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World Champions Mathew Belcher (QLD) and Will Ryan (QLD) have successfully started their 2015 regatta season by winning the North American Championships in Miami on Tuesday (19 January). The event served as a welcome warm-up event ahead of the ISAF…
Tempo Spars is the east coast agent for Karver Systems, a furler and block specialist. Karver's top down furlers include an integrated furling lock and the unique jaws handle (hand cam) that triples pulling power. They are on show and…
Maintenance of skin fittings is often negelected due to the time and expense involved. Underwater fitting failure is responsible for 50 per cent of moored boat sinkage. Such a small piece of equipment as a seacock or hose can be…
Positioned between a grand prix overseas regatta and a cruising rally is a brand new limited entry one design event due to start from the town of Split in Croatia on June 13, 2015. In between Australian offshore seasons and…
Kiel is to be the German stopover for the 2015 GC32 Racing Tour. Racing for the GC32 foiling catamarans at the GC32 Sailing Cup Kiel will be held on Kiel Fjord, in the heart of the city, over 30th July…
Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) tightened their stranglehold on Leg 3 as they began their navigation through the treacherous Malacca Strait on Monday with a historic Volvo Ocean Race breakthrough for China tantalisingly within sight. None of the three Chinese…
The 2015 Gazprom Swan 60 Class circuit will run from April through to the end of September across Europe and Russia for all Swan 60 and Swan 601 yachts. The circuit will be sailed as a series of individual events…
Multihull Solutions has started the new year with the launch of a new website: www.multihullsolutions.com.au. The company developed the new site as an informative resource for those looking to buy, sell or research catamarans and trimarans. With a modern and…
Alpari, the naming sponsor of the World Match Racing Tour since 2012 has applied for insolvency today. The World Match Racing Tour released this statement: The World Match Racing Tour has had a successful title partnership with Alpari (UK) Limited…
The make-up of the new body tasked with preparing Bermuda for the 2017 America’s Cup has been revealed by Grant Gibbons, the Minister for Economic Development. Dr Gibbons said that America’s Cup Bermuda Ltd (ACBDA) will be funded by an…
The Festival of Sails’ main act begins this Friday when the spectacular 9.30am start of the Melbourne to Geelong passage race off Williamstown for most of the 260 plus boat fleet marks the traditional opening of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest…
Join Jeanneau’s Jean-Francois de Premorel and Phillipe Laperche as they race double-handed in the Transquadra Race aboard the Sun Fast 3600 (YOLO) from St-Nazaire to Madeira, hitting 21 knots.
The concluding races of the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Coastal Series took place today. Although the conditions were unusually light and fluky, the racing was intense in all classes with most fighting it out for overall honours right to…
Primed and in pole position for the Southern Ocean, Cheminees Poujoulat and Neutrogrena had started to make fast speeds this morning but this Sunday afternoon both had slowed again slightly. But the forecasts for the two Barcelona World Race favourites…
For many editions of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Beneteau has represented the largest production brand presence. For the past five years, Beneteaus have won the IRC Division 3. In 2014, Beneteau had twelve yachts competing. They included seven…
Bridgetown, Barbados (18 January, 2015): After two days of racing in the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Coastal Series, leading contenders for the overall honours are beginning to emerge. Racing for most classes began with a circuit of Carlisle Bay…
In case you had not noticed, the north magnetic pole has been shifting lately. So much so that B&G have published an update to the Deckman world magnetic model. You can check your Deckman magnetic variation at any time relating…
Second in the last two editions of the Vendée Globe, Armel Le Cléac’h has given himself the means to win the next race with his new 60 pieds IMOCA Banque Populaire VIII, which is now into the final stage of…
The Vee Ess Association in conjunction with the Vaucluse Yacht Club are hosting the 70th reunion on the evening of March 7th at the V.Y.C. All current and former V.S. sailors are invited. Entry is $20 per person at the…
Interest in CNB Yachts continues to grow in Australia, with Victoria's Sundance Marine selling a second CNB Bordeaux 60 to a Melbourne owner. CNB Yachts was founded in 1987 and with the Beneteau group behind it since 1992, has continued…
The video recording market has been a growth market for quite a few years now. While some products stand out as the best known, there is a number of products that provide the same video and still photography but at…
Foiling catamaran racing comes to Quantum Key West Race Week with the GC32 class joining the action this week at North America’s leading winter regatta. Held off the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys, racing commences on Monday, 19th January and continues…
The pair of IMOCA 60s which have shared the lead of the Barcelona World Race since the demise of pacemaker Hugo Boss remain stuck together, only a handful of miles apart as they ease through the lighter winds at the…
Bridgetown, Barbados (17 January, 2015): Competitors were treated stunning conditions on the opening day of the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series 2015 with winds up to 20kts generally from the east-north east, and big rolling waves. This regatta, which…
Royal Gazette. By Colin Thomson. History was made at the Royal Naval Dockyard yesterday when Ben Ainslie Racing rolled out the first foiling catamarans to reach these shores. Curious pedestrians and motorists watched in awe as an advance party from…
Hobart Yachtsman Gary Smith continued his winning form with his offshore racing yacht The Fork in the Road today with an outright victory in the Hobart Combined Clubs Long Race, a resail of the scheduled opening race of the season,…
Schweppes Little Wheel Regatta was set for a great showdown in the finals. A tight semi final between World No 14 Sam Gilmour and his younger brother Lachy required a third race decider to put Sam into the best-of-five final…
Coopers 62-Rag & Famish Hotel’s crew sailed a brilliant tactical race to score a stunning win in Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Jack Macartney, Peter Harris and Mark Kennedy were superb and their…
PATTAYA, Thailand – The Notice of Race (NOR) for the 11th Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina, set to take place 30th April to 4th May 2015 at Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Jomtien, Pattaya, Thailand, is…
When the Newport Bermuda Race is next sailed in 2016, it will be scored by one handicapping system, the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR). The ORR calculates each boat’s speed potential based on its dimensions, using a Velocity Prediction Program (VPP). …
This morning Neutrogena, one of the two leading boats of the Barcelona World Race, put on their cloak of invisibility and disappeared from the view of the competition and the public from 0900hrs UTC. Whilst racing neck and neck alongside…
Bridgetown, Barbados (16 January, 2015): With teams continuing to arrive all day in time for the start of Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series tomorrow, the Bajan party scene kicked off early this evening with a steel band and Mount…
ALICANTE, Spain, January 15 – MAPFRE, guided by stand-in skipper Xabi Fernández (ESP), threatened to shake up the Volvo Ocean Race pack on Thursday by breaking the threesome which have so far dominated Leg 3 to Sanya. Dongfeng Race Team…
This year’s MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival features the International Wooden Boat Symposium, to be opened by Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner, AM, Governor of Tasmania, on Saturday 7 February at 10.00am. The International Wooden Boat Symposium is…
Peter Burling has a lock on the title, but Nathan Outteridge had a good day and moved back into second place. Watch the video highlights from his brother Beau Outteridge here:
Known as a dangerous stretch of water, Bass Strait also holds some of the most beautiful island groups in Australia. The February issue of Cruising Helmsman details two of the best: Deal Island and the Furneaux Group. Not only do…
Designed for short-handed passage making in safety and luxury, the Discovery 58 is an addition to the Discovery range of bluewater cruising yachts. With the option of single or twin wheel steering as well as a three or four cabin…
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,…
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