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16 June 2016 – Cowes, UK – After the opening day's blustery conditions, day two of the Coutts Quarter Ton Cup produced a distinct change of pace. Racing was initially postponed for two hours to allow the breeze to fill in…
ABC News An old pearling lugger that featured in the movie Australia has sunk overnight in Darwin. Duty Superintendent Brendan Muldoon said the boat, Anniki, was moored at the Duck Pond in Frances Bay when it sank. “At about one…
The offshore race of the 64th Giraglia Rolex Cup got underway today at midday, with 268 yachts departing from Saint-Tropez for Genoa, via the Giraglia rock. Following three days of blissful warmth and generally clear skies, the Cote d’Azur went…
It’s 2014. It’s the hostile environment of the Maracanã soccer stadium. A despondent Argentinian team trudge off the field following a 1-0 defeat to Germany. They had lost the FIFA World Cup Final. Fast forward a year and another Argentinian…
The wind eased ; sailors began to feel at home ; the leaders – Caledonian and Australian – confirmed their positions. The French – led by the Caledonian Cyril Fortin – confirmed yesterday’s good results. They won their first nine matches of…
In 1988, the legendary Sir Peter Blake won the first and only Around Australia Yacht Race. Who will put their name on the trophy next to the legend in 2017? Ocean Crusaders Founder, and solo Around Australia Monohull Record holder,…
This weekend Pittwater’s Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club will host the MC38 Winter Regatta, the third and final act of the one design class’ 2016 Australian Season Championship. Early weather models show NSW could be in the path of another…
One of Australia’s best-known sailors, John Bertrand AM has been honoured as an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. Widely recognised for his success as the skipper of “Australia II” in the America’s Cup in…
Newshub NZ The Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) has suspended the search for the sailor lost overboard from the yacht Platino on Monday morning, 550km north of New Zealand. The 20-metre long yacht suffered damage after being battered by…
The Press and Journal. By Rita Campbell. It was a break-in worthy of any cat burglar. A stowaway feline hitched a ride on a private yacht and travelled 166 nautical miles all the way from the isle of Harris to…
The 2016 East Coast Championships (sponsored by NB Sailsports) were hosted by Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club last weekend 11th – 12th June. Thirty Laser 4.7s competed in what was one of the biggest showings the class has ever seen…
Building upon the success of the 2015 New South Wales Youth Championships, Georges River Sailing Club has been announced as the host for the 2016 regatta to be held from 1-3 October. Several hundred competitors are expected to descend upon…
15 June 2016 – Cowes, UK – The Coutts Quarter Ton Cup 2016 opened in spectacular style off Cowes on Wednesday 15 June with three windward leeward races in the Central Solent in a building south westerly which produced fast…
Thirty-three matches were sailed today in the lee of Ilôt Maître. On this third day of racing, all ten crews have completed the second Round Robin in a steady 20 to 25 knot wind. The qualification phase is finished. We now…
Morgan Lagravière finished ninth in the solo Transat New York – Vendée despite the damage that cost him 40 hours. That early blow did not shake the fighting spirit of the young skipper of Safran, who managed to climb back…
The Youth Match Racing World Championship started this morning in New Caledonia. 27 matchs were sailed in windy conditions (20-25 knots gusting to 30 knots ). To everyone's surprise , the best performance of the day was shown by the local crew…
The decision by Craig Carter, owner of the Carkeek 47 Indian to contest the WA Blue Water Championship and the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in the same season presented a number of challenges and a huge logistical task….
