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Sunday will be a historic day in JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Racing Championship history when a New Zealand team will be the first Kiwi team to win the championship on Sydney Harbour since the first championship regatta was sailed back…
After a tough and wet couple of days for the Clipper Race fleet, the sun has come out, bringing plenty of positive attitudes as the teams make better progress up the east coast of Taiwan having completed the Elliot Brown…
Dongfeng Race Team shown great concentration and resilience in winning the New Zealand Herald In Port Race in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday. Conditions were extremely light, shifty and patchy on the Waitemata Harbour, making for plenty of lead changes…
Team Brunel sailor Abby Ehler is currently racing her third edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, having competed as part of Amer Sports Too in 2001-02, and the all-female Team SCA in 2014-15. On International Women's Day 2018, she organised…
It’s been another tough day and night at the office for the Clipper Race fleet as the teams have struggled to complete the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint in strong headwinds and big waves, with some choosing to sacrifice bonus points…
Australian champion Smeg team were back to their best for the first time in The Winning Group 2018 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship when they took points honours of Day 5 racing on Sydney Harbour today. Lee Knapton, Mike…
Half the Clipper Race fleet has begun the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint for Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup, though all eleven teams are having to deal with the arrival of strong north-easterlies. The fleet has been buffeted over…
Day 4 of The Winning Group 2018 JJ Giltinan International 18ft Skiff Championship was held on Sydney Harbour today when two short-course, windward-return races were sailed towards the overall championship pointscore. The first of the two races was sailed…
Ahead of the start of this year's Extreme Sailing Series, Land Rover BAR have secured leading British sailor Leigh McMillan to be part of their 36th America's Cup campaign. McMillan will take on a joint role, working as design and…
Ninety-six Finn sailors from 33 countries are counting down the days to next week’s Open and U23 Finn European Championship in Cádiz, Spain. Many have been training for months at the venue for the first big test of the year…
There's been a reshuffle at the top after the Clipper Race fleet spent another busy night avoiding fishing vessels and dealing with strengthening winds en route to Qingdao. PSP Logistics has regained the lead on Day 3 of the approximately…
Seven international teams will take to the water for Act 1 of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman, from 14-17 March. In the first of eight exceptionally tough events, 35 elite competitive sailors will battle it out on…
With the first of multiple starts for the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Yacht Race just eight days away, both excitement and pressure are tangible at Sandringham Yacht Club (SYC), where most boats are berthed and the double-handed crews continue to…
10 News Florida. By Sarah Rosario. It was a busy weekend for the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast in waters of the Tampa Bay area. The temperature drop and high wind came as…
Mysailing is offering readers a 10% discount off any Advanced Skipper course booked before April 30, 2018 Advanced Skipper comprises a number of learning modules which test boaters' knowledge of typical on-water situations. If they pass, members hold the Advanced…
By Andrw York In 1984 I wrote some articles in Australian Sailing that blew the lid off the misconceptions that were held about sailing in current. Up until that time everything that had been written about how current affected your…
The Australians fought back after a previous domination by the New Zealand teams when Finport Trade Finance took out Race 3 of the Winning Group JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Finport Trade Finance (Keagan York,…
Skippers are reporting relief today as winds and boat speeds have picked up, though with the high level of fishing fleets around, teams are on high alert in this opening stage of Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup. PSP…
Delivering a unified Great Barrier Reef destination message is the key focus of four collaborating superyacht marinas at this year’s Australian Superyacht Rendezvous. Taking a collective marketing approach to target international superyachts, Abell Point Marina, Cairns Marlin Marina, Crystalbrook Superyacht…
A local entrepreneur and philanthropist has taken the helm of Around and Around, the charity that looks after Sir Alec Rose’s Lively Lady. Mark Smith, from Old Portsmouth, has become the new Chairman of the Charity, which looks after the…
