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St Kilda Beach hosted a world first this morning – the Opti Olympic Challenge – when five Australian sailing Olympic gold medallists and two Rio 2016 Olympic Games hopefuls plus event ambassadors took on a bunch of angry lightweight Optimist…
Melbourne put the whitest cloth and the best silverware on the table for the 900 plus Victorian, interstate and international sailors on day two of the Sailing World Cup Melbourne, the first stop of the six stage series. The morning…
With everything to play for, the Extreme 40s came out all-guns-blazing on Sydney Harbour today, for the final Act of the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series championship. On a day of costly penalties for some crews, and race-ending collisions that reduced…
Emirates Team New Zealand ticked off another major milestone of their 35th America’s Cup today, launching the first test boat in Auckland today. The silver and red boat is formerly Luna Rossa’s AC45 test boat, which has been loaned to the…
A fleet representing all six Australian states will thrash it out over the weekend in CYCA Trophy – Passage Series, as boats from Queensland, Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania prepare to take on the locals in the Cruising…
For sailors on the ARC+ route of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, last night's prize-giving ceremony in Saint Lucia marked the end of their Atlantic adventure that began in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the eastern side of…
HAMILTON, Bermuda — The inaugural Amlin International Moth Regatta is primed for a showdown between Chris Rashley and Rob Greenhalgh. At stake is $5,000. Three races are on tap tomorrow and it’s anyone’s guess as to who’ll come out on…
Geneva, December 10, 2015 – The overwhelming feeling as people came away from the Yacht Racing Forum in Geneva earlier this week is that such a gathering is vital for driving the sport of sailing forwards. One of the most…
The Bureau of Meteorology will upgrade the West Takone radar in 2016, with the radar offline when work commences early February. The new radar will provide higher resolution rain and Doppler wind images on the Bureau's website from early…
Two weeks ago Ed Psaltis, co-owner of Ker 40 Midnight Rambler, climbed the ladder to the loft of his garage. “I climbed this ladder 1000 times, thought I had taken enough precaution, but apparently not on the 1001st time. “I…
Finally, the book of seafaring tales we’ve all been waiting years for. Charles Blundell, AKA the legendary Chas from Tas, will be in the Rolex Village at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia on Monday, 21 December at 6pm, for…
In race number two on the second day of the Extreme Sailing Series in Sydney, Australia, Lino Sonego Team Italia capsized when a big gust of wind coming off the Sydney Opera House caught the Italian team off guard. The…
Derry~Londonderry~Doire is diverting to Hobart in Tasmania for a medevac of an injured crewman as a precautionary measure. Skipper Daniel Smith contacted the Race Office at 1030 AEDT today (2330 UTC Tuesday 8 December) to report that round-the-world crew…
The midday activation of four course areas signaled the start of the Sailing World Cup Melbourne for the seventh time. With the last of the humidity and smog blown off by yesterday afternoon’s strong sou’westerly change, the major international city…
A surge in entries for the 2016 Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race has the fleet currently trending at 43% higher than last year’s 28 starters with five days to go until entries close, on December 15. So far a combined…
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Today’s racing at the Amlin International Moth Regatta was postponed due to light winds. After an idyllic day on Monday and challenging conditions yesterday, today brought yet another set of conditions to the regatta hosted by the…
The highlight of this third week has been the rounding of the Kerguelen archipelago which are in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The crew decided to sail north of the islands in order to avoid the drift ice located…
Jean-Paul Riviere's French Finot Conq 100, Nomad IV crossed the finish line of the RORC Transatlantic Race at 19 hours 06 mins and 59 secs UTC on Tuesday 8th December 2015, taking Monohull Line Honours to win the exquisite silver…
The happy faces on the sailors during this morning’s video conference live from IDEC SPORT were a pleasure to see. Francis Joyon’s crew is in the process of seeing their gamble pay off and ending up on the right side…
Phuket –A great sailing day in favorable winds, pleasant sunshine and with extremely close racing on long courses; characteristics of a classic ‘Phuket Andaman Sea Race’ day at the 29th Phuket King’s Cup Regatta on Wednesday (day three). IRC0 headed…
