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It was another big day (Monday, 17 August 2015) for the Australian Sailing Team at the Aquece Rio – International Sailing Regatta 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with the full Australian contingent of six crews on the water. Cousins…
At the recent Sydney International Boat Show one multihull manufacturer delivered short seminars for people interested in buying into the charter boat market. Due to such a great interest in those presentations Multihull Central decided to make it into a…
Giant crowds packed the Cowes and Western Solent shoreline this afternoon as a record-sized fleet of 356 set off on the 90th anniversary Rolex Fastnet Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. With a complete lack of wind in…
Brilliant sailing conditions on day one of the IRC Australian Championship inflated adrenaline levels and threw the less practiced straight into the deep end at the 32nd Hamilton Island Race Week in the Whitsundays. Cool 20 knot SSE tradewinds and…
Most Hamilton Island Race Week regulars know the weather gods have lulled its fleet into a false sense of security over recent years. For almost five years, day one has gifted crews a quiet introduction to the regatta; head out…
Hobart yachtsman Steve Chau today celebrated his recent election as Commodore of the Derwent Sailing Squadron with a narrow, but significant win with his Young 88, Young Lion, in Division 2 of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania/The Good Guys…
Racing got underway at the Aquece Rio – International Sailing Regatta 2015 in Rio de Janeiro over the week-end with Olympic gold medallist Mat Belcher (QLD) and Will Ryan (QLD) winning the first race of the regatta and adding a…
The final day in Copenhagen was another day with amazing conditions. A lot of people gathered along the shoreline at Tuborg Havn to see US One dominate the racing. If Rahm Racing had their moment of glory yesterday, this was…
With two gold medals to his name, Malcolm Page is Australia's most successful Olympic sailor. Add in his six World Championships in the class and he has the best record of any 470 sailor ever. Now the International Sailing Federation…
Australians and New Zealanders make up a disproportionate percentage of the world’s best sailors right now, whether on ocean racers, in Olympic classes or sailing rich boys toys in the Med. Which makes Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s decision to base a…
The countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games began in earnest today for the 20 Finn sailors that are taking part in the Aquece Rio 2015 Test Event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) (nicknamed The Postman) has…
Throughout the last sailing season I was racing on a Sydney 38, Whisper, in the women's twilight series at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club on Pittwater. While there were a number of attractive boats in our fleet including John Bacon's…
Australia’s first maritime explorers examined our rivers hoping to find a way into the mythical ‘inland sea’, Matthew Flinders sallying forth with this in mind in 1799 aboard the Norfolk. He anchored in the mouth of the Clarence River, named…
McConaghy Boats began back in 1967 when founder, John McConaghy was building high-performance dinghies. The company moved to its Mona Vale location in 1989 and continued to flourish. It was that time that Jono Morris first had involvment with the…
The America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth marks the beginning of the long road to the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda. Nine World Series events will give the teams the chance to check out the competition in their foiling AC45s before…
The latest entry into the Australian cruising market from Hanse has left owners wanting for little. The 455 has everything from the deepest forward locker I have seen, to a hidden wine rack, to a grab rail on the dodger,…
I am often asked what I carry on board for various races and what is in my tool kit as a navigator. The navigator’s tasks on board can be varied. The role requires many specialist tools that would not normally…
Day 2 of the Laser Radial Youth World Championships. 195 Sailors hit the water this morning with 6 knots of breeze. After a short postponement while the wind picked up and steadied, all fleets were off with 8-10 knots of…
The IRC Australian Championship fleet switched modes today, Monday August 17, 2015, to short round-the-buoys racing off Hamilton Island. Two races in to the championship pointscore that falls under the Hamilton Island Race Week umbrella, Karl Kwok’s TP52 Team Beau…
Progress overnight in the Rolex Fastnet Race has been better than expected with the majority of the fleet having been lured out into the middle of the Channel following the temptation of stronger winds. At 0800 this morning the…
