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While Townsville and other Queensland sailors flock to SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week each year, over half the fleet sails long distances to take part – from New Zealand and Australia wide, they come to enjoy something unique. Townsville Yacht…
2019 is the 50th Anniversary of Gougeon Brothers Inc, USA. 1969 marked a point in the Gougeon brothers’ careers when they applied all they had learned about wooden structures and epoxy technology to manufacturing – for the first time –…
Reigning Olympic gold medallist Tom Burton will enter the first official Tokyo 2020 Test Event next month drawing inspiration from a twist of fate he experienced as a youth sailor almost exactly a decade ago. The Laser ace emerged from…
The 2015 youth world champion, Ondrej Teply leads the first ever international Finn championship in Slovenia after two races on Monday in a very unstable Bora wind. The 2018 U23 Finn World Championship for the Finn Silver Cup opened to…
DAY 58: Dateline 20:00 UTC – Les Sables d’Olonne, France Golden Globe Race skipper Are Wiig made a satellite phone call to Race HQ at 16:30 UTC today to report that his 32ft yacht Olleanna had been rolled through 360°…
Having climbed the ranks throughout the Extreme Sailing Series Cardiff Act, Alinghi – the Swiss kings of foiling – seized victory from the clutches of SAP Extreme Sailing Team on the final day of the event. In a nail-biting finish…
Giles Redpath's Lombard 46 Pata Negra is the overall winner of the 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Pata Negra scored the best corrected time for yachts racing under the IRC Rating Rule for the 1,805 nautical mile non-stop…
August 24, 2018 – Newport Rhode Island – The inaugural Narragansett Bay Classic Yacht Rendezvous and the 39th Annual Panerai Newport Classic Yacht Regatta finished today in perfect conditions following the well attended Classic Yacht Parade and spectacular day of racing on…
Fancy yourself as a bit of a painter but would like to learn from an artist whose latest works incorporate shipwreck dramatisations? If you are in the vicinity of Devonport, Tasmania, then this workshop is for you. To be held…
Simon Harwood's Prima 38 Talisman, sailed by a student crew from Oxford University Yacht Club finished the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race on Saturday 25th August at 13:34 BST, completing the race in an elapsed time of 13 days…
The Bellerive Yacht Club/Hobart Jaguar Land Rover Winter Series ended today in its freshest breeze of the winter, and overall pennant wins for Tas Paints, Trouble and Moonshadow. The 15-20 knot NNW breeze, with the occasional gust to 28 knots….
Cardiff Bay was alive with action today, as two boats capsized within moments of each other on the Extreme Sailing Series racecourse. Charging downwind on the third race of the day (race 19), the Omani boat and Team Wales were…
Saturday, 25 August 2018 was a significant day for prominent Hobart yachtsmen Stephen ‘Rowdy’ McCullum and Stewart Gray, and for worldwide sail makers, North Sails. McCullum has joined Gray as principals of 42ºSouth Marine which operates the Hobart loft of…
A team of five boys and two girls represented Australia in the massive line of teenage sailors who contested the 2018 Laser Radial World Youth Championships at Kiel, Germany last week – 269 boys and 96 girls. The young Australians…
A New Zealand crew won the JJ Giltinans this year for the first time in 44 years, considered the world championships of 18-foot skiff racing, when the Honda Marine team of Dave McDiarmid, Matt Steven and Brad Collins finished only…
MIAMI — The Coast Guard, along with the Royal Bahamas Defense Force rescued two overdue boaters approximately 22 miles north of Freeport, Bahamas Thursday. Rescued were Sasha McPhee, 37, and Jerome Burrows, 37, both from the Bahamas. At approximately 8…
Fifteen divisions, 233 boats and close to 2,000 sailors from Australia, New Zealand and around the world spent Hamilton Island Race Week in the Whitsundays dashing around tropical islands with only saltwater hitting the decks, until the final afternoon rainstorm…
Four titles were won at the Laser Radial Youth World Championships in Kiel, Germany, and pointedly, three of them went to Italy, with one to Britain, sailors spoilt with all types of conditions from strong to light, shifting winds. “Therefore,…
Finishing the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race is a massive achievement and there was elation on the dock and a few tears of joy on the 13th day of the gruelling 1,805 nautical mile race. A huge reception dockside…
New Moon (Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov, BAH) has won 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, after a thrilling final day of racing in the Solent. Marie-Françoise XIX, (Jürg Menzi, Jurgen Eiermann,…
