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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sunday 22 November Following years of planning, months of trepidation, days of stowing, and hours of farewells, over 300 crew set sail today from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for the start of the…
Stockholm, Sweden, 22 November 2020: The Mange Olsson Foundation has today announced Peter Burling the 2020 winner of its prestigious Magnus Olsson Prize. Awarded annually to an individual who has made an indelible contribution to the world of sailing, previous…
Inside the Games. By Liam Morgan. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has encouraged athletes to have a COVID-19 vaccination before the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics but insisted it would not be an entry requirement for the Games. Bach, speaking…
Victorian Water Police are coordinating an air and sea search for a lone yachtsman missing off Victoria’s east coast. Glenn Yates is believed to have been delivering his newly-purchased yacht, Bonne Ide'e from Bellerive in Hobart to Lake Macquarie in…
A unique cargo ship set sail this week from France. Called Grain de Sail, the company is combining the production and sale of chocolates with the operation of an ecological cargo ship, primarily driven by sail power. The 72-foot long…
Australian and U.S.waters provide some of the best places for boating in the world though, as all boaters know, we do deserve a variety of attire for every season and type of weather conditions. Enter the quality apparel offerings from American…
Croatian duo Ivan Kostelic and Petra Kliba have their sights set on the Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat Event at Paris 2024. With Kostelic a multiple Olympic medallist in alpine skiing, and Kliba an experienced offshore sailor, they will be…
Mischievous, amusing, sardonic, French veteran Jean Le Cam continues to light up the leading pack of the Vendée Globe who are slogging south-westward, beam reaching into choppy, slamming seas. Alex Thomson continues to lead the 32 boat fleet by about…
Auckland, New Zealand – 19th November 2020 Emirates Team New Zealand revealed its second generation AC75 to the world this evening at its base in Auckland’s Viaduct. It is the boat that will be used to defend the 36th America’s Cup…
After the many months of lobbying national, state agencies and politicians by the OCC, The Down Under Rally and a supportive senior politician, the OCC has received a letter from the Australian Border Force advising that the Australian Government has…
The complicated weather patterns of the first week, not least the high proportion of upwind sailing and multiple frontal systems, put to rest any hopes of the Vendée Globe’s 9 days 7 hours and 02 minutes passage record between Les…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand are still negotiating the racing format for December’s America’s Cup warmup regatta, acknowledging they are at odds again with Italian challenger of record Luna Rossa. The December 17-20 event involves a world series…
While Nicholas Troussel is motoring slowly into a lumpy sea, his Vendée Globe abandoned after his mast was broken early yesterday morning, this afternoon in bright sunshine and light winds off Les Sables d’Olonne, Jérémie Beyou was resuscitating his own…
Larchmont, NY – The Notice of Race for the 29th Edition of the biennial Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race Week presented by Margaritaville has just been issued by Storm Trysail Club Rear Commodore and STC-BIRW 2021 Event Chair Ray…
When the cannon fires 1300hrs Boxing Day, signalling the start of the 2020 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, a strong deputation of six Tasmanian entries inclusive of two previous overall winners will have their sights set on winning a trophy…
This Thursday, November 19, go behind-the-scenes with the Australia SailGP Team as Winning Calls with Oracle, the virtual race-viewing event series, gives fans unprecedented access into how strategic decisions and powerful data analysis power winning performances by the team. Developed…
MIAMI — Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale crew members released more than 200 sea turtles Monday approximately 10 miles off the Fort Lauderdale coast. Working with the Gumbo Limbo Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center, the boat crew released Green, Loggerhead, and Hawksbill sea…
Former premier of Tasmania, Will Hodgman, is to launch ‘Blue Water Classics: Portraits of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race’, to be hosted by Fullers Bookshop at the RACV Hotel in Hobart on early Friday evening. Hodgman resigned after six years…
French skipper Nicolas Troussel, who was lying in seventh place in the Vendée Globe, has dismasted on CORUM L’Épargne this morning. He was racing south in brisk NE’ly trade wind conditions some 270 nautical miles NW of the Cape Verde…
This year's Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet includes just two 100ft supermaxis after Wild Oats XI and Comanche failed to enter by the deadline. The Oatley family has issued a statement, clarifying why the big silver boat will not be on…
As he leads onto the trade winds motorway down the Atlantic, between the Canary Islands and the Cape Verdes, British skipper Alex Thomson is expected to increase his lead at the head of the fleet as his foiling Hugo Boss…
Three men survived a capsizing in rough seas yesterday thanks to a dramatic rescue off the coast of Garden Island. About 5.30pm yesterday the men activated their EPIRB signals after 3-5m waves swamped their trimaran. Fremantle Sea Rescue, Water Police…
A great all-the-way win to the Smeg 18ft Skiff team in today's final race of the Australian 18 Footer League's Spring Championship series wasn't enough to take the overall title from today's second placed Yandoo team, which finished four points ahead of…
With four bullets from eight races and winning consecutive boat of the day flags, the newest team to the Farr 40 Class Bluetack took out their first one design trophy. There was absolutely no stopping the Bluetack crew from holding…
Each America's Cup team has a few key tools to work with: The AC75 class rule, fresh talent, proven experience and a finite amount of time. From these common ingredients grows a competitive philosophy that is unique to each team. For American Magic, the U.S….
