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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Murcia’s Mar Menor enabled three perfect races to be held on the opening day of the GC32 Mar Menor Cup, the final and deciding event of the 2021 GC32 Racing Tour. Coming ashore at the Club Náutico Lo Pagán, two…
Consistent results in the top group sees Germany’s Platoon and South Africa’s Phoenix locked in a three-way tussle with the USA flagged Sled for the Rolex TP52 World Championship title on the Bay of Palma. After six races only one…
The next edition of The Ocean Race will feature the longest Southern Ocean leg in the 50-year history of the event, an incredible 12,750 nautical mile marathon between Cape Town, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil. This is just one of…
This Thursday, the competitors further south in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet have hung a right and are now on a direct route to the West Indies, propelled by the north-easterly trade winds. Sailors started the second leg of…
A fleet of over 26 yachts will contest the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Gascoigne Cup, one of the oldest and most prestigious short offshore races on the summer calendar, off Sydney Heads this Saturday. This will be the 112th running…
This Wednesday, with the competitors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef strewn laterally across the race course for nearly 350 miles, it’s only natural that not everyone is enjoying the same conditions. For those favouring the most direct route from…
Takashi Okura’s Sled crew, with six times America’s Cup winner Murray Jones on the helm and Italian ace Francesco Bruni calling tactics, won themselves a share of the overall lead of the Rolex TP52 World Championships on the Bay of…
Flying catamaran action gets under way on Murcia’s unique semi-landlocked sea tomorrow with the final and deciding round of the 2021 GC32 Racing Tour. The Mar Menor is a 170km² salt water lagoon located on Spain’s Costa Calida, where the…
Lazarus Capital Partners entered into its first 18ft Skiff sponsorship last year when the company supported a young team having its first season in the class at the Australian 18 Footers League on Sydney Harbour. The company actively encouraged the…
The Grand Final of the Youth Foiling Gold Cup (YFGC), an event which saw the top six teams of the 2021 season competing to win the title of under-25 champion, concluded today with the victory of DutchSail – Janssen De…
Uniting behind a set of principles, sports organisations and their communities have created an initiative by collaborating in order to position their sector on the path of the low carbon economy that global leaders agreed on in Paris: Sports for…
Craig Neil, owner/skipper of Quest, explains his motivation to continue the boat’s great legacy in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. By CYCA
Sail Sydney is Australia’s premier regatta for ‘Off the Beach’ dinghy classes. Held annually on the waters of Sydney Harbour, this year’s Sail Sydney will take place from Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 December 2021. Woollahra Sailing Club is proud…
There has been little to no change in the scenario between the Canaries and Cape Verde over the past two days. A stationary low-pressure system is continuing to sprawl lazily across the Atlantic and to its south lies a band…
France’s Pauline Courtois, Bronze medallist at the 2019 Women’s Match Racing World Championship, on Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team took gold in emphatic style at this year’s World Championship on home waters in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. Starting strongly, Match in…
SailGP today announced a new partnership with KPMG Australia, which sees the leading professional service firm become presenting partner of the Australia Sail Grand Prix. The international racing event will take place on December 17-18 on Sydney Harbour. One of…
Mallorca, Spain: With two solid wins, Hasso Plattner’s South African flagged Phoenix team lead the Rolex TP52 World Championship and move to the top of the overall 52 Super Series leaderboard. With Tom Slingsby and Cameron Dunn combining on tactics…
First organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in 1976, the 1,805nm Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race is a true marathon of epic proportions. Held every four years, the next edition will start on Sunday 7th August 2022. Roughly…
The monohulls make up the largest fleets in this year’s Transat Jacques Vabre race. Lining up on the start line will be 22 60 foot IMOCAs and 45 Class40 boats. We asked the skippers for their race favourites. IMOCA 60s – An impossible…
Mallorca, Spain: The Rolex TP52 World Championship and the final round of the 52 Super Series is scheduled for November 2-6.
Right now, it is anyone’s game among the 84 competitors still out on the racetrack in the 23rd edition of the Mini Transat EuroChef. Competitors are lining themselves up as best they can in anticipation of a long band of…
Melbourne turned on the perfect weather for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) ‘Return to Racing Celebration’ race, with Leo Cantwell’s Cavalier 350 Sl Magic Bullet taking first place on AMS and the overall win. A fleet of 21 yachts from six Port Phillip Bay clubs sailing in perfect conditions participated in the race. “I’ve been lucky enough to…
Only three women have ever won the Transat Jacques Vabre. Incredibly, for a race so embedded in the French sporting psyche, only one of those women is from France, the other two are British. You have to go back 22…
Nine of the highest calibre grand prix sailing tacticians in world sailing took to the stage at the Real Club Nautical de Palma in Mallorca this evening to officially launch the Rolex TP52 World Championships. The event will also decide…
The final event of the YFGC got underway today with two races held in the waters off Cagliari, Sardinia. The competition will decree the overall winner of the circuit, who will receive a voucher worth €50,000 in addition to a…
It is with great sadness that the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania acknowledges the passing of Greg ‘Enzo’ Prescott, one of Tasmania’s most accomplished yachtsmen. Enzo had a decorated sailing career with achievements across the globe including 29 Sydney to…
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