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No Mini Transat race start this weekend
The 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère will not now be able to set sail this weekend, as the narrow weather window has closed and the expected forecast in the Bay of Biscay over the coming days is such…
A chance to help SWD and win great prizes
Sailors With DisAbilities (SWD) is calling on support from the sailors and friends as they seek to raise a possible $40,000 of much needed funds for their worthwhile programs via the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation – and there are some…
Sled makes best of Porto Cervo conditions in 52 Super Series
Porto Cervo, Italy: Today's penultimate day of racing was an exciting one for the 10 teams in the 52 Super Series Sailing Week organised by the YCCS, which will round off the final leg of the circuit tomorrow. With six…
HIGHLIGHTS: Day 4 – Audi 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week Porto Cervo 2019 – YouTube
World Match Racing Tour acquires Match Race Super League
London, UK (Sept. 26, 2019) – The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT), sailing’s longest running global professional series, has reached an agreement to take over the management and operations of the Match Race Super League at the end of the…
Mini-Transat La Boulangère due to start this weekend
The situation is becoming clearer for the 87 sailors in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère. The first leg (La Rochelle/Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) will kick off late in the day on Saturday or around the same time on Sunday. Race…
Mistral reigns supreme at 52 Super Series Sailing Week
Porto Cervo, 26 September 2019. No racing took place on the third day of the Audi 52 Super Series due to strong mistral winds. The event is organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) with the support of title…
Man overboard rescued off Dover 'was wearing lifejacket with good strobe light'
A crew member who went overboard from his sailing boat in the early hours of 24 September was rescued thanks in no small part to the lifejacket he was wearing. The alarm was raised through a mayday to HM Coastguard…
18ft Skiffs: 2019-2020 season preview
The Australian 18 Footers League’s 85th season of continuous 18ft Skiff Racing on Sydney Harbour will commence on Sunday, October 13 when 17 of the world’s fastest racing boats will line up to contest Race 1 of the 2019 Spring…
America's Cup 36: One design rule, two very different hulls
The much-anticipated launch of the first two AC75 foiling monohull yachts from the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand and USA Challenger NYYC American Magic respectively did not disappoint the masses of America’s Cup fans waiting eagerly for their first glimpse…
HIGHLIGHTS: Day 3 – Audi 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week Porto Cervo 2019
Perfect conditions for first day of Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week
Porto Cervo, 25 September 2019. Typical Sardinian weather conditions with sunshine and a mistral wind made for a lively first day of the Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week. The event, organised by the YCCS with the support of title…
Test match at the Azimut Challenge
After a year of fine tuning and her first win this summer in the Rolex Fastnet Race, Jérémie Beyou’s IMOCA, Charal with the sailor from Marseilles Christopher Pratt aboard, shone at the 2019 Azimut Challenge this weekend in Lorient. With…
FLIR: New M300 Series marine cameras
ARLINGTON, Va. (September 23, 2019) – FLIR Systems today announced the FLIR M300 Series, a new generation of maritime thermal cameras delivering advanced awareness-enhancing technologies, safer navigation, and integration with onboard boat systems. FLIR M300 Series cameras are designed for…
HIGHLIGHTS: Day 2 – Audi 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week Porto Cervo 2019
Strong Mistral wind cancels racing on day one of Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week
Porto Cervo, 24 September 2019. An increasingly strong mistral wind blowing at an average of over 25 knots, and gusting at up to 40, meant racing was cancelled for the first day of the Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week,…
Six percent of fishing nets lost annually
By The Maritime Executive 2019-09-22 20:57:31 An estimate of commercial fishing gear lost in the world's oceans has been published by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. Using data from 68 studies published between 1975 and 2017,…
Ronstan's 30mm lashing block for high-load applications
When world champions choose a product, there is always a good reason. In the case of this new 30mm lashing block, World Moth Champion, Paul Goodison, uses it in his vang system because it handles the high loads with low…
HIGHLIGHTS: Day 1 – Audi 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week Porto Cervo 2019
Fast Facts: What causes seasickness?
