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It’s been an eventful week throughout the fleet. The last entrant Ian Herbert-Jones restarted yesterday from Chile joining the Chichester Class. While in the Northern Hemisphere, at the other end of the fleet stretching 4,000 miles, the battle for first…
Nobody can break free on final push towards a Sunday finish Tension, exhaustion, and extreme emotional swings through elation and despair. That’s likely to be the mood on board Team Holcim-PRB and Team Malizia all the way to the finish…
Dale Mitchell and his crew on Rex, the ORMA 60 multihull from Queensland, early this morning broke the multihull record in the 2023 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race – by 5 seconds – it seemed to suit the occasion…
LATEST UPDATE – New Race Multihull Record …REX finished 06:08:00 this morning. A lovely 8-10 knot westerly marked the start of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s 37th Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race, when it started off Barrenjoey Headland…
Aussie to conquer 14,000km solo Pacific Ocean row on April 3 Solo rower Michelle Lee to land at the Cairns Marlin Marina in Queensland, Australia on April 3 at 9am AEST after rowing for almost eight months across the Pacific…
To get to Marseilles first you have to go through Palma An armada of Australians is set to descend on Palma’s famous Trofeo Princes Sofia Regatta, where the best Olympic Class sailors from around the world will lock horns to…
Offshore yacht racing’s greatest evolution recently has been the rise of doublehanding. No better demonstration of this is there than the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s 50th Rolex Fastnet Race, which sets sail from Cowes bound for Cherbourg on 22 July:…
Competitors endorse Sail Port Stephens changes in numbers The adage ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ was ringing in the minds of Sail Port Stephens organisers after 15 successful years, however the decision to revamp the regatta formula for…
Milan, 30 March 2023 – weCANfoil, powered by the Canada SailGP Team and RBR, received the prestigious award for the ‘Best Foiling Pathway Project’ at the Foiling Awards yesterday evening in Milan. The Canada SailGP Team launched weCANfoil in spring…
The start of The Ocean Race created over 1,200 full-time jobs in Spain and attracted more than 300,000 visitors during the opening period of Ocean Live Park in Alicante Puerto de Salida. The organisers of The Ocean Race and the…
Superyacht Cup Palma is celebrating an influx of entries since the recent publication of the Notice of Race detailing the 27th edition of Europe’s longest-running superyacht regatta, which this year offers a new 90ft Class aimed at smaller performance-orientated cruiser-racers….
Top pair engaged in close quarters battle off the coast of Argentina… As the calendar ticks over to the 33rd day of competition on Leg 3 of The Ocean Race, Team Malizia and Team Holcim-PRB are as close as ever….
This December, we have an exciting opportunity to travel out of State for the first time since 2019/20 for a Cherub National Championship regatta. Not only is this a great chance to challenge yourself, meet the Western Australian Cherub contingent,…
Since the first regatta in 1938, twenty one countries have been represented by some of their best sailing talent as they attempted to win the world’s greatest 18ft skiff championship, the JJ Giltinan World’s 18 footer Championship. So far, only…
SANCTUARY COVE INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW 25 – 28 MAY 2023 Our next brand-new Catana Bali 4.4 catamaran, “Halyna” is currently on the way to Oz from France. She will be at the Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show on Pier E….
