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WHITLEY, 25 AUGUST 2014: Series Main Partner to the Extreme Sailing Series, Land Rover, has awarded the third ‘Above and Beyond’ Award in Cardiff, United Kingdom to Sir Ben Ainslie’s J.P. Morgan BAR team and Oman Sail’s shore crew after the…
Australians are supposed to be poor sailors in light airs, but no-one told Nathan Wilmot. As Cardiff Bay glassed out and 11 Extreme 40s struggled to maintain momentum, the 2008 Olympic 470 champion pulled off three excellent starts in a…
London 2012 Paralympic Gold medallists Daniel Fitzgibbon (NSW) and Liesl Tesch have won the 2014 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships in Halifax, NS, Canada over night. The Australian Sonar Team of Paralympians Russell Boaden (WA), Jonathan Harris (NSW) and Colin…
Yachting Australia has announced that the 2015 IRC Australian Championship will be held at Hamilton Island. The Hamilton Island Yacht Club last hosted the championship in 2012. History was created at that event when Marcus Blackmore took out the IRC…
Longtime Bellerive Yacht Club member Chris Sheehan has added another trophy to his ten year association with his Young 88, Saga, winning Division 2 of the club’s Winter Series which ended on Sunday. A fleet fleet of 27 boats turned…
The Extreme Sailing Series has been responsible for some very good innovations such as stadium racing, where they have brought the contest to within metres of the public. But a small, almost unseen initiative is one that could be worth…
The second day of the Extreme Series in Cardiff was a lot kinder to Team Australia's GAC Pindar. Bouncing back from a port-starboard collision with Groupama in the final race yesterday, the Nathan Wilmot-helmed team scored a third and three…
It was the year of the cruisers at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week, though the word ‘cruise’ is misleading. A cutthroat finish to the regatta on day six, Saturday August 23, 2014, brought out this division’s competitive edge at the…
Instead of non-skid tape, these treads have been sanded. Sand is more durable than anti-skid tape which tends to wear unevenly and can look scruffy in highly trafficked areas. Unlike anti-skid tape that sometimes lifts at the edges, there’s no…
Five Extreme Sailing Series sailors and five members of the press joined elite British cycling squad Team Raleigh for a criterium-style race around the streets of Cardiff. Watch some excellent sailing and cycling footage and listen to interviews as the…
Kyle Langford, the wing trimmer on Oracle Team USA when it won the America's Cup in 2013, is mainsail trimmer on Oman Air at the Extreme Series in Cardiff. In an exclusive interview with mysailing, he talked about the Extreme…
“Not my finest hour,” was how 2008 Olympic 470 gold medallist Nathan Wilmot described a collision with Groupama on the first day of the Extreme Series in Cardiff. Trailing at the back of the fleet in the ninth and final…
Mike Holt has spent most of his life dreaming about becoming world champion and today it came true with victory in the final race of the SAP 505 World Championship in Kiel. Together with crew Rob Woelfel, Holt went into…
After playing bridesmaid at both Audi Hamilton Island Race Week and the Australian Championship last year, Octogenarian Sydney yachtsman Leslie Green and his Ginger crew were today crowned the MC38 Australian champions for 2014, at Hamilton Island. Ginger had enough…
The best of winter sailing in the Whitsundays capped off racing at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. Bucket loads of sunshine and puffy 18-20 knots of SSE tradewinds farewelled the fleet from Dent Passage for the final time this series….
For the first time in 27 years an Australian crew has won the International Cadet World Championship, with brother and sister Thomas and Sophie Alexander from Royal Geelong Yacht Club winning the 2014 championship at Weymouth, England, overnight. The teenager…
Six teams have entered the race for the 35th America’s Cup: ORACLE TEAM USA (USA), the defending championArtemis Racing (SWE)Ben Ainslie Racing (GBR)Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL)Luna Rossa Challenge (ITA)Team France (FRA) “It’s exciting to look at the roster of…
GAC Pindar is the sponsor of Team Australia's Extreme Series campaign. They also sponsor Team Raleigh, currently the leading cycling team in the British Premier series. So it made sense to bring both teams together at Extreme Series Cardiff to…
It’s the people. If I were to end with that sentence alone I would still not have missed the essence of our experience in Vanuatu. Certainly when assessing a nation as a cruising destination, one must include the white sand…
With only one race remaining in the 12-race series, octogenarian Leslie Green and his Ginger crew are on the verge of being crowned the MC38 Australian champions for 2014, following two windward/leeward races at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week today….
