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It’s shaping up as a feast of sporting highlights as the Festival of Sails gets set to share the 2018 Australia Day weekend in Geelong with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, but there is still plenty of accommodation…
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet was punching into the Atlantic on Tuesday after surviving their first test from the weather gods through the Gibraltar Strait overnight. Vestas 11th Hour Racing still occupy the top spot after a challenging first 50…
Shenzhen, China (October 24, 2017) – Chris Steele showed his mettle on day one of the WMRT Match Racing World Championship. The skipper of the young Kiwi team, 36 Below Racing, put on a dominant display in his fleet racing group. The first…
After four days of racing in the Rolex Middle Sea Race, seven yachts have completed the race, 47 are still racing, and 50 yachts have now officially retired. The brutal conditions in the latter part of the race have abated…
In 2002 it was $10,000 per foot to buy a yacht and boat owners would typically spend a similar amount on their house purchase. In 2017 the price per foot of boat is still at the 2002 level whereas the…
Entries are now open for Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s (MHYC) Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) to be conducted on the weekend of 25 and 26 November, and Sebastian Bohm, with his Rogers 46, Smuggler (ex The Goat), was quick…
The countdown is on to one of the biggest parties the Whitsundays has ever seen, with just 80 days until the Clipper Race Fleet sails into town and the Clipper Race Carnival begins. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race…
Australia’s top Nacra 17 sailors are keen to gain precious experience in the full-foiling boats at Sail Melbourne and Sail Sydney, but confirmation the events will be 100-point regattas is sure to stir the competitive spirit. The Nacra 17 World…
Ladysmith Chronicle (Canada) by Mike Gregory. A 90 foot wooden boat built in 1918 sank over the weekend in Ladysmith Harbour and a suspected fuel spill is now being contained by a boom encircling the site of the incident. A…
An eventful opening 24 hours in the Volvo Ocean Race has seen skipper Charlie Enright’s Vestas 11th Hour Racing grab the lead as the fleet converge on the Strait of Gibraltar. The Vestas boat, along with team AkzoNobel, were the…
It was déjà vu for SAP Extreme Sailing Team and Alinghi as it went down to the final double-points race to decide the winner of the penultimate Act of the 2017 Extreme Sailing Series in San Diego, but the Danes…
The bustling city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is set to welcome the 32nd edition for the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) this November. Over 1600 sailors from all over the world congregate in the port city to begin…
As expected, near gale force winds arrived in the early hours of this morning (Monday) rapidly changing the character of the 38th Rolex Middle Sea Race. To the north of Sicily, yachts are experiencing sustained wind speeds of 30 knots…
Queensland’s Southport Yacht Club is located inside the Seaway, waterways of the Gold Coast. The Seaway runs parallel to the ocean beach, its construction helped to make the Gold Coast what it is today. Big towers and lots of people…
Conditions couldn’t have been better for the start in Alicante, Spain on Sunday afternoon. The fleet of seven of the best sailing teams in the world started Leg 1, a 1,450 nautical mile sprint to Lisbon, Portugal in bright sunshine…
Sunday October 22, 2017: Following extensive discussions, we are pleased to announce that team AkzoNobel will be starting the Volvo Ocean Race today under skipper Simeon Tienpont. Team AkzoNobel’s crew list for Leg 1 is: Simeon Tienpont (NED) – skipper,…
Five more World Cup Series Japan champions were decided in Gamagori as the inaugural World Sailing event in the land of the rising came to a close. As Typhoon Lan heads towards Japan, racing was scheduled to commence at…
Five firsts and a second added up to an incontestable series win for Tom and Alan Quick’s Outlaw in the Farr 40 class’ Middle Harbour Yacht Club One Design Trophy contested on Sydney Harbour October 21-22. Jeff Carter’s Edake with…
SAP Extreme Sailing Team dominated and unseated Alinghi from the top spot on another crowd-pleasing day in San Diego at Act 7 of the 2017 Extreme Sailing Series. With seven races in big breeze, helm Adam Minoprio and the rest…
Aron Everett, Courtney Mahar and Charlie Gundy gave a faultless performance in Quality Marine Clothing to take out Race 3 of the Australian 18 Footers League Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Skippering an 18ft Skiff for only the…
