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“Nice boat!” is a comment we often hear and it makes us smile. “Of course!” we reply, because every boatowner thinks that his or her boat is the prettiest in the anchorage. “Fibreglass?” “What design?” are usually the next questions….
Australian Sailing would like to advise that we are closely monitoring the progression of COVID-19 and any potential impacts on our sailing community. Australian Sailing’s foremost concern is with the health of all those involved in our sport, and as…
UPDATE: Due to the obvious concerns around running any form of event or mass gathering at the moment, Ronstan and Metung Yacht Club have decided to postpone the Sailing to Recovery Regatta indefinitely. Further information regarding a future date for the event will be released in due…
The Firefighter Family Day on the Water set for 15 March at multiple sites across Australia has received tremendous support from the boating community and industry. Firefighters and their families will be arriving at the following Hub's around Australia, beginning…
Melbourne, Australia – Ronstan releases versatile new soft-attachment snatch blocks in three sizes for keelboats. Ronstan has just released a new range of soft attachment blocks which have the highest ratio of dynamic load to sheave diameter of any block…
World Sailing has cancelled the 2020 Hempel World Cup Series Genoa event that was due to be held in the Italian city from 11 – 19 April 2020 due to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy,…
On the official closing date for registering, the list of entrants for the final solo transatlantic race before the round the world race is certainly very attractive. 27 sailors make up the list of competitors for the second edition of…
The Sunshine Coast Yacht Club, based at the Mooloolaba Marina Precinct, is proud to again host the Sunshine Coast Ocean Regatta (SCOR). This year SCOR will be run over the weekend of 18th and 19th July. SCOR was run from…
When the world’s top twenty-four 18ft Skiffs line up to contest the 2020 JJ Giltinan Championship on Sydney Harbour, from 14-22 March, the AeroMedia Live Broadcast team will be alongside and above the fleet sending vision of the action to…
Entries are soon to close for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2020 PONANT Sydney Noumea Yacht Race, the club’s longest ocean race spanning 1,064 nautical miles. This year will mark the second running of the race run since being reintroduced…
Following a meeting held on Monday, 9th March with owners and skippers who had registered to participate in the planned 2020 Race & Rally to Bali, it was agreed to postpone the race for this year based on the information…
One of South Australia's most well-known sailing rivalries has been revived once more as Robin Deussen and Sandy Higgins finish the opening day of the Australian Melges 24 Nationals just one point apart. Fresh off a win in last weekend's…
Sail Newport and The Ocean Race announced today that for the third consecutive edition of the competition, The Ocean Race will make its only North American stopover in Newport, Rhode Island, in the spring of 2022. The Rhode Island stopover…
In response to the rapid growth of the OK Dinghy class in recent years, and calls for a coordinated European circuit, the International OK Dinghy Association has launched the 2020 OK Euro League. In this inaugural year five events have been…
We are delighted to announce that there are no cases of Coronavirus in Antigua at this time. We are therefore continuing with our preparations for the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, starting on 1 April which is shaping up nicely great…
Sailing Maverick double-handed, Rod Smallman and Tom Vaughan have cleaned up in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s 48th Melbourne to King Island Yacht Race, taking out IRC, PHS and Double-Handed divisions and capping off with a second in AMS…
By The Maritime Executive 03-07-2020 07:55:52 IBM and marine research organization Promare have announced that a new artificial intelligence captain (AI Captain) will enable the Mayflower autonomous ship to self-navigate across the Atlantic later this year. With the three hulls…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) is pleased to announce the famous ‘Auld Mug’, the America’s Cup, is headed across the Tasman Sea to the club in March for a special weekend of events, marking the first time it…
Express & Star A double Olympic gold medallist is skippering a bid to make the UK a world leader in zero-emissions passenger ferries. Sailing champion Iain Percy is combining his own know-how from designing America’s Cup racing yachts with expertise…
