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Lake Geneva News. By David Michels. After 37 years zigzagging to and fro across the lake, the Lake Geneva Keelboat Racing Club is making some changes under the leadership of it’s new Commodore, Patrick Evans. Evans, a lifelong keelboat racer…
San Pedro, CA – A second wave of 18 entries in Divisions 4, 5 and 6 are now on their way west towards the finish at Diamond Head, 2225 miles away in the 48th edition of the LA-Honolulu Transpac. This…
The eighth edition of the ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final commenced today in Vladivostok, Russia with 14 teams competing in the Open and Women's Divisions. Day one saw 27 face-offs with America's Nicole Breault and Russia's Vladimir Lypavskiy enjoying…
Race wins have been somehwat elusive for Ergin Imre’s team on the 52 SUPER SERIES circuit this season. The crew which has British Olympian Andy Beadsworth on the helm, American Tony Rey calling tactics and ace Palma based Nacho Postigo…
Western Australia’s IRC competitors will line up again this weekend for a passage race on Saturday and a resail of the windward-leeward racing on Sunday. Teams are midway through the Pantaenius Australia 2015 WA IRC Championship. Only the double-handed division…
Discovery Yachts has launched a smaller version of their 55 footer, the new D48 which has a choice of two and three cabin layouts, with single or twin wheels and a large cockpit. The 48 will retain the practical raised…
Photographer Daniel Forster was onboard on Comanche before the transatlantic start. Read his impressions. I was invited by COMANCHE to do some onboard photography two days before the Transatlantic Start inNewport. It was quite an experience to walk the 30.5…
In October this year the Port2Port Rally will leave in a leisurely fashion from New Caledonia. Open to all yachts finishing off the puddle jump and joining hands with the Island Cruising Association pacific Circuit Rally, the Port2Port provides assistance…
The 2015 Multihull Solutions Phuket Regatta has wrapped up after three days of action on and off the water. Despite consistently strong wind gusts and rain periods that reduced the course to within Ao Chalong Bay, the contingent of…
Record breaking Australian supermaxi yacht, Wild Oats XI, will be hunting for a hurricane and dodging debris after she starts in the 2225 nautical mile Transpac Race from Los Angeles to Hawaii on Saturday. The sleek, 100ft long sloop, which…
San Pedro, CA – The first wave of 22 entries in Divisions 7 and 8 have had a great 48 hour start to their race from LA to Honolulu in the 48th edition of the Transpac. The class leaders have…
PHUKET, Thailand – The Race Management team had a busy few hours looking for wind on Day 1 of the 2015 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek. Motoring around the southeast coast of Phuket, Simon James and his team had to…
PHUKET, Thailand – A near-record fleet is set to compete this week in the 12th Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek off Phuket's southeast coast. Racing over four days from 16th to 19th July, the 38-strong fleet sees two TP52s competing…
Harm Müller-Spreer’s German flagged Platoon team sit on top of the leaderboard after the first day of racing on the Bay of Palma for the TP52 World Championship Porto Portals. A gun to gun win in the opening race of…
With just over a year to go until the Rio 2016 Games, the Australian Sailing Team today announced its team for the Olympic Test Event to be held on Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August. The Aquece Rio…
(Tuesday, July 14, 2015) – 20 boats, or just over half the fleet, have now finished the Transatlantic Race 2015. George David’s Rambler 88 was roughly 120 miles astern when her rival, Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark’s 100’ Comanche, crossed the…
Skipper Jimmy Spithill (AUS) will lead his team into the first event of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Portsmouth later this month. Sailing team manager Tom Slingsby (AUS/USA) will serve as tactician with Kyle Langford (AUS) trimming…
The bid by Australian supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI to establish a race record time for the 2225 nautical mile Transpac race from Los Angeles to Hawaii is back on course after a new navigator was signed on today. New…
At the OSAF Congress held in Port Moresby last week, Yachting Australia Board member, competitive sailor and Olympian Karyn Gojnich was elected one of four Vice-Presidents of the Oceania Sailing Federation (OSAF). Members of OSAF, the federation of National Sailing Organisations responsible for…
San Pedro, CA – Under clear skies and in a light westerly breeze that is promising to build through the evening, the first 22 entries in Divisions 7 and 8 have started their 2225-mile race today in the 48th edition…
