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June 6, 2018 – Victoria, BC, Canada – Long day on the water and only one race completed for the Melges 24 fleet, facing extremely challenging conditions with light and shifty breezes in Victoria for the 2018 Melges 24 World Championship….
The Duke Chronicle. By Shannon Fang A research trip recently turned into a rescue mission for Duke scientists. The research cruise, the R/V Sally Ride, approached a ship stranded at sea in the equatorial Pacific. The catamaran had a broken mast,…
After a series of global events, Sailing's 2018 World Cup Series will draw to a close in Marseille, France as the Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition venue hosts the Final. Numerous Olympic medallists, World Champions and World Cup Series…
Four yachts have now past the halfway point and the prediction is for themajority of the 20-boat fleet racing to New Caledonia to beat the 25-yearold race record in the Sydney Noumea Yacht Race. While the Auckland Noumea fleet has…
Life at an angle continues on Day 2 of Race 11: Nasdaq Race from Panama to New York, with the Clipper Race teams calculating their best approach to the first mandatory gate between Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. The fleet…
Portland, ME (June 4, 2018) – Eärendil skippered by Catherine Pourre of France and Pietro Luciani of Italy won leg two of the Atlantic Cup, a 360-nautical mile leg from New York to Portland. The win marks back to back offshore wins for the team,…
Following a video address from Prince Charles, announcements from the Welsh Government, Iceland Foods and new microplastics data from the Volvo Ocean Race Science Programme all helped advance the growing movement to turn the tide on plastic. At the event,…
The annual Three Peaks Yacht Race takes place from 17.00 on June 9th starting in Barmouth, where eight teams will gather to tackle one of the worlds oldest and most prestigious adventure races. The race is now in its 41st…
Fountaine Pajot’s latest sailing catamaran, the Astréa 42, has won a major international marine award being voted “Multihull of the Year” by the prestigious French Voile magazine and Le Monde du Multicoque. The catamaran has burst onto the world stage…
With less than month to the start of the Golden Globe Race from Les Sables d’Olonne on July 1st, skippers are working feverishly to complete their preparations ready to take part in the Suhaili 50 Falmouth Parade of Sail celebrations…
Italian syndicate Sardinia Challenge has announced that it will Challenge for the America's Cup in Auckland in 2021. It joins the other formally announced challengers Luna Rossa (Italy), Ineos Team UK (Great Britain) and American Magic (US). There are rumours…
Marine Business Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) in NSW is co-ordinating a coastal clean-up effort in the wake of last week’s loss of 83 containers from a ship en route to Port Botany. The State Marine Pollution Controller role has…
June 5, 2018 – Victoria, BC, Canada – Light breeze was the protagonist of the opening day of the 2018 Melges 24 World Championship in Victoria BC, Canada, where forty-one crews from five countries gathered to determine who will be the next one…
Although the Clipper Race fleet spent the majority of the race to Panama in close quarters, it only took minutes for a split to emerge in Race 11: Nasdaq Race to New York – the second stage of the USA…
A record 10 Class40s have entered the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race and more are expected to take up the tough 1,800 nautical mile non-stop race. Starting and finishing from Cowes Isle of Wight, the course takes the fleet…
Portland, ME (June 4, 2018) – The 2018 Atlantic Cup fleet is steaming ahead for Portland, Maine after pounding upwind the past 48-hours. After suffering damage both #37 First Light and #81 Esprit Scout made the decision last night to retire from Leg 2 and seek refuge in Newport, Rhode Island in…
June 4, 2018 – Victoria, BC, Canada – A second day of racing yielded three more races in light and tricky conditions to conclude the five race series at the Melges 24 Canadian Championship 2018, organized by the Royal Victoria Yacht…
In four days’ time, just shy of 30 crews from around Australia and New Zealand will set sail in the 28th Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta, hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, speaking volumes for the growth of serious female sailing…
Australian sailing great Iain Murray believes the establishment of the Barranjoey Pin alumni program brings sailing into line with other iconically Australian sports and lays a foundation from which subsequent generations can launch. Murray – a 2008 Olympian, America’s…
Sydney Noumea Yacht Race crews left Sydney Harbour at 10am on Sunday June 3, 2018 against a backdrop of dark clouds, windy rain squalls, bursts of sunlight and a spectacular rainbow that bridged Sydney Harbour. Most of the 22 crews…
