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The best 80 yacht racing pictures selected by our international jury and taken in 2018 are now online. The public is kindly invited to vote for their favorite image! Click here to discover this year’s selection. The winning images and the world’s…
South China Morning Post. By Denise Tsang. Boats were among the biggest casualties of Typhoon Mangkhut in Hong Kong, with hundreds washed ashore, damaged or sunk, while at a yacht club the devastation was such that staff had to swim…
The Navy Times. By: Dusan Stojanovic, The Associated Press. TIVAT, Montenegro — Montenegro and Croatia have resolved almost all of their differences more than two decades after fighting a war, except for one: a dispute over an 85-year-old former Royal…
The 98 sailors from 39 nations racing at the 2019 Para World Sailing Championships in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA had a cool introduction to Lake Michigan as racing across the four fleets got underway. Unseasonably warm temperatures had blessed Sheboygan in…
Canberra Times. By Matthew Knott. New York: Marine archaeologists believe they have finally identified the resting place of HMB Endeavour, the ship James Cook commanded to Australia on his first voyage of discovery, an achievement that would solve one of the…
73-year old Jean-Luc Van Den Heede continues to defy his age and best efforts of the chasing pack of Golden Globe Race skippers to extend his lead across the South Indian Ocean to 9+ days over the past week. The…
Currently in Queensland there is no real opportunity for people living with a disability to become involved in competitive sailing. The QPSA is the brainchild of Southport Yacht Club members Ross Manning and Matt Speakman, both Para Sailors who race…
Day 1 of the Australian Women’s Match Racing Championship, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), has delivered a perfect scorecard for sister combo, Juliet and Clare Costanzo from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC). Along with…
A record 98 sailors from 39 nations will race at the Para World Sailing Championships in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA from 18-22 September 2018. Sheboygan Yacht Club and the waters of Lake Michigan will welcome numerous Paralympic and World Championship medallists…
Light winds on the GC32 Villasimius Cup’s final day may not have provided the same top speed foiling action of the previous three days, but there was high drama across the leaderboard during today’s three races with first place changing…
Japan’s Keiju Okada and Jumpei Hokazono won gold in the Men’s 470 as the World Cup Series Enoshima, the first major event on Tokyo 2020 Olympic waters, came to a tame finish. The Japanese held an eight-point lead over Australian…
It is 100 days out from the 1pm Boxing Day start of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and already a fleet of 48 includes last year’s winner, three super maxis, nine internationals…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 16 September 2018. The final day of the 20th edition of the Rolex Swan Cup decreed the winners in each of the six categories that the fleet of 110 boats from 17 nations was divided into. The…
Mashable. By Rayne Ellis. How much plastic does it take to kill a sea turtle? According to new research, it doesn't take very much. A study published in the journal Nature Thursday found that sea turtles have a 50 percent…
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Matt Allen’s TP52 Ichi Ban has claimed IRC and ORCi Division victories in this year’s Flinders Islet Race, the second event in the Blue Water Pointscore (ACSBWPS) series. This year’s race became a 90-nautical-mile maritime drag race, and with the…
A fire that ripped through a Lane Cove Skiff Club boat storage shed on Sydney's North Shore in the early hours of Sunday morning has been blamed on an arsonist, with social media posts suggesting “view enhancement” may have been…
Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant's 100-footer Comanche has broken the race record and claimed line honours in the Flinders Islet Race, competing in the race for the first time. Crossing the Sydney Harbour finish line just 6 hours, 28 minutes…
Stand-out teams on the third and penultimate day of the GC32 Villasimius Cup were Realteam and Erik Maris’ Zoulou – the pair ascended the leaderboard to claim the second and third spots, still in contact with Franck Cammas’ overall leader,…
Five of 10 podiums were completed on Saturday after the first day of Medal Races at the World Cup Series event in Enoshima, Japan and Australia’s Jason Waterhouse/Lisa Darmanin coming from second all week to take Gold. Enoshima and Sagami…
Dublin, Ireland: After a touch and go battle with light winds on Dublin Bay, both course areas delivered a final race to round off the Laser Masters World Championships sponsored by DLR on Saturday afternoon local time. The 11th race…
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…
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