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The 27 ton bullet-proof aluminium built Maxi Ragamuffin is making its racing comeback at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week following a 21 year lull when the old girl toiled as a charter workhorse. Maxi Ragamuffin is a German Frers design…
Teenage siblings Thomas and Sophie Alexander from Royal Geelong Yacht Club have extended their lead on day three of the International Cadet World Championships at Weymouth on the south coast of England. Overnight they scored their fourth win in six…
The Whitsundays turned on the best yet for the 182-strong fleet at the midway point at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. Three days down, a well-earned layday tomorrow then three more to wrap up the premiere series. Consistent sou’easters at…
Constant innovation and boat handling are synonymous with the International 14 which has remained remarkably progressive considering it is one of the oldest racing classes in the world. Encouraged by a semi-restricted class rule, the i14 is all about controlled…
A huge range of new products have been confirmed for release at the 2014 Gold Coast International Marine Expo from October 17-19. Details of more new releases would be announced closer to the Expo date. “The exciting range of products…
The McConaghy Ker 46 Patrice has won the IRC division of this years Airlie Beach Race Week. With six consecutive first places Patrice secured overall victory and did not need to sail the last race. For Tony Kirby and his…
After four action packed days of match racing and fleet racing, near gale force winds and substantial breaking waves on the race course caused the concluding races of the 2014 RC44 Marstrand World Championship to be cancelled. Principal Race Officer…
Chicago, IL – The cold, foggy weather may have dampened the spirits of the thousands of Chicagoans arrayed on shore for the Air and Water Show, but the action could not have been hotter for the final day of racing…
It is early days, but there are three yachts putting the pressure on in the MC38 Australian Championship, and following two more races being completed on Day 2 of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week today, the glasses were being charged…
Playful humpback whales on the racetrack at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week breaching next to the race boats in Whitsunday Passage spiced up the on-water action on day two of the six day series. A mother and baby humpback were…
Royal Geelong Yacht Club’s brother and sister Thomas and Sophie Alexander have opened up a narrow lead after two days of racing in the International Cadet World Championship being sailed from the UK’s Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. After…
John Bacon has sailed Dark Star to a win in the shortened Lindeman Island Race to claim an early lead on the first day of the MC38 Australian Championship at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week today. Bacon had not only…
A perfect winter’s morning enabled Derwent Sailing Squadron race officers to conduct three races today for the SB20 division of the Clean Lift Winter Series on the Derwent, producing three individual winners in a day of close racing. Conditions were…
An easy day with plenty of sunshine and light winds opened the racing program at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. For three of the crew from Craig Neill’s Judel Vrolijk 42 Elena Nova from Middle Harbour Yacht Club, it was…
Local Swedish fans were rewarded on the penultimate day of the RC44 Marstrand World Championship when Torbjörn Törnqvist’s Artemis Racing dramatically improved its performance, following mid-fleet finishes over the last two days. The shifty on-shore southwesterly today provided good racing,…
COWES, Isle of Wight, August 16 (Volvo Ocean Race) – Ian Walker’s Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing fired a huge warning shot across the bows of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 fleet with a record-breaking monohull victory in the Sevenstar Round…
Mail Online. By Rebecca Evans and Eleanor Harding: A retired public school teacher drowned after his yacht capsized while he was on a sailing trip with friends. Douglas Perrin, 66, died after the yacht ran into strong winds off the coast of…
Chicago, IL – The top seeds in the field have taken the early lead here in the first day of competition at the Chicago Match Race Center's ISAF Grade 2 Chicago Grand Slam. Among their matches sailed in the first…
Former World Champion Howie Hamlin and his crew Andy Zinn put down a strong marker by winning the Pre-Worlds in Kiel, Germany, but now it’s crunch time as the main event begins on Saturday, the SAP 505 World Championship. With…
On the eve of racing at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 182-strong crews are looking skyward for the rain and fog to clear and the cloud cover to break up, clearing the way for the south easterly tradewinds to return…
