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Sailing is certainly a sport for all ages, as was demonstrated in Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron racing on the Harbour last Saturday when the helmspersons competing ranged from a 13-year-old girl Optimist sailor moving up to the Yngling class to…
The countdown is on for one of Australia’s oldest sporting events, the Festival of Sails run by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. First held in 1844, the Festival of Sails is older than the Sydney to Hobart, the Americas Cup…
ORACLE TEAM USA will race in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Bermuda with the same crew that earned a second place finish in Gothenburg, Sweden in August. “We’re going with the same line-up as last time,” confirmed skipper…
RC44s are not supposed to race at night, but after a windless, race-free opening day at the RC44 Cascais World Championship and a windless morning today, Principal Race Officer Peter Reggio was not going to miss an opportunity. The sea…
Wendy Tuck, the Sydney Skipper of team Da Nang-Viet Nam, has arrived into Rio de Janeiro’s Marina da Gloria at the end of the 5,200 mile race which left London, UK a month ago. Wendy, 50, the first Australian female…
The winner of the first leg of the Clipper Race, LMAX Exchange has run aground 42 miles southwest of Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro while transitting to another marina to have new hull branding applied. Clipper Ventures advises…
As reported in mysailing last week, Performance Boating Sales founder Ron Jacobs has sold his share to co-director Lee Condell. With the move now finalised Lee is looking for a salesperson to fill the void and get busy selling more…
Production boat builders appear to be settling down on design for the popular range of boats under twelve metres (40 feet). Chines, wide transoms, twin wheels and twin rudders are becoming de rigeur for both cruising and racing. In fact…
Marine Rescue NSW is marking the official start of the summer boating season this long weekend with the launch of its biggest fundraising campaign yet, the Great Outdoor Getaway Art Union. Supporters of MRNSW can enter the draw for a…
As we have witnessed in Race 1, after racing more than 5000 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean, and at times travelling at speeds of 20 plus knots, the conditions around Cabo Frio have seen the ocean racing teams grind…
With less than three weeks until the start of the 36th Rolex Middle Sea Race on Saturday, 17 October, over 100 teams from 22 nations are preparing for another historic edition of the most important offshore race in the Mediterranean….
It was a gusty race course for day one of Marseille One Design, the concluding event of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour 2015. The 2012 Olympic Champion Nathan Outteridge was quick to get to grips with starting the GC32 on…
If there was one venue on the 2015 RC44 championship circuit with a reputation for regular wind, it would be Cascais. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of Portugal's Tagus River, the venue is pretty and offers friendly…
At 6.30am EST, Australian Katrina Ham was one of five Mini sailors still at sea. She had just over 100nm to sail. Here's the media release from the organisers: The pontoons that previously seemed strangely empty, with the notable exception…
Bob Oatley’s record-holding Wild Oats XI relevantly became the 50th entry received by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia for the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, and the third super maxi to enter the 71st edition of the iconic…
An exciting new sailing competition, the Metre Series, using the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s new fleet of Elliott 6 sports boats, will be held on Hobart’s River Derwent this summer as part of Thursday evening twilight racing. Inspired and…
Despite there being seven boats still racing, it has been an anxious 24 hours for Clipper Race followers with up to four teams opting to activate Stealth Mode over the same period. This is a tactical rule introduced by the…
With winds forecast as gusting well into the 20s mid-week and over the weekend, Marseille One Design looks set to provide a drama-laden conclusion to the 2015 Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour. Racing for the five teams starts at 1200 on…
London, UK (29th September 2015): With Bermuda being home to the 35th America’s Cup, on 6-11 October, 16 skippers will once again be fighting it out to win another of match racing’s most prestigious events, the Argo Group Gold Cup….
St-Barth, September 29, 2015 – Partners in life and on the water, Darren Bundock and Carolijn Brouwer are heading back to the St-Barth Cata Cup. Having both competed in the event on two separate occasions, Carolijn in 2012 and Darren…
Selden GX is a furling system for gennakers/asymmetric spinnakers developed and manufactured by Selden. It makes for convenient and safe handling of your downwind sail and it makes your boat faster and your sailing experience more enjoyable.
