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The 2020 Australian Sports Boat Nationals will be held between February 16 and 20 at the Royal Motor Yacht Club, Toronto. There is a quality fleet of boats preparing to “bring it on” to the current national champion Malcolm Dean…
Hobart yachtsman Nick Rogers has won his 12th Prince Philip Cup In the International Dragon class, adding to an extraordinary list of State, National and World Championship victories going back nearly four decades. In the last two summers the now…
Emirates Team New Zealand, the Defender of the 35th America's Cup to be held in Auckland in 2021, has released an amazing video of their AC75 flying over a camera in the Hauraki Gulf. Go to https://emirates-team-new-zealand.americascup.com/ to watch the video. Make…
The global sailing race which empowers anyone from teachers to chiropractors, and from teenagers to septuagenarians, to become ocean racers, has just finished its Coast to Coast stage around Australia. And the team with most Aussie’s onboard took the top…
Racing was abandoned due to poor air quality and low visibility from the bush fires along with light shifty wind on day three of the Youth Championships at Sorrento Sailing and Couta Boat Club (SSCBC). After waiting five hours for…
High seas, following a very strong overnight southerly change, stopped all racing on Day 3 of the 2020 International 5.5 Metre World Championship, at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club on Pittwater in Sydney, Australia. The overnight change brought a…
Strong winds provided exciting conditions on the first day of racing at the 2020 Australian Youth Championships at Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) on Melbourne's Port Phillip today, with 22 to 25 knot south-westerly winds gusting 30 awaited competitors….
Artemis XIV (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard/Johan Barne/Anders Pedersen) was again the boat of the day at the 2020 International 5.5 Metre World Championship, in Newport, Australia, to lead the fleet after the second day of racing. Artemis XIV opened the…
With a snowy-haired squadron of 16ft skiff ol’ boys watching intently from the club veranda, the young guns of the class gave a sublime exhibition of power sailing in heat 8 of the 2020 Australian 16ft and 13ft Skiff Championships…
After 19 tough days at sea racing around the coast of Australia the Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam team, skippered by Josh Stickland, has secured line honours in the fifth race of the global circumnavigation, crossing the finish line in…
A surprise ‘daily double’ by Newcastle Financial Planning Group (NFPG) has put the wind up the leading contenders in the 2020 Australian 16ft and 13ft Skiff Championships at Port Stephens, on a day where pressure was high but the breeze…
The opening race of the 2020 International 5.5 Metre World Championship, hosted by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club in Newport, Australia, was sailed in a moderate southerly on the Palm Beach Circle. Winner of last week’s Scandinavian Gold Cup…
The Australian 29er Nationals came down to a thrilling finish on the final day of racing yesterday as Tasmanians Charlie Zeeman and Ethan Galbraith held on to clinch an emphatic victory at the Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron. While the pair didn't…
Now that the Mini 6.50 rule changes have been voted over the Christmas break, it is time to show you the complete picture. We have only been showing you images of half the boat for the past months. The addition of…
The family of a wealthy Scottish hotelier sailing solo across the world has appealed for help after his boat was found empty on a Red Sea reef. Colin Finnie, 67, last contacted his wife on December 7 as his Korean-flagged…
11-year-old Aussie Joel Beashel has jumped up the leaderboard on the final day of the 2020 Musto Optimist Nationals to be crowned Australian champion and first overall in the regatta against a string of talented international entrants. The final day…
In just a few days’ time, on Monday January 13 at 11.59pm, the chance to enter the 2020 MacGlide Festival of Sails will close to boat owners wishing to be part of the historic Australia Day regatta from January 25…
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club has announced the 2020 Wooden Boat Festival of Geelong, presented by the Wooden Boatshop and Yanmar, as the place to be during the Labour Day Weekend in 2020. Running from 6 to 9 of March,…
Jason Ker, designer of the Ker 40 Showtime which sank after losing its keel on a delivery journey after the Rolex Sydney Hobart, has issued a statement about the incident: I’d like to make clear that the keel lost by…
The fifth day of racing at the Musto Optimist Australian and Open Championship saw Melbourne finally turn on some classic conditions with a building sea breeze. The race course from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria positioned in front of…
