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Sean Langman, one of Australia’s most versatile sailors, has set himself another wide-ranging program in the 2019-2020 Australian summer, with a season of 18ft skiff racing on Sydney Harbour, skippering Noakesailing, as well as skippering the 69ft Naval Group in…
(Split, Croatia) Finally! Some racing! But just some. The fleets left the harbor at 0830 as the northeasterly breeze was beginning to build. By 1000, the scheduled start time for today, the wind was six to eight knots on course…
The Queensland Government has announced that Shute Harbour will be restored, following cyclone damage sustained in 2017, with another $10 million committed to the project after it was delayed by technical issues. Works to be undertaken include: demolition of the…
There’s no changing Francis. The skipper of the IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran is at the age of 63 just as keen as ever to set new records and perform well, as we have been able to see over the past 24…
The purpose of owning a yacht is to go sailing. For readers of Cruising Helmsman that means to get away from it all and get out there. A marina berth is all well and good, but the real reason you…
Routing is not allowed in the Transat Jacques Vabre for the skippers in the IMOCA class, but that does not mean to say that the weather experts are not watching the race and studying the charts… We therefore decided to…
Britain’s Samantha Davies and her French co-skipper, Paul Meilhat have sent a message at the start of this race and it rang out across the Bay of Biscay yesterday as they tacked south-west at Cape Finisterre in third place. They…
The nifty Jack Holt-designed keelboat, Saltash – eight-time winner of the Brisbane to Gladstone Race – is being given a new lease on life by the craftspeople at Norman R. Wright & Sons, using the latest generation epoxy and carbon…
(Split, Croatia) Race committee left the harbor at 1030, on schedule, and spent the day watching and waiting. The light easterly breeze in the morning faded, as forecast, but the haze never burned off and the westerly thermal never filled…
HH Catamarans has begun mold construction for a new ‘supercat’ that will propel the brand into superyacht territory. Hudson Yacht Group, the award-winning builder of HH Catamarans, is a builder of luxury performance cruising catamarans. A spokesperson said this new 88ft (26.8m)…
NEW YORK – October 29, 2019 – As SailGP prepares to kick off its second season in 2020, the global championship continues to be recognized for its successful debut. Today, the F50 catamaran – the fastest sail race boat in…
Italy’s Marco Gradoni was crowned the 2019 male Rolex World Sailor of the Year on Tuesday 29 October in Bermuda, becoming the youngest ever recipient, at the World Sailing Awards. Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark received the female accolade to follow…
Since the start at 1215hrs UTC yesterday from Le Havre, the 29 IMOCAs have been sailing at high speed and quickly made their way out of the English Channel, even if three double-handed crews (Ruyant/Koch, Sorel/Le Brec and Joschke/Lagravière) suffered…
Four boats will line up at the start of the Brest Atlantiques race; four Ultim 32/23 trimarans, so twelve hulls and the same number of crew. This long run is raced double-handed and the decision has been made to give…
NEW YORK – October 28, 2019 – SailGP will return to two iconic U.S. shorelines in 2020, with Season 2 grand prix events set for San Francisco and New York. The U.S. leg of the global championship’s sophomore season will…
Francis Joyon is sailing day after day clocking up more than 600 miles averaging over 26 knots. In spite of being some way from the direct route off Brazil, the IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran is today (Monday) 266 nautical miles ahead…
(Split, Croatia) The forecast held true – sunny and warm and very little wind. No gradiant, but hope for a thermal fill from the West in the afternoon. To be able to best advantage if the wind did build, the fleets were…
CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week is on track to achieve Clean Regatta certification in 2020, as organisers strive to leave a clean wake by reducing the event’s environmental impact. “We’ve joined up with Sailors for the Sea to become a certified…
More than 20 of Australia’s most famous classic yachts have already entered for the Sydney Hobart Classic Yacht Regatta that will begin a month of celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. To be held…
Hopes of a British victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre were dealt a cruel blow before sunrise on Monday morning when overnight leaders Luke Berry and his French co-skipper Tanguy Le Turquais suffered a dismast to their…
Race 1 of the Australian 18 Footers Club Championship, sailed in a 12-14-knot ENE wind on Sydney Harbour today, produced one of the closest and best 18ft Skiff races seen for a few years, and gave the Finport Finance team victory…
(Split, Croatia) The 2019 Laser Under-21 World Championships begin here tomorrow in this beautiful city on the Adriatic Sea. The host, Sailing Club Mornar, has put everything in place for a great event, and the weather has been sunny and warm for…
Rotterdam, the Netherlands – October 26, 2019 – The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic, unveiled today its invention to prevent the unrelenting flow of plastic pollution into the world’s…
SailGP returns to Sydney to kick off Season 2 on February 28 and 29, 2020. Australia’s Tom Slingsby will be hungry to defend his championship title, looking to put early points on the leaderboard in front of a home crowd….
