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Juan Vila, one of the best navigators in the world, will return to the Volvo Ocean Race with MAPFRE in 2017-18, some 15 years after becoming the first Spanish sailor to win the coveted trophy. One of the most decorated…
PHUKET, Thailand – The winds arrived on cue as a fresh 10-15 knots of breeze powered the 41-strong fleet around the course on Day 1 of the 2017 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek, in what turned out to be a…
Pattaya, 20 July, 2017 – The Optimist World Championship 2017 ended successfully with all 281 young sailors from 62 countries contributing to make the event a resounding international success. Marco Gradoni of Italia was named World Champion 2017. Team USA…
Day 1 of the Hobie 14 and Hobie Dragoon World Championships with the Hobie 16 Spi youth Europeans at Noordwijk, Netherlands, the sailors were greeted with grey skies and light winds. Though the weather forecast was to change during the…
Lisa Blair is about to become the first woman to circumnavigate Antarctica below 45 deg S. At 6am on July 21 she had just 720nm to go to the finish in Albany but she is likely to cross her track…
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Australia’s Harry Price, 2015 Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Race Champion, took significant strides towards joining seven other sailors as two-time winners of the oldest youth match racing regatta in the world at Balboa Yacht Club,…
The Sydney International Boat Show celebrates its 50th year in 2017. The show will be hosting a number of fantastic presenters who exemplify the adventurous spirit. In particular, Michelle Lee and Lisa Blair will be on stage to share their…
Last minute entries see the 2017 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek fleet reach 41 boats competing across seven classes including the regatta's largest multihull fleet ever. The monohulls will compete across three classes – IRC 1, IRC II and…
French shipyard Privilège Marine has chosen Sydney-based Multihull Central to exclusively represent its range of cruising sail and power catamarans in the Australian and New Zealand markets. There are currently three core models in the Privilège fleet ranging from the…
The Danish wind arrived and the clouds parted to give the 107 Contender sailors perfect conditions to complete three races at the 2017 Contender Worlds. Jesper Nielsen (DEN 2352) took the first race closely followed by Jason Beebe (AUS 2482)…
Jon Sanders is heading west on his 10th circumnavigation of theglobe. He ponders on all things nautical and delivers some gems. Hon. Ian Campbell former Australian Senator and Federal Minister has a Oyster 68 ft single mast yacht. It is…
Jon Sanders is currently heading back to Australia on his 10th circumnavigation of the globe. Island regions affect wind strengths. Often beginning several hundreds of miles distant. Generally less wind – up wind or down wind. Vis Rodriguez Island, Mauritius,…
This article first appeared on our sister website Marine Business. The Boating Industry Association has thrown its support behind the proposed Eden Marina development on the NSW South Coast, stating that its economic value is “greater than other investments in…
Tara, a famous French research schooner, will be in Sydney from August 18th to 23rd for a stopover during the Tara Pacific expedition. After departing from Lorient (France) in May 2016, the boat has sailed nearly 50,000 km across the Pacific Ocean to…
A new and exciting Finn sailing academy is soon to be launched on Sydney Harbour by NB Sailsports and operated by long time Finn sailor Rob McMillan, with help from former Finn World Champion, Ed Wright. NB Sailsports is currently…
After a successful sojourn in the Baltic, Ludde Ingvall’s eye catching super maxi CQS is back in Gosport on the south coast of England, preparing for Lendy Cowes Week and the Rolex Fastnet race. During her brief tour of the…
Because it was so well-received in 2016, SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week organisers are planning to host the Cape Upstart stopover again this year, for boats travelling from Airlie and/or Hamilton Island to SMIRW. “Cape Upstart is totally unique to…
Avid America's Cup watchers will need to wait until September to find out what boats will be sailed in the 36th America's Cup. The following statement from defender Emirates Team New Zealand hints at some sigificant changes from the 35th…
Black Jack 100, the revamped Alfa Romeo/Esimit Europa II, has left the McConaghy facility in Sydney and has been trucked to Sydney City Marine. She has a busy schedule ahead of her, including Brisbane – Keppel, Hamilton Island Race Week,…
The wind was very light and the race officer decided to postpone the race. The race officer Andreas Kuckler, who also was the race officer eight years ago when Sønderborg Yacht-Club hosted the Contender Worlds the first time in 2009, went…
