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London, UK: The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) today announced its 2021 world championship season with a 17-event schedule across 11 countries, including the inaugural WMRT Final in Shenzhen, China from 15-19 December. The 2021 season announcement has been made…
The Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 were unprecedented in size and severity, however still very little is understood about how bushfires have affected (and continue to affect) aquatic environments and the people who rely on them. OceanWatch Australia is currently collecting…
Indonesia was recognised was always an attractive Asia Pacific cruising destination until the country shut down borders due to Covid-19. Now there’s good news for travellers as Asia Pacific Superyachts (APS) Indonesiaannounces borders opening and “Entry to Indonesia for Foreign Nationals”. The…
Remember the yacht Showtime capsizing during its return journey from competing in the 2019 Sydney Hobart? It lost its keel in Bass Strait and, although all the crew were able to clamber out and hold onto the hull, the conditions…
The Swan River Sailing Championship Weekend is back for 2021, with another triple-banger of three regattas to be held over one weekend in March 2021 at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. After a false start in 2020, Friday 19th March…
Australian Sailing has announced Ronstan will be continuing their partnership with Australian Sailing and the Australian Sailing Team. The sailboat hardware manufacturer has been in partnership with Australian Sailing and the Australian Sailing Team (AST) for over fifty years and…
The New Zealand 18ft Skiff fleet may not be coming to contest the 2021 JJ Giltinan world 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour in March, but there is one Kiwi sailor who will be at the JJs, and who has…
Rock Solid has faced 16 consecutive Adams 10 Australian championships and finally the Middle Harbour Yacht Club boat owned by Mitch Miller and Andy and Ben Gunton prevailed at Lake Macquarie, albeit by the slimmest margin. The new Australian Adams…
Four state championships and the addition of Super Group racing to Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Harbour Regatta will intensify the kaleidoscope of colour and course area changes will spread the action around the natural amphitheatre of Sydney Harbour over…
Australian Sailing has taken a step towards securing the next generation of sailing champions with the launch of the Performance Pathway Futures Program. The program has been made possible in part due to Australian Sailing’s successful application for one of the…
The Challenger of Record and the Defender, in consultation with the Regatta Director, have decided to amend the Race conditions for the Prada Cup Final and the 36th America’s Cup Match as follows: UPPER WIND LIMITAfter reviewing the performance of…
This coming weekend will see the commencement of the America's Cup challenger series, Prada Cup, final stage, where Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli will face off against Ineos Team UK. The first to win 7 races will then compete in the 36th…
In this video, Shaun Priestley shows us top tips and techniques for sailing upwind when the conditions are rough and there are larger waves. These techniques can help to give you the extra speed you need on the race course.
Quentin Stewart and Shaun Lane’s Lazy Dog team showed once again they are in a different realm, dropping just one race win from seven starts in the MC38 class’ opening act hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club. Only Chris Way…
She was built to race the 1971 Admiral’s Cup and became one of Australia’s most iconic ocean racing yachts. At the time the brief to designer Olin Stephens was to match the dominance of Syd Fischer’s Ragamuffin on the water,…
The defending champion tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake produced a last-minute victory in Race 7 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour, to take a narrow lead in the series with just two…
With tired boats, tired bodies and minds, each face their own personal battles to make the final 1,000-1,500 nautical miles to the finish, but all share the same utter commitment and determination. The next five boats are within 100 nautical…
Multihull Solutions are looking forward to receiving the Neel Trimarans anticipated compact trimaran, the Neel 43 mid 2021 and available for immediate sale. The 43 is features a marked move towards the use of bio-sourced and recyclable materials. The Lombard-designed…
All multihull yacht owners are welcome to the Multihull Solutions Pittwater Rally, a casual event designed to be a social gathering of multihulls of all sizes enjoying a weekend of boating fun. The event is run as a true cruising…
