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Cascais, Portugal is set to be painted a particular shade of blue tonight after Azzurra are crowned the 52 Super Series champions of 2015. The team which wears the colours of Sardinia’s Yacht Club Costa Smeralda eclipsed Quantum Racing over…
The flapping of the sails has been replaced by a far sweeter music: that of the hull starting to swish through a calm sea. It’s a privileged moment for the sailors: it marks the end of a time of doubt…
Cleopatra, Matthew Denholm’s Mumm 30, has achieved a remarkable result in Derwent Sailing Squadron and Huon Yacht Club’s traditional Pipe Opener Series, winning all three races, including the Cock of the Huon at Port Huon. No yacht has been so…
Stephanie Roble excelled on her home waters of Lake Michigan on Sunday afternoon, as she defeated Anne-Claire Le Berre 3 – 1 in the final of the Buddy Melges Challenge, the penultimate event of the 2015 WIM Series. With this…
Australian Sailing Squad’s Laser Radial sailor Ashley Stoddart (QLD) has finished the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao ranked ninth after completing the final Medal Race with a fourth place. Four sailors represented Australian Sailing at the ISAF Sailing World…
WA’s offshore opener, the George Law Memorial Race, started in southerlies gusting over thirty knots, forcing the race committee to use the heavy weather course to keep the fleet between Garden Island and the mainland. Peter Hickson’s new acquisition, the…
The fourth annual Multihull Solutions Whitsunday Rendezvous wrapped up on 13 September and was resolutely declared Australia’s best social regatta by its participants. Fifteen multihulls and more than 40 participants took over the Whitsunday Islands with a week of idyllic…
Cleopatra, Matthew Denholm’s Mumm 30, has returned to her former home waters on the Huon River on a victorious note, winning the traditional Cock of the Huon Race, starting and finishing off Shipwrights Point at Port Huon. Cleopatra’s win today…
Race leader LMAX Exchange crossed the Equator yesterday afternoon local time, with the crew in a special ceremony in the court of King Neptune as they crossed the line marking the Northern/Southern hemisphere divide. Joined by Davy Jones and Her…
It’s hard to imagine better conditions for the start of the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe. The President of the racecourse fired the starter’s pistol, and the competitors launched themselves into the westerly to north-westerly 8-10 knot wind. By the…
Azzurra clinched the 2015 52 Super Series title today at the Cascais Cup, reaching their mathematical finish line with a day to spare. Their points margin over 2014 champions Quantum Racing rendered them unbeatable. It is the second time that…
Sam Gilmour and Team Australia have won the ISAF 2015 Youth Match Racing World Championships. Sam is one of three sons of the great Peter Gilmour who won four World Match Racing Tours. Today was the big day to see…
A Saturday with shifty, puffy and in general quite tricky conditions in the Buddy Melges Challenge, saw local hope Stephanie Roble and Anne-Claire Le Berre of France getting through to Sunday’s final. In the semi finals Roble beat Dutch Renée…
Victoire is back in form, Darryl Hodgkinson’s Cookson 50 taking overall honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Flinders Islet Race overnight, while the new kid on the block, Chinese Whisper, took line honours and missed the race record…
The first two days of excellent sailing conditions in the Buddy Melges Challenge on Lake Michigan, USA, was on Friday followed by nothing but the opposite. Thick fog rolled in over the Sheboygan race course, effectively killing not only the…
Another day of light breeze and testing current made for minimal separations across the nine fleets competing at ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao. After a short wait for wind the 320 competitors from 32 nations took to the water mid-afternoon…
Race Day 1 was slow to start in the channel with a shifty wind blowing from the southwest at 14-16 knots combined with very strong current flowing out into the Baltic. These conditions made it difficult to set the marks…
Likde all the other news coming out of Europe today, the weather for the race to Lanzarote for the Mini Transat promises to be light and shifty. The skippers will have just a dozen hours or so to get into…
Two beautifully composed, accomplished race wins in strong breezes and big waves today off Cascais highlighted once again why Azzurra are 2015’s champions elect for the 52 SUPER SERIES title. A double bullet, dream day, as they count down to…
The Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation has established a committee and a team of ambassadors in Australia consisting of marine industry experts, sailing enthusiasts and Olympians to help develop fund raising opportunities, and identify worthy charities that may benefit from practical…
Alameda, 17 September 2015 – Artemis Racing has announced today the signing of Italian star, Francesco Bruni. Bruni, from Palermo, Italy, is a three time Olympian and former helmsman of Italian America’s Cup challenger Luna Rossa. He is one of Italy’s most successful…
Twice in a row today Quantum Racing stuck to and executed their game plan perfectly. Consequently they won both races today at the Cascais Cup to take the overall regatta lead, three points ahead of Azzurra. The champions elect composed…
Once again everyone is happy that the weather is good. With only two days to go until they set off on the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe, the skippers embarking on the challenge feel the pressure creeping up on them….
