RS Aero World Championship Day 4
Yet another big day out on Weymouth and Portland Bay as we launched into a light northerly, and after one aborted race as the wind switched, we had three more races for the four flights (205 RS Aeros in all)…
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Four teams ready for semis in Lysekil
A very windy Lysekil kept everyone ashore on Friday and prevented any racing. The results from Thursday’s quarter-finals will stand and four teams led by skippers Henriette Koch (DEN), Anna Ostling (SWE), Pauline Courtois (FRA) and Johanna Bergqvist (SWE) are…
Nominations open for 2018 Australian Sailing Awards
The 2018 Australian Sailing Awards will recognise the achievements of members of the sailing and boating community over the past 12 months, as well as acknowledge those who have contributed to our sport for many years. Nominations are now open…
Medals won in some classes at Aarhus Sailing Worlds
Emma Plasschaert won Belgium's first world championship gold in the Laser Radial at the Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 on Friday, proving along the way that Marit Bouwmeester is beatable. On a bright and breezy day in Denmark's Bay…
Light airs mix it up at Airlie Beach Race Week
Competitors in Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week sailed in conditions quite different to yesterday’s when a light 7 plus knot breeze wafted across Pioneer Bay and beyond, giving the light air specialists their chance to shine…
Round Britain and Ireland Race: Guts and glory
The 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race has a record entry of Two Handed and Class40 teams. Twenty-nine teams in total will line up for the start on the Royal Yacht Squadron line in Cowes at noon on Sunday…
Quarter-finals have kicked off in Lysekil Women’s Match
On Thursday, the round-robin ended in spectacular fashion with the last quarter-final spot not decided until the last flight and the quarter-finals kicked off. Eight teams moved on including the Swedish teams of Anna Östling and Johanna Bergqvist. The spectators…
Mixed fortunes for Australians at Aarhus World Championships
The tears rolled down Zsomber Berecz’s face as he crossed the finish line in Denmark’s beautiful Bay of Aarhus on Thursday to win the Finn and Hungary’s first ever medal in one of these quadrennial sailing world championships. It was the first…
Mass start to kick off Airlie Beach Race Week
For the first time in the history of Airlie Beach Race Week, Race Director Denis Thompson and his race management team have organised a mass start for the 119 entries on the opening day, a fine start to the 30th…
Airlie Beach Race Week starts at a cracking pace
What a way to start Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Airlie Beach Race Week – a mass two-line downwind start with billowing spinnakers sailing towards Double Cone Island in a light breeze – and a little sports boat, aptly named ‘Heat’…
Challenging conditions for day two of RS Aero Worlds
Under blue skies and light winds the 205 RS Aeros launched for their Worlds for Day 2 with 3 races set on Weymouth Bay. However, as the fleet reached the race course a shifty 12-18 knots buffeted the race course…
Kiwis to hold month-long foiling camp
Foiling continues to be at the cutting edge of racing technology and it's why the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron will once again hold a month-long international foiling camp at the end of the year. The camp from December 16-January 12 will…
Dane Henriette Koch takes charge of WIM Lysekil in wavering conditions
Day two of Lysekil Women's Match commenced with the 11th flight of the round-robin, and the light and shifting conditions caused some delays. When the wind finally picked up, Henriette Koch (DEN) emerged as the strongest competitor out on the…
Bryant and Wilmot move into second place in 49erFX at Aarhus Worlds
Giant Swede Max Salminen drove home his advantage in the eye of the storm in the Bay of Aarhus on Wednesday to win the last race of the day in the Finn class and establish a potentially decisive eight-point lead for medal…
Eastbourne lifeboat in overnight rescue of pair stranded 26 miles at sea
Monday (6 Aug) proved to be a long and arduous day for the volunteer crew of Eastbourne lifeboats, starting at 08.30 and finishing with a dash 26 miles offshore to rescue a stranded yacht finally returning to station early on…
Will giant cruise ships destroy the wonders their passengers claim to love?
The Guardian. By Rowan Moore. A special kind of shock comes with the shooting of a polar bear. Their magnificence, their appearance of cuddliness, their ferocity, their vulnerability, their anthropomorphism – all combine to make the death of a single…
Strong winds for third day of RS Aero Worlds in Weymouth
Wow, another big day out on the Bay! Yesterday was a long day and today was very physical with another 3 races out on Weymouth Bay. Strong winds kicked up some exciting waves to power through upwind and surf on…
What is HF and SSB? Is it winning the 2018 Golden Globe Race?
Australia is a BIG place and being brought up in South Australia you must sail through the Southern Ocean getting out to sail the world. In the 70’s when I started sailing, your only safety link was High Frequency long…
Favorites at the top of the score board after the first day of Lysekil Women’s Match
Last year’s WIM Series winner Pauline Courtois and her crew maintained a perfect track record, having won all of her matches during the first day here in Lysekil and is at the top of the score board. But it is…
Aussies move into medal positions at Aarhus Worlds
The Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 has its first medal race fleet in the women’s 470 with Japan’s duo of Ai Kondo Yoshida and Miho Yoshioka leading by five points. Yoshida and Yoshioka, fifth in the Rio 2016 Olympics,…
RS Aero Worlds kick off in Weymouth
A whopping 205 RS Aeros representing 16 nations are in Weymouth for the Class’s second World Championship. Racing over 3 fleets RS Aero 5, 7 and 9 and sharing the week with the 170 boat RS Tera Worlds makes this week…
Outteridges happy big brother is watching
How does the youngest child reassure their worried mother? Tell her that she's with her big brother. It is a domestic scene played out around the world and elite sailing is no different, even when you are talking about the…
Golden Globe Race Day 37: East is least…but is West best?
