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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…
Two days into the third week of the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, Pointe-à-Pitre was able to celebrate two great winners in the Rhum Multi class and in the hotly-fought Class40 division of the 3,542-nautical mile solo transatlantic race. In…
The Ronstan 2019 International Finn Australian Championship will take place at Black Rock Yacht Club, on Port Phillip, from 7-12 January. It will mark the beginning of a busy year for the Australian class with a large fleet expected to…
SailGP today introduced the sixth and final team for season one of its new global racing league, the Japan SailGP Team – a world-class crew combining three of Japan’s most talented sailors with three international foiling catamaran veterans. The Japan…
The damaged rig on Golden Globe 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…
And it all started out so calmly. On day that initially promised so little at first, it ended with a bit of a bang as the day’s three act drama unfolded in a building wind from the North. Both Classic…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone Team New Zealand's build of their first foiling monohull for the 2021 America's Cup is under way. Dan Bernasconi, head of design at Emirates Team New Zealand, confirmed there was progress being made on the 75…
Lisa Blair is attemtping to become the first woman to circumnavigate Australia solo, non-stop and unassisted. On Tuesday November 20 she was off the coast of Western Australia, not far from Karratha. Here is her latest blog: Well, I have…
Not one but two new Australian-owned TP52s will make for a thrilling battle in the Rating Series at the 2019 Festival of Sails conducted annually on the Australia Day long weekend by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. Numbers in the…
With the 12 foot skiff Upper Harbour and Parramatta Championships done and dusted, all skiffies focus is on the Your Move Conveyancing NSW Championship to start on Sydney Harbour later this month – and the all-important Interdominion in January. In…
Racing started today in earnest at the ‘A’ Class Worlds on the beautiful warm waters and beaches of Hervey Bay in Australia, following the cancellation of yesterday’s racing after all the fleet had arrived at the race areas. The weather was…
Paul Darrouzet, owner of the multi award-winning Airlie Beach marina precinct, Abell Point Marina, last week exchanged unconditional sale and purchase contracts for the acquisition of the iconic Coral Sea Resort. This strategic move is the next step in Darrouzet’s…
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club, home of the Festival of Sails, will soon have a new look thanks to a multi-million dollar re-development which is set to dramatically transform the Geelong waterfront. Following the 2019 Festival of Sails regatta, held…
Following two shark attacks at Cid Harbour in the Whitsundays, one of which proved fatal, Whitsunday Escape has purchased 40 of Ocean Guardian’s FREEDOM7 shark deterrent devices. They will be included on all 40 of the boats in the Whitsunday…
Simon Nearn's R Marine Pittwater took out today's final race of the Spring Championship series on Sydney Harbour today, but it was the young Rag & Famish team which became the 2018 champion when the team finished just one point…
Giant waves kicked up by an Atlantic gale oddly combined with no wind in the vicinity of Cascais resulted in racing being cancelled on the final day of the RC44 Cascais Cup. This made for a surprise, come-from-behind winner of…
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