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The frontrunners in the Sydney Noumea Yacht Race are on record pace and the toughest conditions behind them with reports this morning from the fleet of manageable and warm 15 knot SSE winds and settling seas. Four hours after the…
More debris is expected to wash onto beaches along the New South Wales coastline after a cargo ship lost 83 containers. Nappies, sanitary products and surgical masks have already washed ashore after the Liberian ship lost its cargo in extreme…
The sun teased and the wind held steady on the final day of the 2018 Samui Regatta. Race Officer Ross Chisholm set two windward/leewards for the keelboat and multihulls classes off Mae Nam Beach. It's been a week of dominance…
Porto Cervo, Italy: On the third day of the Audi Sailing Champions League, the team representing Circolo della Vela Bari moved to the top of the classification, followed by the Austrians of the Yacht Club Bregenz. Just four flights remain,…
After completing the 48 nautical mile (nm) passage of the Panama Canal, one of the most famous and impressive engineering feats in the world, watching out for basking American and Caiman Crocodiles in Gatun Lake along the way, the fleet…
The seven competing teams in the Volvo Ocean Race are on a fast track towards the finish in The Hague and in less than four weeks’ time, this legendary race will finish in The Netherlands for the very first time…
Porto Cervo, Italy: Competitors and the Race Committee of the Audi Sailing Champions League today had a long and productive day at sea, with no less than five flights concluded and a total of 15 races run, shaking up the…
Generally match races last around 20 minutes and there is a clear winner, but in the 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar 2018, there was a 10 hour long heavyweight maxi bout for line honours between Nicola Paoleschi's Laurie Davidson 69 Pendragon VI…
Samui, Thailand: What a difference a Lay Day makes – sometimes the windiest day of the regatta, yesterday's day off for the keelboats and multihulls was greeted with glorious sunshine, zero breeze and finished in the afternoon with a refreshing…
As the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 builds towards an exciting finish in June in The Hague, organisers can confirm the next edition of the race will start in 2021, under new ownership. Atlant Ocean Racing Spain, led by Richard Brisius,…
The Mediterranean’s largest medium distance offshore race set sail from Livorno, Italy this afternoon with a record-sized fleet. This year, the ninth edition of the 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar has attracted almost 200 boats, of which 20 are maxi boats of…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 31 May 2018. Perfect weather conditions welcomed the sailors competing on the first day of the Audi SAILING Champions League to the waters off Porto Cervo today. The event for teams representing their respective yacht clubs is…
Newsroom.co.nz. By Suzanne McFadden. For the first time in the syndicate's history, Emirates Team New Zealand will build their own America's Cup yachts. The Cup defenders have decided to build the hulls of their two AC75 foiling monohulls in-house for…
ABC News, San Francisco US Coast Guard investigators now have a name to go with debris of a wooden boat that washed ashore in Pacifica on Wednesday, but not much more. For a while, their investigation may have felt more…
CHEK News Canada A sailboat that exploded and caught fire west of the Selkirk Trestle Bridge early Thursday morning has sunk, according to the Victoria Fire Department. Fire crews responded at around 1:18 a.m. after reports of an explosion and…
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (May 30, 2018) – With first (#145 Eärendil) and second (#127 Amhas) place of Leg One of the 2018 Atlantic Cup decided yesterday (May 29, 2018) afternoon it was the turn of the remaining competitors to cross the Angola Cables…
SAMUI, Thailand – Day 3 of the 2018 Samui Regatta started off with a whimper. The storms of yesterday had gone and the sun was out in force, hopes were high for a return to the tropical sailing conditions which…
The Auckland Noumea Yacht Race makes a welcome return this week after a six-year absence but it's hoped this year's edition isn't as dramatic as the last. The monohull Beau Geste sent out a distress call when it suffered major hull damage and…
Preparations are well underway for Australia’s premiere maritime event, the MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival, which will again grace Hobart’s magnificent waterfront from 8 to 11 February next year. “Dozens of wooden boat enthusiasts from the festival’s next featured nation,…
