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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…
Australian Sailing Team’s World #1 Laser sailor Tom Burton won the gold medal at the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères in France over night (Sunday 25 April). Olympic gold medallists Nathan Outteridge (NSW) and Iain Jensen (NSW) added a…
The Thomson 7 sportsboat Temptation notched up a victory for Australia’s southernmost yacht club, the Port Esperance Sailing Club, in today’s Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Quantum Autumn Shorthanded Series on the Derwent. Skippered by sportsboat racing stalwart Steve Harrison, Temptation finished…
The 2015 Beyond Bank Regatta went off well despite a dismal forecast. This and the ANZAC centenary commemorations deterred a few potential competitors. There were still 70 boats entered with strong fleets in the Lightweight Sharpie, B14 and Hobie 16…
Trade Only Today. By Richard Armstrong. An unusual scene near the corner of Indiana Avenue and Lake Michigan Drive in Grand Rapids, Mich., has police asking the public to help them figure out what happened. A Grand Rapids police officer…
The Australian Sailing Team won two silver medals in the Sonar and the 2.4mR on the final day of Paralympic racing at the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Hyères, France on Saturday, 25 April. The Sonar competition stirred up several…
Hundreds of amateur sailors assembled in Portsmouth Guildhall today to discover which team and professional skipper they will be sailing with later this year in the world’s longest ocean race. They will be competing in the tenth edition of the…
It was the penultimate day of Olympic class competition at the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères with sailors battling it out for a spot in the Medal Race that will be broadcast live online on Sunday 26 April from 11…
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ” The world governing body of sailing threatened Friday to move all of its events for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics out of the city's Guanabara Bay if action isn't taken quickly to clean the…
Here's a great idea that could never work in Australia because of Federalism. A cruising route with secure moorings and marinas at regular intervals (perhaps in co-operation with New Zealand, New Caledonia and Norfolk Island) would encourage international and local…
Nearly 100 diehard owners and their crews ignored the unfriendly conditions in the first pointscore race of the Land Rover Winter Series sailed on Sydney Harbour today; a cold, slow water torture is the best way to describe the gusty…
Laser World #1 Tom Burton (NSW) defends the yellow leader’s jersey on the penultimate day of fleet racing on Friday, 24 April at the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères, France (22-26 April 2016). In a light and shifty breeze of…
The BVI Beacon. By Todd Vansickle. Police are confirming that a collision occurred between the St. Thomas charter boat Talofa and a barge based out of Virgin Gorda early Thursday morning in St. Thomas Bay, VG. No one was reported…
Laser World #1 Tom Burton (NSW) moved up to the top of the leader board on day two of the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères in France (22-26 April) after a strong day, posting a third and second place in…
LARCHMONT, NY – Quantum Key West Race Week will continue thanks to the organizational expertise of a new ownership group and the ongoing support of its title sponsor, Quantum Sail Design Group. The Storm Trysail Club is pleased to announce…
ALICANTE, Spain, April 22 – The Ocean Summit on Marine Debris during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, next month has attracted a stellar list of expert speakers to bring attention to a ‘growing catastrophe’. The…
Palma de Mallorca, 23rd April 2015: Since its creation in 1994, the Wally design has managed to situate itself at the very top of an extremely demanding sector, whose owners strive for a difficult balance between the greatest standards of…
Stuff.co.nz Dean Barker has been linked to a new Japanese America's Cup syndicate, expected to be announced next week. An Asian entry has long been touted and it appears the decision to downscale the boats and cut costs for the…
A German man who was sailing from west Africa to the Caribbean island of Trinidad is missing after his yacht washed up in Guyana, officials say. Axel Verlohr had been sailing aboard the catamaran yacht which authorities found vandalised on…
Akin to the 25 regattas that went before it, Airlie Beach Race Week 2015 will rely on its volunteer force to keep heart and soul together, both on and off the water. From registration to on-water race support, umpires, judges,…
An oldie but a goodie… Unfortunately, mishaps like this are not a very rare occurrence in the BVI’s… this was just an extreme case and we happened to have the camera running from the onset. Still amazes me how many…
With less than a week to go until the Land Rover Extreme Sailing Series Act 3, Qingdao, there is a palpable tension in the air, as the nine-strong Extreme 40 fleet head to China’s Olympic sailing city, 30 April –…
The first trilogy of the Barcelona World Race has just ended, the third edition completed only days ago. Over the first ten years the race has fostered the growth of oceanic racing whilst making a comprehensive, positive cultural and social…
Multihull Solutions continues to expand its ventures in the Asia Pacific region with the announcement of its major sponsorship of the Sail 2 Indonesia Cruising Rally. The rally is a four-month adventure that sees a large contingent of power…
ALICANTE, Spain, April 24 – American Team Alvimedica (Charlie Enright/USA), who are dreaming of winning the Volvo Ocean Race’s sixth leg to their home port of Newport, Rhode Island, USA, snatched a narrow lead on Friday. The 5,010-nautical mile (nm)…
AS Dongfeng conitinutes to impress in the Volvo Ocean Race and Sir Russell Coutts hints at two Asian teams entering the 35th America's Cup, Chinese sailor Cheng Ying Kit has been announced as co-skipper, with Danish Olympic Champion Jonas Warrer,…
In another initiative aimed at bolstering the ISAF World Cup concept, €72,000 is to be distributed across the 12 events on show in Hyères when the medals are decided on Sunday 26 April. ISAF President Carlo Croce said, “We are…
Racing got underway at the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères on Wednesday, 22 April in the ten Olympic and two Paralympic classes. After a light wind morning, the wind increased modestly throughout the day across all five race courses. In…
Bavaria Catamarans surprised visitors and the trade press at the international Multihull Boat Show in La Grande Motte with first drawings of the new Nautitiech Open 46. The 14 metre long catamaran has an open cockpit and lots of space…
A man’s body has been recovered on the state’s Central Coast after his yacht was reported missing in Broken Bay at the weekend. About 6.30am on Sunday (19 April 2015), the Marine Area Command were contacted after concerns were raised…
Oracle TeamUSA took its maiden sail on the waters of the Great Sound in Bermuda Wednesday with the team training on two foiling Phantom boats. Kyle Langford, Graeme Spence, Joey Newton and Andrew Campbell were the first sailors on the…
The Guardian. By Oliver Milman. The monetary value of the world’s oceans has been estimated at US$24tn in a new report that warns that overfishing, pollution and climate change are putting an unprecedented strain upon marine ecosystems. The report, commissioned…
The 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup – Melbourne will run from December 7-13, and will take place at its new home, the St Kilda Sailing Precinct, located on St Kilda’s foreshore. Hon. John Eren, Minister for Tourism and Major Events…
When the head-hunters called one of the aerospace industry's brightest talents and told him that they had an opportunity at a small engineering and racing organisation they probably weren't expecting a very positive response. After all, Martin Whitmarsh was a…
They’ve been back on the water for less than 48 hours since leaving Itajaí, Brazil – but the 5,010-nautical mile (nm) Leg 6 race to Newport, Rhode Island is already taking its toll on Dongfeng Race Team. The Chinese boat,…
In celebration of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s historic 1968 non-stop, world first, solo circumnavigation of the globe, in the Sunday Times Golden Globe yacht race, a new Golden Globe Race will be staged on it’s 50th Anniversary, in 2018. Entry is…
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