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It was a day of contrasts on day two of the 2019 Hyundai 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 Oceania Championships. With breezes at almost the polar opposite to yesterday with a 10-12 knot seabreeze from the north, the fleets headed…
November 26, 2019 – Swiss photographer Loris von Siebenthal is the winner of the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image photo competition 2019. No less than 133 photographers representing 29 nationalities joined the 10th edition of the event. The photos submitted illustrate the 2019 sailing…
After three weeks racing on the Brest Atlantiques, the two leading trimarans, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild and Actual Leader, are now following a similar route and heading towards the equator at a moderate pace. Meanwhile MACIF, which headed west on…
The Sydney Morning Herald. By Nick Toscano. Australian iron ore billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest says his ambitious plan to tackle ocean pollution by raising the raw cost of making plastic from fossil fuels has secured the support of leading global petrochemical…
The Western Australian and Etchells communities were saddened to hear of the death of Bill Steele on Saturday, November 23, 2019. Bill, who was planning his 80th birthday celebrations for next February, suffered a brain aneurysm while at the helm of…
The French Riviera has a ring to it that conjures notions of opulence, style, exquisite cuisine, superb wine, crystal beaches, luxurious gin palaces and the turquoise Mediterranean Sea. All of these notions are true but far and away the best…
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has confirmed the finalists for Male Athlete of the Year and Female Para-athlete of the Year categorieswith two weeks to go until the AIS Sport Performance Awards (#ASPAs). Australian sailors Tom Burton and Matthew…
It will be a home affair for Melbourne’s world class Finn sailor Oliver Tweddell when the Finn Gold Cup – the World Championships of the Olympic Finn class – starts in Melbourne in a couple of weeks. Seven months out from the…
The opening day of the 2019 Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta got off to an intense start as wild weather conditions swept across Sydney at midday, temporarily postponing racing. The fleet of 12 competitors had to work around the ever-changing conditions…
This morning, the Morrison Government introduced the Special Recreational Vessels Bill 2019 that will allow foreign owned superyachts to charter in Australia. The ability for these vessels to charter will unlock an estimated 11,800 jobs and $1.64 billion in revenue to…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) is pleased to announce that the fourth-largest fleet in the history of the race will take part in the 75th running of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race; owners and crews coming from far…
On Saturday 23 November, Deputy Commander Southport Mike Hoffman welcomed Gold Coast waterways’ proponents and VIPS to the 2019 Volunteer Coast Guard ‘Blessing of the Fleet’ at Southport QF1. After the traditional smoking ceremony, performed members of the Yugambeh People,…
Two 49er teams well known to the podium but yet to qualify their countries for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games finished first and second at the three-day Oceanic Championships which served as a warm-up event for next week's 2019 Hyundai…
The Ocean Race will return to Cape Town for the 12th time as the most challenging offshore race in the sport comes to South Africa in the 2021-22 edition. Cape Town has been an iconic stop in the race since…
Glamour conditions greeted the 178 international teams on the opening day of racing at the 2019 49er, 49erFX and Nacra17 Oceania Championships. The three-day warm-up regatta before next week's world championships is hosted by Auckland’s Royal Akarana Yacht Club. With…
On a route that they deliberately prolonged by almost 1500 miles in comparison to the Great Circle Route, the IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT has managed to get ahead of what was forecast by taking a long route down…
Bilbao, November 25, 2019: Don McIntyre, Chairman of the Ocean Globe Race, announced at the Yacht Racing Forum today the addition of a “CLASSIC Challenge”. This new class will open another eight entries to former Whitbread Maxis over 71 feet and…
After almost three weeks at sea, the three trimarans still racing on Brest Atlantiques are continuing towards the equator, which they should cross on Thursday. While all the teams have followed a fairly similar route until now, MACIF yesterday decided…
Lisa Blair, a high-profile yachtswoman and adventurer on a mission to break records and leave her mark on the world, is joining the fleet for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 2019 Melbourne to Hobart, and in doing so,…
