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SYDNEY – September 12, 2019 – Sydney was today announced as the season opener for SailGP in 2020. Following a hugely successful event earlier this year – when Sydney kicked-off the global league’s inaugural season – SailGP will return to…
To start on Sydney Harbour at 1pm on 30 January 2021, the inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race 2021, organised by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) in NSW in association with the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS),…
Excitement is building amongst Farr 40 members with the World Championships coming to Sydney in 2020 and teams have eagerly commenced their preparations. The season kicks off this weekend with a social regatta racing offshore and inside the harbour followed…
September 10, 2019 – Just ten days out from the first of three nail-biting race days in Marseille for the inaugural SailGP final – where all six foiling wingsailed catamarans will battle it out with a winner-takes-all match race on the…
The winners of the first stage of the Clipper 2019-20 Race have crossed the finish line into Portimão. Punta del Este took line honours, after racing 1,200 nautical miles from London, arriving into the Algarvian city at 00:45:22 UTC. Dare…
Cannes Yachting Festival will serve as the backdrop for Volvo Penta’s unveiling of a new take on its Saildrive system – an electric Saildrive prototype. Offering the prospect of onboard comfort, near-soundless, low vibration operation, and silent mooring, the initiative…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) India Howard, Jess Grimes, Emma Byrne, Jess Tavener and Ange Kear have won the 2019 John Messenger Women’s Match Racing Regatta which has been run annually since 1996, defeating Royal Prince Alfred Yacht…
The next stage of Margate Marina’s redevelopment has just been completed with the construction of an extra 73 floating berths and a 150m extension of the attenuator/breakwater. The marina now accommodates 123 new berths with more to come. The attenuator/breakwater…
In the early days of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, rubbish from competing yachts would wash up on Tasmania's east coast beaches for days after the event, as crews simply threw their waste overboard. Now they would face disqualification from…
The Ocean Cruising Club (OCC) is pleased to announce that member Jeanne Socrates has sailed into Victoria BC harbour on the 7th of September after successfully completing another single-handed unassisted nonstop circumnavigation. Jeanne set sail from Victoria on the October…
Bellerive Yacht Club member Jeff Cordell, one of southern Tasmania’s great supporters of yacht racing as a strong competitor and honorary administrators for the past 30 years, yesterday scored a well-deserved double victory in his club’s Winter Series with his…
Entries are expected to flood in for the Oceania and Australian Laser Masters Championships to be sailed out of Royal Geelong Yacht Club on Victoria's Corio Bay from March 13 to 18, 2020. The event is the perfect warm-up for…
World Cruising Club is delighted to reveal the twelve crew members who have been selected to sail on board the ARC Youth Team yacht as part of the 2019 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. The initiative brings together ambitious young people…
WA Today. By Hannah Barry. Authorities got more than they bargained for when they set out to find the crew of a yacht which got stuck on a reef in the Abrolhos Islands in Western Australia's Mid West on Monday, uncovering…
The 2017 SB20 national champion, Brett Cooper, with his internationally successful Australian crew of Darren ‘Twirler’ Jones (main) and Jock Calvert (bow), leads the SB20 Australian charge to France this week. Cooper, sailing a spanking new SB20 designed by Tony…
On his third attempt, Dario Ferrari and his Maxi 72, Cannonball, deservedly won the Mini Maxi Racer 1 class at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo, Sardinia. This year’s event coincides with the 40th anniversary of the International…
The 11 Clipper Race teams in the Clipper Round the World Race enjoyed a real thrill-ride during the fifth day of racing as they zoomed through the start of the Ocean Sprint, with wind speeds of over 40 knots and…
Close to a year ago, the Lane Cove 12ft Sailing Skiff Club experienced the most devastating event in its history, when a fire tore down its major boat storage shed and decimated a number of prized boats. The Australian sailing…
The Victorian Windsurfer Class fleet will kick off its 2019/20 summer season in October with a big fleet expected to descend on the Sandringham Yacht Club for the 2019 Sail Sandy Regatta. Hosted from 12-13 October, Sail Sandy organisers expect…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnston. America's Cup holders Team New Zealand has given the world an early glimpse of the radical new boats to be sailed at Auckland 2021. They revealed the 75-foot foiling monohull on the forecourt of their Auckland…
