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Competitors who are considering entering the 2015 Sunshine Coast Ocean Regatta and/or IRC Queensland State Titles are encouraged to get their entries in soon as Early Bird fees finish on Friday 19th June. This year the 2015 IRC Qld State…
NZ Herald. By Dana Johannsen. Fresh turmoil is engulfing Team New Zealand. Design chief Nick Holroyd has quit and several members of the sailing team have followed him out the door. Holroyd confirmed to the Herald last night that he…
Double Olympic champion Malcolm Page and his skippers Nathan Wilmot and Mat Belcher are well-known for naming their boats after Nicole Kidman movies. But another two Australian Olympic champions have dedicated their new skiff to a legend of the one-liner…
LORIENT, France, June 11 – Skipper Sam Davies (GBR) and her Team SCA crew struck a resounding blow for women’s offshore sailing in the early hours of Thursday morning when they gloriously clinched Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race….
LORIENT, France, June 11 – Ian Walker (GBR) and his Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing crew all but clinched the 12th edition of offshore sailing’s toughest challenge in the early hours of Thursday, when a third place in Leg 8 left…
Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR) continued to clasp firmly on to their slim advantage in tough conditions on day three of Leg 8 to Lorient, France, on Tuesday, a fairy-tale success tantalisingly in their sights. At 0930 UTC on Tuesday, they…
Five-time ISAF Match Racing World Champion, Ian Williams of GAC Pindar will compete against some of the fastest rising match racing stars at the Royal Southern Match Cup in Hamble,UK starting this week from 10-14 June. Match Racing in a…
While different boats won both of the first two races of Sardinia’s Settimana Delle Boche, the second regatta of the 2015 52 Super Series, as much as glittering race wins may contribute, it was the ability to grind back through…
Hannah White has become the fastest person to cross the English Channel in a single-handed dinghy. White completed the gruelling task in a hydrofoil Moth, a small boat which lifts above the water on two hydrofoils as it gathers speed….
True superyachts continue to come out of boatbuilding firms around the world. Here is the latest from the Claasen Shipyards and Hoek Designs. Ready for racing Atalante is the largest in Claasen's 'Truly classic' range to date and built in…
The eyes of the sailing world are back on Weymouth and Portland with Olympic medallists returning to the venue of the London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition for the ISAF Sailing World Cup Weymouth/Portland with just fourteen months to go until…
Yaffa Media, the publisher of Australian Sailing + Yachting, Cruising Helmsman and mysailing.com.au, is pleased to announce the appointment of Todd Anderson as advertising manager for Queensland and the Northern Territory. Todd is a very experienced and successful sailor, regularly…
'Bart’s Bash', the global sailing event in aid of the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation, has launched participant sign up with the help of some of the world’s best in the sport of sailing. Sailors including Sir Robin- Knox-Johnston, Sir Ben…
Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR) found themselves leading the fleet after a night of thunderstorms and fluctuations as the Volvo Ocean Race Leg 8 entered the first full day in the Atlantic on Monday. Skipper Sam Davies and her team have…
Movements in the boat agency market has been on the move recently as signs of a good-selling summer begin to emerge. The latest announcement has seen Performance Cruising Yachts appointed the exclusive agency and importer for Dufour Yachts as of…
The Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC) of Australia has announced its partnering with the 2015 Port2Port Down Under Rally, which will take place during October and November 2015. Every year around 200 privately owned cruising yachts and catamarans participate in the…
LISBON, Portugal, June 7 – Overall Volvo Ocean Race leaders, Ian Walker (GBR) and his seven Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing crewmates, left Lisbon for Leg 8 to Lorient, France, on Sunday with their eyes glued on the weather forecast –…
The Blade. By Roberta Gedert. PORT CLINTON — A Florida man was found dead Saturday morning after an apparent accident during the overnight Mills Race yacht regatta on Lake Erie. Ron Soka, the chairman of the Mills Race, confirmed that a…
Chris Draper, an Olympic medalist, multiple European and World champion, and America’s Cup helmsman, is joining SoftBank Team Japan. In addition to his sailing duties, Draper will take up the role of Sailing Director and will race with SoftBank Team…
A few days before this year’s Vintage Yacht Regatta there were a few nervous looks at Queensland Cruising Yacht Club with a wind forecast that predicted a little more breeze then ideal for the fleet on over thirty classic yachts….
