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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…
Charlie Enright describes the first 24 hours of the 2021 Transat Jacques Vabre onboard 11th Hour Racing Team’s IMOCA 60 – Mālama.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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