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It used to be so easy. Instruments were rudimentary, so most of what could be gained came from an experienced and knowledgeable eye. The 1980s era America’s Cup boat travelled almost everywhere at about seven or eight miles an hour,…
Spindrift 2 crossed the equator at 0131hrs UTC on Friday 27 November, just under five days after setting off! Yann Guichard and his crew are on world-record pace. Current Jules Verne Trophy holder Banque Populaire V crossed the equator in…
Giles Scott (GBR) continues to dominate the Finn Gold Cup in Takapuna, New Zealand. In spite of only winning one race so far this week he has amassed an impressive 52 point lead after eight races with just three to…
The two massive trimarans currently attempting to set a new Jules Verne record for the fastest sailboat around the world are approaching the equator. The fully-crewed Spindrift 2 is slightly ahead of IDEC SPORT but both have eyes only for…
Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club will conduct the annual Rockingham Race Weekend on 28 and 29 November. Both power boats and yachts will take part in the event this year with great activities on the water and shore-side. Twenty-seven yachts…
Australia Sailing Squad’s Ashley Stoddart (QLD) has secured Australia a spot in the women’s one-person dinghy, the Laser Radial, for the 2016 Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the 2015 Laser Radial World Championship in Al Mussanah, Oman (20-26 November 2015)…
Competition could not have been closer for the opening salvos of the RC44 Virgin Gorda Cup. Following the conclusion of the 2015 Match Racing Championship yesterday, Thanksgiving Day holidaymakers got to witness the first four fleet races, held within the…
The sound of a spooling fishing reel caught our attention. Our joy at catching a fish was replaced by horror when we realised that an Albatross had managed to become entangled in our trailing lure. Not wishing to hurt such…
Sometimes it is the little things in life that make all the difference. It has been more than three and a half years since we left our native UK and set off to sail the world. Since then we have…
From the relative safety of the house we used to call home, we found ourselves to be little affected by the weather. Sure, if it was raining it might be inconvenient to get to and from the car on the…
JULES VERNE TROPHYNovember 27th 2015 IDEC SPORT crossed the Equator on Friday 27th November at 03:03:52 UTC. Francis Joyon and his crew of five took 5 days 01 hour 52 seconds to sail from Ushant to the line separating the…
The New Zealanders remain in control after another day of 15 knot match racing conditions on the Harbour for the 2015 MUSTO Youth Match Racing Championship. What started out as a low breeze day soon ramped up to provide competitors…
Competitors for the second edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race have arrived in Marina Lanzarote. The new Calero Marina is a hive of activity as sailors from 14 different nations ready themselves and their yachts for the 3,000 nautical mile…
ALICANTE, Spain, November 25 – Richard Mason, four-time Volvo Ocean Race sailor and the man who led the shore crew for Team SCA women’s team in the last edition, has been appointed the event's Head of Port Operations. Mason, 41,…
Gradually pulling away from the Cape Verde Islands, Spindrift 2 is about to face the famous Doldrums dreaded by sailors. This passage between the two hemispheres sees large weather instabilities due to the convergence of trade winds blowing from the…
Are you a club sailor or relatively new to sailing a Tasar and know you need to improve your sailing skills but not sure how? Then come along to one or more of the Tasar Association of Victoria’s (TAV) training…
Vladimir Liubomirov's Bronenosec Sailing Team prevailed today at the conclusion of the 2015 RC44 Match Racing Championship held on the idyllic waters of Virgin Gorda's North Sound in the British Virgin Islands. Bronenosec Sailing Team started the day with a…
Wendy Tuck, the first Australian female skipper in the history of the Clipper Race, has arrived onto home soil, finishing the gruelling Southern Ocean leg from Cape Town, South Africa, to Albany, Western Australia. Wendy, skipper of team Da Nang –…
The 2015 Australian Sailing Youth Team (AYST) of 14 sailors across nine classes are on the right track for the ISAF Sailing World Cup – Melbourne as they look to gain valuable last match practise prior to representing their country…
Australia Sailing Squad’s Ashley Stoddart looks set to secure a Rio 2016 country qualification spot at the 2015 Laser Radial World Championships (20-26 November) after finishing the penultimate day of racing in Oman in overall 18th. The event will conclude…
