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Stepping off our tender into the warm tropical waters and walking up the picturesque white, sandy beach through the trees I was not expecting what I saw next. An expansive field of white sand and concrete slabs are all that…
Regardless of where you cruise or the size of your boat, there will be nights when it will roll. Sometimes you make a bad anchorage judgement call. Sometimes the forecast is wrong: yes, it does happen. Sometimes you have no…
“Look here busters, I am looking for a good place to land,” I explained to three seagulls screeching over a cockle. “If this salty washing machine lets me,” I clarified, as much to myself as to the seagulls who were…
After finishing her 2016/17 summer contract with the Australian Antarctic Division, former multihull ocean racing sailor and cofounder of Tasmania’s Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Cathy Hawkins, sailed a monohull, Abel Tasman, 4,427 nautical miles from Australia to Kushiro, Japan. Since…
Expected to sail well in forecast favourable conditions, Comanche, Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant’s super maxi, could smash the record in Race 2 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Audi Centre Blue Water Pointscore series, which starts Saturday at…
Emirates Team New Zealand has formed a separate company to run the America’s Cup in Auckland in 2021. Tina Symmans, who has been a director of Emirates Team New Zealand, is to be Chair of Americas Cup Event Ltd (ACE)….
World Sailing is shocked and disappointed to learn that sailing has not been included by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The decision came (13 September 2018) following an IPC Board meeting earlier this week…
Light wind and rainfall meant that just one race out of 28 scheduled could be completed at Sailing’s World Cup Series Round in Enoshima, Japan. The Laser, Laser Radial and 470 fleets hit the water mid-afternoon as a 5-6 knot…
Tough conditions for day two of the GC32 Villasimius Cup resulted in a long wait before the wind filled in and built to 10 plus knots albeit from an easterly/south-easterly direction that was not forecast. Against expectations, this breeze held,…
With just two races remaining in a testing Laser Masters World Championships, sponsored by DLR, light breeze relief after six days of fresh winds could yet up-end many of the overall leads in the various classes competing on Dublin Bay….
Enoshima, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition, threw a new challenge at the 466 sailors from 44 nations racing at the 2018 World Cup Series Japan Round on Thursday as a light, testing breeze danced across Sagami Bay. Global sailing…
At the prestigious international Beyond Sport Awards, in New York, the programme won in ‘The Best Corporate Campaign or Initiative in Sport for Good’ category. The judges commended the programme for its ‘fantastic use of a global platform to spread…
The new owner of Nandor Fa’s IMOCA, the Belgian skipper, Denis Van Weynbergh hopes to be able to compete in the Globe Series and reach a climax by taking part in the 2020 Vendée Globe. While for a long time,…
A dramatic opening day at the GC32 Villasimius Cup saw two races held before black clouds descended on the race course, causing the wind suddenly to build to 25+ knots from the southwest, kicking up a rough sea state. Deeming…
Following a well-earned rest day, the 301-boat Laser Masters World Championships fleet returned to breezy Dublin Bay today (Thursday 13th September 2018) where class leaders for the most part held their leads with just four races remaining in the event….
