Bigger on the inside: the Jeanneau 51
The latest Jeanneau 51 has taken a lot of the ideas used in the big sister 54 and utilised them into the shorter version. Indeed, as I walked down the marina arm at Middle Harbour Yacht Club, I saw the…
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Australian Youth Championships Day 2 – Moreton Bay turns it on
With Youth Olympic qualification on the line, Bic Techno Plus and Nacra 15 competitors are finding their groove at the half way point of the 2018 Australian Youth Championships. A fascinating battle between Max van der Zalm from New Zealand…
Clipper Race: Frustrating conditions as teams complete ocean sprint
The fleet has continued to face frustrating conditions on Day 8 of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race, with teams struggling over the end gate of the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint, but the final result will be announced once all…
Volvo Ocean Race: Scallywag leads fleet towards Hong Kong home
Following one of the longest and most painful doldrums crossings in memory, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet is now in the north-east trade winds and speeding towards the finish line in Hong Kong, some 2,700 nautical miles to the north-west….
Volvo Ocean Race engages Vesper Marine to make races safer
Auckland, New Zealand – Vesper Marine, a leading manufacturer of innovative marine safety products, and Volvo Ocean Race, one of sailing’s biggest events and the ultimate human adventure, has announced that Vesper Marine’s Guardian AIS system has been selected by…
Graeme Taylor’s Magpie crew wins Etchells Australian Championship
Magpie, sailed by Graeme ‘G.T.’ Taylor, James Mayo and Richard Allanson sailed the final two races today to seal the 2018 Etchells Australian Championship title by a comfortable 9 points and equal John Bertrand’s record of three back to back…
Doldrums take a final kick at Volvo Ocean Race fleet
It's a tense time for the Volvo Ocean Race sailors as their torturous days in the doldrums come to a close. But who escapes first will have a serious impact on the final results for Leg 4… The Volvo Ocean…
Game on at 2018 Australian Youth Championships
Sunny skies and 10 to 15 knot winds greeted competitors at Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron for day one of the 2018 Australian Youth Championships – and Race Officials made the most of the neat conditions. After a busy summer schedule,…
Clipper Race: Ocean sprint turns into marathon
On Day 7 of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race, the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint has turned into a marathon as wind holes have halted the progress of the Clipper Race fleet as it battles against the strong East Australian…
Busy season ahead for IMOCAs
Skippers in the IMOCA class will be seeing a lot of different places in 2018, as noted by the different events on the calendar and in particular the fine program scheduled in the Mediterranean. The pinnacle event in 2018 will…
Competitors ready for 2018 Australian Youth Championships
Competitors hit the waters off Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron on Thursday as preparations for the 2018 Australian Youth Championships drew to a close. More than 160 sailors will test themselves against the nation’s best at this year’s event, which starts…
Viva la France at SB20 World
Young French skipper Achille Nebout, sailing Le Reservoir/Mazet & Associase, brilliantly won the 2018 World championship for the SB20 one-design sports boat class on Hobart’s River Derwent. With his equally young crew of Gabriel Skoczek, Pauline Mazzocchi and Bruno Mournac…
Graeme Taylor has one hand on the Etchells trophy
Magpie sailed by Graeme Taylor, James Mayo and Richard Allanson has one hand on the trophy this evening after scoring 2nd and 1st in the two races on the penultimate day of racing at the 2018 Etchells Australian Championship sailed…
Heat is on as Clipper Race Ocean Sprint approaches climax
Light winds on the sixth day of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race mean that the fleet has converged and the heat is on, quite literally, as the teams battle it out for extra bonus points in the Elliot Brown…
Vestas 11th Hour Racing leads fleet towards equator
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet was buoyed by the arrival of new breeze on Thursday, potentially spelling an end to several days of torment at the hands of the Doldrums. The seven teams hit the Doldrums – a fickle band…
Top speakers at Gurit Foiling Week in Sydney today
The Foiling Week Forum is a unique event that creates opportunity for the best foiling regatta sailors to share knowledge and information with designers/builders and enable technicians and theorists to put into practice their projects, generating an exchange of feedback…
Superstars stack Super Foilers on Sydney Harbour
Spectators were treated to an afternoon of stacks and cartwheels as two of the superstar crews of the Super Foiler circuit engaged in a short-lived race as part of Foiling Week. The Kiwi crew of World Match Racing Champion Phil…
Down to the wire in SB20 Worlds on the Derwent
Tasmanian sailor Michael Cooper has fought back in his bid to win the 2018 SB20 World championship, but the competition is fierce with two French and a British boat his rivals for victory on the Derwent today (Thursday) After races…
The Fremantle Doctor delivers at Etchells Nationals
As per the forecast, the ‘Fremantle Doctor’ made an appearance on the second day of the 2018 Etchells Australian Championship to provide 32 competitors with the sort of sailing conditions Fremantle is renowned for. As competitors left the dock this…
Clipper fleet converges while dodging southerly busters off the Australian coast
After the Clipper Race fleet split into two packs, it has converged again over the last 24 hours as teams tackled stormy conditions, known locally as Southerly Busters, ahead of the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint. During the fifth day of…
