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With the gold medals already in the pockets of the French pair Billy Besson and Marie Riou, interest in the mixed multihull medal race for the Nacra 17s lay in the battle for silver and bronze. Australia's young guns Jason…
ISAF turns down technology. By Roger McMillan. After three days at this farce that has been the ISAF World Championships in Santander, I wrote an opinion piece about starting technology (see Related Content). It was prompted by a general recall…
The day was finally here August 14th 2014. We departed on our long awaited trip to the Med and beyond. The week before had seen Hurricane Bertha causing chaos along the British coast but the wind speed has dropped below…
As predicted we stayed in Lagos for several days as the wind was not playing the game, but this was a welcome rest. The marina is great but we learnt a few lessons. First of all it is best to…
Sept. 21, 2014, Chicago, USA – In a masterful display of tenacious match race sailing in today's blustery conditions, Taylor Canfield (ISV) US One has successfully defended his title to the Chicago Match Cup, the only US event on the…
“Total control” could have been the song playing in Will Ryan's headset this morning on his way to the boat park. That's what he and helm Mathew Belcher showed as they cruised to their second consecutive 470 world championship together….
Australia has always been a strong multihull nation, dominating the Olympic Tornado class for many years without every winning a gold medal. Now there are two new kids on the block and they have one of the masters playing catch-up….
Sept. 20, 2014, Chicago, USA – The Chicago Match Cup delivered conditions today true to its moniker as the Windy City, with the four top teams on the Alpari World Match Racing Tour leader board advancing to the Semi-Finals in…
Huon Yacht Club boat Obsession, Stan Pickering’s Doven 30, became the 46th winner of the Cock of the Huon on its home waters yesterday, heading a good day’s racing by local entrants. Obsession finished first on corrected time in Division…
The Mirror. By Jessica Best: Two Brits are missing after a hurricane in Mexico overturned the yacht they were living on. Paul Whitehouse and Simone Wood, from Wolverhampton and London, were in La Paz in Baja California when Hurricane Odile…
Tony Kirby’s Patrice has provisionally won the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Flinders Islet Race, but due to an error in her rating certificate, it is believed a revised certificate, due from the UK on Tuesday, will leave her outside…
Beau Outteridge shoots and edits great video for the Australian Sailing Team. Here he interviews Tom Burton, Mat Belcher and Will Ryan after their medal races. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEgRlgGQzAc&list=UU2twfPiK9-bCelP7Lr1trPw
Some lockers on Banyandah have names. That makes it easy when one of us asks ‘where is?’ I also have an Excel spreadsheet of ‘Banyandah’s stores’ which lists all food stores by each locker. Using Ctrl F (find) and the…
Australia has the full set of medals at the Santander ISAF World Championships after Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen were pipped fro silver in the 49er class by mere millimetres. Their bronze complements the gold won yesterday in the 470…
There was no relief from the testing conditions experienced all week at the ISAF World Championships in Santander, but most members of the Australian Sailing Team ended the day in their strongest position of the regatta. In every class there…
Do you ever get annoyed when a couple sits in a coffee lounge and one of them spends the whole time on their mobile phone, while the other sips coffee and looks bored? Well apparently there is a genuine use…
Sept. 19, 2014, Chicago, USA – Just when it mattered most, Bjorn Hansen (SWE) Hansen Sailing Team turned a near disastrous regatta around into the comeback of the event, winning his last four matches of the Repechage to earn the…
Within days of the Mersey Yacht Club Inc committee posting the availability of Expressions of Interest on the race website, the first entry was received from Victoria. Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria commodore, and 2011 Three Peaks winner, Charles Meredith…
ALICANTE, Spain – He’s had to wait two long years but French sailor Seb Marsset finally got the news he was waiting for with a call-up to the Team Alvimedica race crew for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 first leg…
We are on the hunt for young adventurous sailors, who we hope to send around the world in a little boat, all by themselves. Imagine the sights they would see, the people they could meet, the horizons they should cross…
