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Tasmania’s fastest ocean racing yacht, Oskana, has taken line honours for the second consecutive year in Tasmania’s oldest inshore/offshore yacht race, the 89 nautical mile JJ Richards Bruny Island Race. The Cookson 50, owned and skippered by prominent Targa Tasmania…
Los Angeles, California: The Transpacific Yacht Club and Archipelagoes Tahiti are pleased to announce their plans to organise the 16th edition of the Transpac Tahiti Race in late May 2020. This is one of the world's longest classic ocean races,…
One of the most enthusiastic 18ft skiff sailors around must be California-based Katie Love, who is presently spending the 2018-2019 Australian summer as skipper of the Panasonic Lumix-sponsored boat in the Australian 18 Footers League fleet on Sydney Harbour. Like…
Following a consistent regatta, class veterans Heather Macfarlane and Chris Payne, sailing Not Your Average Rockstars, have taken out their third Fireball Nationals with one race still to be sailed. After kicking off the event with two wins, the Victorian…
The Australian Wooden Boat Festival, the largest gathering of wooden boats in the Southern Hemisphere, opened on Hobart’s River Derwent and the port city’s historic waterfront today. A huge event, it continues over the Royal Hobart Regatta long weekend with…
Palma, Spain: The 16 edition of Sail Racing PalmaVela, organised by the Real Club Náutico de Palma, has kicked off with the publication of the Notice of Race and the pre-registration of the first 31 boats representing nine nations. The…
While mixed two-handed offshore racing is set to be a new Olympic discipline for Paris 2024, closer to home and more immediately, the Royal Ocean Racing Club continues to see a surge in double-handed participation in its events. Last month,…
For the fifth time since the inaugural Hardy Cup Sydney International Match Racing Regatta in 2001, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s match racing prowess proved unrivalled on Sydney Harbour. In a classic Sydney summer sea breeze gusting to 20…
Shortly after arriving into Fremantle on Wednesday morning (French time) Yann Guichard, the skipper of Spindrift 2, spoke about the situation that led to the team’s retirement from their Jules Verne Trophy record attempt, following the breakage of the boat’s…
With the announcement that Banque Populaire is working alongside Clarisse Crémer, there are now five women hoping to take part in the next Vendée Globe, as she will be joining Sam Davies, Isabelle Joschke, Alexia Barrier and the British sailor,…
For those people turning up today to Hobart it would be a bit disconcerting to see the famous Constitution Dock empty of wooden yachts. On the day prior to the Wooden Boat Festival the idea is that all boats due…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Feb. 6, 2019) — A sterling collection of past champions that also includes the top three skippers in the World Match Race Rankings, the reigning Open, Women’s and Youth World champions and the America’s Cup Challenger of Record…
The NSW state government has confirmed that work on dredging the entrance to Batemans Bay will undertaken “in the coming months”, starting with a hydrographic survey which is expected to be completed in February, weather permitting, to help determine the…
Ocean Guardian, the company behind the development of the Shark Shield deterrent technology, has unveiled a prototype of a system designed for use with boats and jetties. To date, the technology, billed as the world’s only scientifically proven and independently…
Australian Sailing has announced the 2019 Australian Youth Team after a successful conclusion of the final qualifying event, the Australian Youth Championships in Hobart earlier this month. The athletes selected in the team will go on to represent Australia at…
The Awards Sub-committee received an outstanding range of suggestions, resulting in very worthy winners in all categories. They are: THE BARTON CUP – Bill Hatfield, L'Eau CommotionFor his recently-completed westabout circumnavigation south of the three Great Capes, which included a…
The Scotsman. By Alison Campsie. The boat was en-route to Jamaica and New Orleans when it crashed off a tiny Scottish island, unleashing 28,000 cases of whisky, several barrels of bank notes – and a story that has endured to…
With seven out of 10 races completed and a lay day today (Thursday), it's all to play for in the 2019 Fireball Nationals, hosted by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. After kicking off the regatta with wins in the opening…
Crews practice sail changes and gybes often before competing in an offshore race but very rarely practice what to do in a medical emergency. It's something Dr Dave Austin is trying to change. The medical practitioner and keen sailor put…
Up until last weekend, Honda Marine had dominated 18-foot skiff racing for some time but were knocked off their perch at the New Zealand championships by a crew who have designs on doing the same thing at March's JJ Giltinans. The…
