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Racing has been cancelled on the second day of the Australian Laser Champion ships owing to strong winds. At 2pm on Saturday January 4, after advice from the Bureau of Meteorology that the wind would continue to blow at more…
After yesterday’s light airs, some yachties were heard saying “Geez we’d love some more breeze”, and as the old saying goes, ‘be careful what you ask for’, as Day 2 was a completely different beast, with sudden high winds testing…
To start the new decade, the 11th Bartercard Sail Paradise Regatta got underway today under a sunny sky in a building nor’easterly breeze with a fleet of 33 yachts. The Race Officer, Southport Yacht Club’s Mark Dingley, opted to start…
The 2020 Musto Optimist Australian and Open Championships kicked off at the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria today with 223 of the best junior sailors descending on the club to compete from 2-9 January 2020. This year’s event has attracted…
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard rescued two mariners from their disabled sailing vessel, Rhapsody, approximately 288 miles east southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, Thursday afternoon. Watchstanders at the Eighth Coast Guard District command center received an emergency position indicating radio beacon alert…
Double world champion Nick Thompson of Great Britain, young Queenslander Mara Stransky, who is chasing her first Olympic Games spot, and Dutch sailor Mirthe Akkerman were the stand-out performers on the first day of the Australian Laser Championships being held…
Day 1 of the Australian Yachting Championships, hosted by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania (RYCT) kicked off at 10.30am today on the River Derwent as planned, but in a very light 5-7 knot breeze. Topping the Division A leaderboard…
The second day of the 11th Bartercard Sail Paradise Regatta was raced today, offshore from Broadbeach from the Southport Yacht Club. Over thirty yachts are taking part in the regatta this year, which includes the IRC Gold Coast Championship, where…
The final boat to finish the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, local Tasmanian boat Take Five, has arrived at Constitution Dock. Skipper Ian Gannon said his crew endured storms and almost exhausted supplies but were elated to make it…
The return of the Southern Cross Cup in conjunction with the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has seen victory go to the Australian Yellow team made up of Ichi Ban, Gweilo and St Jude. With Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban winning…
The NSW yacht Zen has been crowned overall winner of this years Harcourt Hobart King of the Derwent. The TP52, owned and skippered by Gordon Ketelbey, sailed a perfect tactical race to finish third over the line and win IRC…
The Scandinavian Gold Cup is a diminutive trophy with an immense prestige and a unique format. Now in its 101st year, this ornate and priceless trophy has been raced for by International 5.5 Metres since 1953. It is considered one…
Light breezes, sunshine and warm weather greeted the competitors on Day Two of the 2019 Mercedes-Benz Mornington Couta Boat Association National Championship being held at Sorrento Sailing and Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) on Port Phillip. Every one was hoping the…
Wayne Jones and his team on Tribal Warrior, the first indigenous team to compete in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, have achieved the dream of a lifetime – to start and finish the race – and they chose the…
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard and good Samaritans aboard two commercial vessels located and rescued the crew of the 42-foot white dismasted sailing vessel Coco Haz III 656 miles west southwest of the Hawaiian Islands, Sunday. “We appreciate the support…
Euroweekly News. By Isha Sesay THE Guardia Civil have confirmed that they have located the body of a missing 36-year-old man after his brother launched a frantic campaign to find his sibling. The man, of Australian nationality, was found under a…
After limping along in light airs for over two days, there is finally some good news for the yachts contesting the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race via Tasmania’s west coast. However, there is also some…
The number one racing boat in Australia has been declared the overall winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart for a second time, as this morning Matt Allen was advised his TP52, Ichi Ban, was to yet again have its name…
The crew of Kialoa II may lament having seen their understandable hopes of winning the Grand Veterans class in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race slip through their grasp. But the 73-footer that won Sydney Hobart line honours in…
When Matt Allen’s TP52 Ichi Ban finished the Rolex Sydney Hobart at 7.18 last night, it immediately became the favourite to win the Tattersall Cup, the prized trophy for overall honours. By this morning, that favouritism was almost absolute. Allen…
New Zealand Police have criticised a pair of sailors, one of whom had to be rescued when their yacht ran aground in Marlborough Sounds. The boat did not have a marine radio and the other member of the crew had…
Andrea Francolini is our favourite sailing photographer. During the days of Australian Sailing magazine, Andrea shot almost every cover picture. His composition and eye for detail is matched by his passion for a different perspective. Click on the dots above…
The 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart has been conducted in benign conditions and has been free of the controversy that has often dogged the race in recent years. It has taken until the third day for the protest to be lodged….
