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After winds had moderated over much of the weekend, and provide a much-needed respite to the Volvo Ocean Race sailors, Monday showed the Southern Ocean still has some bite. With 1,400 miles to sail to Cape Horn, the fleet is…
The scientific research, using data collected by Race team ‘Turn the Tide on Plastic’, identified 75 particles of microplastics per cubic metre in waters near Hong Kong and 87 particles of microplastics per cubic metre along the coast near Melbourne….
The 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race starting on Sunday 12th August will feature a wide variety of yachts racing under the IRC rating rule as well as one design and open classes, such as IMOCA, Class40 and Multihulls….
The forecast light winds and the busy fishing fleet in the East China Sea continue to frustrate the teams on the third day of racing to Seattle. Culminating in a reshuffle of the leaderboard which sees Visit Seattle take the lead…
Britain's Ocean City, Plymouth, has won the bid to host the start of the next edition of The Transat in 2020, the first and oldest single-handed transatlantic race in history. The historic port on the Devon coast, which has a…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnston. Auckland will host the 2021 America's Cup after an agreement over the structure of the base village was reached by Team NZ, Auckland Council and the Government. It is understood the new village deal comes after…
The Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) is continuing to lead efforts to recover Volvo Ocean Race sailor John Fisher (UK), who was reported overboard off Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag early on Monday afternoon UTC. The Scallywag team, assisted by…
The Bureau of Meteorology has joined forces with New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) to issue a joint Special Climate Statement about unusual weather patterns over summer. This is the first time the two organisations have…
Weather has played a major role in the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Cup this time around. Two out of three starts so far have had to be postponed until the following day because of strong wind. Having had a day…
Since we left Panama and started sailing west across the Pacific it has felt like we were twenty years too late. Paddles had been abandoned for outboards, dugout canoes had been replaced by sleek fibreglass skiffs. Few were the opportunities…
(Sydney) Euroflex has won the inaugural SuperFoiler Championship Crownsealing the Ben Lexcen Trophy after finishing with three wins on the final day ofthe Expr3ss! SuperFoiler Grand Final. “We set out to win, we were made to work hard for it…
Things are starting to look up for the Clipper Race fleet on Day 2 of Race 9; glorious sunshine has emerged after a challenging 24 hours for the teams trying to navigate their way through the notorious Chinese fishing fleet,…
Unfortunately due to extremely strong winds off the coast of Adelaide today, the second and final day of racing at the South Australian Youth Championships was cancelled at 10am. After arriving in the morning to an average wind speed of…
As the winds moderate to 20-25 knots on Sunday, the seven Volvo Ocean Race boats racing through the Southern Ocean towards Cape Horn are taking the opportunity to regroup before the next gale. Bouwe Bekking’s Team Brunel had taken a…
Craig Jelfs from Cromer has won his 7th Australian Championship in the Hartley TS16 Division, making him the only skipper to ever attain this feat. The 53rd Hartley TS16 Australian Championship was held at Portarlington Sailing Club Victoria, in December…
The Sun. By Hugo Gye. THE GOVERNMENT spent at least £200,000 sponsoring a multi-million-pound private sailing team set up by Olympics star Ben Ainslie, The Sun can reveal. Ministers were accused of wasting public money by shovelling cash towards the lucrative…
The Harvard Crimson Two weeks after the Harvard Sailing Center first began sinking into the Charles River in the wake of a powerful Nor’easter, the Harvard sailing team is still without a permanent training facility for the rest of the…
ENCA.com South Africa DURBAN – A sudden rain storm and a sudden change in wind speed and direction to a 40-knot southwesterly wind saw a number of boats get into difficulty on Sunday late afternoon around Durban, the National Sea…
Bermuda: Racing for the Bacardi Moth Bermuda National Championship got underway today with overseas visitors stealing the limelight from the locals. British sailor Paul Goodison won all three races contested today, each by a large margin. He holds a 7-point…
No, they are not the latest one-design racing yachts to join fleet racing on Hobart’s River Derwent! The orange-winged craft on the river yesterday afternoon were the first in a fleet of wind and solar-powered autonomous vehicles called Saildrones, unveiled…
