Howie Hamlin is first 18 footer in Bridge to Bridge
Every year skiffs, kites and windsurfers hit the bay in San Fran for the Bridge to Bridge race.
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Sydney Harbour sailing season kicks off at RSYS
Australia’s senior yacht club, the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron began its 153rd season of summer racing on Sydney Harbour today, introducing another huge season of sailing on this grand waterway. Other clubs, including Middle Harbour Yacht Club and Sydney Amateur…
Taylor Canfield takes the lead in little wind at M32 Series Helsinki
Saturday’s wind conditions challenged the nerves of the M32 sailors, organisers and the eager crowds on the Hernesaari shores. After the opening race the wind dropped to zero and did not return until just before the cut off time for the…
Fifth for Otto Henry at Optimist Worlds after final races cancelled
The Optimist World Championship fizzled to an end today in Poland. As had been the case on so many days, the wind failed to co-operate. The race committee started race 10 in a very soft Westerly but it was fading…
LMAX Exchange extends lead as Clipper fleet heads south
Some variable winds yesterday have built this morning and 20 knots, gusting to 35 knots of wind, is ensuring the fleet continues to make good racing progress. The teams are averaging around 11 knots boat speed as they leave the…
Rahm Racing takes the lead on day two of M32 Series in Helsinki
The Hernesaari racecourse in Helsinki was in a better shape this Friday. With a steady breeze from southwest and under a pleasant sun the conditions were close to perfect. Thursday’s winner Alite Racing skippered by Martin Strandberg had to live with…
Clipper fleet makes progress towards Finisterre as wind fills in
After an agonising day of drifting back further than they went forward at one stage, the latter half of the fleet; namely Unicef, Da Nang-Viet Nam, IchorCoal, Visit Seattle, PSP Logistics and ClipperTelemed+, have finally been enjoying building breeze as…
George David intends entering Rambler 88 into 2016 Round Ireland
George David, recently returned to the US from the 2015 Fastnet Race, has confirmed his interest in entering his new yacht Rambler 88, one of the yachting world’s newest and most sophisticated racing machines, in the 2016 Round Ireland Yacht…
Pouring rain fails to dampen the hot racing at M32 Helsinki
The opening day of the M32 Series in Helsinki was two-folded. The racing on the water was smooth for the sailors and organizers, but the weather gods did not favour the event’s first day in the Finnish capital. The rain…
Royal Geelong Yacht Club to host Australia’s first Viper World Championships
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club is set to host another world title event with todays announcement it will stage the Viper World Championships in January 2017. The ISAF One Design Viper World Championships will be held from January 7th –…
State government backs first step in safe harbour project for Geelong
The Victorian Government has joined the City of Greater Geelong and the Royal Geelong Yacht Club in providing funding for the development of a formal business case and masterplan for a Geelong Waterfront Safe Harbour– which could herald the biggest…
Otto Henry up to fifth with one day to sail at Optimist Worlds
It is still proving almost impossible to provide coverage of the Optimist Worlds in Poland. Yesterday's media report appears on the event website in Polish only, and that's not a language we speak here at Mysailing. However, we have received…
Teams gathering in Bermuda for third leg of Louis Vuitton America's Cup
The Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Bermuda will be held from October 16-18 with Emirates Team New Zealand, Land Rover BAR, ORACLE TEAM USA, SoftBank Team Japan, Artemis Racing and Groupama Team France taking in part in the…
GAC Pindar and Ian Williams to join the M32 Series
GAC Pindar and five-times World Match Racing Champion, Ian Williams (GBR) have today announced their entry into the remainder of this year’s M32 Scandinavia series. Ian Williams will compete in the M32 Series in parallel with his bid to win…
Team SCA and Vestas Wind to match race in Italy
ALICANTE, Spain, September 2 – Team SCA and Team Vestas Wind, rivals in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15, go head-to-head once more in a series of pro-am races at the popular Genoa Boat Show from September 30 to October 5….
