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The Suffolk Times. By Paul Squire: A 28-foot sailboat participating in Saturday’s 21st annual Whitebread race sank off the coast of Shelter Island during rough seas this morning, the U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed. All four crew aboard the boat…
The 2014-2015 Season of 18ft Skiff Racing will begin next Sunday (12 October) when the Australian 18 Footers League stages a 3-Buoys club trophy race on Sydney Harbour. Seventeen teams have entered for the new season with the reigning champions…
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,…
The third day of racing on the French Riviera for the Extreme 40s could prove to be one of the most defining days of the whole 2014 season, with the leaderboard well and truly blown open. There were plenty of…
ALICANTE, Spain, Oct 4 – Charlie Enright’s smile said it all as he led his young Team Alvimedica crew to victory in the opening skirmish of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 on Saturday. There’s a long, long way to go…
The classic yacht Gypsy celebrated her 100th birthday in style on Hobart’s River Derwent this afternoon – leading a fleet of more than 220 yachts and motor cruisers in the traditional Sail Past to mark the Opening Day of the…
ALICANTE, Spain, October 4 – Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad today revealed how he and his team used know-how from the event’s parent companies to pull off the game-changing introduction of a new strictly one-design boat for the event….
Rob Hanna has sailed Shogun V to successive wins in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Pointscore Series (BWPS), this morning being declared winner of the Newcastle Bass Island Yacht Race, the third race of the series. In…
The tables turned on day two of the Yachting NSW Youth Championships with a glass-out and fickle winds on Botany Bay keeping all classes bar the Opti green fleet waiting ashore at Georges River 16’ Sailing Club under postponement until…
ALICANTE, Spain, October 3 – The days of hungry Volvo Ocean Race sailors trading chocolate snack bars at $100 a time are over thanks to the new one-design Volvo Ocean 65 boat. While some focused on their watch tactics or…
A gentle breeze, warm sun, blue skies. One couldn’t have asked for better weather conditions for the fourth edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy, the true rendez-vous for the oldest boats of the classic yachts circuit and the…
Swiss skipper Jérôme Clerc managed to fight off the challenges of the encroaching pack to keep Realteam at the top of the leaderboard on the second day of the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice as the pressure builds with just…
See some good on board camera work as ETNZ moves up the leaderboard at the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice. Watch Australian Glenn Ashby in action and hear from 49er world champion Blair Tuke in a post-race interview.
Penobscot Bay Pilot: By Lynda Clancy CAMDEN — The Loose Cannon was raised off the bottom of Camden Harbor Wednesday, Oct. 1, courtesy of Rob Iserbyt, owner of Rockport Charters. It was raised with 10 flotation mooring balls. “By…
Botany Bay, just south of the Sydney CBD, is the arena for the Georges River 16’ Sailing Club hosted Yachting New South Wales Youth Championships over this October long weekend. More than 300 sailors are participating in the annual event,…
GAC Pindar has got off to a storming start on Day 1 of Act 7 of the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice, France. Following a second place finish in the first race of the day and two more podium finishes,…
ALICANTE, Spain, October 2 – It’s been two long years of waiting but the Volvo Ocean Race returns to action in the opening Alicante in-port race on Saturday with anticipation rising thanks to a new one-design boat which promises the…
The 2014 Laser Masters World Championsips kick off in Hyeres, France, today. There will be 63 Australians among the 517 entrants, including eight previous world champions in various categories: : Brett Beyer, Vanessa Dudley, Mark Bethwaite, Lyndall Paterson (ne Coxon), Colin…
As crews busied around in final prep for the first day’s racing in the Oyster Regatta Palma 2014, some were already out in the bay testing conditions and feeding back good news. What seemed only a light breeze in the…
Earlier this year Nautica sent the winner of their ‘Sailing Adventure of a Lifetime’ prize, along with her husband, on a dream holiday to the sparkling waters of Hamilton Island. Now the global lifestyle brand has launched a new competition…
