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While the 2020 season of maxi yacht racing has been largely wiped out thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first steps back to normality are soon to be taken with the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup set to go ahead in…
While this year’s sailing season has been decimated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the GC32 Racing Tour is now going to hold a single event for 2020 out of the popular sailing mecca Riva del Garda. Riva del Garda is…
Sunshine finally poked through the clouds, and competitors aboard the 64 competing boats at the 2020 Airlie Beach Race Week Whitsundays Festival of Sailing did not find the anticipated 15 knots, instead the breeze peaked at 8 knots. Entrants in…
London, UK (7 August 2020) – Organisers of the World Match Racing Tour have announced there will not be a World Tour leader-board for 2020 due to current travel restrictions from the Covid-19 pandemic preventing many competitors from attending events….
Leon Weaver left the race course yesterday thinking he had won the Trailable Yachts Race 3 to claim the overall division lead at Airlie Beach Race Week Whitsundays Festival of Sailing, however, in the blink of an eye things changed,…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – August 7, 2020 – Olympic gold medalists and defending America’s Cup champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will join SailGP, starting in the league’s second season as part of the newly formed New Zealand SailGP Team….
Bristol, RI – August 6, 2020. The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America's Cup Hall of Fame welcomes Peter Montgomery and Ed Baird to the America's Cup Hall of Fame as inductees for the Class of 2021. They will be formally…
The SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) 2020 committee has made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s regatta, which was to be held from 27 August to 2 September. Whilst the COVID19 situation is worsening in eastern states, Event…
The fifth annual WinterBash off the beach regatta at Woody Point, Brisbane attracted its largest ever fleet. Humpybong Yacht Club president David Begley said sailors from Rockhampton to Sydney had nominated early for the event on Saturday 25th and Sunday…
How hard is it to pick the next Usain Bolt, Ian Thorpe or Anna Meares? Finding a world champion often falls to talent scouts and involves years of hard work, but could it be as simple as a 35-second body…
The Hague, 22 June 2020: Sailmon, the Dutch maritime company, has launched a smart device for dinghies and sports boats called MAX. MAX is supplied with state-of-the-art technology and algorithms, originally developed by Sailmon specifically for racing yachts and super…
The 2021 Australian Youth Championships have regrettably been cancelled after a joint decision by Australian Sailing and host club the South of Perth Yacht Club and partner Club, Royal Perth Yacht Club). The uncertainty created by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,…
Kettering Yacht Club secretary John Dryden and his young crew of Jazz Player notched up a hard-fought and close Division 1 victory in the Combined Clubs Winter Series on the River Derwent today. Derwent Sailing Squadron set a challenging course…
The man responsible for the birth of 18-Footer racing some 128 years ago (January 1892) was a leading Sydney retailer named Mark Foy, who was a keen sailor as well as being a very successful businessman with an acute eye…
Stuff.co.nz. Team New Zealand has pulled off a miracle save during their latest round of testing in Auckland. The America's Cup defenders released a spectacular image of their test boat Te Kahu fully airborne and on the verge of a…
Sixty boats across eight classes are set to line up when the start gun fires from the Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) official start vessel the for the first time this Friday to send the fleet on the first race for…
STATEMENT FROM HAMILTON ISLAND RACE WEEK An important update about Hamilton Island Race Week 2020 The Queensland Government has recently declared numerous COVID-19 hotspots and yesterday announced the inclusion of Greater Sydney. In light of this announcement and despite our…
The strength of the overall squad has seen the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron decide to enter two teams in next year’s Youth America’s Cup event in Auckland. Nick Egnot-Johnson, the world's No 2-ranked match racer, will skipper one team while Leonard…
OK Dinghy sailors across Europe are keeping their fingers crossed that they can return to Bandol in September for the inaugural Autumn Trophy. The Notice of Race has now been published and online entry is open for the four-day event…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (July 27, 2020) — Organizers of the Bermuda Gold Cup, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club’s $100,000 match racing regatta, have set August 31 as the deadline to decide whether this year’s event, the planned 70th competition for the…
Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) officials are pleased to announce that a healthy fleet of 70 boats will take part in the 32nd running of Airlie Beach Race Week Whitsundays Festival of Sailing, where a week-long sailing program and a fabulous…
Earlier today the CYCA was advised an active member of the club and their partner had tested positive for COVID-19. As a result of this news, the CYCA has closed its clubhouse until further notice, for deep cleaning and for…
Close to two years of shooting for a MC38 one design class top result finally yielded Steve Proud’s Swish team the main prize, on dreary Pittwater in the shortened five-race Act 4 winter pointscore. “We’ve had a couple of thirds…
Yacht racing finally returned to the River Derwent today, with the fleet of 53 boats, crewed by 370 sailors, enjoying near perfect racing conditions on a sunny winter’s morning with a 10-15 knot nor’nor’westerly breeze. The honour of leading the…
With the Brisbane 18 Footers’ Sailing Club celebrating its 100th Anniversary in 2020, it's a good time to reflect on the ‘golden days’ of Queensland’s 18 Footer racing when they made such a significant contribution to the development and achievements in…
The name Göran Andersson is synonymous with the OK Dinghy class. In May 2020 he was inducted into the OKDIA Hall of Fame at his home on the island of Tjörn, near to Marstrand, in Sweden. Göran Andersson was World…
23 July 2020 – We are pleased to confirm the organization of the Yacht Racing Forum 2020 in Portsmouth, UK, on November 23-24. Organized by MaxComm Communication and hosted by Portsmouth Harbour Marine, the event will reassemble members of the…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone American Magic hope to have their America’s Cup boat on the water for system checks on Friday and plan to be training on the Waitemata Harbour next week. Dean Barker, the Kiwi helmsman for the New…
LONDON – July 22, 2020 – SailGP and Team ROCKWOOL Racing have launched a new, behind-the-scenes mini documentary series covering the inside story of the Denmark SailGP Team as it prepares for Season 2 of SailGP in 2021. The docuseries…
The 2021 Australian Yachting Championships that were scheduled to be held in January next year have been postponed after a review by Australian Sailing. Australian Sailing will now be exploring options to hold the event from mid-2021. Several factors were…
Milan, 17 July 2020 – The race conditions of the PRADA Cup, the Challengers Selection Series to be held in January and February 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand, have been published; it is the winner of the PRADA Cup who…
A windless Sunday morning disappointed the 350 skippers and crews of 53 yachts as they drifted on the River Derwent yesterday for the much awaited resumption of keelboat racing in Hobart. With barely a breath of wind on the river…
The late Bill Barnett was a famous sailing identity who designed, built and raced world champion boats from 18ft Skiffs to international 12 metre class yachts to challenge for The America’s Cup. Born in 1915, as a teenager, he began…
Nathan Outteridge should not need an introduction to anyone in the sailing world; some highlights are 2012 Olympic 49er Gold Medallist, 2016 Olympic 49er Silver Medallist, 2 x America’s Cup Skipper, Skipper of Japan SailGP team. Nathan talks to Stephen…
Hugh Treharne is one of Australia’s greatest sailors. He was tactician on the America’s Cup-winning Australia II in 1983, a renowned 16ft and 18ft Skiff sailor, a widely recognised sailmaker and a world champion blue water yachtsman. In acknowledgement of his…
Inside the Games. By Michael Houston. Wednesday, 8 July 2020. Japan's Government is reportedly considering easing travel restrictions for foreign athletes who are due to compete at next year's Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, as they bid to hold the Games even…
Australian Sailing has announced that Iain Murray will continue to lead the Australian Sailing Team towards the Tokyo Olympics, which were scheduled for this year but have been postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Murray's contract was to have expired…
PORT KLANG (08 July 2020) – The Royal Selangor Yacht Club has announced that it will be proceeding with the 31st edition of the Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta which is set to run from 13 to 21 November 2020….
Sailors from Ballina to Maryborough, Bundaberg, Gladstone, and west to Toowoomba are preparing to attend the Humpybong Yacht Club WinterBash regatta at Woody Point, Redcliffe on July 25 and 25, 2020. Humpybong Yacht Club president David Begley said WinterBash was…
Inside the Games A new survey has found that more than half of Tokyo residents do not want the postponed Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held next year. Tokyo 2020 has been moved back to 2021 due to the…
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