By The Maritime Executive 2019-09-22 04:34:05 One of the least pleasant aspects of going to sea is the possibility of getting seasick. An individual's susceptibility to seasickness is highly variable. If you've ever had motion sickness when traveling by car,…
Genoa to host the Grand Finale of the The Ocean Race 2021-22
Genoa will be the finish of the next edition of The Ocean Race, marking the first time the fully-crewed, around the world yacht race, known as the ‘toughest test of a team in sport’ will come to Italy. The selection…
Mini-Transat – no start before Friday
The start date for the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère is still an unknown, but there is one thing for sure: kick-off won’t be before Friday 27 September. In the meantime, the wind conditions and, above all, the…
NZ's Sky Sport to broadcast 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 worlds
Sky Sport will broadcast live all six days of December's 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships in Auckland, New Zealand, which is believed to be a world first for an Olympic class sailing world championships. As many as 400…
Tom Slingsby wins historic first SailGP Championship for Australia
MARSEILLE, France – September 22, 2019 – Tom Slingsby today made history, helming the Australia SailGP Team to victory over Nathan Outteridge’s Japan SailGP Team in the SailGP Season 1 Championship Final Race. The global league’s inaugural season culminated with…
Ichi Ban clinches overall win in Flinders Islet sprint
Matt Allen and his crew on the grand-prix racing TP52 Ichi Ban have claimed the overall win for the 2019 Blue Water Pointscore Flinders Islet Race. After a mid-morning start in testing conditions with close, choppy swells averaging nearly two…
Cock of the Huon to Cromarty Magellan
Two Sydney Hobart division winning yachtsmen, Richard Grant and Ed Psaltis, have duelled on the Huon River in southern Tasmania to decide the winner of the 2019 Cock of the Cock yacht race off historic Shipwrights Point, with Grant scoring…
Jordan Reece wins 2019 Australian Open Match Racing Championship
Jordan Reece, head coach of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Youth Sailing Academy, today showed that he, personally, has the match racing skills that he has been imparting to Academy students. Returning to the helm for the first time…
Still no start date for the Mini-Transat
Despite the delayed start of the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère, there was a festival atmosphere this Sunday in La Rochelle. Indeed, this morning, a big crowd came along to cheer on the sailors as they docked out…
Buried treasure: Are some of Martin Weiburg's gold sovereigns still in Gippsland?
ABC News. By Sarah Maunder and Rachael Lucas For more than 140 years, the tale of Martin Weiberg has intrigued historians and Gippslanders. And what happened to the gold he stole? It's a…
If you have a spare $7.5 million and want a classic design…
The 187-foot (57m) Loretta is now for sale with Northrop & Johnson. The sailing yacht is listed with Sales Broker Cameron Bray; the yacht is asking $7,500,000. Timelessness and luxurious comfort are the epitome of sailing yacht Loretta. Built by…
Chinese Whisper and No Limit take charge of Flinders Islet Race
A 10-15 knot nor’ easter met the 32 competitors at the start of the Flinders Islet Race – the second of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore Series. Setting off from Point Piper and…
Robertson overcomes adversity to score China’s first SailGP win
Phil Robertson and the China SailGP Team triumphed with a first-ever win on the penultimate day of the Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final, as the battle between Tom Slingsby’s Australian team and Nathan Outteridge’s Japanese team continued to heat…
Mini Transat: A fine prologue to warm-up
The lively wind and sea state in the Bay of Biscay, and offshore of Cape Finisterre, mean that it won’t be possible to reschedule the Mini Transat race start until this coming Wednesday at the earliest, meaning patience is key…
Chinese Whisper takes Flinders Islet line honours by a whisker
Following a solid start to the Flinders Islet Race, Chinese Whisper's line honours win came down to 37 seconds over No Limit at the Rushcutters Bay finish line in Sydney Harbour, while Ichi Ban is in the box sea to…
Freeloaders: the problem of overprovidoring
Nothing focuses the mind like preparing for an ocean passage. Zefr, our 43 foot ketch, was the chosen vessel for our great escape from Thursday island to Thailand via Indonesia and Malaysia. We were raring to go but still that…
How to: reseal a timber handrail
I had a small leak that would drip on the top of the chart table. It would appear after a lot of rain yet, while annoying, it did not appear to be too serious. After checking what was above the…
Outteridge and Slingsby one step closer to SailGP Championship
Marseille, France: Tensions heightened in front of the fan-lined sea wall as Tom Slingsby and Nathan Outteridge went head-to-head on the Rade Nord racecourse at the Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final. The two helmsmen traded wins ahead of the…
Mini Transat production boats: A wide open playing field
Among the 87 sailors competing in the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère, just five are ‘repeat offenders’, among them Italian Ambrogio Beccaria, who sports the label of race favourite. That said, rumours circulating the dock suggest that there…
