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Sailing is difficult and challenging at times. But how would you go doing it blind? Kylie Forth and her team from WA last week ventured to the 2019 Blind Fleet Racing World Championship at Kingston Yacht Club, Ontario, Canada, bringing…
MARSEILLE, FRANCE -September 17, 2019- Tom Slingsby and the Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary F50, emblazoned with a giant kangaroo, set sail for the first time today in the Mediterranean port of Marseille, ahead of the final event of SailGP Season…
Entries are now open for the 2020 ILCA Laser Masters World Championship in Geelong, Australia. The event, across both Standard and Radial divisions, will be held from March 19 -28. The World Championships will follow immediately after the Oceania and…
Eighteen months after the 36th America’s Cup Class Rule was published, NYYC American Magic becomes the first team to foil their AC75 across the waters of Narragansett Bay near Newport, Rhode Island (US). After an estimated 76,000 combined hours of…
While Alinghi has led at the end of every day of racing at the 2019 GC32 Riva Cup, the Swiss team was on the ropes this afternoon when their arch-rivals Oman Air, in seemingly unbeatable form, scored three back-to-back wins…
MARSEILLE, France – September 15, 2019 – With five days until six national teams go head to head at the Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final, the home team – headed by Frenchman Billy Besson – hit the water for…
Steve Harrison and his crew are members of Australia’s southernmost sailing club, Port Esperence Sailing Club at Dover in southern Tasmania and for five weekends during Tasmania’s chilly winter they have driven from Dover to Hobart to sail Temptation in…
The final day of the Farr 40 social regatta commenced with an abandoned race offshore before moving inside the harbour where Rob Reynolds’ Exile led their way to victory. It was a tough day at the office for PRO Phil…
Tentative winds out of the East, but racing still happened. The Standard fleets sailed out earlier than usual for a 1000h first signal. They completed both of the scheduled two races in 5-7 knots. The G-flag for the Radials dropped…
On Day 1 of the Farr 40 social regatta and season opener, the eight-boat fleet joined the CYCA Short Ocean Pointscore and co-owners Rob Davis and Andy Baker’s Nutcracker won the first race of the weekend. The Melbourne based Nutcracker…
Champion Hobart sailor Brett Cooper and his crew of Darren ‘Twirler’ Jones and Jock Calvert are leading the SB20 French Nationals after day one of racing off Hyeres, near Marseille, scoring two wins and a second overnight. Sailing Cooper’s brand…
Filipe Silva, from Portugal has won the second Finn European Masters after a frustrating final day in Schwerin, Germany where Bas de Waal (NED) secured second overall, while winner of the only race, André Budzien, picked up third place. After…
Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi started the day four points ahead of Oman Air and – after six races on two different courses, during which they lost the lead, then fought back hard to recover it – ended the day four points…
Lago di Garda was not making it easy for race officials on day two of the GC32 Riva Cup, the penultimate event of the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour, as the afternoon southerly Ora wind was late in materialising, requiring three…
Felipe Silva from Portugal has retaken the lead at the Finn European Masters at Schwerin, Germany, after two more races on Friday, while Bas de Waal (Ned) drops to second, and André Budizen, from the home club, moves up to…
Bas de Waal, from the Netherlands has taken the lead at the Finn Europeans Masters after two more races were completed in Schwerin, Germany. Felipe Silva, from Portugal, dropped to second with Gerko Visser, also from The Netherlands up to…
Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team showed some of their GC32 World Championship-winning form when they came out on top after the first of four days of racing at the GC32 Riva Cup, being held out of the Fraglia Vela Riva at…
Filipe Silva, from Portugal, leads the Finn European Masters in Schwerin, Germany after two races on the opening day, Wednesday. Bas de Waal, from The Netherlands is second with Volodymyr Stasyuk from Ukraine in third. The race wins eventually went…
SYDNEY – September 12, 2019 – Sydney was today announced as the season opener for SailGP in 2020. Following a hugely successful event earlier this year – when Sydney kicked-off the global league’s inaugural season – SailGP will return to…
Excitement is building amongst Farr 40 members with the World Championships coming to Sydney in 2020 and teams have eagerly commenced their preparations. The season kicks off this weekend with a social regatta racing offshore and inside the harbour followed…
