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Forty-three young female sailors, a full compliment of volunteers in support, blue skies, a perfect sea breeze and wonderful environment just west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This was the setting for the NSW International Optimist Dinghy Association’s “OptiChick” event,…
Racing at the 2016 Men’s and Women’s 470 World Championships will get underway at Club Nautico in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina from Monday, 22 February 2016 with Australian Sailing’s four-time World Champions Mat Belcher (QLD) and Will Ryan (QLD)…
The racing at the 2016 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, sponsored by appliancesonline.com.au, just keeps getting better and closer with every race and the outcome won’t be decided until the last race of the championship on Sunday. A 5-12 knot…
Plenty (Alex Roepers, USA) extended her points lead from one to four in the Rolex Farr 40 worlds today after three races in difficult wind and sea conditions on the offshore course, set north-east of the entrance to Sydney Harbour…
Preparations for Gaastra PalmaVela are well underway, and 2016 is already looking set to enjoy great participation. With three months still to go before the Real Club Náutico de Palma event (4th-8th May), there are already 34 boats confirmed, none…
Competing in an event like the America’s Cup is a human adventure that is indissociable from technical and sporting commitment. For the past two years almost, with a ramping-up of activity back on 25 June 2015 thanks to the support…
ALICANTE, Spain, February 16 – The Volvo Ocean Race has appointed North Sails to be the exclusive Official Supplier of sails to the Volvo Ocean 65 one-design fleet in 2017-18. North Sails supplied the sail wardrobe for the last Volvo…
When Patricia Lucas emailed me to say she was sending me a copy of Alan Lucas' latest book, I was naturally excited. I have Alan's excellent cruising guides to the NSW and Queensland coasts and have obviously read every article…
Alan and Patricia are one of the first nominations for the inaugural 'Cruiser of the year' award. If you want to nominate someone you think worthy then read to the bottom of the story and click on the e-mail address…
The BALI 4.0 is now available in Australia. A major feature is the single cockpit/saloon area, entirely flush and unencumbered by bulkheads. It is accessible via an immense folding glass door on electric rams. So in the blink of an…
Entry for Airlie Beach Race Week 2016 is open and John and Kim Clinton were the first enthusiasts to go online, read the Notice of Race and fill in their entry in the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s major sailing event, to…
Three former world champions rose to the top in day two Quantum Sails Race Day of the Rolex Farr 40 world championship scoreboard in tricky south-easterly wind conditions on Sydney Harbour today. Plenty (Alex Roepers), the 2014 world champion, held…
The Inverloch Classic Wooden Dinghy Regatta is about displaying classic wooden sailing dinghies both on and off the water, many of which were once common but are now becoming rare. By focusing on the beauty of the wood crafting, rigging…
The Australian 18ft Skiff champion Smeg team was back to its best form today to take out Race 4 of the JJ Giltinan Championship after a mighty battle on Sydney Harbour. Smeg’s final winning margin was 1m11s over championship leader…
The 19th edition of the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship gets underway tomorrow. Hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, this is the third occasion the championship has been held in the southern hemisphere. Twelve boats have entered representing Germany,…
Following a challenging 28 day race in which crew faced a whole range of conditions, Derry~Londonderry~Doire has won the Da Nang New Discovery of Asia Race, taking its first race victory of the series. The team also won the Ocean Sprint and…
PHUKET, Thailand – Billed as 'Asia's fun regatta', The Bay Regatta 2016 is set to welcome over 40 yachts and more than 250 competitors to the four-day inter-provincial regatta that starts and finishes in Phuket and races through some of…
As well as hosting the Australian Yachting Championships for Grand Prix level offshore keelboats, Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2016 will be the venue for the inaugural Australian Yachting Championship for multihulls. This will be the first time that the…
The Bay lived up to its truculent reputation on the second day of the Club Marine Geographe Bay Race Week, teasing sailors with its variable breezes. South easterlies at the start softened and at the western end of the passage…
Many yachties say sailing is in their blood, but in the South Australian offshore racing scene, there is one particular person who has the right to state the claim. Adam “Rat” Common, who mans the bow on Adelaide-based TP-52 Secret Men's…
