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The Festival of Sails’ main act begins this Friday when the spectacular 9.30am start of the Melbourne to Geelong passage race off Williamstown for most of the 260 plus boat fleet marks the traditional opening of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest…
Join Jeanneau’s Jean-Francois de Premorel and Phillipe Laperche as they race double-handed in the Transquadra Race aboard the Sun Fast 3600 (YOLO) from St-Nazaire to Madeira, hitting 21 knots.
The concluding races of the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Coastal Series took place today. Although the conditions were unusually light and fluky, the racing was intense in all classes with most fighting it out for overall honours right to…
Primed and in pole position for the Southern Ocean, Cheminees Poujoulat and Neutrogrena had started to make fast speeds this morning but this Sunday afternoon both had slowed again slightly. But the forecasts for the two Barcelona World Race favourites…
For many editions of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Beneteau has represented the largest production brand presence. For the past five years, Beneteaus have won the IRC Division 3. In 2014, Beneteau had twelve yachts competing. They included seven…
Bridgetown, Barbados (18 January, 2015): After two days of racing in the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Coastal Series, leading contenders for the overall honours are beginning to emerge. Racing for most classes began with a circuit of Carlisle Bay…
In case you had not noticed, the north magnetic pole has been shifting lately. So much so that B&G have published an update to the Deckman world magnetic model. You can check your Deckman magnetic variation at any time relating…
Second in the last two editions of the Vendée Globe, Armel Le Cléac’h has given himself the means to win the next race with his new 60 pieds IMOCA Banque Populaire VIII, which is now into the final stage of…
The Vee Ess Association in conjunction with the Vaucluse Yacht Club are hosting the 70th reunion on the evening of March 7th at the V.Y.C. All current and former V.S. sailors are invited. Entry is $20 per person at the…
Interest in CNB Yachts continues to grow in Australia, with Victoria's Sundance Marine selling a second CNB Bordeaux 60 to a Melbourne owner. CNB Yachts was founded in 1987 and with the Beneteau group behind it since 1992, has continued…
The video recording market has been a growth market for quite a few years now. While some products stand out as the best known, there is a number of products that provide the same video and still photography but at…
Foiling catamaran racing comes to Quantum Key West Race Week with the GC32 class joining the action this week at North America’s leading winter regatta. Held off the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys, racing commences on Monday, 19th January and continues…
The pair of IMOCA 60s which have shared the lead of the Barcelona World Race since the demise of pacemaker Hugo Boss remain stuck together, only a handful of miles apart as they ease through the lighter winds at the…
Bridgetown, Barbados (17 January, 2015): Competitors were treated stunning conditions on the opening day of the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series 2015 with winds up to 20kts generally from the east-north east, and big rolling waves. This regatta, which…
Royal Gazette. By Colin Thomson. History was made at the Royal Naval Dockyard yesterday when Ben Ainslie Racing rolled out the first foiling catamarans to reach these shores. Curious pedestrians and motorists watched in awe as an advance party from…
Hobart Yachtsman Gary Smith continued his winning form with his offshore racing yacht The Fork in the Road today with an outright victory in the Hobart Combined Clubs Long Race, a resail of the scheduled opening race of the season,…
Schweppes Little Wheel Regatta was set for a great showdown in the finals. A tight semi final between World No 14 Sam Gilmour and his younger brother Lachy required a third race decider to put Sam into the best-of-five final…
Coopers 62-Rag & Famish Hotel’s crew sailed a brilliant tactical race to score a stunning win in Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Jack Macartney, Peter Harris and Mark Kennedy were superb and their…
PATTAYA, Thailand – The Notice of Race (NOR) for the 11th Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina, set to take place 30th April to 4th May 2015 at Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Jomtien, Pattaya, Thailand, is…
When the Newport Bermuda Race is next sailed in 2016, it will be scored by one handicapping system, the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR). The ORR calculates each boat’s speed potential based on its dimensions, using a Velocity Prediction Program (VPP). …
