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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…
Responding to feedback from users globally, the popular boating app NEBO has released a host of new features aiming to build a safer and more connected global boating community. Primarily designed as a tool to automate logging boating voyages with…
The leaders in the New Caledonia Groupama Race are stretching away from those stuck in the glue-pot further south, further cementing the sixth edition of the biennial offshore event in the South Pacific as a big boat race. Three groups…
Britain’s America’s Cup team, INEOS TEAM UK, is set to join the 2018 GC32 Racing Tour. Four-time Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie will be at the helm for the team’s debut in the 32ft foiling catamarans, later this month at…
Karolina Skog, Swedish Government Minister for the Environment, revealed that the Swedish Government has allocated €7.8 million to 15 projects related to Ocean health at the event in the Volvo Ocean Race Village. Karolina Skog said: “The Swedish government has…
ARC Europe 2018 ended with a packed final prizegiving dinner at Marina de Lagos on Sunday 17th June where crews from 19 yachts enjoyed a celebratory end to a memorable rally. Being a multi leg event sailing west to east…
The Golden Globe Race village in Les Sables d’Olonne opened with a bang over the weekend as 9,000 visitors welcomed 17 of the GGR skippers into town at the end the SITRaN Challenge Race from Falmouth, UK The greatest applause…
Officials from Whitsunday Sailing Club are gearing up for possible record numbers and a ‘Clash of the Titans’ between the top two TP52’s in the country at the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, to be held from 9-16 August….
“In water” construction at the new Margate Marina at Barretta south of Hobart has now started with the installation of the first piers and floating pontoons. This redevelopment of Margate Marina represents one of Tasmania’s biggest recreational boating investments, creating…
It was success in Spain for three-time Extreme Sailing Series champions Alinghi, as they took their second Act win of the 2018 season today in Barcelona. The four-day event saw the Swiss shine on the water under the Spanish sun,…
The sixth New Caledonia Groupama Race for a fleet of 23 boats started in a balmy paradise, the procession of multihulls and monohulls setting off to complete an inshore triangle along the spectator zone before Brian Peterson’s Elliott 50 Ran…
A great day of racing for MAPFRE in Gothenburg. The penultimate In-Port Race of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18, establishes Xabi Fernández and his team the mathematical champions of the In-Port Race Series, with their tenth podium position out of…
A large scale search and rescue operation launched by HM Coastguard this morning has found the missing yacht ‘Cariberia’ safe and well off the coast of Shetland. Mid Yell, Lerwick and Hillswick Coastguard Rescue Teams, Lerwick RNLI All Weather Lifeboat…
New Zealand’s red-hulled Miss Scarlet is charging north along the eastern side of the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia and holding a 10 nautical mile gap over their fellow Kiwis on Ran Tan in the 654 nautical mile Groupama…
Noumea’s Port Moselle is bustling on the eve of the sixth New Caledonia Groupama Race for a strong fleet of 23 boats, half of those from Australia and New Zealand thanks to two feeder races. The New Caledonia course takes…
The combination of a light south-east wind and more than a knot of current flowing out of Narragansett Bay pushed the fleet of boats starting the 51st Newport Bermuda Race on their way towards Bermuda on Friday afternoon, with few…
The penultimate day of Act 3, Barcelona, had fans glued to the racing as two of the event’s main contenders made contact on the course. Speeding towards the windward mark on opposing tacks, the Omani team and Red Bull Sailing…
The final Clipper Race teams – Qingdao, Visit Seattle, Dare To Lead and Liverpool 2018 – have arrived into New York to wrap up the US Coast-to-Coast Leg 7, the penultimate stage of the Clipper 2017-18 Race. And it was…
With the Volvo Ocean Race making its fourth visit to Gothenburg, race fans will be treated to spectacular racing on a course at the mouth of the Gota alv, the river that bisects the city. As the home of Volvo,…
Sailing Team coach Karyn Gojnich believes the athletes named to compete at the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina later this year will gain a range of valuable lessons for the future, while doing their utmost to make their mark against…
The annual Barmouth to Fort William 3 Peaks Yacht Race is always a great test of endurance, in both sailing and running, and this year the weather conditions for the race pushed teams to the limits to cope with the…
There's cause for celebration today in Barcelona, as home team Spanish Impulse finished day two of Act 3 on a high, clocking podium finishes in both the first and last races of the day. As the crowds on the coastline…
Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula is set to host the most exciting school sailing event in the country when more than 24 teams, including some of Australia’s best youth sailors, compete in the Australian Schools Team Sailing Championship…
After ten days and 1,900 nautical miles, PSP Logistics has powered home to take victory in Race 11: Nasdaq Race from Panama to New York. The PSP Logistics team, skippered by Matt Mitchell, crossed the finish line off the east…
In little under a month François Gabart will be back at the helm of his MACIF trimaran, after a substantial optimization refit which will be complete at the end of July. “I’m impatient to see the result of all this…
Fifty years to the day after Sir Robin Knox-Johnston set out from Falmouth UK in his rugged 32ft yacht Suhaili to become the first man to sail solo non-stop around the Globe, the British master mariner returned to lead a…
Genoa, 14 June 2018 – Crossing the finish line today at 13:19.55 CEST, the Wallycento Tango won an epic contest for line honours at the 2018 Rolex Giraglia. Tango finished the 241-nm race a little over nine minutes ahead of…
Thirty-two of the thirty-four yachts that departed from Southport on the Gold Coast, Australia with the Down Under ‘Go East’ Rally on May 15th 2018 have arrived in New Caledonia. Two vessels returned to Southport soon after departing with autopilot failure….
The first day of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series Act 3, Barcelona did not disappoint, with big breeze propelling the high-speed GC32 catamarans around the course from the word go. Incredible wind and boat speed throughout the day saw the…
Skipper Bouwe Bekking led his team to a win in Leg 10 of the Volvo Ocean Race over Xabi Fernández's MAPFRE squad, who claimed second place, less than two-minutes behind. The results mean MAPFRE and Team Brunel sit equal at…
Maritime Safety Queensland issues a regular newsletter which often contains good articles that are of interest to the sailing community. Here's one from their latest about coping with silting at the entrance to the Mooloolah River at Mooloolaba, north of Brisbane….
The Clipper Race fleet leading pack has entered what should be the final 24 hours of Race 11: Nasdaq Race from Panama to New York, but finishing positions are still very much up for grabs. Just like the majority of…
Spanish team MAPFRE shot into the lead of the penultimate Volvo Ocean Race leg as the fleet rocketed round the coast of Scotland on Wednesday. The painfully light and fickle winds that dogged the seven teams on Tuesday as they…
June 11th, Juan Kouyoumdjian and his team, in collaboration with Nautor Swan and its Chairman Leonardo Ferragamo, presented the new ClubSwan36: a sailing yacht they claim is at the forefront of innovation “featuring the classic racing styles of the brand”. The…
Saint-Tropez, 13 June 2018 – Saint-Tropez bid farewell to the Rolex Giraglia for another year when an international fleet of 212 yachts commenced today’s 66th running of the 241-nm offshore race to Genoa, Italy. Following four start sequences played out…
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC) has appointed a new Chairman to the helm of the 2019 Festival of Sails. Stuart Dickson, who has been chairman of the Wooden Boat Festival since its inauguration in 2005, takes over the role…
Brian Petersen described it as “horrible” at times as his team battled terrible weather and sea conditions but Ran Tan II did enough to take out line honours in this year's Auckland Noumea Yacht Race. The Elliott 50 completed the 998 nautical mile…
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