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Peter Lowe is retiring after more than 55 years in the Australian marine industry, beginning with the start of a five-year shipwright apprenticeship in 1963 at Venables Boatshed in Rose Bay building “Stella” class yachts and moving on to a…
The racing for the 2018 Women’s Match Racing World Championship got underway under cloudy skies with a light rain falling most of the day. But the dark skies did not dim the enthusiasm as the sailors and race officials hit…
The cold front that brought tough conditions to the start of the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race has now passed, with the fleet enjoying bright sunshine yesterday and a relatively calm second night at sea. However, the intensity on…
Our recent on board experience adds new meaning to the term ‘chargrilled’. There is nothing better than the smell of something sizzling away on your barbecue in the cockpit. But when someone asks casually “what’s that funny smell?” You know…
Day 5 of Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing and conditions during the morning were above and beyond the forecast 15 knots, the wind whipping seas up quickly and crews had to stay on their toes, then winds eased…
Doyle Sails announced a significant update today with the news that legendary Australian sailor, Chris Nicholson, will be buying into the Doyle Sails business and becoming part of this rapidly developing brand and team. Chris Nicholson is a world-renowned Australian…
CHICAGO – Leif Sigmond called it a “great precursor” to the Farr 40 World Championship, and that assessment seemed spot on. A strong fleet of 10 Farr 40s gathered at the Chicago Yacht Club for the Verve Cup and four…
DAY 44: Dateline 13th August 2018 – Les Sables d’Olonne, France Over the weekend, French yachtsman Philippe Péché has fashioned a repair to the aluminium tiller on his Rustler 36 PRB, but without self steering, has decided to head to…
The international fleet are licking their wounds after a tough first night in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. The leading Class40s and IRC rated yachts have broken away from the rest of the fleet and are expected to…
The Australian. By Cameron Stewart. For more than two centuries the waters of Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, have hidden the ghostly remains of Australia’s most historic ship. Now a team of Australian divers is preparing to launch the most important…
Another day, at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week and the wind gods pulling out all stops with a 22-23 knot south-easterly breeze on order – different again to the previous three days of racing. “They…
Renowned navigator and marine biologist, Will Oxley, is to attend opening night at 2018 SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week to impart his weather knowledge – and it is anticipated the Townsville sailor will recount a story or two on his…
Queenslander Dennis Lehany’s Jim Brown 6 metre trimaran, Billy the Kid, flipped while racing in shifty and gusty 25 knot winds at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing today. Three fellow racing yachts went to their…
A sports boat limped home under motor after breaking its rudder, while other boats broached in up to 25 knots wind with gusts, their crews finding it difficult to control their rides – all part and parcel of the forecast…
It is with great sadness and shock we learned of the sudden death of Matt Day on 5th August, a great mate, sailor and father – Matt was only 42 and died of natural causes at home. Matt lived in…
Twenty eight teams with crew from 18 different countries started the 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, when the cannon fire from the Royal Yacht Squadron Line signalled the start of one…
Three days of racing at the 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, three different types of conditions and today’s was champagne sailing, with light 7-9 knots around the course on Pioneer Bay for the entire fleet. IRC Passage was won…
Fifty seven year old Philippe Peche made an emergency call to the Golden Globe Race HQ at 18:10 UTC yesterday to report that the tiller on his Rustler 36 yacht PRB had broken in 45-50 knot winds and he had…
Lysekil Women's Match 2018 is over and the winner is French skipper Pauline Courtois with her team Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team. Courtois ended on second place 2017, but this was her year. ”Koch’s team were very good,…
The first phase of Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification for sailing has concluded after fleet racing wrapped up in the Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17, Men’s Skiff – 49er and the Men’s and Women’s Windsurfing – RS:X. at the Hempel Sailing…
Annemiek Bekkering and Annette Deutz won a dramatic 49erFX medal race at the Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 on Saturday after Austria pair of Tanja Frank and Lorena Abicht capsized in a huge wind shift. The 49erFX was an…
Could be too much of a good thing in one place and after two great and very different days of sailing at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week, Race Director, Denis Thompson, was looking at a weak and fading…
Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing has been attracting more and more former and current skiff sailors to the Whitsunday Sailing Club hosted event. Old skiff sailors don’t die – they come to Airlie Beach and take advantage of…
It is morning on Day 2 of the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week and Race Director, Denis Thompson, says to expect another fine sunny day with south-easterly winds in the 10-13 knot range, dying down in the afternoon and…
The BBC reports of the death of a competitor at Cowes Week. The yachtsman, in his 60s, was pronounced dead in hospital. His next of kin have been informed, police said. The RNLI said the man fell overboard during “rough”…
Yet another big day out on Weymouth and Portland Bay as we launched into a light northerly, and after one aborted race as the wind switched, we had three more races for the four flights (205 RS Aeros in all)…
A very windy Lysekil kept everyone ashore on Friday and prevented any racing. The results from Thursday’s quarter-finals will stand and four teams led by skippers Henriette Koch (DEN), Anna Ostling (SWE), Pauline Courtois (FRA) and Johanna Bergqvist (SWE) are…
The 2018 Australian Sailing Awards will recognise the achievements of members of the sailing and boating community over the past 12 months, as well as acknowledge those who have contributed to our sport for many years. Nominations are now open…
Emma Plasschaert won Belgium's first world championship gold in the Laser Radial at the Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 on Friday, proving along the way that Marit Bouwmeester is beatable. On a bright and breezy day in Denmark's Bay…
Competitors in Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week sailed in conditions quite different to yesterday’s when a light 7 plus knot breeze wafted across Pioneer Bay and beyond, giving the light air specialists their chance to shine…
The 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race has a record entry of Two Handed and Class40 teams. Twenty-nine teams in total will line up for the start on the Royal Yacht Squadron line in Cowes at noon on Sunday…
On Thursday, the round-robin ended in spectacular fashion with the last quarter-final spot not decided until the last flight and the quarter-finals kicked off. Eight teams moved on including the Swedish teams of Anna Östling and Johanna Bergqvist. The spectators…
The tears rolled down Zsomber Berecz’s face as he crossed the finish line in Denmark’s beautiful Bay of Aarhus on Thursday to win the Finn and Hungary’s first ever medal in one of these quadrennial sailing world championships. It was the first…
For the first time in the history of Airlie Beach Race Week, Race Director Denis Thompson and his race management team have organised a mass start for the 119 entries on the opening day, a fine start to the 30th…
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…
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