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Day 2 of the Optimist Asian & Oceanian Championships saw blue skies and a better than forecasted easterly breeze of 6 to 12kts on the race track positioned off Stanley Bay in Hong Kong. The Yellow fleet was the first…
The 2018 IMA Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge sets sail this month with the Rolex Middle Sea Race, starting from Valletta’s Grand Harbour, Malta, on 21 October. Comprising the region’s most prestigious offshore races, the five event Challenge aims to promote…
McCrae Yacht Club in Melbourne, Victoria, is to host both the 2018 Australian and World Championships in the International Contender class on Port Phillip Bay in January when over 80 entries from Australia and worldwide are expected to attend. Interest…
It was a record attendance at the 2017 Whitsunday Tourism Awards at Hamilton Island this weekend. Over 340 attended the gala dinner with representatives from local tourism operators, regional and state tourism bodies, and local and state government, all gathering…
“Come for the racing, stay for the cruising.” That’s the message being sent to international sailors by the Bay of Islands Sailing Week regatta in New Zealand. Bay of Islands Sailing Week is NZ’s biggest keelboat regatta, and one of…
NZ Herald A Kiwi sailor has spoken of his heartbreak at losing his floating home of seven years in a mystery incident off the coast of Majorca. Jonny Smythe, 43, returned from a two-hour trip into town to buy glass…
Stuff.co.nz by Duncan Johnstone. The man who broke Team New Zealand hearts in 2003 is considering a return raid on Auckland in 2021. Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli created history by winning the America's Cup in his first challenge when Alinghi…
A surprise appearance by Olympic Gold medalist Tom Burton at the NSW Youth Championships was the icing on the cake of a successful trio of state-based junior events to round out Australian Sailing’s youth regattas for 2017. Burton’s attendance followed…
Nia Jerwood’s quest to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been bolstered by her inclusion in the 2018 Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship and Mentoring Program, announced on Wednesday. Jerwood will have the privilege of working closely with…
Chicago (IL), USA (October 1, 2017) – In front of a cheering crowd at Navy Pier, Lake Michigan turned on all the drama for the final day of the Chicago Match Cup as Ian Williams, skipper of GAC Pindar, defeated…
Fremantle Sailing Club’s annual Coventry Reef race was moved forward this year to accommodate a busy offshore calendar, but from a weather perspective, the race failed to live up to its usual breezy expectations. The gloomy weather forecast predicted light…
The 2017 Optimist Asian & Oceanian Championships opened last night at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in conjunction with Hong Kong’s National Day celebrations. Sailors, coaches and their families were entertained by traditional Hong Kong lion dancers followed by…
The new edition of the game, to be launched to coincide with the Prologue leg of the race on October 8, now features offshore and inshore racing, just like the real thing. The Volvo Ocean Race is sailing’s toughest challenge…
The first 24 hours of a race like the Mini-Transat La Boulangère are a funny old time. Whatever we say and whatever we do, it takes time to adapt before you can power along at your full potential and really…
BOSTON — The Coast Guard rescued five people from their 32-foot catamaran Saturday after it capsized during a regatta off Beavertail Lighthouse, Rhode Island. The local police department called watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England at around 1 p.m.,…
Cronulla Sailing Club in Sydney's southern suburbs will host a pop-up sale store for Musto this weekend. Discounted end-of-line products will be available to buy, including technical sailing jackets and trousers, lifestyle clothing, footwear and accessories. The store will be…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Stone as the new Racing Manager from mid-November 2017. He will succeed Nick Elliott who has carried out an exemplary job over the past nine years for the…
(Split, Croatia) – Racing on the final day of the Laser Masters World Championships was brought forward an hour to increase the possibility of all fleets sailing at least one final race. In hindsight, it was a wise move as…
Cascais laid on an action-packed day for the conclusion of the 2017 RC44 Championship's penultimate event, the RC44 Cascais Cup. At the beginning of it, Igor Lah's Team CEEREF held a slender lead, but lost it to Charisma. By the…
The weather played a sly hand this Sunday morning in the Bassin des Chalutiers. Indeed, the persistent drizzle and low cloud did little to cheer those Mini sailors feeling the pressure as they cast off. Ultimately though, there was a…
