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Déjà vu in Perth. In last year’s Schweppes Little Wheel Regatta Tristan Brown’s BW8 buried its nose in a stiff Fremantle Doctor and a spectacular broach sequence followed. This year it was Will Boulden’s turn. In a big breeze above…
Oracle Team USA is fielding a team of five at the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 International Moth World Championship and all have made it into the Gold fleet Final’s. No mean feat when some, like Rome Kirby, have only been…
Arabian Business. By Nick Ames. A futuristic yacht has been designed by architect Margot Krasojevic which is powered by solar panels on its sails. The Fresnel Hydrofoil Trimaran, set for construction this year at an estimated cost of $15 million,…
Peter Burling (NZL), who turned 24 on January 1, leaves Sorrento tonight with the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 International Moth World Championship title, hosted by the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) in Victoria. “I‘m stoked,” was all Burling could…
Making your way in the world is a professional sailor is not easy. It’s one thing to build the raw skills required for the job – whether it be as a helmsman, tactician, bowman, trimmer, or otherwise. But the other…
Milan, Italy – Rating offices, race officers, and sailors around the world will now have access to the 2015 ORC Rules used by the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) for its rating system and related products. The ORC technical staff has…
HAve you ever wondered why ocean racers who are sailing around the world go almost to South America rather than hugging the Africa coast? Barcelona World Race strategiest Marcel van Triest explains the key strategies for getting through the South…
Among the four pairs of skippers who form the vanguard of the Barcelona World Race, on their IMOCA 60s, thoughts will be turning to the Southern Ocean. Two weeks to the day since the race started, they still have a…
Consistency paid off for Michaela and Ryan Robinson at the Mirror World Championship in Villiersdorp, South Africa as they took the title on their home waters. The South Africans shattered the perception that you need a 'plastic' Mirror to…
Amendments to the 2014-15 ISAF Offshore Special Regulations, effective 1 January 2015, have been published on the ISAF website. The ISAF Offshore Special Regulations (www.sailing.org/specialregs) are used by race organisers to provide uniform minimum equipment, accommodation and training standards…
Sailing star Sir Ben Ainslie has accepted an official Guinness World Record Certificate for Bart’s Bash, the charity global sailing race that took place on 21 September 2014. It is now officially the largest sailing race on one day in…
A busy year with new launches, boat shows and ClubSwan events lies ahead for Nautor’s Swan, the Finnish brand which since 1966 has produced more than 2,000 yachts. The season will kick off with Boot Düsseldorf 2015, one of the world’s…
Filmed at the 2015 McDougall + McConaghy International Moth Australian/World Championships by Hartas Productions. No racing. Just crashing.
Around 90 percent of boats competing at the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 Moth Worlds at Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) are Mach 2’s and when things go wrong via a crash or from the pounding of big seas, who…
The Utah People's Post. By John Wilson. A new scientific paper reveals that most giant creatures lurking in the world’s oceans may have never been accurately measured by past research. The new paper also provides a set of more up-to-date…
After leading the Barcelona World Race since the first full day of racing, for most of 14 days and having recently extended their lead on the water to what the skippers estimated to be around 60 miles, pre-race favourites Alex…
The 2015 Australian Youth Championships, held at Fremantle Sailing Club, WA from 6-10 January 2015, concluded the 2014 Youth Sailing Grand Prix regatta series. It was the fourth time the series was run since its start in 2010. The Youth…
New Zealander Peter Burling continued his near-flawless run on Day 5 of the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 International Moth World Championship being hosted by the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) in Victoria. With one day remaining to finish the…
Britain’s Glen Truswell and Sam Pascoe have locked in the 2015 International 14 World Championship title with a day to spare after another superb display of confident racing on Geelong’s Corio Bay. Not satisfied with finishing with a safe fifth place,…
It’s been a frustrating couple of days at the Moth Worlds – no wind, followed by too much wind. Here, Oracle Team USA’s Kyle Langford talks about the challenge of learning a new class.
