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Optimist Sail Melbourne. Photo Jeff Crowe/Sport the Library. The Notice of Race and Online Entry for the inaugural Optimist Nations Cup have opened today, Thursday 8th October 2015. Expressions of interest for the Optimist Nations Cup have smashed expectations of…
7 October 2015: Rio de Janeiro: The second race in the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race series, The Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms, started off the Brazilian coast today for its 3,417 nautical mile voyage to…
Southerly, the classic wooden yacht most famously owned by the Don Mickleborough for 53 years, and sold to two of his closest friends and sailing companions in 2011, is for sale. Southerly is the 76 year-old 34-footer designed by Charlie…
When I caught sight of the fire-engine red Pulse 600 at Sanctuary Cove, my first reaction was “wow.” We all know red things go faster than other coloured ones, but the Pulse's sleek design screamed “sail me.” Fortunately, I got…
There are many paths to the goal of getting stronger for sailing, and I give a few examples below, but above all, follow these five principles and you will make great gains: 1Overload: You must gradually work the muscles harder…
Former Australian Cricket Captain, Michael Clarke, has joined the Perpetual LOYAL yacht racing team for the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. “I competed in my first ocean race with Anthony and his team in the annual Sydney to Gold…
Final results at the Yachting NSW Youth Championships stand at the close of racing on Sunday, the breeze shutdown thwarting any chance of a start on Monday October 5, 2015 for all classes other than the Optimist Green fleet. Locals…
After the effort comes the comfort. In celebrating the arrival of Maxime Eveillard, the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe racers put a full stop at the end of this first stage. Only the Spanish sailor, Nacho Postigo (Vamos Vamos), whose…
HAMILTON, Bermuda – Organizers for the Argo Group Gold Cup firmly stated today that racing for the 67th annual match racing regatta, an event of the World Match Racing Tour, will begin on Wednesday as scheduled. Hurricane Joaquin passed to…
The MC38 Spring Regatta this coming weekend marks the penultimate event of the class’ inaugural Australian Championship, and with the Kiwis leading the topmost Aussie team by one point there are sail bags full of national pride at stake. The…
Cruising Helmsman is proud to announce the awarding of a Cruiser of the Year at next year's Yachting Australia awards. This is a big achievement and opportunity to acknowledge those who have come before us, served the cruising community in…
For all those who have ever wished for a little help at the helm, Harken and Jeanneau have worked together over the past three years to now launch 'assisted sail trim' for long distance and shorthanded cruising. This collaboration has…
A Hong Kong registered 18.2m sailing yacht Europa, owned by yacht broker and experienced offshore sailor Robin Wyatt, left Hong Kong for Subic Bay on Thursday 1 October 2015 with an ETA at Subic Bay no later than 5 October…
The skipper of Luna Rossa at the 34th America's Cup in San Francisco, Max Sirena, has joined Emirates Team New Zealand as they work towards the 35th Match in Bermuda. Luna Rossa issued this brief statement: Team Luna Rossa Challenge…
The British America's Cup challenger, Land Rover BAR, has launched its latest testing boat – T2 – at their home in Portsmouth. This boat will increase the momentum already developed with the initial launch of 'T1' last October. It's the…
Olympic silver medallists Darren Bundock (NSW) and Nina Curtis (NSW) have won the silver medal at the 2015 Nacra 17 Open European Championships in Barcelona, Spain last night (Saturday, 3 October). Winds of up to 12 knots offered ideal conditions…
A worthy and popular winner was crowned today at the RC44 Cascais World Championship in Vladimir Prosikhin's Team Nika, following two final big wind, big wave races that made for a thrilling, albeit damp, conclusion to the regatta. Leading into…
Leading from race one, The Wave, Muscat’s total domination of the Extreme Sailing Series Act 7, Istanbul presented by Yandex came to a crescendo today with one of the most impressive results in Series history. After 31 hard-fought races over…
Hot and gusty west nor’westerly winds made day two of the Yachting NSW Youth Championships on Sydney’s Botany Bay the perfect place to escape the worst of the 33 degree spring day. A morning glass-out dictated the race committee postpone…
With rain squalls scudding across the sky at up to 42 knots, the final day’s racing was abandoned at Marseille One Design, the concluding event of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour 2015. Thanks to some strong performances earlier in the…
