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NZ Herald. By Paul Lewis. Up to three of the six challengers for the 2021 America's Cup in Auckland are the target of legal action to be heard by the Cup's arbitration panel. Emirates Team New Zealand yesterday released a brief…
PATTAYA, Thailand – Diversity has been at the heart of Thailand's Top of the Gulf Regatta presented by Ocean Marina since it was first sailed in 2005, as organisers aim to support sailing across a diverse range of boat types…
SAN FRANCISCO – February 11, 2019 – SailGP today announced comprehensive multi-platform coverage spanning linear and digital channels, offering fans unprecedented access to the new global sports championship setting out to redefine sailing. Set for its world premiere in…
One hundred and eleven OK Dinghies from eight nations have gathered at Wakatere Boating Club in Auckland, New Zealand, to contest the 2019 Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship – and not only is it the largest-ever OK Dinghy event outside…
Palma, Spain: The 16 edition of Sail Racing PalmaVela, organised by the Real Club Náutico de Palma, has kicked off with the publication of the Notice of Race and the pre-registration of the first 31 boats representing nine nations. The…
One of the most enthusiastic 18ft skiff sailors around must be California-based Katie Love, who is presently spending the 2018-2019 Australian summer as skipper of the Panasonic Lumix-sponsored boat in the Australian 18 Footers League fleet on Sydney Harbour. Like…
Following a consistent regatta, class veterans Heather Macfarlane and Chris Payne, sailing Not Your Average Rockstars, have taken out their third Fireball Nationals with one race still to be sailed. After kicking off the event with two wins, the Victorian…
The Australian Wooden Boat Festival, the largest gathering of wooden boats in the Southern Hemisphere, opened on Hobart’s River Derwent and the port city’s historic waterfront today. A huge event, it continues over the Royal Hobart Regatta long weekend with…
For the fifth time since the inaugural Hardy Cup Sydney International Match Racing Regatta in 2001, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s match racing prowess proved unrivalled on Sydney Harbour. In a classic Sydney summer sea breeze gusting to 20…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Feb. 6, 2019) — A sterling collection of past champions that also includes the top three skippers in the World Match Race Rankings, the reigning Open, Women’s and Youth World champions and the America’s Cup Challenger of Record…
Australian Sailing has announced the 2019 Australian Youth Team after a successful conclusion of the final qualifying event, the Australian Youth Championships in Hobart earlier this month. The athletes selected in the team will go on to represent Australia at…
With seven out of 10 races completed and a lay day today (Thursday), it's all to play for in the 2019 Fireball Nationals, hosted by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. After kicking off the regatta with wins in the opening…
Up until last weekend, Honda Marine had dominated 18-foot skiff racing for some time but were knocked off their perch at the New Zealand championships by a crew who have designs on doing the same thing at March's JJ Giltinans. The…
The 42nd 125 Australian Championships were held by Humpybong Yacht Club, Queensland, between the 29th of December 2018 and the 4th of January 2019. Eighteen entries from Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland contested the highly competitive regatta which…
SYDNEY – February 6, 2019 – Sydney Harbour was awash with colour today as the revolutionary SailGP F50s of Australia, China, Great Britain, France, Japan and the United States lined up on the water together for the first time just…
At the mid-way point in the Hardy Cup match racing regatta, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s team skippered by Nick Egnot-Johnson leads the international field of 11 teams. The last time a New Zealand team left Aussie shores with…
There were a few tricks thrown up on the second day of the Fireball Nationals at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club yesterday, however Heather Macfarlane and Chris Payne still hold a slender lead. With shifty and overcast conditions it made…
For the first time in the fifty year history of the class, an all girl crew has taken out the Open Australian Championship in the competitive Flying 11 class. Zoe Dransfield and Pearl Twomey, sailing ‘Nomad’, are the new Australian…
Last year’s OK Dinghy world championship bronze medalist, Jan Kurfeld, from Germany, has opened his challenge for this year’s world title fight with a win at the 2019 New Zealand National Championship after two very different days on the Hauraki…
The semi-finals of the Warren Jones Regatta started in 8-10knots on a short race course with many spectator boats making for interesting obstacles. The semi finals were a first to two format with the winners racing each other in the…