The Sydney Noumea Yacht Race, Australia’s longest fully-crewed yacht race, begins at 1pm on Saturday June 2, 2018 on Sydney Harbour, and across the fleet several rare father-and-son bonding sessions will also commence. Marcus McKay and his son Jai, 18, Marcus’ brother…
A man has escaped serious injury after falling 12m on to his boat while out on the Broadwater near Southport. Emergency services were called at about 11am on Tuesday to assist the man who had fallen from the mast of…
The top three teams in the Volvo Ocean Race are within three points after Bouwe Bekking’s Team Brunel won Leg 9 into Cardiff, Wales to vault into contention for the overall race win. The Leg 9 results also mean a…
SAMUI, Thailand – Early morning thunder and lightning made way for a wet and breezy start to Day 2 of the 2018 Samui Regatta. The four classes lined-up in 10 knots of wind topping out at 15, and it was…
Gothenburg – 29 May 2018: Green Dragon, the first Chinese-backed entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, will join Volvo Open 70s Telefónica Blue and race winner Ericsson 4, plus a host of other historic boats from previous races on the…
May 29 2018 – Jersey City, NJ – A little under 40 nautical miles remain for the leading boats in the 2018 Atlantic Cup! #145 Eärendil, leads #127 Amhas by some six miles as they race north along the New Jersey coastline…
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (May 29, 2018) – With a fleet of 11 Class40s competing in the Atlantic Cup, the French team #145 Eärendil skippered by Catherine Pourre and Pietro Luciani, crossed the Angola Cables finish line first at 17:02:46, with an…
The full fleet of seven Volvo Ocean Race boats has now arrived in Cardiff, Wales, with David Witt’s Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag the final team to cross the finish line in Leg 9 of the Volvo Ocean Race. The team finished…
Preparations are underway for the Australian International Cadet team as training ramps up ahead of the upcoming World Championships in Germany later this year. The team of eight boats and 16 sailors was selected following the qualifying stage during the…
SAMUI, Thailand – The big guns of Asia's racing scene have descended on the Thai tropical island of Samui for the 17th Samui Regatta and the final race in the 2017/18 AsianYachting Grand Prix. Despite an unfortunate cancellation from Frank…
May 27 2018 – Charleston, SC – In the last 24-hours of the Atlantic Cup there's been a significant consolidation in the fleet. Yesterday afternoon the boats were sailing north fast and furiously and were divided into three strategic camps –…
Less than a mile separated Volvo Ocean Race Leg 9 frontrunners Team Brunel and team Akzonobel on Monday as the teams prepared to enter the final 100 miles. After almost eight days of intense racing across the Atlantic from Newport,…
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David Fuller and his international crew of 11 are heading to Townsville Yacht Club’s SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, preparing to take on Paul Clitheroe’s Balance and others in the IRC division – and to experiencing the annual event, now…
Advertisement This 33 metre (108 feet) ketch is in great condition and ready for an adventure. The vessel was built in 1986 in Fiji as an island trader and subsequently converted into a luxury 12 berth cruising boat. The…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has released the Notice of Race for the 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – and already 10 yachts have registered to enter what is arguably the world’s toughest offshore racing challenge. The 2017…
On Lake Garda today, the Schneiter family’s Team Tilt, managed by father Alex and steered by Olympic 49er sailor son Sébastien, was crowned first ever GC32 World Champion. Apart from a brief falter in today’s final race, the Swiss team…
May 27 2018 – Charleston, SC – The first 24 hours of the 2018 Atlantic Cup have been intense. Since leaving the maritime city of Charleston, South Carolina the 11 Class40s competing to cross the Angola Cables Finish Line in New…
Hobart’s winter yacht racing started on Sunday, in classic end-of-autumn/early winter weather – fog on the hills around the city, a wind chill factor of close to zero or below, and a shifty northerly breeze on the River Derwent. Well…
Team AkzoNobel and Team Brunel were racing practically neck and neck on Sunday as the Volvo Ocean Race fleet geared up for a nail-biting Leg 9 finale. With less than 300 miles remaining to the finish line in Cardiff, Wales,…
Quartz Africa After years of being on the decline, piracy off the coast of Somalia is making a comeback. The number of incidents in the Horn of Africa region doubled in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to the…
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