Des Townson – A sailing Legacy. By Brian Peet. This is a book that every Kiwi sailor should buy. But it’s one that will appeal to a huge number of Australians too. Because, as well as detailing fifty years of…
Experienced offshore sailor Federico Waksman, from Uruguay, talks about his passion for double handed sailing and why he believes the event at Paris 2024 will be exciting for everyone, not just fans of the sport.
Passing the Azores, some 100 miles to the east of São Miguel island, Britain’s Alex Thomson leads the Vendée Globe fleet this afternoon on Hugo Boss. He moved south away from his closest rivals on the water early this morning, choosing…
The Finnish-flagged ro/ro Midas rescued three sailors from a capsized sailboat off Portugal last weekend, her owners reported. The 15-meter catamaran sailboat capsized on Friday at a position about 150 nautical miles off Portugal, and three crewmembers abandoned ship onto a…
Northern Territory Police announced last week that they held concerns for two men who had failed to make contact since leaving their last known location. The two men were believed to have left Maningrida on Wednesday 4 November 2020 to…
Whilst the NSW State Government has recently announced limited funding for dredging the Swansea Channel there is a need for ongoing remedial action. BIA Life member Doug Olding is now a fulltime resident of Lake Macquarie and has personal experience…
Jérémie Beyou, one of the Vendée Globe solo round the world race’s pre-race favourites has been forced to turn back to the start port of Les Sables d’Olonne in France after suffering a succession of problems including rudder damage…
The Marine Area Command Search and Rescue Coordination Centre received a mayday relay from a yacht 220nm East of Port Macquarie after losing its mast and requiring assistance. The yacht is the 11.5m Solar Coaster with three men in their…
Heading west this afternoon and encountering building winds, skippers of the many of the faster foiling IMOCAs are preparing themselves for an overnight pounding, set to last five or six hours, when they punch through an active weather front which…
Prominent offshore sailor and sailing administrator David Kellett AM has been awarded Australian Sailing Life Membership. David is the twelfth person in the organisation’s seventy years to be awarded this honour, and the first since 2016. David was recognised for…
Annemieke Bes is an Olympic silver medallist for the Netherlands 🇳🇱, and competed in the last edition of The Ocean Race aboard Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag. In this interview she tells us about getting a taste for ocean racing as…
By Coronado Times, 8 November, 2020. 2020 strikes again. A large racing sailboat became unmoored early Saturday morning during a storm. It then grounded at Coronado’s Central Beach, just south of the main lifeguard tower. Initially, the boat appeared to…
France’s double Paralympic gold medallist and 2017 winner of the Tour Voile Damien Seguin leads the 33 boat Vendée Globe fleet as the early rankings favour a leading group of older generation IMOCAs as they race south westwards across the…
The other day we were chatting with the owner of a boat that had just moved to our dock. “I’ll just be here a couple of days. The boat’s been on the hardstand for 18 months and I’ve just come…
Sydney, Australia – 5 November 2020 October 30 and 31st, Multihull Central hosted the 21st Seawind owners regatta on Pittwater, just north of Sydney Harbour. This year's regatta came together in the last minute just as COVID-19 restrictions lifted a…
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