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Change is in the wind for the month-long Sail Mooloolaba celebration of sailing regatta which is held each year throughout June. For the last five years the Sail Mooloolaba committee has each year organised up to five large events over…
Most fleets will have to wait until the results of the final race to determine the final series winners for each division at Geographe Bay Race Week 2015. Results in most divisions remain remarkably close so we can expect some…
Paralympic and World Champions Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch were crowned the Arthur J Gallaghers Team of the Year with Disability Award at last night’s NSW Sports Awards Night. Fitzgibbon and Tesch were one of 19 winners across a variety…
Following its world debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival in 2014, the Beneteau Oceanis 35 is making its mark in Australia with a second place in its division on its first outing at the Festival of Sails, Geelong, Victoria in…
High humidity, barely any breeze, sloppy seas and 50 shades of grey sky and ocean off the exclusive northern beaches suburb of Palm Beach added up to a difficult opening day of the Sydney 38 Australian Championship, part of the…
Few national sailing championships cater for three generations from five up to 70 plus year-olds and provide a setting where women and young teenage skippers feel equally comfortable on the tiller competing on the same race track as the blokes….
The first attempt to run a morning race in this year’s Geographe Bay Race Week did not start well. A low tide left the TP52 Calm hard aground near the marina entrance. It took four big men at the end…
Following damage to their starboard rudder which became obvious between Sunday 15th and Monday 16th February Jorg Riechers (GER) and Sébastien Audigane on Renault Captur have made the decision to reroute to New Zealand to undertake a technical pit stop…
Barcelona, Spain – The Real Club Nautico Barcelona (RCNB) and the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) announces that with passing of the first pre-entry deadline last weekend, 72 teams from 17 countries on four continents have already registered for the 2015…
ALICANTE, Spain, February 18 – China’s Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) were in no mood to celebrate Chinese New Year on Wednesday after being relegated to the back of the fleet for the first time since the Volvo Ocean Race…
There is a media feeding frenzy going on across the Ditch, with the country's biggest newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, reporting that ETNZ helmsman Dean Barker had been dumped in favour of world Moth and 49er champion, 24-year-old Peter Burling….
In light of a recent fire in the Cala Luna restaurant at Middle Harbour Yacht Club, Commodore John McCuaig sends a clear message: “The club itself suffered little more than water damage and the Sydney Harbour Regatta is definitely going…
Paul Billingham and his long term racing partner Peter McGhee have succesfully raced from the CYCA. Paul is currently the Rear Commodore of the club. Their previous boat was a Bavaria Match 42 that they raced together for several years. …
ABC News reports of an ambitious multi-art production in Hobart focussing on all things maritime. Following on from the many yacht races to Hobart over summer and the My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival, the message behind the production by…
A showcase of power and sail multihulls ranging from 55 to 65 feet have been confirmed for the 2015 Gold Coast International Marine Expo taking place on the 21st -24 May 2015. The inaugural Super 60s line-up will be on…
Thurlow Fisher Lawyers broke the previous Gotta Love It 7 domination to win Race 5 of the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Sailing a four lap windward-return course, Thurlow Fisher Lawyers (Michael coxon, Trent Barnabas,…
Gotta Love It 7 scored her third consecutive win in the series when she dominated the 24-boat fleet in Race 3 of the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Once again, the defending champion team of…
Sickness on board, plus a couple of injuries, have put the crews of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet to the test as they make their way through the Pacific Ocean from Sanya to Auckland on the 5,264-nautical mile Leg 4….