The arrival of the final competitor, Georges Kick, on Saturday night through into Sunday, marked the official closure of the finish line for this second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère 2019 between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the…
Bilbao (ESP), 26 November 2019 – Summarising the sailing season and celebrating the best professional directors and cameramen from all over the world: this is the aim of the Mirabaud Sailing Video Award. An objective achieved for the third consecutive…
I once read that humans are incapable of remembering pain. That is to say that although we recall an event as painful, we actually cannot evoke that physical sensation of pain we experienced. This surely explains why women are willing…
The Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) and Australian Sailing (AS) are delighted to announce the appointment of Malcolm Page OAM as the Head Coach of the VIS Sailing Program. When Page retired his sailing career in 2012 he finished as…
With just over 4,000 miles to go to the finish of the Brest Atlantiques race, the Ultim 32/23 Class trimarans continue their northward progress up the middle of the South Atlantic. The unstable conditions are giving the crews a lot…
The 2019 RORC Transatlantic Race is now into the second day with the entire fleet anticipated to leave the Canary Islands and head into the remote Atlantic Ocean on Sunday 24 November. As expected, Swedish VO65 Childhood 1, skippered by…
Ed Psaltis (Midnight Rambler) was a class act on the water in Saturday’s Combined Clubs Summer Pennant winning Division One IRC, AMS and taking second in PHS on corrected time. The 1998 Sydney to Hobart winner and 2019 entrant kept…
A last minute crew change brought the 2010 JJ Giltinan Championship-winning team of Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Tom Clout back together again and the combination showed they had lost none of their 18ft Skiff handling skills when they brought…
By The Maritime Executive 2019-11-22 16:08:00 On Wednesday morning at 0400 hours, French search and rescue authorities received a request to assist the French catamaran Thetis, which was transiting to the south of the Austral Group…
BBC News Four people – including two Britons – escaped after their yacht sank more than 50 miles off the coast of an Indonesian island. The skipper raised the alarm after the boat, named Asia, hit an object in the…
A great adventure has now begun for over a thousand sailors from fifty-three nations who departed Las Palmas de Gran Canaria today to cross the Atlantic to Saint Lucia as part of ARC 2019, the world's largest transocean sailing rally….
A $560,000 yacht allegedly used in a foiled attempt to import almost 1 tonne of illicit drugs into Western Australia is set to go under the hammer. WA Police Force initially seized the Sail Yacht Zero (SY Zero) in September…
Take a look through the results of three major regattas in the UK and Europe during the 2019 race season, the Fastnet, Cowes Race Week and the Middle Sea Race and the obvious IRC performer across all divisions is the…
After two round robins of racing at the Harken International Youth Match Racing Regatta on Pittwater, the top four teams have been identified, including the two Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club's teams skippered by Alistair Read and Juliet Costanzo. The…
Derwent Sailing Squadron Race Director, Ron Bugg, is pleased with the number of entries in this year’s Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart (L2H) race and anticipates plenty of rivalry on the water in Tasmania’s longest offshore yacht race. “We…
Following Sodebo Ultim 3’s retirement, the three trimarans still racing in the Brest Atlantiques are embarking on a third Atlantic crossing, this time between the Namibian coast and Brazil, to round the St Helena high to the north. This section…
The 6th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race got underway on time, with the fleet starting from outside Marina Lanzarote at 1100 UTC on Saturday 23 November, sailing into a stiff breeze gusting up to 25 knots. After the start,…
Langkawi: Varying winds made for challenging sailing at the 30th Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR) and the final day of racing today was no exception, with the fleet starting the first race of the day with fair winds that…
Despite the rather melancholy weather, the competition was as stiff as ever in the 42nd running of the Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC), hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC) over the weekend. Gerry Hatton’s Bushranger crew came down…
A Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) team skippered by Alastair Gifford has won the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship on Pittwater this weekend, successfully defending the title won by fellow club member…
The Finn has been the dinghy of choice for generations of sailors seeking to challenge themselves to the limits of their sailing skills and their physical endurance and has a culture that embraces sailors of all ages and a camaraderie…
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