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While it is only their first season sailing together in the 18 Footers, the rookie team of Kirk Mitchell, Tim Westwood and Daniel Barnett has shown they have what it takes to challenge the front runners. All began their sailing…
Following the recent equator crossing ceremonies, the north easterly trade winds that the teams have been wishing for have finally kicked in for the fleet leaders on Day 11 of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race. The top three…
Geelong: Euroflex’s Geelong regatta margin is under threat after the second day of racing in Victoria was cancelled after hailstones and dangerous winds blanketed Corio Bay. With double points on the line for Sunday’s racing Pavement, iD Intranet and this…
On Saturday UTC, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet continues the perverse scenario of sailing away from the finish line in New Zealand. While the fleet is split in two, reflecting differing tactical choices, all six boats have pushed well to…
The 10th day of racing in Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race saw the race to the Scoring Gate come to a close for the three teams chasing for bonus race points with two of the three teams making…
Geelong: One of Australia’s most decorated sportsmen – America’s Cup winner Glenn Ashby – will return to racing on familiar shores for his first home regatta since claiming the world’s oldest trophy the Auld Mug. The multiple world champion, Olympic…
Story: https://www.stuff.co.nz/ A mission is under way to rescue those on board a catamaran suffering a broken mast off the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Two people are aboard the 12-metre double hull lying in rough seas off Port Jackson,…
Early numbers from Race Control suggest that the northern gamble isn’t paying off for team AkzoNobel and Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag on Day 3 of Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race from Hong Kong to Auckland. The two boats tacked…
Geelong: Just two seconds split Euroflex and Pavement in the final race of the opening day of the SuperFoiler Grand Prix on Geelong’s Corio Bay – with Euroflex finishing supreme. Phil Robertson’s Record Point turned the final marker ahead and…
It’s been slow progress in light winds for the fleet on Day 9 of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race, with no team managing to sail more than 50 nautical miles in the last twelve hours. And it’s all…
The six Volvo boats are tucked towards the southern tip of Taiwan, anticipating a turn to the north after leaving Taiwan to port. On the 0700 UTC position report on Thursday, Brunel had eked out a narrow lead, but most…
‘Classic’ – Definition: judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. ‘Power’ – Definition: the ability to exert a maximal force. While strength is the maximal force you can apply against…
Emirates Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup victory in Bermuda in 2017 was recognised with both the Sports Team of the Year and the Halberg Supreme Award at last nights 55th Halberg Awards, the country's pre-eminent event to honour and celebrate…
For the first time since its inauguration in 2001, a female led all-women crew captured the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron's longstanding Hardy Cup Sydney International Match Racing Regatta trophy at the end of four days of intense competition on Sydney…
Skipper Simeon Tienpont’s team AkzoNobel led the Volvo Ocean Race fleet away from the Hong Kong start line on Monday morning as Leg 6 got underway. Racing started in a light, 8-10 knot easterly with AkzoNobel, SHK/Scallywag, and Team Brunel…
PHUKET, Thailand – A strong line-up of 33 boats and almost 300 sailors from around the world competed in 21st edition of The Bay Regatta from 31st January to 4th February, 2018. A travelling regatta that sails through three of…
The coming weekend’s JJ Richards Bruny Island Yacht Race has attracted a classy fleet of 16 yachts for the 89-nautical mile circumnavigation of the elongated island south of Hobart. The race starts at 9.30am on Saturday, 10 February, from a…
Danish Nacra sailor CP Lubeck was injured when he fell overboard and was struck by the rudder during a regatta in New Zealand recently. Thankfully CP is in recovery and was released from the hospital after two nights there. We all…
Nebo is honoured to be an official sponsor of the 2018 Club Marine Geographe Bay Race Week which runs from 18-23 February on the pristine waters of Geographe Bay in Busselton Western Australia. Club Marine Geographe Bay Race Week is…
Class: Historic 18-foot Skiffs Event: 2018 Australian Championship Venue: Sydney Harbour Organising Authority: Sydney Flying Squadron Class Association: Australian Historic Sailing Skiff Association – AHSSA Top 3 Places + crew names, + pts: YENDYS, Harold Cudmore, Michael Van…
The port light looked like it was getting closer but was somewhat difficult to tell as the wind howled and the rain sheeted down. It is always the way, I thought, as I wondered how far away the ship was….