The 61st National Heron Sailing Championship was contested at Lake Cootharaba, just north of Noosa, on 28 December 2019 – 3 January 2020, in an eight-day regatta. The Jack Holt designed Heron is a two-person dinghy sailed in all states…
For the 12th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, 21 teams – racing yachts of 50ft (15.24m) or over – have already signed up for the 600-mile blast around 11 Caribbean Islands. The competition in all the classes will be…
With around 400 nautical miles to go until the first yacht crosses the line of Race 5: The Heart Of The Whitsundays, it's an intense time for the fleet. The strategies to catch the best winds and avoid catching the…
Skipper Rob Buchanan and his crew of six have been rescued after the Ker 40 Showtime sankoff the east coast of Australia during its delivery back from the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. At around 2.30pm on Sunday January 5,…
The final day of the International 5.5 Metre Class Cups in Newport, Australia brought the most complex set of conditions yet with only Ku-Ring-Gai (AUS62, John Bacon, Terry Wetton, James Mayjor) hanging onto their series lead to take the Hankø…
There were more ‘lefts’ and ‘rights’ thrown than in a pub stoush during the 2020 Australian 16ft and 13ft Skiff Championships at Port Stephens today, with the fleet going vastly separate ways in intriguing conditions during races 4 and 5….
National championships for the Finn, OK Dinghy and Mosquito Catamaran classes have started to take shape with overall results for each class allowing a few event favourites to emerge. While there's close competition in all fleets, some top contenders have…
When the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2019-2020 Season resumes racing on Sunday, January 12, it will be 35 years since the club celebrated its 50th Anniversary in January 1985 by staging a unique event, which produced, as it’s finale, one…
With the regatta already won before the final two races, Matt Wearn finished the week with a third and a seventh (which became his second discard) to wrap up his fifth Australian Laser Championship. Conditions were testing, with strong 18-25…
The rain did not dampen spirits yesterday at the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria as the Optimist sailors prepared for the second day of qualifying racing. Conditions were tough with rain fronts passing regularly throughout the racing session bringing inconsistent…
“You should’ve been here last week,” was the locals’ retort today as the wind gods took a rare holiday at the tourist town of Port Stephens, leaving the Australian 16ft and 13ft Skiff Championship fleet to navigate their way through…
Where are you on the cruising spectrum? Is sailing performance a priority, or are you looking for a floating home unit? If the pleasure of sailing is one of the attractions of cruising, especially if your budget is limited, perhaps…
Just as most shark species must continually swim to pass water through the gills and oxygenate the blood, I am driven by a strong and mysterious force that keeps me seeking the most effective way to make positive change. My…
We had been on the water for three days and three nights by the time we reached Long Point; our 40 foot Adams-designed, Bluewater Cruising Yachts Polaris II was handling the conditions well. But, even with reliable forecasting the weather…
When you are recovering from knee surgery but have to do a boat test, you could not do better than hitch a review ride on the latest Bavaria yacht, the C57. Under new management the Bavaria range is undertaking a…
Challenging weather conditions that have seen smoke haze, low visibility, and a range of breezes has given race officials at the Australian 29er Nationals at the Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron quite a headache. But as sailors and officials close in on…
A pair of yachties have been found safe and well in the Bay of Plenty aboard their nine metre yacht this morning after sending out mayday calls last night. Maritime NZ’s Maritime Radio Service and Coastguard NZ received the first…
With one day left to sail, Matt Wearn, who will be Australia’s representative in the Laser class at the Tokyo Olympics, has an unbeatable lead in this year’s National Championship. After three races in almost ideal conditions at Sandringham today,…
The 11th Bartercard Sail Paradise Regatta wrapped yesterday after four days of racing and seven races for the 33 boat fleet. Local Gold Coast boat, Desperado, the Atkinson 24 owned by Graham Sherring, won the IRC Gold Coast Championship after…
It was another frustrating day for sailors and race officials alike at the 2020 Australian Laser Championships. Sandringham Yacht Club was shrouded in smoke, with the gentle southerly breeze not strong enough to blow it away – or allow racing…
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