Each year Aussie sailors travel from the furthest states of Tasmania and Western Australian to be part of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week in sunny Queensland. Joining them in 2014 is a smattering of international crews including a number of…
Rugged-up crew, reefed sails and rockin’ downwind rides on the penultimate day of racing at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week replaced the lazy start to the six day series last Sunday, August 17, 2014. There was a buzz around the…
After a day of races at the SAP 505 World Championship somehow Mike Holt and Rob Woelfel have managed to cling on to a slender 2-point lead in Kiel, Germany. In the first, medium-airs race it was the up and…
Mike Holt and Rob Woelfel have rocketed to the top of the leaderboard of the SAP 505 World Championship after winning a breezy race in Kiel, Germany, today. They sit just two points ahead of their training partners, the British…
The world’s longest ocean race, uniquely for amateur sailors – the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is now 70% full for the 2015-16 edition, following a surge of crew sign-ups. The 40,000 mile, eleven month long event, known as…
Despite arriving back at dock without having won any of the three windward/leeward races today, Leslie Green (Ginger) has maintained his lead of the MC38 Australian Championship at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week, a pair of second places and a…
The tradewinds are steadily building at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week towards the business end of the six day regatta, and with up to 25 knots due on Saturday the thrill and spill metre is on the rise. Owner of…
Royal Geelong Yacht Club brother and sister, Thomas and Sophie Alexander, have extended their overall lead to a healthy five points over their nearest rivals in the International Cadet World championship at Weymouth on the south coast of England. A…
The secret to success at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week differs from yacht to yacht. For the crew of South Australian yacht Secret Mens Business, the combination of mateship and a strong drive to win is key. Led by owner/skipper…
With the UK leg of the global Stadium Racing tour just 24 hours away, David ‘Freddie’ Carr gives his dockside views from Cardiff Bay. I’ve been going to Cardiff for around 14 years now and every time I go down…
STOCKHOLM, August 19, 2014 – Today, Artemis Racing officially launched its challenge to win the 35th America’s Cup at an event in Sweden’s capital. Guests were treated to a rare chance of seeing the America’s Cup trophy first hand at…
Bavaria will stage its largest display ever in the UK. The Southampton show has one of the largest temporary marinas in Europe and the show will run from the 12th to 21st September. Around 500 exhibitors will display over one…
A group of yachties who are big on fun but low on pretence are turning the traditional notion of bricks and mortar yacht club membership on its head with a club motto of ‘exclusively non-exclusive’ and a nick name widely…
Thirty years ago at a crossroads Barry Cuneo took the sensible parent-pleasing option and pursued a career, believing he could drop back into sailing any time. He’s on the water all the time as a sea pilot on Port Philip,…
The strongest breeze of the competition thus far is expected for the third day of competition on Lake Jinniu with up to eight knots of breeze on the menu. Racing is all set to commence at 11:00 local time with…
AkzoNobel has entered into a two-year partnership to supply the Extreme Sailing Series an annual global stadium racing circuit featuring some of the latest high performance hull coatings. Bringing the action to a larger public with sailing close to shore, and dramatically…
Leslie Green skippered Ginger to three bullets from three races in the MC38 Australian Championship at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week today, snatching the lead from Chris Hancock’s Vino, which led after yesterday’s two windward/leeward races. At the end…
The 27 ton bullet-proof aluminium built Maxi Ragamuffin is making its racing comeback at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week following a 21 year lull when the old girl toiled as a charter workhorse. Maxi Ragamuffin is a German Frers design…
Teenage siblings Thomas and Sophie Alexander from Royal Geelong Yacht Club have extended their lead on day three of the International Cadet World Championships at Weymouth on the south coast of England. Overnight they scored their fourth win in six…
The Whitsundays turned on the best yet for the 182-strong fleet at the midway point at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. Three days down, a well-earned layday tomorrow then three more to wrap up the premiere series. Consistent sou’easters at…
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