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By Patrick Billings of The Mercury. A BATTERY has exploded inside the iconic Hobart tall ship the Windeward Bound. Emergency services were called to the scene early this afternoon to render assistance to the 33m vessel. A Tasmania Fire Service…
Doyle Sails has introduced the latest addition to their performance cruising and racing range, DELTA. Doyle says Delta's high-quality fibre options and layouts offer a modern alternative to the traditional panelled sail construction. Utilizing the same plant and technology as their premier product Stratis,…
SYDNEY. Saturday morning will see a fleet of 23 yachts line up on Sydney Harbour for the start of Race 2 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Pointscore (BWPS), the Flinders Islet Race. The 92-nautical mile offshore…
It’s all hands on deck in Perth as preparations are put in place for the 2017 Club Marine Perth International Boat Show, which is on next weekend. The Show is being built in Elizabeth Quay, with works underway now to…
La Rochelle (FRA), 12 September 2017 – Simon Koster will take the start of the Mini Transat – La Boulangère on 1 October 2017, his third participation. The 29-year-old Swiss sailor has worked relentlessly for two years: in 2015, he came…
The two female skippers continue to dominate the leader board with the teams led by Nikki Henderson and Wendy Tuck in the top two positions as they begin the first Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint of the Clipper 2017-18 Race. Visit…
The Volvo Ocean Race is coming to Melbourne over the Christmas/New Year’s period this year and big crowds are expected at Docklands during this time. Race organisers will create a race village and dockside experience complete with bars, restaurants, entertainment,…
By Anthony Joseph in The Daily Mail. A boat owner, who borrowed a friend's Land Rover to launch his vessel, ended up sinking the car in the harbour. The man was using the £10,000 Land Rover Discovery to reverse a…
By Angela Daniels of The Herald Live. Left with nothing but a borrowed pair of shorts, a T-shirt and a phone, a Port Elizabeth woman and her husband are now trapped on a Caribbean island after narrowly escaping Hurricane Irma…
Today marks a third day at the top of the leader board for Visit Seattle, which is followed closely by Sanya Serenity Coast and Unicef in second and third place respectively as teams re-acclimatise to the angled upwind tropics sailing…
From the closest and most exciting finish to a world championship Medal Race in the Olympic history of the multihull class, Great Britain’s Ben Saxton and Katie Dabson pipped Spanish rivals Fernando Echavarri and Tara Pacheco, foiling at full speed…
Martin Hill and his crew of Andrew Palfrey, David Chapman and Sasha Ryan are spearheading an Australian assault on the 2017 Etchells World Championship to be held in San Francisco from 22 to 30 September and hosted by the San…
The New Zealand Mutlihull Yacht Club has teamed up with 36° Brokers and PIC Insurance Brokers to offer an alternative Coastal Classic for those wanting a more relaxed kind of journey north The all new Cruising Rally is aimed at…
Cool spring easterlies and a sparkling Sydney Harbour were the back-drop to the final day of the MC38 Winter Series act four, which went to the dominant Ginger team led by the class Godfather, Leslie Green. “We had a very…
Visit Seattle remains on top of the leader board for a second consecutive day, leading the Clipper Race fleet over the Equator and into the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. It’s a big moment for the teams, as the…
Max Salminen, from Sweden, has secured his first Finn world title as the 2017 Opel Finn Gold Cup closes at Balatonföldvár with an extremely close and intense medal race in light winds. Jonathan Lobert, from France took the silver while…
By Nikolay Torkin in The Maritime Bulletin. Russian yacht NADEZHDA was seized by North Korean Coast Guard boat in Japan sea at around 1100 Vladivostok time (Moscow time + 7 hrs) Sep 10, for reasons unknown. Another yacht is missing,…
Noozhawk. By Tom Bolton. Intense winds accompanying a powerful thunderstorm slammed Santa Barbara County’s South Coast on Sunday afternoon, swamping numerous boats and watercraft in the Santa Barbara Harbor and dumping dozens of people in the water. The sudden squall…
SYDNEY. Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s Clare Costanzo, Emma May, Hannah Lanz, Amy Lee and Annie Scholten have won the CYCA Youth Sailing Academy’s 2017 Marinassess Women’s Match Racing Regatta following an action-packed weekend on Sydney Harbour. Costanzo and her…
Team New Zealand has confirmed that the next America's Cup will be raced in foiling monohulls after that cat was let out of the bag by the Italian Challenger of Record, Luna Rossa. When Italian newspaper La Stampa asked Patrizio…
