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One final windward/leeward race on Port Phillip in Melbourne decided the winners of Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron’s (RMYS) Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) today and Melbourne dished up another beautiful winter’s day on the water, one to be remembered. Claire…
Sabina Rosser has plenty of knowledge to impart and a wealth of stories to share when it comes to those sailing at the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) hosted premier event held since 1991….
Day 2 of racing in Act 4 of the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup closed out the 2023 series on Sydney’s Pittwater today. Hosts, the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, wisely opted to get racing away early at 9.30am, with…
Saturday, June 10, 2023, the 1st day of the 54th CISM World Military Sailing Championship started with five sailing races. The Greek crew “entering” very strongly to the Championship won the first race (R1-1) and ranked 3rd in the 3rd…
18ft skiffs return to Lake Garda Four top Australian 18ft skiff teams, representing the Australian 18 Footers League, will contest the 2023 Mark Foy Trophy regatta at Lake Garda, Italy from 26th-30th June when they take on the best of…
Manly 16ft Skiff Sailing Club and St George Sailing Club are increasing prize money for the 13ft and 16ft Skiff Classes and also offering generous subsidies for new and 2nd hand boats including the junior pathway classes of Flying 11s…
Press release No.10 – Sunday 11th June 2023 ONE OF A KIND The prize-giving for the CIC Normandy Channel Race took place at noon today in Caen. The Italo-French crew on Alla Grande Pirelli lifted the crown, rounding off this…
First day of inshore races for the fleet of 184 yachts of the Rolex Giraglia An early morning full of clouds covered Saint-Tropez but the sun broke out just as the impressive fleet of the Rolex Giraglia 70 began leaving…
WallyCento V takes the top spot in the Combined Performance & Cruising Class Porto Cervo, 10th June 2023. On the fourth and final day of the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta, the forecast breeze failed to arrive on the race course….
Leg 6 victory opens up a small margin on the race leaderboard for 11th Hour Racing Team The result was in doubt until the final moments of leg 6, with 11th Hour Racing Team along with Team Holcim-PRB and Team…
Magpie swoop second Etchells regatta in a row The third day of the International Etchells Australasian Championship was sailed on Sunday 11 June and despite the best efforts of their competitors, the team onboard AUS1486 Magpie skippered by Graeme Taylor,…
Two more races held at the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) and the competition has been so rife with the leaderboard changing after each race, that only one boat has retained its series lead going into tomorrow’s final race –…
The first day of the International Etchells Australasian Championship was exceptionally challenging with breeze from west, round to sou’east, and sou-west over the course of the day. “It was lovely Moolooalaba winter weather” said Malcolm Page, tactician on RacerCC currently…
ALLA GRANDE PIRELLI CROWNED WINNER OF THE 14TH CIC NORMANDY CHANNEL RACE After last night’s impassioned struggle around Le Raz Blanchard and a final sprint across the Baie de Seine, ultimately victory went to the Class40 Alla Grande Pirelli (181)…
Porto Cervo, 9th June, 2023. Today saw the third and penultimate day of racing at the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta. With wind from the south-east that built from an initial 10 knots to reach 15-16 knots, the Race Committee set…
VO65 crews are racing south from Norway turning mark towards a Sunday arrival in The Hague The last time The Ocean Race was in Kiel, was on 9 June, 2002, and the German team, illbruck, was being celebrated for winning…
Thursday 8th June 2023 LE RAZ BLANCHARD, THE GATEKEEPER The skippers in this 2023 edition of the CIC Normandy Channel Race are currently negotiating the sprint back up the English Channel. In reality, the situation is akin to a final…
As of 0530 this morning, Thursday 8th June; Charlene Howard and her co-skipper Bobby Drummond on board ‘AJ wanderlust’ are the first ever boat to have sailed in the Arctic circle during a Royal Western Yacht Club race or challenge….
Porto Cervo, 8th June 2023. The second day of the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta served up conditions that were even better than the excellent sailing weather the fleet enjoyed yesterday. The Southern Wind Division started at 11.30 a.m., with a…
IMOCAs head towards Friday afternoon Kiel fly-by, while VO65s push towards The Hague with Sunday ETA for both fleets… The Ocean Race returned to full strength in Aarhus, Denmark as the VO65 fleet rejoined the race for the European legs….
