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The Maritime Executive Early commerce to the Americas relied on the trade winds – the prevailing easterly winds that circle the Earth near the equator. Known to sailors around the world, the trade winds and associated ocean currents helped early…
Dinghy sailors at this year’s Hillarys Easter Hillarys Coach Regatta will again enjoy the benefits of Olympic level coaching following confirmation that former women’s 470 gold medalist and WA Institute of Sport head sailing coach, Belinda Stowell, has agreed to…
Another day on the Derwent and another day of wins for Shaun Tiedemann’s Sydney 36cr Philosopher on Saturday as she sailed to an overall victory in the Combined Clubs Inshore Series for 2018-19. Philosopher convincingly won all three Division 1…
(Sanremo, 24th March 2019) – Ian Williams and his GAC Pindar team today claimed the M32 European Series warm-up event in Sanremo with a race to spare, at least. The British six time Match Racing World Champion and defending M32…
Research led by the University of Southampton suggests that rogue waves are occurring less often, but becoming more extreme. Waves are classed as rogue when they are over twice the height of the average sea state around them. From trough…
The 2019 Brisbane to Gladstone Multihull Yacht Race has something the 2019 Sydney to Hobart won’t have – the trimaran Beau Geste. She is a 70 foot (21.2m) trimaran weighing in at nearly 7000Kgs. Karl Kwok bought the MOD70 designed…
Italy: Once again Sanremo defied the forecasters for day two of the warm-up event for the 2019 M32 European Series; zero wind was predicted, but a south-westerly filled in, perfectly timed for today’s guest racing and had built to 9-10…
The first event on the IMOCA Globe Series calendar for 2019, the Bermuda 1000 Race, will set sail from Douarnenez in Brittany at 1300 hours local time on Wednesday 8th May; on the program is a 2000 nautical mile solo…
One of the key factors behind the astonishing worldwide growth and development of the OK Dinghy over the past 62 years was the intent that boats could be built by anyone, anywhere – one of the overriding concepts from the…
Finally, after five months of optimization and preparation, Norbert Sedlacek and the Innovation Yachts team are proud to announce the launching of their Open60AAL Innovation Yachts, to take place on Tuesday 26 March, starting from 8am in commercial harbour of…
When the 12 Metre World Championship comes to Newport, Rhode Island this summer from July 8-13, the significance of the venue will not be lost on sailing buffs, or for that matter, on sports historians in general. The America’s Cup,…
Matt Allen and Wendy Tuck have headlined a list of winners at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s annual gala function to herald a new round of Ocean Racer of the Year recipients and acknowledge the champions of the Club’s…
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting two severe tropical cyclones to make landfall this weekend, bringing dangerous conditions to parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. There are 'watch' and 'warning' zones for many Gulf of Carpentaria communities as…
The nimble M32s came into their own on the first day of the San Remo warm-up event for the 2019 M32 European Series, when the featherweight one-design catamarans provided fair, even and exciting racing in just 4-7 knots of wind….