Mates4Mates has partnered with Queensland’s Mooloolaba Yacht Club (MYC), supporting the club’s delivery of its Serve II Sail program for wounded, ill and injured veterans. With its extensive network within the current and ex-serving Australian Defence Force members, Mates4Mates will…
24 to 12 Months from Departure This series covers what it takes to prepare to live aboard a yacht long-term, travel around the world, and live life confidently at sea. We start two years from your departure date, but in…
Another awesome display by the defending champion Gotta Love It 7 crew has given the team a massive lead after Race 4 of the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Scott…
Spanish boat MAPFRE (Xabi Fernández/ESP) were ‘sailing blind’ in Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Monday after a problem with communications antennae on board prevented them from receiving key weather and other data. Race Control was alerted to…
Barcelona World Race leaders Cheminées Poujoulat now have fewer than 10,000 miles to sail of the theoretical course back to Barcelona. The sub-tropical low pressure system which yesterday brought Jean Le Cam and Bernard Stamm 40 knot winds and 5m…
The Property Industry Foundation’s Annual Charity Sailing Challenge will be held 20 March, 2015 and is expected to raise in excess of last year’s $100,000 target, to support homeless and at risk youth in Victoria. Sponsored by Brookfield, the Charity…
Despite an electrical fire that caused substantial damage to Cala Luna restaurant at Middle Harbour Yacht Club late Sunday evening, it is business as usual at the Club, according to General Manager Karen Baldwin and Commodore, John McCuaig. Reports in…
The recent decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) not to include sailing on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games sports programme shocked the international sailing community. The news was an enormous disappointment for the sport of sailing worldwide, in our…
Noted for its fickle wind conditions at this time of year, Geographe Bay turned it on for the second successive day, with beautifully moderate conditions for a perfect day’s sailing. Peter Chappell’s new lightweight The Cadillac showed her downwind potential,…
Legendary offshore yachtsman, Roger Hickman, is hoping his evergreen Farr 43 design, Wild Rose, will back up her stunning victory in the recent Rolex Sydney Hobart race with double-barrelled success at this year’s Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. “I cannot…
New Zealand is this morning welcoming news that Australia's last-gasp bid to host the America's Cup qualifying event has fallen over. The Daily Telegraph reports that a decision to delay Sydney's formal entry by two months has prompted America's Cup…
Two New Zealand fugitives wanted in connection with allegations of fraud and sexual assault have been detained by police in Sydney. Paul James Bennett, 52, and his long-time partner Simone Anne Wright, 38, were on board a stolen yacht that…
Tasmania’s champion one-design sailors this weekend have shown the skills that makes them the best in the State, scoring overall wins in the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta which ended on the River Derwent yesterday in excellent sailing conditions compared with…
Howard Spencer’s Menace sailing for the Royal Akarana Yacht Club in Auckland opened its 2015 MC38 Australian Season Championship with a decisive 10 point break at the Summer Pittwater Regatta that wrapped up today, Sunday February 15, 2015. Victory was…
Royal Perth Yacht Club’s Iberia Race is the feeder race for Geographe Bay Race Week, starting at Fremantle in the twilight hours and finishing in Busselton. A moderate sailing breeze from the south west, under a blanket of low cloud…
With second placed Neutrogena still slowed in a high pressure zone of light winds since Guillermo Altadill and José Munoz restarted from their New Zealand pitstop, both GAES Centros Auditivos and Renault Captur having continued to slash their deficit behind…
A fire on Sunday night at the Middle Harbour Yact Club in Sydney has caused an estimated $500,000 worth of damage. According to a report by Matt Bamford in the Daily Telegraph, the blaze is believed to have started in…
The Fire Knock Out system automatically launches itself upon contact with fire and then fights the fire within just a few seconds. The plastic container is filled with a special fire fighting liquid and triggering powder, to which a fast…
From CBS: SANDWICH (CBS) — A father and son who had set sail for Australia had to be pulled from the water by the Coast Guard during Sunday’s fierce blizzard. The adult son and his father, both Australian citizens, were rescued by Coast…
Online entry is now open for the Land Rover Winter Series, which has been part of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s sailing calendar since 1949. The series commences on Sunday 19 April with the traditional Great Veterans and Opening…
The Division 1 IRC fleet started Geographe Bay Race Week with a trio of windward/leeward races and if the results of the day’s racing set the tone for the week, we are in for some very tight racing indeed. Each…
In the last week there has been a lot of mainstream media beat-up about the location of the America's Cup qualifying series – a regatta that counts towards the Cup match. John Bertrand and others have been quoted in support…
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