NEW YORK, N.Y. (June 3, 2018) – Following a light downwind start to the second leg of the 2018 Atlantic Cup, the conditions have deteriorated making for a brutal first 24-hours for the teams. The crews are currently battling 30 knots of breeze…
The Monaco Globe Series will start on Sunday (3rd June). This event is the first in the new IMOCA GLOBE SERIES world championship, which is the result of a shared desire and a lot of work done over the past…
The frontrunners in the Sydney Noumea Yacht Race are on record pace and the toughest conditions behind them with reports this morning from the fleet of manageable and warm 15 knot SSE winds and settling seas. Four hours after the…
More debris is expected to wash onto beaches along the New South Wales coastline after a cargo ship lost 83 containers. Nappies, sanitary products and surgical masks have already washed ashore after the Liberian ship lost its cargo in extreme…
The sun teased and the wind held steady on the final day of the 2018 Samui Regatta. Race Officer Ross Chisholm set two windward/leewards for the keelboat and multihulls classes off Mae Nam Beach. It's been a week of dominance…
Porto Cervo, Italy: On the third day of the Audi Sailing Champions League, the team representing Circolo della Vela Bari moved to the top of the classification, followed by the Austrians of the Yacht Club Bregenz. Just four flights remain,…
After completing the 48 nautical mile (nm) passage of the Panama Canal, one of the most famous and impressive engineering feats in the world, watching out for basking American and Caiman Crocodiles in Gatun Lake along the way, the fleet…
The seven competing teams in the Volvo Ocean Race are on a fast track towards the finish in The Hague and in less than four weeks’ time, this legendary race will finish in The Netherlands for the very first time…
Porto Cervo, Italy: Competitors and the Race Committee of the Audi Sailing Champions League today had a long and productive day at sea, with no less than five flights concluded and a total of 15 races run, shaking up the…
Generally match races last around 20 minutes and there is a clear winner, but in the 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar 2018, there was a 10 hour long heavyweight maxi bout for line honours between Nicola Paoleschi's Laurie Davidson 69 Pendragon VI…
Samui, Thailand: What a difference a Lay Day makes – sometimes the windiest day of the regatta, yesterday's day off for the keelboats and multihulls was greeted with glorious sunshine, zero breeze and finished in the afternoon with a refreshing…
As the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 builds towards an exciting finish in June in The Hague, organisers can confirm the next edition of the race will start in 2021, under new ownership. Atlant Ocean Racing Spain, led by Richard Brisius,…
The Mediterranean’s largest medium distance offshore race set sail from Livorno, Italy this afternoon with a record-sized fleet. This year, the ninth edition of the 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar has attracted almost 200 boats, of which 20 are maxi boats of…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 31 May 2018. Perfect weather conditions welcomed the sailors competing on the first day of the Audi SAILING Champions League to the waters off Porto Cervo today. The event for teams representing their respective yacht clubs is…
Newsroom.co.nz. By Suzanne McFadden. For the first time in the syndicate's history, Emirates Team New Zealand will build their own America's Cup yachts. The Cup defenders have decided to build the hulls of their two AC75 foiling monohulls in-house for…
ABC News, San Francisco US Coast Guard investigators now have a name to go with debris of a wooden boat that washed ashore in Pacifica on Wednesday, but not much more. For a while, their investigation may have felt more…
CHEK News Canada A sailboat that exploded and caught fire west of the Selkirk Trestle Bridge early Thursday morning has sunk, according to the Victoria Fire Department. Fire crews responded at around 1:18 a.m. after reports of an explosion and…
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (May 30, 2018) – With first (#145 Eärendil) and second (#127 Amhas) place of Leg One of the 2018 Atlantic Cup decided yesterday (May 29, 2018) afternoon it was the turn of the remaining competitors to cross the Angola Cables…
SAMUI, Thailand – Day 3 of the 2018 Samui Regatta started off with a whimper. The storms of yesterday had gone and the sun was out in force, hopes were high for a return to the tropical sailing conditions which…
The Auckland Noumea Yacht Race makes a welcome return this week after a six-year absence but it's hoped this year's edition isn't as dramatic as the last. The monohull Beau Geste sent out a distress call when it suffered major hull damage and…
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