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For only the second time in its 183 year history, the Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta has been cancelled. Organisers made the difficult decision to cancel tomorrow’s event after a crisis meeting this morning, following the devastating floods on Friday night…
It was breeze on in Miami for Day 2 of the 2023 Finn Gold Cup. After four races now sailed, Ed Wright, from Britain, extends his lead while Domonkos Nemeth, from Hungary stays in second. European champion, Miguel Fernandez Vasco,…
Day 6 Race 9 The final day of the Ronstan 505 Australian Championships was more of the same, light gradient breezes, but this time just slightly more breeze than yesterday. 505’s love a breeze. They plane upwind and down, and…
The penultimate day of racing on the waters of the Canary Islands finished with all the scheduled races completed once again. The top 10 will compete at the Medal Series. Sam Sills (GBR) and Sharon Kantor (ISR) have progressed directly…
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Friday, 27th of January 2023At 1815 UTC 27th January 1200 miles Northwest of Cape Horn, Simon Curwen contacted GGR control to advise of the total failure of his Hydrovane steering gear. He had weathered the worst…
Any yachting enthusiast worth their money would remember Victorian yachting legend, Lou Abrahams and Vittoria, the Sparkman and Stephens yacht he commissioned to replace his first offshore racing yacht, Odin. Built by the famous Cec Quilkey at Taren Point in…
Day 5, Race 8 by Jordan Spencer Ooff… there is nothing worse than grovelling around in the bottom of a dinghy on a light wind, drifter day, unless of course that day is humid… The wind did not co-operate today….
Day 2 at the Festival of Sails was one for a light touch on the helm, concentration to the max, weight to leeward and enjoy a beautiful warm day on Corio Bay – blue sky above with not a cloud…
18ft SkiffsAustralian Championship, Races 1 & 2Race Sponsor: AndooToday’s Trophy: Commodore CupFriday, 27 January, 2023Sydney Harbour Racing on Day 1 of the 2022-23 Australian 18ft Skiff Championship was conducted over two two-lap windward-leeward courses in a 10-12 SSE wind on…
Day 4 Races 6 and 7 Winning major regattas is hard…. Day 4 of the Ronstan Australian 505 Championships had the prospect for more wind. There was blue sky and the breeze started filling in early. The race start had…
Massive first day at the 45th Windsurfer Class Championships of Australia by Vaikobi.5 course races down and dusted in challenging 8-14 knots with the trick to link up the pressure.Racing was intense and close across the board with tight battles…
Sharon Kantor (ISR), new female leader of the Lanzarote iQFOil Games. Sam Sills (GBR), #1 for 3rd day in a row The first event of 2023 for the new Olympic foiling windsurfing discipline reached its halfway point today with a…
Alan Woodward’s Reverie has been declared the overall winner of the 180th Passage Race, the opener for Royal Geelong Yacht Club’s 2023 Festival of Sails. The win means a lot to Woodward, as his and Reverie’s names will be added…
Zen, owned by Gordon Ketelbey, took line honours in Royal Geelong Yacht Club’s 180th Passage Race today, finishing the 34 nautical mile course at 1.13.17pm in the time of 3 hours 43 minutes 17 seconds in the opener to Royal…
Pilar Lamadrid (ESP) and Sam Sills (GBR) managed on to their respective leads at the top of the general classification after a very demanding day on the waters of the Canary Island of Lanzarote. It was a great day too…
The historic 180th Passage Race heralds the opening of the 2023 Festival of Sails this morning, when the cannon is fired at 9.30am sending huge fleet on its way to Geelong in the 34 nautical mile race. Starting off Williamstown,…
The Finn class has descended on Miami for the 2023 Finn Gold Cup with fabulous conditions on Biscayne Bay over the past few days. Much of the fleet have been out training, welcomed into the water by a local manatee,…
Written by Katia Damborsky, Boat International Interest in a new type of HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) fuel for superyachts has spiked, according to reports from engine manufacturer Caterpillar and the fuel’s producer, Fioul 83. The diesel alternative, which is marketed…
Day 3 Races 4 and 5 Well, I promised breeze for day 3 and I lied. The beautiful sunny conditions Qld is renowned for were blocked by cloud all day. As a result, the thermal didn’t eventuate, and racing was…
After being buffeted by strong trade winds for the duration of the short stopover, the waters off Mindelo, Cabo Verde were relatively calm on Wednesday for the start of Leg 2 of The Ocean Race. The short stopover marked the…
