Snow collapses marina roof
The roof of a Norris Lake marina in Campbell County, Tenn., collapses after being covered with ice and snow. Damage is estimated to be near $800,000.
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Brett Beyer wins NSW Sports Award
Nine-time Laser Masters world champion and Olympic sailing coach Brett Beyer was named Masters Athlete of the Year at the 2014 NSW Sports Awards in a ceremony recognising elite sports stars at Curzon House in Marsfield. Last July, the NSW…
Garmin 7400xsv claims to be its most powerful MFD yet
Garmin’s new GPSMAP 7400xsv series of premium multi-function displays (MFD) combines powerful performance with an interface to deliver a range of features in a fully-networkable, simple-to-use package. Comprising a vibrant widescreen display with full pinch-to-zoom touchscreen capabilities, the GPSMAP 7400xsv…
Competitors register and get ready at Sail Auckland
Oceanbridge Sail Auckland registration for sailors and coaches has begun at Royal Akarana Yacht ahead of the four-day regatta. 194 boats across 17 classes will race on the Waitemata Harbour spread among four courses, making this event one of the…
Cheminées Poujoulat rounds Cape Horn in Barcelona World Race
Cheminées Poujoulat, which has lead the two handed round the world race for 39 days, has passed Cape Horn (67°15 11 W) at 01:00 UTC (02:00 Barcelona time, 22:00 Chilean time). In so doing Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam complete their passage through…
Sydney Sailboat Expo to support the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation
The Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation is a foundation whose ideals and research the Sydney Sailboat Expo Team strongly believe in. We are pleased to be able to support the Foundation in Australia and look forward to their involvement in the…
Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race to set sail Good Friday
Australia’s historical ocean race, the QantasLink Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race will set sail for the 67th time on Good Friday. An icon of Queensland, the offshore race is the biggest sporting event in Queensland to be staged annually over…
Renault Captur rejoins Barcelona World Race after pit stop
Within hours of each other Spirit of Hungary were finally forced to bow to the inescapable truth that they have to pitstop into Invercargill, South Island NZ and Renault Captur have left Wellington NZ after completing their own pit-stop. The…
Team SCA makes huge gains in Volvo Ocean Race
Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR) found wind pressure on Monday while the rest of the fleet were parked up in the Pacific Ocean to make inroads into their deficit on Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race – but their happiness…
Colortile adds colour & fun to Sail Port Stephens
Entries are rolling in and d’Albora Marina is near to being fully occupied in terms of temporary berthing for this year’s Sail Port Stephens, April 13 –19, 2015. Event manager Dom Grundy says “a lot of familiar names and faces…
Coast Guard steps up search for missing sailor
SAN DIEGO — A large, military transport plane will join the search Monday for a 76-year-old sailor who went missing after taking his boat out from Shelter Island about a week ago, a Coast Guard official said. Richard Byhre left…
New Australian Sailing Team members inducted
The new 2015 Australian Sailing Team additions Matthew Wearn (WA), David Gilmour (WA), Rhys Mara (VIC) and Joel Turner (QLD) were officially welcomed on to the Australian Sailing Team at a team dinner at Middle Harbour Yacht Club last night. …
Mordialloc Sailing Club members to sail around the bay
Several members of the Mordialloc Sailing club (MSC) have been planning for several months to sail around the bay commencing on 28th February through to Friday 6th March 2015. To replicate the Sail Around The Bay (Port Phillip Bay) by…
Warwick Sherman sails the high seas for Snowdome
Warwick Sherman is a fighter. He’s also an experienced sailor. Combine the two and you get a pretty formidable force that recently tried to win another Division gong in the 2014 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Rewind to 2012…
Phoenix rises from the doldrums as Australian Sydney 38 champion
Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean. There was no chance the 200 or so Sydney 38 and 36 sailors contesting the Performance Boating Sydney Yachts Regatta were…
Cape Horn beckons for Barcelona World Race leaders
Legend has it that over 31 days during 1788 the HMS Bounty of Captain Bligh made just 85 miles while attempting fruitlessly to round Cape Horn. If they round Cape Horn as expected on Tuesday 24th February, Barcelona World Race…
The history of the Optimist dinghy
'The Optimist Dinghy' is the 130-page history, fully illustrated, of how an 'orange crate' from Florida became the junior boat in over 120 countries. It includes an 18-page supplement by Clifford McKay Jr., the first boy to sail the Optimist,…
The Buizen 52 continues to pave a way in Australian boatbuilding
The Buizen company was established 35 years ago in Sydney and in that time the Buizen name has earned great respect in Australian yachting circles for its philosophy and quality. Not a manufacturer of mass-produced production boats a Buizen Yacht…
Dean Barker calls in the lawyers as sailing scrap worsens
Herald on Sunday. By Dana Johanssen: A furious Dean Barker has called in the lawyers as the bitter battle over his future with Team New Zealand intensifies. Barker was left shell-shocked at leaks to media this week that he was…
My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival over achieves once again
Twenty years after a bunch of friends decided to celebrate wooden boat building the My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival now ranks as one of Tasmania's top tourist drawcards. Over 200,000 visitors to this February's edition of the festival means…
Race across the roof of the world in new Arctic Race
A new yacht race, planned for 2017, will take competitors through the North West Passage from New York to Victoria, British Columbia. The race website claims: Starting in Summer of 2017, STAR teams will sail six race legs with stopovers…
Wellington pit stop for Renault Captur loses them fourth position in Barcelona World Race
Renault Captur were approaching Wellington NZ this Saturday afternoon ready to set in motion their plan to repair their damaged starboard rudder blade. With 60 miles to go, sailing upwind in a short, choppy sea at the eastern entrance to…
Former Admiral's Cupper still winning in Tasmania
This summer of yacht racing marks the 30th season in which veteran Hobart yachtsman Don Calvert has raced his equally veteran Castro 40, Intrigue, on the River Derwent – and it could well be another winning season. Since leading Australia’s…
Slow day for Sydney 38s with just two races sailed
For those awake around midnight last night, a 20 knot ENE gust through Sydney’s northern suburbs raised hopes for day two of the Performance Boating Sydney Yachts Pittwater Regatta. The reality was… well like night and day; another heavy cloud…
No winners in Sydney-Newcastle race as wind runs out
Paul Clitheroe’s Balance came within five minutes of being the only finisher in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Ocean Point Score’s (OPS) from Sydney to Newcastle late Saturday evening in one of the most frustrating races in recent memory….