Women skippers winners Colleen Darcy and Alice Grubb each notched up a win in the SB20 class in today’s Derwent Sailing Squadron/Cascade Winter Series on the River Derwent, outsailing their male opposition in the light breeze. In fact, the women…
Throughout the Land Rover Winter Series participants have been waiting for a good blow, but the wind Gods left the best until last, throwing 18-20 knot gusty westerly winds at the entrants in the final Ladies Day Race of the…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club hosted the Mid Winter One Design Regatta for the second year over the weekend of the 11-12 July. The Melges 24 fleet was the largest of the five classes with three competitors travelling from…
(Sunday, July 12, 2015) – German boats were fourth and fifth home on the water in the Transatlantic Race. Tilmar Hansen’s Outsider crossed the finish line off the Lizard at the southernmost tip of Cornwall, at 13:55:27 UTC (09:55:27 EDT) on…
The Danish dynamite exploded completely when the 2015 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the first event on the 2015 WIM Series, concluded Sunday in Middelfart. The all-Danish final, comprising Lotte Meldgaard and Camilla Ulrikkeholm, went to five stunning matches,…
Pete Burling and Blair Tuke have won the 49er European Championships, after dominating the final day of competition on the huge Atlantic swell off the coast of Portugal. The Kiwis went into the day in 3rd overall, after coming off…
The first time Donna Lange sailed around the world by herself it was hardly an easy journey. Over 290 days at sea in her 28-foot sailboat, Inspired Insanity, she battled through 60-foot waves and 55-knot winds. She hit tropical storms…
Stan Honey, the man intended to navigate record breaking Australian supermaxi yacht, Wild Oats XI, in the Transpac race from Los Angeles to Hawaii, has been injured at sea during another event and is in doubt for the start of…
PACIFIC GAMES: Australia has come away with four medals after a magnificent week of sailing at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. In the men’s laser event West Australian Mark Spearman scored gold with 10 points…
We are sitting at anchor in the south arm of Port Clinton Queensland, which is not a port at all in the usual sense. Not a building, road, wharf or beacon anywhere. The wind has been howling through at 25…
On a recent cruise to the remote and picturesque Louisiade Archipelago in eastern Papua New Guinea an interesting discovery lay tucked away in a clearing above the mangrove lined shore. At the time, little was thought of it as the…
John Kanafoski was rescued by the US Coast Guard off Florida after his small yacht caught fire and he abandoned it to save his dog. The coastguard reported that Kanafoski was found 69 miles west of Hudson, Florida. The man…
The vessel in question is a De Haviland Norseman 14 foot aluminium dinghy that I suspect was made around 1972. It has three thwarts and currently pushed by a 11 kilowatt Mercury two stroke. Running properly it will do 20…
We stood transfixed under Dingo's spray hood and, wine glasses in hand, watched in horror as 70-knot winds wrought havoc on the boats to leeward. Our friends’ 40-foot Dufour was sheering wildly, the anchor was dragging and their inflatable, tied…
52 Cruising boats of all shapes and sizes from all over the world, came together for the start of the Multihull Solutions 2015 Sail 2 Indonesia Rally run by the Island Cruising Association. The official muster was held at the…
There’s one day to go in the men’s 49er event, and Pete Burling and Blair Tuke have been knocked off the top of the leaderboard after a protest by their arch rivals Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen. The finishing order at…
In the 2015 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the first event on the 2015 WIM Series, the semi finalists were decided in Saturday’s quarterfinals. The toughest races were sailed between World # 1 and reigning World Champion Anna östling…
Australian champion Glenn Bourke and the crew of Red, Victorian owner Rob Jeffreys and Jake Lilley, have finished third overall in the SB20 world championship on Italy’s spectacular sailing venue, Lake Garda. Tasmanian Michael Cooper, a relative newcomer to the…
In stark contrast to the two days they spent wallowing in no wind last week, a corridor of strong southwesterly winds straddling the breadth of the North Atlantic for the last 48 hours has provided last Sunday’s starters with conditions…
As the official builder for the 18ft Skiff Class, Brett Van Munster, of Van Munster Boats, is one of the world’s best exponents of high-technology hull construction of performance racing boats, but Brett and his team are also very experienced…
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