Entry for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has closed and organisers at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) are thrilled to announce 170 yachts from Australia and overseas will take part in their 75th race, making it the largest…
The Mirabaud Sailing Video Award invites the public to discover the best sailing videos produced this year, and to contribute to the selection of the best ones by voting online where you will see the 34 film makers or video…
Intense, exhilarating, scary and really fun are some of the words being thrown around Russell today, where crews of more than 150 sailboats are swapping stories of the gruelling 119 nautical mile yacht race they started yesterday. The 37th PIC…
Since last Saturday, Francis Joyon has been tackling the Mauritius Route record between Port Louis (Brittany) and Port Louis (Mauritius) and crossed the first virtual mark in this record at 1159hrs UTC on Saturday, setting a new reference time of…
The 606nm Rolex Middle Sea Race is one of the world’s most compelling and challenging offshore races and Maltese yacht Elusive 2, and the American Maxi Rambler, owned by George David, took the plaudits. This edition of the race required…
The 47th RL24 National Championship will be held at Illawarra Yacht Club in Warrawong, NSW from 5-9 January 2020, when excellence at the top end of the fleet, boat development, crew work and family fun on and off the water…
Often unfortunate when passing through the Doldrums, such as when the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone forced IDEC Sport to abandon its attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy two years ago, Francis is currently enjoying clear skies and a decent rate of…
French woman, Alexia Barrier and Irish sailor, Joan Mulloy are the only all-female pairing in this Transat Jacques Vabre, and intend to get 120 percent out of their venerable old IMOCA. Seven women are competing in the 2019 race in…
Competitors coming ashore after today's 119 nautical mile race may be wet, cold and tired, but most were smiling ear to ear and laughing as they told stories about their fast slide up the coast. At 11pm Friday, 40 boats…
The 40th Rolex Middle Sea Race is almost done and dusted – just two boats remain on the course, including the only surviving multihull – and both should finish by the race cut-off time of 08:00 CEST, Saturday, 26 October….
With four AC75s now successfully launched and actively foiling, what have we learned about the outcomes of the various design strategies chosen by each of the teams for their first-generation boats? One thing seems clear – that there is more…
From 26 October to 3 November, Bermuda will welcome 418 delegates from 68 nations for World Sailing’s 2019 Annual Conference. The Conference is the annual meeting point for the world governing body of the sport where delegates review and discuss…
The 40th edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race has continued to provide plenty of twists and turns. For many yachts the race is over; they are tied up to the dock, enjoying the hospitality of the Royal Malta Yacht…
Australian Sailing has welcomed a new President, Vice President and Board members after their election at the 2019 Annual General Meeting held at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Daniel Belcher (President) and Alistair Murray AM (Vice President) will lead…
The historic Lipton Cup trophy will be contested in teams for the first time, after a new format was decided by the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV) this week. Taking place on 16-17 November this year, the Lipton Cup…
At 3pm this afternoon, Beau Geste set a new record for the PIC Coastal Classic yacht race, having sailed the 119 nautical mile course in a time of just 5hrs, 37sec. The conditions were slightly windier than they expected, averaging…
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