A successful end to the second Christmas Caribbean Rally (CCR 2014) sees elated crews and their shore support teams enjoying Antigua to the full. Eight boats and almost 50 crew safely completed the 2850nm crossing from Marina Rubicon in Lanzarote…
Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) continued to hold the edge in Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Tuesday with the rest of the fleet bunched up behind and waiting for the opportunity to pounce. For Caudrelier and his…
Despite their best attempts, race officials were forced to abandon racing on Day 4 of the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 International Moth World Championship being hosted by the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) at Sorrento in Victoria. At a…
Britain’s Glen Truswell and Sam Pascoe turned misfortune into fortune, when they took on today’s extraordinary weather on Corio Bay to deliver a convincing win in Race 5, of the 2015 International 14 World Championships. They tasted the fear of…
Swiss champions of the 2014 Extreme Sailing Series, Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team skippered by Morgan Larson, has announced that it will not take part in the 2015 programme, which is due to be announced later this month. Instead, the team…
Some of the biggest names in America’s Cup sailing are here at the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 Moth Worlds, honing their skills, team bonding and generally coming to grips with the exciting foiling Moth. America’s Cup team Emirates Team New…
Yoti boat brokerage has launched Yoti Race specifically targetting racing yachts. Yoti Race focuses on racing boats which have been built, designed and configured to primarily compete in competitive inshore and/or offshore events. It has been set up to provide…
The local summer of sport is about to get a lot cooler with what looks like a record breaking number of boats getting ready to assemble on the start line of the Queensland Cruising Yacht Club Surf to City Yacht…
RORC Racing Manager Nick Elliott predicted 'a scramble for places' last October when it was announced that priority would be given to RORC members wishing to secure a place in the historic race celebrating its 90th year. He wasn't wrong….
After a gear and crew damaging Race 5 yesterday, today’s lay day is a welcome reprieve for the sailors competing in the 2015 International 14 World Championships in Geelong. It is also opportune as the strong wind warning threatens a…
Lead by Hugo Boss at 0150hrs UTC this Monday morning, four IMOCA 60s of the Barcelona World Race fleet are now racing south in the Southern Hemisphere after crossing the equator in relatively quick succession. After Alex Thomson and Pepe…
The Notice of Race for the 2015 C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta is now available at www.clagettregatta.org 2015 will be the 13th edition of The Clagett. Competitors from the USA, Canada and other countries, who sail in…
Australian skippers Brad Devine and Lindsay Irwin did their best to upset the dominance of the British today fighting them with vengeance in Race 4 of the International 14 World Championships being hosted by Royal Geelong Yacht Club. They put…
Saturday 10th January marked a special day in World ARC history as two fleets set sail as part of new annual editions of World Cruising Club's round-the-world rally. In the rally's Caribbean home port of Saint Lucia, the World ARC…
The former head of sailing's governing body has filed complaints of gross misconduct against the five members of an international jury that handed down the harshest penalties in America's Cup history. Paul Henderson of Toronto has requested hearings by the…
Sailing legend Sir Ben Ainslie and his new wife Georgie Thompson had to be rescued while enjoying their honeymoon aboard a superyacht. The newlyweds were sailing past Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island in the Caribbean when their bluewater cruising yacht…
In the weeks leading up to the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 Moth Worlds, defending champion Nathan Outteridge (AUS) was contemplating who among the 160 entries would be his major competition for the title, and among them was British sailor Chris…
Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes, the British and Spanish co-skippers, should pass another milestone of the Barcelona World Race, when they ease Hugo Boss into the Southern Hemisphere this Sunday night, first across the Equator, just as they were also first out of the…
105.7 ABC Darwin. By Emilia Terzon An Australian yachtsman who lost a treasured boat at sea has described his rescue off a remote Indonesian tropical island as a “sweet and sour experience”. Cairns man Shaun Sims and his French…
In 2005, Victoria’s Rohan Veal had only been in the Moth class for four years and pulled off the biggest coup in Moth history when he won the 2005 Moth Worlds – the first person to win the Worlds using…
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