A forecast of profoundly light winds is forcing crews to take drastic action before setting off tomorrow on the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Rolex Fastnet Race. With high pressure mid-Atlantic and over Norway, little gradient wind is forecast for the…
In excellent conditions the M32 Series Copenhagen continued with an easterly breeze coming from the land of Sweden. Rahm Racing performed at their top level all day and after a slow start in the previous events they now had their…
Sam King has left his best result to the final race of the Laser 4.7 world youth championships at Medemblik in The Netherlands, finishing second in the Gold fleet’s 11th race and 25th overall. The Tasmanian champion and Royal Yacht…
Stephen ‘Rowdy’ McCullum, the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s member contesting the International 2.4mR open world championship being sailed in Finland, is having a share of his ups-and-downs in the 109 boat fleet. He began the regatta with an OCS…
Two brand new venues feature on the 2016 calendar for the 52 SUPER SERIES and the world’s leading performance monohull circuit enters a successful fifth year. In May the 52 SUPER SERIES will open in Scarlino, Tuscany, Italy and in…
Today the wind really picked up in Tuborg Havn and Race Director Mattias Dahlstrom ordered the teams to one reef in the mainsail and emphasised the importance of keeping the helmets on at all times. The wind was consistent at…
This morning at the RORC's new Cowes clubhouse, a select cross-section of competitors in this Sunday's Rolex Fastnet Race shared their observations about the Royal Ocean Racing Club's biennial 600 mile flagship event. By way of introduction, RORC CEO Eddie…
Media information from the 29er Worlds in Wales plumbed new depths – it was impossible to find any reports. Fortunately, two sources close to Australians who were competing have posted some basic details: Congratulations to 2015 AUS Youth Champs Kyle…
One year out from the largest sporting event in the world, the Australian Sailing Team is set to start racing at the second Olympic Sailing Test Event to be held on Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – the Aquece…
Airlie Beach Race Week came to a close today in shifty 8-18 knot winds on the Pioneer Bay race track, keeping competitors on their toes again. IRC Racing 1, IRC Passage and Cruising Division 1 sailed a 24 nautical mile…
One year out from the largest sporting event in the world, the Australian Sailing Team is set to start racing at the second Olympic Sailing Test Event to be held on Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 15-22 August….
B&G has announced the latest in its software updates for the Zeus2 series multi-functional displays (MFD) and Glass Helm systems. The new software focuses on racing startline technology that helps the navigator put the yacht in the right place at…
Teenage West Australian Laser 4.7 sailors Zac Littlewood and Zoe Thomson each scored an impressive race win overnight (day 5) at the Laser 4.7 world youth championships being sailed off Medemblik in The Netherlands. Going into the final race tonight…
Matt Allen has continued his winning run at Airlie Beach Race Week, notching up another victory with Ichi Ban in Race 5 of the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Tropical Festival of Sailing today. Allen, who is gaining confidence in the TP52…
Marinas around the Solent are already bristling with activity in the build-up to this Sunday's start of the world's largest offshore yacht race, the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Rolex Fastnet Race. A record-sized fleet, at present standing at 372…
Sports Boat fanatic Graham Sherring is the owner/skipper of a Leech 650 he named ‘Stay Tuned’, and that was the message he sent rivals at Airlie Beach Race Week yesterday, when he won Race 5 of the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s…
Information coming out of the 29er Worlds at Pwllheli in Wales is hard to come by, but the news for Australia is good after three races in testing conditions. Kyle O'Connell and Tom Siganto have opened up a solid seven…
A 30 knot gust of breeze out of nowhere resulted in the 10.9 metre multihull, Cool Change, capsizing during Race 6 at Airlie Beach Race Week today, but her owner and all crew members were safe and back on land…
NZ Herald. By Dylan Cleaver. It is a miserable day on the Solent, a grey strip of water that separates the southern coast of England from the Isle of Wight. The teeming rain, tidal currents and fluky winds will make…
Australian teenage sailor Zoe Thomson has won her second race in the girls’ division of the International Laser 4.7 world youth championships being sailed off Medemblik in The Netherlands and is in eighth overall in standings. With a 11th place…
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