Purpose This safety alert aims to raise awareness on the risks posed by dangerous marine fauna. Australian waters contain a range of dangerous fauna that secrete toxins, inject venom, release or contain poison, harbour dangerous bacteria, give electric shocks or…
Auckland, New Zealand – Propspeed, a manufacturer of underwater coatings, has announced it will be represented by two well-known distributors in Australia – Sam Allen Wholesale and All Marine Spares. These strategic partnerships will increase accessibility for Propspeed’s award-winning product line…
Wooden Boat Builder and Owner Steve Adler is enjoying his third Wooden Boat Festival of Geelong in 2020, launching his boat ‘Larrikin of Lyme’ at the 2016 festival. Steve embarked on a boat building course in 2015 in the United…
When the 24 boats contesting the 2020 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour from March 14-22, defending champion David McDiarmid could become the first New Zealand skipper to win three titles in the 82-year history of the world’s…
The traditional ‘Rough and Ready’ boat build took over Stoney Pier today at the 2020 Wooden Boat Festival of Geelong, with six teams competing to design, build and race their carbon neutral boats. Provided with basic materials, the competitors had…
More than 20 clubs from two Australian states and Hong Kong made up 19 divisions for the 15th Sydney Harbour Regatta conducted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC) with the cooperation of key Sydney clubs and a host of volunteers….
The Tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Trent Barnabas became the Australian 18 Footers League Club champions after leading all the way to score a convincing win in Race 16 of the series on Sydney Harbour today. …
An investigation into the death of a 44-year-old man, Rickie Makin, has commenced following a fatal marine incident in Moreton Bay, east of Redcliffe, on Saturday afternoon. Around 5pm, emergency services were called to two men who were thrown overboard…
By The Strategist 03-06-2020 09:58:00 [By Elizabeth White] When you stop and think about it for any length of time, it seems a miracle that the global economy spins on as well as it does. As the spread of the…
We had been four months cruising the Queensland coast and, being October, were making our way south. Northerlies are usually expected in the last three months of the year, which allows visiting cruisers to escape the cyclone belt and the…
Currently in build, ready to be launched at the next International Multihull Show at La Grande Motte in 20121, Multihull Central's director Brent Vaughan takes us on a digital look around the latest design. Outremer (Oo-TRE-mer) is French for 'over…
Sydney Harbour Regatta’s opening day brought together a multi-club effort spanning the Harbour and offshore for the 185-strong fleet from around NSW and Victoria. Conditions offshore made it harder for the Open Class and Sydney 38 fleet to sail cleanly…
The MyState Bank Australian Wooden Boat Festival took out Gold for Major Festivals and Events at the national Qantas Australian Tourism Awards in Canberra on Friday night. Festival General Manager, Paul Stephanus, said the Festival had taken on ‘titans’ of…
The 19-22 knot of mostly consistent south easterly winds, causing big seas on Spring Bay, have proved no difficulty for experienced SB20 sailor Nick Rogers (Karabos) in the Spring Bay Mill SB20 Australian Championship in Tasmania. Brett Cooper, the 2017…
The current monohull record holders for the Groupama Race around New Caledonia will return in 2020 with the Hong Kong team hungry to also claim the multihull record for the biennial South Pacific race starting June 21. “This time the…
With a project presented in Monaco in 2018, the new era of maxi Swan starts with Swan 98, with her 30 metres of volume, elegance and seaworthiness. Coming from the pencil of maestro Germán Frers, with the interiors designed by…
The clock is counting down to 4pm on 6 March 2021- the start of Race 1 of the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada. It marks the first official race of the ‘Defence’ of the Auld Mug for the holder…
With no racing possible on the final day of the Odzala Discovery Camps 52 Super Series V&A Waterfront Cape Town regatta, the 2019 circuit champions, Azzurra, lift the first series title of the 2020 season. Racing in South Africa for…
This night at last he slept serene, his long tired mind at rest, when on the east the sheer bright star arose that tells of coming dawn, the ship made landfall and came up islandward in the dim of night….
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