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Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand won't hesitate to incorporate good ideas from rival teams as they step up the design of their second boat which will be used to defend the America's Cup. The four heavyweight syndicates –…
The Boxing Day broadcast of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will remain an Australian tradition for years to come, with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) and the Seven Network signing an agreement to telecast the race start…
My yacht is the first of the Hanse 455 in Australia previously reviewed in CH December 2015 and Australian SailingAug/Sept 2015. The Hanse boats are built with the European bareboat charter fleet in mind and, as such, lacked a bit…
Half a century ago on an island nation in the middle of the Atlantic, the idea was born to create an event for Finn sailors over 40 years old. At the class AGM during the 1969 Gold Cup in Bermuda,…
In yet another flawless display by the world’s top catamaran sailing team, Alinghi today won the GC32 Oman Cup and the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour. This Ernesto Bertarelli’s Swiss team adds to their GC32 World Championship title and victory in…
Peter Harburg’s 100 foot super maxi Black Jack took line honours in the Audi Centre Sydney Cabbage Tree Island race this morning, slipping just outside the race record, in a time of 13 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds, with…
Shenzhen, China: Another race win for Cheche Team has virtually wrapped up victory for the Spanish crew with a day to spare in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet at the China Cup International Regatta. Rayco Tabares Alvarez and his crew…
Despite a smooth race for the Ultim 32/23 class trimarans since the start of Brest Atlantiques, in the early hours of this morning, trimaran MACIF hit an unidentified floating object (UFO) which damaged the central rudder and could mean that…
The French duo of Charlie Dalin and Yann Eliès on the latest generation 60ft foiling monohull, Apivia, appeared to be coasting to victory in the Transat Jacque Vabre Normandie Le Havre on Saturday afternoon local time. At the 15:00 UTC…
Going into Sunday’s two races of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2019-2020 Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour, the series is wide open with the consistent Appliancesonline.co.au team of Brett Van Munster, Kurt Fatouris and Phil Marshall leading the 18-boat fleet…
The South Australian Sharpie fleet has announced a new travel grants program as an incentive for more sailors to attend the national championships, which often has significant costs associated with it. The program allows teams doing it a little tough…
Fifty-eight yachts got off to a flying start in the Cabbage Tree Island Race this evening, this evening, with the fleet surging down Sydney Harbour in 20 knot westerly winds that became gusty and shifty, giving crews a tough reach…
Shenzhen, China: Cheche Team from Spain extended its lead in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet on day three of the China Cup International Regatta, but it was Craig Monk’s young crew on ChinaOne.Ningbo who won the last race of the…
The ’Brest Atlantiques’ race is in full swing this Friday with the boats, currently led by Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, speeding towards the equator – and Friday evening's challenge is managing the wind off the Cape Verde Islands before the…
While it may have been their turn to be top scoring boat on day three of the GC32 Oman Cup, the math is not looking great for Oman Air in its fight with Alinghi to become 2019 GC32 Racing Tour…
The second stage of the Clipper Race’s global circuit, The Spinlock South Atlantic Showdown, delivered what it promised, as an intense standoff between the 11 identical yachts played out along the entire 3,555 mile racecourse before Qingdao clinched the win…
Francis Joyon has just beaten his own record, set 10 years ago in this stretch of the Route to the Indies referred to as the Mauritius Route – and he made it all look so easy – 19 days, 18…
François Jambou (865 – Team BFR Marée Haute Jaune) and Ambrogio Beccaria (943 – Geomag), the respective leaders in the Prototype and Production boat category in this second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère 2019, are at the midway mark…
After Groupe GCA – Mille et un sourires became the first boat to cross the line in the Bay of All Saints in the small hours of Friday morning under a magical moon, the second – Solidaires En Peloton –…
Cheche Team from Spain flipped the switch on day two of the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen to dominate racing in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet. Julio Bernardeau Navarro steered his crew to scores of 1,3,1 – by far…
After more than two days at sea, the four trimarans racing in the Brest Atlantiques are sailing almost at the latitude of the Canary Islands, heading south in average trade winds and a calming sea. And while the erratic nature…
The trio of Jambou, Beccaria, Ferré is continuing its route leaving very little room for tactical error, the whole performance posted at a furious pace (an average of around 10 knots over the past 24 hours). In a favourable trade…
Following on from our weather analysis of the IMOCAS racing in the Transat Jacques Vabre, Christian Dumard today looks at how the boats coped with the Doldrums, the area of instability, which as is so often the case, was kind…
Charal has lost 264 miles in the Doldrums over the last two days to the new leader Apivia, which crossed the Equator at 16:00 UTC and is speeding towards the finish line in Salvador de Bahia, less than 1,000 miles away….
