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Single-handed round the word sailors Jessica Watson and Ken Gourlay will be among those who will farewell 30 sailors from Australia and Hong Kong on Sunday when the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race fleet of 15 faces starter’s…
Martin Hill’s HillPDA Racing defended its Farr 40 Australian Champion status on Sydney Harbour, four wins and two seconds among eight races tallying up to a final unbeatable score 15 points in the black. Day three video highlights and series…
An intense start saw the seven-boat fleet – back up to full complement with the return of Vestas 11th Hour Racing – sail straight into a 30-knot easterly just hours after the leg start on Sunday. Monday has brought little let-up…
America's Cup sailors Tom Slingsby and Iain “Goobs” jensen are among the Australian contingent to contest the 2018 Moth Worlds in Bermuda. Here is the event media announcement: HAMILTON, Bermuda — An international fleet featuring the reigning two-time world champion…
By Lin Pardey “Have you ever wanted to chuck it all in, give up cruising and move ashore?” I have been asked this question more than once when I happened to meet someone who had just dropped anchor after a…
In a quest for the quiet life on the water, many cruisers give any place popular with tourists a wider berth than a category five cyclone. Unfortunately in doing so, they often deny themselves the opportunity to experience some truly…
The find of my day: long snout, check; slim body in ringed bony segments, reddish tail, check, check. Solitary and cryptic, absolutely. The reeftop pipefish. Camouflage is one of the distinctive features of pipefish, which seems a contradiction of course….
Hobart’s senior racing yachtsman Don Calvert has added yet another two summer pennants to his remarkable career with his 33-year-old Castro 40, Intrigue. Calvert, now in his early 80s, and his long-time crew sailed Intrigue almost perfectly in the perfect…
Twenty one year old Isabelle Quigley became the 18ft Skiffs Queen of the Harbour for 2018 when she teamed with Steve Quigley, Sam Ellis and Scott Babbage in The Kitchen Maker on Sydney Harbour today. The Kitchen Maker and…
Blistering autumn temperatures of 38 degrees and gusty nor’west winds on Sydney Harbour punished Farr 40 crews over four races and spat out those suddenly stranded on the wrong side of a shift on day two of the class’ national…
Sail Port Stephens’ cruisy Commodore's Cup regatta is set for its largest ever fleet when the starter’s flag drops on April 9. With entries still open until 5pm on Thursday March 29, almost 60 yachts are already registered. They range…
Monday 19th March sees the first of the Jeanneau Sun Fast racing yachts start in one of the most challenging double handed yacht races, the Melbourne Osaka Cup. Held every four years, the race covers five and half thousand…
As the Volvo fleet left Auckland on Sunday afternoon, bound for Cape Horn and Itajai in Brazil, all was not well on board several of the yachts. A virus has swept through the race village, with members of the media…
Both Nicholas Heiner, from the Netherlands, and Edward Wright, from Britain, are guaranteed medals at the Open and U23 Finn Europeans in Cadiz after the final day of the Opening Series on Friday. Conditions were again exceptional, with Briton, Ben…
A high pressure system near New Zealand generated a warm autumn day and cloudless Sydney sky that played havoc with day one of the 2017/18 Farr 40 National Championship: John Calvert-Jones Trophy, on Saturday March 17. Race one had to…
A man who has spent the last eight years searching in vain for his missing boat is close to giving up. Paul Sugrue has decided to send recreational divers down to check a shipwreck north-east of Allports Island, just out…
Ed Wright won his second Finn European title on Saturday, in Cadiz, after a spectacular Medal Race in high winds and huge waves that nearly resulted in the race being cancelled. Nicholas Heiner, from the Netherlands, had led all week,…
The crew of three-time Extreme Sailing Series champion, Alinghi, were crowned winners of the opening Act of the 2018 Series today, their first win in Muscat in their eight-year history in the event. After four days of consistently strong sailing…
Alblasserdam, Netherlands: The 106.7m (350ft) three-masted sailing yacht Black Pearl is unlike any yacht the world has ever seen – the unique and complex vessel is the realisation of a discerning owner's vision. She is the result of an elaborate…
Drama struck on the water on Friday in Muscat as two of the season's newly-formed crews collided on the racecourse on the third day of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series™. NZ Extreme Sailing Team and Red Bull Sailing Team collided…
