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“Marvellous; downwind all the way with the spinnaker,” said Jean-Pierre 'JP' Dick, owner and skipper of The Kid, the first boat to arrive in Saint Lucia on the direct ARC route from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The JP54 surfed…
Lisa Blair is attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate Australia solo, non-stp and unassisted. Having left Sydney and sailed across the top end, down the Western Australian coast and across the Bight she is now heading north towards…
Sydney’s traditional summer sea breeze arrived on day three of Sail Sydney, with the morning session for Olympic classes held in north to north-easterly breezes 12-14 knots and the afternoon session flying in 16 knots gusting to 22 out of…
One week since the close of the 36th America’s Cup entry period, the Defender and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have completed the required checks and accepted the Royal Malta Yacht Club challenge for the 36th America’s Cup. The…
Franco Niggeler's Swiss Cookson 50 Kuka3, skippered by Roberto Chuny Bermúdez de Castro, overcame technical issues and a fire on board to post the best IRC corrected time so far in the RORC Transatlantic Race. After over 12 days of racing…
Four 100-foot super maxis will this weekend have their final offshore hit-out at the CYCA Trophy Series before the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race starting Boxing Day. This Saturday 8 December and Sunday 9 December Black Jack, Comanche, InfoTrack and Wild Oats XI will battle for Line Honours…
Phuket, 5th December – A stiff breeze of 15 to 20 knots off south-western Phuket on Wednesday morning provided near perfect conditions for the large fleet of boats contesting this year’s King’s Cup Regatta, allowing the organizers to hold three…
Dateline 15:00 UTC 05.12.2018 – Les Sables d’Olonne, France British yachtswoman Susie Goodall was pitchpoled and dismasted in the Southern Ocean some 2,000 miles west of Cape Horn today. A distress signal was first picked up from her yacht by…
The twenty sailors competing in the eleventh edition of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe put on a remarkable show, at the end of which Paul Meilhat (SMA) came out on top ahead of Yann Eliès (Ucar-StMichel) and Alex Thomson (Hugo…
Pier Luigi Loro Piana's Supermaxi My Song has not only set a new monohull race record for the RORC Transatlantic Race, but also the benchmark for the remaining boats to beat racing under the IRC Rating Rule. The best corrected…
The precursor to the 2019 RS Aero Worlds in December is the RS Aero Australian Championship which begins today at Port Stephens when a competitive field from NSW, Victoria, Queensland and the UK start their four-day quest for the national…
Phuket, 4th December, 2018 – The second day of racing in the 32nd Phuket King’s Cup Regatta on Tuesday was a testing one for the skippers and their crews as the wind dropped but the competition on the water hotted…
From December 13th to 16th at Woollahra Sailing Club in Rose Bay, Sydney, start the 2019 season of Foiling Weeks. It is the second down-under Foiling Week, foiling is “on trend” with sailing, surfing, SUP, kiteboarding and windsurfing. Foiling has…
Auckland, New Zealand – Vesper Marine, a leading manufacturer of marine safety products, announced today that Marlborough District Council in New Zealand has implemented the Guardian:protect solution to monitor and protect its 4,200 square kilometer harbor. The solution provides live weather…
Juan Yacht Design is currently deeply involved in the design of the Imoca Arkea Paprec as well as being part of the creative process for the next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. Arkea Paprec: work in progress Juan K…
It was on for young and old on the final day of the SA Summer of Sail Launch Regatta at Adelaide Sailing Club on Sunday with massive swells and winds consistently more than 25 knots giving sailors plenty of excitement….