Event organisers wanting to create a community atmosphere in a high profile, competitive regatta could take a leaf out of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta’s book. This regatta focussed on the essence of what sport is really about: community. How…
A small British pub, The Cove House Inn, was transformed into a little piece of Australia at London 2012 and turned into the focal point for the nation’s most successful sport at the Olympiad. Australian sport, in general, suffered at…
In the second of three Ladies Day races in the Land Rover Winter Series on Sunday, Lauren Connors helmed her father’s yacht, Arch Rival, to victory in Spinnaker Division 1 over Race 1 winner, Last Tango, in the Cruising Yacht…
The final battle between the world’s best Hobie Cat sailors was fought out on Dapeng Bay in China yesterday, in the final two races of the 21st Hobie 16 World Championships. Going in to the day’s racing Daniel Bjornholt Christensen…
Day two of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta kicked off very slowly with a postponement to all racing due to lack of wind. Hope was beginning to fade as the breeze would tease race management into thinking there was enough…
The best of Weymouth and Portland was on show on Sunday as ten gripping Medal Races brought the final Sailing World Cup event before the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to a close. Sailing World Cup Weymouth and Portland was the…
Boisterous conditions pushed the international fleet fast around the Mooloolaba open water course on day three of the Evans Long 20th Etchells Australasian Championship conducted by Mooloolaba Yacht Club. The first two race days were glorious conditions for the…
PORTLAND, MAINE (June 11, 2016) – Spanish team #123 Tales II, skippered by Gonzalo Botín and Pablo Santurde, captured the 2016 Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing as they dominated the offshore legs and fared well in the…
Perfect winds, cooler temperatures and a record breaking crowd of over 200,000 America’s Cup fans lining Chicago’s Navy Pier, combined to make Super Sunday, the final day of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Chicago, an incredible finale for…
A field of the world’s best Hobie Cat sailors battled it out on Dapeng Bay in China on the first day of competition in the two day finals series, at the 2016 Hobie 16 World Championship. Coming into the series some…
The 635-mile biennial Newport Bermuda Race is the oldest regularly scheduled ocean race, one of very few international distance races, and (with the Transpac Race) one of just two of the world’s regularly scheduled races held almost entirely out of…
BoatCrewGear.com is one of the first shops in Australia to receive their stock of the wetsuits in Zhik's new Junior range. The Junior Steamer, Junior Shortie, and Junior 3/4 hiker have been designed utilising the cutting edge technology that…
From the organisers of Sail Fiji: As many will have heard the yacht Platino who was entered in the cruising rally, but did not start, is in trouble 500 km north of North Cape. A sailor has died and a…
26 boats hit the water for the 26th year of the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta today, 11th June 2016, for their first day of racing. In typical Melbourne fashion each competitor prepared by gearing up like the Michelin Man so…
A team of young guns have put the Evans Long 20th Etchells Australasian Championship fleet on notice as they slipped into first overall at the end of day two of the three-day regatta organised by Mooloolaba Yacht Club. The Brisbane-based…
Three experienced superyacht owners realised their personal goals today as the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with Boat International Media, concluded in light winds on the Costa Smeralda. A delighted Albert Büll…
The 2016 Giraglia Rolex Cup officially started yesterday as two fleets – one sailing from Marseille and the other from Sanremo – set off at midnight on an overnight race to Saint-Tropez. Fastest boat on the French course was Gerard Logel’s IRC…
The scene is set for Sunday's Live Medal Races at Sailing World Cup Weymouth and Portland after a 20:15 finish saw the leader boards in the ten Olympic fleets shape up nicely for the finale. After a frustrating three days…
Up to 1000 boats were ringing the race area just off the city front. Tens of thousands of fans were lining iconic Navy Pier. Bars, restaurants and fan zones were heaving. The best sailors and fastest boats were ready to…
ORACLE TEAM USA and Emirates Team New Zealand put on a spectacular show in Chicago during official practice at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series on Friday. The teams sit one-two on the overall leaderboard, but on Friday, neither team could…
Magic Carpet 3, the Wally Cento, won the coastal race after establishing an important early lead over their bigger 107ft rival Open Season well before the top of the first beat to Monaci. But Open Season then responded with a…
The third and final leg, the inshore Series in the The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing, gets underway today in Portland, Maine. Teams will add four additional crew to compete in a total of five races over the two-day inshore…
Vincent Riou fired a defiant broadside across the bows of the new foiling boats after finishing fifth this morning (Friday) in the inaugural 2016 New York – Vendee (Les Sables d'Olonne) race presented by Currency House and Spacecode. Faced with…
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