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It’s all about the numbers for this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with entries in the 70th edition of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s blue water classic swelling to 50, including classic yachts such as Love & War…
New technology is changing the face of sailing, rapidly. It seems that every week a new foiling boat concept pops up or an alternative wingsail product enters the market. Yet amidst all this development, offshore racing classes are turning one-design…
Nominations are now open in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Ocean Racer of the Year Awards. The awards will be announced on Thursday 11 December 2014 and the CYCA welcomes nominations from fellow offshore clubs that have suitable candidates…
The world’s longest ocean race, uniquely for amateur sailors – the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is now 70% full for the 2015-16 edition, following a surge of crew sign-ups. The 40,000 mile, eleven month long event, known as…
COWES, Isle of Wight, August 16 (Volvo Ocean Race) – Ian Walker’s Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing fired a huge warning shot across the bows of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 fleet with a record-breaking monohull victory in the Sevenstar Round…
The wait is over for Spindrift racing. On stand-by since the beginning of June, Dona Bertarelli, Yann Guichard and the rest of the team will abandon their attempt to break the Crewed North Atlantic Record on August 15th and prepare…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club at Newport on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has announced a new format for its opening event of the 2015 Australian offshore yachting calendar. The club is offering owners of eligible boats a new trimmed-down race…
Vestas, the world’s leading wind energy company, was today announced as the seventh and final boat for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Six-time world champion Chris Nicholson, who will be contesting his fifth race, will skipper the boat and work…
COWES, England – Five Volvo Ocean Race boats are currently neck and neck in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland race, which began at 0900 this morning. The fleet of Volvo Ocean 65s is leading the monohulls as they exit…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The 384 nautical mile Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race came to an end at 03:02:44:06 yesterday afternoon when the 11.2 metre long Mortgage Choice Rumba, crossed the Main Beach, Southport finish line to rousing applause from other finishers…
Sam Hayne’s Celestial has been declared winner of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 384 nautical mile Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race this afternoon. When told of his win, Haynes, representing the CYCA in Sydney said: “It’s…
Four yachts remain at sea in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 384 nautical mile Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race this morning, with the last one expected to cross the Main Beach, Southport line shortly after 3.00pm…
Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats XI, skippered by Mark Richards, claimed a good line honours victory in the 384 nautical mile Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race at15.27.47 hours today, in the time of 26 hours 27 minutes and 47…
Sam Haynes has sailed his Rogers 46, Celestial, to what looks to be an unassailable position to win the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race this morning. Celestial, which moved into first place in…
Despite its carbon fibre hydrofoil wing breaking off while surfing down waves at speeds in the early hours of this morning, the Mark Richards skippered Wild Oats XI is on the run in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Land…
The best Volvo Ocean Race boats run like well-oiled machines, each cog and gear working in tandem with the next. But when adrenaline begins to run dry, and hunger sets in, it’s important that there is enough fuel to keep…
Since crossing the finish line at 02:05:18 HST on Saturday 19 July the crew of Scarlet Runner, have been cautiously celebrating their provisional race results. Although 1st place in their Latitude 38 division looked likely for Robert Date's Reichel/Pugh 52,…
ALICANTE, Spain, July 16 – Three Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 crews – Team SCA, Team Brunel and the Spanish challengers – will go head-to-head in the first competitive clash of the new one-design Volvo Ocean 65s in the Round Canary…
– Iker Martínez will again be leading the Spanish challenge for the Volvo Ocean Race in 2014-15, his team confirmed today. The 37-year-old Basque sailor, who has just been crowned European champion in the Nacra 17 multihull class, is looking…
At the close of entries for the Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, a diverse fleet of 57 yachts are readying for what doubles as the opening race of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Point Score…
Winning boat Henri Lloyd and the Clipper Race fleet have returned to a heroes’ welcome in London eleven months after setting off. Having conquered Mother Nature’s toughest conditions during the 40,000 mile ocean odyssey, the team was victorious in the…
The Clipper Race fleet has departed The Netherlands in the final stage of the world’s longest and toughest ocean race, which returns to London this Saturday (12 July) after covering more than 40,000 miles between six continents over eleven months….
ALICANTE, Spain, July 10 – Two rival Volvo Ocean Race crews have set out for transatlantic crossings from Newport, Rhode Island to the United Kingdom this week as preparations for the event start in October continued to heat up. Abu…
ALICANTE, Spain, July 7 – Eight new crew for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 were today unveiled in separate announcements from Team Alvimedica and the Spanish Team challengers. The Team Alvimedica crew will include Italian Alberto Bolzan, American Nick Dana,…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC) has announced Wednesday 25th March 2015 as the date for the start of next year’s Sydney to Mooloolaba Yacht Race. The race will again welcome both monohull and multihull entries for the 468 mile coastal…
Tasmanian yacht Alive this morning smashed the race record for the 1885 nautical mile ocean race across the South Pacific from Melbourne to Port Vila, the port capital of the tropical islands of Vanuatu. Owned by Phillip Turner and skippered…
By noon today, the Tasmanian yacht Alive should be just 300 nautical miles from the finish of the Melbourne to Vanuatu ocean race. Alive, owned by Philip Turner and skippered by Duncan Hine, both members of Hobart’s Derwent Sailing Squadron,…
Henri Lloyd has won its fifth race of the Clipper, the leg from Derry-Londonderry to Den Helder, The Netherlands, the fleet’s penultimate stopover before the London homecoming. The win is the team’s ninth podium overall and Canadian skipper Eric Holden…
ALICANTE, Spain, July 4 – Spain’s new entry for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 arrived in its home country this week as offshore sailing’s biggest event began its 100-day countdown to the start on October 4. Iker Martinez and Xabi…
Celebrations here in WSC Clubhouse as David Ryan and his crew cross the line at 18:25 this evening. The crew, very tired but very happy, came ashore in great form and, after enjoying a massive local welcome, have retired to…
The Clipper 2013-14 Round the World Yacht Race fleet is closing in on Den Helder in the Netherlands with the first yachts expected to arrive at the dock around 08:00 (local time, UTC/GMT +2) on Friday 4 July. Henri Lloyd…
Experience was ultimately the key for the winner of the 2014 La Solitaire du Figaro Eric Bompard cachemire which finished into Cherbourg Octeville Wednesday. The 38-year-old Jérémie Beyou who won the fourth and final stage of the race was joined…
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