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Take 20 yachts ranging in length from 50 to 100ft long. Put them in close proximity on Sydney Harbour. Fire a gun. The result is controlled chaos and mayhem. At the pre-race briefing, principal race officer Denis Thompson had warned…
What a difference a day makes. After the strong breeze and heavy seas of day one, today was a completely different picture at Sail Melbourne with light winds and very little swell dictating play. For the 49er fleet the light…
Roger McMillan demystifies solar panels with this plain-English look at how they work and factors to consider in choosing a suitable panel for your needs. When you reach into the boat fridge for a cold drink, it's very satisfying to…
Orderly stowage of equipment and supplies is an important aspect of seamanship. Most methods and options are applicable to anything from a day sailing harbour racer to an international cruiser. The philosophy of ‘A place for everything, and everything in…
Practical: The environment John Champion examines just how green most of our boats are, and what we can do to alter the balance in favour of the environment. Try our spot quiz to see how your boat rates. In these…
Destination: Great Barrier Reef Out or in? It's a quandary every cruiser has to face when heading north or south along the Great Barrier Reef. Aideen Henry puts the case for the former. The end of the cyclone season marks…
In last year's Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race a selection of leading yachting navigators adopted ocean data specialists Tidetech as their weapon of choice for information about currents, tides and sea temperature. With only two weeks left to the…
Sailors, like a fine wine vintage, get better with time. Kerli and Ali Corlett, the current Grand Master World Champions, have been racing Hobie 16s together for 30 years. It all started when they were competing against each other on…
Wetsuits are a necessary evil to most dinghy sailors because they are heavy, uncomfortable and restrict movement. Ronstan's new Dinghy Wetwear line addresses these issues by carefully engineering fit and function into every piece. The result is a comfortable range…
Lake Mulwala has returned to its former glory with the weed being largely controlled by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority over the winter months. Entries have already started rolling in and the International Canoe Association is conducting a Rendezvous during the…
A classy field of 15 yachts, most of them entries in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, will front the start line of the Rolex Trophy Rating Series starting tomorrow, Thursday December 17. Six of the yachts entered in the…
To entertain you over the Christmas break, we have brought out the January issue early. And filled it with useful advice and stories about interesting people. For keelboat owners (and crew) there's a high-tech story about routing software, a detailed…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has presented the CYCA Ocean Racer of the Year Awards this evening at a gala cocktail party at the Clubhouse and for only the fifth time in the history of the Awards, a woman…
As the temperature rose in Melbourne the Australian Sailing Team's athletes lifted a notch, with race wins aplenty on day three of Sail Melbourne. In the 49er class current World Champions Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen had a fight on…
Finally we have seen 10 knots of boat speed and we are MOVING! he exclaims. “The light patch was a lot longer and stickier than I ever thought it would be. Hindsight now tells me that regardless of the additional…
Day one of racing at the 2009 Sail Melbourne regatta is complete with a strong breeze and big waves providing perfect racing conditions for the opening round of the 2009/2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup. 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Gold medalist…
In a typical show of solidarity, Yuu Zoo skipper Ludde Ingvold began yesterday's media conference of maxi skippers by saying, “On behalf of all of us, I just want to say that our thoughts are with Grant Wharrington and his…
The fleet in Singapore had everything thrown at them today as they contended with an intense 15 minute rainstorm, wind that peaked at 12 knots and then they were left crawling around the racecourse as the wind dropped to just…
Earl Williams, representing Alfa Romeo, scored the first “psychological” blow of the Rolex Sydney Hobart when he defeated representatives of six of the maxi syndicates in today's “Small Boat Challenge” held on the pond at the CYCA. The “small boats” are…
