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France: Dutch sailor Mark Slats and his Rustler 36 Ophen Maverick took second place in the Golden Globe Race last night, and despite the late hour, received a rousing welcome from Dutch, French and British supporters there to applaud his…
This year’s Superyacht Cup Palma is shaping up as one of the most competitive in recent years, with early interest in June’s celebration of sail already exceeding expectations. With four months to go to the start of Europe’s largest and…
At 19h UTC, Yann Guichard, the skipper of Spindrift 2, contacted his technical team ashore to report damage to the structure of the starboard rudder on the way to challenging for the Jules Verne Trophy. Having made a full assessment…
Racing continues on day two at the NZ Millennium Cup regatta with challenging conditions, a time penalty and then victory for one vessel in an unexpected arena. On a day that started with light air and ended with a battle…
The Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary new F50 set sail on Sydney Harbour for the first time yesterday, as the two-week countdown to SailGP’s inaugural event begins. The session was the first opportunity for the Australia SailGP Team, skippered by Olympic…
Excitement is mounting on Hobart’s picturesque waterfront, as the necessary infrastructure building commences and boats from as far away as the USA begin to arrive for the 2019 MyState Bank Australian Wooden Boat Festival, which opens on Friday 8 February….
With 18 months until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic regatta, now is the time for medal hopefuls to do an honest self-assessment and figure out what weaknesses they need to shore up before the big show. For Jason Waterhouse and Lisa…
Eight Farr 40’s headed offshore to the Manly Circle for the first race of the NSW Championship, and with uncomfortably lumpy conditions and only 5 knots, PRO Steve Tucker quickly moved the fleet back inside Sydney Harbour for the next…
Day one of the first superyacht regatta of the year was raced in beautiful conditions andmoderate breeze at the NZ Millennium Cup regatta today. With the first boat away at 11am, the fleet started off Tapeka Point with three minutes…
Today was yet another outstanding afternoon on Perth water with ideal conditions for racing. A 10 – 14 knot seabreeze for the duration of the eight flights created the perfect opportunity for tight match racing. Today saw the majority of…
Today’s second race for the Finn class at the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami was something of a microcosm of the regatta so far. It was all about surviving the storm and limiting the damage. Only this wasn’t the…
The first superyacht regatta of 2019 was declared open today as the sun set over New Zealand’sBay of Islands. Over the next three days from 31 January to 2 February, adventurous yachts which havemade the journey to the Pacific sailing…
Roland Jourdain, twice winner of the Route du Rhum in the IMOCA category and third placed skipper in the 2000-2001 Vendée Globe, is certainly being kept busy. Based in Concarneau, his firm, Kaïros using its refit yards and coaching services,…
Olympic champions, America’s Cup winners, round the world sailors and a host of former world champions will go head to head next week when the Symonite 2019 OK Dinghy World Championship gets underway at Wakatere Boating Club on Auckland’s North…
The M32 International Class Association has released the dates for a busy 2019 sailing season and the World Championships in Riva, Italy. Schedule:-Pre Worlds 24-25 August-Worlds Measurement 26 August-Worlds Racing 27-30 August Riva del Garda at the northern end of…
The second day of the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta was another day of ideal match racing conditions in the City of Perth. The seabreeze came in right on cue and was a relatively stable 10 – 13 knots all…
Volvo recently installed its 3D printed Living Seawall in the Sydney Harbour to promote marine biodiversity. Approximately half of Sydney’s coast has been converted to manmade seawall over the last 200 years due to increased urbanization, a process that has…
JANUARY 30, 2019 – Montego Bay, Jamaica – Jason Carroll's Argo crossed the finish line in Montego Bay at 14:12:44 ET this afternoon to capture line honors and a new course record in the 34th Pineapple Cup – Montego Bay Race. Argo's elapsed time…
It was a rich get richer sort of day at the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami, and during each of the first two races for the Women’s 49erFX fleet, Alex Maloney and Molly Meech (NZL) found themselves in very…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede wrote his name into the record books by not only winning the 2018 Golden Globe solo non-stop round the world race today, but becoming the oldest in history to complete such a race. The 73-year old…
Young up-and-coming sailors will be racing alongside and against some of the world's best professionals in next month's RORC Caribbean 600. The race is a huge opportunity for their growth, to learn and master the sport. “Any young sailor who…
Day two of the 2019 City of Perth Festival of Sail continued with another day of free sailing in Elizabeth Quay. Over 940 people were able to experience sailing in a fun and safe environment over the Australia Day Weekend….
