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Gordon Maguire, 57 years old, hails from Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in Lake Macquarie, Australia. He has been a professional sailor for 32 years. Gordon has competed in five Whitbread/Volvo Ocean Race Round the World races. He has also…
The competition will be fierce on the water in the Youth Division of the 2018 SB20 Australian Championship which gets underway on the River Derwent in Hobart today. There are five youth entries in the championship and they will be…
The sea-filled volcanic crater that is today the Charlotte Amalie harbour is picture postcard famous for its lush green mountains rising to over 1500-feet high. It is this topography that created a continual curve ball of wind shifts that challenged…
The period for late entries for the 36th America’s Cup officially closed today, the 30th November 2018. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand can confirm there have been an additional eight Notices of Challenge received…
The leading multihulls are now approximately halfway along the course in the RORC Transatlantic Race having already sailed 1,700 miles. Conversely, the smaller boats have only covered between 500 and 600 nautical miles and still have around 2,500 miles to…
The latest edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in Alicante, Spain in October 2017 and finished in The Hague in the Netherlands in June 2018, will be remembered as the closest in race history, as well as a…
It was a mammoth opening day at the 2018 Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta with the entire round robin completed with the United States of America, New Zealand and Australia ending the round tied on 9 points. With a…
29 November 2018 – Australia’s SailGP Team boat has been revealed for the first time today as the crew, led by skipper and Olympic gold medallist Tom Slingsby, tests the revolutionary new F50 off the coast of New Zealand’s Northland…
The volunteer crew from Crosshaven were requested to launch their inshore lifeboat at 5.20pm this evening to reports of a person shouting for help at Drakes Pool, a mile upriver from the lifeboat station. On arrival, it was found the…
Around 4:00 PM Friday afternoon Morgan County Rescue Squad along with several other Public Safety Agencies responded to a boater in distress. The operator of the boat had been hunting and was returning to Ingalls Harbor when the high winds…
Adelaide waters will show a sea of sails this summer as the successful SA Summer of Sail Festival returns, with a number of sailing events once again descending on South Australia for their national titles or major events. First taking…
Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD 70 PowerPlay have pulled the trigger, launching into the trade winds during the third night at sea in the RORC Transatlantic Race. It will be a wet and wild ride on…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race promises to be another pot boiler, with one of the strongest-ever fleets chasing line honours and the overall win to secure the Tattersall Cup. A fleet of 91…
The battle between the multihulls has entered another phase, with both Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay crossing the rhumb line at sundown on day two. As dawn broke on the third day of the RORC…
Now in its 39th year, the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta celebrates world-class racing over four days, with some of the most seasoned sailors, from countries all over the globe. This year there will be a new class specifically for boats…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede led the Golden Globe Race fleet of solo sailors round Cape Horn at 19:16 UTC on Friday having extended his lead on all but second placed Dutchman Mark Slats during a week when those trailing up…
The Irish Times. By Barry Roche. An RNLI volunteer honoured for his part in the rescue of 30 students when a sailing ship sank off the west Cork coast has been jailed for seven years after he admitted distributing and…
After two days of competitive racing, Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s (MHYC) annual Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) wound up this afternoon in pleasant conditions on a beautiful spring day and winners were announced at the Club early this evening….
