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What a way to start Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Airlie Beach Race Week – a mass two-line downwind start with billowing spinnakers sailing towards Double Cone Island in a light breeze – and a little sports boat, aptly named ‘Heat’…
Under blue skies and light winds the 205 RS Aeros launched for their Worlds for Day 2 with 3 races set on Weymouth Bay. However, as the fleet reached the race course a shifty 12-18 knots buffeted the race course…
Foiling continues to be at the cutting edge of racing technology and it's why the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron will once again hold a month-long international foiling camp at the end of the year. The camp from December 16-January 12 will…
Day two of Lysekil Women's Match commenced with the 11th flight of the round-robin, and the light and shifting conditions caused some delays. When the wind finally picked up, Henriette Koch (DEN) emerged as the strongest competitor out on the…
Giant Swede Max Salminen drove home his advantage in the eye of the storm in the Bay of Aarhus on Wednesday to win the last race of the day in the Finn class and establish a potentially decisive eight-point lead for medal…
Monday (6 Aug) proved to be a long and arduous day for the volunteer crew of Eastbourne lifeboats, starting at 08.30 and finishing with a dash 26 miles offshore to rescue a stranded yacht finally returning to station early on…
The Guardian. By Rowan Moore. A special kind of shock comes with the shooting of a polar bear. Their magnificence, their appearance of cuddliness, their ferocity, their vulnerability, their anthropomorphism – all combine to make the death of a single…
Wow, another big day out on the Bay! Yesterday was a long day and today was very physical with another 3 races out on Weymouth Bay. Strong winds kicked up some exciting waves to power through upwind and surf on…
Australia is a BIG place and being brought up in South Australia you must sail through the Southern Ocean getting out to sail the world. In the 70’s when I started sailing, your only safety link was High Frequency long…
Last year’s WIM Series winner Pauline Courtois and her crew maintained a perfect track record, having won all of her matches during the first day here in Lysekil and is at the top of the score board. But it is…
The Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 has its first medal race fleet in the women’s 470 with Japan’s duo of Ai Kondo Yoshida and Miho Yoshioka leading by five points. Yoshida and Yoshioka, fifth in the Rio 2016 Olympics,…
A whopping 205 RS Aeros representing 16 nations are in Weymouth for the Class’s second World Championship. Racing over 3 fleets RS Aero 5, 7 and 9 and sharing the week with the 170 boat RS Tera Worlds makes this week…
How does the youngest child reassure their worried mother? Tell her that she's with her big brother. It is a domestic scene played out around the world and elite sailing is no different, even when you are talking about the…
This week should determine who leads the Golden Globe Race. Forget the computer standings. As this fleet of singlehanders bash their way through the South East Trade winds towards the Roaring Forty latitudes of the South Atlantic, all eyes are…
Sailing’s oldest enemy played havoc what was supposed to be the busiest day of theHempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 so far on Monday. The morning forecast for 8-10 knots westerlies, maybe building and swinging to 12 knot south-westerlies by…
6 August 2018 (Aarhus, Denmark) – Global TV sports producer and distributor Sunset+Vine has confirmed that the Aarhus 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships is the most successful to date in terms of potential audience reach. This year’s event, which is…
Wild Oats XI has taken line honours in the 2018 Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race followed 40 minute later by Black Jack in a drifter finish. It’s getting very busy at Keppel Bay Marina as Alive is approaching the finish, and within sight…
Australia's Laser legend, Tom Slingsby, tells us about what it's like getting back into Olympic racing after six years out, how the weight-gain diet to compete with the Finn giants has been going, and whether his America's Cup plans are…
The intense competition within coach Michael Blackburn's Australian Laser squad is again paying dividends, with three members of the squad vying for the lead at the 2018 Aarhus World Championships. Western Australians Luke Elliott and Matt Wearn are tied for…
Entries have closed and Whitsunday Sailing Club organisers are pleased with the large jump in numbers to 119 received for the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, which for a range of reasons, continues to attract a profusion of boats…
