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The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) today released the Notice of Race for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2017, inviting eligible yacht owners to enter what is widely regarded to be one of the world’s toughest offshore racing…
It was another light wind day in Bermuda as the 35th America's Cup charged head-first towards its climax. Team New Zealand started the day leading Oracle Team USA 4-1 in the first to seven series and it was business as…
The 1977 Finn Gold Cup never happened. The winner of the renamed Finn World Week was never officially acknowledged as World Champion. Now, 40 years later, Spaniard, Joaquín Blanco has been acknowledged by the class and his peers as the…
On a windy final day at Kiel Week, Francesco Marrai charged past his rivals to clinch Laser gold by the smallest of margins on the final day of Kiel Week. Marrai’s fourth place in the Medal Race was sufficient to…
From one of the most dramatic last day 52 SUPER SERIES finales, Niklas and Catherine Zennström’s Rán Racing won the Porto Cervo 52 SUPER SERIES Audi Sailing Week title on the last downwind. While there was elation for the ice…
The Festival of Sails 2018 will run over the event’s traditional Australia Day long weekend timeslot and coincide with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, offering an unprecedented amount of activity, entertainment and celebration of sport on the Geelong…
Oracle Team USA obviously made good use of the five day break in racing during the 35th America's Cup. Down 4-0 going into Saturday's two races, they came out with a lighter boat and a steely resolve. The cycling station…
It is game on at the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda with Emirates Team New Zealand out to a 4-1 lead over Team USA in the first to seven match – but with the Americans getting their first point on…
Porto Cervo: It was the second last day of competition and the four days of racing at the Audi Sailing Week -52 Super Series have been suspenseful so far with several TP52 teams alternating in the leading positions. After today,…
After a week of festivities in Nantes, France, MACIF arrived in St. Nazaire on Thursday evening, with François Gabart and his crew now concentrating on the start of The Bridge, at 7pm on Sunday local time in St.Nazaire. Joining three…
The 40th Barmouth to Fort William Three Peaks Yacht Race in the United Kingdom was full of drama, adventure, close racing, elation and disappointment – and that is the nature of this iconic race which was described by competitors as,…
This morning at 8:16 local time Nicolas Lunven on board his Bénéteau Figaro 2 Generali crossed the Stage 4 finish line completing the gruelling 505-mile course from Concarneau to Dieppe in fourth place, securing the top of the General Standings…
Wednesday’s transgression may be two days behind them, but Quantum Racing’s hard driving tactician Terry Hutchinson has in no way put the opening day mistake behind him, despite climbing to the top of the Porto Cervo 52 Super Series Audi…
The only thing decided about the outcome of the 48th edition of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro is that the leaders should cross the finish line in Dieppe tomorrow morning between 7 and 9am. But in what order remains to…
(Thursday 22nd June, Porto Cervo) – For two of the 2017 season’s top 52 Super Series teams the familiar waters of Porto Cervo, Sardinia have been something of an emotional rollercoaster. The oft heard cliché that so competitive is the…
Jon Sanders is crossing the Pacific from east to west on his 10th circumnavigation of the globe. His amusing blogs contain gems of wisdom as well as plenty of entertainment value. When Magellan entered the Pacific from the Straight that…
Britain's youth America's Cup sailors from the Land Rover BAR Academy have been crowned the 2017 Red Bull Youth America's Cup Champions in Bermuda. The British entry completed 12 races against 12 other nations on Bermuda's Great Sound to take…
Porto Cervo, June 21st, 2017. The Audi Sailing Week, an event that is organised by the Yacht Club Costa, officially started today. The fourth event in the most competitive circuit of keelboat racing will end on Sunday, June 25th and…
For a second day, the thunderstorms rushed the sailors off of the water, but not before Lucy Macgregor (GBR) and her Team Mac with teammates Silja Lehtinen Frost, Rosie Watkins, Imogen Stanley, and Charlotte Lawrence were declared 2017 Women’s Match…
Finally, in open water and a breath of air for La Solitaire URGO le Figaro fleet. After negotiating their escape from the complex and grueling Breton coast between strong currents, rocks and zones with no wind, the 43 skippers of…