Hobart’s newest yacht racing format, the Combined Clubs Short-Course championship, got off to a cracking start on the River Derwent yesterday. In Group 1, Shaun Tiedemann’s Sydney 36cr Philosopher dominated corrected time results in all three handicap categories. Philosopher placed…
Michael Lunn’s Azuree 40 Lion Rock was the final boat to sail into Nha Trang, Vietnam this afternoon at 13h 45m 45s, putting her in 4th place in IRC Racer 1 division. Duncan Hine, skipper of Line Honours Winner Alive…
By Tim Morgan for ABC Online Australia's last ever pilot cutter vessel is at risk of being scrapped if $12,000 isn't raised urgently. For the past 18 months, the Wyuna has been anchored unmanned off Beauty Point in Tasmania's Tamar…
A record entry is expected for the fourth edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, starting at Marina Lanzarote, Canary Islands, on 25th November, 2017. Close to 25 teams are expected, racing a huge variety of ocean going yachts. Nine different…
It’s the last chance to join in one of Australia’s best weekends of cruising with registrations closing soon for the 2017 Multihull Solutions Pittwater Rally. Held from 24-26 November, the Multihull Solutions Pittwater Rally incorporates laidback cruising through the stunning…
By Gabrielle Knowles, 7 News Perth A Perth father spent two hours in cold rough seas after being separated from his boat off the Trigg coast on Saturday, before he was rescued by chance by a passing yacht. One of…
Gusty southerlies offshore on day one of the Farr 40 class’ Middle Harbour Yacht Club One Design Trophy turned the boats into a real handful and caused two retirements in the opening races. “It was pretty ugly,” said class president…
After thousands of miles of training and months of preparation, Dongfeng Race Team, which carries the hopes of China in the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18, today unveiled its crew for the first leg of the race from Alicante to Lisbon….
Vincenzo Onorato’s Cookson 50 Mascalzone Latino sailed into Nha Trang last night at 18hrs 46mins 31secs to take the win in IRC Racer 0 and IRC Racer overall – the Italian boat was a cool 2h 49m 55s ahead of…
In a stellar performance from SAP Extreme Sailing Team, Alinghi's lead dwindled to just one point at the halfway stage of the seventh Act of the Extreme Sailing Series™ in San Diego. The fleet took part in six spectacular races,…
Due to a medical issue that has arisen on the Vestas 11th Hour Racing team in the last 24 hours; a crew change for Leg 1 has occurred, with Australian, Phil Harmer, a two-time Volvo Ocean Race winner out with…
Unicef is aiming to make today its final at sea of the Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms in the Clipper Round the World Race. Reporting earlier this morning, skipper Bob Beggs, whose team will finish in 11th place,…
The first medallists at the inaugural World Cup Series event in Japan have been decided after a wet Saturday in Gamagori, Japan. Typhoon Lan is expected to hit Japan late on Sunday 22 October, well after competition has concluded in…
It's finally here – the official start of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 takes place on Sunday afternoon at 14:00 local time in Alicante, Spain (12:00 UTC). And after some short course racing off the beachfront of Alicante, the seven…
Valletta, Malta: Ludde Ingvall’s CQS will sail the Rolex Middle Seas Race without her DSS foils as Ingvall continues to develop the system. The skipper commented, “We are now working on our fourth version, using data and knowledge we have…
In a flurry of action and jostling for space on the start line, 150 yachts representing the spectrum of the New Zealand race fleet commenced the famous Auckland to Russell yacht race on Friday morning 20 October. New Zealand yachting’s…
Australian entry, Phillip Turner’s Reichel/ Pugh 66 Alive, sailed into Nha Trang, Vietnam this afternoon on a two sail reach, popping their kite at the cardinal mark just before the finish to take the line honours in the 2017 Volvo…
The ultimate test in team sport, the Volvo Ocean Race, starts on Sunday, when seven of the best sailing teams in the world cross the starting line off Alicante, Spain. The Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 will test the crews on…
he line-up for the first Medal Races, on Saturday 21 October, was confirmed today at the World Cup Series Japan in Gamagori. The day got off to an all too familiar start, for this week, with the wind once again…
François Gabart and team will be on standby as of Sunday, with a view to attempting the single-handed round the world record – both his and his vehicle, the MACIF trimaran, ready. All that remains is to choose the right…
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