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Day 71: Dateline 10.9.2018 – Les Sables d’Olonne, France As Jean-Luc Van Den Heede continues to set the pace across the South Indian Ocean, fellow Frenchman Loïc Lepage docked his Nicholson 32 Laaland in Cape Town, and Finland’s Tapio Lehtinen…
World Sailing and 11th Hour Racing are pleased to announce that a prize of $10,000 USD will be awarded to each winner of the World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award over the next three years to fund their sustainability…
Winter racing on Hobart’s River Derwent for 2018 has ended with a day of exhilarating sailing in a 20 knot west-nor’-wester, gusting to 34 knots. Each of Hobart’s three major club runs a five-race series although the Derwent Sailing Squadron…
Adding two further race wins to his tally, Australia’s Brett Beyer continued to dominate the Standard rig Master class at the Laser Masters World Championships sponsored by DLR on Dublin Bay on Monday (10th September 2018). Despite a shifting breeze…
A French sailor has been rescued from off the East Yorkshire coast after getting into trouble while sailing across the North Sea, reports Dan Kemp for Hull Live. The solo yachtsman was heading down the east coast when the RNLI…
Stuff.co.nz A second Italian challenge for the America's Cup has emerged with Columbus 2021 promising a different approach for the Auckland regatta. Italian media outlets report that the latest challenge will come from the Yacht Club Imperia on the country's north-western coast. It…
Dublin Bay served up a robust opening day to the Laser Masters World Championships sponsored by DLR for the 302 entries from 25 countries that nevertheless enjoyed the planned race programme of two races. Defying winds gusting from 20…
San Francisco (USA) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands), September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, today launched the world’s first ocean cleanup system from San Francisco Bay. The…
Refueling your boat at home is rarely a problem; there are plenty of jetties, fuel barges and marina dock fuel points to choose from, all selling fresh clean fuel. Cruising overseas, however, can be another story. During our travels through…
Multihull Solutions has announced a special offer to boat sellers with three months’ free hardstand on new listings at its successful Out-Of-Water Boat Show on the Gold Coast. The deal presents an opportunity for boat sellers to save money while…
Nineteen of Australia’s top performance sailors will get a valuable taste of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venue when racing starts at the first official Olympic Test Event on Tuesday. Six of the nation’s seven sailors to win medals at the…
The 2019 edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race will start on Saturday 3rd August 2019, which is two weeks earlier than the original published date. Unusually, the race will now run the week before Lendy Cowes Week, whose dates remain…
Porto Cervo, Italy: The 29th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Rolex Maxi 72 Class World Championship, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with the International Maxi Association and title sponsor Rolex, has concluded. Forty-one…
Porto Cervo, Italy: On the penultimate day of racing a Mistral wind blowing at up to 20 knots provided fantastic racing for the entire fleet of more than 40 boats enrolled in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Rolex Maxi…
Grand Prix Yacht Racing in the Solent UK at the Wight Shipyard One Ton Cup, with carbon fibre race boats driven by famous owner/drivers and top class crew from the world of sailing, is to be held from 13-16 September,…
Double Bay Sailing Club is hosting a Women's Laser Regatta throughout this weekend, featuring multiple Olympians such as Karyn Gojnich and Krystal Weir. A regatta run by women, coached by women, and competed in by women of all ages and…
A star-studded fleet of 301 competitors from 25 countries will begin competition on Dublin Bay this weekend (Saturday 8th September 2018) as the annual Laser Masters World Championships sponsored by DLR gets underway. Olympians, multiple world champions and local talent…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 6 August 2018. The fourth day of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup & Rolex Maxi 72 World Championship, an event organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with the support of the International Maxi Association and title…
Things keep going forward nicely for Ocean Crusaders, and 2019 is shaping up as an even bigger year again. Things really kicked off when we joined forces with Cleanwater Group in our Yarra River Blitz (Melbourne in April). With a…
Apsu, the company that engineered a unique multivitamin formula for athletes and active people, has announced that it is relaunching its product in new plastic-free packaging and with a revised formula. The new formula still supports the same four core…
