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Hobart’s River Derwent swarmed with almost 450 young sailors yesterday as the huge fleet of 240 Optimist dinghies began their Australian championship, joining various youth classes already well into their nationals. The single-handed Optimists, along with double-handed crews in 29ers,…
The results are as shifty as the conditions that the 23 catamarans racing in the 2019 Tornado World Championships are receiving on the race course. RACE 3 Race 3 saw a mix of conditions with Brett Burvill (AUS) saying he…
Click Lancashire. By James Marshall. Ocean Cleanup's $20 million boom – designed to clean up the Pacific Garbage Patch in five years and dubbed Wilson after the volleyball in the movie Castaway – will be towed back to port along…
After nearly two years of peace and security inside Macquarie Harbour, the word daunting came to mind when we considered leaving that safe haven to sail the wild Southern Ocean. For such a long time our ship had been a…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand will build a test boat as well as launch their first racing yacht and sign up the rest of their crew in what will be a hugely influential year towards defending the America's…
New York, N.Y. – Australian company Advanced Wing Systems (AWS) and New York Yacht Club American Magic, U.S. Challenger for the 36th America’s Cup, today announced that AWS, a leader in sail design and engineering, has been named as an…
Devon, UK: OCC Associate member and skipper Doug Smith and his good friend Hiro Iwamoto are scheduled to sail across the Pacific non-stop from San Diego to Fukushima, Japan, with a departure date scheduled for February 24 on Dream Weaver,…
Fremantle was back to its very best for day two of the 2019 Dragon World Championship, and after a few hours waiting ashore, the regular sea breeze gathered for two fabulous races under cloudless blue skies and aqua marine waters….
The Australian crew of Brett Burvill and Matt Putman won both races to take an early lead from Rex and Brett Sellers (NZL). in the 2019 Tornado World Championship, being sailed from Takapuna Beach, New Zealand, The World's kicked off…
Drew Carruthers' Drew 15, Rushour, had a very comfortable trip north and crossed the finish line in Southport at 15:50 AEDT, taking multihull line honours in the 2019 Club Marine Pittwater to Paradise Regatta. An elated Carruthers commented: “Whilst there…
Brett Hobson/Jeremy Jones (Geotherm) were lucky to take Race 2 from Nick Press/Andrew Hay (Sydney Sailmakers) at the Your Move Conveyancing 12ft Skiff Interdominion hosted by the Sydney Flying Squadron this afternoon, while the latter pair repaid the favour by…
Grant Gordon and his team of Ruairidh Scott, Sophie Weguelin and James Williamson showed the rest of the Dragon fleet the way to go on day one of the 2019 Dragon World Championship, held on the aquamarine waters off Fremantle…
Sandy Bay Sailing Club’s young crew of Hugo Allison and James Gough are the new national champions in the International Cadet class, winning a closely fought series on Hobart’s River Derwent. Allison (13) and James (12), sailing Shmoken, won the…
A south-westerly front roaring up Hobart’s River Derwent and gusting to 40 knots hit the fleet before racing started on day two of the Australian championships for 49er, 49erFX and 29er skiffs, 420 dinghies and Nacra 15 catamarans. Fortunately, only…
After waiting on shore for the wind to fill in, the 148 Laser sailors contesting the Oceania and Australian Championships in Bass Strait, off Devonport, were rewarded with good racing conditions late yesterday afternoon. Sailors headed out of the Derwent…
Day 1 of the Your Move Convenyancing 12ft Skiff Interdominion provided both thrills and spills in a stiff southerly that kicked in just before the 3pm start on Sydney Harbour today, with Brett Hobson/Jeremy Jones crewed Geotherm winning a battle…
The 57th Australian OK Dinghy National Championship ended with two really tricky light wind races that left the regatta leaders struggling and picking up high scores. However Roger Blasse, from the host club, Black Rock YC, survived to take his…
The 2019 Dragon World Championship takes place from Friday 4th to Wednesday 9th January inclusive. The championship is organised by host club the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and sailed out of Fremantle Sailing Club on the pristine waters of…
The Cockburn Sound Regatta is a four day event held between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve on the beautiful and protected waters of Mangles Bay off Rockingham, Western Australia. The Kwinana Industries Council Race from Fremantle to Rockingham is…
Young Hobart sailors William Wallis and Fynn Sprott have made a brilliant start to the Australian championship for the 29er skiffs on the River Derwent, with a 1-1-2 scorecard on day one. The 29ers, 49ers and the 49FX women’s skiff…
