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Ten sailing teams from around Australia enjoyed a late burst of summer as part of a huge weekend of watersports hosted by the City of Newcastle. The Sailing Champions League Asia Pacific Final opened Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club’s annual SailFest…
Halifax, Nova Scotia will host a 400-strong field of the world’s best sailors from over 35 countries when the World Championships for three Olympic classes, the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17, kick off in September 2022. Taking place in Canada…
A blast of cannon fire from Fort Scratchley will signal the start of SailFest Newcastle’s signature event, the TP52 Gold Cup, around 12.30pm Saturday, with eight yachts hitting the line off Newcastle’s coast. Among the fleet is reigning two-time Sydney-Hobart…
Three weeks after his Italian-based team lost the America’s Cup match on New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf, Jimmy Spithill has arrived on Bermuda’s Great Sound to lead the reconfigured American team in the SailGP global league. Spithill will make his SailGP…
April 9, 2021 The France SailGP Team announced its line up that will compete in the second season of SailGP, which will take part in multiple nations, including one event in Bermuda this month. The SailGP website said, “With less…
The 2021 Australian Para Sailing Championships, for Hansa 303 One Person and Two Person divisions, were held in conjunction with the Australian Hansa Class Championships in Canberra over the Easter holiday weekend. Tasmanian Chris Symonds claimed the Open and Para…
The recent death of Robert Joseph (Bob) Holmes was the passing of one of the truly great Australian 18ft Skiff champions. Bob was five times JJ Giltinan world champion and five times Australian champion, and won many other state and club…
Olympic Gold Medallist and defending SailGP Champion Tom Slingsby has recruited two highly-credentialed female sailors to the crew and has retained four of his five winning squad members. After securing a history making win as the first Inaugural Champions of…
“The sense that buying the Cup is a somewhat vulgar expression of opportunism is prevalent in many that I spoke to in Cowes over the weekend – it would be far more welcomed after a hard-won, deserved British victory –…
The Sunshine Coast Yacht Club at Mooloolaba on the beautiful Sunshine Coast planned to run the Sunshine Coast Ocean Regatta (SCOR) on 18th and 19th July. This was to be in conjunction with the Brisbane to Sunshine Coast (B2SC) race…
Australian sailing clubs are reminded that from 1 January 2022 all competitors in any race are required to be a member of a club. Extensive work was done in early 2020 on communicating a change in policy that all competitors…
Adrian Walters was quick on the draw when entries opened for Airlie Beach Race Week 2021; his fun and fast Rob Shaw 11 Metre design, Little Nico, was the first entry received by the Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) and other…
The much anticipated behind-the-scenes documentary series ‘SailGP: Racing on the Edge’ in partnership with Rolex is here. In the first episode go under the hood of the supercharged F50 catamaran developed specifically for SailGP, find out how the concept for…
Team New Zealand veteran Ray Davies is adamant the America’s Cup is well placed to push on from its success at Auckland 2021. Duncan Johnstone reports for Kiwi website Stuff.co.nz that moving the Cup forward is now the intrigue after…
Australian sailors Nia Jerwood and Monique de Vries have waited a lifetime to get the call to tell them they were going to the Olympic Games – and it finally came. After breakout international performances in August 2019, they presumed…
Organisers of Thailand’s Top of the Gulf Regatta have confirmed that the regatta will take place in November this year. With Ocean Marina Yacht Club currently undergoing a comprehensive reimagining, the new and expanded Ocean Marina Yacht Club will be…
The final day of the NZ Millennium Cup was noticeably lacking in breeze, though entrants didn’t let that dampen spirits. While the race committee worked to plan a race around the conditions, the fleet headed to Motuarohia Island to make…
Duncan Johnston writes on the Stuff website that the radical foiling boats used in AC36 will already be retained for the next two Matches, but Ainslie wants more: British yachting star Sir Ben Ainslie wants the current America’s Cup class…
From the Weekender to the Laser to the ILCA Dinghy, the world’s largest one-design racing class turns 50 this year, with over 218,000 boats built and passionate devotees racing in over 140 countries. In 2021, ILCA will celebrate the many…
Abbotsford 12ft Sailing club will host the 85th addition of the Australian 12ft skiff championship. The series, held over the Easter weekend from 2 to 5 April, will feature no less than seven previous National champions, battling it out on the tight Parramatta…
