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1 May 2018 Dear Board, Council and Committee members and MNAs, Over the past month, there has been a major debate surrounding the revision and selection process of our events at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. With the upcoming Board…
Yesterday, the goal for the leading group was to be the first to pick up the northeast trade winds and Brunel has done just that. “Not very stable trade winds, very shifty and cloudy,” skipper Bouwe Bekking reported on Tuesday…
The preliminary results of the Volvo Ocean Race Science Program found 360 particles of microplastics per cubic metre in the sample from the South China Sea, an area that feeds into the Great Pacific Ocean Gyre. The Great Pacific Ocean…
Race 10: The Garmin American Challenge from Seattle to Panama is officially underway after the Clipper Race fleet had a successful Le Mans start off the northwest coast of the USA. Although the fleet remains close together, a split has…
Beds on Board, the sharing economy platform that connects guests and owners for stays on boats, welcomes the release by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) of the consultation draft of the proposed “Marine Safety (Short term marina accommodation)…
Auckland, New Zealand – In just over 10 months’ time the International OK Dinghy fleet will descend on Auckland, New Zealand, to contest the 2019 OK Dinghy World Championship, bringing with them the friendship and competitiveness that make the OKs…
PATTAYA, Thailand – The 2018 Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina has lived up to its reputation for delivering close and competitive racing, and this year the weather made the racing even tougher. Over the past four…
The Clipper Race fleet is making good progress towards the start line of Race 10: The Garmin American Challenge to Panama, after bidding Seattle a fond farewell. Visit Seattle gave its home port one last show by winning the short course…
PATTAYA, Thailand – All the fleet are playing catch-up in their respective series after two days of unseasonal weather in the Gulf of Thailand and race officers on the keelboat and multihull, dinghy and Optimist courses were eager to get…
Just over a week into Leg 8 from Itajaí, Brazil, to Newport, USA, Charlie Enright’s American crew crossed into the northern hemisphere at 10:39:40 UTC followed closely by Team Brunel and Turn the Tide on Plastic. MAPFRE, Dongfeng Race Team…
Vestas 11th Hour Racing has had a productive 24 hours on Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race, cutting its deficit to leader Turn the Tide on Plastic in half. Now trailing by just 5 miles, and sailing in more…
PATTAYA, Thailand – The blue skies and tropical conditions for which the Top of the Gulf Regatta is known failed to show up on Day 1 as a downpour which started the evening before never let up all day, making…
Eight gold medals were decided on the penultimate day of racing at the third round of Sailing's World Cup Series in Hyères, France. Six Medal Races produced six final podiums with the other two gold medals being claimed by…
INEOS, one of UK’s and the world’s largest petrochemicals and manufacturing companies, is launching a challenge for the 2021 America’s Cup. INEOS has formed INEOS Team GB to compete for the trophy and is committed to spending £110 million –…
Dee Caffari’s crew set themselves up as the most easterly boat as the seven-strong fleet climb up the coast of Brazil bound for the finish in Newport, USA, some 4,000 miles away. Caffari and Turn the Tide on Plastic navigator…
A grand gathering of IRC boats is expected in Cowes mid-June for the first IRC European Championship ever to be held on the Solent. This stretch of water represents the spiritual home of IRC, the rating rule which the Royal…
The South of France delivered a sensational day of sunshine and some stable breeze, living up to its name as a famous sailing location on the fourth day of competition at Sailing's World Cup Series in Hyères, France. After…
All eyes will be on the newly-launched radical Rán VII as the Fast40+ class counts down to the start of the 2018 season in the Solent this weekend (Friday, April 27- Sunday, April 29). The renowned Rán Racing team will…
Over the past 48 hours each team has thrown their cards on the table, lining up west to east and committing to the routing they think will best fire them towards the steady, favourable breeze the trade winds offer. Team…
The third day of competition at round three of Sailing’s World Cup Series in Hyères, France provided further challenges for the competitors as light winds continued to dominate. The 647 sailors from 46 nations racing across the ten Olympic disciplines…
Departing Southport Yacht Club (SYC) on May 14 2018, the 780nm Down Under Rally voyage will commence, heading for New Caledonia, with an estimated arrival date of 21 May 2018. The Go East Rally provides participants with the opportunity to…
The leading pair were the most easterly boats as the seven-strong fleet approached an oil field exclusion zone 100 miles off Rio’s coast, enabling them to continue make headway north for longer while their rivals were forced to tack. At…
At 20:35 local time the last of the 647 sailors from 46 nations competing at the third round of Sailing’s World Cup Series in Hyères, France got back to the dock, marking the end of a long and challenging day….
