Big breeze at Bacardi Winter Series
Day two at Bacardi Winter Series, January 28-30 2022, dawned as forecast with a big breeze of 27 plus knots and gusts up to 39 on Biscayne Bay, Miami, forcing the three fleets – J/70, Melges 24 and 69F –…
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French and Spanish sailors win first IQFOIL International Games of 2022
Lanzarote, Canary Islands has surprised during the grand final of the Lanzarote iQFoil Games 2022 with strong winds of more than 20 knots of southeast component and many waves that no one expected. In addition to typical ‘calima’, which has put on alert the…
Kovalenko returns as Australia’s first Master Coach
Victor ‘The Medal Maker’ Kovalenko will continue to help guide Australia’s Olympic sailing champions after signing on to become Australian Sailing’s first ever Master Coach. Kovalenko is Australia’s most successful Olympic sailing coach, and the new role will reflect the…
Mixed results in Bacardi Winter Series opener
A slow start to the opening race for all fleets at Bacardi Winter Series event 2, with a light fluky breeze ensuring the notorious Biscayne Bay race track lived up to its reputation. Plenty of leaderboard shuffles as the crews…
Trofeo Princesa Sofía joins Hempel World Cup Series
The 51st Trofeo Princesa Sofía, the first key test of 2022 in the build up to the Paris 2024 Olympics, will be held in Mallorca, Spain from 1-9 April and the largest Europe-based event for Olympic classes is expected to…
SailGP announces title partner of Season 2 Grand Final
SailGP has announced a new partnership with Mubadala Investment Company as Title Partner of the Season 2 Grand Final. The Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix is the culmination of the world’s most exciting racing on-water and will take place…
NSW 18ft skiff Championship decider
Despite a lack of traditional Northeast winds throughout the 2021-22 NSW 18ft skiff Championship, the racing has been fast, exciting and has produced some great finishes with four different teams crossing the finish line first in the seven races so…
Sailing Champions League debuts at Festival of Sails
The SAILING Champions League – which is a ‘club versus club’ sailing competition that has taken off across the globe – made its official Geelong debut on the closing day of the Festival of Sails. Launched in 2013 and now…
Volunteers step up to support Festival of Sails
More than 90 volunteers joined forces to work at the 2022 Festival of Sails, contributing almost 3000 hours of unpaid man-hours to support the event. From international race officials to local mums and dads prepared to make sandwiches, volunteers from…
American Magic’s AC challenge accepted
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron formally accepted the New York Yacht Club American Magic’s challenge for the 37th America’s Cup to be held in 2024 – the third additional challenge accepted for AC37. “It is great to be back in the…
IQFoil Games: No wind but plenty of fun
The sailors have been able to recover this Wednesday after the battle experienced during the first day of the Lanzarote iQFoil Games, as, unfortunately, there was not a breath of wind. Despite the race committee’s best efforts throughout the day, it…
Five sailors receive Australia Day Honours
Five members of the sailing community have been recognised with award in the Order of Australia for their services to the sport in this year’s Australia Day Honours list. The Order of Australia recognises Australians who have demonstrated outstanding service…
Festival of Sails: Division winners decided
It was another magnificent day on Corio Bay for the final day of racing at the Festival of Sails. Racing got underway on time with the yachts heading out for a special course out the channel in a building sea…
Olympic treat for young Geelong sailors
Geelong’s youngest sailors were treated to a rare opportunity to sit down with one of Australia’s finest sailors today when they were joined for breakfast by Olympic sailing Silver medallist Lisa Darmanin. A dual Olympian at Rio in 2016 and…
Tussle between champions at Contender Nationals
The International Contender Australian Championship were held at Gosford Sailing Club last week. Matt Mulder finished on top with 10 points, starting the series with four straight bullets. Former national champion and three-time Contender world champion, Mark Bulka, finished second…
SailGP Inspire leaves lasting legacy
The Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG ended in epic fashion, but not without the added generosity of SailGP’s Inspire program and some of its valued partners. Through the event, SailGP Inspire and its partners were able to instill…
Festival of Sails: Sailors treated to sensational sea breeze
After a slow start to day three of Geelong’s Festival of Sails, the action picked up throughout the afternoon with the sailors heading out just after lunch in a building sea breeze. The racing yachts, multihulls, cruising boats and double…
Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series: Pacatack and It Happens among winners
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) Member Wendy Tuck and her Pacatack crew were among the winners in Race 3 of the 2021/22 Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series, hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Four CYCA boats were among the fleet of…
Ronstan Regatta in photos
It has been three glorious days of fun, sun and sailing in the crystal clear waters of the Mornington Peninsula for the Ronstan Regatta (January 22-24), hosted by McCrae Yacht Club. Perhaps just a little more breeze on the final…
Beautiful conditions at WA Cherub Championship
The fleet of 11 Cherubs had Matilda Bay to themselves for the first round of the WA Cherub Championship on November 27-28, 2021. Hosted by Perth Dinghy Sailing Club, two other Clubs were represented at the event, both being regional…
