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Racing resumed Tuesday in Busan Cup Women’s International Match Race, after yesterday’s postponement due to strong winds. A difficult sea state and shifting winds remained to challenge the sailors, but Australian Katie Spithill managed to come out of the day…
I have learnt several things so far on this trip. Most of all is the importance of being prepared. James and I only had a week to learn the boat and understand all the challenges of our trip before we…
Fast-forward two weeks. Crew arrived, trained, raced and gone. With a fair amount of partying in between. After this regatta I have newfound admiration and respect for the Race Committees in both Australia and the USA where I have been…
What a difference a day makes. Just yesterday, this race was all about searching for the big breeze – today, it’s all about surviving in it. If the boats had been tempted to say a little prayer to the weather…
The man who crushed Kiwi hearts after staging one of the greatest ever sporting comebacks in the America's Cup is challenging New Zealanders to take him on for a shot at redemption. One lucky Kiwi will have the chance to…
It was a day for calculated thinking and well measured approaches for the 171 sailors from 21 nations across six classes as racing commenced at ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao.Whilst the wind was a steady 8-9 knots it was the…
ALICANTE, Spain, Oct 13 – Libby Greenhalgh took her courage in her hands and split with the rest of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet approaching the Straits of Gibraltar – and it briefly left the women of Team SCA in…
Today, 13th October 2014, Sir Keith Mills and four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Ben Ainslie launched the 1851 Trust, which aims to inspire and engage a new generation through sailing and the marine industry, providing young people with the education,…
Exposure Marine claim that its man overboard (MOB) strobe and search light, will ensure you can be found fast. The light, designed to save lives at sea, does not need to be switched on. Its motion activated technology means it…
News.com.au: THIS seaside town might be famed for its oysters, but this incredible image could soon have visitors flocking to Whistable in the hope of catching Britain’s biggest crab. The photograph, which has been shared online, appears to show a…
12 October 2014, Whitley: Straight off the back of the penultimate Act of the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice, four Extreme 40s took a quick pit-stop en route to Sydney, to the Adriatic City of Trieste for one of the largest…
Geneva, 12 October 2014 – The top ranked match racers lived up to their reputation this week-end in Geneva with Eric Monnin (11th in the ISAF ranking) beating David Gilmour (12th) and Arthur Herremann, (21st). The final took place…
Team Vestas Wind emerged as narrow leaders when daylight broke on the Mediterranean after the first night of Leg 1 but the fleet was closeley bunched after a night of rain and wind shifts as a weather front passed over…
The galley sink on Banyandah is a good size measuring 380 x 340 x 150mm deep with a centre drain. Into this I use a 310mm round basin for washing up. This small basin minimizes freshwater use, and yet removing…
Daily Telegraph. By Brenden Hills: IT WAS the high-profile sailing partnership that promised a return to the glory days of its maiden win in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht race. But the team behind the drama-plagued 100-footer Wild Thing has…
The Busan Cup Women’s International Match Race, the last event on the 2014 WIM Series, couldn’t have kicked off with more challenging conditions. Sunday’s racing offered waves of up to three metres height, gusts around 30 knots and as many…
When Dr Cem Bozkurt jumped overboard off the back of Team Alvimedica´s Volvo Ocean 65, it wasn’t just for the thrill of it. It was to jump start a new initiative to raise funds for charities devoted to children’s cardiac…
ALICANTE, Spain, October 11 – The seven-strong fleet of the 12th Volvo Ocean Race raced out of Alicante on Saturday for the punishing first leg to Cape Town with rains and strong winds forecast to greet them in the opening…
In last year’s opening Ocean Point Score race to Lion Island and return, Shane Guanaria skippered Julian Farren-Price’s About Time to a line and overall win, only having to retire after sailing the wrong course – but her owner made…
18ft Skiff Racing was back on Sydney Harbour today when the Australian 18 Footers League staged the R. Watt Memorial Trophy 3-Buoys race as the opening event of its 2014-2015 Season. A perfect 18-knot North-East sea breeze prevailed, giving competitors…
