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A new windward/leeward course around Yandala and Edwards Islands to the north-east of Hamilton Island benefitted Peter Harburg’s Queensland 100-footer Black Jack. They took a first line honours win off Wild Oats XI from four starts, despite potentially handicapping themselves…
Benjamin Schwartz and Chen Jin Hao's Figaro 2 El Velosolex SL Energies Group finished the 2018 Round Britain and Ireland Race on 23rd August 2018 at 05:01 42 BST in an elapsed time of 10 days 17 hrs 01 mins…
The Brisbane Boat Show opens today at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre South Bank, doors open from 10AM. From today and continuing through the weekend, Queensland’s most comprehensive recreational marine exhibition is filled with everything for boating, cruising, skiing,…
Cowes produced a complete contrast of conditions on the penultimate day of the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes with wind ranging from 5 to 22 knots. However New Moon, BAH 21, (Mark…
Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede sailing his Rustler 36 yacht Matmut rounded the Cape of Good Hope at 20:00 UTC today, the first of three major milestones in this 30,000 mile solo non-stop round the world race. The 73-year…
The overnight leader at the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, John B, BAH 22, (Gavin McKinney, Lars Horn-Johannessen, Mathias Dahlman) extended her lead after a first and a fifth on the third…
Air of tension within the boat park – things are getting serious and the winds dropping allowing the lighter crews the chance to hit the front. After a postponement ten seconds before the start of Race 5, which would have…
A typical Whitsunday winter blessed the Hamilton Island Race Week fleet: sun, wind and whales, to see out the first half of the annual Whitsunday series. The classic long and medium race for IRC division 1 and 2 was a 50…
Defending world champions, John B, BAH 22, (Gavin McKinney, Lars Horn-Johannessen, Mathias Dahlman) put on the best performance on the second day of the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes with a first…
Morning breeze on at Hamilton Island left some opting for an extra layday while those who did venture out in the sou’easterlies were paid handsomely with moderating conditions and another perfect pour of winter sunshine at Hamilton Island Race Week…
From 24-27 August, the Extreme Sailing Series of hydrofoiling GC32 and double-handed Flying Phantom fleets will foil into Cardiff Bay as the headline act of Cardiff Harbour Festival. Racing in an amphitheatre style, inland course with fickle and fluctuating winds,…
Phil Sharp's Class40 Imerys Clean Energy has taken line honours in the 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race in an elapsed time of 8 days 4 hours 14 minutes 49 seconds, winning the Class40 Division and setting a new…
The 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, UK opened Monday with one afternoon race that was won by New Moon, BAH 21, (Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov). Nearly seventy years ago the…
As race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede closes on a very stormy Cape of Good Hope, Race organisers posted two navigation warnings to the fleet on Sunday, and today have raised the southern limit to 42°S from Longitude 40°E to…
An unhurried start gave way to a magic opening race around the Molle Islands group for most of the 233 yacht crews contesting Hamilton Island Race Week 2018. On the water, day one began quietly with all but IRC, Hamilton…
Phil Sharp's Imerys Clean Energy is under 200 miles from the finish, Tony Lawson's Concise 8, skippered by Jack Trigger is stalking the leader. The battle for line honours is expected to conclude today (AUS time) with both teams well…
“Becoming the first Australian yachtsman to sail up the Danube and cross central Europe by river wasn’t part of my original plan,” stated David Haigh who will sail into Townsville on board his 12 metre (40 foot) steel Van De…
Not much information coming through but no need, the Australians revelled in the brisker wind conditions of San Francisco Bay and stormed up the leader board after an earlier showing by the British. It was day four and race three…
In very tricky conditions, Lucy Macgregor and her British Team Mac with teammates Annie Lush, Nicky Walsh, and Kate Macgregor were declared 2018 Women’s Match Racing world champions in Ekaterinburg, Russia, defeating the French Match in Pink by Normandy Elite…
Seven days into the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race and the majority of the fleet still racing is experiencing full-on conditions around Out Stack at Muckle Flugga. The most northerly point of the course is at the same latitude…
After yesterday's Practice Race, the main course began at Richmond Yacht Club, USA and the British contingency is on a high after winning the Team Racing regatta which was the starter for the intrepid skiff sailors enjoying the San Francisco…
Hamilton Island Race Week’s second largest fleet since inauguration has 233 boat crews itching to get off the dock and into forecast trade winds; at least for the first three days of the annual Whitsunday series, August 18 – 25….
