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Recent third placegetter at the Dutch Match Cup in Lelystad, the 5th stage of the Alpari World Match RacingTour, Team Gilmour will face Lake Geneva's local heroes and tricky wind conditions in the Grade 2 TeamWork Geneva Match Race. Eight…
Ultimate is defined as extreme or supreme and in the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe the Ultimate class represents the battle of the giants, the extreme multihulls fight for supremacy. The Ultime class was created back in 2010 the giants return…
It’s been the question every follower of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 has been asking when they see the Team Vestas Wind slogan on their boat’s mainsail: What is ‘A Race We Must Win”? Today Vestas, the world’s biggest wind…
The vessel is one of five vessels to come to grief in Tauranga Harbour due to wild weather yesterday A mast remains sticking out of the water in Pilot Bay this morning, marking where the yacht has sunk. Bay of…
As the entry list for the 2015 International 14 World Championships grows, there are number of Australian skippers who are turning to their family members, encouraging them to race in the worlds, either for the first time or for a…
A traditional yacht and one of the smallest in the fleet, it is fitting that Nick Cannar’s S&S 34 Wilparina is the 80th entry to be received in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the 70th edition of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s famous…
Last Saturday was the final race and party day of the Oyster Regatta Palma 2014, and with the five-race series already in the bag hopes for a bonus pursuit race hung on a… zephyr. Those lucky, early gradient winds of…
A 38 strong squad from NSW’s Youth Sailing Team (YST) took a fair slice of the podium places at the Yachting NSW Youth Championships that wrapped up on Monday October 6, 2014, on Botany Bay south of Sydney’s CBD. The…
I have just realised how long it is since I have updates our blog. My only excuse is way too much happening and too much to see to sit at the computer. And even though we have lots of stretches…
Botany Bay saved its best for the finale. A glorious spring day and perfect breeze capped off the deciding three races of the annual Yachting NSW Youth Championships, a mass gathering of sailing’s next generation run over the October long…
Bavaria have been nominated for five awards in Europe, the Cruiser 46 in the new sailing yacht range and Sport 360 and 400 in the Bavaria Sport range. The Cruiser 46 has a good chance to be European Yacht of…
Life aboard Banyandah would be difficult without non-slip mats lining the shelves, drawers, and bench tops. Rolls 30 cm wide can be bought cheaply from discount stores in a good range of colours and wider material is available at ship…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Luna Rossa skipper Max Sirena believes the Italian syndicate can finally win the America's Cup. “For the first time I feel in a position to win the America's Cup,” Sirena told a media conference at the…
Morgan Larson and the Swiss team Alinghi snatched victory from the hands of their fellow countrymen Realteam in the final race at the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice, to take victory on French waters in front of thousands of spectators…
5 October 2014. WHITLEY, UK: The concept of the Above and Beyond Award at the Extreme Sailing Series was conceived by Series Main Partner, Land Rover to reward the very best examples of skill, sportsmanship and strength of mind in…
ALICANTE, Spain, Oct 5 – Sweden’s third in the line to the throne Prince Carl Philip needed no time to consider when he was challenged to climb to the top of a Volvo Ocean Race boat's 30-metre mast on Sunday –…
The Suffolk Times. By Paul Squire: A 28-foot sailboat participating in Saturday’s 21st annual Whitebread race sank off the coast of Shelter Island during rough seas this morning, the U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed. All four crew aboard the boat…
The 2014-2015 Season of 18ft Skiff Racing will begin next Sunday (12 October) when the Australian 18 Footers League stages a 3-Buoys club trophy race on Sydney Harbour. Seventeen teams have entered for the new season with the reigning champions…
New Australian champion Leslie Green and his Ginger crew may have fired off the first two bullets at the MC38 Spring Regatta at Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron over the three days of the long weekend, but it was payback time,…
The third day of racing on the French Riviera for the Extreme 40s could prove to be one of the most defining days of the whole 2014 season, with the leaderboard well and truly blown open. There were plenty of…
ALICANTE, Spain, Oct 4 – Charlie Enright’s smile said it all as he led his young Team Alvimedica crew to victory in the opening skirmish of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 on Saturday. There’s a long, long way to go…
The classic yacht Gypsy celebrated her 100th birthday in style on Hobart’s River Derwent this afternoon – leading a fleet of more than 220 yachts and motor cruisers in the traditional Sail Past to mark the Opening Day of the…
ALICANTE, Spain, October 4 – Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad today revealed how he and his team used know-how from the event’s parent companies to pull off the game-changing introduction of a new strictly one-design boat for the event….
