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There was plenty of excitement on Sydney Harbour as the 18 Footers returned to racing for the second half of the season for the WC “Trappy” Duncan Trophy. The fleet battled in a fresh nor-easter for the first three-buoys race…
Josh McKnight, 2012 world and defending Australian champion in the high-flying foiler Mach2 Moth class, cannot be beaten for first place in the 2017 International Moth nationals on Hobart’s River Derwent. Three more straight wins yesterday clinched victory for the…
Hobartian Rob Gough, the current world masters champion in the International Moth class, is holding third place overall after day two of the Australian championship on the River Derwent, the lightweight foilers achieving spectacular speeds downwind. The 47-year-old class veteran…
Hungarian Vendée Globe skipper Nandor Fa is having the race of his life in the Vendée Globe. The 62-year old wrestler, turned canoeist turned Olympic sailor, who came back to solo ocean racing after a 20 year hiatus to compete…
Two straight wins on the final day of competition has clinched the 53rd Sabot Australian championship for 14-year-old Brin Liddell, sailing Speed Demon from Drummoyne Sailing Club on Sydney Upper Harbour. While New South Wales and Queensland sailors dominated overall…
The heat arrived in Esperance with light to moderate breeze for one final race to decide the gongs at the 2017 Gemmill Homes Australian Flying Fifteen Championship. An early start and a windward/leeward course was set for the final showdown….
Coach's Blog # 10 Well the World championship is over. The new world champions are Jamie Harris and Antonia Wilkinson from GBR. Congratulations to them from all the Australian team. The last day was a our best by far. We…
Bridgetown, Barbados (5 January 2017): With just 10 days to go before the start of the 2017 Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series (16-24 January), the festival atmosphere in Barbados is starting to rumble. Overseas entries, including Tony Lawson’s record-breaking MOD70…
Without doubt my favourite flavour profile comes from South East Asia. Colonisation and trade have evolved the foods of the region to a spectacular cacaphony of aromas and tastes. From a typical spice rack, you could not really have done…
I was recently contacted by an acquaintance for advice on having his yacht delivered from North Queensland to Brisbane. This got me thinking that there are probably owners out there who do not know how to choose a good skipper….
Our second visit to Indonesia took Steve and I to a very different and remote part of this vast island nation. We were participating in the Sail Malaysia “Passage to the East” 2015 yacht rally, which, for the first time…
Eventually all yachties have to tackle problems with the layup material of their freedom machines, whether it be rot, rust or osmosis. It is just the nature of boats, the bottomless hole in the ocean that we so willingly fill….
Where to next? Jim and I had sailed across the South Pacific, spent two seasons in New Zealand and Vanuatu and were in Australia. From this point, most crews head north to Darwin, join a rally to sail through the…
It is reasonable to assume that the small crew of a private pleasure vessel travelling through remote areas of Australia or an overseas country may at some time encounter a stranger wanting to board their boat with nefarious intentions. Most…
After spending six weeks of day sailing and island-hopping our way through the spectacular cruising grounds of the Krabi Coast, Phang Nga Bay and the western side of Phuket, we were making way for the almost deserted Surin Island group…
For the Vendée Globe leaders, this eighth edition of the solo round the world race is increasingly feeling like a game of two very distinct, contrasting halves. From the start on Sunday 6th November in Les Sables d'Olonne the pace…
America's Cup syndicates have had a 28-day sailing ban imposed on their new boats in an apparent concession to Team New Zealand. The protocol for the Cup has been amended under agreement by all six teams involved in the 35th…
The Idec Sport maxi-trimaran has completed the first half of the round the world voyage. It will be around 1800hrs UTC that they will have sailed the 11,160 theoretical miles representing half of the total distance between Ushant and Ushant…
Just another day in sailing paradise as 40 Flying Fifteens took part in day 3 of the Gemmill Homes Flying Fifteen Australian Championship in Esperance. Clear blue skies, warm temperatures and a superb day of steady breezes ranging from 15…
We finally had a bit more wind and for the most part the Australians looked more comfortable for it. It was a relatively warm fluffy onshore wind of 15 knots without a lot of pressure, nothing like an Aussie sea…