Cargo ships and tankers were brought to a standstill today as the Extreme 40 fleet raced down the Bosphorus Strait through the heart of Istanbul. Taking line honours for the five-mile sprint – also known as the “Bosphorus Race” –…
Red Bull Sailing Team made a dramatic and unexpected exit at the Extreme Sailing Series Act in Istanbul today after their mast broke in the second race. With the wind fluctuating from 12-20 knots, the mast snapped in spectacular style…
With just one day remaining at Marseille One Design – the finale of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour 2015 – the game has drawn a lot closer, the outcome a lot more uncertain. A weird and whacky day of very…
After a light start to this regatta, conditions finally came good with the breeze building into the high teens for day three of the RC44 Cascais World Championship. A different winner in each of today's three races, a new overall…
The Wave, Muscat opened the Extreme Sailing Series Act 7, Istanbul presented by Yandex in style with a string of back-to-back race wins. Tipped as the Act in which British helm Leigh McMillan would make a definitive move for the…
Spindrift racing was the top performing boat of day 2 at Marseille One Design, the finale of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour 2015. Yann Guichard got the best of the starts and won two of today’s five races, slightly closing…
Sailing is certainly a sport for all ages, as was demonstrated in Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron racing on the Harbour last Saturday when the helmspersons competing ranged from a 13-year-old girl Optimist sailor moving up to the Yngling class to…
The countdown is on for one of Australia’s oldest sporting events, the Festival of Sails run by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. First held in 1844, the Festival of Sails is older than the Sydney to Hobart, the Americas Cup…
ORACLE TEAM USA will race in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Bermuda with the same crew that earned a second place finish in Gothenburg, Sweden in August. “We’re going with the same line-up as last time,” confirmed skipper…
RC44s are not supposed to race at night, but after a windless, race-free opening day at the RC44 Cascais World Championship and a windless morning today, Principal Race Officer Peter Reggio was not going to miss an opportunity. The sea…
Wendy Tuck, the Sydney Skipper of team Da Nang-Viet Nam, has arrived into Rio de Janeiro’s Marina da Gloria at the end of the 5,200 mile race which left London, UK a month ago. Wendy, 50, the first Australian female…
The winner of the first leg of the Clipper Race, LMAX Exchange has run aground 42 miles southwest of Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro while transitting to another marina to have new hull branding applied. Clipper Ventures advises…
As reported in mysailing last week, Performance Boating Sales founder Ron Jacobs has sold his share to co-director Lee Condell. With the move now finalised Lee is looking for a salesperson to fill the void and get busy selling more…
Production boat builders appear to be settling down on design for the popular range of boats under twelve metres (40 feet). Chines, wide transoms, twin wheels and twin rudders are becoming de rigeur for both cruising and racing. In fact…
Marine Rescue NSW is marking the official start of the summer boating season this long weekend with the launch of its biggest fundraising campaign yet, the Great Outdoor Getaway Art Union. Supporters of MRNSW can enter the draw for a…
As we have witnessed in Race 1, after racing more than 5000 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean, and at times travelling at speeds of 20 plus knots, the conditions around Cabo Frio have seen the ocean racing teams grind…
With less than three weeks until the start of the 36th Rolex Middle Sea Race on Saturday, 17 October, over 100 teams from 22 nations are preparing for another historic edition of the most important offshore race in the Mediterranean….
It was a gusty race course for day one of Marseille One Design, the concluding event of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour 2015. The 2012 Olympic Champion Nathan Outteridge was quick to get to grips with starting the GC32 on…
If there was one venue on the 2015 RC44 championship circuit with a reputation for regular wind, it would be Cascais. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of Portugal's Tagus River, the venue is pretty and offers friendly…
At 6.30am EST, Australian Katrina Ham was one of five Mini sailors still at sea. She had just over 100nm to sail. Here's the media release from the organisers: The pontoons that previously seemed strangely empty, with the notable exception…
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