After 12 days, 14 hours, 58 minutes, Spindrift 2 reached the longitude of Cape Agulhas on Tuesday at 0240 UTC (0340 French Time), sailing from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Whilst maintaining the lead on Francis Joyon and his…
Radio NZ A scientific expedition in the Antarctic has set out on a quest to find Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship. The team has spent the past two weeks investigating the Larsen C Ice Shelf and the continent's biggest iceberg,…
With just three months to go before the 52nd edition of Antigua Sailing Week there is a fantastic line up of yachts entered. Well over one thousand sailors will participate, many flying in from all over the world. Thousands more…
After nearly a month of training and competition on Biscayne Bay, many of the top sailors competing in the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami have seen just about every wind condition Miami has to offer. But that doesn’t make…
The Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron has announced that the inaugural Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race for Super-Maxi, Multihull, Shorthanded, and Cruising Division fleets will be set sail from Moreton Bay on Friday, August 2, 2019. Entries are now open…
On 26th January, 26 boats crossed the line in Hong Kong’s Tai Tam Bay, marking the start of the 2019 Beneteau Four Peaks Race. Compared to the 19 entries for the 2018 edition, the event saw an increase in numbers…
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced a funding boost for marine rescue services in the state with an extra $37.6 million pledged for Marine Rescue NSW (MRNSW) over the next four years. The additional funding will more than double MRNSW’s…
Maritime Executive Workers building the new London-Birmingham high-speed railway line have unearthed the grave of the Royal Navy sailor who gave Australia its name. For 180 years the last resting place of explorer and navigator Captain Matthew Flinders has been…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede endured another tough night with 45 knot winds and 6-7m seas but his Rustler 36 Matmut is now within 100 miles of the finish line at Les Sables d'Olonne and the 73-year old Frenchman is expected…
The largest ever OK Dinghy event ever to be held outside Europe begins in just over 10 days in Auckland, New Zealand. The Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship has attracted 110 entries and is being held at Wakatere Boating Club…
Second placed Golden Globe Race skipper Mark Slats tonight is facing a time penalty for a breach of satellite communication rules, and direct outside assistance from his Dutch team manager Dick Koopmans. Slats is facing a dilemma: To run ahead…
Three days of fine-weather sailing and equally busy evenings came to a close on the Monday of the Australia Day long weekend and sailors from eight to eighty are heading home for a rest following another successful staging of the…
Miami, Florida (January 27, 2019) – Under sunny skies, an 18 knot northwesterly and 10 foot swells it was the IRC and Multihull fleets turn to start the 811 nautical mile Pineapple Cup – Montego Bay Race. At 2:05 ET…
Gusts up to 25 knots came through Geelong’s inner Corio Bay on day two of the annual Festival of Sails regatta, skittling the VX One fleet contesting the Gill VX One Australian Championship. ‘Super Sunday’ had every boat in the…
Miami, Florida: Six teams started the Pineapple Cup–Montego Bay Race at 11:05 ET today under cloudy skies in a 20 knot southerly with 5-7 foot swells, with the Class40 Dragon first across the line, followed closely by Senara and Sin…
In contrast to the almost non-existent wind, which ruined the first day's racing in the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour last Sunday, a southerly wind of more than 25-knots today provided excellent conditions for some fast, action-packed racing…
The Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race line honours contest finished in spectacularly close fashion; four grand prix boats closing in on the finish line within 200 metres of each other in the Festival of Sails’ opening event. Two start lines…
The cheer that erupted for Bay of Islands local, Chris Hornell and his crew on the TP52 Kia Kaha at the CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week prizegiving ceremony last night, was perhaps the loudest in the event’s 17 year…
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