Melbourne's Albert Sailing Club celebrates its 70th year anniversary in September. The club was formed as a dinghy sailing club in September 1948 in the sail loft of the Jolly Roger Boatshed and Sailing School which was operated by successive…
In their first showing at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, David Fuller’s Vamp has won the Around the Island Race from Miss Scarlet and two-time Sydney Hobart winner, Balance, once again avoiding all the holes in the course that the…
We all dream of cruising to amazing remote locations, to take in the scenery and enjoy the serenity that comes with being far removed from the pressures of the modern world. From the ice and snow of the polar regions…
Paul Clitheroe finally got the ‘Balance’ right today – missed all the holes to win the final race in IRC at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week today. But it was David Fuller’s Vamp, which already had the series stitched up…
Are Wiig, the Norwegian GGR skipper dismasted eight days ago after his OE 32 Olleanna was rolled through 360° in the Southern Ocean, arrived in Cape Town at 21:06 UTC on Sunday, having sailed the 400 miles under jury rig…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 3 September, 2018. The first day of the 29th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup & Maxi 72 Rolex World Championship, organised by the YCCS with the support of the IMA and the collaboration of title…
Hobart amateur sailors Elliott Noye, Paul McCartney and Edward Snowball have finished second overall and winner of the Corinthian trophy at the SB20 sportsboat European championship which finished in Ireland today. Sailing Porco Rosso, Noye (a builder), McCartney, (an eye…
A dog owner thought he would never see his best mate again after the pooch fell overboard during a storm off the Florida coast, but he was shocked when the dog turned up alive the next day. Shane Hale and…
Racing took a backseat at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week yesterday, as competitors got into the Father’s Day fun on Lay Day, including the popular Rotary Beer Can Regatta, mud crab races, the Artisan markets and more at beautiful Picnic…
The 2018 America's Cup Hall of Fame honored Syd Fischer, John Marshall, Ken McAlpine and Doug Peterson (dec.) at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK on the evening of August 31st. Syd Fischer Australia’s Syd Fischer…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Olivia Price, Rachel Bower, Emma May, Tara Blanc-Ramos and Wallis Brewer have won the CYCA Women’s Match Racing Regatta for 2018, defeating New Zealand’s Celia Willison in a white-wash Finals series, 3-0 on a…
A delay ashore as race officials waited for the wind to fill in – and finally competitors heard the sound signal they were waiting on – and racing got underway in a light breeze at 12.40pm at SeaLink Magnetic Island…
Marseille, France: “I just want to get out there and beat the boys,” said Vilma Bobeck of Sweden this morning as leader of the 49erFX World Championship, and second overall in the open 49er Class Championship. Unfortunately for her and…
Today was another fierce test for the 49erFX and 49er Gold fleets which were first up on the schedule. With the mistral forecast, everyone knew the tough conditions were coming; it was just a matter of when. One race was…
Sydney, Australia: Last night, Multihull Central, in partnership with Pacific Sailing School, hosted the first introductory session on the RYA accredited training programs, including Competent Crew and Day Skipper courses to be run on board catamarans, launching a dedicated RYA…
On the day that the America's Cup race course and event dates were announced in Cowes, Isle of Wight, where the Cup began back in 1851, INEOS Team UK the British Challenger for the 36th America's Cup also released the…
Ondrej Teply, from Czech Republic, has won the 2018 U23 Finn World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Silver Cup after no more racing was possible on the final day in Koper, Slovenia. Joan Cardona, from Spain, took the silver while…
The America’s Cup community from around the world gathered in Cowes today for the first opportunity to meet the teams entered in the 36th edition and hear about what lies ahead including two milestone announcements made by Emirates Team New…
The first morning of spring is truly living up to expectation at Magnetic Island this morning as yachties prepare for a new race at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, the Strand Bay Race, which will give the people of Townsville…
The weather played havoc with plans to sail a Strand Bay Race at Townsville Yacht Club’s SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week today, but Principal Race Officer Denis Thompson and his team had a trick or two up their sleeves, and…
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