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More than 80 keelboats have entered for this weekend’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta 2015, headed by Sydney Hobart racing yacht Cougar II, with off-the-beach entries expected to exceed 50 boats. Racing for the keelboats, both in the racing and cruising…
Artemis Racing team manager Iain Percy says he’s very excited about the prospect of racing in Bermuda, which he is calling a tricky venue that will demand the best from the sailors. “I’m really excited about Bermuda,” he says. “You’ve…
Pierre-Antoine Morvan’s Vannes Agglo Sailing Team are making the most of their Wild Card entry to the Monsoon Cup Malaysia, winning all three of their matches on day one of the concluding event of the 2014 Alpari World Match Racing…
Today, Ben Ainslie Racing announced a new project with City College Southampton to build two specialised docking ribs. The boats will be built by apprentices trained by the college under the supervision of Darren Patten at the College's Marine Skills…
They don’t call it life at the extreme for nothing. And the first 48 hours of Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race have certainly lived up to that billing, pushing these sailors to their limits – and beyond. It’s…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club is pleased to announce a new major sponsor for the Sydney Harbour Regatta to coincide with the 10th anniversary of NSW’s largest sailing event. To be held on the weekend of 7-8 March, organisers urge prospective…
Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam lead the Barcelona World Race from the Indian Ocean into the Pacific Ocean at 2130hrs UTC Monday night with a lead of over 240 miles ahead of Guillermo Altadill and Jose Munoz on Neutrogena….
The Tasmanian designed and built yacht Silicon Ship has won the Royal Hobart Regatta’s centenary race for the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, repeating the performance of the inaugural winner 100 years ago, the Tasmanian One Design class boat Weene on…
One of the great strengths of 18 Footer Racing over its 120-plus history has been the family involvement on a competitive level and the support of family members from the unique spectator ferry provided by the Australian 18 Footers League….
After suffering an engine problem which affects their ability to generate electrical power, Guillermo Altadill (ESP) and Jose Munoz (CHI), who are racing in second place in the Barcelona World Race around the world, have taken the decision to reroute…
Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam set the fastest 24 hours run of this edition of the Barcelona World Race so far making 478 miles to 1400hrs this Monday afternoon on Cheminées Poujoulat. The Swiss-French duo should enter into the…
Overall victory in the Alpari World Match Racing Tour may be beyond their grasp, but there are a few hot teams with a serious prospect of winning the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia this week. Top of this list is Phil…
The America’s Cup has selected NBC Sports Group as its partner for the upcoming edition of the America’s Cup – including the America’s Cup World Series events (2015-16), and the America’s Cup Qualifiers, Playoffs and America’s Cup Finals (2017). “We…
This Olympic class of sail racing brings the best in the business, six time world champion and Olympic Gold Medallist Mathew Belcher, along with crew member Will Ryan are competing along with competitors from Japan and all around Australia to…
The day started cold but the sun shone through shortly after the Red Devils performed its fly past and Hobart turned it up for the second day of the My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival. The Princes Wharf building houses…
Manoeuvres completed for the meantime, Barcelona World Race leaders Cheminées Poujoulat are making high speeds again as they sprint in a straight line east for their final miles in the South Indian Ocean. Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam should…
Double Olympic gold medallists Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher and their team on Red Bull Sailing Team have won the opening Act of the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series, soaking up the pressure of expectation in front of the crowds…
Antara News. By Aditya E. S. Wicaksono. Batam, Riau Islands (ANTARA News) – Indonesia plans to ease the processes involved in the issuance of entry permits for foreign-owned yachts, to boost the yachting tourism sector. Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said here…
A new five-part championship series. Record numbers for the first encounter. Emirates Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup heavyweights heading across the Tasman Sea. It’s a rosy start to a new season of Australian MC38 racing. The class association expects a…
Marion, Massachusetts — February 8, 2015: Racers entering in the 20th Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race that starts June 19, 2015 will earn priority status at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) to experience the 2017 America’s Cup being…
It’s not every day you get to step aboard a rare replica of a 15th century Portuguese caravel – but you will be able to do exactly that throughout the four days of the 2015 Gold Coast International Marine Expo….
