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Stuff.co.nz by Michael Forbes and Tom Hunt A boatie who bought a $500 yacht with no engine, radio, navigation equipment or life jackets had to be stopped from sailing it from Wellington to Westport. Maritime New Zealand said the Wellington yachtie…
Sail Sydney’s fourth and final day of racing came with the same side order of blue skies and wind, a result of the high pressure system sitting over the Tasman and associated trough pushing cooling sea breezes onto the New…
This year will see more international boats and crew than ever before. A record 27 foreign entries will cross the Sydney Harbour start line of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day. The bar at the Cruising Yacht…
Supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI, owned by Bob Oatley AO and his son Sandy, is “locked, loaded and ready to go” in the Rolex Sydney Hobart race according to skipper, Mark Richards, following the big boat’s final training session off…
Air and water temperature: four degrees Celsius. 33-knot south-westerlies blowing directly off Antarctica. The Southern Ocean atmosphere is back! In just 36 hours since Saturday morning, Spindrift 2 has closed her 473-mile deficit on the world record pace (her largest…
In less than 24 hours, Francis Joyon and his crew of five turned things around again in terms of the Jules Verne Trophy record time. They have just achieved another success following the one they had off the coast…
Competing in conditions that should be replicated at the Olympic Games in August 2016, Australian Sailing Team members enjoyed a good regatta at the Copa Brazil in Rio de Janeiro from December 15 to 20. The best performance was recorded…
Will Matt Allen race his new TP52 Ichi Ban to Hobart or will he opt to stick with his sleek black hulled Carkeek 60 of the same name? The skippers of nine other TP52s entered in the Rolex Sydney Hobart…
A weather forecast for the Rolex Sydney Hobart race issued early today was ringing alarm bells to the point today where Iain Murray, the tactician aboard Bob and Sandy Oatley’s supermaxi Wild Oats XI, suggested the start of the race…
It has been a long time since Robert Hick has designed and built a yacht that has serious contentions for the Rolex Sydney to Hobart. But when you consider Hick's last 'dark horse' was AFR Midnight Rambler that won the…
As 2015 is drawing to a close and the sailing season is in full swing, local business BoatCrewGear.com is busy providing sailors with the very best brands, service and advice. We have a wide range online, help is only a…
www.boatson.tv has access to North Sails loft during their build of Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours contender Wild Oats XI’s new Cuben Fibre A2 1000 sq ft sail. We use a drone to show how big this sail really is.
2015 marks the launch of the inaugural Sydney Race Village at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Rushcutters Bay. One of the highlights of the Village is set to be the Sydney Hobart Food and Wine Fair, which kicked off…
Yachting NSW’s Sail Sydney organisers staged the biggest day of the series with all 17 classes competing on a busy Sydney Harbour on Saturday December 19, 2015. Full resources were deployed to run three staggered start times for the 359…
She was one of the greatest maxi yachts of her day; winning line honours three times, first as Bumblebee IV in 1979, and then as Ragamuffin in 1988 and 1990 and she last raced to Hobart in 1993. For the…
Any thoughts of a post-Christmas sleigh ride for the supermaxi yachts contesting the Rolex Sydney Hobart race are decreasing as the Boxing Day start time approaches. A preliminary weather prognosis from acclaimed yachting meteorologist, Roger Badham, indicates that while the…
With an international Sail Sydney fleet of more than 400 competitors racing out of Rose Bay there are a multitude of stories worth telling. One of the more high profile is the reunion of 49erFX combination Haylee Outteridge and 2012…
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC UNESCO) and IMOCA Ocean Masters World Championship team up to gather climate change data in the remotest parts of the globe, particularly the Southern Ocean. The IMOCA Ocean Masters skippers, such as defending…
The 2016 Rolex Farr 40 World Championship at The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron will take place from February 16 – 19 and we are pleased to announce that the NOR is available and registration is officially open online. The Sydney Open, February 11 –…
Forward Sailing is a new brand dedicated to Water Impact Protection gear. No matter if you’re sailing, kite speed riding or windsurfing, you will find in their line innovative protective gear that will allow you to sail, ride and fly…