September 10, 2019 – Just ten days out from the first of three nail-biting race days in Marseille for the inaugural SailGP final – where all six foiling wingsailed catamarans will battle it out with a winner-takes-all match race on the…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) India Howard, Jess Grimes, Emma Byrne, Jess Tavener and Ange Kear have won the 2019 John Messenger Women’s Match Racing Regatta which has been run annually since 1996, defeating Royal Prince Alfred Yacht…
Bellerive Yacht Club member Jeff Cordell, one of southern Tasmania’s great supporters of yacht racing as a strong competitor and honorary administrators for the past 30 years, yesterday scored a well-deserved double victory in his club’s Winter Series with his…
Entries are expected to flood in for the Oceania and Australian Laser Masters Championships to be sailed out of Royal Geelong Yacht Club on Victoria's Corio Bay from March 13 to 18, 2020. The event is the perfect warm-up for…
The 2017 SB20 national champion, Brett Cooper, with his internationally successful Australian crew of Darren ‘Twirler’ Jones (main) and Jock Calvert (bow), leads the SB20 Australian charge to France this week. Cooper, sailing a spanking new SB20 designed by Tony…
On his third attempt, Dario Ferrari and his Maxi 72, Cannonball, deservedly won the Mini Maxi Racer 1 class at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo, Sardinia. This year’s event coincides with the 40th anniversary of the International…
The Victorian Windsurfer Class fleet will kick off its 2019/20 summer season in October with a big fleet expected to descend on the Sandringham Yacht Club for the 2019 Sail Sandy Regatta. Hosted from 12-13 October, Sail Sandy organisers expect…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnston. America's Cup holders Team New Zealand has given the world an early glimpse of the radical new boats to be sailed at Auckland 2021. They revealed the 75-foot foiling monohull on the forecourt of their Auckland…
Emirates Team New Zealand christened their first AC75 at their team base in the heart of the America’s Cup village in Auckland today. The significant milestone was celebrated with the team, their families, sponsors and suppliers. The boat was christened…
Racing was delayed on the final day of Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), as Principal Race Officer Denis Thompson and his crew waited for a 5 knot breeze to filter through, and Division 1 was…
Porto Cervo, 4 September 2019. The third day of racing was completed today in the 30th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, an event organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with the support of title sponsor Rolex and…
Only seven days left to complete the transformation of the Vieux Port and Port Canto in Cannes which will accommodate almost 650 boats* recently released from the most prestigious French and international shipyards. The show will open for its 42nd…
After a brisk Monday, day two of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup provided lighter 9-13 knot winds veering from west to north. A coastal course for most ultimately headed south around Isla Mortorio before returning to Porto Cervo. This year…
Andrew Landenberger, who won a silver medal in the Tornado class at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has been crowned the World Champion in the Classic Division of the A Class Worlds at Portland/Weymouth in the UK. 'Landy' won the…
Entries are now open for New Zealand’s 'best big-boat regatta' on January 21-24, 2020. Next year's CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week has again been selected to host the PHRF, IRC and Tornado class national championships and regatta chair Manuela Gmuer-Hornell…
Media Release from Australian Sailing: The Notice of Race for the 2020 Australian Yachting Championships has been released, with online entries now open for what is sure to be one of the most competitive instalments of the pinnacle title for…
Production at the NSW Central Coast factory of Performance Sailcraft Australia is in full swing as the company looks ahead to a busy summer of Laser sailing in Australia. Laser 2020 begins on January 1 with the Australian Laser Championships…
For the 47 competitors, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup got off to a superb start today with a northwesterly that built to 20+ knots and a superb beat up the La Maddalena archipelago’s ‘Bomb Alley’. The 30th edition of the…
Racing was delayed for an hour as officials waited for a light 5 knot breeze to fill in on Day 3 of Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW); and finally, all but Division 1 yachts were…
What better way to blow out the winter cobwebs, without blowing the budget, than to contest the annual Asahi Regatta hosted by Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC). Alternatively known as the NSW Country Yachting Championships, the event intentionally coincides with…
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