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Gen XY are the hot team at the moment in the lead up to next month’s Marinepool Etchells Australasian Winter Championship after winning last weekend’s Brisbane Fleet Etchells Championship being conducted by Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. Matt Chew, Ashely Deeks, Brian…
ORACLE TEAM USA became the first America’s Cup team to sail an AC45S boat on the Great Sound in Bermuda. On Monday, the defending champion of the America’s Cup launched its training boat for the first time and put in…
With only two more races to sail, competition is tight for top honours in the Derwent Sailing Squadron/Quantum Autumn Short-Handed Series 2015 being sailed on Hobart River Derwent. The 52-boat fleet enjoyed a good breeze in mild autumn weather for…
Charlie Cumbley (GBR) has won the OK Dinghy Spring Cup in Medemblik for The Rüdiger Prinz Trophy at the first attempt after a win in race 7 sealed the event for him. Jim Hunt (GBR) finished second with Greg Wilcox…
The Land Rover Extreme Sailing Series Act 3, Qingdao came to a nail-biting conclusion today, as SAP Extreme Sailing Team took their first ever Act win – and just for good measure, they scooped the Land Rover Above and Beyond…
PATTAYA, Thailand – There was some shuffling of the results overnight as the results of a series of protests on Day 2 made for a tense start on Day 3. Fujin were DQ'd from Race 3 after not turning up…
Emirates Team New Zealand said today that Dr Keith Turner has resigned from the Emirates Team New Zealand Board. CEO Grant Dalton, who is currently overseas, said that the role of Chair of Emirates Team New Zealand over the past…
A patchy seven-knot breeze blew across the Chinese racecourse today as the nine international Extreme 40s took to the water in the shadows of the Qingdao skyscrapers at Act 3 of the Extreme Sailing Series. The change in conditions mirrored…
White caps and 12 knots of breeze welcomed sailors on the startline for Day 2 of the 2015 Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina. After a tricky first day with shifty light winds, Day 2 was fresh…
Charlie Cumbley has moved into a seven point lead at the OK Dinghy Spring Cup in Medemblik after three more races were sailed on Saturday. It was always going to be the lightest day and the fleet woke to a…
The Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa and her crew have departed New Zealand, on its way to leaving the Pacific Ocean for the first time in her 40-year history. The canoe’s master navigator, Bruce Blankenfeld, will use traditional Polynesian navigation techniques to…
Another grey and wet Sunday on Sydney Harbour failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the fleet contesting the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Land Rover Winter Series. Sam Haynes had a perfect start to his new grand prix campaign with…
Charlie Cumbley (GBR) made the first day of his first ever international OK Dinghy regatta look easy as he took three straight wins on the opening day of the OK Dinghy Spring Cup in Medemblik, in The Netherlands. Sailed in a…
After mother nature forced the cancellation of racing on day one of the Land Rover Extreme Sailing Series Act 3, Qingdao, today the dense fog lifted just enough for Race Director Phil Lawrence to squeeze in nine tight races, in…
The 11th Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina kicked off with an official opening ceremony last night presided over by Khun Rattanachai Suthidechanai, Pattaya City Council member, who together with regatta executives welcomed more than 600 sailors…
Navy Times/AP DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Search teams recovered the bodies of two boaters missing since a disastrous sailboat race Thursday as an investigation began into circumstances surrounding the competition, including whether it should have been canceled because of the…
The America’s Cup is teaming up with some of the biggest names in the marine industry to launch an ambitious Community Sailing Project, with a focus on leaving a sporting legacy in Bermuda. “This is an exciting project that builds…
ALICANTE, Spain, April 30 – Most of Team Vestas Wind crew members have been reunited in Bergamo, Italy, at the Persico shipyard where the rebuilt process progresses swiftly and on a very tight schedule to make it possible for the…
Stars & Stripes via AP DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — As the search for three missing boaters neared an end on the Alabama coast Thursday, authorities said they were launching an investigation into a sailboat race that ended in disaster when…
The call has gone out for entrants to join in the newly introduced Classic Yacht Class for the 9th annual SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. Yachts with time on their side and built for racing in an earlier era…
