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ENCA.com South Africa DURBAN – A sudden rain storm and a sudden change in wind speed and direction to a 40-knot southwesterly wind saw a number of boats get into difficulty on Sunday late afternoon around Durban, the National Sea…
Bermuda: Racing for the Bacardi Moth Bermuda National Championship got underway today with overseas visitors stealing the limelight from the locals. British sailor Paul Goodison won all three races contested today, each by a large margin. He holds a 7-point…
No, they are not the latest one-design racing yachts to join fleet racing on Hobart’s River Derwent! The orange-winged craft on the river yesterday afternoon were the first in a fleet of wind and solar-powered autonomous vehicles called Saildrones, unveiled…
Wild Oats wines and bubbles have graced Sail Port Stephens for many years, but now the regatta is getting a taste of the ‘real thing’ – Wild Oats X is lining up for the prestigious NSW IRC Championship for the…
Billy Barnett, OAM, the legendary Sydney Harbour boat builder and 18ft skiff champion, has died in his 103rd year. The funeral will be held on Tuesday 27 March at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium in the North Chapel and a wake…
On the night of Friday, March 9 115 people attended the 50 year Gala Dinner for the Marlay Point Overnight Race at Sporting Legends in Sale where the history of this great event was revisited with the sharing of many…
Vincent Michael Walsh, a 50-year member of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, former board member and boat owner, has died, aged 87, sadly missed by his sailing sons: Michael, Mark, Philip and Martin. Walsh, a property developer who lived…
It was a challenging day for sailors on the first day of the South Australian Youth Championships, hosted by the Largs Bay Sailing Club, with only four races sailed for the majority of the classes. There were a scheduled six…
Race 9, from Qingdao, China, to Seattle, USA, is officially underway after the thick fog cleared and the wind picked up sufficiently to allow for the delayed Le Mans start to take place at 0800 local (midnight UTC) this morning….
The Southern Ocean is beginning to exact a toll on the Volvo Ocean Race fleet as conditions intensify this weekend. The wind is consistently above 30 knots now, with gusts approaching 40 knots and the sea state is rising above…
Bermuda: Joshua Greenslade has won the Bacardi Moth Bermuda National Championship after racing was cancelled today due to very strong winds. Greenslade finished 1 point ahead of local James Doughty while Benn Smith, the youngest competitor in the fleet at…
A strong contingent of South Australian youth sailors will take to the water this weekend as the South Australian Youth Championships get underway at the Largs Bay Sailing Club. A total of five classes will be represented with sailors of…
The sixth day of Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race dawned with a reshuffle of the rankings as MAPFRE and Dongfeng Race Team shot to the front of the fleet. The two feared red boats were rewarded for choosing…
The SuperFoiler title race is on after Euroflex and tech2 finished level at the top on 13 points lighting the fuse for the Expr3ss! SuperFoiler Grand Prix on Sydney.Harbour. “To be equal first after day one, we are happy with…
In the tradition of strong wind Finn racing that transcends and inspires generation after generation of young sailors, the on-board videos that have been published over the past few days from the medal race at the 2018 Finn European Championships…
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet continues its relentless charge east, towards Cape Horn on Thursday, enjoying the best the Southern Ocean has to offer. The teams have been skirting the southern race course boundary and racing in strong but manageable…
Four days into the 7,600-mile leg from Auckland, New Zealand, to Itajaí, Brazil, there has been little let-up for the seven teams as they continue to push ever deeper into the Southern Ocean. A north-easterly wind of 20 and 30…
Following its debut as part of Cork Week in 2016 and a stand-alone event held in Marseille in 2017, the IRC European Championship this year will take place out of one of its spiritual homes. Coming to Cowes for the…
Manila Bulletin. By Nonoy E. Lacson. Zamboanga City – The Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) started yesterday its Second Maritime Security Engagement exercise with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in the waters off Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi in which are aimed…
Bristol, RI – March 20, 2018. The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America’s Cup Hall of Fame welcomes Ken McAlpine to the America’s Cup Hall of Fame as the sole inductee for the Class of 2018. The America’s Cup Hall of…
By Rob Dugdale. BBC Sport. America's Cup captain Sir Ben Ainslie says he has not given up his childhood dream of sailing round the world. Ainslie, 41, who won four Olympic gold medals between 2000 and 2012 as well as…
Speed & Smarts compiler David Dellenbaugh has released his latest issue of Learn the Racing Rules. This resource is designed to help racing sailors understand and apply all the right-of-way rules in the 2017-2020 rulebook. The program includes lots of live…
More than 3000 people tried sailing, many for the first time, with Yachting New Zealand's Volvo Sailing… Have a Go! programme during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover at the Auckland viaduct. Members of the public and school groups went sailing in the…
SunLive. By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz Imagine if you loaned your yacht to the Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club so it could be raced in an international regatta, and it sank – and was unable to be recovered. That's what…
The seven teams were level with the southern tip of New Zealand on Tuesday, having knocked off more than 1,000 miles since leaving Auckland on Sunday. Throughout the fleet, reports were of a marked change in air and sea temperature…
Sandringham Yacht Club (SYC) has stepped up its campaign to get more bodies on boats of all kinds in Victoria, by looking at the bigger picture and offering ingenious ways of enticing people onto the water without it costing an…
Mobile app NEBO has taken the marine world by storm with more than 10,000 skippers across 180 countries now using it to automatically log their voyages. The app has also just upgraded its features to include a unique tracking function…
Valencia, Spain (March 19th, 2018) – This winter’s European M32 racing was rounded off in a fashion which the Valencia fleet have become accustomed to as the championship result was clinched on the final beat, of the final race, on…
The Beneteau Pittwater Regatta is a great day out on the water for Beneteau owners, family and friends. Join in for a fantastic day of racing and a night of live entertainment and dancing. When: Saturday 5th May 2018Where: Royal…
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…
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