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ALICANTE, Spain: Seven Volvo Ocean Race boats set off together for the two-day Leg Zero on Friday knowing that a series of “crises” loom for all of them – and they have all been planned by the organisers. The fleet will…
Take a famous bay with varied and unpredictable weather conditions. Take an army of genius designers who created the most stunning sailing yachts of the last two centuries. Sprinkle over some sportsmanship, a dose of fighting spirit, add a pinch…
In an unprecedented opening day at the Extreme Sailing Series Act 6 in Istanbul, the public and national media witnessed some extraordinary adrenaline-fueled racing, with every team pushing hard. At times too hard, with two boats dismasting; first Groupama sailing…
Suitable for boats from 9m to 20m, the Lewmar range of swing thrusters are designed to provide a completely fair hull with minimal drag when raised, offering an advantage for higher performance sailing yachts and fast planning or semi-displacement hulls….
SAN FRANCISCO – A day that began with a heavy fog layer and fickle breeze transformed in an instant and closed with the type of howling winds for which San Francisco Bay is known. All in all, it was a wild…
From 8-21 September 2014 more than 1,250 sailors in over 900 boats from 84 nations will compete at the Santander 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships. Racing will kick-off today, Friday, 12 September from 13:00 local time (21:00 AEST). The 2014…
Racing for the foiling GC32s resumed in dramatic style at the opening day of Marseille One Design, run by Sirius Evènements with backing from the city of Marseille. Throughout the day the northeasterly Mistral wind built and for this afternoon’s…
The Groupama Race, the 4th sailing tour of New Caledonia, will start on 19th of october. This race is the longest leeward-winward race around the biggest lagoon in the world: 600 milles in paradise. Last day to register is in 8…
Despite new technologies, satellite imagery and modern research methods the work of collecting routine, fundamental data about the Earth's oceans' physical, biological and chemical characteristics remains an unforgiving and impossible task that has challenged scientists for centuries. A pioneering approach…
Michel Desjoyeaux is France’s best-known sailor and has won many of the sport’s biggest prizes but the lure of joining Team España in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 has brought him back to compete for a fourth time aged…
Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image announces a world class lineup of personalities for its international jury 2014. Carlo Croce (ISAF President, ITA), Ken Read (North Sails Group President, USA), Karin Bäcklund (Volvo Ocean Race Commercial Director / Volvo Cars Sponsorship Director,…
Since 2012 it has been on Bavaria's agenda to enter the market for catamarans over 35 feet. They have been investigating various strategies and negotiating with several potential partners. “The first contact with Nautitech Catamarans and its founder Bruno Voisard…
Whitsunday Sailing Club has announced the 26th annual Airlie Beach Race Week will be held from 7-14 August 2015. Following the success of the 25th anniversary event in August which saw a record number of entries, the club says there…
The leading pack is beginning to show after four races at the Dragon Gold Cup in the Dutch city Medemblik. With two more races to go it already is a valid championship, with defending champion Markus Wieser leading so far….
