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NECN. By Kaitlin Flanigan: No one was injured after a 40-foot sailboat crashed into another boat and sank in Nantucket Harbor in Massachusetts Friday morning, authorities said. U.S. Coast Guard officials say the sailboat contacted the Harbormaster just before 11…
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has lodged a challenge for the 35th America’s Cup. Out-going Commodore Steve Burrett announced at the Squadron’s annual meeting last night that the challenge would go ahead. The Squadron will be represented by Emirates…
Race day four at the Gazprom Swan 60 World Championship saw both new and familiar faces at the front of the fleet. In shifty conditions with the wind from between 210° to 220° and pressure from 9 to 11 knots,…
The leaderboards across the ten events on show at the Aquece Rio – International Sailing Regatta 2014 are starting to take shape following four days of competition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Medal Race places have been decided in the…
COWES, England, August 7 – Five Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 boats will line up against each other in a dress rehearsal of the event proper when they compete in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race on Sunday. The race…
The Mantus anchor is a multi-purpose boat anchor now available in Australia and New Zealand from Marine Innovations. Distributors claim that over the past decade tests performed by various marine publications indicate that the new generation type boat anchors out-perform…
Coast Guard Victoria will establish a VHF Marine Distress & Monitoring service for the East Coast of Victoria from Point Hicks to Gabo Island in addition to the Flotilla operations at Mallacoota. Mallacoota will become a very popular boating…
Five Australian Sailing Team crews are in medal positions in five of the six classes with Australian representation, ahead of tomorrow’s first day of medal races at the Rio Olympic Test event, Aquece Rio – International Regatta 2014. After…
Bavaria Yachtbau and Nautitech Catamarans have finalised negotiations for the French catamaran manufacturer to be acquired by the Giebelstadt-based company. With this move, Bavaria expands its product portfolio of monohull yachts to include the growing market for catamarans and continues…
Scott Vogel, President of Composite Rigging, announced that the company is sponsoring the “ECsix T-Shirt Design Contest.” According to Vogel, “Everyone and anyone have a chance to win an expenses-paid “trip for two” to one of seven ports-of-call along the…
Daryl Wislang will be returning to the Volvo Ocean Race onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s Azzam with a point to prove after being named in Ian Walker’s race crew on Tuesday. The 33-year-old New Zealander’s call-up coupled with the appointment…
Entries are now open for the truly unique Governor’s Cup Yacht Race from False Bay Yacht Club near the historic Simon’s Town, South Africa to Jamestown, St Helena Island – one of the world’s best kept secrets. This exhilarating 1,700…
Lightwave Yachts will be officially launching its Lightwave 45 Maestro, at Raby Bay Harbour pontoon on Saturday 9 August at 11.30am. By making some modifications to its 45 model, the Lightwave team has created a 45 foot catamaran with a…
The rulebook? Race Director Jack Lloyd wrote it – and tells us why the new one-design boat isn't the only exciting change to this year's race… So, you’ve said goodbye to the pets. You’ve told your Facebook friends that you’re…
Today the fleet of the 33 Copa del Rey MAPFRE completed the two windward / leeward races scheduled for all classes. The wind arrived late in the central race course of the bay, where the Gaastra IRC 0, Barclays 52…
The wind arrived on time for its appointment at the Bay of Palma, and the fleet was able to fulfil the program sailing two races in its debut in the 33rd Copa del Rey MAPFRE. Finally 117 boats crossed the…
Porto Cervo, Italy. Monday 4th August 2014. While holidaymakers flock to Sardinia to enjoy stunning beaches and sweltering August temperatures, staff at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) are hard at work preparing for two major international regattas in September….