Three more races were held today at the RC44 Marstrand World Championship with a further three teams claiming race wins. Chris Bake’s Team Aqua has now taken the overall lead, but is just one point ahead of today’s decisive winner,…
Cruising is a lifestyle of destination and discovery and the September issue of Cruising Helmsman takes you into areas that are only now just being discovered, yet easy to get to. The old communist dictatorships of Europe are realising the…
The lure of stranger tides may well be strong but the hint of danger is always just over the horizon. It pays to plan and prepare before heading out. The August issue of Cruising Helmsman has a collection of useful…
Chicago, IL – Chicago Match Race Center will host the first of four events on the US Grade 2 Grand Slam Series this weekend. This series attracts some of the best international talent to compete for valuable points in the…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club at Newport on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has announced a new format for its opening event of the 2015 Australian offshore yachting calendar. The club is offering owners of eligible boats a new trimmed-down race…
Excitement in the Welsh Capital is building, as the fleet of 11 high-performance Extreme 40 catamarans are preparing to flex their giant sails, fine tune their speed machines and bring Stadium Racing to Cardiff Bay, as the headline Act to…
Fleet racing at the RC44 Marstrand World Championship got underway today in lively conditions, delivering a mix of sun with occasional torrential rain, strong winds with occasional lulls, plus, in race three, a giant squall. Today’s three races have left…
From Matt Belcher and Will Ryan's email update: A lot has been published about the Rio 2016 Olympic waters, most of it true. We were fortunate to do most of our racing on the outer courses where the waters are…
Jude Binder has more than forty years experience finishing and maintaining vessels and fine timber furniture. She is also an accomplished sailor with 150,000 miles under sail, so she knows what stands the test of time. She learnt how to…
The wait is over for Spindrift racing. On stand-by since the beginning of June, Dona Bertarelli, Yann Guichard and the rest of the team will abandon their attempt to break the Crewed North Atlantic Record on August 15th and prepare…
One hundred years ago today, on 15 August 1914, the Panama Canal opened after 23 years of construction work. A century later it is still considered one of the largest and most successful engineering feats ever built. One of the…
Cruising Helmsman contributor Rosemary Jilderts would like to pass on the latest warning from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Summer turtle breeding season is coming the GBRMPA says and with marine turtle numbers rapidly declining we must be…
Ex-Hurricane Bertha provided a lively opening day to the 2014 RC44 Marstrand World Championship with the wind at times gusting to 20+ knots and a lumpy sea that placed a premium on boat handling. As usual at a RC44 regatta,…
The Vision Surveys 25th Airlie Beach Race Week fleet continued to experience strong winds and close racing on the penultimate day of the seven-day anniversary event. With the Sports Boats choosing not to venture out on Pioneer Bay for their…
Vestas, the world’s leading wind energy company, was today announced as the seventh and final boat for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Six-time world champion Chris Nicholson, who will be contesting his fifth race, will skipper the boat and work…
With Lay Day over the 135-boat record fleet competing in the Vision Surveys 25th Airlie Beach Race Week regatta and the Whitsunday Sailing Club race management team are starting to turn their attention towards the next three day’s weather and races….
Hurricane Bertha claimed its first victim in Britain as a yachtsman was killed after being hit in the head by a boat's boom in near gale-force winds. Coastguards, police and the RNLI scrambled to reach the injured crew member, who…
When is this country going to grow up and have one set of registration and one set of regulations for all states? Boats, by their very nature, move around a lot. And every time they cross into another regulatory environment…
After three days of next to no wind on a small lake in the middle of Russia, Team Gilmour managed to overcome the light and shifty conditions to take the win in a white wash final against Eugeniy Neugodnikov from…
COWES, England – Five Volvo Ocean Race boats are currently neck and neck in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland race, which began at 0900 this morning. The fleet of Volvo Ocean 65s is leading the monohulls as they exit…
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