Simon Walker has sailed around the world the ‘wrong way’ twice and was skipper of the Toshiba Wave Warrior in the 1996/7 BT Global Challenge, where he was the youngest skipper in the fleet and finished 2nd. He won the…
BBC News The director of a yacht management company has been cleared of the manslaughter of four men who died when their vessel capsized in the Atlantic. The crew of the Cheeki Rafiki died after the 40ft vessel lost its…
The Gold Coast Waterways Authority (GCWA) has announced that the contract for latest dredging project on the Gold Coast Seaway has been awarded to local Gold Coast company, Neumann Contractors Pty Ltd. The $500,000 project will see dredging work on…
The Victorian government has announced that four marine search and rescue units in Victoria’s south-west will receive new boats as part of the $11.3 million funding package unveiled late last year. The four rescue units are Port Fairy Marine Rescue…
The famed anticyclone is renowned for dominating the South Atlantic and making tricky sailing for Volvo Ocean Race teams heading north or south. Constantly expanding and contracting, the St Helena High – also known as the South Atlantic High Pressure…
The opening scene at the third round of Sailing’s World Cup Series in Hyères, France saw the 647 sailors from 46 nations remain cautious as they laid down markers to build on for a full week of competition. In a…
Following a big send-off from Itajai, Brazil, on Sunday, the seven-strong fleet – back up to full complement with the welcome return of Vestas 11th Hour Racing and Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag – faced a tricky opening night of unpredictable weather. There…
Searching for a Cyclone The ORCV Race Management Team for the 2018 Melbourne to Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race includes 6 Duty Race Directors and 2 Fleet Weather Officers – Robin Hewitt & Andrew Roberts. Robin and Andrew are on a…
Tony Lawson's Team Concise has entered the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race starting in Cowes on Sunday 12th August 2018. Both the MOD70 Concise 10 and Class40 Concise 8 will take on the non-stop 1800-nautical mile race – one…
It was a familiar sight on Sunday afternoon in Itajaí, where the two red boats at the top of the Volvo Ocean Race leaderboard set the pace at the start of Leg 8 to Newport, Rhode Island on the east…
Hyères will heat up in more ways than one this week with temperatures set to soar and a red-hot competition across the single Para World Sailing and ten Olympic sailing disciplines expected. Sailors competing at the Hyères 2018 World Cup…
It is not often that the mainstream media takes an interest in sailing. It is even less often that they write a detailed article. As always, it is disaster that attracts them, but we thought we would share this well-written…
The Jakarta Post The Tourism Ministry is promoting potential destinations for marine tourism in Indonesia to yachter (sic) communities in Opua, New Zealand from April 20 to 21. Expected to be attended by 80 members of the Opua Cruising Club,…
From the Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Race Facebook page: Chinese Whisper has finished the 2018 Sundance Marine Melbourne to Osaka Double Handed yacht race early this morning, 23rd April 2018 at 04:21:13 AEST. It took them 21d 12h 41m 13s, a…
The first great multi-class sailing event of the Mediterranean season, will once again host the TP52s, competing this year under the Box Rule class, in one of the most spectacular and competitive monohull fleets in the world. Ten teams from…
Team SHK/Scallywag is back in the water and scheduled to take the start of Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race in Itajaí, Brazil on Sunday afternoon. The team had been in a race against time to have its boat…
The Spanish team MAPFRE won the Itajaí In-Port Race on Friday in Brazil, after battling with team AkzoNobel for the lead on the first of three laps of the race course. A large spectator fleet was on hand to watch…
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