Entries open for New Zealand's Bay of Islands Sailing Week
Entries have opened for the 2016 Bay of Islands Sailing Week, scheduled to take place over the final week of January next year. Registration will take place on 26 January, followed by three days of racing from 27 to 29…
Dutch and Austrians take 49er Junior World titles in Flensburg
2015 marked the fourth ever Junior World Championship for 49er and the third for the 49erFX as 69 teams assembled in Flensburg, Germany to compete for the U24 titles. Much of the championship was blustery, with all races in full…
Race win moves Otto Henry up to 10th at Optimist Worlds
As with so many junior regattas, there is sparse information coming out of the Optimist Worlds in Poland. However, the good news overnight is that Australian Otto Henry is in 10th place in Gold fleet and is poised for the…
No progress on salvage of Swan 57 that hit a reef in Fiji
Jack Hargraves, an Auckland-based yachtie who spends a lot of time in Fiji, has posted on Facebook the story of an old Swan 57 that ran aground on a reef near Musket Cove. Apparently the owner was sailing single-handed, coming…
Olympic Gold Medallist Nathan Outteridge raises Melanoma awareness
Australian Sailing Team’s athletes are ambassadors for MPA (Melanoma Patients Australia) with the aim to raise Melanoma awareness around protection and early detection in the Sailing Community. Hear from Olympic gold medallist Nathan Outteridge about the importance of early detection…
America's Cup 12 Metre Dame Patty still cruising in the Med
We often get emails from readers that contain interesting information, often about well-known yachts or interesting places for cruising. Here's one from Robert Swan who is a keen member of the Gosford Sailing Club and a former race director of…
Bart's Bash to raise funds for The Helmsman Project in Australia
The Helmsman Project has received a grant of $8,700 from the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation. The Project has also been selected by the international sailing charity to be the official Australian charity for their annual sailing event, Bart’s Bash! This…
Strong winds create havoc and spread 18s around San Francisco Bay
“It was no doubt, the most challenging, difficult skiff sailing I have ever encountered,” lamented veteran local skiff sailor Daniel Roberts, skipper of Notorious P.I.G., a well loved, vintage 18' that actually was able to complete all three races during…
Hobart to host 2.4mR World Sailing Championship
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania will host the 2016 World Championship for the International 2.4mR single-handed keelboat class on Hobart’s River Derwent early next January. While an open championship, the regatta will have a major significance in the lead-up…
Warning about unauthorised battery replacements on EPIRBs
Periodic battery replacement is essential to maintaining the compliance of EPIRBS and PLBs beacons with applicable ANZ standards. These standards are produced in order to maximise the likelihood of the beacon functioning correctly in the adverse environments in which distress…
Comanche and classics to line up at Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
Porto Cervo, Italy: Blasting their way around the race track off Porto Cervo, Italy next week will be some of the world’s most impressive yachts, all competing in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organised by Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and…
Early race nerves and mistakes lead to ever-changing Clipper leaderboard
Day 1 proved to be a totally thrilling first day of close-hauled racing with a jostling of positions and leads as the fleet raced along the south east coast of England, making for addictive Race Viewer action from the off….
The Transat returns for 2016 and heads to New York
The first ever single-handed ocean yacht race, that was originally staged in 1960, is set to return in 2016 when some of the world’s best solo sailors and most spectacular yachts will take on the classic 2,800-mile course of The…
Chinese yacht to debut in 2015 Sydney-Hobart
Mainland China will make its debut in the 71st edition of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, joining two other internationals and 14 Australians who were quick in signing up after entry opened last Friday….
Geelong Wooden Boat Festival on in March 2016 after Festival of Sail
Organisation for the 2016 Wooden Boat festival of Geelong is well advanced at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. The festival will be held over the Labour Day weekend commencing on Saturday12th March and running until Monday 14th. Over 150 entries,…
Light winds off Ushant grip half the Clipper fleet
The race to get to the Bay of Biscay and out into the Atlantic was on last night as teams chased each other with good boat speed. However overnight light winds and strong northerly tides off the island of Ushant…
Clipper Race gets underway on a wet day in England
The 12 international amateur teams competing in the tenth edition of the world’s longest ocean race have started their 40,000 nautical mile circumnavigation off the English coast at Southend. Race 1 to Rio de Janeiro of the global series, the…
Keep heading north, SYC tells Pittwater – Coffs competitors
Southport Yacht Club, on the Gold Coast, is planning an extension to the annual Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Race which is scheduled to start on January 2, 2016. Competitors in the 35th annual Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Race will…
More Aussies needed as 18ft Skiff regatta gets underway in San Francisco
As San Francisco bid adieu to August, it simultaneously said hello to the 2015 International 18ft Skiff Regatta, on San Francisco Bay. Classic early fall conditions were the rule of the day, with miniscule fog which disappeared before the first…
Team racing dominates on fifth day of Optimist Worlds in Poland
Today was about team racing and there were two stages, ‘Alpha’ and ‘Bravo’. There is no specification for the separation only that there are a large number of competitors. Each team consists of four members who are put forward to…
Winners announced at Magnetic Island Race Week
Winners of the six divisions contesting the ninth annual SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week have been decided today at the completion of a challenging Cleveland Bay triangle course. It was a tough final race where all crew couldn’t have…
New Zealand wins America's Cup World Series in Gothenburg
Emirates Team New Zealand put together a Super Sunday in Sweden, to vault to the top of the leaderboard and claim the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Gothenburg. It was a difficult day on the tight race course, with…
Australian female skipper leads her team to the startline of Clipper Race 2015/16
LONDON, UK, Sunday 30 August 2015: Australian Skipper Wendy Tuck led her team of international amateur sailors under Tower Bridge today at the start of a 40,000 nautical mile global race, between six continents, which will take almost a year…
Definitely still winter in Tasmania as Hobart hardies brave the final event
The seasons are more clearly defined in Tasmania than any other state in Australia, and with two days to go to the official start of spring, there was no question that it was still winter in Hobart for today’s final…
The Philosophers Club dominates third day at Magnetic Island Race Week
Peter Sorensen and his The Philosopher’s Club have cause for big celebrations today after winning on both IRC and PHS, Race 3 of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. That win has also moved the Sydney team up to first overall…