Thirty five plus degree heat greeted Musto International Youth Match Racing competitors on Day 3 with race officials abandoning racing when 30 knot gusts swept up the Harbour. Principal Race Officer, Denis Thompson said that it was a tough day…
Giles Scott (GBR) extends his lead at the Finn Gold Cup in Takapuna to 18 points after two more races were sailed on the Hauraki Gulf. Deniss Karpak (EST) won the first race of the day to move up to…
The annual stoush to be crowned the Seven Island’s Race champion will be on again when Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s 38th Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC), takes place over the weekend of 28 and 29 November. A unique…
Defending world champion Giles Scott (GBR) has taken the lead at the 2015 Finn Gold Cup after winning the only race sailed on the second day in Takapuna, New Zealand after light winds disrupted proceedings. Andrew Murdoch (NZL) drops one…
Australian Sailing Squad’s Ashley Stoddart had a strong first day of Gold fleet racing on Tuesday (24 November) at the 2015 Laser Radial Worlds in Oman. Winds that reached in excess of 16kts made for exciting racing on the first…
This week-end will start the final act of the 2015 Flying Phantom Series that will take place in Hamilton – Bermuda from Sunday 29th of November to Wednesday 2nd of December 2015. An international fleet of Flying Phantoms will…
On the last day of the ISAF annual meeting, the Council Meeting agreed to accept the FAREAST 28R as a new One Design class. Earlier during the week, the FAREAST 28R OD-application passed both the Equipment Committee, and the Oceanic &…
Never in the 70-year history of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has there been a fleet like this—the line honours winners and overall winners of every major offshore race in the world. The fleet of 110 in the Cruising…
Day one of the Musto International Youth Match Racing Championship at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has produced a competitive day for all12 crews vying for championship glory. Leonard Fry impressed with his crew of Logan Andresen, Josh Wijohn…
Andrew Murdoch kept the home crowd happy on the opening day of the 2015 Finn Gold Cup in Takapuna, New Zealand after winning the opening race to lead overnight. After two races, he is on equal points with defending…
Years and months of intense planning and preparation finally paid off today as the yachts taking part in ARC 2015 made their way out of Muelle Deportivo in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria this morning. There was an air of…
On Sunday, November 22nd, 2015 at 4:01:58 GMT, the trimaran Spindrift 2, led by Yann Guichard, crossed the start line that runs from Créac’h lighthouse (Ushant island, France) to Lizard Point (England) for the start of her crewed non-stop circumnavigation….
After several Sydney Hobart Yacht Races, Bellerive yachtsman Tony Williams has elected to contest this year’s Launceston to Hobart for the first time – with good credentials. His Swedish designed and built Martela, an 11.3m X-Yacht, showed she will be…
The Yandoo crew of John Winning, Jim Beck and Cameron McDonald won a dramatic Race 4 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Winning, who has been sailing 18ft Skiffs for 40 years on the harbour, and…
The waiting is almost over. The anticipation is intense. The competition will be tough. The sailors are ready. The fleet consists of many old and new faces, plus a strong local fleet making the best of the opportunity to rub…
Matt Allen has sailed his Carkeek 60, Ichi Ban, took line and overall honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Cabbage Tree Island Race, missing the race record by just over one hour, courtesy of the superb conditions the…
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, the world’s longest ocean race, will stop in the Whitsundays Airlie Beach this January for the first time in its nineteen year history. The biennial 40,000 mile Clipper Race is regarded as one…
Two more first-time skippers and boats for next January’s Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Race will head out of Lake Macquarie on a favourable tide and make their way south to Pittwater for the New Year start of the medium distance…
Until now, the state-of-the art for wind data is a masthead anemometer for the wind around you, and a marine weather forecast or GRIB chart. But the weather forecasts are made hours earlier, and miles away. You could never set…
LMAX Exchange has claimed victory in the third stage of the tenth edition Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race after it crossed the finish line first in Albany, Western Australia at 2143 UTC November 22, (0543 local time, November…
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