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Tasmanian yachting is noted for the longevity of its yachts – and its yachtsmen – with Tom Kirkland a prime example at the age of 87. Kirkland continued his winning form in his small yacht Ragtime on Sunday, taking first…
Australian Sailing Team’s sailors had a strong fourth and penultimate day of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Weymouth and Portland (10-14 June) with a total of nine teams qualifying for Sunday’s final top ten-medal races in seven classes. Four…
Winning in the breeze on their own home Costa Smeralda, Sardinia waters, showcasing that heady cocktail of tough Argentinian Gaucho spirit and fiery Italian passion that underpin their never say die team spirit, capped a remarkable Settimana delle Bocche regatta…
Sail Sydney is one of the largest sailing regattas in the Southern Hemisphere and the organisers are always conscious of delivering an event that suits a wide range of classes and abilities. With many Olympic classes having a number…
Quest, one of the few boats which completed the horrendous 1998 Sydney – Hobart Yacht race was today lifted from the water at Mooloolaba to make final preparations for the Sunshine Coast Yacht Club’s 2015 SCOR/IRC Qld State Titles to…
Great Sandy Straits Marina, 26 June through 12 July inclusive. After success here in 2014, resulting in a $321 donation to Marine Rescue Hervey Bay, Great Sandy Straits Marina welcomes the Floating Impressions ‘Boatique’ Exhibition on SV CatNirvana back to the local area….
It was a long, long day at the office in the Land Rover Winter Series today, as light to even lighter winds flicked from one point of the compass to the next and the next, but with three weeks remaining…
On day three of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Weymouth and Portland the fleets headed out with a good breeze on shore, but it was soon clear that it was different story offshore, where the wind was dying quickly….
There have been probably dozens of photo finishes in the history of the 52 SUPER SERIES but today’s decider between Quantum Racing and long time rivals Azzurra was undoubtedly one of the most exciting ever. That, at 200 metres from…
LORIENT, France, June 12 – Britain’s Sir Ben Ainslie, the most successful Olympic sailor in history, has won another prestigious prize to add to a trophy cabinet already groaning with top honours: The Magnus Olsson Award in memory of the…
It was another eventful day on the second day of ISAF Sailing World Cup racing at the London 2012 venue Weymouth and Portland with Australian Sailing Team’s Jason Waterhouse (NSW) and Lisa Darmanin (NSW) taking over the lead in the…
From two sparking races, one windward-leeward, one coastal, the screws turned ever tighter as the three cornered battle at the top of the fleet at the 52 SUPER SERIES’ Settimana delle Bocche on the Costa Smeralda sees only one point…
As the great British summer of sailing gets into full swing, the eight elite level Extreme 40s are preparing to descend on the Welsh capital for the Extreme Sailing Series Act 4, Cardiff presented by Land Rover, from the 18…
The Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe is a sailing race that is solo sailed and on which there is no contact with the outside world. “First, pass your Mini”. In 20 editions of the race, there have been more than…
Dynamic Stability System (DSS) is pleased to unveil the Quant23, which after its first preliminary sea trials in Cowes last week has proved itself to be one of its first – if not THE first – fully foiling keel boat….
NZ Herald. By Dana Johannsen. Former Team New Zealand design chief Nick Holroyd is free to take his wealth of intellectual property to other America's Cup teams after quitting the troubled Kiwi syndicate. The Herald revealed today Holroyd has walked…
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, which kicked-off on Wednesday, 15 June 2015….
ALICANTE, Spain, June 10 – Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) and Team Brunel (Bouwe Bekking /NED) were fighting to keep their dreams of overall Volvo Ocean Race victory alive as Leg 8 shaped up for a thrilling finish at dawn…
Vladimir Liubomirov’s Bronenosec crew won the first coastal race of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES season to top the overall leaderboard at the Settimana delle Bocche, but only ahead of the ferociously consistent Quantum Racing by virtue of countback. While…
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…
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