning the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup after an epic final showdown in Barcelona against the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia, in a single race that ebbed and flowed from the outset…
When Sir Ben Ainslie and INEOS Brittania burst through the Louis Vuitton Cup final and into the America’s Cup Match for the first time in 60-years it was a momentous moment for British sailing. Whether the Challengers of Record manage…
By Australian Sailing: The 2024 finalists for the national Australian Sailing Awards have been announced, with clubs, volunteers and sailing stars from around the country all in the running for recognition at the nation’s peak sailing awards. In the Female…
It was a fired-up, proficient and efficient Emirates Team New Zealand that raced the hardest to interpret wind direction here in Barcelona and took two clean races off the fast-charging Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia who left very little out…
Sydney, Australia – October 18, 2024 — Carbon Yachts is proud to announce its Maritime Emissions Reduction Coalition (MERC) membership, reinforcing its commitment to advancing sustainable boating technologies. With electric vessels now beginning to surpass petrol-powered boats in many key…
The 2024 Finn Open European Championship opens in Cannes this week, with a record-breaking entry of around 150 boats. Hosted by the Yacht Club de Cannes (YCC), it follows on the back of a hugely successful year for the class…
It was a dramatic first day of the Wingfoil Racing World Cup Italy with two grueling long-distance races that had riders shaking their arms to send blood to cramping forearms. A wincing sailor was staring at a bleeding foot, riders ducked through the prop wash of the rabbit…
Excitement is building as 37 boats prepare to hit the water this Saturday for the second race in the Combined Clubs Long Race Series. The Derwent Sailing Squadron will host the event, with the action kicking off at 10 am….
ASC57: 57m Adventure Sailing Catamaran Australia’s custom superyacht builder Echo Yachts has commenced construction of their latest creation, the ASC57, at their superyacht building facility in the Australian Marine Complex, Western Australia. This groundbreaking project brings together industry leaders from across the globe….
They say ignorance is bliss………. It’s also a winning formula if you happen to be Manly 16ft Skiff Club sailor Tyler Dransfield. The Red Pumps skipper was so busy caught up with social and work commitments during the week that…
Excitement builds for the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore as the fleet prepares for the third race in the series, the Tollgate Islands Race, starting this Friday 18 October at 1900hrs. Covering 260 nautical miles, the race will see competitors…
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