Wild Oats wines and bubbles have graced Sail Port Stephens for many years, but now the regatta is getting a taste of the ‘real thing’ – Wild Oats X is lining up for the prestigious NSW IRC Championship for the…
Billy Barnett, OAM, the legendary Sydney Harbour boat builder and 18ft skiff champion, has died in his 103rd year. The funeral will be held on Tuesday 27 March at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium in the North Chapel and a wake…
On the night of Friday, March 9 115 people attended the 50 year Gala Dinner for the Marlay Point Overnight Race at Sporting Legends in Sale where the history of this great event was revisited with the sharing of many…
Vincent Michael Walsh, a 50-year member of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, former board member and boat owner, has died, aged 87, sadly missed by his sailing sons: Michael, Mark, Philip and Martin. Walsh, a property developer who lived…
It was a challenging day for sailors on the first day of the South Australian Youth Championships, hosted by the Largs Bay Sailing Club, with only four races sailed for the majority of the classes. There were a scheduled six…
Race 9, from Qingdao, China, to Seattle, USA, is officially underway after the thick fog cleared and the wind picked up sufficiently to allow for the delayed Le Mans start to take place at 0800 local (midnight UTC) this morning….
The Southern Ocean is beginning to exact a toll on the Volvo Ocean Race fleet as conditions intensify this weekend. The wind is consistently above 30 knots now, with gusts approaching 40 knots and the sea state is rising above…
Bermuda: Joshua Greenslade has won the Bacardi Moth Bermuda National Championship after racing was cancelled today due to very strong winds. Greenslade finished 1 point ahead of local James Doughty while Benn Smith, the youngest competitor in the fleet at…
A strong contingent of South Australian youth sailors will take to the water this weekend as the South Australian Youth Championships get underway at the Largs Bay Sailing Club. A total of five classes will be represented with sailors of…
The sixth day of Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race dawned with a reshuffle of the rankings as MAPFRE and Dongfeng Race Team shot to the front of the fleet. The two feared red boats were rewarded for choosing…
The SuperFoiler title race is on after Euroflex and tech2 finished level at the top on 13 points lighting the fuse for the Expr3ss! SuperFoiler Grand Prix on Sydney.Harbour. “To be equal first after day one, we are happy with…
In the tradition of strong wind Finn racing that transcends and inspires generation after generation of young sailors, the on-board videos that have been published over the past few days from the medal race at the 2018 Finn European Championships…
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet continues its relentless charge east, towards Cape Horn on Thursday, enjoying the best the Southern Ocean has to offer. The teams have been skirting the southern race course boundary and racing in strong but manageable…
Four days into the 7,600-mile leg from Auckland, New Zealand, to Itajaí, Brazil, there has been little let-up for the seven teams as they continue to push ever deeper into the Southern Ocean. A north-easterly wind of 20 and 30…
Following its debut as part of Cork Week in 2016 and a stand-alone event held in Marseille in 2017, the IRC European Championship this year will take place out of one of its spiritual homes. Coming to Cowes for the…
Manila Bulletin. By Nonoy E. Lacson. Zamboanga City – The Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) started yesterday its Second Maritime Security Engagement exercise with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in the waters off Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi in which are aimed…
Bristol, RI – March 20, 2018. The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America’s Cup Hall of Fame welcomes Ken McAlpine to the America’s Cup Hall of Fame as the sole inductee for the Class of 2018. The America’s Cup Hall of…
By Rob Dugdale. BBC Sport. America's Cup captain Sir Ben Ainslie says he has not given up his childhood dream of sailing round the world. Ainslie, 41, who won four Olympic gold medals between 2000 and 2012 as well as…
Speed & Smarts compiler David Dellenbaugh has released his latest issue of Learn the Racing Rules. This resource is designed to help racing sailors understand and apply all the right-of-way rules in the 2017-2020 rulebook. The program includes lots of live…
More than 3000 people tried sailing, many for the first time, with Yachting New Zealand's Volvo Sailing… Have a Go! programme during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover at the Auckland viaduct. Members of the public and school groups went sailing in the…
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