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Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean. There was no chance the 200 or so Sydney 38 and 36 sailors contesting the Performance Boating Sydney Yachts Regatta were…
Legend has it that over 31 days during 1788 the HMS Bounty of Captain Bligh made just 85 miles while attempting fruitlessly to round Cape Horn. If they round Cape Horn as expected on Tuesday 24th February, Barcelona World Race…
'The Optimist Dinghy' is the 130-page history, fully illustrated, of how an 'orange crate' from Florida became the junior boat in over 120 countries. It includes an 18-page supplement by Clifford McKay Jr., the first boy to sail the Optimist,…
The Buizen company was established 35 years ago in Sydney and in that time the Buizen name has earned great respect in Australian yachting circles for its philosophy and quality. Not a manufacturer of mass-produced production boats a Buizen Yacht…
Herald on Sunday. By Dana Johanssen: A furious Dean Barker has called in the lawyers as the bitter battle over his future with Team New Zealand intensifies. Barker was left shell-shocked at leaks to media this week that he was…
Twenty years after a bunch of friends decided to celebrate wooden boat building the My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival now ranks as one of Tasmania's top tourist drawcards. Over 200,000 visitors to this February's edition of the festival means…
A new yacht race, planned for 2017, will take competitors through the North West Passage from New York to Victoria, British Columbia. The race website claims: Starting in Summer of 2017, STAR teams will sail six race legs with stopovers…
Renault Captur were approaching Wellington NZ this Saturday afternoon ready to set in motion their plan to repair their damaged starboard rudder blade. With 60 miles to go, sailing upwind in a short, choppy sea at the eastern entrance to…
This summer of yacht racing marks the 30th season in which veteran Hobart yachtsman Don Calvert has raced his equally veteran Castro 40, Intrigue, on the River Derwent – and it could well be another winning season. Since leading Australia’s…
For those awake around midnight last night, a 20 knot ENE gust through Sydney’s northern suburbs raised hopes for day two of the Performance Boating Sydney Yachts Pittwater Regatta. The reality was… well like night and day; another heavy cloud…
Paul Clitheroe’s Balance came within five minutes of being the only finisher in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Ocean Point Score’s (OPS) from Sydney to Newcastle late Saturday evening in one of the most frustrating races in recent memory….
Gotta Love It 7’s team of Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Scott Babbage officially became the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff champions after the regatta concluded on Sydney Harbour today. The team had already secured the title before today’s race…
After 51 days and over 13,000 miles of racing the two boats are closing in on each other, Neutrogena slanting slightly North East looking likely to cross just ahead of Anna Corbella and Gerard Marín. The speed differences swing back…
ALICANTE, Spain, Feb 20 – An incredible photograph from Team Brunel (Bouwe Bekking/NED) apparently showing three crew members suspended in mid-air as the Volvo Ocean Race Leg 4 leaders sped through the Pacific Ocean, has sparked a fierce social media…
Leaving the best until last, Dave Walling and his crew sailed a blinder this morning, coping with extremely light and variable conditions at the start better than anyone. By the time the breeze switched to the south and freshened, The…
United States 18ft Skiff champion Howie Hamlin turned the memory clock back 12 years when he skippered Harken to victory in Race 6 of the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Hamlin, who won the Giltinan…
It was a case of slow and steady in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Grant Thornton Short Haul Series in the race from Sydney to Pittwater today, and Ian Guanaria’s patience was rewarded when his One More-No More was…
Picturesque Rottnest Island in Western Australia is the ideal backdrop for a weekend of yachting and social activities. Now in its fifth year, the two day Rottnest Festival of Sail will be held over the weekend of 28 and 29…
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…
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