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The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) have dominated the opening day of competition at the 2018 Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship with James Hodgson & Finn Tapper both remaining undefeated after the first seven flights in the Championship….
Earlier in the year, we warned yachties who intended travelling between the Gold Coast and Brisbane of two “pinch points” in the Canaipa Passage where yachts with a draft of around 1.5m were running aground at low tide. The Gold…
At the Annapolis boat show in America, Spinlock launched their new VITO lifejacket which was derived from the custom Deckvest VOR 170N lifejacket worn by Volvo Ocean Race teams. The VITO is the first lifejacket harness to include a revolutionary…
Argentinean athletes are coming to the forefront on their home waters as the breeze came to town on the third day of competition at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition. Held out of Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, the…
CHICAGO, IL (October 9, 2018): The culmination of the 2018 Farr 40 World Championship served up nail-biting competition, coming down to the final race of the event as Wolfgang Schaefer's Struntje light edged out Alex Roeper's Plenty which finished a…
The Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe “Rhum” multihull division is made up of 21 catamarans and trimarans that range in size from 39-59ft and are sailed by skippers who are almost all amateurs. The fleet includes sisterships of the first winner…
The 5500 nautical mile Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race and return journey left Annette Hesselmans still champing at the bit, so she solved the problem by forming a short-handed female crew to take part in the Melbourne to…
Titouan Petard and Kenza Coutard (FRA) struck the first win in the solitary Mixed Multihull (Nacra 15) race at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition at Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A frustrating day epitomised by light winds meant…
Four huge Laser regattas are coming to Sandringham in the summer of 2020. The Laser Class, representing the world’s largest one design Olympic boat the Laser single hander, has awarded Sandringham Yacht Club hosting rights for three ILCA Laser World…
Would you like to know more about sailing from Australia to Indonesia and SE Asia or destinations in the SW Pacific such as New Caledonia, Vanuatu & Fiji? Join the Down Under Rally Team for our “Sailing Asia and the…
CHICAGO, IL (October 8, 2018): Competitors at the Farr 40 World Championship have emphasized that consistency is key and that is what Alex Roeper's Plenty had going for them today. Day Three's racing has both Plenty and Wolfgang Schaefer's Struntje…
Whistler, one of Tasmania’s most prolific long race winners, today began another season on a winning note, taking IRC and AMS handicap honours in the Channel Race, the first event of the summer season. Traditionally run by the Royal Yacht…
CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2018): Patience paid off for Day 1 of the Farr 40 World Championship Day 1 in Chicago, Illinois. After a brief shoreside postponement, the fleet headed out for steep waves and winds of 15-20knots. The northeast…
Lisbon, Portugal (7th October, 2018) – “A full on day” quoted Race Officer Mattias Dahlström, reflecting on day four of the Regata de Portugal, hosted on the capital’s shoreline. The Quarter Final Stage concluded today, and defending Match Racing World…
In light winds, Italian and Greek windsurfers took an early advantage on the first day of racing at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition being held out of Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Girl’s and Boy’s Windsurfing fleets…
Lisbon, Portugal (7th October, 2018) – Nicklas Dackhammar and his all-Swedish Essiq Racing Team wrote their name in the history books today as they became the first name to be scratched on to the WMRT Regata de Portugal Trophy, a…
David Yaffa, proprietor of Yaffa Media, publisher of Cruising Helmsman magazine and the Mysailing website, has died aged 84. A staunchly independent and passionate publisher, he built an empire of more than 30 business and consumer magazines and websites, becoming…
Issued: Monday, 8 October 2018 The Bureau of Meteorology is advising residents in Australia's northern coastal regions to prepare for the potential impacts of tropical cyclones. The advice comes with today's release of the 2018-19 Tropical Cyclone Outlook. The outlook…
This weekend, for the first time, the Australian Schools Match Racing Championship was held on Sydney Harbour. An inconsistent storming southerly breeze ranging from 8-28 knots made for some fast paced sailing for the eight schools competing at the Cruising…
CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2018): The point spread grew at the top of the Farr 40 World Championship leaderboard on Day Two with Enfant Terrible finishing at the front of the fleet while Plenty fell to third. Three races were…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede reached the BoatShed.com Hobart film gate at 07:30 local time on Saturday (21:30 UTC Friday) to drop film and letters before heading out of Storm Bay to resume his lead in the Golden Globe Race. The…
The third Youth Olympic Games, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 6-18 October 2018, will welcome 100 sailors from 44 different nations. Five sailing events will take place at Club Náutico San Isidro in the Argentine capital, including…
Chicago, USA: Alex Roepers is extremely proud of each and every one of the three world championships he's captured as an owner-driver within the prestigious Farr 40 Class Association and he is hoping to make it four at these Worlds….