This week should determine who leads the Golden Globe Race. Forget the computer standings. As this fleet of singlehanders bash their way through the South East Trade winds towards the Roaring Forty latitudes of the South Atlantic, all eyes are…
Slow motion finishes as Big Monday stalls in Aarhus
Sailing’s oldest enemy played havoc what was supposed to be the busiest day of theHempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 so far on Monday. The morning forecast for 8-10 knots westerlies, maybe building and swinging to 12 knot south-westerlies by…
Aarhus 2018 Sailing World Championships to break TV viewing record
6 August 2018 (Aarhus, Denmark) – Global TV sports producer and distributor Sunset+Vine has confirmed that the Aarhus 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships is the most successful to date in terms of potential audience reach. This year’s event, which is…
Wild Oats beats Black Jack in Brisbane to Keppel
Wild Oats XI has taken line honours in the 2018 Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race followed 40 minute later by Black Jack in a drifter finish. It’s getting very busy at Keppel Bay Marina as Alive is approaching the finish, and within sight…
Seven questions for Tom Slingsby at Aarhus World Championships
Australia's Laser legend, Tom Slingsby, tells us about what it's like getting back into Olympic racing after six years out, how the weight-gain diet to compete with the Finn giants has been going, and whether his America's Cup plans are…
Three Aussies in top four of Laser at Aarhus Worlds
The intense competition within coach Michael Blackburn's Australian Laser squad is again paying dividends, with three members of the squad vying for the lead at the 2018 Aarhus World Championships. Western Australians Luke Elliott and Matt Wearn are tied for…
The many attractions of Airlie Beach Race Week
Entries have closed and Whitsunday Sailing Club organisers are pleased with the large jump in numbers to 119 received for the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, which for a range of reasons, continues to attract a profusion of boats…
Crankster takes overall victory in Brisbane to Keppel Race
Andrew Wiklunds Farr 40 Crankster is the Overall Winner of the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race after great closing run up the Capricornia coast. The team from the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron completed the race just after Sunset on…
Quarter and Half Tonner Regatta revival in 2019
Gosford Sailing Club (GSC) is pleased to announce it has sponsored the revival of the Ton Yacht Association and as such, will be the organising authority to run the Australian Quarter and Half Tonner Championship on the first weekend of…
Cadet Worlds – Coach’s Blog #9
Well the Worlds are done and dusted and what a great regatta, so thank you Germany. Firstly to the sailing. After being held ashore for the morning, the Race Committee, in their wisdom, decided to launch with the expectancy of…
Light air start for Brisbane to Keppel competitors
As expected, super maxi’s Black Jack and Wild Oats XI are leading the pack in the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Race, but at 9.5-knots, it’s cruising speed only for these 100ft yachts and the rest of the pack. No wind…
Saturday showdown decides 37 Copa del Rey MAPFRE winners
The 37 Copa del Rey MAPFRE will be remembered for its record fleet of 152 yachts representing 29 different countries, with 13 classes racing, and for the first time, five different race areas had to be employed. It marked the…
Competition ramps up at Sailing World Cup Aarhus
After nine months in 65ft Volvo Ocean Race boats chasing each other around the world, Martine Soffiatti Grael (Brazil), Jena Mai Hansen (Denmark) and Tamara Echegoyen Dominguez (Spain) have lost 50 foot in the last month, but gained more familiar…
Cadet Worlds – Coaches Blog #8
A pretty short blog today, as the penultimate day’s sailing was a bit of a fizzer – unusually hot conditions are making the local conditions very frustrating for race management and competitors. Yesterday, as the temperature soared into the 30’s,…
Teams kept on their toes at Copa del Rey MAPFRE
Ever consistent Bay of Palma gave the eight GC32 flying catamaran crews a more complete test on the penultimate day of the Mediterranean's most prestigious multi-class regatta, Copa del Rey MAPFRE. Changeable conditions kept both competitors and race officials on…
It’s do and D-I-Y for new IRC entry in Newport-Coffs
Renowned Coffs Harbour sailor Pierre Gal is putting the finishing touches to a bespoke, “home-made” IRC 34-footer with the aim of using the 2018 Pantaenius Newport Coffs Coast race as its maiden offshore outing. The French expat has spent the…
Pressure on in Aarhus with Olympic selection on minds
Sailing World Championships are often pitched as nations competing against each other, but the real tensions are often within the national teams as individuals begin to try and secure their Olympic selection. The amount at stake for many of the…
Beau Geste closing in on Copa del Rey
Fresh from winning The Hague Offshore Sailing World Championship, Karl Kwok and Team Beau Geste, guided by tactician Gavin Brady, are on course to make their first visit to the Copa del Rey MAPFRE a winning one. With another two…
