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Rio silver medallists selected to Tokyo Olympic team
Nacra 17 sailors Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin have been announced as the latest selections to Australia’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic sailing team. “I’m excited but also relieved we get the opportunity to fight for a gold medal,” 28-year-old Darmanin said….
Entry open for Airlie Beach Race Week 2020
Entry for the Whitsunday Airlie Beach Festival of Sailing opened on 1 March, 2020 and can be found online, along with Notice of Race, easily found on the Home page of the official Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) race website. The…
HIGHLIGHTS: Day 1 – Odzala Discovery Camps 52 SUPER SERIES V&A Waterfront – Cape Town 2020
RORC Caribbean 600 comes to an end
The 12th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 attracted 73 boats from 22 nations and competitors from 37 different countries The fleet was made up of professional sailors and boats, as well as corinthian amateurs who love their offshore racing….
Don't miss Multihull Solutions open day – March 28
The annual Multihull Solutions multihull boat show and open day will be held on Saturday 28 March at The Boat Works in Coomera. There will be multihulls on display to suit all budgets from AUD$200,000 to $2.1million, including the new…
18ft Skiffs: Australian Championship, Final Results
18ft Skiffs Australian Championship, Race 5 (resail) & Race 9 Sunday, 1 March, 2020 Sydney Harbour The Tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Trent Barnabas became the 2019-2020 Australian 18ft Skiff champion following two more impressive performances in…
Great Britain carts off SailGP Sydney
Ben Ainslie and the British team wasted no time establishing themselves as the ones to beat this season as they put on impressive performances throughout Sydney SailGP to claim their first event title. In the first match race of SailGP…
Outsider lifts the RORC Caribbean 600 Trophy
The overall winner of the 12th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 was Tilmar Hansen's TP52 Outsider (GER), skippered by Bo Teichmann; the first German boat to lift the RORC Caribbean Trophy, breaking a seven-year winning streak of winners from…
Slingsby and Ainslie's rivalry erupts in Sydney SailGP opener
Sir Ben Ainslie had a debut to remember as he skippered the Great Britain team to victory in all three races on Day 1 of the season-opening Sydney SailGP leg, but homegrown fans need not despair, with Tom Slingsby's Australia…
New look and format for Swedish world championship Tour event
GKSS Match Cup Marstrand was today announced as the new name of the Swedish world championship event of the 2020 World Match Racing Tour, this year hosting its 26th edition from 1-5 July. The event will be sailed in M32…
RORC Caribbean 600: Fight to the Finish
In the early hours of the fifth day of the RORC Caribbean 600, a fantastic battle came to a dramatic conclusion – in the 18-strong IRC 1 fleet, two yachts rose above the rest to fight for the class win,…
2020, the IMOCA skippers in the spotlight
2020 promises to be a busy and exciting year for the teams in the IMOCA class with two solo transatlantic races: The Transat CIC in May and the New York-Vendée-Les Sables d’Olonne in June, followed by the legendary Vendée Globe…
RORC Caribbean 600: To Wizard the gun – class winners to come
For the second year in a row, David and Peter Askew's Volvo 70 Wizard (USA) has taken Monohull Line Honours in the RORC Caribbean 600. Adrian Keller's Nigel Irens-designed catamaran Allegra (SUI) is the provisional winner of the MOCRA Class….
County sinks proposed boat tax after community backlash
The message to politicians is clear – keep your grubby hands off our boats! A proposed boat tax by a County in Virginia in the USA has failed after a strong backlash. Let's hope politicians around the world – who…
Marit Bouwmeester wins fourth Laser Radial World Championship as winds die in Melbourne
Melbourne Australia. February 28, 2020. It may have been a case of “saved by the wind” for Rio Olympic champion, Marit Bouwmeester. The three-time world champion led by 24 points over night but saw her margin trimmed to just two…
RORC Caribbean 600: Powerplay wins with last throw of the dice
Day 3, 26 February 2020, Antigua. Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay (CAY), skippered by Ned Collier Wakefield has taken Multihull Line Honours in the 2020 RORC Caribbean 600 just four minutes ahead of Jason Carroll's MOD70 Argo (USA). Giovanni Soldini's Maserati…
Megga's barbecue day race a real hit with Lincoln Week yachties
Matt Allen's Ichi Ban continued its winning ways with another division one IRC win today, solidifying their position on the top of the tables going into the final day of racing. Geoff Boettcher's Secret Men's Business finds itself still in…
SailGP announces robust broadcast coverage, spanning 146 territories to start Season 2
LONDON – February 26, 2020 – With all eyes on Sydney as SailGP returns this week, the global championship today announced comprehensive broadcast coverage for the start of Season 2, which will feature the most immersive, multi-platform experience the sport has…
Four more named to compete for Australia at Tokyo Games
At Double Bay Sailing Club this morning, Ian Chesterton, Chef de Mission for the Australian Olympic Team, announced four more sailing athletes are bound for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, to be held from 24 July to 9 August. Tess…
When sailors fail our oceans
Ocean Crusaders spend our entire working life removing debris from waterways across Australia. In an 11 day clean up recently of the Cooks River in Sydney, we removed an astounding 13.8 tonnes of debris. The fact we probably missed 95%…