The best young sailors in the country will converge on the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) next week 8-12 October for the annual Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship (Sharp AYMRC). The Championship, which began in 2001 with the…
New teams, existing teams, and a return of some of the world’s best 18ft skiff sailors of the past decade, will highlight the Australian 18 Footers League’s exciting 2018-2019 Season, which begins on Sydney Harbour, on Sunday, 14 October. The…
Accessible to interested teams since 1st October, the preliminary version of the Sailing Instructions for the next crewed round the world race with stopovers (previously known as the Volvo Ocean Race) has given us an insight into this event, which…
Off the back of another hugely successful sailing season in both Australia and around the world, athletes, clubs, officials and contributors will be honoured at the 2018 Australian Sailing Awards and Hall of Fame Induction dinner at Doltone House in…
At 6pm Friday, Tasmanian time, French Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede was 40 miles from the BoatShed.com film gate at Hobart, Tasmania, his Rustler 36 Matmut making 3.7 knots. The 73-year old skipper is expected to sail in to…
Famous America’s Cup challenger Gretel II, now based in Hobart, will return to racing on Sunday in the Channel Race, a 30 nautical mile day race from Hobart down the River Derwent to Bligh Point in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and…
Royal Brighton Yacht Club (RBYC), one of the premier yacht clubs on Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, is extremely proud to announce it is to host the 2019 Finn Gold Cup from 13–21 December 2019. RBYC, working alongside Sail Melbourne and…
Some of the most attractive boats from the classic yachting circuit gathered again on the waters of Saint Tropez to fight for the 8th edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy, the only sailing trophy reserved to 100 years…
They say if you love something you should set it free, and if it comes back it’s yours – and so it happened with Bob Steel and Quest – the valuable TP52 has changed hands backwards and forwards between ‘The…
Hobart’s Friends School has been beaten by just two points in the Interdominion Schools Team Sailing Championships in New Zealand, losing to fellow Australian school, Westminister from Adelaide. The winner of the open division was decided on the final race…
Today marks one month to go until the start of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. On November 4, 124 skippers will be leaving St Malo in Brittany to take on the 3,542-nautical mile course to Point-à-Pitre on the French Caribbean…
CHICAGO – Alex Roepers is extremely proud of each and every one of the three world championships he's captured as an owner-driver within the prestigious Farr 40 Class Association. If Roepers and his top-notch team aboard Plenty can secure another…
The Kiwi Flying Phantom team, Hamilton Huas, helmed by Isaac McHardie and crewed by Tokyo 2020 hopeful Micah Wilkinson, will go down in history as the winner of the first ever Flying Phantom event in China and the Far East….
LONDON – SailGP today set out to redefine sailing with the launch of its new global racing league: five grand prix events featuring six national teams on identical wingsailed F50s – claimed to be the world’s fastest, most technologically advanced…
On October 27, the research schooner Tara will return to her home port in Lorient, Brittany (France), after collecting over 36,000 samples on coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean and sailing more than 100,000 km. The Tara Pacific mission,…
From 80 years of optical performance and innovation, MINOX produces marine binoculars that are precision engineered in Germany and now distributed in Australia by MarinePlus. The Nautic marine binoculars are the latest edition to the range of MINOX Optics, and…
The International Laser Class Association is surprised and disappointed by the announcement today that the World Sailing Board has recommended to select new equipment to replace the Laser and Laser Radial Classes for the one-person dinghy events in the 2024…
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