Diane Brand, University of Auckland Every good race needs an avid audience of dedicated fans to spur the competitors along and the 36th America’s Cup, which starts today, is no exception. But current protocols are a far cry from the…
No overseas fans will be permitted to attend the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, organisers have confirmed today at a five-party meeting. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo 2020 and the…
No sooner were entries open than entries flooded in for Australia’s favourite regatta, SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), and days later, all 80 berths were filled for the Townsville Yacht Club hosted event to be held from 2-8 September,…
From ice baths to sauna training, if you’re watching the world’s top sports people prepare for the Olympics, you’re sure to see them engage in one or more of these extreme activities. While the debate continues over the pros and…
Sir Ben Ainslie believes taking the America’s Cup back to its British roots would be a game-changer for the event. The skipper and man in charge of Team UK has used his latest column in The Telegraph to outline developments in the…
The Tokyo Olympics looks set to go ahead in July and the signs are positive the youth sailing world championships will also be staged in 2021 after last year’s event was cancelled. The youth worlds is the pinnacle regatta for youth…
It is with great regret that the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC), the Organising Authority for the 2021 Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race, has cancelled the race due to safety concerns. “The decision has not been…
The 2020/21 Farr 40 National Titles have concluded today after eight races. Crews were met by driving rain and strong southerly conditions on Sunday morning forcing the Race Management team, led by PRO Denis Thompson, to display the AP ashore…
Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto has suggested the number of times athletes are tested for coronavirus could be increased amid growing fears over the spread of more transmissible variants. Plans are in place for competitors to be tested once every…
The Smeg team of Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Trent Barnabas was unbeatable for the title of 2021 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff champion after yesterday’s Race 8 of the championship, but today’s final race on Sydney Harbour held more than…
Weather won the day on the Waitemata Harbour today on the fourth day of the 36th America’s Cup, with the Race Committee forced to call off racing due to the lack of wind. The scoreboard between Emirates Team New Zealand…
As if it was written in the script, Day 3 of the America’s Cup presented by PRADA is again locked up with Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli in a 3-3 tie – and to lift the…
Auckland, New Zealand: With the America’s Cup Defender Emirates Team New Zealand and Challenger Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli tied on two wins apiece going into today’s racing, the intensity, already brutally high, ratchets up another notch. Light winds were forecast…
A second-place finish in today’s Race 8 on Sydney Harbour was enough to give the Smeg team of Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Trent Barnabas, an unbeatable points lead and victory in the 2021 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship sponsored…
After Wednesday’s opening salvo of the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada produced a 1-1 scoreline for defender Emirates Team New Zealand, and challenger Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, both teams remained ashore during the lay day, using their time wisely….
After a one-day break, racing resumed in the Match for the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada and conditions were light, with a northerly 8-10 knot breeze throughout the afternoon. In the pre-start of race one, Luna Rossa managed to…
Sailing Champions League Asia Pacific organisers today announced that the final of the current season will be built into Newcastle’s annual SailFest maritime festival program. Over three days, April 9-11, open, youth and women’s teams from around the country who qualified for…
The 2020/21 Farr 40 Nationals opened on Sydney Harbour on Friday amid a strong wind warning from the Bureau of Meteorology prompting PRO, Denis Thompson, to alert competitors that racing would be conducted inshore for the day. Shifting breezes kept…
It was another day of “win the start, win the race” in light airs on the Hauraki Gulf today. At times the wind strength dropped below 8 knots but both crews managed to keep their hulls out of the water….
Having built Sail Port Stephens into one of Australia’s premier yachting regattas, organisers are now looking to replicate the same successful formula for dinghy, skiff, catamaran and sailboard racing. For the first time, a full off-the-beach regatta will be held…
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