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The 2018 WIM Series opened in sparkling conditions in Helsinki for the first day of racing at the Helsinki Women’s Match. Thirteen flights were sailed by the thirteen teams in the beautiful sunshine. A fairly steady southwesterly breeze made…
There are two new contenders for titles who are sure to rattle a few cages in the Multihull and IRC Racing divisions at the 2018 SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, hosted by Townsville Yacht Club and to be held from…
The French Atlantic Port of Les Sables-d`Olonne is absolutely buzzing with activity as the 2018 Golden Globe Race gets ready to depart on July 1st. Ian Douglas, from Jeanneau’s Queensland sail dealer Mooloolaba Yacht Brokers, has just returned from France…
Tickets are now on sale for the southern hemisphere’s largest and most comprehensive boating show. The Sydney International Boat Show runs from the 2nd until the 6th of August at the International Convention Centre, Sydney and the adjoining purpose-built marina…
The Helsinki Women’s Match starts tomorrow on the the island of Blekholmen. Thirteen teams from six countries will be competing to get important points on the scoreboard in the first of five events of the 2018 WIM Series. The…
Dongfeng Race Team has won the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 in the closest finish in race history. Skipper Charles Caudrelier led his team to victory on the final leg of the race, a 970-mile sprint from Gothenburg, Sweden to The…
The final day of Kieler Woche brought plenty of drama as multiple Medal Races played out across the Olympic classes. Laser MenElliot Hanson of Great Britain let gold slip through his fingers as he finished 9th in the Medal Race….
Bournemouth Echo. By Alex Winter. A SKIPPER aboard a stricken yacht contracted the RNLI on Saturday – but only after fitting his pet cat with its own lifejacket. The man made a 'pan pan' urgency call when the engine of…
Hamilton, Bermuda: The division winners of the 2018 Newport Bermuda Race were finalized today with the arrival of the remainder of the fleet, after a slow but strategically challenging race. Of the 169 boats that started the 51st edition in…
Day 8 of Kieler Woche started out extremely windy, forcing the race committee to postpone many of the fleets later in the day. Here are the fleets that completed today’s racing before 6pm. It was tough going in the big…
A brief split opened up in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet on Saturday afternoon local time as team AkzoNobel and Team Brunel were pushed by an unexpected wind shift to pass north and west of a commercial Traffic Separation Scheme…
Sadly, the wind gods refused to smile on the final day of the Quarter Ton Cup off Cowes and no racing was possible after the race committee went afloat early to monitor conditions, but held the fleet ashore at Cowes…
A team of seven American wooden boat builders, alumni members from the renowned North West School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Townsend, are preparing to travel to Tasmania in November to build a Haven 12.5, a classic American keel-boat,…
Strong winds and shifty conditions are making it very difficult to be consistent, yet some crews are firing in bullet after bullet, however in some of the Olympic classes the points at the top of the leaderboard remain extremely close….
For the past few Quarter Ton Cups, Pierre Paris's Pinguin Playboy has ruled the roost in the Corinthian Division, and yesterday at the Cowes hosted event, it started to look like 2018 might follow the same pattern, but today it…
The Superyacht Cup Palma fleet returned to action today with an added ingredient – a shot of extra breeze which set Palma Bay alive. Any early concerns over the wind evaporated as Palma’s ever reliable sea breeze kicked in to…
Dongfeng Race Team holds a narrow lead over MAPFRE after one day of racing in the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. Team Brunel is in fourth place. Arch rivals Dongfeng Race Team and MAPFRE were locked in a…
Three teams started the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race on Thursday afternoon in an unprecedented dead-heat on the overall leaderboard. And in the winner-take-all sprint from Gothenburg to The Hague, it was Charles Caudrelier’s Dongfeng Race Team taking…
Following a spectacular curtain raiser to Europe’s largest and longest-running superyacht regatta with the J Class yachts Svea and Velsheda in what amounted to match racing action yesterday, the entire 16-strong Superyacht Cup fleet took to the water. Class…
Sunshine one moment, rain the next, no wind, too much wind. It was a wild whacky day at Kieler Woche which suited some more than others… Day 6 of Kieler Woche brought a bit of everything all at once. The…