Andrew Wiklunds Farr 40 Crankster is the Overall Winner of the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race after great closing run up the Capricornia coast. The team from the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron completed the race just after Sunset on…
Gosford Sailing Club (GSC) is pleased to announce it has sponsored the revival of the Ton Yacht Association and as such, will be the organising authority to run the Australian Quarter and Half Tonner Championship on the first weekend of…
Well the Worlds are done and dusted and what a great regatta, so thank you Germany. Firstly to the sailing. After being held ashore for the morning, the Race Committee, in their wisdom, decided to launch with the expectancy of…
As expected, super maxi’s Black Jack and Wild Oats XI are leading the pack in the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Race, but at 9.5-knots, it’s cruising speed only for these 100ft yachts and the rest of the pack. No wind…
The 37 Copa del Rey MAPFRE will be remembered for its record fleet of 152 yachts representing 29 different countries, with 13 classes racing, and for the first time, five different race areas had to be employed. It marked the…
After nine months in 65ft Volvo Ocean Race boats chasing each other around the world, Martine Soffiatti Grael (Brazil), Jena Mai Hansen (Denmark) and Tamara Echegoyen Dominguez (Spain) have lost 50 foot in the last month, but gained more familiar…
A pretty short blog today, as the penultimate day’s sailing was a bit of a fizzer – unusually hot conditions are making the local conditions very frustrating for race management and competitors. Yesterday, as the temperature soared into the 30’s,…
Ever consistent Bay of Palma gave the eight GC32 flying catamaran crews a more complete test on the penultimate day of the Mediterranean's most prestigious multi-class regatta, Copa del Rey MAPFRE. Changeable conditions kept both competitors and race officials on…
Renowned Coffs Harbour sailor Pierre Gal is putting the finishing touches to a bespoke, “home-made” IRC 34-footer with the aim of using the 2018 Pantaenius Newport Coffs Coast race as its maiden offshore outing. The French expat has spent the…
Sailing World Championships are often pitched as nations competing against each other, but the real tensions are often within the national teams as individuals begin to try and secure their Olympic selection. The amount at stake for many of the…
Fresh from winning The Hague Offshore Sailing World Championship, Karl Kwok and Team Beau Geste, guided by tactician Gavin Brady, are on course to make their first visit to the Copa del Rey MAPFRE a winning one. With another two…
Out of a mixture of modesty and misinterpretation sportsman often talk up luck. Sailors are no different, but on the opening day to Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018, when the words “shifty”, “tricky” and “lucky” were thrown about the…
Palma, 1st August 2018 The traditional coastal race at 37 Copa del Rey MAPFRE is a break from the usual diet of windward-leeward races. In today’s light sea breeze conditions and sweltering summer temperatures it may have felt longer than…
With 1,400 sailors from 85 nations in close to 1,000 boats in 10 Olympic classes studded with stars old and new, the competition (August 2-12) promises to be ferocious, with epic head-to-heads in every fleet. More than 1,100 volunteers will…
Skipper Norbert Sedlacek has decided to stop his record attempt this morning at 10.30 a.m. west of Ireland and to come back to the port of departure, Les Sables d’Olonne. “Sometimes it is necessary to take note of the reality…
The Finn class is not only the physically toughest of all the Olympic classes, but the level of the competition is perhaps at its highest level for a long time. In Part 2 of our preview of the Hempel Sailing…
Coaches Blog #7 It is a well earned lay for our team. Most will spend the day sightseeing and taking it easy. It is still very important to keep to our daily routine and not disrupt our sleep patterns and…
Sometimes it's hard to tell the diffence between reality and fiction. Following is a harrowing tale of two British backpackers who hitched a ride on a yacht – with terrible consequences. Although it would make a great novel, sadly this…
Coaches Blog #6 Well getting into the mid point of the regatta. Five races done after three more yesterday and the possibility of another seven to go weather depending. The three races yesterday were held in a pretty reasonable sailing…
Bruce Taylor’s Victorian 40-footer called Chutzpah has been officially declared the IRC overall winner of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race after a 15-hour wait for the only challenger still on the course to drop out of contention. “They…
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