Boston, MA September 17, 2015 – Boatbook has reached a milestone of 100,000 boat owners and sailors around the globe using the automatic log book mobile app during the first months of the 2015 sailing season. BoatBook is an application aimed at…
The 37th edition of the Régates Royales will be once again in the spotlight from September 21 to 27 with around fifty Dragons and nearly eighty classic yachts set to race in the gulf of La Napoule. A unique and…
World #2 Anna östling keeps dominating the Buddy Melges Challenge, the penultimate event of the 2015 WIM Series. After another day with just ones on the score sheet, the Swede concludes the round-robin with a clean sweep: “It’s been so fun,…
Today was the third day of races at the ISAF Youth Match Racing World Championship. In the morning the Race Committee announced the race area would be outside the channel as the wind, though a consistent strength at 10-12 knots,…
From Island Cruising Association's John & Lyn Martin on SV Windflower – Pacific Circuit Rally: When we started off from Fiji on the Pacific Circuit Rally leg to Vanuatu we had waited a week to let a Tropical Depression in…
Cougar II, Tony Lyall’s powerful ocean racing yacht, this evening will begin her campaign for the 71st Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, competing in the opening night race of the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Pipe Opener Series. The TP52 class yacht is…
Independent.ie. By online editors. A yacht owner's hopes of being reunited with his abandoned boat were dashed when the Irish Naval Service sank it. German sailor Thomas Mallanut was forced to desert his 25ft boat after his wife became ill…
It’s been another day of unsettled tropical weather as the front-runners enter the Doldrums Corridor, and the chasing pack rounds the Cape Verde Islands. In the front half of the fleet, GREAT Britain, Derry~Londonderry~Doire and Qingdao are all currently motor-sailing…
Few events can rival the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup: the racing is fiercely competitive and technical; demanding split-second precision and teamwork. These attributes align with the values of Rolex, which has partnered with New York Yacht Club…
An international fleet of 17 yachts is set to take part in the 18th edition of the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship, hosted from 24-27 September by the Long Beach Yacht Club. The event is the pinnacle of the Farr…
At the start of most offshore races, sailors often take mascots, amulets and objects for good luck that will remind them of their ties with land, their family and friends. The Min Transat îles de Guadeloupe is no different. At…
A promising weather forecast for next Saturday should give Western Australian offshore crews a good workout for the start of the 2015/16 season in the George Law Memorial Foundation Race, a 42 miler that will take yachts beyond Rottnest Island…
One of the earliest entries for the Festival of Sails 2016 is the brand new Bordeaux 60 that made its debut at Hamilton Island Race Week last month. Chris Barlow, a member of Sandringham Yacht Club located across Port Phillip’s…
Jim Swartz’s Vesper crew instantly made their long odyssey from the USA for their one and only 52 SUPER SERIES of the season worthwhile when they won the first race, while Steve Benjamin’s US team on Spookie followed up their…
The NSW Government has made last minute changes to its legislation controlling parking of trailers on public streets that imposes rules that are much tougher than those originally flagged. The NSW Boat Owners Association report that while a compromise had…
On her comeback to the match racing scene, Renée Groeneveld of the Netherlands surprised with six wins and just one loss on the first day of the Buddy Melges Challenge, the penultimate event of the 2015 WIM Series. World #2…
The Notice of Race for the Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta has been released by Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. In its 14th year this highly competitive match racing regatta is an internationally recognised regatta that will feature some…
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