A close duel between past and present sailing managers of Bellerive Yacht Club on the Derwent today ended in a narrow win by Chris Sheehan in his Young 88, Saga, taking him to a commanding pointscore lead in the club’s…
Singapore will host the curtain-raiser to the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series world tour – the first of eight host venues across three continents to be revealed, confirmed Series organisers OC sport and Series main partner, Land Rover. The event will…
For Rio de Janeiro's thousands of tourists, Monday 4 August was the perfect day with a beating Brazilian sun, clear South American skies and the occasional gust of light breeze to cool down bathers on Copacabana Beach. Unfortunately, for…
After four days and seven races in bright sunshine, warm days and light winds the South Pacific Laser Masters regatta sailed at RQYS on Moreton Bay have concluded with wins by Kiwi’s Mat Blakey in the Standard rigs and Scott…
As the fleet size for Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2014 climbs towards the impressive mark of 180, it has been confirmed that this year there will again be two trophies on offer that any competing crew can win. These…
The Race Management Committee of the Royal Geelong Yacht Club has been burning the midnight oil to put together an entire month of sailing on Corio Bay, in January next year, with the Notice of Race released today. The New…
With a shift of manufacture to Xtreme Sailing Products based in Singapore, Weta Marine has taken the opportunity to improve its Weta trimaran. The design footprint is unchanged and the ‘one design’ rule will remain in place, but new moulds…
Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) has announced six additions to their British America’s Cup Challenge. The new team members will significantly strengthen BAR’s bid to bring the Cup back home to British waters. Britain’s Paul Campbell-James has joined the sailing team…
Finn and RS:X racing will kick off the Aquece Rio – International Sailing Sailing Regatta, the first test event of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Medal Race course, Pão de Açúcar, will be tested from the off…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club has a new Commodore and Vice Commodore following the 147th Annual General Meeting held on Sunday July 20, 2014. Ian Audsley was elected Commodore uncontested and Michael Lockley was elected Vice Commodore by the…
Sopot, Poland (3rd August 2014): Sopot Match Race, the latest event on the Alpari World Match Racing Tour, saw an impressive come-from-behind victory for British skipper Ian Williams’ GAC Pindar team on a day that seemed set to be sailed…
With the season about to kick off, the Victorian Tasars got together for the 2013/14 presentations. Between a highly competitive trivia quiz presented by Ronstan CEO Alistair Murray and a marshmallow/spaghetti building competition, most of the talk amongst the sailors…
Long-time Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron member Chris Morgan wondered pre-race if his boat’s number one berth allocation at the final resting point, at Keppel Bay Marina, could be an omen. Last night he and wife Bernadette’s 20 year-old J130 Ragtime…
Kingston, Ontario, Canada: A light wind day finished off the final series of the 29er World Championship on Lake Ontario for the 29er Worlds. After an hour postponement, the breeze filled in at noon to the class minimum of 4 knots….
Over 110 guests joined forces to help raise funds for the Indigenous Buoyed Up program at the annual Buoyed Up dinner last weekend and listened to Tom Slingsby, the ultimate sailor of the current age and mysailing.com.au website Editor, Roger…
Mark Hipgrave’s Beneteau First 36.7 called The Healer finished the Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race last in the fleet, at 5.30am this morning, Sunday August 3, 2014. On handicap it’s a very different story, the small Royal…
If the wind holds, by midnight tonight the 8th Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race should have a line honours victor in Bob Oatley’s supermaxi Wild Oats XI which is steadily chewing through the final 90 nautical miles…
On the eve of the Aquece Rio International Sailing Regatta 2014, the first Rio 2016 test event, a group of specialists have explained the measures being undertaken to ensure that water quality in Guanabara Bay is suitable for top-level competition,…
News.com.au: TWENTY-THREE Olympic medallists start trials on Saturday for the 2016 Rio Games in a bay littered with dead animals, television sets, sofas, shoes and not much clean water. More than 320 competitors from 34 countries will take part in…
The line honours victor is decided; now the handicap pursuit is on in the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron’s 8th Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race. Bob Oatley’s RP100 Wild Oats XI took line honours for the third time…
Highlights of World Champion Nathan Outteridge at the Moth Worlds, Hayman Island, UK, shot by Beau Outteridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3UrSSZDTyQ
Cowes, UK, 31 July 2014: The event's final day delivered more stunning, high adrenaline and incredibly close racing, with the three leading boats all in contention for the 140-year-old Gertrude Cup at the start of the final race. Jeremy Thorp…
The gentlemanly midday start of the 8th annual Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race on Moreton Bay for the record-equalling fleet of 35 yachts from Tasmania to Townsville was clean and quiet. This afternoon off Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast…
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