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Extreme Sailing Series™ stalwarts Alinghi returned to winning ways today as they shot to the top of the Act 2 leaderboard. Co-skipper Arnaud Psarofaghis and his Swiss crew put on a second-day masterclass in tricky, light winds after two days…
The PSP Logistics Panama Cup got underway in the early hours of this morning, with the teams reinvigorated after a successful stopover in Seattle and filled with renewed enthusiasm for this tenth race of the global series. At 0320 UTC…
Sailing World Cup Hyères served up a light dose of wind for the third day of racing but big breeze is expected to follow on Saturday. Sailors had a short wait for breeze in the morning but a 7-8 knot…
Qingdao today lived up to its reputation as one of the trickiest venues on the Extreme Sailing Series™ as light winds limited action to just one race on the opening day of Act 2. The Chinese city, hosting the Extreme…
Australia's sporting capital, Melbourne, is to host the 2016 Sailing World Cup Final from 4-11 December out of the St Kilda Sailing Precinct. The Sailing World Cup Final will bring together the world's best sailors in the aftermath of the…
Over the long weekend, 14 18 foot skiffs were racing in Auckland for the Maersk Line 18’ Skiff ANZAC Championship. New Zealand team Yamaha; Dave McDiarmid, Matt Stevens and Brad Collins, lead from start to finish to take out round…
As the closing date for the early entry discount fast approaches, new Evans Long Etchells Australasian Championship 2016 entries are appearing from all quarters. The championship is being conducted by Mooloolaba Yacht Club from June 9 to 12. The early…
Sailing World Cup Hyères has served sailors a completely different set of conditions on day two, with racing postponed early in the day due to a lack of wind. A light 5-10 knot breeze filled in during the early afternoon,…
Cruising skipper, racer, mentor, sailing instructor and instigator of a huge relief effort for the victims of Tropical Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu, Heather Sutton is one of the nominations for the inaugural Cruiser of the year award. Ideas locker editor…
As boat building capabilities overcome more and more engineering roadblocks, does there come a point when the design of such large yachts begins to hit the ridiculous (“totes ridic”, as my hipster son says)? Make your own mind up and…
Local residents of NSW town Brunswick Heads have expressed concerns that development plans for the boat harbour do not fit in with ethos of the area. Providing facilities for sailing, and maintaining a profitable business, are quite often constantly at…
How does circumnavigating Australia in a Top Hat sound? How about doing it singlehanded? Robert Lovelace was nominated by a reader and, after contacting Lovelace to congratulate him he sent CH the following story of that remarkable cruise. Well it…
An Olympic gold medal is the end result of a lifetime of work but to get there, Sailing World Cup Hyères will play a key part as bragging rights, World Cup honours and national selections are on the line. As…
The AMS Sydney 38 Victorian State Titles were held over the weekend, April 23-24, at Sandringham Yacht Club on Port Phillip’s eastern shore where Andrew Mollison and his Sierra Chainsaw crew scored their first grade one win. Going into the…
The latest in technology and classic yachts are among early entries for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, which starts at 1300 hours on Saturday 30 July. Love & War, one of…
BORDER Force and NSW Water Police will inspect a barnacle-encrusted yacht hull washed up on Wooli Beach in the past 24 hours. The Northern Rivers Marine Rescue regional controller Steve Reading said the yacht, which was abandoned after it set…
Close finishes to marathon ocean yachts races are becoming standard fare these days and the Transat AG2R La Mondiale proved it was no exception with an incredibly dramatic finish at the Caribbean island of St Barts today. After completing a…
A fleet of 20 racing yachts and their skippers, plus guest crew, set sail from the French Brittany port of Saint-Malo this evening bound for Plymouth and the official start village for The Transat bakerly 2016. This non-timed Warm-Up is…
BlackWater Team, lead by owners Alexander Zaytsev, Andreas Savvidis and Maxim Merzlikin with tactician Konstantin Besputin, will join the line-up for the 2016 RC44 World Championship in Sotogrande next month. The team's first taste of RC44 racing came in 2015…
In the words of French Olympic medallist Jonathan Lobert, “you never know what will happen in Hyères.” Never has a saying been more relevant to the 2016 edition of Sailing World Cup Hyères with a mixed forecast and an aroma…
The bitter rivalry between Ian Williams and Taylor Canfield has been the defining story of the World Match Racing Tour in recent years. Even with the switch from keelboats to M32 catamarans, the rivalry looks as strong and closely matched…
\How the Extreme Sailing Series is raising its game The birth of the Extreme Sailing Series nine years ago marked a big change in the sport as high speed, short burst racing went on tour in front of an audience….