Doug Coulter’s Shakti from the Lake Macquarie Yacht Club steamed their way up the New South Wales coast to set the record for the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s first ever Club Marine Pittwater to Southport Yacht Race with an…
The IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran is continuing to extend her lead over the Jules Verne Trophy title-holder. At the end of the eighteenth day of racing, Francis Joyon, Alex Pella, Clément Surtel, Gwénolé Gahinet, Bernard Stamm and Sébastien Audigane now have…
The ability to repair at sea is absolutely fundamental to completing the Vendée Globe solo round the world race. Michel Desjoyeaux, the only skipper to twice win the legendary singlehanded race, which forbids any kind of outside assistance, often speaks…
True to the forecast, a 15 knot southerly breeze had built to 20 knots by the time the Club Marine Pittwater to Southport fleet set off at 1pm on Monday January 2, 2017 from a long start line to the…
Shaun Tiedemann’s Philosopher yesterday proved herself to be this summer’s champion yacht of Hobart’s River Derwent, outsailing a crack fleet to become King of the Derwent for 2016. With Shaun’s son Sam on the helm, Philosopher was named King of…
A stunning opening days racing at the 2017 Gemmill Homes Flying Fifteen Australian Championship in Esperance. Clear blue skies and a building E/SE breeze starting from 12 – 16 knots climbing to 22 – 28 knots later in the afternoon…
Emotional Rescue (Michael Hutchinson) and Mr Burger (Wings Three) have been declared joint overall winners of the National Pies 10th Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race. In a decision that must reflect the Wisdom of Solomon, the racing rules jury have…
Coaches Blog #7 Second days racing done and dusted. Well let me first say our team is a very resilient bunch. After a disappointing first day they bounced back very well. Most improved their position in a much more positive…
Like the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet’s quick push south in record time, the Club Marine Pittwater to Southport line-up is set to also enjoy tailwinds after taking a left hand turn out of Broken Bay tomorrow. The Royal Prince Alfred…
Esperance delivered ideal conditions for a genteel introduction to the Gemmill Homes 55th Flying Fifteen Australian National Championship. A mostly sunny day with a moderate breeze of 12 – 15 knots and relatively flat seas (according to locals, they are…
As Sean Langman arrived in Hobart in his beautiful Cliff Gale designed Maluka of Kermandie it was all smiles as he beat his own record by half a day. And beat Roger ‘Clouds’ Badhams prediction of four and a half…
Dismasted in the Southern Ocean, French solo sailor Stéphane Le Diraison has made it to Port Phillip under jury rig. Using his boom as a mast, he has managed to make the journey to a safe port under his own…
Adrienne Cahalan made history this week as the first woman to compete in 25 Sydney Hobart Yacht Races and it was all smiles as Ragamuffin was tied up to the dock. Her goal for the race was just to finish…
For the first time in 50 years Syd Fischer watched from the dock as Ragamuffin left to start the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. While he had a very important role for the start – firing the cannon – it is…
As the fleet continues to trickle into Hobart it is pretty much the same story, great reaching to Tasman Light and from there it has been a drfit fest. The lucky boats follow a group in and see what not…
Jim Delegat's Volvo 70 Giacomo was confirmed the winner of the Tattersall's Trophy this afternoon. While the trophy was almost guaranteed by Wednesday evening, the wait for theofficial announcement was a long one for Delegat and his team as they…
The 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has provided Tony Cable with two line honours, an overall victory, lifetime membership of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia – and a wife. It’s not bad for a short, fat, bald bloke…
Team ORCV has been very busy putting the Cock of the Bay to bed and preparing for today's Wyndham Harbour Melbourne to Hobart and Devonport races. We had a lack of wind for the start, just off Portsea Pier…
Being second across the finish line has its advantages. You have your handicap time posted and the boats behind have to beat you. However it usually means up to two days of nervousness, ticking off the smaller boats when it…
As we reach the two day mark of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race it is slow and steady in Hobart. Perpetual Loyal, Giacomo and Scallywag were able to sneak into Hobart in the dying breeze but since then it…
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