The Mooloolaba Yacht Club, located on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, is seeking a keel boat coach to work with the club’s Youth Development Program (YDP). The YDP is focused on developing dinghy sailors into competent keel boat sailors and assisting the…
The appliancesonline.co.au team of David Witt, Tom Clout and Tom Anderson dad to produce their very best form to take out Race 3 of the 2016 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. In a highly spectacular and…
The top six boats on the scoreboard are within five points after three close races and mixed fortunes in a fresh southerly off the Sydney coastline in the opening day of the Rolex Farr 40 world championship, hosted by Royal…
In a rare performance in Hobart yacht racing, Harold Clark’s Farr 1104 Invincible today won all three Group A handicap divisions of the Combined Clubs Long Race Series sailed on the River Derwent and in Storm Bay. Often described as having…
Chris Higham’s Archbault 40 Argo survived a brutal race from Fremantle to Busselton to win the Division 2 treble – line honours, IRC and YAH. The boat’s corrected IRC time was also better than the Division 1 winner Enterprise, to…
The Race Finish line has been set and teams are into the final hours of the Da Nang New Discovery of Asia Race with positions still to be decided as the fleet counts down the miles and the clock. At…
Sailors with disABILITIES is launching its first Winds of Joy program in Hobart on Monday 15th of February, expanding its national outreach program to Tasmania. Running for two weeks until February 26, Winds of Joy, Hobart, will give young people with…
Race Four, hosted by Royal Brighton Yacht Club, was the first race of 2016 continuing the 2015 Club Marine Series. Today, February 13, nearly 2 months after the last race, welcomed 129 registrants back to Port Phillip Bay for some…
After a lengthy delay to the start, Race 2 of the 2016 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today provided spectators with some great action and a wonderful exhibition of heavy weather sailing by the winning crew on…
The 2016 Nacra 17, 49er/FX World Championships regatta wrapped up this morning Australian time, Sunday, 14 February 2015 local time with Olympic gold medallists Nathan Outteridge (NSW) and Iain Jensen (NSW) finishing outside the medal ranks and in sixth place….
Busselton’s normally peaceful surrounds were shattered early on the first day of the Geographe Bay Regatta – by the helicopter covering the town’s annual Jetty Swim. A warm day greeted sailors for the first day, with light and very shifty…
Describing David Witt, skipper of appliancesonline.com.au in the 2016 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, being sailed on Sydney Harbour at present, in one sentence or one story is an impossibility. Those who know Dave will have a wide variety of…
The new Hanse 315 was announced as “European Yacht of the Year” at Düsseldorf Boat Show. The winner was chosen by a jury of experts from eleven major continental European sailing magazines. The 315 was up against 25 other boats and won…
Catch up on the Australian Sailing action at the 2016 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Clearwater, USA, in this wrap up video. We caught up with Nacra 17 crew of Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (finished…
The Da Nang New Discovery of Asia Race could be set for a tighter finish than appeared possible a few days ago, since the frontrunners have all got caught in light winds north of the Spratly Islands, allowing those behind…
A 20-knot North East wind and run out tide produced brilliant conditions for some wild spinnaker rides in the opening race of the 2016 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. In one of the most incident packed starts…
The 2014 Farr 40 world champion Plenty (Alex Roepers, USA) today won the Sydney Open; a nine-race warm-up series for the Rolex Farr 40 world championship to be conducted by Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron from Tuesday. Plenty led the three-day…
It was a character building and tough penultimate day at the 2016 Nacra 17, 49er, and 49erFX World Championships in Clearwater with the breeze picking up throughout the day and the changing sea state making for challenging conditions. World #1…
Four of Australia’s best 18ft Skiff sailors recently teamed together on the Ragamuffin 100 maxi which finished 2nd, behind Comanche, in the 2015 Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race. The foursome had to endure some treacherous conditions on the first night of the…
The 2014 Farr 40 world champion Plenty (Alex Roepers, USA), increased its lead in second day of the Sydney Open championship with continued consistency in a fleet of boats very evenly matched for speed. Three more races in the nine-race…
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