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Porto Cervo, Italy: Opening salvos were fired today between the 40 boats competing in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and the Rolex Maxi 72 World Championship, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in conjunction with the International Maxi Association. The…
Whilst Australia's current Olympic hopefuls from the Australian Sailing Team and Squad were competing at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro, Australia’s up and coming sailing talent posted outstanding performances around the World at Youth and Junior Class…
Residents and office workers around Sydney Harbour were treated to a most unusual sight today: a 20-metre long, snub-nosed hull being towed upstream. Only the colour scheme told the tale. This was Australia’s most successful ocean racing yacht, Bob Oatley’s…
Young Lion, Steve Chau and Scott Brain’s Young 88, emphasised her dominance of Division 2 in the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania/The Good Guys Winter Series on the Derwent today, scoring her third win out of four races. The last…
Boltenhagen, 4th September 2015: Ian Southworth and his crew kept their cool and sailed home an amazing start-to-finish win in the final race of the J/24 worlds in Boltenhagen, Germany. US-guy Mike Ingham, who was very close, finally had to…
Three qualifying races and three final races completed Sunday’s final of the M32 Battle of Helsinki. The rain clouds stayed away from Hernesaari and the wind kept blowing all the way through. After the three first races the top-4 continued…
The Mediterranean is the largest enclosed sea and the world's largest tourist destination. Yet, in the September issue of Cruising Helmsman, we managed to find you three widely different locations not inundated with charter boats, tourists or even lots of…
We are deeply saddened to report the death of crew member Mr Andrew Ashman (49) a paramedic from Orpington, Kent. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time. Andy was an experienced yachtsman and was one of the…
The bodies of two men have washed up on a beach north of Newcastle, as police continue to search for a boat that disappeared while travelling to Port Stephens. The men, both in their 70s, have been named as Piers Dudley-Bateman…
After a social media post showing balloons being released at the recent America’s Cup event in Sweden resulted in a slew of complaints, the America’s Cup said they “regret” the balloon release, and have “put processes in place with all future local…
You know the Australian summer sailing season is not far away when the first of the new 18ft Skiff hulls emerges from the Van Munster Boatbuilders factory at Morriset, on the Central Coast north of Sydney. First of the new…
Every year skiffs, kites and windsurfers hit the bay in San Fran for the Bridge to Bridge race.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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….
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