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Just over one hundred years on from the advent of the Universal Rule, to which they were originally built, the J Class will this year get to race its first ever World Championship. The J Class Association has recently become…
A blustery start to the Iberia Race, the feeder race from Fremantle to Busselton for Geographe Bay Race Week, began on a Friday evening in the face of a strong wind warning from the Bureau. Winds were predominantly easterly, keep…
Spain’s Olympic gold medallist Xabi Fernández will return to skipper MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2017-18, the Spanish campaign announced on Friday, 17 February. The 40-year-old Xabi, who has taken part in the Volvo Ocean Race four times,…
Local boats from Bunbury and Busselton took more than their fair share of pennants after today’s racing and several also starred in the race for line honours. Doug Lawler’s DK35 Twist-n-Shout was untouchable in the division 3 fleet to scorch…
PHUKET, Thailand – The first day of the 20th anniversary The Bay Regatta was greeted with fresh breeze and as the crew on Top Cat called it, “Champagne Sailing”. Following the opening party at Chandara Resort & Spa on Phuket's…
Race after race, the Mini Transat has always maintained its popularity. For this 2017 edition, entrusted to the Collectif Rochelais pour la Mini Transat, the race will host a full contingent as the number of applicants signed up for the…
Evening All, Winds throughout the night have maintained a healthy 15 knots from the WNW making my course of 080 a comfortable downwind run. When I eventually surfaced from my pipe cot of a bunk to greet the day I…
NZ Herald. By Dana Johannsen. There are just three contestable crew positions left on the Team New Zealand race boat for this year's America's Cup. The Kiwi syndicate yesterdayofficially launched its slick new 50-ft catamaran for the Bermuda event, which…
NEWPORT, R.I. (February 16, 2017) – The 12 Metre yacht Freedom has been purchased by Charles A. Robertson (Guilford, Conn.), a well-known East Coast sailor who has been active in a number of America’s Cup and 12 Metre campaigns and is…
Hi all. I am back on the high seas. (Not all that high). Bit flat in fact. Unusual. Not so flat the other side of Africa. Cyclone in the Mozambique Channel. (With all that current too). Anyway there was not…
The closeness of the 2016 championship and the likely improvement in a few of last year’s rookie teams, indicates the 2017 championship will be just as tough to win as Smeg’s victory was just twelve months ago. Smeg will be…
Wednesday 15th February is 100 days until the start of the greatest race on water, the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda, from 26th May to 27th June 2017. Right across the beautiful island of Bermuda, preparations continue apace for the…
A record nine MC38s fling open the door to another year of dynamic one design racing with the class’ national title on Pittwater hosted by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club February 17-19, 2017. Class statesman Leslie Green and his…
Conrad Colman has been making modest but positive progress since he managed to set sail under his jury rig very early this Wednesday morning. The Vendée Globe skipper whose Foresight Natural Energy was dismasted just around 2200hrs last Friday night…
B&G has announced its latest software updates will bring PredictWind weather services direct to its Zeus and Vulcan[1] chartplotter range. The online-based weather forecasting service provides the very latest weather and sailing information to sailors all around the world. The…
After four days, as boats slowly took the opportunity to slip out of Hobart's Sullivan's Cove and head for their respective homes, I was reminded of the seminar Lin Pardey gave during the MyState Wooden Boat Festival symposium. Sponsored by…
Air Transport World. By Karen Walker. Airbus is working on a redesign of its A320 Sharklet wingtips as a result of developing a new design manufacturing process for the foil of a high-speed yacht competing in this year’s America’s Cup…
After the arrival last night of Eric Bellion, the French skipper who finished in ninth place and top 'rookie', Les Sables d'Olonne on the west coast of France prepares to welcome back their favourite adopted son, Arnaud Boissières who is…
Sundance Marine has been confirmed as the official naming rights sponsor of the 2018 Sundance Marine Melbourne to Osaka Yacht Race. The race, starting in Port Phillip in March 2018, is the toughest challenge for offshore racers from Australia. The 5,500…
The 13 British crew and one US national whose 60ft yacht, the ‘Clyde Challenger’, sent an emergency beacon alert, which was picked up by the UK Coastguard at 8.00 pm on Thursday evening, have been rescued. All are safe and…