The Ocean Race revealed its new brand identity and confirmed two entries during an online launch event hosted in Alicante, Spain. Formerly known as the Whitbread Round the World Race (1973 to 1997) and the Volvo Ocean Race (2001 to…
American Hungarian solo yachtsman Istvan Kopar finally reached the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne, France at 13:58 UTC today to take fourth place in the 2018 Golden Globe Race. “This is the happiest day of my life…And this [Les…
The most impressive collection of offshore racing hardware from across the globe is set to gather off Cowes for the start of the Rolex Fastnet Race on 3 August. Following the 340 available places in the IRC fleet selling…
London, UK (March 20, 2019) The World Match Racing Tour, under new ownership since 1 January, has announced an extension to the 2018 season in order to complete the World Championship following its sale by Aston Harald in December. The revised…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Mar. 20, 2019) — The addition of four of the world’s top match racers, including Women’s World No. 1 Pauline Courtois of France, makes the field for the 2019 Argo Group Gold Cup one of the most diverse…
Stuff.co.nz America's Cup veteran Jimmy Spithill has been freaked out by the new foiling monohulls to be sailed at Auckland 2021. Double winner Spithill has returned to Italian syndicate Luna Rossa for the 36th edition of the Cup and has…
Entries continue to flow in for the Inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race starting on Friday 02 August 2019, with a variety of vessels already looking forward to racing north through the Capricorn Channel in what will be…
The state government’s campaign to rid Queensland’s coastline of derelict vessels has moved into overdrive in recent months on two fronts – the present and the future. On the present front Maritime Safety Queensland (and, in some cases, the owners…
The revolving door at Australian Sailing continues to rotate, with a new CEO appointed to replace John Lee. The new man, Ben Houston, has at least sailed. The previous two CEOs came from rugby league and rugby union, probably the…
The Maritime Executive Sailors call the latitudes between 40 and 50 degrees south of the equator the Roaring Forties. During the Age of Sail (circa 15th to 19th centuries), these strong prevailing winds propelled ships across the Pacific, often at…
The latest addition to Zhik’s growing range of performance sailing gloves. Zhik’s G1 Gloves are intended for the sailing enthusiast, warm weather and general protection. These ergonomic, pre-shaped gloves are extremely comfortable, and designed to move with the flex and…
Stuff.co.nz. By Bernie Wilson. Out on Pensacola Bay, the combination of a fantastical-looking test boat called the Mule and technology from aviation giant Airbus is giving the New York Yacht Club's American Magic a flying start toward trying to win…
The inaugural edition of World Sailing's Offshore World Championship will be held in October 2020 in Valletta, Malta, alongside the Rolex Middle Sea Race. Announced in 2017, the Offshore Sailing World Championship will be a powerful platform to accelerate the…
Yachting New Zealand has joined the growing opposition to a proposal to impose high anchorage fees on superyachts intending to visit for the 2021 Amercia’s Cup. Marine Industry Association chief executive Peter Busfield has labelled the proposed fees as “scalping”…
Cyclone Trevor was officially named at 5am on Monday as a tropical low in the Coral Sea intensified overnight into the Category 1 system. Trevor was expected to move west-southwest before strengthening and making landfall near Lockhart River late Tuesday…
Three generations of Hobart’s well-known sailing family, the Calverts, were aboard champion yacht Intrigue when she notched up yet another double rating win in the Combined Clubs Summer Pennant on the River Derwent on Saturday. Sailing with owner/skipper Don Calvert…
Day 260: At 04:00 UTC today, American/Hungarian Istvan Kopar and his Tradewind 35 yacht Puffin was within 250 miles of the finish line and expected to reach Les Sables d'Olonne around 09:00 UTC on Thursday 21st March. Kopar was making 5.1…
It was clear that the fight to take the Paul & Shark Trophy, International Dragon Cup, would be tough and decided down to the very last race for the teams aiming at the podium. Going into the last racing day…
2019 is set to be a year of great changes in the Copa del Rey MAPFRE. Following the recent announcement of the new classification system (including a final stage and the new distribution of the ORC classes), a new Women’s…
March 18, 2019 – The annual Mirabaud Sailing Video Award celebrates the best sailing videos produced each year across the world and their authors. Building on the lessons learned from the first two editions, the competition continues to evolve and…
Some of the largest and fastest multihulls, both catamarans and trimarans, will descend on Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing to compete in the 2019 Australian Multihull Championship, to be held from 8-15 August. The…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2019 – and members, guests and yachting enthusiasts alike are in for a treat with a year-long celebration planned. The club famous for the world-renowned Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht…
Mount Gay Rum was one of the original sponsors of the BVI Spring Regatta (BVISR) having first partnered with the popular Caribbean regatta in 1972 through its distributor, Road Town Wholesale. The brand, synonymous with sailing, has always been an…
Eighteen adventurers, including a professor, an engineer and a student, have been chosen to represent the city of Zhuhai in China as ocean racers in the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race. The candidates, who went through a tough…
Following the press release sent out by the Defender in the early hours of 15 March 2019, regarding the most recent decision of the Arbitration Panel, the Challenger of Record wishes to clarify that the New York Yacht Club was…
Sail Port Stephens 2019 has welcomed aboard Bannisters Port Stephens as a new sponsor for its entrée event, the Commodores Cup, starting April 8. The three passage races that constitute the Commodores Cup take competitors on a scenic loop around…
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