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Radio NZ A scientific expedition in the Antarctic has set out on a quest to find Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship. The team has spent the past two weeks investigating the Larsen C Ice Shelf and the continent's biggest iceberg,…
With just three months to go before the 52nd edition of Antigua Sailing Week there is a fantastic line up of yachts entered. Well over one thousand sailors will participate, many flying in from all over the world. Thousands more…
After nearly a month of training and competition on Biscayne Bay, many of the top sailors competing in the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami have seen just about every wind condition Miami has to offer. But that doesn’t make…
The Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron has announced that the inaugural Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race for Super-Maxi, Multihull, Shorthanded, and Cruising Division fleets will be set sail from Moreton Bay on Friday, August 2, 2019. Entries are now open…
On 26th January, 26 boats crossed the line in Hong Kong’s Tai Tam Bay, marking the start of the 2019 Beneteau Four Peaks Race. Compared to the 19 entries for the 2018 edition, the event saw an increase in numbers…
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced a funding boost for marine rescue services in the state with an extra $37.6 million pledged for Marine Rescue NSW (MRNSW) over the next four years. The additional funding will more than double MRNSW’s…
Maritime Executive Workers building the new London-Birmingham high-speed railway line have unearthed the grave of the Royal Navy sailor who gave Australia its name. For 180 years the last resting place of explorer and navigator Captain Matthew Flinders has been…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede endured another tough night with 45 knot winds and 6-7m seas but his Rustler 36 Matmut is now within 100 miles of the finish line at Les Sables d'Olonne and the 73-year old Frenchman is expected…
The largest ever OK Dinghy event ever to be held outside Europe begins in just over 10 days in Auckland, New Zealand. The Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship has attracted 110 entries and is being held at Wakatere Boating Club…
Second placed Golden Globe Race skipper Mark Slats tonight is facing a time penalty for a breach of satellite communication rules, and direct outside assistance from his Dutch team manager Dick Koopmans. Slats is facing a dilemma: To run ahead…
Three days of fine-weather sailing and equally busy evenings came to a close on the Monday of the Australia Day long weekend and sailors from eight to eighty are heading home for a rest following another successful staging of the…
Miami, Florida (January 27, 2019) – Under sunny skies, an 18 knot northwesterly and 10 foot swells it was the IRC and Multihull fleets turn to start the 811 nautical mile Pineapple Cup – Montego Bay Race. At 2:05 ET…
Gusts up to 25 knots came through Geelong’s inner Corio Bay on day two of the annual Festival of Sails regatta, skittling the VX One fleet contesting the Gill VX One Australian Championship. ‘Super Sunday’ had every boat in the…
Miami, Florida: Six teams started the Pineapple Cup–Montego Bay Race at 11:05 ET today under cloudy skies in a 20 knot southerly with 5-7 foot swells, with the Class40 Dragon first across the line, followed closely by Senara and Sin…
In contrast to the almost non-existent wind, which ruined the first day's racing in the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour last Sunday, a southerly wind of more than 25-knots today provided excellent conditions for some fast, action-packed racing…
The Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race line honours contest finished in spectacularly close fashion; four grand prix boats closing in on the finish line within 200 metres of each other in the Festival of Sails’ opening event. Two start lines…
The cheer that erupted for Bay of Islands local, Chris Hornell and his crew on the TP52 Kia Kaha at the CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week prizegiving ceremony last night, was perhaps the loudest in the event’s 17 year…
The world’s leading Olympic sailors, including 34 Olympic medallists, are preparing for the second round of the Hempel World Cup Series in Miami, Florida, USA. More than 650 sailors from 60 nations are gearing up to race on the waters…
Australia’s oldest sporting event, the Festival of Sails, put on a spectacular Australia Day party in Geelong today, as the country’s biggest celebration of sailing got off to a flying start. Thousands of visitors, including competitors from around Australia and…
The 2019 World Cup Series Miami, held out of Coconut Grove from 29 to 3 February, will see nine defending champions return to Biscayne Bay determined to defend their titles. 2019 marks the 30th edition of an Olympic sailing regatta…