Richard Noone ofThe Daily Telegraph reported that a young boy was in hospital after becoming tangled in ropes when the Flying 11 he was sailing capsized at Belmont on Saturday. Sadly the boy did not recover consciousness and his life support…
Following victories in the 2006 (Casio Seapathfinder) and 2007 (Fiat) JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship regattas, Michael Coxon has had to be content with a number of podium finishes behind Seve Jarvin and his successful Gotta Love It 7 team….
“The best sailors in the race – the ones that win on handicap” Congratulations to skipper John Mulkearns and his crew aboard Gameset placing 1st on handicap, 2014 Darwin to Ambon Yacht Race and Rally in the racing monohull (IRC)…
NZ Herald. By Sophie Ryan. A 70-year-old Auckland man participating in a sailing regatta north of Wellington was wearing a lifejacket that wasn't inflated when he died. The man fell from a 6.5m sailboat that he was piloting about 10:30am…
With four months to the start of the 46th La Solitaire du Figaro – Eric Bompard Cachemire, 20 intrepid Figaro skippers have signed up to the 2185 mile, month long solo offshore race. Kicking off on the 31st May from…
Kids events continued, including the hilarious fun 'Quick and Dirty Boat Building Race’, boats were pulling down their flags and heading out for the final sail past, pipers piping, buskers of all varieties busking; all set with a backdrop of…
As they sail the long dive south east which will take them down to around 51 degrees South, Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam are opening distance again on second placed Neutrogena. Since 0300hrs this morning the Swiss-French pair had…
The penultimate day at the Extreme Sailing Series in Singapore saw yet more change at the top of the leaderboard with the day going to the Austrians on Red Bull Sailing Team, who lay down the marker to put them…
Only two yachts have so far finished the Bruny Island Yacht Race in southern Tasmania, with race favourite Alive taking line honours just after midnight and Cougar II crossing line off Hobart’s Battery Point abut two hours later. Overnight, winds…
NZ Herald. By Matthew Theunissen. A $145,000 yacht has vanished and its owners fear it may have been sailed overseas. Retired Whangarei couple Carol and Stephen Holland have owned the 14m cutter Harlech for 13 years and taken it on…
While hundreds of wooden boats were sitting quietly in their berths at Hobart’s Australian Boat Festival at sunrise today, another wooden yacht was adding to Tasmania’s maritime tradition of building fine boats from timber, sailing slowly up the River Derwent…
With the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship less than one week away, today’s Presidents Trophy race on Sydney Harbour took on added importance as the final lead up to the world’s biggest 18ft skiff championship. A light north east…
It’s going to be a long, tough haul from Sanya to Auckland. But the six boats of the Volvo Ocean Race weren’t reserving an ounce of effort on Sunday as they raced out of the Chinese port in champagne sailing conditions….
Leaders Cheminées Poujoulat have passed the second ‘Great Cape’ in the Barcelona World Race. Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin, around 600 miles south of the tip of south-western Australia, at 1525hrs (UTC), 37 days, 3 hours and 25 minutes after…
SAP Extreme Sailing Team sailed a near faultless day on day two of the Extreme Sailing Series in Singapore, clearly relishing the inner city stadium racecourse, and striding ahead into first place – a day topped off by winning the…
SANYA, China, February 7 – China’s Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) served up another glorious home victory in the Team Vestas Wind In-Port Race in Sanya on Saturday after an absorbing battle in the sun. The team had already made…
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia entrant JustaDash, Philip Dash’s well raced Beneteau 40, took out the IRC and PHS double in winning today’s short ocean race for the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s historic Milson Memorial Cup. JustaDash won a close…
SANYA, China, February 5 – Volvo Ocean Race’s six-strong fleet heads out towards Auckland from Sanya for Leg 4 on Sunday with some big calls to make in the latest instalment of a marathon offshore contest which could hardly be…
To sail 15,000 miles around the Southern Ocean is a marathon achievement, and five weeks after they set off, the seven teams in the Barcelona World Race are acutely aware of the fact that they are not yet halfway. After the…
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