ALICANTE, Spain, Oct 10 – For six guys and one women about to take on the world’s toughest offshore challenge in just over 24 hours, the skippers of the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race were in amazingly relaxed…
The Portsmouth News. By Miles O'Leary. STANDING tall, this is the first set of steel structures to go up at the future site of Sir Ben Ainslie’s race base. Building work is well under way on the Olympic sailing hero’s…
ALICANTE, Spain, Oct 9 – While tens of thousands of race village visitors to the Volvo Ocean Race enjoyed the unseasonably hot weather without a care in the world on Thursday, 66 sailors were left to contemplate nearly 39,000 miles…
Laser Masters World Championship 2014 started five days ago in Hyères (France). 500 sailors litterally invaded the port of Hyères since the beginning of October. 12 World Champion titles will be presented this saturday. First races were very difficults for…
As the dust settles on the ISAF Sailing World Championships many of the racers are heading east to compete at the second edition of ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao. Racing across the Men's and Women's 470, Laser, Laser Radial and…
Volvo Ocean Race’s new official game has not even started yet but 28,000 players of it have already chalked up a big win by raising more than €15,000 to help a creature close to every sailor’s heart, the albatross. The…
Record numbers of people have followed the exploits of the latest Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, with a cumulative audience of more than 3.3 billion people in over 200 countries seeing news coverage in the press, radio, TV and…
New Australian champion Leslie Green and his Ginger crew may have fired off the first two bullets at the MC38 Spring Regatta at Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron over the three days of the long weekend, but it was payback time…
Olympic Gold medalist and member of ORACLE Team USA Tom Slingsby talks about competing at his first Alpari Word Match Racing Tour event at the Chicago Match Cup, and how he has had to adapt to the style of racing…
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania is planning an IRC Regatta on Hobart’s River Derwent immediately after the 70th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race as a follow-up to this significant milestone in Australian offshore yachting history. The club is seeking…
THOUSANDS of people will line the seafront to watch teams from across the globe battle in the very first America’s Cup regattas of the series. It comes as it has been revealed the four-day World Series events in Portsmouth are…
Recent third placegetter at the Dutch Match Cup in Lelystad, the 5th stage of the Alpari World Match RacingTour, Team Gilmour will face Lake Geneva's local heroes and tricky wind conditions in the Grade 2 TeamWork Geneva Match Race. Eight…
Ultimate is defined as extreme or supreme and in the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe the Ultimate class represents the battle of the giants, the extreme multihulls fight for supremacy. The Ultime class was created back in 2010 the giants return…
It’s been the question every follower of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 has been asking when they see the Team Vestas Wind slogan on their boat’s mainsail: What is ‘A Race We Must Win”? Today Vestas, the world’s biggest wind…
The vessel is one of five vessels to come to grief in Tauranga Harbour due to wild weather yesterday A mast remains sticking out of the water in Pilot Bay this morning, marking where the yacht has sunk. Bay of…
As the entry list for the 2015 International 14 World Championships grows, there are number of Australian skippers who are turning to their family members, encouraging them to race in the worlds, either for the first time or for a…
A traditional yacht and one of the smallest in the fleet, it is fitting that Nick Cannar’s S&S 34 Wilparina is the 80th entry to be received in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the 70th edition of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s famous…
Last Saturday was the final race and party day of the Oyster Regatta Palma 2014, and with the five-race series already in the bag hopes for a bonus pursuit race hung on a… zephyr. Those lucky, early gradient winds of…
A 38 strong squad from NSW’s Youth Sailing Team (YST) took a fair slice of the podium places at the Yachting NSW Youth Championships that wrapped up on Monday October 6, 2014, on Botany Bay south of Sydney’s CBD. The…
I have just realised how long it is since I have updates our blog. My only excuse is way too much happening and too much to see to sit at the computer. And even though we have lots of stretches…
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