As the year 2021 tentatively creeps into its second month, a UK sports writer penned this interesting column: to save this year's Olympics in Tokyo, maybe they should cut half the sports from the Games. Now the writer is, apparently,…
This blog is about the restoration of the first ever TP52 to ever hit the water. Having been neglected for years, we decided to recycle it, rather than pull it apart and sell off the parts. When we purchased this…
A boat logging app developed in Western Australia helped bring legendary Australian yachtsman Jon Sanders AO OBE home to Fremantle to complete his record 11th solo circumnavigation of the world. During his 14 month voyage, Jon experienced some of the…
Nathan Libby, of Rockland, has been charged with making a false distress call to the Coast Guard on December 3rd, 2020 via VHF-FM radio channel 16. Based on the call, the Coast Guard initiated a search spanning more than five…
Keel and rudder fin failure happens but may be avoidable with some simple checks. The importance of this should not be under appreciated, says Australian Sailing. Rudder fin failure will simply mean the retirement from a race. Inconvenience to crew…
It broke off from Antarctica a year ago and has been slowly making its way to South Georgia island (of Shackleton fame). So British polar researchers from the British Antarctic Survey are heading off after quarantining on the Falklands aboard…
In these weird times where cruising destinations are limited, then making the effort to head for the high north or high south latitudes can be enticing. But certain rules apply for such important and fragile environments. Not just for your…
Back in the December issue of Cruising Helmsman was a report on a company doing great things in New South Wales trying to reduce the landfill finale of most fibreglass yachts. Husband and wife team Bianca and Brent at Broken Bay…
We recently returned to Australia on our Australian catamaran from being offshore for two and a half years. We have just experienced the mine field of the re-importation process that Rosemary Jilderts described in her article 'Exporting and importing: what are…
The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron will once again host the historic four-day Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta around Kirribilli’s stunning foreshore on Sydney Harbour, with races to start in front of the Squadron on Monday from 10:20am. Due to international…
For more than 100 years there has been a strong family influence over the generations in the 18 Footers. For a number of seasons, John ‘Woody’ Winning and his son John ‘Herman’ Winning have been locking horns at the highest…
Following a prudent, careful passage across a boisterous Bay of Biscay, negotiating one last stormy low pressure, a triumphant Clarisse Cremer became the first woman to cross the finish line of the ninth Vendée Globe at 15:44:25 hrs UTC, to…
Victoria's Mornington Yacht Club will host the first leg of the Sailing Champions League – Asia Pacific this weekend with 12 teams entered from a number of clubs across Victoria, as well as a team from Tasmania. With the restart…
A well-known British expatriate has been found tied to the mast of his sunken, beautiful, two-masted schooner in Crete the British newspaper Mirror has reported. This is a strange story indeed as it involves a previous robbery attempt resulting in…
Both the brutal Adams 10s and the fast and furious Melges 24s will be racing for the chocolates on NSWs Lake Macquarie this weekend to excite the locals. The NSW Melges 24 fleet will join the Adams 10s on New…
GME, Australian manufacturer of UHF CB radios for more than 60 years, has released the a 5 watt UHF CB handheld radio, the TX6600S. The TX6600S underwent all stages of its development including its design, engineering, and manufacturing in Western Sydney to be…
The 2020–21 La Niña is likely to have peaked with respect to atmospheric and oceanic patterns in the tropical Pacific, says the Bureau of Meteorology on its latest climate update. However impacts associated with La Niña, such as above average…
Originally imagined by Benjamin Magnard aiming to create a hydrofoiling, off-the-beach catamaran equipped with a tilting mast, Befoil was born. Specifications were drawn up in collaboration with VPLP, a naval architecture firm whose reputation is well established, to create a…
SEASON #2 of OFF WATCH starts today with a dramatic story of survival that captured the whole of the sporting world. 😯 Kevin Escoffier 🇫🇷 is a two-time competitor in The Ocean Race, a winner with Dongfeng Race team in…
Clarisse Crémer, the 31 year old French skipper of Banque Populaire X, should cross the finish line of the Vendée Globe shortly to finish in 12th place. For the prodigious skipper who seven years ago had not even sailed her first…
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