SYDNEY – November 8, 2019 – Olympic gold medalist and SailGP Season 1 champion Tom Slingsby returned to his home sailing club in New South Wales to help launch an innovative new program that aims to create a pathway into…
Francis Joyon, the skipper of the IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran shattered the Mauritius Route record between Port Louis (Brittany) and Port Louis (Mauritius) at 0726hrs local time (0326hrs UTC) on Friday 8th November). He smashed the reference time he set in…
Italians Matteo Sericano and Marco Buonanni have both broken a rudder and are making for Mindelo, in Cape Verde, where they’ll make a pit stop to effect repairs before, hopefully, returning to the racetrack. Since the start in Las Palmas…
The gybe carried out yesterday evening by François Joyon to move away from the extraordinary low-pressure system that is typical of the Southern Ocean and which propelled him across the South Atlantic from west to east, means that he is…
Thirty hours into racing and all four of the trimarans competing on the Brest Atlantiques race have already reached the latitudes of Gibraltar, most of them averaging around 30 knots with top speeds of at over 40. Ahead lies one…
With a light forecast, the opening day of the GC32 Oman Cup looked like it might be marginal. However in the end four out of the five scheduled races were sailed just north of the Al Mouj marina with a…
An easy Doldrums? Tell that to Jérémie Beyou and Christopher Pratt on Charal, who have watched their 100-mile lead turn into a 50-mile deficit after less than a day in the dreaded Doldrums. It was heartbreaking for Charal, but the air…
Lord Jiminy has taken line honours in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Melbourne to Stanley Race, but the most outstanding result came from the Scott Robinson skippered Seaquest RP36, How Bizarre, which pulled off the rare triple of…
After three days at sea, the fleet of 82 sailors in the second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère is complete once again after Jean Lorre’s return to the racetrack at the start of the afternoon. The speeds are steady,…
The four Ultim 32/23 Class trimarans took off on Tuesday 5th November at 11am on the Brest Atlantiques race, a new 14,000 mile double-handed race that will take them non-stop to Rio and then Cape Town, before heading back to…
The route to victory for Charal and the IMOCA podium in the 14th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre may have just become lot simpler according to the official race meteorologist. Richard Silvani, from Météo France said…
It is patently obvious now to everyone that Charal is very fast and is setting an incredible pace at the front of the IMOCA fleet in the Transat Jacques Vabre. Since passing the Cape Verde Islands, when they were tacking…
NZ Herald. By: Nikki Preston “I still have one lolly left mum.” They were the first words Kushila Stein shouted through the phone to her relieved mother Wendy after she was rescued from floating on the Aegean Sea near Greece for…
The Triton. Story and photos by Dorie Cox. Chief Stew Paulina Costa is careful with her money, but fairly risk-tolerant. She likes to buy houses and hotels for each of her properties – in the game Monopoly, that is. “Not too…
The Cabbage Tree Island Race is expected to have its largest fleet in history when the 67 yachts take to the start line for the fourth race of the CYCA's Blue Water Pointscore on Sydney Harbour this Friday night. The…
A little over 48 hours after the start of the second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/Le Marin), everyone is positioning their pawns. With little information and few tools at their disposal, the sailors are…
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