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After collaboration with Yachting Australia, Cruising Helmsman is pleased to announce the implementation of an award for Australian cruiser of the year, to be included in the annual Yachting Australia Awards. Now it is up to you to start nominating….
The owner’s blurb for his Festival of Sail’s sports boat division entry simply states: “Thompson 8. Great fun. Fast boat”. A handful of words that sums up Julian Newton’s trailerable sports boat Game On, the first entry for the division…
As you will know from our previous reports, in July 2015, 52 Cruising boats of all shapes and sizes, from all over the world, came together for the start of the 2015 Multihull Solutions 2015 Sail 2 Indonesia Rally run by…
In what looks like an industry first, Digital Yacht have taken to the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter, to introduce a new interfacing technology for the marine electronics market. NMEA iconnectivity has been with us for the past 30 odd years…
Sydney’s first-ever Couta Week ended on Sunday and though the lightweight wolves in sheep’s clothing from Victoria set the pace in the gusty sea breeze, it was the local fleet that dominated the 5th annual Wattle Cup on handicap. Pittwater…
Abu Dhabi sets the stage for the conclusion of the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup this week, with racing starting on Thursday, 29 October on the waters around the UAE capital’s Lulu Island. More than 150 competitors from 39 countries…
It is not everyone’s dream to sail an open boat down the Hawkesbury River in mid-winter but it was Rosco’s. Ross Pollard is a sailor, a carpenter and a lover of wooden boats. After reading Captain Cook’s journals he liked…
Those of you who attended Cruising Helmsman’s Captain’s Deck in Manly (Qld) last November, will have already been introduced to the Boomerang. Two people from that event were even lucky enough to become owners of the device. For those that…
Two days out from Middle Island on our sailing around Australia adventures aboard Easy Tiger, we started sailing into choppy seas. The swell coming behind us from the southwest was about three metres high and there was a wind-wave or…
Our dreams recently enticed us to begin exploring the Solitary Islands. Named by Captain Cook from HM Bark Endeavour in May 1770, the Solitary Islands include five major islands and a scattering of smaller islands/reefs off the NSW coast between…
I had the good fortune to encounter a charming couple doing a circumnavigation in a rather large cat some weeks ago. Their boat is massive, an opulently appointed floating apartment that had me justifiably jealous. We got to talking about…
Never heard of it? I am not surprised, I just made it up. I use the term to explain my urge to explore and discover, like Columbus on his first voyage, rather than go somewhere I have been before, like…
Australian Sailing Squad’s Joanna Sterling (QLD) has qualified Australia a spot in the women’s RS:X Windsurfer class for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the RS:X World Windsurfing Championships in Al Mussanah, Oman (17-24 October 2015). The RS:X World Windsurfing…
When Adrienne Cahalan’s Whitbread 60 Elle Racing pumped out its water ballast and flew from Fremantle to Geraldton in a howling tailwind in 1996, she carved out the 220 nautical miles in a staggering 17 hours and 18 minutes. Garth…
At 0730hrs on Sunday morning Morgan Lagravière and Nicolas Lunven cast off to leave the Paul Vatine harbour. The concentration was visible on the faces of the Safran skippers, who seemed to have started their race already. A few hours…
The Outremer 45, launched at the Cannes Boat Show in France only a year ago, is now on display at Multihull Central with an open day announced for Saturday the 7th of November, from 10am to 3pm. The Outremer 45…
The Farr 40 Australian Open Series might have convincingly belonged to the multiple national and 2011 world champions, Guido Belgiorno-Nettis’ Transfusion, but new class president Rod Jones is keen to point out five from the seven boat fleet wrested a…
The Geotherm crew of Brett Hobson and Billy Lusty led the 12ft Skiff Parramatta River Championship almost to the end, only to be pipped to the post by the Sydney Sailmakers crew of Nick Press and Andrew ‘Noddy’ Hay in…
The Mini Transat Isles de Guadeloupe competitors met yesterday in Lanzarote. Every solo skipper should have signed in with the organisation from yesterday at 5pm. The first briefing of the week to present the organisation of the prologue will be…
Clipper Race veteran British Skipper Matt Mitchell, 28 is to join ClipperTelemed+ in Cape Town, to lead the team for the remainder of the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race following the resignation of its current Canadian Skipper, Diane…