Series veterans and victors were given a run for their money today, Thursday 15th March, in day two of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series Act 1, Muscat. The young pros on board Land Rover BAR Academy, as well as the…
It has been a short but tough race from Sanya to Qingdao, which ended in a dramatic finale for the podium positions for Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup. Six of the eleven Clipper Race teams have now crossed…
When late-starter Sun Hung Kai Scallywag placed fifth, sixth and fifth out of seven boats in the first three legs of the Volvo Ocean Race, many critics smiled. But David Witt and his crew have wiped the grins off their…
Women's Match Racing silver medallist from the 2012 London Olympics, Nina Curtis, was working as a personal trainer at a gym in Washington DC when she received the call from Team Brunel – would she be interested in joining them…
Ben Cornish schooled the Finn fleet in Cádiz on Day 4 of the Open and U23 Finn European Championship with two emphatic race wins in conditions that developed during the day from awesome to epic with huge waves, 20+ knots…
Three-time champions Alinghi dominated on the racetrack today, Wednesday 14th March, in the first day of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series. Having lost out to Danish syndicate SAP Extreme Sailing Team last year, the Swiss team ruled the waves from…
The Clipper Race fleet has been steaming along under spinnaker in a flat sea state towards the finish line of Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup and it looks like PSP Logistics could secure its second consecutive victory today,…
Since Tasmania’s colonial days, regattas have been a significant part of the way of life of sailing Tasmanians, in particular those who live in Hobart, down the D’Entrecasteaux Channel or in beautiful the Huon Valley. Some, such as the Shipwrights…
The breeze finally arrived on the third day of the Open and U23 Finn European Championships in Cádiz, with three testing races in winds building from 15 to 22 knots during the day. Nicholas Heiner, from The Netherlands, extends his…
It was a bittersweet occasion for offshore sailors last weekend, returning to a spot barely ten miles from where their popular colleagues Rob Thomas and Paul Owens died two weeks earlier in a capsize during the Bunbury and return ocean…
As Joanna Breen and Peter Brooks slipped their berth at Sandringham Yacht Club yesterday, readying to start the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race at Portsea today, organisers were in the final throws of preparing festivities for the main…
The award winning new Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 440 will make it’s Australian regatta debut at Sail Port Stephens this April. The 440 is the first of the new era for the Sun Odyssey range. Announced locally at the 2017…
The race to Qingdao is reaching its climax and the Clipper Race teams are pulling out all the stops to gain a tactical advantage in the final stage of Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup. Stealth Mode has been…
As, it seems, like everything the Italian America's Cup syndicate does, they weren't able to keep their biggest signing a secret for long. An Italian newspaper reported that two-time America's Cup winning skipper Jimmy Spithill had been seen in Cagliari…
(Tuesday 13th May, 2018, New Zealand) – Mr Takashi Okura’s New-Zealand-built Sled was the first of the nine latest generation new TP52s to touch the water when it made a splash in Auckland, New Zealand on February 15th. After a…
After another light wind day at the Open and U23 Finn European Championship in Cadiz, Nicholas Heiner, from The Netherlands, continues to hold the overall lead from Brit, Ed Wright, and Facundo Olezza, from Argentina. It was a high scoring…
Entries to arguably the world's most breathtaking sailing rally are open with registrations filling fast for the 2018 Tahiti Pearl Regatta in May. The event, which is sponsored by Multihull Solutions, is staged from 7-12 ay and held on the…
As many as 400 of the world’s best sailors will descend on Auckland, New Zealand, next year for the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships. The event, which will be held at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club from November…
New Zealand has become the latest country to sign up to the United Nations Environment campaign to rid our oceans of plastic. Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage signed up to the campaign, supported by the Volvo Ocean Race, at the…
World ranked Tasmanian sailor Matt Bugg has shown over the weekend he has lost none of his seamanship and tactical skills in the International 2.4mR yacht, the class in which he won a silver medal at the Rio Paralympics. The…
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