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The City of Perth Festival of Sail kicked off on the weekend with two days of free ‘Discover Sailing’ and ‘Tackers!’ from Elizabeth Quay – and through the combined efforts of Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and Swan River Sailing…
Dartmouth, Devon, UK: Ocean Cruising Club members Ed and Sue Kelly have completed exploration of America’s connecting inland waterways via the American Great Loop in 329 days – their Angel Louise is the first boat known to complete both American…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club's, RORC Caribbean 600 has once again surpassed expectation, with 80 boats from around the world signing up to race in the 10th edition starting on Monday 19th February 2018 from Antigua. Entries from 15 countries…
The 52nd International Mirror Class Australian Championship was held at Kingston Beach Sailing Club in Tasmania from 27-31 December 2017 when two dozen boats from all states except Queensland competed for the title. Ten races were sailed over five days…
The Whitsundays was picture-perfect today for the Clipper Race fleet’s departure, with its blue skies, azure waters and steady winds providing the ideal scene as it bid farewell and headed off for the Le Mans start for Race 7: The…
It was a challenging day for the Volvo Ocean Race teams as they tackled the Around Hong Kong Island Race on Sunday with a generously sized spectator fleet on hand to cheer them on. Light and variable wind shortly after…
Olympic gold medallist Giles Scott confirmed he is still the king of the Finn class with an emphatic win in the Medal Race at the World Cup Series event in Miami today to take Gold by 32 points. Rio Bronze…
The Sunreef Women’s Sailing Team representing Mooloolaba Yacht Club will be competing for the first time at the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) in Victoria in June. The Regatta, hosted by the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron from June 9 to…
Fareast are always seeking breakthroughs in innovation, technology and performance and constantly optimising the manufacturing process using the latest 3D CAD – CAM systems. The company’s huge new five-axis CNC milling machine is now producing aluminium boat moulds; it sets…
Bonn, Germany: The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board concluded two days of meetings and announced Sailing, Cerebral Palsy Football, Golf, and Powerchair Football, have all progressed to the next stage of the sports application process for Paris 2024. The…
The 2018 NZ Millennium Cup has come to a close and Ammonite has taken the series, with former 2016 and 2017 champion Tawera, hot on her heels. Despite a postponed start due to light airs, entries weren’t complaining as a…
Western Australian sailor Phil Slee and his crew are relishing the action both on and off the water, and ticking off a bucket list item at this weekend’s Festival of Sails in Geelong, Victoria. The crew from Koombana Sailing Club…
Geelong’s Corio Bay showcased plenty of summer sizzle in terms of daytime temperature but less in the sense of breeze until a cooling sou’easter finally crossed onto the track on day two of the three-day 175th anniversary Festival of Sails….
Team AkzoNobel took the win in the HGC In-Port Race Hong Kong on a challenging afternoon on the waters of Kowloon Bay. The wind during race time was a 6 to 10 knot Easterly, but it was very shifty and…
The first race of the day started in 10 knots of east nor’ east with the track laid between the Sow & Pigs and North Head. Tom Braidwood and the crew on Backchat found the turbo switch and finished a…
The top 10 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 will race off for the final race live on Saturday January 27th, starting at noon local time in Miami. The three days of racing were a great test, with one day of…
It was almost exactly a year ago that Malcolm Page, a double gold medallist in the 470 class for Australia, took the reins of the US Sailing Team – and wth winds in excess of 30 knots keeping all 10…
ongratulations to Andrew ‘Plymmo’ Plympton and Professor Norman Saunders who were recipients in the Australia Day 2018 Honours List for among other things, their outstand services to sailing. Andrew John Plympton Brighton Vic 3186 – Member (AM) in the General…
After a day off on Friday because of very strong winds, the Finn fleet at the World Cup Series in Miami returned to the water on Saturday with three more races held in some stiff 18-22 knots easterly winds. It…
Royal Geelong Yacht Club successfully staged the 175th anniversary Festival of Sails and conditions for the closing day of the festival, supported again by local business Rex Gorell Land Rover, were very warm but the 300-boat fleet kept moving in…