Rob Hanna has sailed Shogun V to successive wins in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Pointscore Series (BWPS), this morning being declared winner of the Newcastle Bass Island Yacht Race, the third race of the series. In…
The tables turned on day two of the Yachting NSW Youth Championships with a glass-out and fickle winds on Botany Bay keeping all classes bar the Opti green fleet waiting ashore at Georges River 16’ Sailing Club under postponement until…
ALICANTE, Spain, October 3 – The days of hungry Volvo Ocean Race sailors trading chocolate snack bars at $100 a time are over thanks to the new one-design Volvo Ocean 65 boat. While some focused on their watch tactics or…
A gentle breeze, warm sun, blue skies. One couldn’t have asked for better weather conditions for the fourth edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy, the true rendez-vous for the oldest boats of the classic yachts circuit and the…
Swiss skipper Jérôme Clerc managed to fight off the challenges of the encroaching pack to keep Realteam at the top of the leaderboard on the second day of the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice as the pressure builds with just…
See some good on board camera work as ETNZ moves up the leaderboard at the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice. Watch Australian Glenn Ashby in action and hear from 49er world champion Blair Tuke in a post-race interview.
Penobscot Bay Pilot: By Lynda Clancy CAMDEN — The Loose Cannon was raised off the bottom of Camden Harbor Wednesday, Oct. 1, courtesy of Rob Iserbyt, owner of Rockport Charters. It was raised with 10 flotation mooring balls. “By…
Botany Bay, just south of the Sydney CBD, is the arena for the Georges River 16’ Sailing Club hosted Yachting New South Wales Youth Championships over this October long weekend. More than 300 sailors are participating in the annual event,…
GAC Pindar has got off to a storming start on Day 1 of Act 7 of the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice, France. Following a second place finish in the first race of the day and two more podium finishes,…
ALICANTE, Spain, October 2 – It’s been two long years of waiting but the Volvo Ocean Race returns to action in the opening Alicante in-port race on Saturday with anticipation rising thanks to a new one-design boat which promises the…
The 2014 Laser Masters World Championsips kick off in Hyeres, France, today. There will be 63 Australians among the 517 entrants, including eight previous world champions in various categories: : Brett Beyer, Vanessa Dudley, Mark Bethwaite, Lyndall Paterson (ne Coxon), Colin…
As crews busied around in final prep for the first day’s racing in the Oyster Regatta Palma 2014, some were already out in the bay testing conditions and feeding back good news. What seemed only a light breeze in the…
Earlier this year Nautica sent the winner of their ‘Sailing Adventure of a Lifetime’ prize, along with her husband, on a dream holiday to the sparkling waters of Hamilton Island. Now the global lifestyle brand has launched a new competition…
The Royal Gazette. By Colin Thompson. Bermuda’s bid to host the 35 America’s Cup has received a ringing endorsement from one of the world’s top match racing skippers. Taylor Canfield, the reigning Alpari World Match Racing Tour champion, says that…
Forbes magazine. By Elise Ackerman: Over the last two years, Bill Norris has got used to one of the world’s richest men conspicuously parking his yacht in front of Norris’s home on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. It doesn’t help…
North Harbour News, New Zealand: A yachting contest is paying tribute to one of New Zealand's greatest sailors and sporting heroes – Sir Peter Blake. Ten teams will battle it out in The Great Blake Race on Waitemata Harbour. All…
BoatUS: ANNAPOLIS, MD. September 30, 2014 — In a move that’s expected to benefit recreational boaters, on Oct. 22 the US Coast Guard will drop the current life jacket type code scheme — Type I, II, III, IV and V…
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