BANDIT, the first boat built by Sir Peter Blake more than 50 years ago, has been restored to its former glory and is now permanently on display at the New Zealand Maritime Museum. Sir Peter, then 17, and his brother…
The 42nd 125 Australian Championships were held by Humpybong Yacht Club, Queensland, between the 29th of December 2018 and the 4th of January 2019. Eighteen entries from Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland contested the highly competitive regatta which…
SYDNEY – February 6, 2019 – Sydney Harbour was awash with colour today as the revolutionary SailGP F50s of Australia, China, Great Britain, France, Japan and the United States lined up on the water together for the first time just…
It was the night before the start of Hobart's 2019 Wooden Boat festival and all, currently, appears quiet. The Parade of Sail will be held tomorrow (Friday) and the famed Constitution Dock and surrounding areas will be filled with a…
At the mid-way point in the Hardy Cup match racing regatta, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s team skippered by Nick Egnot-Johnson leads the international field of 11 teams. The last time a New Zealand team left Aussie shores with…
The Sun, by Jon Rogers A BRITISH sailor who was missing at sea for six days has been found “safe and well.” Robin Davie, 67, was due to return home to Falmouth, Cornwall on Tuesday after a 300 mile solo…
There were a few tricks thrown up on the second day of the Fireball Nationals at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club yesterday, however Heather Macfarlane and Chris Payne still hold a slender lead. With shifty and overcast conditions it made…
For the first time in the fifty year history of the class, an all girl crew has taken out the Open Australian Championship in the competitive Flying 11 class. Zoe Dransfield and Pearl Twomey, sailing ‘Nomad’, are the new Australian…
High profile Queensland sailor Stacey Jackson and Jade Cole, a Victorian sailor making a name for herself in the sport, are guest speakers this Wednesday evening, 6 February, ahead of the Women in Sailing Challenge, the second race of the…
Last year’s OK Dinghy world championship bronze medalist, Jan Kurfeld, from Germany, has opened his challenge for this year’s world title fight with a win at the 2019 New Zealand National Championship after two very different days on the Hauraki…
The semi-finals of the Warren Jones Regatta started in 8-10knots on a short race course with many spectator boats making for interesting obstacles. The semi finals were a first to two format with the winners racing each other in the…
As Jean-Luc Van Den Heede and Mark Slats struggle to come to terms with life ashore, a race is developing for the final podium position between Estonian Uku Randmaa and the US/Hungarian Istvan Kopar. While Randmaa and his Rustler 36…
Correctly calling first shift is great. Plenty of sailing races have been won by the person or team who anticipates the first wobble in the breeze and positions correctly to best take advantage of it. But sometimes, it’s the last…
Excitement is mounting on Hobart’s picturesque waterfront as the necessary infrastructure building commences and boats from as far away as the USA begin to arrive for the 2019 MyState Bank Australian Wooden Boat Festival which opens on Friday 8 February….
The Smeg team of Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Mike McKensey showed their class in the 17-20-knot North-East wind when they scored a spectacular win in Race 5 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Smeg held…
The Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary new F50 set sail on Sydney Harbour for the first time on the weekend, as the two-week countdown to SailGP’s inaugural event begins. The practice session was the first opportunity for the Australia SailGP Team,…
Tom and Alan Quick’s Outlaw had a spectacular day on the water scoring 1-2-1-2 holding onto their lead from yesterday to win the 2019 Farr 40 NSW State title. Four races took place today and the course was set from…
49erFX The stage was set for an action packed first race of the day. Alex Maloney with Molly Meech (NZL) had a commanding but catchable lead ahead of two chasers, Martine Grael with Kahena Kunze (BRA) and Charlotte Dobson with…
One of the strongest Fireball fleets in a number of years will do battle this week on Corio Bay, Geelong as racing for the 2019 National Championship kicks off today. Hosted by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club, the 26-boat fleet…
The 11th edition of the NZ Millennium Cup has ended in the 28-metre ketch, Tawera, winning the world’s most southerly superyacht regatta. “There’s a special feel to this regatta,” race officer of the day, Harold Bennett, said. “The amazing sense…
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