This morning Neutrogena, one of the two leading boats of the Barcelona World Race, put on their cloak of invisibility and disappeared from the view of the competition and the public from 0900hrs UTC. Whilst racing neck and neck alongside…
Bridgetown, Barbados (16 January, 2015): With teams continuing to arrive all day in time for the start of Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series tomorrow, the Bajan party scene kicked off early this evening with a steel band and Mount…
ALICANTE, Spain, January 15 – MAPFRE, guided by stand-in skipper Xabi Fernández (ESP), threatened to shake up the Volvo Ocean Race pack on Thursday by breaking the threesome which have so far dominated Leg 3 to Sanya. Dongfeng Race Team…
This year’s MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival features the International Wooden Boat Symposium, to be opened by Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner, AM, Governor of Tasmania, on Saturday 7 February at 10.00am. The International Wooden Boat Symposium is…
Peter Burling has a lock on the title, but Nathan Outteridge had a good day and moved back into second place. Watch the video highlights from his brother Beau Outteridge here:
Known as a dangerous stretch of water, Bass Strait also holds some of the most beautiful island groups in Australia. The February issue of Cruising Helmsman details two of the best: Deal Island and the Furneaux Group. Not only do…
Designed for short-handed passage making in safety and luxury, the Discovery 58 is an addition to the Discovery range of bluewater cruising yachts. With the option of single or twin wheel steering as well as a three or four cabin…
Déjà vu in Perth. In last year’s Schweppes Little Wheel Regatta Tristan Brown’s BW8 buried its nose in a stiff Fremantle Doctor and a spectacular broach sequence followed. This year it was Will Boulden’s turn. In a big breeze above…
Oracle Team USA is fielding a team of five at the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 International Moth World Championship and all have made it into the Gold fleet Final’s. No mean feat when some, like Rome Kirby, have only been…
Arabian Business. By Nick Ames. A futuristic yacht has been designed by architect Margot Krasojevic which is powered by solar panels on its sails. The Fresnel Hydrofoil Trimaran, set for construction this year at an estimated cost of $15 million,…
Peter Burling (NZL), who turned 24 on January 1, leaves Sorrento tonight with the McDougall + McConaghy 2015 International Moth World Championship title, hosted by the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) in Victoria. “I‘m stoked,” was all Burling could…
Making your way in the world is a professional sailor is not easy. It’s one thing to build the raw skills required for the job – whether it be as a helmsman, tactician, bowman, trimmer, or otherwise. But the other…
Milan, Italy – Rating offices, race officers, and sailors around the world will now have access to the 2015 ORC Rules used by the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) for its rating system and related products. The ORC technical staff has…
HAve you ever wondered why ocean racers who are sailing around the world go almost to South America rather than hugging the Africa coast? Barcelona World Race strategiest Marcel van Triest explains the key strategies for getting through the South…
Among the four pairs of skippers who form the vanguard of the Barcelona World Race, on their IMOCA 60s, thoughts will be turning to the Southern Ocean. Two weeks to the day since the race started, they still have a…
Consistency paid off for Michaela and Ryan Robinson at the Mirror World Championship in Villiersdorp, South Africa as they took the title on their home waters. The South Africans shattered the perception that you need a 'plastic' Mirror to…
Amendments to the 2014-15 ISAF Offshore Special Regulations, effective 1 January 2015, have been published on the ISAF website. The ISAF Offshore Special Regulations (www.sailing.org/specialregs) are used by race organisers to provide uniform minimum equipment, accommodation and training standards…
Sailing star Sir Ben Ainslie has accepted an official Guinness World Record Certificate for Bart’s Bash, the charity global sailing race that took place on 21 September 2014. It is now officially the largest sailing race on one day in…
A busy year with new launches, boat shows and ClubSwan events lies ahead for Nautor’s Swan, the Finnish brand which since 1966 has produced more than 2,000 yachts. The season will kick off with Boot Düsseldorf 2015, one of the world’s…
Filmed at the 2015 McDougall + McConaghy International Moth Australian/World Championships by Hartas Productions. No racing. Just crashing.
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