Rudders up …. bows down ….. There was real drama on the racecourses here in Singapore as four boats nearly capsized as the gusty winds took the six-boat fleet by surprise. For Rumbo Almeria it was a busy day –…
On Saturday morning at 0600 UTC, the trimaran Groupama 3 cast off from the port of Cape Town, South Africa, bound for Brest some 6,000 miles (11,000 kms) away, where she will begin her second period of stand-by for the Jules…
The front runners have finally reached the high pressure system and its associated light winds, which has been threatening to slow the fleet down for days. Current race leaders, Team Finland has chosen this moment to go into Stealth Mode…
Sydney is forecast to be bathed in sunshine and the expected winds are set to create the perfect playground for the maxis contesting Tuesday's SOLAS Big Boat Challenge, one of the big boats' key Rolex Sydney Hobart shakedowns. Entries currently…
Newly crowned NSW champions Michael Coxon , Aaron Links and Trent Barnabas continued their excellent form when they brought Thurlow Fisher-City home a comfortable winner of the Syd Barnett Jr. Memorial Trophy race on Sydney Harbour today. The trio gave…
Martin and Lisa Hill and their Estate Master crew won the Farr 40s, while a bunch of Tasar sailors on The Tavern won every race of the Sydney 38s to each win their class in the Rolex Trophy One Design…
Day 1 and BT, CHINA TEAM, Masirah and Red Bull Extreme Sailing Team are all tied at the top of the Singapore leaderboard with 23 points apiece in this inaugural series in Asia. The six Extreme 40s were racing within…
It's going to be another nail biting day for the crews competing in Clipper 09-10, and none more so than for Team Finland as they work to maintain their lead over the chasing pack. Skipper Eero Lehtinen reports this morning,…
Grant Wharington's 98ft Super Maxi, Etihad Stadium (formerly Skandia Wild Thing) has been dismasted on her delivery journey from Melbourne to Sydney for the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart on Boxing Day. The dismasting occurred off Gabo Island, on…
The Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club has announced online entries for their 770nm Butlers Business and Law Round Lord Howe Island Yacht Race. In doing so it now makes it Australia's longest, annual Cat1 race. For sure the Melbourne to Vanuatu,…
It was a day for families at the Rolex Trophy One Design Series, as husband and wife team Martin & Lisa Hill ( Estate Master) and the father and son owned The Tavern (Ian and Shane Guanaria) scored three wins…
Over 350 key figures from the yacht racing industry attended the second edition of the World Yacht Racing Forum. Their feedback was positive, everyone recognising the quality of the debates and the importance of such an international Forum to debate…
Race 4 from Cape Town to Geraldton, Western Australia, is proving just how evenly matched the crews competing in Clipper 09-10 are. The last four days of racing have seen the margins between the yachts remain fairly static and even…
The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has launched the Sport Specific Training in Sailing Course to develop qualified training programme managers around the world. This Sport Specific Training in Sailing Course will be funded by the IOC Olympic Solidarity Coaches Programme….
The top five NSW Farr 40 One Design crews will hit the water for three days of intense competition starting today (Friday December 11), kicking off the Rolex Trophy 2009 which is organised by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in…
Marina Reservoir will play host to the second round of the inaugural Extreme Sailing Series Asia starting this Friday 11th December. Six state of the art 40-foot catamarans, each crewed by a team of four top professional sailors, and racing…
The race for class victories in the 2009 Sail Down Under Series is heating up with just one regatta left to run and all the fleets still in the balance. For the first time trophies will be awarded to first,…
The Australian Government today announced it has matched the Western Australian StateGovernment dollar-for-dollar in its support of the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships. The Federal Minister for Sport, Kate Ellis, joined WA Tourism Minister Dr ElizabethConstable today at the Royal Perth…
In some close racing on The Sound at the entrance to Sydney Heads, Martin and Lisa Hill and their Estate Master crew from Middle Harbour Yacht Club have come out on top after three races on Day 1 of the…
A week after the start of her unscheduled pit stop at Port-La-Forêt, the SolOceans One-design (16 metres / 52.2 feet) steered by Australian Liz Wardley was relaunched this morning. The boat had been undergoing repairs after hitting an unknown object,…
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