The 25th anniversary Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta fleet took on the Bureau of Meteorology’s strong wind warning and ticked off the full series card of six races on a cold and whipped up Port Phillip. Just as the last race…
PHUKET, Thailand – The Thai island of Phuket is preparing for an influx of visitors in July, as more than 500 sailors and spectators from around the world head to the Island to compete in the Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket…
LISBON, Portugal, June 6 – Spanish boat MAPFRE (Iker Martínez/ESP) won their second Volvo Ocean Race in-port race running on Saturday, but only with two metres to spare after a thrilling contest in the Portuguese sun. Helmed by skipper Iker…
The Daily Echo. by Maxwell Kusi-Obodum. SEVEN people were dramatically rescued from the Solent this afternoon – seconds after their yacht crashed and sunk. The crew were pulled from the freezing waters by passing sailors moments after their vessel was in…
A few weeks ago we ran the story (see Related Content) of the cruising catamaran that hit rocks near Phuket. Thanks to Bob Mott of www.chartercatamaran.com and Gren Fordham of www.southeastasiapilot.com we now have an update and it sounds as though the rocks…
A gale warning issued late morning by the Bureau of Meteorology for Port Phillip ended any chance of racing on day two of the silver anniversary Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta, Sunday June 7, 2015. A few crews racing borrowed boats…
It was the Ladies turn in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia Land Rover Winter Series today, the second of three Ladies Days hosted within the Series, and the day did not disappoint on this, the Queen’s Birthday long weekend….
When Sydney sailor James Berman flew down to Hobart to coach two of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s champion young sailors this weekend he wasn’t expecting such an eventful day on the River Derwent. At the end of a…
The first regatta of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES proved there is no real hierarchy established in the white hot TP52 fleet this early in the season. With a very high proportion of race teams still looking to get the…
Racing in the Marinepool 19th Etchells Australasian Championship, conducted by Mooloolaba Yacht Club, stepped up a notch today as the breeze filled and hungry teams came out to try to reclaim their position as title contenders. After two races…
Planning ahead for tomorrow’s forecast strong wind warning, the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron’s technical delegate Lou Hutton and race officer Tony Lukeman banged off three back-to-back races seaward of the iconic St. Kilda Pier on the opening day of the…
Since 2008, he has held the solo round the world record, but now Francis Joyon at the age of 59 is about to attempt what would be a historic double in the history of ocean racing. The skipper of the…
LISBON, Portugal, June 4 – An independent ISAF jury’s decision to impose a penalty point on Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s closest rivals for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 title could, paradoxically, leave Ian Walker’s crew with an unwanted headache for…
NEWPORT, R.I. (June 4, 2015) – In late June, one of sailing’s most celebrated yachts will attempt to retrace the steps of her first and most significant victory. The 52-foot yawl Dorade, owned by Pam Levy and Matt Brooks (Tiburon,…
4 June 2015 – La Trinité Sur Mer, France – In a spectacular two-race light airs showdown local hero Yann Marilley, crewed by Nicolas Berthoud, Kaspar Schadegg, Philippe Durr and Alexandre Nicole aboard the 1981 Pelle Petterson designed FRA177 Junior, claimed the…
The sailing strategies and skills of some of Australia’s top female sailors will be recognised at next year’s Festival of Sails hosted by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club on Corio Bay from January 23 – 26 next year. The opening…
Alan Bond, whose Australia II became the first non-American yacht to win the America's Cup, has died from a complication of heart disease in Perth aged 77. Born in England, Bond moved to Perth as a teenager where he became…
Day one of the Marinepool Etchells Australasian Winter Championship was complicated with constant wind shifts and pressure changes challenging even the most experienced in the 44-boat fleet. Leading the regatta overall after three races is Sydney’s Jeanne-Claude Strong, one…
Whitley, UK, 5 June 2015 – Hannah White has become the fastest person to cross the Channel in a single-handed dinghy. She completed the gruelling task in a foiling Moth. Starting from Cap de Gris in France, she landed in…
The eyes of the sailing world will be back on Weymouth and Portland as Olympic medallists return to the venue of the London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition as the ISAF Sailing World Cup series comes to town. Weymouth and…
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