The dramas of Australia's champion 470 crew of Mat Belcher and Will Ryan have been well documented over the past four days (see Related Content) but the cream always rises to the top. A second place and two bullets in…
Sept. 18, 2014, CHICAGO – As the breeze and waves built on the second day of the Qualifying Series at the Chicago Match Cup, so did the competitiveness as teams fought hard for the top four slots to automatically advance…
With the 70th edition of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race looming, a large and varied field of 28 boats is entered for Race 2 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Pointscore Series (BWPS) to start off Point…
CD-adapco, the largest privately held CFD focused provider of Computer Aided Engineering software, today announced its new partnership with Ben Ainslie Racing. The America’s Cup team will be utilizing the CD-adapco simulation tool, STAR-CCM+® in the design of its racing…
Rob Hanna’s TP52 Shogun V is back on the water after breaking their rig in the final round of the Southern Cross Cup in December. The yacht has undergone a major refit as well as replacing the rig. “We virtually…
While Australia seems to have had more than its fair share of bad decisions at the ISAF Worlds in Santander, they are certainly not alone. New Zealand and Finland joined them in a request for redress in the 470 and…
For the first time in five days, the weather looked promising at the Santander ISAF World Championships. The wind was blowing strongly at 10am and the race committee's ambitious target of 64 races in one day looked less laughable than…
For 30 years the Rolex Swan Cup has been attracting sailors to Porto Cervo for all kinds of reasons. Some love the cut-and-thrust of the racing, others enjoy the camaraderie of going sailing with close friends and family; then there is the…
Bushnell’s range of optics and gadgets encompasses a vast range of outdoor activities and the Marine is the latest set of binoculars tailored specifically for boating. Fully fog-proof and waterproof to stand up to the changing conditions on the water,…
Following on from the success of their Christmas Caribbean Rally (CCR) and Baltic 4 Nations Rally (B4N), Sailing Rallies announce the addition of two new events to their 2015/2016 events schedule: Antigua 2 Falmouth 2015 and the Spanish Rias Rally 2016….
Early on the morning of New Year’s Day 1894, the ocean-going steamships Manipouri and Oonah left Sullivan’s Cove with more than 2,000 passengers for Port Huon, keen to watch the regatta that included sailing races for two divisions of working…
Sept. 17, 2014, CHICAGO – As defending champions of the Chicago Match Cup, Taylor Canfield (ISV) US One today have shown they've lost none of their prowess at this venue, leading the pack in Day One of the Qualifying Series…
Taking a slender two point lead into the medal race at the ISAF World Championships, Australian Laser champion Tom Burton knew he had to sail the race of his life to win. But it was Dutchman Nicholas Heiner who handled…
Following the abandonment of most races yesterday owing to lack of wind, the race committee at the ISAF World Championships in Santander optimistically announced they would get 40 races completed today. They managed 23. And if mounting criticism by sailors…
The march of the multihulls into mainstream racing is gathering pace with more summer events than ever before set to cater for the NSW fleet. Last month’s Audi Hamilton Island Race Week enjoyed bumper numbers thanks to a rise in…
Jeanneau has announced a special offer on select models within the Sun Odyssey range with special prices under its 'Black Label' promotion. The Sun Odyssey 409 won the European Yacht of the Year Award upon its launch. Now available in…
After arguing their case until 1am this morning, the International Jury has found in favour of the Australian 470 mens pairing of Mat Belcher and Will Ryan. The Australians sought redress for a yellow flag handed to them for a…
The six America’s Cup teams have agreed to a project that will see the existing fleet of AC45 catamarans modified into fully foiling catamarans for racing in the America’s Cup World Series (ACWS). Importantly, the teams have also committed to…
As I have written extensively, the ISAF World Championships in Santander have been exceedingly difficult for race committees and sailors. Winds have fluctuated in strength and direction which makes setting a fair course almost impossible. Like most of the big…
It is just as well that Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen are the most laid-back sailors in the world. Almost anyone else would have been bashing their boat in frustration at the conditions they endured at the Santander ISAF World…
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