Woollahra Sailing Club has rolled the welcome mat out for more than 400 competitors representing 11 nations at the annual Sail Sydney regatta, Thursday 17to Sunday 20 December, 2015. Australian sailors are competing alongside a raft of internationals from Hong…
Organised by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in association with Antigua Sailing Week, the inaugural Antigua Bermuda Race will commence after the 50th edition of Antigua Sailing Week in early May 2017. The Antigua Bermuda Race is designed to offer…
All’s well that’s ends well were the words for the day. After resolving our pre race management issues, today race, without exaggeration was one of the better Classic Yacht races for some time. Race start With a decent…
Yachting photographer Andrea Francolini has taken two near identical images of Bob and Sandy Oatley’s supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, so the difference between Wild Oats XI pre and post-surgery is apparent. The location of the sailplan, rig, keel, rudder and…
In July this year, the General Assembly of the International 420 Class Association (held in Karatsu, Japan), announced that the Fremantle Sailing Club had won the bid to host the 2017 International 420 Class World, Ladies World and U17 World…
The FAREAST 28R has been picked by the World Match Racing Tour to be used during the last event for the 2015 World Match Racing Tour season, – the Monsoon Cup in Johor, Malaysia. “This is another great recognition for…
It’s not actually that long a story – though it took longer than expected, when last year, Hugh Ellis asked Gary Caulfield if he would like to do the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart on his Beneteau First 44.7 Twitch. Caulfield…
French champion Eric Loizeau and Estonian solo circumnavigator Uka Randmaa are the latest entrants to set their sights on winning the 2018 Golden Globe yacht race. They made their announcements at the first Golden Globe competitor conference, held at the…
Spindrift 2, the world's largest racing trimaran, skippered by Yann Guichard, is currently racing on the Jules Verne Trophy round-the-world crewed record attempt, with a time to beat of 45 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes and 53 seconds. By crossing the…
Thirteen Dragons competed in the 2015 WA Dragon State Championship in Perth under the burgee of the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club over a three day weekend from Friday 11 – Sunday 13 December. The regatta enjoyed an excellent mix…
NEEL Trimarans continues to take the cruising and racing world by storm with the NEEL 45 recently winning the Multihull division of the 2015 ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers). The NEEL 45, La Caravelle, completed the 2,700 nm race from…
“Mate, could you take my camera and film me helming this Extreme 40?” “Sure”. You give a bowman one job!
LONDON, UK (15th December 2015) The World Match Racing Tour today announced the remaining four ‘Tour Card’ skippers that will join the 2016 World Championship. Yann Guichard (FRA), Mattias Rahm (SWE), Nicolai Sehested (DEN), and the first ever all-female Tour…
The mystery of the Queensland sailor who has been missing since leaving Hervey Bay in late November has deepend after his boat was spotted 177 nautical miles east of Coffs Harbour this morning. Eero Tiitinen spoke to his family on…
Stuff.co.nz. By Laura Walters. Police have criticised a man for going out on his yacht with no lifejacket after drinking alcohol, sparking an almost five-hour search in Northland. Coastguard duty officer Mark Lever said the 63-year-old was transferring his 29-foot…
ANT-ARCTIC-LAB stands for the first attempt to sail nonstop, singlehanded and without assistance from Europe to the Arctic, through the Northwest Passage, down the Pacific Ocean and passing through the most dangerous cape in the world Cape Horn to circumnavigate…
Sailors got their first taste of Sydney Harbour’s fury as they prepared for Sail Sydney today. Woollahra Sailing Club is set to host over 300 boats, for the Annual event, running from Thursday 17th December to Sunday 20TH December 2015….
The support crew for the Jules Verne attempt by Spindrift 2 received the following message from Dona Bertarelli, illustrating one of the lesser-known irritations of a high-speed race around the world: “Don’t ask me what time it is….
Champion Hobart yachtsman Nick Rogers has made a striking return to racing in the classic International Dragon class, winning the Tasmanian championship sailed on the River Derwent over the weekend. Steering Karabos IX, Rogers won six of the eight races, and…
The Sun Odyssey range from Jeanneau has been one of the most successful in terms of sales and customer satisfaction. Already the recently released Sun Odyssey 349 is an Australian bestseller with more than twenty yachts on the water…
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