The tenth anniversary edition of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race starts in August 2015 and the 40,000 mile route will take almost 12 months to complete. It is the world’s longest ocean race, and also one of the…
Nathan Outteridge and Iain “Goobs” Jensen (AUS) are the current Olympic 49er champions and they have three world championships to their credit as a team. But they have been beaten the last three times they have raced in this class,…
When you hear an America's Cup rumour once you dismiss it as just another conspiracy theory. When you hear it twice, you think the myth is spreading fast. But when you hear it four or five times from very reliable…
Four cities, 22 total boats, four regattas and 43 races so far – and now it all comes down to this! The Farr 40 International Circuit will be decided during the Rolex Big Boat Series, being held this Thursday…
Captain Tomas Cichoki, 57, departed Brest, in France, on the 6th September 2014 in a Delphia 47, sailing single handed and non stop around the world, following the clipper route down the Atlantic, around the Cape of Good Hope, then…
What is it? Diesel bug is the common term given to the myriad bacteria, mould and other micro-organisms found in diesel fuel. These organisms live in the water (a result of contamination or condensation) and feed on the intermediate by-products…
With less than 80 days before the start of the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race, a dramatic course change was initiated due to concerns of piracy in the Indian Ocean. That year, the Cape Town to Abu Dhabi leg involved all…
Entries are now open for the 2015 McDougall & McConaghy Moth World Championships, which is being hosted by the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club between 9-16 January. With Australia’s Nathan Outteridge the reigning World Champion following his emphatic victory at…
Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill believes Dean Barker and Team New Zealand will be the favourites at the next America's Cup. The America's Cup publicity event in London was designed to promote the Sir Ben Ainslie led Team Great Britain's re-entry…
The 2015 Moth Worlds, to be hosted by the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club from January 9 to 16,will attract some of the biggest names in world sailing. Oracle Team USA's sailing team manager, Tom Slingsby, has confirmed that the…
Hamilton BERMUDA, September 8, 2014 – In an exciting decision for the Alpari World Match Racing Tour and the Argo Group Gold Cup, event Chairman Past Commodore of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Brian Billings is pleased to confirm that…
The Espresso 12 was designed by people who enjoy coffee who wanted to ensure that the quality of the coffee was not compromised by the portability and practicality of the machine. Weighing just 3.9 kilograms the compact design draws 350…
The Santander 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships will officially start today, Monday, 8 September European time, with racing scheduled at the biggest regatta of the year from Friday, 12 September 2014. The Australian Sailing Team (AST) and Squad (ASS)…
Drop down cupboard doors work well in narrow spaces like between forward V bunks. Each shelf has its own door. The bottom doors are designed to clear the floor and lie flat against the cupboard front so they do not…
Few classes have stood the test of time as has the OK Dinghy. As a concept it was born in the mind of the same Danish sailor who brought the Optimist dinghy to Europe, but the designs were laid down…
Veteran International Etchells helmsman Michael Coxon in North Star on Saturday won the opening race of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s 152nd summer sailing season Sydney Harbour. ‘Summer’ was hardly the apt description – wet, windy and certainly chilly by…
Porto Cervo, 6th September 2014. The curtain closes on a superlative 25th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Mini Maxi Rolex World Championship with the victory of Magic Carpet 3 (Wally), Firefly (Supermaxi), Highland Fling (Maxi), Lupa of…
Stand-in helmsmen steered the SB20 class winners in today’s final races of the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Winter Series on the River Derwent. Colin Dabner took over for absent skipper Nick Rogers to score two close one-design wins with Karabos. Dabner…
There may still be snow on Mount Wellington and the morning temperature down to 4 degrees but today was a perfect spring day for the final Winter Series race day conducted by the Derwent Sailing Squadron on the River Derwent….
Porto Cervo, 5th September 2014. The penultimate day of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and Mini Maxi Rolex World Championship started off looking unpromising, with light and shifty air across the regatta course, however the Porto Cervo magic soon came…
After failing by a single point to record their best finish ever at the Extreme Series in Cardiff, the GAC Pindar/Team Australia crew of Nathan Wilmot, Seve Jarvin, Ed Smyth, Tyson Lamond and Jack Mccartney will aim to make amends when…
The range of Isara catamarans, built at the company’s Ta Yang yard in Taiwan, includes a 45, 50, 55 and 65 footers. Southern Yachting is headed by Jonathan (Jon) Harris. Jon is a long term member of the Australian Olympic…
Sydney-based Harken Australia provides technical support, supply and distribution to the Australian leisure marine industry. The company already handles product ranges from marine deck hardware manufacturers, including Harken, Spinlock, Edson Steering and McLube. Paul Honess, Sales Director for Marlow Ropes Ltd…
In the wake of what many long-time Audi Hamilton Island Race Week participants declared to be “the best ever” regatta in its 31-year history, series organisers have already announced the dates for next year’s event. Audi Hamilton Island Race Week…
Armel Le Cléac’h, who seriously injured his hand and has been forced out of the 2014 Route du Rhum, will be replaced in the solo transatlantic race by Loïck Peyron. The sailor from La Baule, who was forced to retire…
ALICANTE, Spain, Sept 4 – A film-maker with a background of making hit documentaries and dramas, but zero experience in sports programmes, is the surprise choice of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 to direct their flagship half-hour weekly show. Frenchman…
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