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Annette Hesselmans is to be guest speaker at Royal Brighton Yacht Club in Victoria ahead of the Brighton Ladies Skippers Series (BLiSS) in the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series (PPWCS) on the evening of 22 February – and she offers…
The 2019 RORC Caribbean 600 kicked off in spectacular conditions off the south coast of Antigua with the magnificent fleet starting the 600 mile non-stop offshore race in bright sunshine, full-on gusting tradewinds and two-metre high waves. The 11th edition…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (February 16, 2019) – Racing got started on time this morning in beautiful conditions for the second day of racing in the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta St. Petersburg, held out of the St….
The Asko Appliances team of James Dorron, Harry Bethwaite and Trent Barnabas became the 2018-2019 Australian 18ft Skiff champions after a wonderful day of action-packed racing on Sydney Harbour today. Going into today's final two races, only four points separated…
The coral and fishing might not have quite lived up to the expectations of some crew, but all 27 participants from 13 yachts that participated in the inaugural Andaman Islands Yacht carnival, 20th February to 21st March, agreed the whole…
Boat owners are aware of the need to carry regulation safety gear on their vessels. Authorities have strict regulations as to what is required when going cruising. So, what do the powers-that-be want? In Queensland, where I live: an emergency…
Over sundowners one evening a topic of discussion debated the safety of gas stoves versus kerosene stoves on board. Of course, one could argue the negatives and positives of both. Helmet and Cornelius, aboard Panta Rai, had a kerosene stove…
The starter’s gun fired and we were off and racing from Thursday Island with the next stop Tual in the Kai Islands, Indonesia. Well, really, there was no starter’s gun or a race for that matter but, get a group…
Royal Yacht Club of Victoria member, Clare Olding, has skippered Vertigo to an overall win in Race 3 of the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series sailed in light air on Port Phillip today. The Women in Sailing Challenge (WISC), hosted…
Dan Slater has won the 2019 Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship at Wakatere Boating Club after a challenging final day of racing with at first light winds, then breezy conditions, but always difficult and shifty. Fredrik Lööf almost did enough…
He was one of the stand-out figures in the 2016 Vendée Globe, and the first Asian competitor to take part in the headline event on the IMOCA circuit, but Kojiro Shiraishi was forced to retire after dismasting. The Japanese sailor…
The second day of the inaugural SailGP on Sydney Harbour was sailed in light conditions, with just 10 knots of easterly as the six boats made their way out to the start line. However, as we saw yesterday, this is…
Latest Mooloolaba Entrance Information Department of Transport and Main Roads – Maritime Safety Queensland NOTICE TO MARINERS 065 (T) of 2019 Issued by Brisbane Maritime Region on 13 February 2019 Area: Brisbane pilotage area Locality: Mooloolah River Bar Activity: Shoaling…
St. Petersburg, Florida: The first day of racing for the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta St. Petersburg had a late start, due to a postponement for light winds in the morning, with racing underway by 1:30, allowing…
The 2019 Historic 18 Footer Australian Championship for the Galloping Ghost Trophy was conducted by the Sydney Flying Squadron in conjunction with the Australian Historical Sailing Skiff Association (AHSSA), on Sydney Harbour over 3 races on 19 January, 1 and…
Australia's most in-form racing yacht has ticked another offshore win off the list with a line honours, and expected overall handicap win, in this year's Teakle Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race. Matt Allen and his team on Ichi…
Dan Slater has extended his lead to 11 points on the penultimate day of the Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship at Wakatere Boating Club in Auckland. He takes an 11-point lead into the final day from Fredrik Lööf. Andrew Phillips…
'A little bit crazy' is the Spanish translation for Poco Loco, the name of Dan Haynes' 30-foot racing yacht that neatly describes him and his crew. Skipper Haynes and his seven crew are getting set for the boat's first offshore…
Auckland, New Zealand – 15th February 2019 In late August 2012, a grainy photo of a boat emerged online. Most hardened America’s Cup followers will clearly remember the image that was the talk of the sailing world for many weeks….