North Sails Australia will show case their newly designed TKR mainsail at this year’s Marinepool Etchells Australasian Winter Championship which is being conducted by Mooloolaba Yacht Club from June 4 to 7. It’s taken two years of research and…
ALICANTE, Spain, May 1 – Tactical decisions, exhaustion – and seaweed – were the main preoccupations of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet midway through Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Friday as the teams hurtled towards a point…
The World Cruising Club, organisers of the annual Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), have announced that they will be taking over the events and activities of Sailing Rallies Ltd, including delivery of this summer's Baltic 4 Nations Rally. World Cruising…
ALICANTE, Spain, April 29 – Overall leaders Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker/GBR) positioned themselves ominously at the head of the fleet midway through Leg 6 on Wednesday as the six boats continued to jostle for position. At the beginning…
London, UK (29th April, 2015): Next week the Long Beach Yacht Club in California will play host to the two opening events of the 2015/16 World Match Racing Tour season, The Ficker Cup and Congressional Cup. Under the World Tour’s…
In all of the changes that have been wrought on the America's Cup by the introduction of the new, foiling multihull boats, one of the biggest is the physical contest, the man-to-man battle. There are no longer any pauses, there's…
It will be a World Championships of records when the Bay of Aarhus forms the backdrop for the World Championships in 2018 for all Olympic boat classes. In terms of both the number of sailors and the number of participating…
ITV News The loss of four UK sailors in the Atlantic was “a tragic accident”, the head of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said. But the disaster identified important safety issues that should reduce the chances of anything similar…
The Henri Lloyd Winter Warehouse Sale is on again in a pop-up venue in Crows Nest, Sydney.The pop up sale starts this Thursday 30th April and runs until Sunday 10th May. There is a huge range of samples and discontinued…
GME has announced a new VHF marine radio which is now available in stores. GME says the GX700 VHF Marine Radio is “a compact communication and safety device with innovative installation options” and is waterproof to IPX7. GME says the compact…
Persistent heavy fog forced the cancellation of racing on day one at the Land Rover Extreme Sailing Series Act 3, Qingdao. It is only fourth time in the nine-year history of the Series that mother nature has forced the organisers…
SoftBank Corporation and the Kansai Yacht Club announced they have come to an agreement to challenge for the 2017 America’s Cup. As SoftBank Team Japan, the team will compete in the 2015 America’s Cup World Series events, and challenge for…
Yacht Racing photographers from all over the world are once again invited to attend the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award in 2015. The standard has been set with the amazing 2014 competition results and now is time to start selecting,…
The Volvo Ocean Race finally headed for the ‘homeward’ stretch after crossing the Equator for the fourth and final time on Tuesday – but there was no room to celebrate with a major decision facing all the boats in the…
It’s not too late to enter the annual Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club Four Points Race on Port Phillip, this Saturday 02 May. This race is also the final heat of this season’s Victorian Trailable Yacht Travellers’ Series. Commodore Dean…
It is with great sadness we advise the death of Patricia Warn, a 59-year member of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, who passed away on Monday, 27 April aged 85. With her fraternal twin, Joyce, Pat was a guiding…
29th April 2015 – Seve Jarvin and his GAC Pindar crew are heading to Qingdao, China with high expectations for Act 3 of the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series (30 April – 03 May). Seve will be the Skipper alongside an all-Aussie…
Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA), fully recovered from the trauma of breaking their mast on the last leg, narrowly led the chase to Newport, Rhode Island, USA, on Monday. There was no room for the slightest complacency on the Chinese…
Thunderstorms and high waves complicated Monday's search for four missing boaters in Mobile Bay, Alabama, who have been missing since powerful storms capsized their sailboats during an annual race Saturday. At least two other boaters have been confirmed dead from…
May Cruising Helmsman visits the deep south, going to Hobart and the land of the long white cloud. Three stories give the reader plenty of ideas for destinations in New Zealand this month. One couple travel halfway around the world…
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