Largs and Millport Weekly News. By Calum Corral. During the round Arran two handed yacht race on Saturday 31 August, a yacht with two persons on board suffered from a broken mast in an area one mile south of Little…
After Jérémie Beyou’s Charal, the first new generation monohull launched a year ago, things sped up this summer with the launch of no fewer than five new IMOCAs in just over six weeks… In all, eight brand new IMOCAs will…
Emirates Team New Zealand christened their first AC75 at their team base in the heart of the America’s Cup village in Auckland today. The significant milestone was celebrated with the team, their families, sponsors and suppliers. The boat was christened…
Racing was delayed on the final day of Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), as Principal Race Officer Denis Thompson and his crew waited for a 5 knot breeze to filter through, and Division 1 was…
Porto Cervo, 4 September 2019. The third day of racing was completed today in the 30th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, an event organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with the support of title sponsor Rolex and…
Only seven days left to complete the transformation of the Vieux Port and Port Canto in Cannes which will accommodate almost 650 boats* recently released from the most prestigious French and international shipyards. The show will open for its 42nd…
Two-time Volvo Ocean Race participants Charlie Enright (Bristol, RI) and Mark Towill (Honolulu, HI), co-founders of 1 Degree, announced today that they have formally renewed their team’s sponsorship with 11th Hour Racing for a long-term campaign, with their eyes set…
In less than three weeks, on Sunday 22 September at 14:15 hours local time, 90 sailors (including eight women), will take the start in La Rochelle of the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère with Las Palmas de Gran…
The Moreton Maritime Alliance is hosting an exhibition of design ideas for the future of Scarborough Harbour as part of the Moreton Bay Futures program. As a vital part of the boating infrastructure in the region, anyone with an interest…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – After organizing presentations at the Los Angeles Yacht Club in February, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (defending club of the America's Cup in Auckland) in April, and at the start of the 50th edition LA-Honolulu…
ARLINGTON, Va. (September 4, 2019) – FLIR Systems and Excess Catamarans have today announced a partnership between FLIR’s award-winning Raymarine brand and Groupe Beneteau's new catamaran brand, Excess. In an extension of the partnership between the companies, Raymarine instruments will…
After a brisk Monday, day two of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup provided lighter 9-13 knot winds veering from west to north. A coastal course for most ultimately headed south around Isla Mortorio before returning to Porto Cervo. This year…
Andrew Landenberger, who won a silver medal in the Tornado class at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has been crowned the World Champion in the Classic Division of the A Class Worlds at Portland/Weymouth in the UK. 'Landy' won the…
Entries are now open for New Zealand’s 'best big-boat regatta' on January 21-24, 2020. Next year's CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week has again been selected to host the PHRF, IRC and Tornado class national championships and regatta chair Manuela Gmuer-Hornell…
Media Release from Australian Sailing: The Notice of Race for the 2020 Australian Yachting Championships has been released, with online entries now open for what is sure to be one of the most competitive instalments of the pinnacle title for…
Production at the NSW Central Coast factory of Performance Sailcraft Australia is in full swing as the company looks ahead to a busy summer of Laser sailing in Australia. Laser 2020 begins on January 1 with the Australian Laser Championships…
For the 47 competitors, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup got off to a superb start today with a northwesterly that built to 20+ knots and a superb beat up the La Maddalena archipelago’s ‘Bomb Alley’. The 30th edition of the…
Racing was delayed for an hour as officials waited for a light 5 knot breeze to fill in on Day 3 of Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW); and finally, all but Division 1 yachts were…
What better way to blow out the winter cobwebs, without blowing the budget, than to contest the annual Asahi Regatta hosted by Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC). Alternatively known as the NSW Country Yachting Championships, the event intentionally coincides with…
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