Tom Braidwood and the crew of Backchat are the new Adams 10 Australian Champions today, dramatically turning the tables on Powderhulk, the team which has topped the results table for the past two days. Two races were held in 10-12…
It was a close call early this afternoon, as Race Officers made the difficult decision on whether to abandon racing on the third and final day of CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week 2018 due to lack of air. In…
chrOniKle is an anecdotal history of the OK Dinghy to celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2017 and it includes 100 stories, many of which are illustrated, drawn from all periods of the class's history. Old stories are complemented by new…
Six Volvo Ocean Race teams will be on the start line of the HGC In-Port Race in Hong Kong on Saturday afternoon local time. MAPFRE, the overall race leader, is also at the top of the In-Port Race Series leaderboard,…
Ammonite has shown her stripes on the first day of the NZ Millennium Cup, when in two close races the first time entry made it clear she's here to win, with crew pulling off slick manouvres to see her hold…
Xabi Fernández’s crew face the HGC In-port race and Around Hong Kong Island Race, being held this weekend (on Saturday and Sunday respectively), and whose combined results will count as one event on the Volvo Ocean Race In-Port Race Series…
The City of Perth Festival of Sail returns to the city front with a blockbuster program of sailing activities taking place from this Saturday, 27th January to Friday, 2nd February 2018. Spectators are encouraged to attend this free event based…
Another delayed start today, with competitors supporting the Race Officer's decision to postpone racing until the breeze had properly filled in, but in the meantime some crews took advantage of the delay to jump in for a swim with the…
Victoria’s Mark Bulka has claimed the 2018 Contender World Championship title after a five day-nine race battle with defending world champion, Mark Beebe from Queensland and was crowned the new champion by fellow McCrae Yacht Club member, Team Emirates Americas…
A bright, clear day over the Bay of Islands set the scene for a race day which changed the series standing of the NZ Millennium Cup 2018. The third and fourth races of the 2018 NZ Millennium Cup showed the…
The Finn fleet at the World Cup Series in Miami is arguably one of the most competitive Finn fleets to attend Miami in more than a decade. It contains five former world champions, four former European champions, four Olympic medallists,…
Matt Allen’s TP52 Ichi Ban picked up an Australia Day honour when the Sydney champion finished the Festival of Sails’ traditional Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race first among the monohulls in a time of four hours 13 minutes. Dave Lorimer’s…
The Warren Jones International Youth Regatta, which takes place on City of Perth waters from 29 January to 2 February, 2018, is open to the world’s best youth sailors under the age of 25 years and offers driven young sailors…
Australia Day on Sydney Harbour just keeps getting bigger every year – both on the water and in the sky – there is something to keep everyone entertained. From a low flying Qantas 380 flyover, to fighter jets, boats decked…
The 2018 Adams 10 Australian Championships are being sailed at Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC) over this Australia Day weekend with seven races scheduled. “The competition will be wide open this year,” said John Roxburgh this morning, just after stepping…
Every year, off-the-beach catamaran sailors flock from as far as north Queensland and northern New South Wales to compete at the Gold Coast’s Fastway Couriers Cat Weekend, hosted at Southport Yacht Club’s Hollywell Sailing Squadron. This year the event will…
Phuket, Thailand: More than 250 sailors representing 21 nationalities have signed-up for the iconic ‘The Bay Regatta’ to be held from 31 January to 4 February, 2018 in Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi provinces. A four day travelling regatta around…
An early sea breeze arrived in time for the first day of CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week after calm conditions initially delayed racing, but then a light breeze filled in from the north east around 11am, allowing racing to…
A two-way battle continues for the 2018 Contender World Championship title, as Mark Bulka and reigning champion, Jason Beebe finished the day with two wins and two second places respectively, giving Bulka a four-point advantage going into the final day….
he Australian arm of the fast-growing RS Aero class of lightweight single-handed dinghy announced on Tuesday that the 2019 RS Aero Worlds are coming to Port Stephens on the New South Wales coast. The weekend of December 14-15, 2019 is…
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