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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….
Organisation for the 2016 Wooden Boat festival of Geelong is well advanced at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. The festival will be held over the Labour Day weekend commencing on Saturday12th March and running until Monday 14th. Over 150 entries,…
The race to get to the Bay of Biscay and out into the Atlantic was on last night as teams chased each other with good boat speed. However overnight light winds and strong northerly tides off the island of Ushant…
Southport Yacht Club, on the Gold Coast, is planning an extension to the annual Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Race which is scheduled to start on January 2, 2016. Competitors in the 35th annual Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Race will…
As San Francisco bid adieu to August, it simultaneously said hello to the 2015 International 18ft Skiff Regatta, on San Francisco Bay. Classic early fall conditions were the rule of the day, with miniscule fog which disappeared before the first…
Today was about team racing and there were two stages, ‘Alpha’ and ‘Bravo’. There is no specification for the separation only that there are a large number of competitors. Each team consists of four members who are put forward to…
Winners of the six divisions contesting the ninth annual SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week have been decided today at the completion of a challenging Cleveland Bay triangle course. It was a tough final race where all crew couldn’t have…
Emirates Team New Zealand put together a Super Sunday in Sweden, to vault to the top of the leaderboard and claim the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Gothenburg. It was a difficult day on the tight race course, with…
LONDON, UK, Sunday 30 August 2015: Australian Skipper Wendy Tuck led her team of international amateur sailors under Tower Bridge today at the start of a 40,000 nautical mile global race, between six continents, which will take almost a year…
The seasons are more clearly defined in Tasmania than any other state in Australia, and with two days to go to the official start of spring, there was no question that it was still winter in Hobart for today’s final…
Peter Sorensen and his The Philosopher’s Club have cause for big celebrations today after winning on both IRC and PHS, Race 3 of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. That win has also moved the Sydney team up to first overall…
WISeKey, as the ORACLE TEAM USA Official Fan App Supplier, has released the WISfans© ORACLE TEAM USA app providing fans with a unique mobile experience, facilitating full interaction with the team led by skipper Jimmy Spithill, who will be trying to win…
Prominent Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania member David Graney has sailed in many types of on-design racing dinghies and keelboats, with considerable success at a state, national and international level, but he has never got around to competing in Australia’s…
Is it the journey or the destination? Yachties who, like us, are part-time cruisers live on a limited time schedule. This can often lead people to be too defined about where they want to go and when. They head off…
I do not know about you but I like hot showers. I like hot water to wash up with and sometimes, to save gas, I will fill the kettle with hot water before I boil it for coffee. Problem is…
The Shag Islet Cruising Yacht Club annual Rendezvous has finished once again. Cruising Helmsman attended the weekend-long party as part of its continued support for the 'exclusively, non-exclusive' yacht club. Over 160 boats anchored in the Whitsunday waters of Gloucester…
Civitavecchia’s wind gods smiled on competitors during the Trofeo di Roma’s final day. The wind peaked at 10 knots, adequate not only to get the entire six race schedule completed, but also for the nimble GC32 catamarans to get fully…
The Windcraft Group, one of Australia's largest yacht sales companies, has signed an agreement as exclusive importer for Lagoon catamarans in Australia. Lagoon, working with the design team Van Peteghem and Lauriot Prevost (VPLP), claims the largest manufacturer of catamarans…
Peter Sorensen’s The Philosopher’s Club performance today has kept him in the lead for the IRC and PHS titles on the penultimate day of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. The combined fleet contested two windward/leeward races. Sorensen’s team…
ORACLE TEAM USA won both races on opening day at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Gothenburg. But Land Rover BAR and Emirates Team New Zealand had good days as well with second and third place finishes respectively. …
It was a tough day all round for the 60-boat fleet competing in the signature Around the Island Race on day two of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. In the IRC division Bob Steel’s new Matt 1180 Quest stepped…
It is incredible the difference two knots of wind can make. While the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Trofeo di Roma had to sail two non-scoring Pro-Am races yesterday because of excessively light winds, conditions were just a fraction more today,…
Artemis Racing was pushing hard to put on a show for its home fans in Gothenburg, Sweden on the official practice day Friday. Unfortunately, that extra push led to a capsize, meaning the team missed out on the two practice…
Day two of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Trofeo di Roma will be one that organisers, Italian promoters and sailors alike will be pleased to put behind them. Despite occasionally threatening to do so, the wind never increased above 3…
It’s hard not to call a perfect sailing day Champagne Sailing which is what the visitors and locals were saying as they returned to the dock after day one of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. While Peter Wilcox’s GForce…
Waking up to the gloom of an unexceptional forecast for Civitavecchia today, it was with great delight that the Trofeo di Roma, the fourth event on the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour, got off to flying start – quite literally. At…
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