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Spanish boat MAPFRE (Xabi Fernández/ESP) were ‘sailing blind’ in Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Monday after a problem with communications antennae on board prevented them from receiving key weather and other data. Race Control was alerted to…
Barcelona World Race leaders Cheminées Poujoulat now have fewer than 10,000 miles to sail of the theoretical course back to Barcelona. The sub-tropical low pressure system which yesterday brought Jean Le Cam and Bernard Stamm 40 knot winds and 5m…
The Property Industry Foundation’s Annual Charity Sailing Challenge will be held 20 March, 2015 and is expected to raise in excess of last year’s $100,000 target, to support homeless and at risk youth in Victoria. Sponsored by Brookfield, the Charity…
Despite an electrical fire that caused substantial damage to Cala Luna restaurant at Middle Harbour Yacht Club late Sunday evening, it is business as usual at the Club, according to General Manager Karen Baldwin and Commodore, John McCuaig. Reports in…
The recent decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) not to include sailing on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games sports programme shocked the international sailing community. The news was an enormous disappointment for the sport of sailing worldwide, in our…
Noted for its fickle wind conditions at this time of year, Geographe Bay turned it on for the second successive day, with beautifully moderate conditions for a perfect day’s sailing. Peter Chappell’s new lightweight The Cadillac showed her downwind potential,…
Legendary offshore yachtsman, Roger Hickman, is hoping his evergreen Farr 43 design, Wild Rose, will back up her stunning victory in the recent Rolex Sydney Hobart race with double-barrelled success at this year’s Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. “I cannot…
New Zealand is this morning welcoming news that Australia's last-gasp bid to host the America's Cup qualifying event has fallen over. The Daily Telegraph reports that a decision to delay Sydney's formal entry by two months has prompted America's Cup…
Two New Zealand fugitives wanted in connection with allegations of fraud and sexual assault have been detained by police in Sydney. Paul James Bennett, 52, and his long-time partner Simone Anne Wright, 38, were on board a stolen yacht that…
Tasmania’s champion one-design sailors this weekend have shown the skills that makes them the best in the State, scoring overall wins in the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta which ended on the River Derwent yesterday in excellent sailing conditions compared with…
Howard Spencer’s Menace sailing for the Royal Akarana Yacht Club in Auckland opened its 2015 MC38 Australian Season Championship with a decisive 10 point break at the Summer Pittwater Regatta that wrapped up today, Sunday February 15, 2015. Victory was…
Royal Perth Yacht Club’s Iberia Race is the feeder race for Geographe Bay Race Week, starting at Fremantle in the twilight hours and finishing in Busselton. A moderate sailing breeze from the south west, under a blanket of low cloud…
With second placed Neutrogena still slowed in a high pressure zone of light winds since Guillermo Altadill and José Munoz restarted from their New Zealand pitstop, both GAES Centros Auditivos and Renault Captur having continued to slash their deficit behind…
A fire on Sunday night at the Middle Harbour Yact Club in Sydney has caused an estimated $500,000 worth of damage. According to a report by Matt Bamford in the Daily Telegraph, the blaze is believed to have started in…
The Fire Knock Out system automatically launches itself upon contact with fire and then fights the fire within just a few seconds. The plastic container is filled with a special fire fighting liquid and triggering powder, to which a fast…
From CBS: SANDWICH (CBS) — A father and son who had set sail for Australia had to be pulled from the water by the Coast Guard during Sunday’s fierce blizzard. The adult son and his father, both Australian citizens, were rescued by Coast…
Online entry is now open for the Land Rover Winter Series, which has been part of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s sailing calendar since 1949. The series commences on Sunday 19 April with the traditional Great Veterans and Opening…
The Division 1 IRC fleet started Geographe Bay Race Week with a trio of windward/leeward races and if the results of the day’s racing set the tone for the week, we are in for some very tight racing indeed. Each…
In the last week there has been a lot of mainstream media beat-up about the location of the America's Cup qualifying series – a regatta that counts towards the Cup match. John Bertrand and others have been quoted in support…
World Champions and World #1 in the Men’s 470 class, Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan, have taken home their third consecutive National Title at the 2015 Australian 470 Nationals (11-15 February 2015), which concluded at Southport Yacht Club on the…
