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The annual Queen of the Harbour (originally known as the ‘Queen of the Waves’) is one of the most important events to the Australian 18 Footers League and has a history almost as long as the League itself. Next Sunday’s…
On what could have been the final day of the 36th America’s Cup, the defenders Emirates Team New Zealand won an exciting first race that featured a number of lead changes. It wasn’t until they sailed into a big right-hander…
Several past 18ft Skiff champions returned to the class on Friday when they skippered boats from the Australian 18 Footers League's 2020-2021 Season fleet in the annual 'Supercup' series on Sydney Harbour. A 12-16 knot south-east breeze allowed each team…
Australian Sailing has confirmed that the Australian Yachting Championships will be returning to Hamilton Island for the next two years. The 2021 and 2022 editions of the event will be hosted by Hamilton Island Yacht Club (HIYC) as a part…
With an encouraging level of interest from owners and skippers, organisers are optimistic the 25th anniversary of Europe’s longest-running superyacht regatta will attract a competitive range of entries. Organisers have put the focus firmly on the racing in the Bay…
Nearly every Vendée Globe, including this ninth edition, has delivered a sting in the tail of one sort or another to unfortunate solo skippers. While the most damaging this time was Boris Herrmann’s collision with a Spanish fishing boat just…
In an expectant hope that Sir Ben Ainslie could inflict the same pain on James Spithill that Spithill inflicted on Dean Barker way back in 2013, it turns out Britannia sadly lacked the speeds in the light airs plus the Ineos…
The Prada Cup Final is not done and dusted yet, and with INEOS TEAM UK marking its first point on the scoreboard, there may still a long way to go. In the first race of the day, Luna Rossa Prada…
Victoria’s most talented youth sailors will descend on the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria in April for the return of the Victorian Youth Championships and Coaching Clinic. Running from 15-18 April, the event will be made up of a two-day…
Prada Cup final will resume on Saturday 20th of February NZT. Race 5 will see Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli facing Ineos Team UK Britannia, the race will start from 4:00PM local time weather permitting, 2:00pm Sydney time. Race 5 and…
After a week of tight racing, Finn Tapper of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia prevailed to win the 2021 Hardy Cup, held at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Teams gathered at the Squadron to celebrate the week’s racing and…
Following the press release yesterday from America’s Cup Event Ltd (ACE) that Prada Cup racing would continue to be postponed until the New Zealand government announced Covid-19 alert levels are at level one, the responses from the two competitor teams caused a…
In a 500 word press release online, the America's Cup Event (ACE) people have managed to give no clear indication of what is going to happen. What appears to have been written by lawyers and public relations people the press release uses…
With four wins on the scoreboard Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli comes away of the first Prada Cup Final weekend having stamped their authority and with the first to seven going to the Match, Ineos Team UKs Britannia's, path gets steeper and…
In January the International 5.5 Metre Class Association announced the intention to publish a definitive history of the class. It is being researched and written by Mikkel Thommessen and Matti Muoniovaara. It will be the first definitive history of the…
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and INEOS TEAM UK squared off today to determine the winner of the PRADA Cup Challenger Selection Series and the right to face the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand. First day of the PRADA Cup Final…
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli will battle Ineos Team UK on the Waitemata Harbour to become the challenger of the 36th America's Cup presented by Prada. The final is determined by a best of 13 races, so the first to win…
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania (RYCT) has emerged victorious at the first event of the 2021 Sailing Champions League – Asia Pacific season with an exciting win in the SCL – AP: Southern Qualifier hosted by the Mornington Yacht…
London, UK: The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) today announced its 2021 world championship season with a 17-event schedule across 11 countries, including the inaugural WMRT Final in Shenzhen, China from 15-19 December. The 2021 season announcement has been made…
The New Zealand 18ft Skiff fleet may not be coming to contest the 2021 JJ Giltinan world 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour in March, but there is one Kiwi sailor who will be at the JJs, and who has…