For the past three Farr 40 seasons the skipper of Transfusion, Guido Belgiorno-Nettis, and his rival tactician from Voodoo Chile, David Chapman, have been enemies on the water. At the class’ 2015 Australian Championship back in March the opposing teams…
For several days, the forty-two duos competing in the Transat Jacques Vabre have been glued to the grib weather files. With 24 hours until the start which, subject to last minute changes, will set sail tomorrow, Sunday 25 October at…
It was a ‘family finish’ in today’s Alf Beashel Memorial Trophy 18ft Skiff race on Sydney Harbour when John Winning Jr. skippered Gotta Love It 7 to a 35s victory over Yandoo, skippered by his father John Winning. Gotta Love…
The 2016 Rolex China Sea Race will start on Wednesday 23 March at 13:20 hours (HKT) in Hong Kong’s iconic Victoria Harbour and will finish 565-nm later in Subic Bay in the Philippines. The Notice of Race has been published…
On Sunday 25 October at 12:30 GMT, a fleet of some twenty IMOCA monohulls will set sail from Le Havre to compete in the Transat Jacques Vabre. The 2015 edition of the famous double-handed transatlantic race, bound for Brazil, marks…
Bart’s Bash, the global sailing event in aid of the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation, is set to return in 2016, and this time the event will spread across 2 days; Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September. Tim Anderton, Event Organiser…
Wendy Tuck, the Sydney skipper of team Da Nang- Viet Nam, has arrived into Cape Town, South Africa, at the end of the 3,400 nautical mile Race 2 from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, crossing the line in sixth position. Wendy,…
For the 71st edition of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, there will be two entrants from Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in Western Australia. The picturesque river based venue is proudly the home club to these two competitive offshore…
Among the growing list of entries for the Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race starting January 2, 2016 are boats revisiting the event with a different owner and those still holding that ‘new boat’ smell. Bob Steel’s recent import, a Mat…
London, UK (21st October 2015): 2009 ISAF Match Racing World Champion Adam Minoprio and his team stepping up to claim the Argo Group Gold Cup last week, has caused the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) leaderboard to be closest it…
Race 2, The Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms, is headed for a dramatic denouement, with Derry~Londonderry~Doire, Garmin, GREAT Britain and Mission Performance all fighting to be first into Cape Town. Keeping Race Viewers glued to their screens for…
Geneva, October 21, 2015 – The world’s best yacht racing photographers have until Monday, October 26 to submit their photograph at the following address: http://www.yachtracingimage.com The top eighty pictures selected by the international jury will be published on the event’s website…
The construction of the marina at Wyndham Harbour, a $440 million residential and marina development located in Werribee South, Victoria, is in full swing, with piles now in place and pontoons being installed this week. Significant infrastructure works have been…
GREAT Britain has taken Line Honours in a high speed battle across 3,400 nautical miles from Brazil to South Africa in the second leg of the 14-race global series that forms the 40,000 nM Clipper Round the World Yacht Race….
This Sunday, October 25, Morgan Lagravière and Nicolas Lunven will be on the start-line in Le Havre for their first Transat Jacques Vabre. The quality of the IMOCA fleet is exceptional, with 20 boats entered and a good half of…
The Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms is set for an exciting finish, with frustrating winds and the wide use of Stealth Mode amongst the fleet leaving race fans in suspense. Frontrunners Garmin, Derry~Londonderry~Doire and Mission Performance are in…
Sailing mainsheet hand for American Rod Jabin (Ramrod), Australian yachtsman Darren ‘Twirler’ Jones has won his sixth Farr 30 World Championship, this time in Seattle, USA, where Ramrod dominated from the outset. Born in Tasmania where he is still a…
Race tracker and Automatic Identification System (AIS) technology is becoming more and more prevalent in yacht racing. In this article I explore what these technologies can offer us, how they can be used to our advantage and some of the…
IMOCA 60s are incredible machines. Every go-fast feature you can imagine is onboard: canting keel, rotating wing mast, water ballast, and all of this can be handled by just one person. This year, the class will take a step up,…
The 46 is a new edition to the Dehler range and the big sister to the 38. Designed by Judel/Vrolijk & Co, the new 46 falls into the cruiser/racer market and with the option of a competition package, she offers…
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