Correctly calling first shift is great. Plenty of sailing races have been won by the person or team who anticipates the first wobble in the breeze and positions correctly to best take advantage of it. But sometimes, it’s the last…
High profile Queensland sailor Stacey Jackson and Jade Cole, a Victorian sailor making a name for herself in the sport, are guest speakers this Wednesday evening, 6 February, ahead of the Women in Sailing Challenge, the second race of the…
The Smeg team of Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Mike McKensey showed their class in the 17-20-knot North-East wind when they scored a spectacular win in Race 5 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Smeg held…
The Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary new F50 set sail on Sydney Harbour for the first time on the weekend, as the two-week countdown to SailGP’s inaugural event begins. The practice session was the first opportunity for the Australia SailGP Team,…
Tom and Alan Quick’s Outlaw had a spectacular day on the water scoring 1-2-1-2 holding onto their lead from yesterday to win the 2019 Farr 40 NSW State title. Four races took place today and the course was set from…
49erFX The stage was set for an action packed first race of the day. Alex Maloney with Molly Meech (NZL) had a commanding but catchable lead ahead of two chasers, Martine Grael with Kahena Kunze (BRA) and Charlotte Dobson with…
One of the strongest Fireball fleets in a number of years will do battle this week on Corio Bay, Geelong as racing for the 2019 National Championship kicks off today. Hosted by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club, the 26-boat fleet…
The 11th edition of the NZ Millennium Cup has ended in the 28-metre ketch, Tawera, winning the world’s most southerly superyacht regatta. “There’s a special feel to this regatta,” race officer of the day, Harold Bennett, said. “The amazing sense…
Medal Races in a trio of classed decided the top three at the World Cup in Miami, as crews stare down the barrel of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games selection. Nacra 17 Gold to Waterhouse/Darmanin (AUS) The Nacra 17 Medal…
The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is ready to host the annual Hardy Cup Sydney International Match Racing Regatta, the next stop in the established Trans-Tasman youth match racing summertime series which starts in Australia’s west and travels east, all the…
Amanda ‘Marnie’ Irving and her all-female crew on Cavarlo have won the Jennifer Goldsmith Trophy, Race 2 of the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series (PPWCS), hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) on Port Phillip today. Racing was delayed for…
This year’s Superyacht Cup Palma is shaping up as one of the most competitive in recent years, with early interest in June’s celebration of sail already exceeding expectations. With four months to go to the start of Europe’s largest and…
Racing continues on day two at the NZ Millennium Cup regatta with challenging conditions, a time penalty and then victory for one vessel in an unexpected arena. On a day that started with light air and ended with a battle…
The Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary new F50 set sail on Sydney Harbour for the first time yesterday, as the two-week countdown to SailGP’s inaugural event begins. The session was the first opportunity for the Australia SailGP Team, skippered by Olympic…
Excitement is mounting on Hobart’s picturesque waterfront, as the necessary infrastructure building commences and boats from as far away as the USA begin to arrive for the 2019 MyState Bank Australian Wooden Boat Festival, which opens on Friday 8 February….
With 18 months until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic regatta, now is the time for medal hopefuls to do an honest self-assessment and figure out what weaknesses they need to shore up before the big show. For Jason Waterhouse and Lisa…
Eight Farr 40’s headed offshore to the Manly Circle for the first race of the NSW Championship, and with uncomfortably lumpy conditions and only 5 knots, PRO Steve Tucker quickly moved the fleet back inside Sydney Harbour for the next…
Tasmania will be represented for the first time in the prestigious Hardy Cup Under 23 youth match-racing event on Sydney Harbour next week. Will Sargent will skipper a talented team of five young Hobart sailors eager to capitalise on their…
Geelong, Victoria: Mack One, skippered by Ben Franklin, dominated to win her second Australian Championship with a race to spare at the Festival of Sails this month. With another “Boat of the Day” flag in their grasp, Franklin and his…
Sunday's Race 5 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour marks the halfway point of the series, but the extreme wind conditions, which have dominated the first two days racing, have left the likely outcome up in the…
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