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Mark Richards, the skipper of line honours contender, Wild Oats XI, in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, which starts tomorrow, is expecting this year’s race to be as much a tough test of tactics as boat speed. The…
She is the smallest boat with the smallest budget and crew in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet this year, but according to her skipper, Reece Young, Gun Runner has a lot to offer in the Cruising Yacht Club…
Mark Griffith is not shy when it comes to staking his claim as a contender for overall victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Yacht owners can often be coy about their chances of winning the Cruising Yacht Club…
ARC 2018 came to a rousing conclusion last night in Saint Lucia with the prizegiving ceremony marking the end of the world's most popular sailing rally for another year. Crews, friends and families were joined by numerous supporters at the…
London, UK (December 23, 2018) Swedish company Aston Harald AB has completed its sale of the World Match Racing Tour to a group of investors behind C Shine Financial Corporation. The sale was initially announced last month in an interview by…
Barry Cuneo, the Queensland owner/skipper of the TP52, Envy Scooters, proclaims: “I want to win the 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race for my uncle John,” he says of Australia’s famous 1972 Olympic Games gold medallist in the Dragon class….
Matthew Donald laughs when the scenario of his Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race entrant, Gweilo,appearing from her shroud of relative anonymity as a newcomer to the Australian racing scene to win the event overall is put to him. ‘Gweilo’ is…
With the Boxing Day start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fast approaching, registrations are open for what will be the blue water classic’s second year of partnership with Virtual Regatta, the world's leader in cutting-edge sailing simulation games….
After a troubled delivery from Adelaide to Melbourne, Stuart Johnson’s Sydney 38 Audacious has had to withdraw from the Rudder Cup, Melbourne to Devonport ocean yacht race. The crew is very disappointed but also accepts that this happens with sailing….
When multi-millionaires enter their supermaxis in the Rolex Sydney Hobart, they throw money around like confetti. Professional boat managers handle every aspect of the preparation and during the race, well-paid rock star sailors and professional navigators get the boat to…
Tasmanian boats in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race have a bit of an advantage over their NSW rivals – their boats have to be prepared before they leave for Sydney – and then their skippers get to test the…
The number of international entrants in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is now 11, but delve in to their respective crew lists and a veritable league of nations emerges. A stand out for its cultural diversity is one…
Today is the longest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere so the sun has the largest declination to the south for all using a sextant to navigate. It also often marks a period of unsettled weather but all…
Whilst most of us nurse hangovers, New Year’s Day in Zanzibar sees 22 teams, made up of 66 sailors, set sail in one of the World’s most basic, yet exciting, races. The sixth edition of the Kraken Cup (previously called…
Wild Oats XI, the most successful yacht in the long history of the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, will start in the classic on Boxing Day with the most efficient sail plan it has carried since first competing in…
Early entries for the 2019 RORC Caribbean 600 reveal a stunning fleet of famous professional teams taking part alongside passionate corinthian crews. Famed for spectacular sailing conditions on an intricate and mesmerizing course, the 11th edition of the RORC Caribbean…
You may not see them – and in some cases you may not know them – but when the cannons are fired signalling 10 minutes to the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart, five minutes to the start and then…
20 December 2018 (Sydney, Australia) – While preparing for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the all-female professional sailing team, Ocean Respect Racing, joined forces with Clean Up Australia, not-for-profit Australian environmental organization, to raise awareness for how rubbish finds…
Auckland, New Zealand – 21st December 2018: Emirates Team New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron are pleased to announce the acceptance of a sixth Challenger for the 36th America’s Cup, from The Netherlands. The joint Royal Netherlands Yacht…
Five very different overall contenders for the Rolex Sydney Hobart’s prized Tattersall Cup rated their chances for winning the 628 nautical mile race at a press conference at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia today. After 41 races to the…
The last time Daryl Wislang won the Volvo Ocean Race, he finished the year by taking out line honours in the famed Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. That will be his ambition again when he jumps on board Comanche for next…
The New Zealand Women’s Match Racing Championships is shaping up to be the best in years, with a stellar international lineup already booked in to compete. The event will take place at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron from February…
Les Goodridge, owner and skipper of Wax Lyrical – a Danish design X 50 cruiser/racer – and a longtime member of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA), shares his passion of sailing and racing the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race…
In an early forecast prediction, the Bureau of Meteorology’s Simon Louis told a selection of navigators at a Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race press conference at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia today to expect a little of everything in…
With just four weeks to go to the Ronstan 2019 International Finn Australian Championship, at Black Rock Yacht Club, many Finn sailors from Australia and overseas are taking part in a series of events that ends with the national championship…
Yanmar Racing has been finalising race preparations off Fremantle for the upcoming Australian Championships in late December and the International Dragon Boat World Championships in January 2019. The team spent nine days in Fremantle with another championship Dragon Boat team…
Dutchman Mark Slats has taken a further 154 miles out French Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede over the past seven days, reducing the gap to 794 miles with 4,300 miles still to run before the winner returns to Les…
Halyard locks have been around for many years, however recent times have seen great improvement in designs, with more simple and reliable systems available today. Locks in the past were mostly designed to manage big loads on big boats. The…
The six days between Christmas and January 1 are the busiest of the year for sailors in Australia. The big event, obviously, is the Rolex Sydney Hobart. But there are other offshore races worth watching too. The Launceston to Hobart…
The entry list for CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week continues to grow, as time runs out before a late entry fee applies. Entries received from 1 January 2019 onwards will need to pay an additional late entry fee. The…
The New Zealand Millennium Cup’s 2019 fleet has brought together evenly-matched yachtsand commentators are expecting a fierce battle. On-water the racing will be relentless, butthe regatta is proud to announce it has become a certified Clean Regatta to ensure it’s…
German yachtsman Freddy Boehnert has sailed over 18,000 nautical miles on his X-50 Lunatix, just to contest the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – unusual – as European owners normally ship their boats to…
The Smeg 18ft Skiff team of Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Mike McKensey gave an awesome display of power sailing as they tamed the 25-knot, gusting to 30-knots, North East wind to take out Race 4 of the NSW 18ft…
Racing at Sail Melbourne International 2018 wrapped up with a full final day of racing across all Olympic and Invited class fleets. After challenging race disruptions over the four-day event, caused by the current weather system sitting over Australia’s east…
St Lucia Star. By Keryn Nelson. What happened to Roy Broughton? Hardly anyone seems able to provide details other than that the British yachtsman was last seen around ten at night on Thursday, November 15, 2018. Boughton, who frequented the…
On Monday, December 17,2018, 33-year-old Lisa Blair became the first woman to circumnavigate Australia solo, non-stop and unassisted. Lisa crossed the finish line at Sydney Heads just after 2pm, giving a total elapsed time of 58 days and 3 hours….
Intense preparation is the name of the game as realisation dawns on owners and crews that only nine days remain before the start of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Top of the…
This year’s 26-boat fleet for the Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart Race certainly can boast some class, including two past overall winners of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and a runner-up in the famous blue-water classic. The heydays of…
It was another late day of sailing on the penultimate day of Sail Melbourne with only the Finn, Nacra 17/15, Opti and Bic Techno classes getting some racing in. Melbourne’s weather system made for another challenging day, with race delays…
The 40th anniversary Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe proved to be a memorable edition, with big crowds turning out in Saint Malo to see the record fleet of 123 boats in six divisions start the 3,542-nautical mile race to Pointe-à-Pitre. Huge…
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