Pier Luigi Loro Piana's Supermaxi My Song finished the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race on Tuesday 04 December 2018 at 17:47:11 UTC taking Monohull Line Honours. The Baltic 130 owned by Pier Luigi Loro Piana, a member of the International Maxi…
The CYCA is offering seven lucky guests the opportunity of a lifetime – to play an active part in the invitation-only SOLAS Big Boat Challenge, held on Tuesday 11 December. eBay auction listings have been created and are now open…
After two solo round the world records (2004 and 2007), three Atlantic records (2005, 2013 and 2017), winning the Jules Verne Trophy (2017), and his recent victory in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, Francis Joyon and his loyal partner,…
With Sail Sydney currently underway (4 – 9 December 2018) and one week to go to Sail Melbourne (13 – 16 December 2018), Australia’s best Olympic, Youth and Open class sailors will find out exactly where they stand as they…
They may be small in size, but the centreboard fleets taking part in the Ports of Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta represent by far the largest portion of participants. Hundreds of sailors are expected to take to water in dinghies all…
Mark Slats rounded Cape Horn just before 06:00 UTC on Saturday 2nd December, 8 days behind Golden Globe Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, having narrowed the lead by 351 miles over the past 7 days. The second-placed Dutchman is…
Dreaming of a stimulating holiday in a unique location, ideally not too far from home? May we suggest an intimate small ship cruise that can take you right into the heart of places, far from crowded maritime routes. PONANT is…
Sail Sydney, staged out of Woollahra Sailing Club at Rose Bay, is the start of a long summer of racing for both ends of the sailing spectrum. The event, which starts today, has an entry list of 286 competitors, representing…
Here’s a great opportunity for visitors to the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Tasmania in February to literally ‘get into the spirit’. One of the American wooden boats visiting the 2019 festival is Spirit, a monohull, six-oared Pilot Gig. Spirit…
Unfortunately, Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship had to be abandoned for the day, by Australian 18 Footers League officials today, when 25-30-knot Westerly winds, gusting to 40-knots, pounded Sydney Harbour. Earlier, the start had been delayed…
With eyes on the prize, the Swiss sailed a superb day on the water on the penultimate day of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series season finale in Los Cabos, climbing one position from their unsafe third place finish on Friday,…
Twelve of the world’s top women’s match racers started competition on Thursday in the 2018 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) Finale, hosted at the Carlos Aguilar Match Race (CAMR). After three days of racing, there are four teams…
Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina played host to the multihull prize giving for the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race. Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi70 was the winner of the Multihull Line Honours Trophy. Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay was presented with a…
inews.co.uk. By Pascale Hughes A sailor who investigated the world’s largest accumulation of marine plastic by carrying out scientific experiments on the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” in July is now inviting applications for an all-female sailing voyage and scientific research…
Maintaining control, rather than having to regain control, is a strategy that earned France’s Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team of Maëlenn Lemaître, Louise Acker and Sophie Faguet first place at the 2018 Women’s International…
Past Commodore of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) and current President of Australian Sailing Matt Allen, has on the weekend skippered his Botin-designed TP52 Ichi Ban to her fourth Blue Water Pointscore (BWPS) series win from five starts…
NZ Herald. A respected yachting commentator claims teams' preparation for the next America's Cup could be set back by up to three months due to technical difficulties, while a proposed second preliminary regatta could be scrapped altogether. Peter Montgomery told…
For the fourth time in their eight-year history of competing in the Extreme Sailing Series, Swiss team Alinghi took the championship title after a remarkable final in Los Cabos, Mexico. This feat makes them the joint most successful team ever…
Weather tested the tactical skills of the 12 international teams who raced the first full round robin’s flights 12 through 19 on the second day of racing in the 2018 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) Finale, hosted at…
Following their second place finish yesterday, Team Oman Air reached new heights on the second day of Extreme Sailing Series Los Cabos, closing the racing at the front of the seven-strong international fleet. Soaring across the sun drenched sea, the…
In a 5-10 knot building nor ‘east breeze on Sydney Harbour this morning, the 40-boat fleet packed-out boat-end at the start of the Bird Island Race, Comanche and Black Jack leading the way out of the Heads to the small…
The American team of Frankie Dair, James Jennings, Alistair Gifford and Niall Malone have won the 2018 Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta, defeating New Zealand's James Wilson 3-1 in a stellar Finals Series. This marks the first win for…
It wasn't the text book start to the Australian summer for the launch regatta of the SA Summer of Sail today, with strong northerlies of more than 25 knots forcing racing at the Adelaide Sailing Club to be postponed. With…
Jim Cooney sailed Comanche to line honours and a new record in the Bird Island Race, crossing the finish line at 04:08:27 hours on Saturday, in the time of 6hrs 8mins 27secs, just 25 minutes ahead of Peter Harburg’s Black…
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