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At 6pm Friday, Tasmanian time, French Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede was 40 miles from the BoatShed.com film gate at Hobart, Tasmania, his Rustler 36 Matmut making 3.7 knots. The 73-year old skipper is expected to sail in to…
Famous America’s Cup challenger Gretel II, now based in Hobart, will return to racing on Sunday in the Channel Race, a 30 nautical mile day race from Hobart down the River Derwent to Bligh Point in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and…
Royal Brighton Yacht Club (RBYC), one of the premier yacht clubs on Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, is extremely proud to announce it is to host the 2019 Finn Gold Cup from 13–21 December 2019. RBYC, working alongside Sail Melbourne and…
Some of the most attractive boats from the classic yachting circuit gathered again on the waters of Saint Tropez to fight for the 8th edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy, the only sailing trophy reserved to 100 years…
They say if you love something you should set it free, and if it comes back it’s yours – and so it happened with Bob Steel and Quest – the valuable TP52 has changed hands backwards and forwards between ‘The…
Hobart’s Friends School has been beaten by just two points in the Interdominion Schools Team Sailing Championships in New Zealand, losing to fellow Australian school, Westminister from Adelaide. The winner of the open division was decided on the final race…
Today marks one month to go until the start of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. On November 4, 124 skippers will be leaving St Malo in Brittany to take on the 3,542-nautical mile course to Point-à-Pitre on the French Caribbean…
CHICAGO – Alex Roepers is extremely proud of each and every one of the three world championships he's captured as an owner-driver within the prestigious Farr 40 Class Association. If Roepers and his top-notch team aboard Plenty can secure another…
The Kiwi Flying Phantom team, Hamilton Huas, helmed by Isaac McHardie and crewed by Tokyo 2020 hopeful Micah Wilkinson, will go down in history as the winner of the first ever Flying Phantom event in China and the Far East….
LONDON – SailGP today set out to redefine sailing with the launch of its new global racing league: five grand prix events featuring six national teams on identical wingsailed F50s – claimed to be the world’s fastest, most technologically advanced…
On October 27, the research schooner Tara will return to her home port in Lorient, Brittany (France), after collecting over 36,000 samples on coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean and sailing more than 100,000 km. The Tara Pacific mission,…
From 80 years of optical performance and innovation, MINOX produces marine binoculars that are precision engineered in Germany and now distributed in Australia by MarinePlus. The Nautic marine binoculars are the latest edition to the range of MINOX Optics, and…
The International Laser Class Association is surprised and disappointed by the announcement today that the World Sailing Board has recommended to select new equipment to replace the Laser and Laser Radial Classes for the one-person dinghy events in the 2024…
On Thursday October 4, some of the most handsome boats from the classic yachting circuit will reunite again on the Cote d'Azur to fight for the 8th edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy. An edition that will feature…
The grace, power and complexity of classic schooners engenders great passion in all who see these wonderful examples of naval architecture, mostly heralding from that golden age of yacht construction in the first decades of the 20th century. In recent…
The battle for the Qingdao top spot continued in China today with the fierce French fighting back against Kiwi-flagged frontrunners Hamilton Huas at the Qingdao Mazarin Cup powered by Extreme Sailing Series. Champagne conditions with up to 15 knots of…
The sporty VX One class is set to add international sparkle to the Festival of Sails in 2019 when a team from the USA, where the class originated, joins a national fleet for the Australian Championship on Geelong’s Corio Bay,…
The next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, scheduled to start in 2021, will include two dynamic classes of boats, more women racing than ever before, and a youth challenge trophy. Initial details have just been released with the Preliminary…
Ahead of the start of the 2018 Route du Rhum, we headed to Lorient, France to catch up with Volvo Ocean Race winner Jérémie Beyou. Having finished third in the 2016 Vendée Globe, he knows the IMOCA class well –…
Geoff Boettcher's stranglehold on the Teakle Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race will be tested next year, as Australia's most in-form racing yacht enters the premier South Australian offshore event for the first time. Reigning Rolex Sydney Hobart…