More than three decades after Australia II won the America’s Cup at Newport, Rhode Island, young Australian sailors are enjoying the match racing rules and tactics that gave John Bertrand that historic victory over Dennis Conner. Young sailors throughout…
Point Piper was picture-perfect on Sunday morning as the 61 boats contesting the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Great Veterans and Ladies Day races congregated there, ready to open racing in the Land Rover Winter Series, held on Sydney Harbour…
Sailing World Cup Hyères, held in France from 25 April to 1 May, will provide our Olympic contenders with one of the final chances to measure up their competition ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The Hyeres regatta will…
Charlie Cumbley (GBR) made the best of the second day at the combined OK Dinghy European Championships and Spring Cup in Medemblik with two race wins to move into a narrow lead over Bo Petersen (DEN) and Thomas Hansson-Mild (SWE)…
A couple of days to refresh the mind and body after a huge week at the 2016 Laser Radial World Championship in Mexico is just what Australian Olympic hopeful Ashley Stoddart needs prior to her last chance to convince selectors…
The crowds have gathered in the French Brittany port of Saint-Malo to welcome the skippers and boats who will contest this year’s Transat bakerly solo transatlantic race from Plymouth to New York. For the first time in the history of…
The inaugural Australian Schools Match Racing Championship has begun on Hobart’s River Derwent, with two school teams winning four matches and four schools finishing with three wins at the end of day one. Tasmania’s Hutchins School crew skippered by Sam…
Following a flying start to the 2016 Extreme Sailing Series™ in Muscat, tensions are high with just one week to go before the boats are launched for Act 2 in Qingdao, China. The fleet of eight, super-fast hydrofoiling GC32 catamarans…
The 2009 OK Dinghy World Champion Thomas Hansson-Mild (SWE) leads the 2016 OK Dinghy Europeans Championships in Medemblik after winning two of the three races held on Friday. Bo Petersen (DEN) is in second and Richard Burton (GBR) is third….
Just a little teaser video of the third boat to hit the water for the UL Land Rover BAR America's Cup team. The rules only allow the team to build one full-size 50 foot America's Cup Class (ACC) boat. However,…
Australian female skipper Wendy Tuck and the Clipper Race Da Nang – Viet Nam team has arrived into Seattle following the completion of the Pacific Ocean crossing which forced the team to retire after its yacht was knocked down by…
Organizers of a major Gulf Coast sailboat race are making changes to improve safety a year after the regatta ended in chaos and death when a powerful storm struck Alabama's Mobile Bay while dozens of boats were on the water….
Catamaran agency and marina, Multihull Central will be holding its first 'Seabbatical summit' to help inspire, educate and provide experience to those who attend. Two summits have been planned so far for Brisbane on the 18th and 19th of June…
Australian scientists are joining a privately-funded circumnavigation of Antarctica to investigate the impact of micro plastics and conduct a detailed whale survey. The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition is a philanthropic project by polar explorer Frederik Paulsen and coordinated by the Ecole…
Marine Rescue NSW has urged boaters taking a boating break over the Anzac Day long weekend to make safety on the water their priority. Commissioner Stacey Tannos said volunteers would be on duty at MRNSW units along the coastline and…
Mat and Will have reclaimed the title of Open European Champion and have started the European season strongly with two event wins in the past month.. The completion of racing last Wednesday brought to an end a month of successful…
The ninth Sail Port Stephens finished yesterday, Sunday April 17, in some of the best winds of the week-long regatta and close to 100 crews luckily escaped the powerful thunderstorms that stalled a few miles to the south of the…
Round four of the 2016 Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series, hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, saw 25 boats hit the start line, yesterday the 17th April, in a generous 10 – 15 knots sou’westerly. With only one more race…
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