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Matt Allen has sailed his TP52, Ichi Ban, to an extraordinary victory in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2016 Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, crossing the finish line in third place, beating many larger yachts to the…
Being a yachting administrator doesn’t give Mike Denney much time for sailing his own boat, Wild West, which he owns in partnership with his wife Michelle, on the River Derwent. Today was an exception and, as it turned out, one…
The two entries representing South Australia in the 2016 Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race became early casualties after both sustained bow damage in separate incidents, joining a NSW yacht that was involved in one of those incidents, all…
LMAX Exchange, Skippered by Frenchman Olivier Cardin, was confirmed last night as winner of the tenth edition of the world’s longest ocean race, the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race. The team’s victory comes despite finishing the final race…
Hamburg lived up to its reputation for delivering edge of the seat Stadium Racing today as it played host to some of the most exciting action of the 2016 Extreme Sailing Series™ so far. Series stalwarts Alinghi were untouchable taking…
Energa Sopot Match Race claimed a worthy winner today in Nicklas Dackhammar and his Essiq Racing team. The talented young Swede and his crew muscled their way through the three day regatta on Poland’s Bay of Gdansk with his only…
On the final day of the 29er Worlds 2016 in Medemblik, Tom Crockett and Harry Morton from Australia finished the job and grabbed the World title. They were crowned as the new World Champions in the high performance double-handed skiff….
The Oatley family’s super maxi Wild Oats XI was still in command of the 2016 Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race this morning, but Seng Huang Lee’s Scallywag from Hong Kong is sticking like glue, just two miles behind…
David Witt, the skipper of Seng Huang Lee’s Scallywag, reported this morning the super maxi had retired from the 2016 Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race after a keel ram exploded on the super maxi as they were sailing…
This Friday 29 July, there are exactly 100 days until the start of the eighth Vendée Globe, which will set sail from Les Sables d'Olonne on France's Atlantic seaboard on 6 November at 13:02pm local time. Thirty sailors have signed…
Twenty-three Men's Heavyweight Dinghy (Finn) sailors will race at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition with one name in particular touted as the one to watch. Great Britain's Giles Scott. The towering Briton has dominated in the Finn, winning 19…
While Quantum Racing wrapped up their third regatta title of the 52 SUPER SERIES season with a race to spare on the Bay of Palma, winning 2016 Puerto Portals Sailing Week, Vladimir Liubomirov’s Bronenosec completed a notable comeback after a…
A sunny day on the River Elbe coupled with a lively breeze saw SAP Extreme Sailing Team and Alinghi challenge Oman Air for honours on the second day of the Extreme Sailing Series™ in Hamburg, but it’s Morgan Larson’s dominant…
Sopot, Poland’s jewel of the Baltic, came good for day two of Energa Sopot Match Race, the first event in the new World Match Racing Tour season, with the organisers able to get through 11 out of 15 matches in…
Jim Hunt (GBR) sealed his second OK Dinghy World Championship title in Quiberon, France, after a very difficult final day for both organisers and competitors. He made sure of the win with a nervous 12th in the first race of the…
Australian Sailing magazine celebrates 40 years with the August/September issue. Have a look back at how it all began and some of the covers since 1976. This issue also has your guide to Rio 2016. We have all the…
Entries for Airlie Beach Race Week close in nine days, and boat owners continue to pledge their support for the popular Whitsundays event, with 113 entered as of today, including a boost in sports boat numbers that have helped surpass…
River Derwent sailors are a hardy lot. On this wintry morning 32 yachts, with about 100 crew aboard, contested Derwent Sailing Squadron/Cascade Winter Series with temperature in Hobart ranging between 5º and 7º during the race time. Fortunately, the breeze…
Neptune on stilts visited today's opening ceremony of the 29er Worlds 2016 in Medemblik, Netherlands. The ultimate regatta of the year in this spectacular double-handed skiff started off with two practice races in calm conditions on Sunday July 24th….