Bouwmeester puts stranglehold on Laser Radial World Championship
Melbourne Australia, February 27, 2020. Rio Olympic Champion, Marit Bouwmeester (NED), is putting on a sailing masterclass at the ILCA Laser Radial World Championship in Melbourne. She had a hiccup in Race 8 when a massive wind shift caught her…
Ichi Ban finishes number one at Lincoln Week again
Matt Allen's Ichi Ban has held off a fast finishing Secret Men's Business to clinch its second Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta in a row. Geoff Boettcher and the Secret Men's Business team won the first of two races on…
Ichi Ban gains the edge after Lincoln Week passage race
Matt Allen's Ichi Ban has added another picket to its Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta score, giving them the edge over rivals Secret Men's Business as we head into the second half of the event. The traditional Teakle Classic Lincoln…
French sailing legend Lalou Roucayrol aims for The Race Around
London, Tuesday 24th February: The Race Around has today confirmed the first competitor campaigning to be on the start line of Class40s new around the world race. Having spend a decade on the Multi50 “Arkema”, Lalou Roucayrol embarks on a new adventure…
Great Britain SailGP Team ready to race in Sydney
February 25, 2020 – Three days out from the eagerly anticipated first event of SailGP Season 2 in Sydney and the Great Britain SailGP Team, presented by INEOS, are ready to race. Helmed by the world’s most successful Olympic…
RORC Caribbean 600 – tropical snakes and ladders
After a sublime start and a reach up to Barbuda in beautiful conditions, the majority of the fleet experienced the first trap of the course. Just before sunset on the first day, the wind shadow of Barbuda enveloped the armada….
Australian Women's Keelboat Regatta heading to the record books – again!
The Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) each year, has deservedly earnt the reputation of being the largest all-women keelboat regatta in the world, with numbers in this 30th edition having the potential to…
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week 2020 – first in best dressed
Townsville Yacht Club is set to open entry for SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) on 1 March, and rather than risk missing out as some did last year, many fingers are poised, ready to click the online entry button. …
Olympics have a $900 million reserve fund for cancelled games
Bloomberg. By Eben Novy-Williams As the International Olympic Committee looks ahead to the Summer Games with trepidation, it does have something that could cushion the blow in case of cancellation: a $897 million ($AUD 1.33 billion) reserve fund to help…
18ft Skiffs: Queensland comeback?
Will the three-boat Queensland team of young sailors coming to the 2020 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour next month (14-22 March), lead to a stronger challenge by the northern Australian State’s once mighty record of development and…
Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club enters Youth America's Cup
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has had significant interest from yacht clubs all over the globe, entering teams into the revamped 2021 Youth America’s Cup. With the initial entry period closing Saturday 29th February, the RNZYS can confirm that…
Olympic Champion hits the front at Laser Radial World Championship
Melbourne Australia. February 25, 2020 With all six qualifying races completed, the three pre-event favourites have established a clear lead at the 2020 ILCA Laser Radial World Championships being sailed at Sandringham in Melbourne. Rio Olympic champion, silver medallist at…
Bit of everything on opening day of Lincoln Week Regatta
Close and competitive sailing was on the menu for the first day of the Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta, with a mix of results across the four divisions. The day greeted sailors with a fickle outlook early on as the…
Light air combat: Start of the 2020 RORC Caribbean 600
Antigua 24 February: Sparkling conditions prevailed for the start of the 12th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. The impressive 73-boat fleet gathered outside Antigua's English Harbour, relishing the prospect of racing 600nm…
Doin' the Suez: what a way to escape the Med
Having spent the last five years living onboard Leventeia, a Beneteau Oceanis 43, having a great time sailing from Gibraltar to Turkey, we decided to join five other boats to cruise in company through the Red Sea and out into…
Get your hands on the famous Pan Am Clipper Cup at Port Douglas Race Week
In May Port Douglas Yacht Club will host 2020 Quicksilver Port Douglas Race Week “Racing the winds of paradise for the Clipper Cup”. The regatta is to be staged over five days starting on Tuesday May 19 and concluding Saturday…
Rindom overcomes thunderstorms and lightning to lead Laser Radial World Championship
Melbourne Australia. February 25, 2020: The weather played havoc again at the ILCA Laser Radial World Championships in Melbourne today. Two attempts were made to get Yellow Fleet started shortly after 2pm but a series of rolling thunderstorms, accompanied by…
Bill Hatfield completes circumnavigation at age 81
When 81-year-old Bill Hatfield sailed through the Southport Channel into the Gold Coast waterway, he had finally achieved his dream of sailing solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. It had taken him 295 days and was all the more…
Above and Beyond Boating Firefighter Day has received tremendous support from the Australian boating community and industry
On the 15th March, RFS Firefighters and their families will be arriving at the following hubs around Australia, beginning with a welcome BBQ, and then a great time on the water. Middle Harbour Yacht Club, Sydney HarbourCruising Yacht Club of…
