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The Bundaberg-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter has flown two men and a cat to safety, after the 38 foot vessel they were sailing on ran into trouble just after midnight. The chopper was called to the eastern side of Fraser Island,…
The defending champion Honda Marine team of Dave McDiarmid/Matt Steven/Brad Collins showed that they will be hard to beat again this year when they scored an impressive win in Race 1 of the Winning Group JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship…
Races 3 and 4 of the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series, hosted by the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria were held on Port Phillip today and the women sailed two long courses in oscillating winds at both ends of the…
Winners were crowned on the final day of the Sydney Harbour Regatta, conducted by Middle Harbour Yacht (MHYC), over three days for the Sydney 38s and the weekend for all other classes. This is the 14th running of the regatta…
Alan and Tom Quick have added the Yoti Sydney 38 Australian Championship to their trophy cabinet at Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Harbour Regatta, which finished late this afternoon. The Quicks (CYCA), who were crowned Farr 40 NSW champions in…
For the 13th consecutive year, the JJ Giltinan Championship has been sponsored by the Winning Group brands, but there is so much more to their participation at all levels of the sport. The Winning Group is also one of the…
The Notice of Race for the Copa del Rey MAPFRE was published on the event’s official web site on Friday, and includes changes to the 2019 edition. The new classification, which will keep expectations running high up until the very…
From the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, all the way down to the Sound at Manly – boats, boats and more boats, as Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s well-named key event, the Sydney Harbour Regatta, did as its name implies…
While many are still recovering from tragic events of the 2018 race, the 71st Bunbury and Return Ocean Race will be remembered as one that helped in the healing process for the offshore community in Western Australia. To commemorate the…
Maritime Executive The Royal Australian Navy is gathering data to update Sub-Antarctic nautical charts with the deployment of its Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) Flight. The plane is currently deployed to Invercargill in New Zealand to undertake survey operations over…
Fresh from the factory in Vietnam is a brand new Seawind 1260 that will be coming to Australia and calling the Whitsundays home, joining an award-winning bareboat charter operator in Airlie Beach. Cumberland Charter Yachts has been successful in securing…
Peter Byford and David Hudson have come out the cream of the crop on Day 1 of the Yoti Sydney 38 Championship at the Sydney Harbour Regatta, hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC), sailing Conspiracy to two wins from…
Third placed Estonian sailor Uku Randmaa is hungry… hungry because he has caught no fish during the past week to supplement the last of his food stocks… hungry to finish… and hungry to see his young family after more than…
Things are starting to move for Sébastien Simon. On Tuesday 26th February, the IMOCA, PRB, was relaunched displaying the colours of her sponsors, Arkéa and Paprec. It is on this foiler the the winner of the last Solitaire du Figaro…
From Marine Business Industry figures have condemned NSW Labor plans to introduce a new stamp duty on boats if it wins next month's state election. Labor announced this week that, if elected, it will impose a duty of $7,600 on…
After losing the title to the red-hot New Zealand Honda Marine team in 2018, the local Australian fleet has been strengthened, but they will all have to produce their best and most consistent form if they want to repel the…
As part of its “La Belle Classe Academy” training centre, dedicated to professionals in the yachting industry and offering an “Art of Service” module, the Yacht Club de Monaco is partnering with Bluewater to organise – for the second consecutive…
The Cape Horn Race gives both professional and Corinthian sailors an equal chance of winning under IRC handicap, attracting entries from towns and yacht clubs… the race invites teams to participate in the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of discovery…
Roger Jackman’s Doctor Who and Don Calvert’s Intrigue on Saturday on Saturday showed they still head the who’s who of yacht racing on Hobart’s River Derwent, each notching up another win the Combined Clubs Summer Pennant. With two more Pennant…
Marina berths have become rarer than hen’s teeth in the lead-up to Sail Port Stephens 2019, such is the demand from the keelboat brigade, yet there’s room aplenty for off-the-beach and trailable classes to be part of the action. Separate…
The Asko Appliances team had to recover from a mid-race capsize before taking out the 2018-2019 Australian 18 Footers League Club Championship in a dramatic day of 18ft Skiff Racing on Sydney Harbour today. Going into today's final race of…
Champion Hobart yachtsman Nick Rogers has earned the right to defend the historic Sayonara Cup which he won for the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania a decade ago from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. The Squadron is the challenger. Rogers…
The Day, Connecticut. By Mary Biekert. Lyme — A 53-foot sailboat that sank off the Connecticut River in Hamburg Cove’s icy waters late last month was finally raised and towed away, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday. As of 12:30 p.m….