When the gun fires sending the fleet on its way in the 2023 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race at 1pm, on Friday 31 March, Andoo Comanche’s crew will be chasing the race record of 17 hours 10 minutes 31…
All four boats are now in the Atlantic again, leaving the south behind, with Malizia at the head of the fleet Team Malizia continues to head the leaderboard in leg 3 of The Ocean Race after leading the fleet around…
World Sailing has appointed four-time British Paralympian Hannah Stodel as the new Para World Sailing Manager. In this role, Hannah will oversee the promotion and development of Para Sailing with the objective of achieving reinstatement to the Paralympic Games. She…
The Mallorcan regatta, which will be held from 29 March to 8 April on the Bay of Palma, marks the start of a crucial season for the teams in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 52nd edition…
The German team rule the south, leading past the iconic Cape Horn and winning the Roaring Forties trophy Team Malizia, who were contemplating a return to Cape Town after mast damage in the first days of leg 3, and who…
Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club (QCYC) is gearing up for its annual Queenscliff Cup and Commodore’s Trophy regatta to be contested over the Easter weekend 8-10 April 2023, an inclusive event, providing five races in an Open Division (Division 1) for…
The fleet is expected to make Drake Passage and Cape Horn on Monday After 48 hours of building wind and seas, with gusts over 40 knots and waves approaching 7 metres, conditions are starting to moderate on Sunday with the…
David Doherty’s Matador, the reigning TP52 Gold Cup champion, has taken victory on countback in Act 1 of the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup, two further windward/leeward races deciding the winner on the Manly Circle today. The day’s third and…
The Race of a Lifetime Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) together with the Royal Akarana Yacht Club (RAYC) invite competitors to participate in the Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race 2023. A dramatic and compelling new ocean (and we mean…
It’s the final weekend in southern latitudes, in the waters the sailors in The Ocean Race call The Southern Ocean. In these Furious 50s, the winds and waves are on a one way track from west to east around Antarctica,…
Sebastian Bohm and his Smuggler crew fired up on Day 1 of Act 1 in the 2023 Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup series, first, third and second places giving the local crew a narrow one point lead over reigning champion,…
Kylie Vaiciurgis and Sarah Roberts sailing 2074 Lookin’ Good took out the Vaikobi 60th NSW NS14 State Championships over the weekend of 18/19 March 2023. The event was sailed on the very challenging Hastings River at Port Macquarie in the…
Cape Horn is just over 1000 miles away, but they will be hard-earned miles… The teams have the end of the hardest part of the longest leg in the history of The Ocean Race in sight. An epic drone ‘movie’…
What started out as an idea has now come to fruition. The inaugural Harbour Classic starts on Friday 31st March with a welcome party followed by race day on Saturday April 1st 2023. Based on the famous Barcolana Regatta in…
This weekend will be the first Hobie 14 WA State Championships since 1993. Still hugely popular around the world, the Hobie 14 just took a bit of a break in Australia, but this season the class is making its big…
Way before the start of the Golden Globe Race in Les Sables d’Olonne, the last stretch to Cape Horn was always a concern for Ian Herbert-Jones (GBR) It became more of a worry for him in the South Atlantic when…
The weather is forecast to provide one final taste of Southern Ocean conditions on the approach to Cape Horn. For 50 years of The Ocean Race, sailors have considered the Southern Ocean leg, the racing that takes place between Cape…
The Canadians bested hosts New Zealand and season leaders Australia in the Final to secure victory, earning driver Phil Robertson a deserved win on his home waters. Despite falling at the last hurdle and losing in the Final, neither the…
The 2023 Oceania & Australian Masters Championships were held at the Bay Sailing Centre Soldiers Point on Port Stephens from 10-13 March (it has taken me this long to recover!). The fleets were split with ILCA 7+5, then the ILCA…
Berthing for yachts and big multihulls for the 35th edition of Airlie Beach Race Week has been exhausted, as entries reach 100 early on, but organisers at Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) encourage other possible entries to try and source independently….
Woollahra Sailing Club take out the NSW Sailing League Metro Qualifier securing themselves 1 of the 4 remaining spots for the NSW Sailing League Final Woollahra Sailing Club earn themselves 1 of the 4 remaining spots in the NSW Sailing…
It’s a drag race towards Cape Horn with the weather beginning to turn The Ocean Race fleet passed Point Nemo just after 17:30 UTC on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the most remote and isolated place on the ocean in their wake….
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: A fleet of 47 offshore racing yachts will line up to make sailing history when they contest Australia’s second oldest blue water yacht race – the Gladstone Ports Corporation 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race (B2G) which sets…
Words: Ian MacKinnonPhotos: Lukas K Stiller The US’s Moona Whyte seized victory at the first GWA Wingfoil World Cup dedicated to pure surfing, staged on the world-renowned Ponta Preta break on Cape Verde’s Sal island. It was the American’s second…
Story by Ben Jones Mornington Yacht Club hosted the 2023 Optimist Dinghy Victorian Championships over the Labour Day long weekend. 78 entries were spread across three Optimist fleets with competitors coming from WA, SA, Tasmania, NSW and all over Victoria….
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