A slow night on the race track in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, some of the bulk of the fleet struggling to get five knots from their boats, but good news is on the way, the Bureau of Meteorology…
Despite some innovative tactics by Scott Robinson, skipper of How Bizarre, Angus Fletcher’s Radford 13.7 Tevake II has won the Rudder Cup, the trophy for overall winner of the ORCV Melbourne to Devonport Race. Tevake II also took line honours,…
The ORCV Melbourne to Hobart Race continues to be a fascinating affair, with the two leaders in sight of each other off the west coast of Tasmania. But it was another frustrating night for all competitors, with light winds making…
Vertigo, from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, has taken the handicap lead in this year’s Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart yacht race. The summit 35, owned by Tim Olding, has taken the lead from the Mumm 36 Heatwave…
Enigma is a Beneteau First 47.7 owned by Jason Bond, the current Commodore of the Manly Yacht Club. This yacht was one of the last Beneteau 47.7s to leave the factory, making her the youngest and heaviest in the class. Formerly…
Australian sailing legend Michael Coxon has long been linked with the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race through his role as the master tactician on many successful super maxi yachts. But his imprint on this year’s 75th running of the Cruising…
Comanche is on track to take line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart. At 5am on Saturday 28th, she had rounded Cape Raoul doing 17 knots, but was expected to slow considerably as she enters the river. At the finish…
Jim Cooney's 100ft supermaxi Comanche has taken line honours in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The big red boat crossed the finish line off Battery Point at 7.30.24 am after an agonising drift over the final few miles….
Guillaume Leroux’s Class 40 Lord Jiminy led the ORCV Melbourne to Hobart Race fleet out of Port Phillip Bay yesterday but over night she has been challenged by Douglas Lithgow’s Archambault 40 Soiree Bleu. At 9am, the two boats were…
Hobart yachtsman Matthew Keal’s Mumm 36 Heatwave is heating up this year’s Launceston to Hobart yacht race as she chases down the current line honours front runners Gary Smith in Fork in the Road and Robert Green’s 50-footer Dream. Heatwave…
A cruising catamaran which capsized off the New South Wales coast in July, killing three people, has been found 600 kilometres north off North Stradbroke Island. Sydney grandparents Helen and Rod Cooper, both aged 78, drowned along with a family…
After stalling in a patch of light winds off the north-west coast of Tasmania, the leaders in the ORCV Melbourne to Devonport Race have picked up speed and are aiming for a cold beer at Mersey Yacht Club this evening….
The five supermaxis at the head of the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet were “parked” off the southern NSW coast at 5am this morning (December 27). Jim Cooney’s Comanche still leads the race for line honours but she is just 1.5nm…
The super maxis were still dancing a tango in the battle for line honours leadership in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this afternoon as the fleet sailed on towards night two. As the super maxis were about to begin…
An impressive fleet of 19 yachts has crossed the start at Beauty Point for the 13th year of the Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart yacht race. Weather conditions for the 285 nautical mile race are favourable for both line…
The Mornington Peninsula turned on perfect weather for the two Victorian fleets which are racing to Tasmania this year. Under blue skies and with 15 knots of wind coming from the south-south-west, the combined fleets picked up speed under spinnaker…
The 72-foot URM was barely spoken of when it came to who could figure in the race for line and overall honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race before it began on Thursday afternoon. But as the Cruising Yacht…
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