Chicago (IL), USA (September 30, 2017) – The Final Four lineup for the Chicago Match Cup was decided today in a gladiatorial spectacle that unfolded on Lake Michigan, as Phil Robertson, Sam Gilmour, Ian Williams, and local favorite, Taylor Canfield,…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Tom Grimes, Dante Olivieri, Eric Sparkes, Emma Harrison and Jess Grimes have been crowned the 2017 Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing champions after a long and frustratingly light final day. In the end, the…
Last racing day for the 44-boats strong Dragon fleet which closed that event in style, as the UK’s Yvan Bradbury was declared winner of the 39th Régates Royales de Cannes, with Russia’s Anatoly Loginov taking silver. The Classic yachts had…
With the announcement of the Protocol for the 36th America's Cup defines some of the rules of the next edition of the world's oldest sporting contest, Land Rover BAR is ready to get down to planning and preparing its AC36…
With two days to go until the start of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère, the pressure is mounting considerably on the pontoons that line the Bassin des Chalutiers in the port of La Rochelle. Torn between media engagements and the arrival…
Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag has announced three new crew members for the 2017-18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, including Dutch Olympic medallist, Annemieke Bes. Skipper David Witt, who is leading Hong Kong's first ever entry in the Volvo Ocean…
SYDNEY. New South Wales continues to dominate the 2017 Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship with three out of the top four semi-finalists reigning from Sydney yacht clubs. Regatta leader, Tom Grimes from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia topped…
It’s part of the Mini-Transat’s DNA that it has always been at the cutting edge of naval architecture. From the prototypes sailed by Casimir Jarkowski in 1997 and Norton Smith in 1979, to the latest works that include Lilienthal skippered…
A good breeze of around twelve knots and flat seas made for an ideal setting of day 3 of the Régates Royales de Cannes – Trophée Panerai. Classics had their double-lap triangular course set in the Bay of La Napoule,…
It’s now just over a month to the Queensland Beneteau Cup and French Yacht Challenge on the Oct 28/29 weekend. The Yacht Brokerage are principal sponsors, and the event, which is organised by the Qld Beneteau Owners Group, will be…
Despite a light forecast, conditions came good, as they usually do in Portugal's sailing mecca, for the opening day of the RC44 Cascais Cup. After a two hour delay, a light westerly established itself in the mouth of the Tagus…
The 37th America's Cup will be raced in monohulls with an overall length of 75ft. The drawings will be released on November 30 this year, with the full design rule in March 2018. There was no confirmation of whether the…
Tom Slingsby, the 2012 Olympic Laser champion and winner of the America's Cup as strategist aboard Oracle Team USA in 2013, has declared he is devoting the next year of his life to getting an Australian America's Cup team together….
Belvedere, CA, September 26, 2017 – Racers were overly eager as racing kicked off on the third day of racing in the 2017 Etchells World Championship. Unlike the previous two days, a consistent 8 – 10 kt westerly had filled…
Bundaberg Queensland. East coast of Australia. Bundaberg region population near 100,000. Lush green. Plenty of rain in the region. Hmmm, must be talking about in other years. It's dry. In Perth on the Australian west coast (other side of the…
Chicago (IL), USA – September 28, 2017 – Plenty of action at the final day of qualifying at Chicago Match Cup that saw both dominant performances and nail-biting upsets as the Super 16 Stage roster was decided off Navy Pier….
(Split, Croatia) – A fresh overnight Bora wind off the land greeted Laser Master sailors and race committee as they arrived at Mornar Sailing Club in Split, Croatia on the fifth day of racing. The northerly Bora wind created a…
Hang on to your hats – a jaw dropping giant trimaran will make its New Zealand race debut in the PIC Coastal Classic Auckland to Russell yacht race this Friday 20 October. The MOD70 – just one of seven built…
America’s Cup racing pays dividends, says the NZ marine industry following the announcement of the 36th America’s Cup protocol this morning. The NZ marine industry will be working closely with the Auckland Council, and government to do whatever is required to…
SYDNEY. Day 2 of the 2017 Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship saw the 10 teams from five states tested to their limits as a classic summer Sydney seabreeze built throughout the day, peaking at 27 knots before the teams…
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