The experienced Yandoo team of John Winning, Seve Jarvin and Mike Kennedy won a dramatic Race 1 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Hatbour today. Yandoo took out the race by1m32s from the young The Kitchen Maker-Caesarstone…
The late Elson Kiddle, skilled yachtsman and good friend to so many in the Hobart yachting fraternity, would have been delighted by the performance yesterday of Intrigue, the yacht on which he sailed most of his life. Intrigue, skippered by…
Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD 70 PowerPlay have been swapping the multihull lead right from the start. On the first day, the duo headed northwest, tacking southwest in unison, 73 miles above the rhumb line. A…
Cruisers, racers, and multihulls; sleek ocean racing machines, alongside comfortable family cruisers; superyachts with professional crews, and excited couples living the dream – these were the boats and sailors departing Las Palmas de Gran Canaria today to start the 33rd…
Setting out to work with two Volvo Ocean Race teams was always going to be a challenge for Zhik's first official involvement with the race. Yet, it was the pinnacle opportunity to put the company's ocean yachting range to the…
On a perfect sunny Sunday afternoon off Pointe-à-Pitre, the French sailing hero Loïck Peyron completed his personal tribute to transatlantic racing pioneers Mike Birch and Eric Tabarly when he brought his small yellow trimaran, Happy, through the finish line of…
Melbourne, Australia – Ronstan's range of sailing watches are popular with sailors everywhere, whether on single-handed dinghies or fully-crewed keelboats. And it’s easy to see why – you’ll love the extra large digits that make it easy to see the…
Finnish sailor Ari Huusela crossed the finish line of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race this morning to take 11th place in the IMOCA division. Huusela, who is a career airline pilot with Finnair, completed the 3,542-nautical mile…
The damaged rig on race leader, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s yacht Matmut, has weathered two more southern ocean storms during the past week, and the 73-year old Frenchman is now within 400 miles of Cape Horn. He is on course…
The Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta, Australia’s premier match racing event, will take centre stage on beautiful Sydney Harbour once again this year from 27-30 November, with some of the best youth match racers from across the country and…
The Australian 18ft skiff teams' campaigns to retrieve the JJ Giltinan Trophy, won by New Zealand's Honda Marine earlier this year, begins on Sunday when 18 of Australia's best skiff crews line up for the first race of the 2018-2019…
Emirates Team New Zealand’s Glenn Ashby has won his 10th A-Class Catamaran World Championship in Hervey Bay, Queensland today comfortably taking out the event by 9 points over second placed Dutchman Mischa Heemskerk (18 points) Emirates Team New Zealand team…
In a race full of twists and turns, at the end of the Route du Rhum Paul Meilhat achieved his first major solo victory, and after a short rest, analysed his race and that of his rivals too. Meilhat also…
Jean-Luc Van den Heede, the 73-year old French sailor leading the Golden Globe Race on his Rustler 36 yacht Matmut, is set to round Cape Horn at approx. 20:00 UTC tonight. Seventeen solo sailors set out from Les Sables d’Olonne…
The 5th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race in association with the International Maxi Association, will start from Marina Lanzarote at 1200 UTC on Saturday 24 November 2018. Two record-breaking trimarans will go head-to-head in a 3,000 nautical mile match…
Lisa Blair is attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate Australia solo, non-stop and unassisted. She is currently off Coral Bay on the Western Australian coast after being forced into a long tack offshore owing to headwinds. Here is…
TANJUNG TOKONG, PENANG (21 November 2018) – The RMSIR race office was notified of an emergency situation which occurred around 2.30pm during today’s inshore races for the 2018 Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR). Steve Lonie, a crewmember on the…
As he finished third in the highly competitive Class40 division of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race, British skipper Phil Sharp did all he could to hide his feelings. The smiles and jokes with the media and VIPs…
21 NOVEMBER 2018 (Sydney, Australia) – In a bid to encourage stronger female representation in Australian sailing, and to promote ocean health and sustainability, an all-female professional crew to enter the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has announced its campaign…
22 November 2018 SYDNEY– Tickets for the inaugural SailGP Sydney Grand Prix go on sale today, with Australian sports and lifestyle lovers able to secure their spot on spectacular Sydney Harbour for the thrilling racing event on 15-16 February 2019….
A strong contingent of Brisbane and Sunshine Coast vessels will be heading down the coast to Southport to join the celebrations of the Gold Coast’s 10th Anniversary Sail Paradise Series. Held at the Southport Yacht Club, skippers are entering fast…
The WASZP class continues to take off around the world and Sail Melbourne International is no exception. The exciting one-design foiler class will set Port Phillip alight with some great sailing action for both sailors and spectators alike when racing…
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