Flappy sails and glassy seas for Volvo crews
When the Volvo Ocean Race fleet first encountered the notorious Doldrums as they raced through the Atlantic between Lisbon and Cape Town on Leg 2, they breezed through with minimal disruption. On the eighth day of Leg 4, it seemed…
Turn the Tide on Plastic skipper responds to news of UK microbean ban
Volvo Ocean Race skipper Dee Caffari, whose Turn the Tide on Plastic boat is collecting samples that are analysed for levels of microplastics, has welcomed the news that the UK Government has introduced legislation to ban the manufacture of plastic…
Three State Champions crowned at Sail Paradise
The pressure heats up on the final day at Bartercard Sail Paradise. It may be the final day of racing but by no means has there been any easing off on the race course by competitors, the start line had…
Export Roo slides down SB20 leader board
Export Roo, Tasmania’s major hope to win the SB20 World Championship 2018 on Hobart’s River Derwent today slid down the leader board from first to sixth place overall. Export Roo, skippered by prominent local yachtsman Michael Cooper, began day three…
Mixed conditions off the Australian coast split the Clipper fleet
Sanya Serenity Coast retains its lead during the fourth day of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race as mixed conditions splits the fleet into two, as it progresses up the coast of Australia. Racing remains close though with 32 nautical…
Perfect Fremantle conditions for opening day of Etchells Nationals
Day 1 of the 2018 Etchells Australian Championships was a blast, a typical warm summer cloudless day on the waters off Fremantle with three back to back, 2 lap windward/leeward races. The breeze begun in the East at 6 –…
Hard, hot, and slow work for Volvo fleet in the Doldrums
As Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race neared its halfway point on Tuesday, any memories of the freezing cold Southern Ocean had long been banished. With every mile that the fleet climbs further north through the South Pacific, so…
Jules Verne attempt: Spindrift returns to port as weather window deteriorates
Yann Guichard has made the decision to return to Brest following analysis of this evening's weather files. The weather window, which mobilised Guichard and his eleven crew to leave Brest at 1800h did not materialise as expected. “The weather window…
New year brings new adventures for World ARC rally circumnavigators
Saturday 6th January marked a special day for close to two-hundred intrepid cruising sailors chasing new adventures with annual editions of World Cruising Club's round-the-world cruising rally World ARC. In the rally's Caribbean home port of Saint Lucia, the World…
Ted Albert Trophy – warm up event for the Prince Philip Cup
Metung Yacht Club is located in the picturesque Gippsland Lakes on the South East coast of Victoria and is the venue for the Prince Philip Cup, the 2018 Australian Dragon National Championship. The event is set to be a great…
VOR: Competition intensifies as the doldrums take hold
The new week started with a reshuffle of the Leg 4 leaderboard as the seven-strong Volvo Ocean Race fleet eased into the Doldrums for the second time so far this race. After six days at sea, racing is so tight…
New Zealand takes top places in 29er Worlds
New Zealand’s Francesco KAYROUZ and Jackson KEON (NZL12) took the title of the 2018 Zhik 29er World Champions today with top four results in all races and a nine point cushion separating them from their closest competition. New Zealand got…
Anticipation building on the dockside for Etchells 2018 Australian Championships
Tension is high as the Etchells fleet cranes in to moor up on the pontoons in Fremantle ahead of an incredibly competitive Etchells Australian Championship. The reason why this event is so significant is the fact that the Etchells fleet…
SB20 Worlds leader Michael Cooper cops UFD on Day Two
British yachtsman Richard Powell snatched victory on the final spinnaker run of race five of the SB20 Worlds today, ending a boat-for-boat duel between Tasmanians Brett Cooper and Michael Cooper. As they crossed the finish line it was Powell at…
Wendy Tuck continues to pick up points in the Clipper Race
A gripping race to the Scoring Gate unfolded during the third day of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race which ultimately saw Sanya Serenity Coast come out on top followed closely by Visit Seattle in second and Qingdao, which has…
It came down to the wire despite the 'heat' – 16 and 13 foot Skiff Nationals
The temperature hit 35 plus degrees in the sun and that was agony as the crews waited to get a final start for almost three hours. With the breeze literally switching thru 180 degrees of the compass, to their credit…
Massive fleet at Sail Paradise
Over 450 sailors competed on water between the shores of Main Beach and Currumbin on the second day of Bartercard Sail Paradise, which is sure to be a record number of sailors offshore the Gold Coast. With day two of…
Fountaine Pajot Saona 47 wins prestigious Christofle Yacht Style Award
Fountaine Pajot’s stunning new Saona 47 sailing catamaran has won the category of “Best Multihull Sailing Yacht Under 15m” at the inaugural Christofle Yacht Style Awards. The awards, which recognise the very best of the yachting industry in Asia and…
Multihull Solutions announces free Multihull Boat Show and Open Day
Boating enthusiasts will be out in force on February 24 as Multihull Solutions hosts a Free Multihull Boat Show and Open Day from its Gold Coast Sales Centre. The event will showcase an expansive range of quality new and pre-owned…
Leading four Volvo boats within six miles approaching Solomon Islands
Four boats are within just six miles as the leaders approach the Solomon Islands, the easternmost point of which is a mark of the race course for Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race. Dongfeng continues to lead over team…