Entries are now open as the South Australian Sharpie fleet gets set to host the 76th Australian Sharpie Nationals at the Adelaide Sailing Club. The regatta is taking place from 28 December 2018 through to 6 January 2019 and will…
With the Summer season of sailing now open, here’s what to expect from the Blue Water Pointscore series in 2018. Through the major expansion of tracking technology previously reserved for ocean races such as the Rolex Sydney Hobart, across all…
It would be an understatement to say that everything has gone well on board the MACIF trimaran since she was relaunched on 31 July 2018. After a six-month long refit, with a considerable makeover, “MACIF is no longer the same…
With 35 Olympic medallists and numerous World Champions racing at World Cup Series Enoshima, familiar rivalries have resumed in Japan on the waters of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. Conditions across the opening two days of competition have been…
As the dust just about settles on the Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018, many of the newly-crowned World Champions continue their form at the World Cup Series event in Enoshima, Japan. The 2018 World Cup Series Enoshima is the…
As the 302-strong fleet prepares for a well-earned rest day on Wednesday (12th September 2018) at the Laser Masters World Championships at Dun Laoghaire, nine of the Standard and Radial rig divisions have comfortable overall leaders. The third day of…
Bill Hatfield entered the Gold Coast Seaway yesterday morning at 01:04:28, after spending a tremendous 414 days at sea. Aged 79, Bill arrived at Southport Yacht Club on Monday 10th September 2018 becoming the oldest solo sailor to circumnavigate the…
Celebrating the Gold Coast’s 10th Anniversary Sail Paradise Series, host Club, Southport Yacht Club have opened an early bird race entry fee. There is a count down of 20 days to go to be able to be able to take…
Encouragingly for this year’s Club Marine Pittwater to Paradise Regatta is the level of interest from Queensland boat owners planning to cruise to Sydney then race back north as part of a competitive field. Drew Carruthers’ Rushour is the first…
Derwent Sailing Squadron and Huon Yacht Club’s opening event of the yachting season, the Pipe Opener Series, is celebrating its 50th on Friday week, 21 September, with an added status. Hobart’s Combined Clubs have included the popular Friday night race…
Day 71: Dateline 10.9.2018 – Les Sables d’Olonne, France As Jean-Luc Van Den Heede continues to set the pace across the South Indian Ocean, fellow Frenchman Loïc Lepage docked his Nicholson 32 Laaland in Cape Town, and Finland’s Tapio Lehtinen…
World Sailing and 11th Hour Racing are pleased to announce that a prize of $10,000 USD will be awarded to each winner of the World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award over the next three years to fund their sustainability…
Winter racing on Hobart’s River Derwent for 2018 has ended with a day of exhilarating sailing in a 20 knot west-nor’-wester, gusting to 34 knots. Each of Hobart’s three major club runs a five-race series although the Derwent Sailing Squadron…
Adding two further race wins to his tally, Australia’s Brett Beyer continued to dominate the Standard rig Master class at the Laser Masters World Championships sponsored by DLR on Dublin Bay on Monday (10th September 2018). Despite a shifting breeze…
A French sailor has been rescued from off the East Yorkshire coast after getting into trouble while sailing across the North Sea, reports Dan Kemp for Hull Live. The solo yachtsman was heading down the east coast when the RNLI…
Stuff.co.nz A second Italian challenge for the America's Cup has emerged with Columbus 2021 promising a different approach for the Auckland regatta. Italian media outlets report that the latest challenge will come from the Yacht Club Imperia on the country's north-western coast. It…
Dublin Bay served up a robust opening day to the Laser Masters World Championships sponsored by DLR for the 302 entries from 25 countries that nevertheless enjoyed the planned race programme of two races. Defying winds gusting from 20…
San Francisco (USA) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands), September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, today launched the world’s first ocean cleanup system from San Francisco Bay. The…
Refueling your boat at home is rarely a problem; there are plenty of jetties, fuel barges and marina dock fuel points to choose from, all selling fresh clean fuel. Cruising overseas, however, can be another story. During our travels through…
Multihull Solutions has announced a special offer to boat sellers with three months’ free hardstand on new listings at its successful Out-Of-Water Boat Show on the Gold Coast. The deal presents an opportunity for boat sellers to save money while…
Nineteen of Australia’s top performance sailors will get a valuable taste of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic venue when racing starts at the first official Olympic Test Event on Tuesday. Six of the nation’s seven sailors to win medals at the…
The 2019 edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race will start on Saturday 3rd August 2019, which is two weeks earlier than the original published date. Unusually, the race will now run the week before Lendy Cowes Week, whose dates remain…
Porto Cervo, Italy: The 29th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Rolex Maxi 72 Class World Championship, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with the International Maxi Association and title sponsor Rolex, has concluded. Forty-one…
Porto Cervo, Italy: On the penultimate day of racing a Mistral wind blowing at up to 20 knots provided fantastic racing for the entire fleet of more than 40 boats enrolled in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Rolex Maxi…
Grand Prix Yacht Racing in the Solent UK at the Wight Shipyard One Ton Cup, with carbon fibre race boats driven by famous owner/drivers and top class crew from the world of sailing, is to be held from 13-16 September,…
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