Patience key at Festival of Sails
The second day of racing at the Festival of Sails kicked off with the Middle Distance Race getting underway in a light and fickle northerly wind. Five fleets took off across two different start lines to make their way out…
NSW 18ft skiff Championship: Tech2 secures another win
Another brilliant finishing burst by the current Australian champion Tech2 team to win Race 7 of the NSW 18ft skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. It has set the scene for a match race type finish to the series as only…
Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race: Extasea takes line honours – Antagonist wins
The Festival of Sails 179th Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race started under spinnaker with over 200 yachts in a gusty 12-18 knot northerly breeze. There was a mixed bag of boats making the most of the sensational conditions as they…
Slalom racing provides tactical and fast-paced racing at Windsurfer Nationals
It was another glamour day at the Parkdale Yacht Club for Day 3 of the Australian Windsurfing Championships, with light but manageable winds on offer. The course was set for slalom racing to kick off the day. Class president, Nick…
Australian Windsurfing Championship: Tandems on show in freestyle event
The second day of the Australian Windsurfing Championship began with clear skies, light winds and 25 degree-heat, and while some riders were warming up still sore from the previous day of racing, the flat water was the perfect set up…
Siblings seize the day at Flying 11 Australian Championship
With Queensland to host the Olympic sailing ten years from now, it’s possible that some of our future representatives were competing in the 2022 Allen Flying 11 Australian Championships at Gosford Sailing Club last week, in particular a brother and sister…
Hot and shifty start to Australian Windsurfing Championship
Thursday, January 20: It was a shifty start to the first day of the 2022 Australian Windsurfing Championships at Parkdale Yacht Club in Melbourne with 112 Windsurfers taking to Port Phillip Bay in 31-degree heat and a light five to…
Clock ticking for Geelong’s Festival of Sails
The countdown is on for the start of the 2022 Festival of Sails with the Passage Race from Melbourne to Geelong set to get underway at 9.30am at Williamstown this Saturday, January 22. The spectacular sight of more than 200…
18ft skiff Australian Championship’s 100th anniversary
With the 100th Australian 18 footers Championship scheduled to be sailed on Sydney Harbour from February 5 to 13, it’s a good opportunity to reflect on its history and acknowledge the contributions of designers, builders and competitors from NSW, Queensland and…
Sailors enjoy first race at Sussex Inlet
Jervis Bay: The first Sussex Inlet Basin Yacht Club’s race for 2022 still had Covid protocols still in place and for the first time in a while the forecast looked favourable for some good sailing conditions. Unfortunately, the wind did…
Pressure mounts in Intrigue and Midnight Rambler contest
While the world’s cricket fans were focused on the Ashes at Blundstone arena, Midnight Rambler (Ed Psaltis) and Intrigue (David Calvert) were locked in their own fierce battle in Group 1 of the Combined Clubs Harbour Sailing Series (run by…
Vale Norman Rydge, former CYCA Commodore
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) mourns the passing of Past Commodore Norman Rydge (1928-2022). Norman, who served as CYCA Commodore from 1967-1969, was a stalwart of ocean sailing both in Australia and around the world. He competed in…
Strong winds and strong wins wrap up Sail Melbourne
Sail Melbourne 2022 wrapped up on Port Phillip today, with a number of classes relying on the final race of the day to decide a winner. The 49ers were one such class, where a countback was required to anoint Tom…
Tech2 moves up NSW 18ft skiff Championship leaderboard
The third race win of the NSW 18ft skiff Championship to the Tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake, in Race 6 on Sydney Harbour today, puts it into equal lead of the series with just two…
Para Sailing champions decided at Sail Melbourne
Three National Champions were decided at Sail Melbourne today, with the Australia Para Sailing National Championships concluding on another stunning Melbourne day. Wynyard Yacht Club’s Chris Symonds is the current World Champion in the Hansa 303 class, and he doubled…
A wave of wins for Wearn at Sail Melbourne
Tokyo Olympic champion Matt Wearn has continued his domination of the ILCA 7 class, with the Western Australian posting his sixth straight race win in his return to competition at Sail Melbourne today. “It’s nice to be back in the…
Sail Melbourne: Heated racing continues on path to Paris
There was plenty of heat on and off the water on Day 2 of Sail Melbourne 2022, where kiteboards and wing foils took to Port Phillip for their first day of racing in 32-degree temperatures. Kiteboarding is scheduled to make…
42 South has bearings right
Mark Ballard’s 42 South is in a commanding position in Division Two of the Combined Clubs Harbour Series, run by Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Derwent Sailing Squadron Inc and Bellerive Yacht Club, leading on both AMS and PHS handicaps with two…
Clean Sailors launch Youth Racing Team
Not-for-profit Clean Sailors announces the launch of their Youth Racing Team with three international Champion sailors; CJ Perez (18), Lukas Hesse (22) and Jan Schüpbach (20). The Clean Sailors Youth Racing Team will see the exceptional young champions compete together…
Olympians return to racing for Sail Melbourne
Sail Melbourne kicked off today, welcoming the return of several Olympians including Tokyo ILCA 7 champion, Matt Wearn. Following the event’s cancellation in 2021, sailors have flocked to Royal Brighton Yacht Club and the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria for…
