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ALICANTE, Spain, July 16 – Three Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 crews – Team SCA, Team Brunel and the Spanish challengers – will go head-to-head in the first competitive clash of the new one-design Volvo Ocean 65s in the Round Canary…
Spain's Silvia Mas Depares and Marta Davila Mateu clinched 420 Girls gold with a race to spare on the penultimate day of racing at the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship. The Spanish team have been sensational on the water…
NZ Herald July 17: An independent review of the search for the missing schooner Nina has found the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand went beyond what many overseas authorities would have done. Nina and its seven crew members left the…
One of the best-known and most successful yachtsmen in the Asia-Pacific region, Karl Kwok, has set his sights on becoming outright champion in the IRC Grand Prix Division at next month’s Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. The Hong Kong-based businessman…
Quantum Sails Australasia has announced it has expanded its support in Queensland by signing on Sail Structures. With offices in Cairns, Port Douglas and Townsville, Sail Structures will service and support all the North Queensland customers, alongside Quantum Sails Queensland,…
The second day of the 2014 Flying Dutchman World Championships at Largs, Scotland experienced a turnaround in weather on Tuesday 15th July, after a tough first day. Light breezes and plenty of sunny intervals made ideal conditions for competitors and…
If anyone knows the Extreme Sailing Series, it’s David ‘Freddie’ Carr. The British sailor raced in the inaugural circuit in 2007 – back then for the iShares Cup – before going on to win it in 2009 with Oman Sail…
After conquering 40,000 miles and facing some of Mother Nature’s greatest trials the 12-strong Clipper Race fleet arrived back at St Katharine’s Dock London after 11 months on Saturday where Chinese team, Qingdao stepped on stage as the winners of…
Ian Williams (GBR) hangs on to World #1 in the ISAF World Open Match Race Rankings whilst in the Women's Rankings Camilla Ulrikkeholm (DEN) stays solid at the top. Australian Keith Swinton holds on to third in the Mens and…
It was a day for the underdogs in many cases on the third day of competition at the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship with improvements made and personal goals attained across the fleets. Historically the ISAF Youth Worlds has…
In a brilliant piece of marketing the all-women team competing in the Volvo Round the World Race will be seen in a four episode documentary on the campaign. The first episode will appear on 7Two, this Sunday (July 20) at…
On a suggestion from crewmember Tom Slingsby, some of the Oracle crew have been sailing foiling moths at 'Slingers' old club Wangi Sailing. As a learning experience it has also been a bit of fun getting big boat sailors out…
Hanse Yachts have released its latest model, the Hanse 455. Designed by Judel/Vrolijk & Co this yacht has 10% more sail area than the previous model. The builder claims that the cockpit is the largest in the class. All halyards,…
The second day of the 2014 Flying Dutchman World Championships at Largs, Scotland experienced a turnaround in weather on Tuesday 15th July, after a tough first day. Light breezes and plenty of sunny intervals made ideal conditions for competitors and…
It was a late start and a late finish on the second day of competition at the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Tavira, Portugal with the last competitors reaching the shore at 21:00 local time. The breeze came…
– Iker Martínez will again be leading the Spanish challenge for the Volvo Ocean Race in 2014-15, his team confirmed today. The 37-year-old Basque sailor, who has just been crowned European champion in the Nacra 17 multihull class, is looking…
Emergency crews who were unable to save the boat are now trying to contain a diesel spill with booms. The 10-metre fibreglass yacht was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived at Fishing Point at Buttaba near Lake Macquarie just after…
A protracted struggle over the organisation of the next America’s Cup is in prospect for British team boss Sir Ben Ainslie after weekend talks for all the current declared challenger teams in Los Angeles. They were joined by representatives of…
Members of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, last evening Tuesday 15 July, elected John Cameron as their Commodore and elected a new Board of Directors at the Club’s 70th annual general meeting. In his address to members at the…
Olympic Champion Mat Belcher (QLD) and World Champion crew Will Ryan (QLD) have taken the gold medal at the 2014 Men’s 470 Open European Championship, which wrapped up in Athens, Greece last night. The duo defended their 2013 European title…
Sunshine, steady breeze and great racing provided the perfect recipe for the opening day of competitive action at the 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Tavira, Portugal. After a slightly calm morning the breeze kicked in mid-afternoon allowing a full…
The British pair of Luke Patience/Elliot Willis saved their best to last, knocking out back-to-back second place finishes in races 9 and 10 to become the 2014 470 Men European Champions. In the 470 Women, the battle for the European…
Eleven teams from seven different nations will compete for the 33rd Copa del Rey MAPFRE in the Nespresso X-35 class. The international fleet of X-35 will pit their skills in the Bay of Palma for the eighth consecutive year. The X-35…
All visiting yachties and miscellaneous hangers-on are invited to join in the celebrations and festivities at Vanuatu's inaugural Lakona Bay Kastom Festival. To be held on the 23 & 24 August 2014 and hosted by Chief John Star, Father Levy…
The new C275 has a powerful rig with large main and self-tacking jib which makes it not only fast, but also easy to sail, claim the builders. The cockpit is appointed with comfortable, ergonomically designed outboard coamings. Designed by Gerry…
Almost every week we carry a story of yachts sinking, being abandoned or losing people overboard. There is one from Britain today that made me wonder how many people lodge a passage plan with Marine Rescue before they go offshore….