Lisa Blair is attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate Antarctica solo. She is currently south-west of New Zealand, in the Southern Ocean. Afternoon all. Well to follow on from my last blog where I was expecting a storm…
Radio New Zealand Cook Islands Police say they had no reason to hold a foreign yachtsman over the disappearance of a female crew member. The woman had been sailing on the yacht Zangano in August last year when she disappeared,…
Just 100 days out from the first race of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup Qualifiers, Emirates Team New Zealand accomplishes the most significant milestone of its challenge for the 35th Americas Cup by christening their America’s Cup Class catamaran that…
After awful conditions on Monday, when sea mists and heavy rain combined with minimal breezes, day 3 was spectacular. Bright sunshine and a delightful, steady 10 to 12 knot breeze made racing a joy for all divisions. The Viper fleet…
With less than 240 days until the first Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 village opens in Alicante, the first prototype of the all-new team bases has been completed. Designed and constructed by Crane Container in the Netherlands, the structures are a…
On Tuesday evening, ORACLE TEAM USA held a ceremony at its team base to reveal its new America’s Cup Class boat, “17”, the foiling catamaran the team will race this summer in Bermuda. “This is the boat we’re racing to…
15 January 2017: Sanya, the energetic, fast-developing holiday resort and sailing centre on Hainan Island in the south of China, has been signed up as a first-time Team Partner and Host Port for the next two editions of the Clipper…
Western Australian skipper David Gilmour survived strong competition and very unpredictable conditions on the third and final day, to win the Geographe Bay Cup. Another local skipper, Matt Jerwood finished runner-up, so both these team qualify for Match Cup Sweden…
From one of the most prolonged and challenging storms encountered by any of the 29 skippers who left Les Sables d'Olonne on Sunday November 6th last year, French solo skipper Eric Bellion emerged triumphant, securing a remarkable ninth placed in…
Yesterday we checked Lisa Blair's tracker to see how her attempted circumnavigation of Antarctica was faring. We were surprised and alarmed to see her sailing 355deg – almost due north. Below she explains why, but first her thoughts on sleep…
Battle lines will be drawn when a variety of classes hold their championships at NSW’s largest keelboat event, the Sydney Harbour Regatta, to be hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club over the weekend of 4-5 March. The 11th anniversary regatta…
The weather turned from gutbusters to doldrums overnight. The 20 knot easterlies of the past two days were replaced by a ghoster at barely 3 knots by midday but worse was to come as a heavy fog drifted over the…
After nearly two months away from the race track the Club Marine Series was continued yesterday 11 February, 2017, with 119 registrants and hosted by the Royal Brighton Yacht Club. This decent break gave local yachts the opportunity to participate…
Martin Hill’s Estate Master narrowly beat the runner up on the final day of the Farr 40 NSW State Title 2017 that wrapped up on Sydney Harbour in strong sou’east winds. The days when Estate Master and what used to…
Chris Higham’s Archambault 40 Argo showed the way in Royal Perth Yacht Club’s Iberia Race, the feeder race for Geographe Bay Race Week. In unseasonal conditions, the race was run in freezing conditions, with heavy rain at times, but offset…
Tasmania’s fastest ocean racing yacht, the Reichel/Pugh 66, Alive, early last evening fell just short of breaking the record the 89 nautical mile Bruny Island Race, Australia’s oldest inshore/offshore yacht race. First held by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania…
It was a day of thrills and spills for the 18 Footers as they battled across Sydney Harbour in a 22-28 knot Southerly today. The conditions tested even the best of sailors as they completed three windward/leewards for the President’s…
Though David Gilmour still leads the Geographe Bay Cup, he is no longer undefeated and is under pressure with three other skippers just one point behind him. Fellow Western Australian Torvar Mirsky knocked Gilmour off his pedestal, and is one…
The Bay of Biscay is not giving up Eric Bellion easily as the French skipper battles upwind with no mainsail, trying to get to the finish line of the Vendée Globe. Bellion on CommeUnSeulHomme has had four tempestuous days fighting…
The America’s Cup Superyacht Regatta will be one of the greatest highlights of the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda in 2017. Some of the world’s most beautiful yachts will be given the perfect stage on which to perform on Bermuda’s…
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