While the Judel-Vrolijk 115 Nikata will be the largest yacht competing among the 350 or so yachts starting the Rolex Fastnet Race on Sunday 6 August, the battle for line honours glory looks set to be between two titans of…
At 08:30 GMT this Monday, the first oceanic trimaran designed to fly offshore was launched in Vannes, south-west Brittany, under the proud gaze of her owners, Ariane and Benjamin de Rothschild, her designers and builders, and of course the whole…
Evening All, Last night to my great disappointment the winds maintained 8-10 knots from the North to North West and even with the Full main sail and the genoa out I was only able to get 5 knots in speed…
Pattaya, Thailand – Team USA beat Team China in a dramatic, hard-won, winner-takes-all ‘Sail Off’ in the team racing portion of the Optimist World Championship 2017, retaining its hold on the IODA Challenge Cup team racing trophy for the second…
107 Contender dinghies were ready for racing on day 1 for the Contender World Championship in Sønderborg in the southern part of Denmark. The wind was westerly 11-16 knots quit shifty. First race of the regatta started after one general…
Porto Cervo, July 16, 2017. Plenty, owned by Alex Roepers with tactician Terry Hutchinson, the defending champions at the start of the event, are World Champions for the third time in the Farr 40 One Design Class. Theirs is the…
Phil Robertson and the crew of ChinaOne Ningbo have won the M32 World Championship in Marstrand, Sweden. With rain squalls gusting up to 40 knots, principal race officer Mattias Dahlstrom was unable to hold any racing on the final day,…
In the absence of their divine leader Leslie Green, team Ginger consolidated and extended their MC38 Winter Series lead in another day of light winds on Sunday July 16, 2017, to clinch the third stage win by five points. Marcus…
Hosting the America's Cup in 2000 and 2003 transformed the Auckland waterfront, removing unsightly relics of the past and reclaiming land on which apartments and office blocks now stand, complemented by bars and cafes overlooking the harbour. However, this redevelopment…
When ChinaOne Ningbo began racing in the M32 World Championships on Thursday, they were full of energy, fresh off their outstanding win at the GKSS Match Cup Sweden against rivals Taylor Canfield and the US One Sailing Team. So it…
Porto Cervo, Italy: At the 20th edition of the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship, organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with Title sponsor Rolex and the Farr 40 Class Association, four races were run today in north-westerly breezes that…
Competitors enjoyed one final elegant sashay around the Central Solent to complete Panerai British Classic Week, with the 6 and 8 Metres starting separately, but Classes 1 to 4 came together on the Royal Yacht Squadron line for their final…
For a flaky Pittwater day with barely enough wind to pull off the schedule, there was plenty going on in the MC38 Winter Series act 3. Half the fleet sailed an incorrect course in the opening race in light sou’west…
Honolulu, Hawaii: Today a Transpac legend that came to symbolize the Fast is Fun philosophy in ocean racing crossed the finish line at Diamond Head 40 years after she did it the first time. Bill and Lu Lee's venerable Lee…
Pattaya, Thailand: A sunny, windy day greeted sailors on the second day of the Optimist World Championships 2017, setting the stage for a day of perfect racing conditions with a dramatic ending sure to be remembered for years to come….
In the 470 Women, any one of the top four going into the Medal Race had a punt at a medal, with the series leaders Agnieszka Skrzypulec/Irmina Mrózek Gliszczynska already guaranteed gold or silver, while the three boats behind would…
At London 2012, Chinese sailor Xu Lijia took home China’s second-ever Olympic gold medal in sailing and won the hearts of a nation after battling partial-deafness, partial-blindness and cancer. This tactically elite sailor is in Marstrand, Sweden this week where…
It was sun and fun all the way on day five of Panerai British Classic Week 2017 in Cowes, where not only did the participants enjoy some fiendishly tricky racing, but they also finally came together for the traditional Open…
Pattaya, Thailand: Top youth sailors from the 62 countries participating in the Optimist World Championship 2017 took to the waters off Pattaya in a long-awaited start to what will be eight days of competition. Excited and focused on doing their…
New Zealand’s Blair Tuke is joining MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2017-18, and could become the first sailor in history to win the ‘Triple Crown’ of an Olympic gold medal, the America’s Cup and the Volvo Ocean Race….
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