Cornwall Live. By Lee Trewhela. The disappearance of a millionaire’s wife, who went missing while sailing from Cornwall to her home in North Devon, made international headlines in October 2012. Now almost seven years later the inquest into the death…
Three long-time friends and sailing champions have all finally come together in the one boat as they set their sights on winning the 2019 JJ Giltinan (world) 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour from March 2-10. Skipper Micah Lane, sheet…
Following the commissioning of the first 50 berths at Margate Marina last October, work has now resumed after the Christmas/New Year break. Construction has recommenced with the 150m major extension of the attenuator/breakwater and the next 73 berths. The attenuator/breakwater…
The Asko Appliances 18ft skiff team is set to add the Australian 18 Footers League Club Championship to its trophy cabinet as the team leads the 18-strong fleet into Sunday’s last race of the series on Sydney Harbour. Skipper James…
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania has received a challenge from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron for the coveted Sayonara Cup, renewing the match-racing contest between two of the nation's senior clubs after a break of a decade. The RSYS…
Giovanni Soldini skippered Maserati Multi 70 across the RORC Caribbean 600 finish line at 20:49:00 AST on Tuesday 19 February in an elapsed time of one day, 06 hours 49 minutes, taking Multihull line honours and setting a new Multihull…
In the early hours of Thursday 21 February, after two and a half days and nights of intense competition and over 600 miles of racing, it all came down to just a few minutes. Catherine Pourre's French Class40 Eärendil won…
The Ocean Race, the crewed round the world race with stopovers raced for the first time on IMOCAs with foils, will start in Alicante in October 2021. With just over two and a half years to go to the start,…
Ichi Ban, skippered by Matt Allen, has come away with a resounding Division 1 IRC win at this year's Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta, dropping just one less than perfect result to end up carrying a picket fence. The regatta…
Maserati Multi 70 skippered by Giovanni Soldini (ITA) crossed the finish line of the RORC Caribbean 600 at 20:49:00 AST on Tuesday 19 February 2019 in an elapsed time of 1 day, 06 hours 49 minutes and 00 seconds, taking…
In the northern hemisphere the Sailing Champions League is a winning concept, taking off from the start-up league in Germany in 2013 to involve 21 nations and more than 300 clubs in 2019. Now it’s the southern hemisphere’s turn. Mark…
David and Peter Askew (USA) racing their Volvo 70 Wizard have taken Monohull Line Honours in the RORC Caribbean 600 crossing the finish line on Wednesday 20 February at 07:08:44 AST in an elapsed time of 1d 19h 38m 44s….
Stuff.co.nz British yachting great Sir Ben Ainslie has described sailing the America's Cup test boat as “an eye-opener”. American rival Terry Hutchinson summed up being on his syndicate's scaled-down version of the 75-foot foiling monohulls to be used at Auckland…
With four out of the six races now in the books, things are starting to heat up on the scoreboard at this year's Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta. Yesterday's race was a short passage race out to the Lincoln National…
With the majority of Australia’s population base centred in the capital cities, and the political focus quite often also concentrated in these areas, it’s easy to forget about the coastal regional towns that bind the east coast and provide for…
Coppercoat has just signed a contract confirming the company as the Official Antifoul Supplier for the next two editions of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 2019-20 and 2021-22. This partnership both reflects and consolidates Coppercoat’s success in…
The Rag & Famish Hotel has been a successful sponsor of the 18 Footers on Sydney Harbour since the 1996-1997 Season, but the hotel and the sport of 18 Footers racing have more in common than simply being the combination…
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