A 2nd EDITION IN 2018 Although, initially, the 2nd edition of the Rallye des Iles du Soleil was announced for 2019, Grand Pavois Organisation (GPO), with the support of its partners, the Guadeloupe Region, the Tourism Committee of the Islands…
As the Australian Sailing team turns its focus towards preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, our sailors will be competing at the Kiel Week regatta in Germany this week. Aussies will take to the water overnight in the 49er,…
The America's Cup is serious business – and big bucks. But Bangin the Corners brings it all down to earth as Randy Cunningham summarises the event so far: https://www.facebook.com/455330334500677/videos/1564947306872302/
Navy Daily Published on 19 June 2017 LCDR Scott Carter (author), ABML-S Hannah Walton (photographer) HMAS Melbourne has rescued sailors in distress off the Queensland coast, towing their stricken yacht to safety. Transiting from Sydney to Cairns, the ship was coincidentally conducting a…
WILSONVILLE, OR (June 21, 2017) – During a recent sea trial for Axiom Multifunction Displays, Raymarine’s UK-based test boat Raymariner came upon an interesting underwater target. The M/V Margaret Smith was a coal dredger that capsized and sank near Yarmouth,…
June 21, 2017– Navionics has released significant chart updates for waters in and around Bermuda. The new cartography provides numerous navigational objects, improved contour detail, and more, such as America’s Cup event-related content. The Bermuda enhancements are part of Navionics…
Doyle Sails announced today their next bold move to drive the Doyle business forward. The leadership team headed by Mike Sanderson and supported by David Duff and Richard Bouzaid from Doyle Sails New Zealand formally announced their ownership of Doyle…
Lisa Blair is attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate Antarctica single-handed. Following her dismasting and subsequent repairs, she has left Cape Town and is heading for the point where her journey was interrupted, but this means sailing in…
Two iconic boating events will go back-to-back on the Gippsland Lakes in March next year, with the Paynesville Classic Boat Rally taking place from 3-4 March and the C.H Robinson 50th Marlay Point Overnight Race on Labour Day weekend. The…
Sail Noumea organiser, Cercle Nautique Calédonien Yacht Club, is excited to announce its role as finish partner and host for four independant ocean races leaving Sydney Harbour, Auckland, Melbourne and Brisbane between late May and early June 2018. CNC will…
Before thunderstorms abruptly ended the racing in Helsinki, there were some exciting matches in the Quarter-Finals of the 2017 Women’s Match Racing World Championship. The results went “according to form” as the top four from the round robin stage came…
First at the western Chaussee De Sein mark extending his lead Alexi Loison (Custopol) approaches the ‘Basse Royal’ cardinal buoy. Having been gifted an early lead, Loison extends away from play mate Charlie Dalin (Skipper Macif 2015) by over 3nm….
Day one of the 2017 Red Bull Youth America’s Cup Finals belonged to Land Rover BAR Academy who sit on top of the leaderboard heading into day two after two second places and a first place in the three…
After a long wait for the wind to settle in the bay of the Forest in Concarneau, France, the 43 competitors of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro crossed the start of the final stage of this the 48th edition. At…
America’s Cup Village (Bermuda) – The serene island paradise of Bermuda will be rocking this week when the world’s best young sailors fly across the Great Sound in the Finals of the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup. Amid the already-charged…
The battle for the final spots in the quarterfinals came down to the last flight at the 2017 Women’s Match Racing World Championship in Helsinki, Finland. Eight of the top teams in the world will move on to the second…
A moody Sydney winter’s day with sou’west breeze gusting close to 30 knots provided the first heavy weather hit out in a long time for the MC38 fleet contesting the second act of their Winter Series. Leslie Green’s Ginger sailed…
SB20 sports boat mid-winter champion Paul Burnell will contest this year’s one-design sports boat class world championship at Cowes, England, steering an English boat rather than an Australian entrant. Burnell, with his sons Toby and Ollie and young Optimist sailor…
Day two of the 35th America's Cup saw a slightly stronger breeze of around 10 knots and discussion prior to the race centred around the choice of daggerboard. The New Zealanders can carry their light air boards in a slightly…
Despite a long day on the water in blustery conditions, 2010 Women’s Match Racing World Champion Lucy Macgregor (GBR) was quite upbeat about her team’s performance and their placement on the top of the standing after two days of racing…
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