In conditions that could hardly have been more different, Fremantle Sailing Club conducted both the Mayflower Race and the resail of the Ensign Race on successive days last weekend. The Farr30 Cougar finished the weekend with two fastest times and…
Four years ago Max Salminen (SWE) was on his way to a gold medal in Weymouth Bay, sat in front of Freddy Lööf (SWE) in their Star class boat. He is now trying again for Olympic glory in Rio, but…
Hot, sunny conditions and thousands of fans lining the Portsmouth seafront was the backdrop to Saturday’s crowd-pleasing Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series action, the first day of points scoring races on the Solent at the 2016 event. The home…
Comanche, the 100 foot racing yacht owned by Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark, will depart this evening from New York (USA) and point her bow East to Britain as the record-breaking monohull takes on the Atlantic in a bid to…
As the 52 SUPER SERIES moves to Spain for the Puerto Portals Sailing Week, the third regatta of the season, the desire amongst the ten competing teams is to make the last day count. Consistency across the first racing days…
Wendy Tuck, the first Australian female Skipper to compete in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, has claimed her second podium result of the global series, arriving third into Den Helder, the Netherlands this morning in the penultimate race…
Friday at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth started in spectacular style with the world famous Red Arrows wowing the crowds across Portsmouth’s seafront with an outstanding display of aerobatic skill. On the water, Friday is designated official…
The 2016 inductees to the America’s Cup Hall of Fame will be Mr. Ernesto Bertarelli, two-time winner of the Cup in 2003 and 2007 and runner up in 2010, and the late 4th Earl of Dunraven, Cup challenger in 1893…
Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou has had many great moments in sailing. A career spanning more than 20 years has resulted in four World Championship titles, two Olympic medals and two World Sailor of the Year awards. This success is not without…
If you plan to attend the Sydney International Boat Show this year, please call at the Yaffa stand in the main pavillion and introduce yourself to our editors. You can also enjoy special discounts of 40% off magazine subscriptions and…
The Sydney International Boat Show is a great opportunity to view the latest production boat designs. As always, importers will have new yachts on display for the very first time in Australia. Here's what you can see (and click on…
Following a closely fought battle in the third and final Ladies Day race of the Land Rover Winter Series, winners have been announced and all were celebrating not just their wins, but the end of the Series, at the Cruising…
Yachting benefactor Graeme Wood continues to see good returns from his support of sailing in Hobart, today winning his second race in the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s James Boag Winter Series on the Derwent. Wood, a former ocean racer, helmed…
Among the 11 teams competing at the RC44 Portsmouth Cup, seven have now won races, showing the level of cut-throat competition that exists in this one-design keelboat class that today sailed its penultimate day of fleet racing on Hayling Bay….
In the cockpit of the Finn belonging to Caleb Paine (USA) there is a decal that reads “No Paine, no gain”. This very much sums up his attitude towards making sure he is the absolutely best prepared he can possibly…
More wind and more stable conditions in Hayling Bay allowed for three races to be banged off in quick succession at the RC44 Portsmouth Cup today. While a 10th place in the first race finally put a blemish on the…
Bo Petersen (DEN) stays at the top of the OK Dinghy World Ranking List as the fleet heads into the 2016 World Championship at the end of next week, in Quiberon, France. Former World No. 1 Greg Wilcox (NZL) retains…
There are just hours remaining until phase one of the Volvo Ocean Race Onboard Reporter recruitment campaign closes – and thousands of hopefuls from around the globe have already responded to the Race's call. The storyteller search – which ends…
A new documentary, narrated by presenter and broadcaster Clare Balding, gets behind-the-scenes access to Britain's Challenger for the 35th America's Cup – Land Rover BAR. Led by the most successful Olympic sailor in history – multiple gold winning Olympian Sir…
ORACLE TEAM USA will use 4iiii Innovations PRECISION Power Meters to measure how much power its grinders produce with each turn of a winch handle. 4iiii power meters connected to the winches will provide torque and power output with greater…
Sportsmen and women have their superstitions. From the absolute pinnacle of each sporting discipline to the weekend warriors, everyone has their own rituals which they believe directly influences their performance. Rituals and superstitions are there as comfort blankets, a sense…
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