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After sailing 628nm into big seas and strong southerlies there is one place the majority of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet heads to when they arrive in Hobart. The Customs House hotel. On the 27th it is a…
The start of the blue-water classic Wyndham Harbour Melbourne to Hobart Westcoaster and Rudder Cup Melbourne to Devonport ocean yachts races got underway at 3:00pm this afternoon from Portsea. In contrast to the start of yesterday’s Wyndham Harbour Cock of…
As the second night of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race settles in another yacht has told of their damage. This afternoon Comanche made a huge comeback after damaging their rudder and daggerboard. After making repairs and continuing on in…
Champion helmsman Gary Smith early last evening was driving his Launceston to Hobart Race record-holder, The Fork in the Road, across eastern Bass Strait in a bid to sail through the notorious Banks Strait before nightfall. Line honours favourite for…
Having spent the last three years sailing a Beneteau 40, and enjoying some ocean racing Jason Ward was looking to step up with a new racing yacht. After competing in the Sydney Gold Coast Race in 2014 as a warm…
Ho ho ho, children, Father Christmas also spent some time on board Spindrift 2. The air temperature is 20 ℃, it is 19 ℃ in the water and the sailors ate a merry Christmas eve dinner off Argentina and Uruguay. Xavier Revil…
As Boxing Day dawns, the mood on the dock at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia gets seriouser and seriouser – there is only so much time left to check, double check and check again those hundred little bits and…
The latest forecast, issued on Boxing Day morning, has mixed messages for the crews in the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Consistent with earlier forecasts, the start at 1pm will be in a freshening north-easter, meaning the yachts will…
There is always tension on the docks at the CYCA on Boxing Day morning, but today you could cut the atmosphere with a knife. A difficult forecast promising a northerly run down the coast and then howling southerlies had the…
France's Louis Flament and Charles Dorange have the favourites tag pinned on them at the 2015 Youth Sailing World Championships having taken the title in Tavira, Portugal last year. From 27 December through to 3 January the high flying…
There are two meanings of the word open when it comes to Sailing. You have 'open' which is both male and female in the same fleet racing against each other. Then you have the kind of open that we have…
Australian skipper Wendy Tuck led the 12-strong Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race fleet in the early stages of the Australian bluewater classic the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race (RSHYR). The first Australian female skipper in the 19-year history of…
When Comanche arrived in Australia for the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, she was fresh out of the shed and still undergoing work to be able to compete in the race. The team was still building major components to…
Andrea Francolini is one of the best yachting photographers and after 15 years of shooting the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, he knows how to get the perfect shot. While everyone is looking at who is going to be the…
Record holding eight time Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race line honours victor, Wild Oats XI, has retired from the race after reporting a torn mainsail. Early reports indicate that the sail tore in half when the yacht was hit by…
Most families start winding down for the holiday season but for O'pen Bic families around the world this is just the beginning. 125 competitors from nine nations have already registered for the 2015 O'pen Bic World Championships set to begin…
While the rest of the western world celebrates with food and booze, spare a thought for the sailors trying to set a new Jules Verne record. Here is how Antoine spent the lead up to Christmas: Delamination on the mast: “Antoine…
Bob & Sandy Oatley’s supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, will go to the start of the 71st Rolex Sydney Hobart race tomorrow with two “special weapons” on board – meat pies and the “voodoo stick”. Both are considered to be a…
After the bow and stern sections were cut off the Sydney Hobart record-holder, she obviously needed new non-slip tapes to ensure crew safety in the tough conditions expected for this year's race. As with everything they put on the boat,…
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Just seven days out from the start of this year's Rolex Sydney to Hobart the media relished in reporting weather conditions for the race to be as bad as the horrendous 1998 race. Conditions have tempered since then but at…
There’s plenty of chatter about weather models and the chances of a rough and uncomfortable Rolex Sydney Hobart starting in less than three days’ time, making the choice to head north to Coffs Harbour one week later even more appealing….
In a light, the like of which you don’t find anywhere else, surrounded by albatrosses, the big, red multihull made her way back into the Atlantic, leaving the desolate Southern Ocean in her wake and in so doing was very…
Fresh off its victory at the recent Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event in Bermuda, the Artemis Racing sailing team has returned to San Francisco, but work is under way in earnest at Artemis Racing's new home at Morgan's…
The glitterati of the sailing world will be in Antigua to compete in the 2016 RORC Caribbean 600. Well over 100 Olympians, World Champions, America's Cup and Volvo Ocean Race sailors will join hundreds of passionate corinthian sailors for the…
The 2015 Youth Sailing World Championships shows off its increase in participation as the 29er class is separated for the first time. In previous editions the fleet has been an open affair but the boost in numbers sees the…
Langkawi will welcome a record number of male and female Laser Radial sailors for the 2015 Youth Sailing World Championships from 27 December to 3 January. Historically, the Laser Radial is always the largest at the Youth Worlds and that…
Hobart yachtsman Gary Smith is quietly confident he can emulate, or at least again achieve his sailing successes of last summer, by taking line honours for the fourth time in Tasmania’s longest offshore race, the Launceston to Hobart. Over the…
With such a star-studded top end for this year's race to Hobart, it is easy to overlook some boats. But one yacht popped up on everyone's radar at the recent Big Boat Series – Chinese Whisper. Owner Rupert Henry has…
Michael Logan, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s NSW Weather Resources manager, delivered the early race forecast to all the competing skippers this morning at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, and the overriding message is that this 2015 Rolex Sydney…
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Spindrift 2 passed close to the legendary Cape Horn on Monday morning at 8:09 am UTC before heading up the Atlantic, passing through the Le Maire Strait during the middle of the afternoon. With 18h 11mn up on the split…
France will host the fifth Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event of 2016 in September when racing comes to the Mediterranean city of Toulon. Located between Marseille and St Tropez, Toulon will host the best sailors in the world,…
Bridgetown, Barbados (22 December, 2015): As preparations to mark the 80th anniversary of the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series (16-24 January 2016), and to commemorate 50 years of independence for Barbados continue, islanders have welcomed the first overseas race…
They are certainly quick around the buoys; a highly popular one-design choice for the well-heeled racing enthusiast, as often as not crewed by Olympic and America’s Cup professionals in glamorous global regattas stretching from Rhode Island to Mallorca. But that…
For a few sailors the Rolex Sydney Hobart is all about getting there first, but for the bulk of the fleet only one thing will really make it a Christmas to remember – a vaguely baroque silver chalice, bedecked with…
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and Derwent Sailing Squadron will conduct the biggest and most exciting world championship for one-design yachts ever seen on Hobart’s River Derwent when they jointly host the SB20 World Championships in January 2015. Between…
It is no secret that Matt Allen has entered both his Carkeek 60 and TP52 in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. With the days till the Boxing Day start slowing ticking by, Matt's decision on which boat to…
Michael Logan from the Bureau of Meteorology explained this morning that the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet is in for a tough first night as a Southerly front is expected to hit the fleet. The fleet will start in a strengthening…
Italian yacht racer Giovanni Soldini will field his largest ever crew on board ‘Maserati’ when it starts this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day and the team are spending the final week before the race testing both…
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