Monday March 4, 2018 – The Medemblik Regatta, formerly known as the Delta Lloyd Regatta, is being held from the 22nd to the 26th of May. The regatta celebrates it’s 34th edition this year. For all those years, sailors have praised the…
The light wind lottery that got Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup, underway yesterday from Sanya, has continued overnight, with the teams out east taking the early jackpot as they do their best to escape north, knowing that tougher,…
A two-time Sydney Hobart winner is on her way to SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week for the first time, her owner ahead of the game when online entry into the Townsville Yacht Club hosted event opened. Paul Clitheroe is bringing…
New Zealand's domination of the 2018 Winning Group 2018 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship continued on Sydney Harbour today when Honda Marine proved too good for the 25-boat fleet of the world's best 18 Footer teams. David McDiarmid, Matt…
Two West Australian skippers have steered their teams to the podium in their home regatta with Perth’s Luke Parkinson (tech2) and Steve Thomas (Pavement) climbing onto the Busselton dais alongside Kleenmaid. Tech2 secured a third victory of the regatta to claim…
Nico Poons' Charisma clung on to her lead from yesterday to win the RC44 Calero Marinas Cup, opening event of the 2018 RC44 championship. But it all came down to the last run of the last race when a last…
ABC Online. By Joanna Prendergast. Business owners in a remote town on the West Australian coast say the community's landlocked yacht club is damaging their already struggling local economy. Since April last year, the Carnarvon Yacht Club has been cut off…
Wales Online. By Kelly Williams and Sarah Hodgson. Boats have sunk and a marina has been damaged because of severe gale force winds caused by Storm Emma. The winds have caused huge waves at Holyhead Marina damaging many boats. p:nth-of-type(2)”,”sizes”:[[8,8]],”hideOnSensitiveArticle”:true,”relativePos”:”after”,”additionalClass”:”in-article”,”name”:”div-gpt-ad-vip-slot”,”type”:”VIP”}”…
ABC (America). By Josiah Bates. Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh had been living on a boat in Florida for about a year, with plans to sail to the Keys, but those plans ended abruptly three weeks ago when their boat…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Peter Burling predicts the radical new America's Cup boat will be difficult to sail but he's inspired by the challenge of helping develop the systems to master that. The round the world rookie will use the…
(Busselton) In an amazing feat of engineering SuperFoiler’s series leader Euroflex will make a remarkable return to racing in the Supercharged Sunday session on Geograph Bay. The front-runner, who suffered serious structural damage in a training session on Friday are astonished at the…
Lanzarote laid on superb conditions for day two of the RC44 Calero Marinas Cup under brilliant sunshine and winds that started in the sub-10 range before building solidly into the 20s, making for a spectacular action-packed third and final race….
he young New Zealand Maersk Line team of Josh Porebski, Jack Simpson and Dave Hazard was a shock, but well-deserved winner of Race 1 of The Winning Group JJ Giltinan International 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Maersk Line…
Busselton, WA: tech2 was the chief beneficiary of tricky conditions on the second day of racing, where three different winners were crowned during the SuperFoiler Grand Prix in Busselton. tech2 twice tasted victory on Geograph Bay with Luke Parkinson, Ayden…
The final day of the Sydney Harbour Regatta was more than it was cracked up to be as the forecast strong southerly, contrasting with yesterday’s ideal nor’ easter, meant abandoning racing on some courses, while the remainder were tested to…
Busselton: Olympic gold medallist Iain Jensen won’t be able to journey to Sydney with his series leading crew for the SuperFoiler Grand Final so instead he is looking to toast a near perfect season on Euroflex by shooting the lights…
The NSW champion – The Kitchen Maker team of Scott Babbage, Tom Quigley and Sam Ellis – have won the Winning Group Invitation Race of the JJ Giltinan International 18ft Skiff Championship in a controversial finish on Sydney Harbour today….
Following the collision between Vestas 11th Hour Racing and a non-racing vessel in the final stages of the racing leg into Hong Kong, the organisers of the Volvo Ocean Race have commissioned an independent report into ocean racing at night…
When Vestas 11th Hour Racing re-joins the Volvo Ocean Race for the gruelling Leg 7—from New Zealand, across the Southern Ocean, past Cape Horn and into Brazil—the crew will do so with a mixture of heavy hearts and anxiousness. The…
Yachtsman Thorold (Thorry) Gunnersen AM passed away on 4 February 2018 at his home at Davey’s Bay, Port Phillip, Victoria. He was 77. Thorry came from a family of maritime heritage, with his great grandfather Gunner Gunnersen a merchant sea…
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