Wednesday 23th January marks a next major milestone in the foiling fast development of DutchSail, the brand of the movement that Simeon Tienpont (two-time winner with Team Oracle USA, three-time Volvo Ocean Race) has started by challenging Emirates Team New…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede is now within 450 nautical miles of the Golden Globe Race finish line and expected to receive a huge welcome home in Les Sables d’Olonne on Monday 28th January. The 73-year old Frenchman and his Rustler…
The elastic between Jean-Luc Van Den Heede and Mark Slats has stretched in the Frenchman’s favour over the weekend allowing him to open up a 215-mile lead over his Dutch rival. A week ago, the difference in terms of distance…
Three champions successfully defended their divisional titles, while one new 2019 Saint Moritz by Gurner Australian Yachting Championship winner was declared after Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron rolled out a full series over three days. Light sea breezes of 5-8 knots…
With just two weeks to go until the Round Martinique Regatta begins, preparations are well underway to welcome participants and spectators, with 28 boats now registered for this 33rd edition of the regatta. The official village, the race’s focal point,…
“Good racing in good breeze from the start, with no delays”, was how Regatta Chairwoman, Manuela Gmuer-Hornell, summed up the second day of racing at CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week yesterday. “People were really happy,” she continued. “The fleets…
Montego Bay, Jamaica: With an outright speed record of 2 days, 10 hours, 24 minutes and 42 seconds, set by Tom Hill’s Titan 12 in 2005, it could fall in 2019, as the crew of one of the fastest boats…
Auckland’s Anniversary Day celebrates the founding of the province. And to commemorate the day, one of the world’s single biggest one day sailing regattas takes place each year. This year, 179 years after the first one back in 1840, spectators…
The 28th Edition of the famed Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race Week expects 150 boats, and the number of racing formats has been expanded to attract an even wider array of yachts; ranging from Grand Prix teams to family-friendly…
Sailors from the Royal Selangor Yacht Club in Port Klang, just outside Kuala Lumpur, have touched down in Geelong ahead of this weekend’s Festival of Sails. The crew of four will compete in the three-day regatta for the first time,…
The Australian Team Sailing Association is proud to announce their two major regattas for 2019 are to be hosted in Tasmania – jointly by the Sandy Bay Sailing Club and The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. Sandy Bay Sailing Club…
The annual Crown Series Bellerive Regatta on the River Derwent is known among yachties as being all about Performance Handicap (PHS) yacht racing, and keelboat owners and their crews have a great weekend of fun afloat and ashore. This year,…
With just three weeks to go before SailGP's international debut, the France SailGP Team today unveiled its boat on Sydney Harbour. The new F50 catamaran is the world's fastest and most technologically advanced race boat, and will feature prominently in…
Boats contesting the 2019 Saint Moritz by Gurner Australian Yachting Championship shifted gears on day two, with the short and sharp mode for the opening windward/leeward races replaced by stamina and picking shifts during the Port Phillip passage race. Following…
Langenargen, Dusseldorf: In 133 days, the first starting gun for the 22nd Match Race Germany, to be hosted by Yacht Club Langenargen, will be fired on Germany's oldest and best known sailing classic, attended by top teams around the world….
Elite cyclists got a taste for life at sea when around 50 professionals from around the world swapped their bikes for yachts last night for a sailing challenge on Corio Bay, Geelong ahead of this weekend’s Festival of Sails. The…
Delays didn't do much to dampen spirits on day one of CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week yesterday, as in what’s becoming fairly typical of conditions at the annual regatta, racing got underway to a slow but sunny start. With…
Newport, Rhode Island: Brazil’s Torben Grael and Denmark’s Jesper Bank, who have eight Olympic sailing medals between them, will face off in the 2019 12 Metre World Championship, joining sailing royalty from around the globe for the largest-ever gathering of…
he 2019 Australian Ton Cup has been reluctantly postponed as a result of some technical issues complicating the compliance and entry requirement which then directly contributed to entries that failed to meet expectations. The Australian Ton Cup Association in conjunction…
Day one of the 2019 Saint Moritz by Gurner Australian Yachting Championships on Victoria’s Port Phillip yielded building southerlies and plenty of summer sparkle to open the three-day national series hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron. The quality fleet put…
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