Sailors With DisAbilities (SWD) has launched its latest project ‘Wright of Passage’ – involving a wooden boat and getting disengaged and disabled young people back on their feet – and it is supported by the Oatley family, who have given…
Australian Sailing Team and Squad members will return from New Zealand with three medals after a tightly-contested Oceanbridge NZL Sailing Regatta at Murrays Bay Sailing Club, Auckland, rounded out the inaugural Tasman Series. Australia’s top two 49er crews, David Gilmour…
The Clipper Race fleet has begun to spread out after a full week of racing in Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race with 167 nautical miles (nm) now separating first and eleventh place as teams prepare to head back…
Wangi is a beautiful sleepy hole 1.5 hrs north of Sydney – on a huge tidal Lake Macquarie Wangi RSL Amateur SC stage many national events – and are well experienced. The sail set up area is a huge lawn…
Sandringham Yacht Club in Melbourne recently hosted a myriad of major events, the most recent being the J24 Nationals and the Australian Yachting Championship (AYC), inclusive of the Australian J/111 and Multihull Championships this month, continuing to position itself as a…
Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race has served up some of the most unexpected conditions of the 2017-18 edition so far and unforecasted weather conditions have continued to challenge the fleet during the sixth day of racing. After PSP…
5 February 2018 (Hong Kong) – Vestas 11th Hour Racing has undertaken steps to repair their Volvo Ocean 65 yacht, which was involved in a collision with a non-racing vessel at the end of Leg 4 near Hong Kong. The time…
The smallest boat in the Pot of Gold weekend of offshore racing in Perth also turned out to be a giant killer. Ryan Binedell’s little S97 Low Flying Duck, sailing in the double handed division with 17-year-old crewman Nathan Stacey…
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet slipped lines at the Nansha Marina in Guangzhou, China on Monday morning in preparation for Leg 6 to Auckland, New Zealand, which will start this Wednesday following a short stop in Hong Kong. For Liu…
Modena 5 February 2018 – Maserati Multi70 rounded the Cape of Good Hope on Saturday 3 February at 12:20 UTC after 16 days, 1 hour and 37 minutes of navigation. The arrival in South Africa happened a few hours earlier,…
Newsroom. By Tim Murphy. A compromise base for America's Cup teams on the Auckland waterfront is now likely to be readied for planning consent after a standoff between the Government and Auckland Council over where best to invest up to $140…
At the end of two long days and seven races in mixed conditions, a countback cliff-hanger split first and second at the Farr 40 NSW Championship which wrapped up on Sydney Harbour on Sunday February 4, 2018. Martin Hill and…
The Australian 18ft Skiff Championship is wide open after another day produced two different winners in Races 3 and 4 on Sydney Harbour on Sunday. Smeg's team of Lee Knapton, Mike McKensey and Ricky Bridge dominated Race 3 in the…
Key tactical decisions have been made during day five of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race as more predictable Doldrums Corridor conditions of light airs and rain squalls return. On the fifth day of racing, PSP Logistics heads up…
The smallest boat in the Pot of Gold weekend of offshore racing in Perth also turned out to be a giant killer when Ryan Binedell’s little S97, Low Flying Duck, sailing in the double-handed division, set the standard with a…
Skipper Martin Hill, tactical weapon Tom Slingsby and the rest of HillPDA’s credentialed crew produced a very worthy set of scores on day one of the Farr 40 NSW State Title staged off Manly in Sydney. HillPDA is perched three…
It had been yet another really challenging day for PRO Kim Laurence and his race management team with very light and fickle easterly early in the afternoon of Day 4. Having struggled to get some early Round Robin Two flights…
And they’re off – much to the delight of the majority of Clipper Race skippers and their crews, the fourth day of Race 7: The Forever Tropical Paradise Race to Sanya, China, has brought about some long-awaited breeze which has…
After winning the Guanzhou, China, in-port race, MAPFRE, skippered by Xabi Fernandez, is now at the top of the leaderboard for the Volvo Ocean Race In-port series, and with a five-point advantage. It proved to be a very fast race…
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