Middle Harbour Yacht Club is gearing up for another busy season of youth sailing with a number of programs put in place. Discover Sailing Centre The Club is delighted to welcome back Andrew Phillips who is leading the MHYC Discover…
Ekaterinburg’s famous Verkh-Isetsky pond keeps presenting the sailors with great challenges and the penultimate day of the 2018 Women’s Match Racing World Championship saw the trend continue as the field was reduced to four teams in a strong north-westerly wind….
Six days into the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race, the two leading Class40s have rounded Out Stack off Muckle Flugga, the most northerly part of the 1,805 nautical mile course. Phil Sharp's Class40 Imerys Clean Energy leads the charge…
The top four teams after the round robin earned the rights to play tourist for the day and explore the historic city of Ekaterinburg while the remaining teams fought for the chance to join the top four in the quarter…
Tough conditions have continued for the fleet racing in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race, with competitors reporting 30 knots of wind gusting to 35, with 3-4 metre waves in a confused sea state. As the front runners reach…
Australia’s squad for the first official Tokyo 2020 Olympic test event next month will be headlined by six of the seven sailors who won medals at the 2016 Rio Games, Australian Sailing announced today. The strong squad of 19 also…
Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week surpassed expectations – anyone would be hard put to remember better weather at a regatta, accentuated by the variety of winds, courses and the sunny days. At the top end, winds…
The weekly satellite phone calls are quite revealing. For me as the person usually answering, I must manage a safety call that is not part of the GGR philosophy. It is a satellite phone. The entrants crave the very real…
John Eren, Victorian Minister for Tourism, Sport & Major events, announced that Royal Geelong Yacht Club will host the following world championships during February and March 2020. 2020 49er world championship 2020 49er FX world championship 2020 Nacra world championship…
The second day of round robin sailing in Ekaterinburg, Russia, at the 2018 Women’s Match Racing World Championship saw a change of conditions as the first four teams punched their tickets for the Quarter Finals and will wait for the…
Big breeze has returned to the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race; the leading teams are blasting downwind along the wild west coast of Ireland as the chasing pack round the famous Fastnet Lighthouse, cracking sheets for Mizen Head. Phil…
Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Airlie Beach Race Week comes to a close this afternoon and the final day of racing is likely to be superb, according to Race Director Dennis Thompson, who says competitors will sail in the remnants of…
The nomination period for individuals to submit who they believe should be crowned Rolex World Sailor of the Year is now open. Anyone can nominate male and female sailors in any discipline of the sport. Click here to nominate a…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Fancy owning an America's Cup catamaran? Got a spare $200,000? Then Sir Ben Ainslie is looking for you. The boat is a proven winner and has even been sailed by British royalty. Ainslie is selling the…
Peter Lowe is retiring after more than 55 years in the Australian marine industry, beginning with the start of a five-year shipwright apprenticeship in 1963 at Venables Boatshed in Rose Bay building “Stella” class yachts and moving on to a…
The racing for the 2018 Women’s Match Racing World Championship got underway under cloudy skies with a light rain falling most of the day. But the dark skies did not dim the enthusiasm as the sailors and race officials hit…
The cold front that brought tough conditions to the start of the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race has now passed, with the fleet enjoying bright sunshine yesterday and a relatively calm second night at sea. However, the intensity on…
Our recent on board experience adds new meaning to the term ‘chargrilled’. There is nothing better than the smell of something sizzling away on your barbecue in the cockpit. But when someone asks casually “what’s that funny smell?” You know…
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