One of the highlights of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2018-2019 season has been the emergence of a young The Kitchen Maker-Caesarstone team as a leading contender for the top honours in the major championships on Sydney Harbour. Skipper Jordan…
There was good news for skippers, organisers and spectators on the opening day of the inaugural SailGP. The wind, which had proved elusive during the practice races, finally appeared on Sydney Harbour. The sun was shining as the six national…
There has been good and bad news from Golden Globe Race's third-placed Uku Randmaa and his Rustler 36 One and All. Now within 2,500 miles of the Les Sables d’Olonne finish line, the Estonian skipper has solved his immediate hunger…
USA and Ireland, 13 February 2019 – White Seahorse Publishing is pleased to announce the third, expanded edition of the best-selling book on boat anchoring, “Happy Hooking – the Art of Anchoring”. Receiving consistent five-star reviews from verified purchasers on…
Seventy-eight yachts have entered the eleventh edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, where in excess of 700 sailors from six continents and yachts from over 20 nations will compete in the thrilling race around 11 Caribbean islands starting on Monday…
The Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 and the icebreaker S.A. Agulhas II have reached the last known location of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated ship, the Endurance, which was crushed by the ice and sunk in 1915. According to the director of the…
SailGP was launched at Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron this morning, ahead of two days of what should be spectacular racing between six boats and six nations, if the training sessions are anything to go by. Sydney Harbour is set to…
Picking a winner in the new SailGP series, which starts tomorrow on Sydney Harbour, is a fool's game. At least, that's the concensus after watching the final practice races and speaking with the skippers. Not only are the boats very…
Olympians Dan Slater and Fredrik Lööf took the race wins on the third day of the 2019 Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship at Wakatere Boating Club, in Auckland, after two more races in a very shifty offshore breeze. Josh Armit…
The GC32 Class sets sail into 2019 with a circuit stronger than ever thanks to its teams consolidating on one circuit, the GC32 Racing Tour. For its sixth season, the five event series for ultra-high performance one design catamarans will…
SAN FRANCISCO – February 12, 2019 – SailGP today released a next generation mobile application as advanced as the supercharged F50 boats taking flight this week on Sydney Harbour. Fans will be in full control of the way they consume…
Scientists at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) have updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM) ahead of schedule due to unexpected shifts in the Earth's magnetic fields in the Arctic. Typically a new WMM is released every five years…
For sailors wanting to stay warm, dry and active in the same clothes day in, day out, Zhik’s new HydroMerino base layer is designed to do just that. This unique fusion of two fabrics creates a highly durable, high performance,…
Two of keel boat sailing’s biggest names are set for one of the most anticipated Teakle Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Races in recent memory, as the nation’s two best yachts get set to cross the St Vincent and…
Seventeen year old Josh Armit has taken the joint lead at the 2019 Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship at Wakatere Boating Club in Auckland after emerging from the second day of racing with the lowest points of any of the…
LOS ANGELES, CA – In a record year of interest, it's perhaps fitting that the 100th entry to the 50th edition of the Transpacific Yacht Club's biennial 2225-mile Transpac race from LA to Honolulu is at 55-years-old one of the…
The Kitchen Maker-Caesarstone and Bing Lee teams shared the spoils of victory in the two races sailed on Day 4 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship, on Sydney Harbour today, but Asko Appliances holds the barest of leads going into…
The Round Martinique Regatta Crédit Mutuel AG long round the island coastal race got off in the early hours of Saturday. The Racing and Surprise fleets set off from the Fort de France Bay at 0400 hrs under the cover…
Tasmania’s (possibly Australia’s) oldest ocean yacht race, the Bruny Island Race, is never without its challenges and this weekend’s 93rd event run by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania proved no exception to the rule. In the 93 races run…
Over six races Neville Crichton’s Maserati posted enough low point scores to claim the top trophy at the opening act of the MC38’s 2019 season, which drew the maximum Sydney fleet of nine active boats. Racing got underway on Sunday…
Kiwi sailors filled the top three places in the only race sailed on the opening day of the 2019 Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship at Wakatere Boating Club in Auckland, New Zealand. Andrew Phillips led all the way to win…
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