Richard Hudson’s Farr 45, Pretty Woman, continues to lead the monohull fleet north in the Pittwater to Paradise Race, however “Highly Sprung” is sticking to Pretty Woman like “bees to a honey pot” and has a handy lead on IRC…
With a spectator fleet of in excess of 60 boats, the 2019 Pittwater to Paradise Regatta got away in a light NNE Breeze from 100-120 at approximately 7 knots. The official weather briefing presented by a representative from the Bureau…
For only the second time in 41 editions of the iconic King of the Derwent yacht race, a northern Tasmanian boat has won Hobart’s iconic yachting event. Lawless, skippered by prominent Port Dalrymple Yacht Club member Stephen McElwee, today placed…
After two more race wins in some spectacular Black Rock sea breeze conditions, Roger Blasse is now just one race away from a record 11th Australian OK Dinghy National Championship title. Mark Jackson is 10 points back in second after…
It was quite a hard slog for the Turkish flagged team with the current world champion crew of Andy Beadsworth, Ali Tezdiker and Simon Fry to grind out victory to win their first Prince Philip Cup in Fremantle, Western Australia. …
Istvan Kopar rounded Cape Horn at 19:00 UTC yesterday, giving the 65-year old American/Hungarian a perfect New Year boost. To have got this far has been a triumph over adversity in every sense since the start from Les Sables d’Olonne…
Reading all the kerfuffle about turning AIS gear off and the subsequent protests brought to mind a Hobart race somewhere back in the early 80’s (the memory gets a bit water logged when sailing long races in leaky boats). This…
South Australia Police report that an overturned vessel found off the coast of Kangaroo Island on New Year's Eve has been identified as 'Wild Eyes', which had been abandoned eight years ago in the middle of the Indian Ocean during a…
The Gold Coast Waterways Authority (GCWA) has invested $500,000 in maintaining safe navigational access in the Canaipa Passage, the important link between Moreton Bay and the Gold Coast. The dredging aims to provide a depth of -2.5m LAT (Lowest Astronomical…
Another two races have been completed on day two of the Flying Fifteen Australian National Championships at the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron at Adelaide, South Australia. Race 3 was a windward / leeward course of two laps with a…
The Flying 15 Nationals are now underway at the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron. 28 boats are competing in the championships with boats from Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland. Weather predictions for Gulf St Vincent were for warm…
Black Rock finally turned it on for Day 3 of the OK Dinghy Australian National Championship, with brilliant sunshine and a building sea breeze producing great conditions for the 40-boat fleet. After two more races, Roger Blasse takes an eight-point…
For the third day in a row Western Australia delivered the finest sailing conditions money can’t buy. Bright blue skies, good solid breezes and some great surfing waves. Although racing was brought forward again to an earlier start time of…
Falling short of back-to-back overall wins in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has certainly not dissuaded Matt Allen from coming back to race his TP52 Ichi Ban in next year’s 75th edition of the great race. “For sure …,”…
It was a very emotional crew of the Esperance-based Salona 44, Anger Management, that stood on the dock at around midnight on December 29. They had just become only the second yacht from the small Western Australian town to complete…
OPINION From the moment that Black Jack owner, Peter Harburg, criticised Wild Oats XI for allegedly turning off their AIS before making a tactical “buffalo girls” manoeuvre that won them line honours in the 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart, the sailing…
Tasmanian boat Oskana claimed line honours in the early hours of the morning after skipper Michael Pritchard and crew overcame wild weather and technical problems on their Cookson 50 to reach Hobart in 2 days 12 hours 52 minutes and…
For Phillip Turner the dream of winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race began “five or six years ago” when he was watching the finish and suddenly thought: “I’d like to win that one day.” On Sunday that dream became…
A late decision to race the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race paid off for the Queensland entry Trumpcard on Sunday when it finished at 7.32am this morning. The Blake Boulton owned Van de Stadt 44 crossed the finish line on…
Wow! What a start to the Australasian Dragon Championship for the Prince Philip Cup held off Fremantle. The regatta which also acts as the pre-Worlds, enjoyed a sensational first day of racing in Hendricks ‘Gin & Tonic’ conditions with bright…
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