With so many now in the country, Marcus Blackmore has confirmed a TP52 circuit for Australia, starting in November. “The owners have talked and we’re going to start with three – one in Sydney, one in Pittwater and one in…
Multiple divisions at Hamilton Island Race week are going into the final race on Saturday needing those last points to cement victory, while in a couple of divisions the winners are already quietly celebrating. Ray ‘Hollywood’ Roberts’ Fast 40 Team…
Wind and waves increased quite a bit on Friday, and a storm front approaching Kiel in Germany on the second last day of the Laser Radial Youth Worlds after the first race had finished, but passed as the boats waited…
Ross Applebey's Oyster 48, Scarlet Oyster, completed the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race on Thursday 23 August in just under 11 days, to take third place overall after IRC time correction. It was a sweet moment for the crew,…
A new windward/leeward course around Yandala and Edwards Islands to the north-east of Hamilton Island benefitted Peter Harburg’s Queensland 100-footer Black Jack. They took a first line honours win off Wild Oats XI from four starts, despite potentially handicapping themselves…
Benjamin Schwartz and Chen Jin Hao's Figaro 2 El Velosolex SL Energies Group finished the 2018 Round Britain and Ireland Race on 23rd August 2018 at 05:01 42 BST in an elapsed time of 10 days 17 hrs 01 mins…
The Brisbane Boat Show opens today at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre South Bank, doors open from 10AM. From today and continuing through the weekend, Queensland’s most comprehensive recreational marine exhibition is filled with everything for boating, cruising, skiing,…
Cowes produced a complete contrast of conditions on the penultimate day of the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes with wind ranging from 5 to 22 knots. However New Moon, BAH 21, (Mark…
Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede sailing his Rustler 36 yacht Matmut rounded the Cape of Good Hope at 20:00 UTC today, the first of three major milestones in this 30,000 mile solo non-stop round the world race. The 73-year…
The overnight leader at the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, John B, BAH 22, (Gavin McKinney, Lars Horn-Johannessen, Mathias Dahlman) extended her lead after a first and a fifth on the third…
Air of tension within the boat park – things are getting serious and the winds dropping allowing the lighter crews the chance to hit the front. After a postponement ten seconds before the start of Race 5, which would have…
A typical Whitsunday winter blessed the Hamilton Island Race Week fleet: sun, wind and whales, to see out the first half of the annual Whitsunday series. The classic long and medium race for IRC division 1 and 2 was a 50…
Defending world champions, John B, BAH 22, (Gavin McKinney, Lars Horn-Johannessen, Mathias Dahlman) put on the best performance on the second day of the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes with a first…
Morning breeze on at Hamilton Island left some opting for an extra layday while those who did venture out in the sou’easterlies were paid handsomely with moderating conditions and another perfect pour of winter sunshine at Hamilton Island Race Week…
From 24-27 August, the Extreme Sailing Series of hydrofoiling GC32 and double-handed Flying Phantom fleets will foil into Cardiff Bay as the headline act of Cardiff Harbour Festival. Racing in an amphitheatre style, inland course with fickle and fluctuating winds,…
Phil Sharp's Class40 Imerys Clean Energy has taken line honours in the 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race in an elapsed time of 8 days 4 hours 14 minutes 49 seconds, winning the Class40 Division and setting a new…
The 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, UK opened Monday with one afternoon race that was won by New Moon, BAH 21, (Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov). Nearly seventy years ago the…
As race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede closes on a very stormy Cape of Good Hope, Race organisers posted two navigation warnings to the fleet on Sunday, and today have raised the southern limit to 42°S from Longitude 40°E to…
An unhurried start gave way to a magic opening race around the Molle Islands group for most of the 233 yacht crews contesting Hamilton Island Race Week 2018. On the water, day one began quietly with all but IRC, Hamilton…
Phil Sharp's Imerys Clean Energy is under 200 miles from the finish, Tony Lawson's Concise 8, skippered by Jack Trigger is stalking the leader. The battle for line honours is expected to conclude today (AUS time) with both teams well…
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