Spain’s World ranked number one female Pilar Lamadrid (ESP) and GBR’s Sam Sills made the best starts to the Lanzarote iQFOil Games. Lamadrid leads the women’s field after a solid opening day whilst Sills proved unbeatable winning all four of…
Ocean surface currents are the movement of water at the surface of the ocean. These currents are driven by a variety of factors, including wind, tides, and the Earth’s rotation. They can be divided into two main categories: wind-driven currents…
After a week of solid trade wind action in Cabo Verde, the forecast for the start of Leg 2 is much more benign – light NE winds of 5 to 8 knots. In fact, the weakening trade winds are likely…
Entries have opened for Superyacht Cup Palma, the highlight of the Mediterranean superyacht calendar, with the Notice of Race now available for the 21-24 June celebration of sail. Over a dozen prospective entries have declared an interest in joining the…
Day 2 Races 1-3 It was a busy day today for the 505 fleet. The race committee went for three races in anticipation of some difficult conditions later in the week. As expected, conditions were similar to yesterday, but this…
The 20th anniversary edition of NZ’s biggest multi-day keelboat regatta – Bay of Islands Sailing Week – begins with Registration today. Racing will take place throughout the spectacular Bay of Islands over three days from Wednesday 25th to Friday 27th…
Day 1 – the Invitation race Like any good invitation race, you take what you want from the form on display. What they do well is open the door to speculation. As expected, conditions were pretty mild. 8 knots from…
Luke Reinehr and the crew on his S80, Intrusion, will arrive at Royal Geelong Yacht Club’s Festival of Sails with a target on their backs, having won their 15th Victorian S80 Championship on Port Phillip last week. Intrusion won five…
At The Ocean Race Summit Mindelo, the UN chief added: “Working as one, it is a race we can win” ‘Ending the ocean emergency is a race we must win, and working as one, it is a race we can…
JOHANNESBURG, 19 January 2023 – St Helena Island may be one of the most remote inhabited islands on the planet, but for the crews who have just tackled the 2022 Cape to St Helena yacht race, it’s been a thrilling…
Cruising the Queensland Coast is a cruising guide for yachts cruising the Queensland coast, written by Greg Luck, the owner of Curlew Escape. Each of the 13 coasts, from the Gold Coast to the Cooktown Coast, is covered in detail,…
The 2023 Ronstan Australian Championships start today at Darling Point Sailing Squadron in Manly Queensland, (the one with the blue roof). Like many classes, it has been a while since the 505 have been able to conduct a National Championships…
It says a lot about Sail Racing’s ambitions and expectations that a top 10 finish at the Australian 16ft Skiff Championships came with a tinge of disappointment. The Felix Grech-skippered boat finished a creditable sixth overall after winning heat two…
Sunday 22nd January, Grenada: Marie Tabarly’s 73ft ketch Pen Duick VI (FRA) finished the RORC Transatlantic Race on Sunday 22nd January in an elapsed time of 13 days 19 hours 33 mins 53 secs. Proudly displaying the flag of the…
An usually very light wind week in Miami, Florida, for the first event of the 2023 Youth Foiling Gold Cup, the 69F series reserved for the Under25 sailors. The eight teams attending, representing six nations, were only able to enjoy…
As Paul Meilhat’s Biotherm (fourth place) and Benjamin Dutreux’s GUYOT environnement – Team Europe (fifth place) completed the IMOCA rankings overnight, the Dutch Team JAJO earned a strong second place finish in The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint, behind Poland’s WindWhisper…
NSW Championship, Race 5Race Sponsor: Fisher & PaykelSunday, 22 January, 2023Sydney Harbour The Andoo team of John Winning Jr, Seve Jarvin and Sam Newton officially became the 2022-23 NSW 18ft Skiff champions after today’s final race of the championship was…
11th Hour Racing Team secures second place over Team Malizia French skipper Kevin Escoffier led his Swiss-flagged Team Holcim-PRB to victory in leg one of The Ocean Race in the early hours of Saturday morning. It marked the end of…
Over the summer holidays in Australia, the 50th Australian Hobie Cat National Championships took place in Jervis Bay, NSW; home of the 20th Hobie 16 World Championships. The eight day regatta hosted a total of 130 entries, the largest multihull…
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Friday, 20th of January 2023With Elliott out of the race and Jeremy beaten by barnacles, there are now just five contenders left for the GGR trophy in Les Sables d’Olonne and two sailors in Chichester Class…
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