Nearing the halfway stage of the inaugural Limeburners Point Laser Sailing Club Australia to Fiji shorthanded yacht race Anaconda Australia, a Beneteau First 44.7 with Laser Anaconda 208323 strapped to the deck, as sole entrant, is set for line honours…
Dr Tom Mullholland will follow a pretty simple set of guidelines during his six month circumnavigation of New Zealand – make a difference, have some fun along the way and try not to annoy anyone. He’s bound to achieve the…
The NSW Jeanneau sailing yacht importer Performance Boating Sales has been announced as Dealer of the Year by the Jeanneau factory in France. The dealership received the award in recognition of their sales performance, the successful Australian launch of…
World Sailing, the world governing body of the sport, and Rolex, the leading name in prestige watches that includes watches engineered specifically for sailing, are pleased to announce a line-up of Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2018 nominees that…
Gregor McGuckin arrived into Rockingham, Perth, Western Australia today aboard the Australian frigate HMAS Ballarat following the dismasting of his Biscay 36 yacht Hanley Energy Endurance during a southern ocean storm on 21st September. Speaking at a press conference, the…
It was a tough afternoon on the Flying Phantom racecourse as a carousel of capsizes occurred in the opening races of the Qingdao Mazarin Cup powered by Extreme Sailing Series. Having been unable to race yesterday due to strong winds…
Team Nika became the first team ever to claim a third RC44 World Championship title after Vladimir Prosikhin, tactician Dean Barker and their crew were able to fend off Igor Lah's increasingly threatening Team CEEREF on the final day of…
October 1, 2018 – No less than 109 professional photographers spanning 25 countries have submitted a picture for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2018. The top eighty pictures have been selected two weeks ago by the international jury and published on…
NBC News. By Mary Pflum. Ted Turner has never been one to shy away from a challenge. He’s sailed to victory in America’s Cup races, assembled World Series-winning baseball teams, transformed a modest billboard business into a global media empire,…
Times Columnist. By Jeff Bell. After a two-year wait, 76-year-old Jeanne Socrates is ready to make another attempt at a solo around-the-world sail, without touching land. In 2016, she started the journey twice from Victoria but had to stop both…
Over the past two months, the Chicago Yacht Club (CYC) has investigated the death of Jon Santarelli, one of the crew members aboard Imedi, a TP52 sailboat racing in the 2018 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. CYC formed a Safety…
The vice-grip on Neville Crichton’s Maserati crew unexpectedly loosened when the umpire nabbed the chasing Marcus Blackmore’s Hooligan in the penultimate race of the MC38 season’s Act 4 on Sydney Harbour. A point separated the duelling pair before Hooligan’s disqualification…
Steady conditions opened the doors for some spectacular racing across all classes on day two of the NSW Youth Championships presented by Lake Macquarie City Council. With only a few minor course changes, race officials squeezed in four races across…
Sankt Peter-Ording, Germany: The surf is pushing on the beach and the wind blowing strong as I drive 100km/h with the landyacht as the water bangs against the visor and the breath hangs with the pulse pumping. Full concentration is…
Bandol, France: Fredrik Lööf, from Sweden, has lifted the 2018 OK Dinghy European Championship title with a thrilling last race win, after the title fight went right down to the wire, with Charlie Cumbley (GBR) taking Silver and Thomas Hansson-Mild…
Team Nika became the first team ever to claim a hat trick of RC44 World Championship titles after Vladimir Prosikhin, tactician Dean Barker and their crew fended off Igor Lah's Team CEEREF on the final day of big conditions racing…
The 'Wright of Passage' youth program is designed to assist disengaged and disabled youth to seek skills for future employment and is currently in urgent need of volunteers to help restore its Herreshoff ketch at Woolwich Dock in Sydney. The…
Despite the capricious conditions – with the 200 boats and over 1,500 sailors forced ashore for two days due to strong winds – the 40th edition of the Régates Royales – Trophée Panerai will remain in the regatta’s history books…
Day two of their 2018 World Championship will go down in RC44 history books with three races sailed in waves, and at the top of the wind range, forcing teams to break out their number 3 headsails and small spinnakers….
The best sailing videos produced in 2018 as part of the Mirabaud Sailing Video Award are online and the public is invited to vote from today until October 15, and to elect the best video of the year. Votes for…
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