Effective immediately Doyle Whangarei will no longer be operating as part of the Doyle Sails group. The former Doyle Whangarei loft will now be run under a different parent group with no access to Stratis or any of the Doyle…
The Bureau of Meteorology has made near real-time imagery from the Japanese Himawari-8 satellite available to the public from today via its new web viewer. Himawari-8 is currently the most advanced dedicated weather satellite in the world. Bureau Director…
They arrived in flurries in the port of Arrecife on the western coast of the island of Lanzarote. Little by little, the Mini-ists moored their monohulls alongside those of their friends. It was a chance to go over the course,…
After 5600 nautical miles of racing, four teams made it to the Marina da Gloria yesterday within 14 hours of each other. Winners LMAX Exchange had to wait 36 hours to greet second placed Qingdao, but it was followed by…
Twelve strong and seasoned RC44 teams are prepared to contend for the 2015 RC44 Cascais World Championship, taking place from the 30 September to 4 October at the Clube Naval de Cascais. A favourite among sailors for the reliable wind…
A highly varied fleet with fascinating competitors will set off on 28th November from Lanzarote – the most eastern island in the Canary Islands chain – bound for the island of Grenada in the Caribbean in the RORC Transatlantic Race, organised…
Australian Martin Hill steered his Estate Master to fourth, 10th and fifth places at the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds at Long Beach, California today, to remain in sixth place overall on an otherwise fluctuating leaderboard. Estate Master’s results do by…
Less than one week to go and organisers in Gstaad and St Tropez are working on the final details to welcome some of the most stunning centenarian yachts still sailing, lining up for the 2015 edition of the Gstaad Yacht…
After two years of finishing runners-up, the best of five final on the deciding day of the Australian Women’s Match Racing Championship 2015 went to Milly Bennett and her Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club crew. Bennett’s team lined up for the sudden death final flight with Clare Costanzo (RPAYC), the two teams dead even on…
Over the weekend Australian Sailing editor Kimberley Wilmot tied the knot with long-time beau Paul Montague. Yaffa Media and especially its sailing team, wish all the best for Mrs. and Mr. Montague as they prepare for that long cruise through…
Martin Hill and his Estate Master crew may not have won the 2015 Rolex Farr 40 World Championship, but the Australians finished on a high note by winning the final race off Long Beach, California today. Estate Master finished the…
The Nacra 17 European Championship will kick-off in Barelona, Spain today with Olympic silver medallists Darren Bundock (NSW) and Nina Curtis (NSW) representing the Australian Sailing Team. Hosted at the Barcelona International Sailing Center (BISC) 43 teams from 24 countries…
The Citizen (South Africa): A sinking yacht with seven crew on board was successfully towed to shore after hitting a whale in False Bay on Saturday, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said. NSRI Simonstown duty crew were activated…
Race one of the Grant Thornton Short Ocean Pointscore and race two of the Grant Thornton Short Haul Pointscore Series was contested today in rough and choppy conditions just outside the Heads. While the wind was nowhere near as strong…
Perseverance, attention, focus, self-confidence and maybe a little bit of luck were needed today to decipher every puff and shift on the race area. Despite granting a great show to the many spectators crowded on the beach and on the…
Davy Beaudart (Flexirub) winner of the first stage of the Mini Transat Iles de Guadeloupe, crossed the finish line today, Saturday 26th September at 10:34:46 local time. The solo skipper sailing on Flexirub took 6 days 19 hours 04 minutes…
Martin Hill and the Estate Master crew settled in today sailed more consistently to fifth and fourth places in Races 4 and 5 respectively. Following a reasonable start in Race 6 and rounding the top mark in the top six,…
First to cross the finish line in the Atlantic Trade Winds Race to Rio was LMAX Exchange at 1718 UTC yesterday, having led the Clipper Race fleet for most of the first leg from London. Among the rest of the…
As of 0900 UTC (midnight AEST), Race 1 leader LMAX Exchange is only 43 nautical miles from the finish line and should be berthing in Marina da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro, tonight. Following Garmin’s decision to go into stealth mode, it remains in…
At the head of their classes, Davy Beaudart (Flexirub) in the prototypes and Ian Lipinski (Entreprises Innovantes) in the series class, continue to widen the gaps in the last hours of the first stage of the Mini Transat îles de…
It took a while for the breeze to set, but at around 1300 a good wind set over the Bay of Cannes and the Golfe Juan enabling the two fleets to dock out, headed to their respective race areas. The…
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