The loads on the MC38 fleet racing in 20-25 knots and big seas took their toll early on day one of one design class’ Winter Series, Steve Barlow’s Lightspeed suffering bow damage which finished their day prematurely, and ultimately their…
Porto Cervo, Italy: Today was the final day of racing in the 28th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with Title Sponsor Rolex and the International Maxi Association. Winners of…
For the first time in 13 days, there has been a change at the top of the Atlantic Trade Winds Leg 1 Leader Board. Visit Seattle has moved into first place, followed by Unicef, and HotelPlanner.com. Visit Seattle skipper, Nikki…
Title contenders at the Nacra 17 World Championships in La Grande Motte in South France may be relishing what is expected to be a big winds Sunday finale, a chance to show the newly foiling, flying Nacra 17 at its…
Costa Smeralda served up near perfect conditions for the penultimate day of racing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and all classes sailed an anticlockwise loop of Caprera, La Maddalena and Spargi in north-westerly winds peaking in the mid-teens. In…
The fifth day of the Opel Finn Gold Cup at Balatonföldvár in Hungary started promising with some nice wind on the lake, but just as the sailors were getting ready to launch, a fog bank rolled in and AP was…
Turn the Tide on Plastic has announced two more female sailors for its Volvo Ocean Race campaign – Irish Olympic silver medallist Annalise Murphy and New Zealand’s Bianca Cook. Both under 30, the pair joins skipper Dee Caffari’s mixed and…
Following last year’s race, another six yachties joined the ‘25’ Sydney Hobart names on the Map of Tasmania at the Cruising Yacht Club last night, and among them were a number of ‘firsts’. Adrienne Cahalan became the first woman in…
It is not Le Tricolore, but the Il Tricolor, the Italian tricolour flying highest over La Grande Motte in the South of France after the first day of gold fleet racing at the Nacra 17 World Championships. As the intensity…
Max Salminen, from Sweden, extended his lead at the Opel Finn Gold Cup to seven points after placing fifth in the only race possible on Day 4. Ed Wright, from Britain, remains in second, while Jonathan Lobert, from France moves…
The top two crews at the Nacra 17 World Championship both emerged from a challenging Race 7 of the Qualifying Series with their worst results yet. But, showing the hallmarks of potential champions, both regrouped and were immediately back into…
Porto Cervo, September 7, 2017. The weather forecast for Porto Cervo, where the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Rolex Maxi72 World Championship is being held, was just right: fresh Mistral breezes dominated. Today was scheduled to be lay day for…
It’s in Paris, near the Place de la Bastille, that a delegation of Mini sailors agrees to meet up with the press. Objective: to talk about the race, as well as help explain the diversity of the profiles and the…
Most of the Clipper Race Fleet is now is deep into the Doldrums Corridor, with all ten teams who have so far crossed the northern gate electing to motor-sail for the allowed six degrees of latitude and for a maximum…
Two Class meetings were held with all members and entrants over the first two nights of the Nacra 17 World Championships, where Class members voted in a series of stabilizing measures. The open forum meeting agenda was cut short after…
After a relatively benign, gentle introduction Tuesday to the Nacra 17 World Championships – the first ever in flying, foiling 2020 Olympic mode, La Grande Motte’s Baie d’Aigue Mortes in the South of France’s Camargue region, progressively turned up the…
As Bryon Ehrhart, owner of Lucky, put it: “Today was great sailing – Chamber of Commerce stuff!” After difficult conditions for some of the seven classes at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup yesterday, there was solid breeze for day three…
Max Salminen, from Sweden, is the third leader in three days at the Opel Finn Gold Cup at Balatonföldvár on Lake Balaton. The ever-tricky wind caused a few more high scores, while a few of those at the top maintained…
Townsville Yacht Club’s SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week came to an end this afternoon, after six days of sailing and fun – a sailing event like no other in Australia. Once again the AP set the tone for the morning,…
The “Dorade Down Under” campaign is in full swing, and Dorade, the 86-year-old Sparkman & Stephens classic yacht, is proving yet again that age is just a number with the team taking podium finishes in the first two events of…
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