Flagstaff Marine says the company will showcase its best ever display of Beneteau luxury motor and sailing yachts at this year’s Sydney International Boat Show. The 2018 line-up includes the world premiere of Beneteau’s new Oceanis 46.1, three Australian premieres,…
The sailing line up from the French brand Jeanneau is comprehensive and will satisfy a wide range of Australian sailor’s demands. As the world’s largest production boat builder, Jeanneau provides an international network of dealers with offices in every state…
Stuff.co.nz. Speculation has increased on the foiling catamarans used in last year's America's Cup in Bermuda being modified for a new professional world circuit backed by American billionaire Larry Ellison. The well-connected Tom Ehman in the United States has ramped…
Sydney, NSW, Australia – 21 June 2018 – Proving that you can’t keep a good marina down, the century old Elizabeth Bay Marina recently opened again in its new incarnation. The marina is located in Elizabeth Bay, a harbourside…
As a curtain raiser to the 22nd Superyacht Cup it does not get much better than the sight of two of the superb J Class yachts strutting their stuff out on the vibrant blue waters of Palma Bay. The opening…
Line honours in the Cercle Nautique Calédonien Groupama Race went to Graeme Wilson and William Goodfellow’s New Zealand TP IRC52 Miss Scarlet, an elapsed time of 3 days 52 minutes 43 seconds for the 654 nautical mile race the fastest…
Two great men of the sea, Britain’s Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and French hero Bernard Moitessier never met or communicated with each other during the first Golden Globe solo round the world Race 50 years go, but their equally famous yachts,…
On 7 May 2018, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild left Gitana’s new base in Lorient after her first four-month winter refit, which was primarily geared around making her systems reliable. Together with Cyril Dardashti, the team’s director, Sébastien Josse had…
Two of the toughest professional sports, The Drone Racing League (DRL), the international, premiere drone racing circuit, and Team Brunel, who're still battling for the overall win in the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18, teamed up to create a daring Drone…
Three teams will start Leg 11 – the final 700 nautical mile sprint leg of the Volvo Ocean Race – in a virtual tie for the lead, setting up an epic, dramatic and unprecedented denouement. After racing over 44,000 nautical…
With Kieler Woche the last big event for the Olympic classes before the World Championships in Denmark six weeks from now, international stars are out in force to test themselves on Kiel Bay. Day 5 of Kieler Woche was the…
Multihull Solutions is looking to follow up on its record-breaking success at last year’s Sydney International Boat Show when it showcases two of the world’s finest catamarans at the 2018 event from 2-6 August. This year, the company will stage…
Aberdeen Press and Journal. By David Proctor. The Coastguard yesterday vowed to “prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law” after a hoax call sparked a major search. The warning came after a mayday radio message was received at about…
B&G has announced the launch of the WS300 wind series, a new range of wireless and wired wind sensors designed for cruising and club racing sailors. The WS320 is aimed at yachts with masts up to around 25m. B&G says the…
Tony Kirby dedicated his boat’s IRC and ORC win in the Groupama Race around New Caledonia to his mother-in-law, who passed away during the 654 nautical mile ocean race, the South Pacific’s premier offshore event. “I’m ecstatic (about the win),”…
Overnight fresh sou’east breezes along the New Caledonian east coast gusting to 35 knots changed the momentum and mood in the Groupama Race and the fleet welcomed the 12-hour adrenaline hit. By mid-morning the wind tapered off leaving the slower…
Gothenburg — 19 June, 2018 – Legendary boats from seven of the 13 round the world races have gathered in Gothenburg in preparation for a race between the Swedish stopover port of the Volvo Ocean Race, to the Dutch port…
The 2021 edition of the America’s Cup will see the radical AC75 Fly Monohull racing for the first time. The new rules were announced at the end of March, and Emirates Team New Zealand has already unveiled its design in a…
Australia’s sailing stocks are set for a major boost with brother and sister duo Nathan and Haylee Outteridge returning to Olympic class competition in the Nacra 17 at the Kiel Week regatta in Germany, starting tonight (AEST). Australian Sailing Team…
The new Beneteau Figaro 3 yacht is the latest incarnation of the long-standing and innovative Figaro Class. The new Figaro 3 is purpose built in a new custom facility set up by Beneteau to deliver the latest generation of this proven class; a…
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