Gotta Love It 7 romps home to win the JJ Giltinan
Gotta Love It 7’s team of Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Scott Babbage officially became the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff champions after the regatta concluded on Sydney Harbour today. The team had already secured the title before today’s race…
Barcelona World Race – battle for second closes to within 16 miles
After 51 days and over 13,000 miles of racing the two boats are closing in on each other, Neutrogena slanting slightly North East looking likely to cross just ahead of Anna Corbella and Gerard Marín. The speed differences swing back…
Is 'gravity defying' Volvo photo real or photoshopped?
ALICANTE, Spain, Feb 20 – An incredible photograph from Team Brunel (Bouwe Bekking/NED) apparently showing three crew members suspended in mid-air as the Volvo Ocean Race Leg 4 leaders sped through the Pacific Ocean, has sparked a fierce social media…
Close finishes and good organisation – Geographe Bay voted 'best for years'
Leaving the best until last, Dave Walling and his crew sailed a blinder this morning, coping with extremely light and variable conditions at the start better than anyone. By the time the breeze switched to the south and freshened, The…
Howie Hamlin turns back the clock with tight victory in JJ Giltinan Race 6
United States 18ft Skiff champion Howie Hamlin turned the memory clock back 12 years when he skippered Harken to victory in Race 6 of the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Hamlin, who won the Giltinan…
Slow and steady wins Sydney to Pittwater Passage Race
It was a case of slow and steady in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Grant Thornton Short Haul Series in the race from Sydney to Pittwater today, and Ian Guanaria’s patience was rewarded when his One More-No More was…
Rottnest Island gets set for the annual Festival of Sail
Picturesque Rottnest Island in Western Australia is the ideal backdrop for a weekend of yachting and social activities. Now in its fifth year, the two day Rottnest Festival of Sail will be held over the weekend of 28 and 29…
Mooloolaba to host a massive six weeks of sailing this winter
Change is in the wind for the month-long Sail Mooloolaba celebration of sailing regatta which is held each year throughout June. For the last five years the Sail Mooloolaba committee has each year organised up to five large events over…
Geographe Bay Race Week goes down to final race in most divisions
Most fleets will have to wait until the results of the final race to determine the final series winners for each division at Geographe Bay Race Week 2015. Results in most divisions remain remarkably close so we can expect some…
Fitzgibbon and Tesch win NSW Sports Award for Team of the Year
Paralympic and World Champions Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch were crowned the Arthur J Gallaghers Team of the Year with Disability Award at last night’s NSW Sports Awards Night. Fitzgibbon and Tesch were one of 19 winners across a variety…
Beneteau Oceanis 35 makes its mark in Australia
Following its world debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival in 2014, the Beneteau Oceanis 35 is making its mark in Australia with a second place in its division on its first outing at the Festival of Sails, Geelong, Victoria in…
Fifty shades of grey for Sydney 38 championships
High humidity, barely any breeze, sloppy seas and 50 shades of grey sky and ocean off the exclusive northern beaches suburb of Palm Beach added up to a difficult opening day of the Sydney 38 Australian Championship, part of the…
Family is key word at RL24 Nationals
Few national sailing championships cater for three generations from five up to 70 plus year-olds and provide a setting where women and young teenage skippers feel equally comfortable on the tiller competing on the same race track as the blokes….
Dreaded noon lull returns to Geographe Bay during Race Week
The first attempt to run a morning race in this year’s Geographe Bay Race Week did not start well. A low tide left the TP52 Calm hard aground near the marina entrance. It took four big men at the end…
Rudder damage causes fourth placed Renault Captur to turn back to New Zealand
Following damage to their starboard rudder which became obvious between Sunday 15th and Monday 16th February Jorg Riechers (GER) and Sébastien Audigane on Renault Captur have made the decision to reroute to New Zealand to undertake a technical pit stop…