Successful veteran yachtsman and gentleman, John Walker, passed away peacefully at Royal North Shore Hospital yesterday with is family around him, three months shy of his 92nd birthday in October. ‘Gentleman Johnnie Walker’, a long-time member of Middle Harbour Yacht…
The defending European Champions held on to their crowns in both the men’s and women’s fleets at the Seiko 49er and 49erFX European Championship, which reached a thrilling conclusion today in Helsinki. Ida Marie Nielsen and Marie Olsen went into…
Hobart’s three Mumm 36s are within one point of each other after three of the five race series in Bellerive Yacht Club’s Eastern Autobody Winter Series. BYC’s Tas Paints (Ian Stewart) heads the Division 1 points by just one point…
It’s a wrap! The curtain has come down on the Land Rover Winter Series 2014 with the Closing Ladies Day race being contested by 37 competitors who were treated to a sunny but brisk Winter’s day with 14-20 knots of…
Leslie Green and his Ginger crew from Sydney have taken out the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron hosted MC38 Harbour Regatta by the narrowest margin from the lone New Zealand entry, Howard Spencer’s Menace, on Sydney Harbour this afternoon. One point…
As the OK Dinghy class heads into its European Championship next weekend, the July release of the World Ranking list sheds some light on the current form as virtually all of the top European sailors will be present. Despite changing…
At the close of entries for the Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, a diverse fleet of 57 yachts are readying for what doubles as the opening race of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Point Score…
A perfect Sydney day greeted NSW Premier Mike Baird as he arrived at Middle Harbour Yacht Club to officially name the prize Hanse 345 in the Amazing Grace raffle. The yacht raffle with a total prize value of over $250,000…
One of the largest regattas in Australia, Sail Sydney is six days of high-class, high-adrenaline racing for dinghy classes. Against the backdrop of the Sydney skyline, hundreds of competitors from around Australia and around the world will race in this…
Bob Oatley’s 30-metre supermaxi, Wild Oats XI has gone “under the knife” once more, and the results of the latest surgery will be put to the test at next month’s Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. The big boat will be…
Australia’s aquatic playground is gearing up for its annual ‘Sailing Season’, where sails and spinnakers dominate the horizon by day, and champagne corks and good times dominate by night. The Whitsundays Season of Sailing kicks off with Vision Surveys Airlie Beach…
Both the men’s and women’s World Champions sit in pole position going into the deciding day of the Seiko 49er & 49erFX European Championship in Helsinki. In the 49erFX, Alex Maloney and Molly Meech moved ahead of the defending European…
New Zealander Howard Spencer and his Menace crew have taken an early lead in the MC38 Harbour Regatta hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron this afternoon. Spencer got off to a cracking start, winning Race’s 1 and 3 for…
Winning boat Henri Lloyd and the Clipper Race fleet have returned to a heroes’ welcome in London eleven months after setting off. Having conquered Mother Nature’s toughest conditions during the 40,000 mile ocean odyssey, the team was victorious in the…
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