According to a report by Lea Emery of the Fraser Coast Chronicle, police are calling for public help to find Eero Tiitinen who was last seen at Hervey Bay Marina on November 17. Mr Tiitinen, 67, set off from Hervey…
Paris December 8 2015: French solo yachtsman Jean-Luc van den Heede is the latest to throw his cap into the Golden Globe Race ring. He made the announcement yesterday at the Paris Boat Show that he is to race a…
8 December, 2015, Phuket – Following the opening day’s beautiful sunshine and reliable winds, day two threw up a markedly different challenge, demanding a very high work rate from sailors. The light wind did indeed betray yesterday’s fastest runners at times,…
America’s Cup racing will return to New York for the first time since 1920 with Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series racing on May 7-8, 2016. The New York event is one of six events planned during 2016, each featuring…
Geneva (SUI), December 8, 2015 – 135 professional photographers spanning twenty-nine nations submitted a picture for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2015 and generated an exceptional selection of images that summarize the 2015 yacht racing season better than words. Greek…
Nomad IV is expected to take Monohull Line Honours in the RORC Transatlantic Race later today with ZED 6 in full flight coming in from the north and Nunatak celebrate mid-Atlantic with shooting stars and Jelly Babies. For the next…
Geneva, December 8, 2015 – 263 key players from within the yacht racing industry spent two days in Geneva at the Yacht Racing Forum discussing the future of the sport, doing business and exchanging best practice. The conference saw some…
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Chris Rashley (Southampton, England) celebrated his 27th birthday today by winning Races 4 and 5 at the Amlin International Moth Regatta in Bermuda. Rashley overcame strong winds and near-blinding conditions, punctuated by a squall with gusts topping…
A rose by any name would smell as sweet. But in ISAF's case, a world sailing body by a new name must show evidence of change, and fast . Today, December 9, 2015, ISAF changed it's name to World Sailing….
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has once again launched its eBay auction which provides an exclusive opportunity to bid for places on-board one of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race favourites, when they compete in the CYCA’s SOLAS Big…
January’s huge Festival of Sails, the southern hemisphere’s largest keelboat regatta, is where McConaghy Boats’ latest one design class will launch. The first two MC31 hulls built are about to be loaded onto a ship in China bound for Melbourne,…
The Christmas-New Year period is a busy one for sailors, with almost all classes holding their Nationals and plenty of offshore activity, where sailors need to pack clothing and other gear to be sent to the finish line. Mysailing's…
After five years competing with the Extreme Sailing Series The Wave, Muscat’s British helm Leigh McMillan has become a household name in multihull sailing. But it hasn’t always come easy to the 35-year-old and McMillian knows all too well that…
The International Classes Regatta is a great warm up event for the championship season. Hosted by Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, the annual event began in 1989 and has always been held in early December providing a great opportunity for…
DEC SPORT has regained 200 miles in 24 hours. The Furious Fifties are pushing the big red trimaran at high speed across the Indian Ocean. But they need to watch out for icebergs. Yesterday, Francis Joyon’s crew came within a…
A fleet of 30 boats, ten more than last year, has entered the ninth annual Derwent Sailing Squadron/National Pies Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race, which starts from Beauty Point on the Tamar River on December 27. The 285 nautical mile…
HAMILTON, Bermuda — To no one’s surprise, a quartet of Britons set the pace today in the first day of the Amlin International Moth Regatta. Rob Greenhalgh, Paul Goodison, Chris Rashley and Chris Draper hold first through fourth, respectively, after…
Since her launch in 2005 as a narrow-hulled, canting-keeled coastal racer, Wild Oats XI has been radically altered on a number of occasions. She has been nick-named “the Swiss army knife” because of her many appendages, such as the canting…
Giovanni Soldini is known for his solo sailing. He has won two round-the-world races, competed in three Transat Jacques Vabre, done more than 40 ocean crossings and done six Ostars. Now he is in Australia to compete in the Rolex…
The majority of yachts competing in the second edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race are predicted to finish the 3,000 mile race over the next few days. Nomad IV has just over 600 miles to go and is expected on…
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