Clipper Race: Waiting for breeze
The slow start to Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race to Sanya in China has continued over the last 24 hours with no change to the top of the leaderboard – Wendy Tuck’s Sanya Serenity Coast remains in the…
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49er – Nacra 17 – Laser survive first round of 2024 process
World Sailing announced the meeting minutes of the Events Committee today with regard to event review for Paris 2024 and the Committee recommendation is to put up for review the Finn, 470, and RSX, leaving the 49er, 49erFX, Nacra 17,…
Para World Sailing returns in Hyeres
Para World Sailing competition will make its World Cup Series return at the next stop on the global sailing competition in Hyeres, France. Racing in the 2.4 Norlin OD will run from Tuesday 24 through to Saturday 28 April with…
Volvo fleet receives warm welcome to Guangzhou
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet was treated to a warm welcome in Guangzhou, China on Thursday afternoon, after arriving 70 miles up the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong. The Chinese Dongfeng Race Team was in the spotlight for the…
Southport Yacht Club launches Oxenford Watersports Centre
Southport Yacht Club (SYC), along with the Gold Coast City Council, is set to launch a newly developed Watersports Centre at the Regatta’s Waters Lake situated within the Damian Leeding Memorial Park, Oxenford in Queensland. As the club continues to…
Tassie Too returns to the Derwent tomorrow
One of Tasmania’s most famous racing yachts, the 21-foot Restricted Class boat Tassie Too (affectionately referred to as ‘TT’), will once again grace the waters of Hobart’s River Derwent tomorrow morning, Saturday, 3 February. It will be the first sail…
Tasar Victorian Championship for Gippsland Lakes
The Ronstan Tasar Victorian Championship is being held on the Gippsland Lakes in Paynesville over the Labour Day weekend (10-12 March) and is shaping up to being one of the best ones yet. With its magnificent location 296 kilometres east…
Clipper Race: Sanya finds her groove in light wind lottery
A testing first 24 hours of Race 7 as the Clipper Race fleet makes slow progress whilst at the mercy of a light wind lottery, soaring temperatures to contend with and only a light breeze to fill the sails, teams…
Newly formed Land Rover BAR Gladiator makes TP52 debut
Land Rover BAR, the British America's Cup team, will race with Tony Langley's British sailing team Gladiator to compete on the TP52 Racing circuit as Land Rover BAR Gladiator. The newly formed team is gearing up for its racing debut,…
Maserati steaming towards Cape of Storms
At plus 521 miles at 8:21 UTC this morning, Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi 70‘s advantage has grown again (120 miles earned in the last 12 hours) on Lionel Lemonchois, holder of the Hong Kong-London record. The trimaran is still rushing…
Warren Jones Youth Regatta: Boulden and Price seamless on tough day for all
It was a really tough day for Race Management on day three of the 2018 Warren Jones International Youth Regatta, with shifting light winds all day on Perth Waters, meaning PRO Kim Laurence and his team were fully tested as…
World Sailing President reflects on last 12 months
World Sailing President Kim Andersen offers his look back and forward at the end of 2017 with reflection on what is occurring within the international governing body for the sport of sailing. Let me start my first newsletter of 2018…
Entry open – fabulous prizes for 2018 Sydney Harbour Regatta
Entry is open for Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s 13th Sydney Harbour Regatta and competitors will have an opportunity to win the grand prize – a return trip for two to Auckland inclusive of a $500 accommodation voucher courtesy of Air…
Latest fleet and match racing rankings
The World Sailing Fleet Rankings rate skippers based on their performances at World Sailing Graded events over a 24 month period prior to the release date of the Rankings. Top three rankings from the latest release 29 January: 470 Men1….
Maserati barrels towards Cape Town ahead of record
At 21 UTC Maserati Multi70 is at 37 degrees South and 49 degrees East as Giovanni Soldini’s trimaran travels at 23 knots towards Cape Town, which is around 1500 miles away. Soldini’s advantage over Lionel Lemonchois’ record rises to 400…
Land Rover BAR: Getting ahead of the Game in 52 Super Series
The crew of Land Rover Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR), who will be competing in the 52 SUPER SERIES this season, are stepping up their TP52 preparation and training program as they seek to take full advantage of their proven and…
World premiere at Sandringham for designer Ron Holland memoir
Celebrated yacht designer Ron Holland drew his first yacht at 19 years of age and rapidly made a name for himself as one of the most successful and sought-after designers in the highly competitive world of international ocean racing, before…
Clipper Race: Dare to Lead pulls away after Le Mans start
The Forever Tropical Paradise Race may only be in its opening hours, Dare To Lead has managed to pull away and currently has a two nautical mile advantage on the pack which, after the first Le Mans start of the…
Trans-Tasman rivalry for Hardy Cup Sydney International
Some of the best Trans-Tasman youth match racing teams will traverse the continent to be part of two hotly contested Australian match racing regattas, one of those the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s longstanding Hardy Cup Sydney International Match Racing Regatta….
Boulden and Price top dogs at Warren Jones International Youth Regatta
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…
Angel Louise first to complete Great Circle loops of Europe and North America
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…
RORC Caribbean 600 numbers surpass expectation again
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…
Carey and Armstrong win Mirror Nationals on countback
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…
Clipper fleet departs Whitsundays in style
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…
MAPFRE wins the Around Hong Kong Island Race
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…
The King is back – Scott wins Finn class in Miami
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…
Sunshine Coast women’s sailing team head to Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta
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…
Pre-launch of Fareast 37R at boot Düsseldorf
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…
Para sailing moves into next stage towards Paris 2024
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…
New NZ Millennium Cup champion crowned
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…
Festival of Sails attracts sailors from the West
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…
A game of patience at Festival of Sails
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 fights for the win in HGC In-Port Race
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…
Powderhulk retains slender lead in Adams 10 Championship
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…
Miami World Series final approaches
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…
Malcolm Page reflects on first year on the job as Chief of US Olympic Sailing
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…
Sailing contributors named in Australia Day Awards for 2018
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…
Giles Scott one step away from Miami Finn Gold
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…
Festival of Sails reaches its climax
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…
Dramatic finale to Adams 10 Australian Championship
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…