In 2014 the Sydney 38 Australian championship trophy was held high above the Victorian Challenge team, one of the final career highlights for the class doyen, the late Lou Abrahams. This year NSW holds the entry majority at the looming…
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued the following tropical cyclone warning for Far North Queensland: Australian Government Bureau of MeteorologyNorthern Territory Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre Media: The Standard Emergency Warning Signal should NOT be used with this warning. PRIORITY TROPICAL…
Boats boats everywhere. Saturday afternoon on Pittwater and weaving through the MC38 Spring Pittwater Regatta race track to the north of Scotland Island are classic Couta boats, Etchells, and a fleet of keelboats contesting a Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club…
After a pit-stop in Bluff, in the very south of New Zealand, which according to skipper Guillermo Altadill would have done an F1 motor racing team proud, Neutrogena is back on the Barcelona World Race course this Saturday afternoon but…
The defending champion Gotta Love It 7 team has done it again, and certainly set up the chance to make it a sixth consecutive JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship. Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Scott Babbage raced to an early…
The Barcelona World Race and the competing skippers are playing an important role in one aspect of the monitoring of climate change. Ice is now seen more frequently and more accurately when it breaks away from the Antarctic ice cap…
Johor Bahru, Malaysia (13th Feb 2015): Ian Williams (GBR) has one hand on the ISAF World Championship trophy tonight after moving to match point in his Monsoon Cup Malaysia Semi-Final against Eric Monnin (SUI). What should have the GAC Pindar…
Tony Lyall’s TP52 needed just 34 minutes and 43 seconds to sail the course in tonight’s opening twilight race for the 2015 Banjos Shoreline Crown Series Bellerive Regatta on Hobarts’ River Derwent, winning the Racing Group IRC category on corrected…
The defending champion Gotta Love It 7 team of Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Scott Babbage gave a brilliant performance to come from behind and score a brilliant win in Race 1 of the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship…
14 February 2015 – Ian Williams has today secured his place in the history books, becoming the first skipper ever to win sailing’s World Match Racing Tour title five times. Williams, who had previously won the title in 2007, 2008,…
War Games may the last Farr 40 still racing regularly on the Derwent, but prominent owner Wayne Banks-Smith is obviously keeping her competitive, today scoring a double win in Racing Group 1 on a wet and largely windless second day…
The majesty of the J Class era will return to the America’s Cup eighty years after the class last raced for the oldest trophy in international sport. The J Class Association (JCA) and the America’s Cup Event Authority have agreed…
Johor Bahru, Malaysia (12th Feb 2015): Wild Card entry Eric Monnin turned on the afterburners on day 3 of the Monsoon Cup Malaysia to be sitting on match point against Phil Robertson for a place in the Semi-Finals. The Swiss…
ALICANTE, Spain, February 12 – A brave strategy to strike out north from the rest of the fleet looked like it was paying big dividends for Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR) and Team Brunel (Bouwe Bekking/NED) on Thursday as Leg 4…
It is one of those crazy moments that round the world ocean racers cherish, or at least amuses them, the antimeridian. When East becomes West. Sailing eastwards, at one hundred and eighty degrees east, it is not so much Live…
The German boat builder Bavaria Yachts announced investment into the Chinese market effective to start in 2015. Bavaria's boat range for sailing and power ranges from 30 to 56 feet and recently added a catamaran range following the purchase of…
Men’s 470 Olympic champion, dual Olympian and five time World Champion Nathan Wilmot (NSW) is back on board the Australian Sailing Team after being appointed Australian Sailing 470 Coach for Women and Australian Sailing Squad Men last month. In this…
Hobart’s leading SB20 sports boat skippers and their crews will sail a virtual dress rehearsal of their upcoming state and national championships when they contest this weekend’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta on the River Derwent. The big regatta began this…
A news item on the Indonesian Antara news site is stating that Indonesia will ease entry permits for foreign yachts. This is welcome news for the myriad of yachts that visit those cruising waters not far north of Australia. My…
The 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship got under way today when the 24-boat fleet lined up on Sydney Harbour for the traditional Invitation Race to welcome the visiting competitors. The defending champion Gotta Love It 7 team of Seve…
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