The Royal Gazette. By Colin Thompson. Bermuda’s bid to host the 35 America’s Cup has received a ringing endorsement from one of the world’s top match racing skippers. Taylor Canfield, the reigning Alpari World Match Racing Tour champion, says that…
Forbes magazine. By Elise Ackerman: Over the last two years, Bill Norris has got used to one of the world’s richest men conspicuously parking his yacht in front of Norris’s home on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. It doesn’t help…
North Harbour News, New Zealand: A yachting contest is paying tribute to one of New Zealand's greatest sailors and sporting heroes – Sir Peter Blake. Ten teams will battle it out in The Great Blake Race on Waitemata Harbour. All…
BoatUS: ANNAPOLIS, MD. September 30, 2014 — In a move that’s expected to benefit recreational boaters, on Oct. 22 the US Coast Guard will drop the current life jacket type code scheme — Type I, II, III, IV and V…
Halifax Herald News. By Frances Willick, Staff reporter. The Tall Ship Silva was towed to the Halifax waterfront after it lost power near York Redoubt on Wednesday afternoon. Fifty-one people were on board when the ship lost power and began…
The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) and Rolex are proud to announce the Nominees for the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2014. ISAF received nominations for the 2014 Awards from across the world for sailors representing all aspects…
Started in 2009, the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image is the world’s premier photography competition dedicated to the sport of sailing. The prestigious trophy will be awarded during the World Yacht Racing Forum in Barcelona, on December 11, 2014. Submission…
Businesses can learn lessons from the America's Cup, one of the most prestigious sporting competitions in the world, say Imperial researchers. The America’s Cup is a trophy awarded to the winner of a sailing competition between two yachts. One yacht, known as…
Here they are – the kings of New Zealand’s sporting castles. Your numbers 1 through 5 on the Sporting Rich List – led by an Old Salt and including a Premier League star, a petrolhead, a young man with big…
Twenty yachts are expected take part in the 200 nautical mile Newcastle Bass Island Yacht Race, which kicks off at 7.00pm this Friday evening local time and is a new addition to the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water…
Tomorrow’s the day. On the eve of the fourth edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy, more boats keep confirming their participation to the event, that stands out as the true rendez-vous for the oldest yachts of the…
Yachting Australia is pleased to announce the finalists in 12 categories for the Yachting Australia Awards 2014, the annual celebration providing an opportunity to acknowledge the achievements and recognise contributions made, both on and off the water. On Friday 17…
The ISAF Beppe Croce Trophy, first presented in 1988 in memory of Beppe Croce, the ISAF President from 1969 to 1986, will be presented to Kellett at the 2014 ISAF Annual Conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Born on 14…
With a commitment from the Australian Sailing Team to compete at Sail Melbourne, and a reciprocal arrangement with Yachting New Zealand ensuring a good turnout of Kiwis, entries have been flooding in for the ISAF World Cup event in December….
Sailing videographer Beau Outteridge has released a short video entitled ‘Playing with Dolphins’ which features some excellent shots of his home town of Wangi Wangi and a great Australian soundtrack.
What do a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean and the Antarctic have in common? Unfortunately, it's marine debris. Even the most remote locations on Earth are fouled by man-made garbage and cast-outs. And a majority of the debris that's…
Volvo Ocean Race fans can now carry the world’s toughest ocean race in their pocket, thanks to the launch of a new official mobile app. Developed for both iOS and Android systems, the app is available for download from the…
Race teams planning next season’s calendar could do worse than sign up for the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series 2015 which runs from 16-24 January. This event, which kick starts the Caribbean race season, was re-launched in 2014 with…
Mobilarm has integrated its emergency electronic MOB beacon, the sMRT V100 Locator Beacon, with the inflatable SOS Dan Buoy marker. Once thrown into the water and inflated, the SOS Dan Buoy becomes a visual marker and at the same time…
No nation had ever been established in such a manner: seafarers, convicts, military men, and a few good citizens – some 1300 in all – consigned to a virtually unknown land on the opposite side of the world to establish…
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