International Etchells 2023 Australasian Championship will be raced from the Mooloolaba Yacht Club (MYC) with eight races scheduled from 9-11 June 2023. World Champions and well-known sailors including Australia II skipper John Bertrand AO, who is also the current National…
THE SWARM IS BACKTeam Tilly – Australian Father/Son Combination Jervis & Louis LISTEN NOW The dynamic father and son combination taking Australian WASZP Sailing by storm. Jervis is the current President of the Australian WASZP Association and very proud Super-Master….
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, world champion sailors and founders of Live Ocean are joined by global ocean advocates as they step forward to speak about what they’re calling ‘the greatest cover up in history’ for World Ocean Day, 8…
Porto Cervo, 7th June 2023. The Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta got off to a perfect start today, the event is organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with the support of title sponsor Giorgio Armani, and is now in its…
With the Fastnet ticked off for most of the fleet, the Class40s are now making for the south-west tip of England. Squashed together, the duos competing in this CIC Normandy Channel Race are close-hauled so conditions aboard are much less…
At 800 nautical miles, Leg 6 may be the shortest of the race but it is also one of the most complex. From the start in Aarhus the fleet will head south for a fly-by in Kiel before turning north…
Prior to the last few editions of the Rolex Fastnet Race we have featured some of the key women competing in that year’s event, demonstrating how female participation in offshore yacht racing is very much alive at every level, albeit…
6 June 2023Tarifa, SpainWords: Ian MacKinnonPictures: Samuel Cárdenas With massive Levante winds forecast for Tuesday, the organisers hope to complete the men’s and women’s Twin-Tip competition and the men’s Surfboard contest to crown the world champions in each division. On…
LONDON – June 6, 2023 – Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex Group” or “The Group”), a global financial services provider, today announces a new three-year sponsorship deal with SailGP, the leading sustainable and purpose-driven global sports league. Apex Group becomes the…
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND (June 6, 2023) — The curtain on the Midtown Cup is officially open. Don Wilson and his Convexity team have been crowned champions of the first event in the American summer series. In hauntingly similar fashion to…
Tuesday 6th June 2023 The bulk of the fleet in this 14th CIC Normandy Channel Race has now rounded the Tuskar Rock course mark. Alla Grande Pirelli (181) had the edge at the south-east tip of Ireland after being the…
Barcelona, 6 June 2023 – The Swiss challenger for the America’s Cup kicked-off its match racing training in Barcelona today on the 37th America’s Cup race course just a few days after christening its second AC40 one design. The team…
Newport, R.I. — By weight, the 12 Metre Modern class might be the biggest one-design fleet at the 169th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta, which kicks off this Friday off Newport, R.I. While just four boats are expected to…
Virtually all the CIC Normandy Channel Race fleet has now reached Land’s End. After a tactical passage along the south coast of England, Groupe SNEF’s strategic decision to hunt down more breeze offshore before heading back to the coast to…
Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club 17th July to 1st August 2025 – Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK 5 June 2023, RORC LONDON: The Admiral’s Cup is back for 2025 and will be held biennially thereafter by the Royal…
by Miranda Blazeby, SailGP Digital Editor The fleet racing performances of SailGP’s nine strong F50 fleet throughout the 11-event calendar of Season 3 have been revealed thanks to SailGP Insights. Looking at individual fleet race wins, season runner-up New Zealand…
After two days of good racing, Lake Geneva was in a lighter mode for today’s final, with the temperamental southwesterly Joran wind failing to reach more than 5 knots all morning due to an impending storm forming. When the wind…
After a little less than a week on show in the port of Caen in northern France, the crews were more than excited to put pedal to the metal! In teams of two, ultimately some 60 sailors set sail today…
A great day of In Port racing in Aarhus highlighted by two comeback winners The sun was shining on Sunday, as it has been throughout the entire Aarhus stopover, and that meant a building sea breeze would be the order…
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Australian Sailing Awards, with the annual state events set to recognise clubs and members in all States and Territories for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the sailing community over the past year….
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