Remember the yacht Showtime capsizing during its return journey from competing in the 2019 Sydney Hobart? It lost its keel in Bass Strait and, although all the crew were able to clamber out and hold onto the hull, the conditions…
The Swan River Sailing Championship Weekend is back for 2021, with another triple-banger of three regattas to be held over one weekend in March 2021 at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. After a false start in 2020, Friday 19th March…
Australian Sailing has announced Ronstan will be continuing their partnership with Australian Sailing and the Australian Sailing Team. The sailboat hardware manufacturer has been in partnership with Australian Sailing and the Australian Sailing Team (AST) for over fifty years and…
Rock Solid has faced 16 consecutive Adams 10 Australian championships and finally the Middle Harbour Yacht Club boat owned by Mitch Miller and Andy and Ben Gunton prevailed at Lake Macquarie, albeit by the slimmest margin. The new Australian Adams…
Four state championships and the addition of Super Group racing to Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Harbour Regatta will intensify the kaleidoscope of colour and course area changes will spread the action around the natural amphitheatre of Sydney Harbour over…
Australian Sailing has taken a step towards securing the next generation of sailing champions with the launch of the Performance Pathway Futures Program. The program has been made possible in part due to Australian Sailing’s successful application for one of the…
The Challenger of Record and the Defender, in consultation with the Regatta Director, have decided to amend the Race conditions for the Prada Cup Final and the 36th America’s Cup Match as follows: UPPER WIND LIMITAfter reviewing the performance of…
This coming weekend will see the commencement of the America's Cup challenger series, Prada Cup, final stage, where Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli will face off against Ineos Team UK. The first to win 7 races will then compete in the 36th…
Quentin Stewart and Shaun Lane’s Lazy Dog team showed once again they are in a different realm, dropping just one race win from seven starts in the MC38 class’ opening act hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club. Only Chris Way…
The defending champion tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake produced a last-minute victory in Race 7 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour, to take a narrow lead in the series with just two…
With tired boats, tired bodies and minds, each face their own personal battles to make the final 1,000-1,500 nautical miles to the finish, but all share the same utter commitment and determination. The next five boats are within 100 nautical…
As the year 2021 tentatively creeps into its second month, a UK sports writer penned this interesting column: to save this year's Olympics in Tokyo, maybe they should cut half the sports from the Games. Now the writer is, apparently,…
The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron will once again host the historic four-day Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta around Kirribilli’s stunning foreshore on Sydney Harbour, with races to start in front of the Squadron on Monday from 10:20am. Due to international…
For more than 100 years there has been a strong family influence over the generations in the 18 Footers. For a number of seasons, John ‘Woody’ Winning and his son John ‘Herman’ Winning have been locking horns at the highest…
Victoria's Mornington Yacht Club will host the first leg of the Sailing Champions League – Asia Pacific this weekend with 12 teams entered from a number of clubs across Victoria, as well as a team from Tasmania. With the restart…
Both the brutal Adams 10s and the fast and furious Melges 24s will be racing for the chocolates on NSWs Lake Macquarie this weekend to excite the locals. The NSW Melges 24 fleet will join the Adams 10s on New…
Defending champion tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake holds a slender lead in the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship after today's incredible day's racing in Races 4 and 5 of the series being sailed on Sydney Harbour….
Luna Rossa’s relentless pursuit of legal options is growing tiresome for their opponents, who have labelled the Italians “disingenuous” and “frivolous” according to Duncan Johnston, writing for the Stuff website in New Zealand. Luna Rossa has had yet another attempt…
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli has booked a place in the Prada Cup final against INEOS TEAM UK after defeating the New York Yacht Club's American Magic 4-0 in the semi-final. The Italian syndicate looked in total control on Friday and…
The first day of the PRADA Cup Semi-Final went smooth as silk for Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli which scored the first two points on the leader board against New York Yacht Club American Magic that, against all the odds, managed…
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