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By Rowan Quinn/Radio New Zealand. Luxury yachts heading to Auckland to watch the America's Cup close-up could be charged thousands to anchor at sea and view the racing. The council is considering a fee for foreign vessels over 40m long…
The Bureau of Meteorology is warning of the potential for severe weather throughout significant areas of eastern Australia in the coming days as two weather systems bring rain and thunderstorms across a large area. Tropical Cyclone Owen is currently moving…
Some of 18ft Skiffs past greatest sailors will make a return to the 18s on Friday, December 14, when the Australian 18 Footers League will stage the inaugural ‘Supercup’ on Sydney Harbour. Among those already committed to sail in the…
With online entries and the Notice of Race now up and running for the 12th annual Sail Port Stephens regatta, an unforgettable sailing holiday experience awaits for everything from IRC, Super 12 and Farr 40 yachts to cruising boats, trailer…
The Asko Appliances crew of James Dorron, Harry Bethwaite and Karl Langford came from a seemingly hopeless position to win an incredible Race 3 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. In a race which saw…
Day one of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) Trophy Series – the last major offshore hit-out before the Rolex Sydney Hobart – got underway today with a super competitive line-up making the start on Sydney Harbour. Marcus Blackmore’s…
With good winds of about 15 knots returning for the final day of the 32nd Phuket King’s Cup Regatta on Saturday, some exciting racing was held off the south-western tip of the resort island as one of Asia’s biggest sailing…
Australian IRC champion yacht Philosopher looks right on target to retain her national title in Victoria and also must rank as favourite to win the Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race on corrected time. Philosopher, a Sydney 36cr owned and skippered…
Following their victories in the Upper Harbour and Parramatta River Championships, the Sydney Sailmakers crew of Nick Press and Andrew Hay have made it a trifecta by winning the Your Move Conveyancing NSW 12ft Skiff Championship, held over two weekends…
The cream of Australia's 18ft skiff racing talent is hoping for a change of fortune when the 2018-2019 NSW 18ft Skiff Championship resumes on Sydney Harbour on Sunday. A number of leading teams lost valuable points in Race 1 when…
Olympic class racing at Sail Sydney 2018 came to an end on Sydney Harbour today in fresh summer breezes 13 to 19 knots, with Australian Sailing Team and Squad athletes earning a swag of medals for their efforts in mixed…
Conditions were more suitable for water-skiing than sailing on the Andaman Sea off the south-western tip of Phuket on Friday, with the lack of wind leaving the large fleet of keelboats and multihulls unable to race. After being almost becalmed…
Sydney’s traditional summer sea breeze arrived on day three of Sail Sydney, with the morning session for Olympic classes held in north to north-easterly breezes 12-14 knots and the afternoon session flying in 16 knots gusting to 22 out of…
One week since the close of the 36th America’s Cup entry period, the Defender and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have completed the required checks and accepted the Royal Malta Yacht Club challenge for the 36th America’s Cup. The…
Phuket, 5th December – A stiff breeze of 15 to 20 knots off south-western Phuket on Wednesday morning provided near perfect conditions for the large fleet of boats contesting this year’s King’s Cup Regatta, allowing the organizers to hold three…
The precursor to the 2019 RS Aero Worlds in December is the RS Aero Australian Championship which begins today at Port Stephens when a competitive field from NSW, Victoria, Queensland and the UK start their four-day quest for the national…
From December 13th to 16th at Woollahra Sailing Club in Rose Bay, Sydney, start the 2019 season of Foiling Weeks. It is the second down-under Foiling Week, foiling is “on trend” with sailing, surfing, SUP, kiteboarding and windsurfing. Foiling has…
It was on for young and old on the final day of the SA Summer of Sail Launch Regatta at Adelaide Sailing Club on Sunday with massive swells and winds consistently more than 25 knots giving sailors plenty of excitement….
With Sail Sydney currently underway (4 – 9 December 2018) and one week to go to Sail Melbourne (13 – 16 December 2018), Australia’s best Olympic, Youth and Open class sailors will find out exactly where they stand as they…
They may be small in size, but the centreboard fleets taking part in the Ports of Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta represent by far the largest portion of participants. Hundreds of sailors are expected to take to water in dinghies all…
Phuket, 4th December, 2018 – The second day of racing in the 32nd Phuket King’s Cup Regatta on Tuesday was a testing one for the skippers and their crews as the wind dropped but the competition on the water hotted…
Sail Sydney, staged out of Woollahra Sailing Club at Rose Bay, is the start of a long summer of racing for both ends of the sailing spectrum. The event, which starts today, has an entry list of 286 competitors, representing…
Unfortunately, Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship had to be abandoned for the day, by Australian 18 Footers League officials today, when 25-30-knot Westerly winds, gusting to 40-knots, pounded Sydney Harbour. Earlier, the start had been delayed…
With eyes on the prize, the Swiss sailed a superb day on the water on the penultimate day of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series season finale in Los Cabos, climbing one position from their unsafe third place finish on Friday,…
Twelve of the world’s top women’s match racers started competition on Thursday in the 2018 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) Finale, hosted at the Carlos Aguilar Match Race (CAMR). After three days of racing, there are four teams…
Maintaining control, rather than having to regain control, is a strategy that earned France’s Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team of Maëlenn Lemaître, Louise Acker and Sophie Faguet first place at the 2018 Women’s International…
NZ Herald. A respected yachting commentator claims teams' preparation for the next America's Cup could be set back by up to three months due to technical difficulties, while a proposed second preliminary regatta could be scrapped altogether. Peter Montgomery told…
For the fourth time in their eight-year history of competing in the Extreme Sailing Series, Swiss team Alinghi took the championship title after a remarkable final in Los Cabos, Mexico. This feat makes them the joint most successful team ever…
Weather tested the tactical skills of the 12 international teams who raced the first full round robin’s flights 12 through 19 on the second day of racing in the 2018 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) Finale, hosted at…
Following their second place finish yesterday, Team Oman Air reached new heights on the second day of Extreme Sailing Series Los Cabos, closing the racing at the front of the seven-strong international fleet. Soaring across the sun drenched sea, the…
The American team of Frankie Dair, James Jennings, Alistair Gifford and Niall Malone have won the 2018 Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta, defeating New Zealand's James Wilson 3-1 in a stellar Finals Series. This marks the first win for…
It wasn't the text book start to the Australian summer for the launch regatta of the SA Summer of Sail today, with strong northerlies of more than 25 knots forcing racing at the Adelaide Sailing Club to be postponed. With…
Expected big winds and squalls on Port Phillip have forced organisers at Hobsons Bay Yacht Club to abandon racing in the opening round of Victoria’s Port Phillip Women’s Championship in Melbourne today. Racing in Division 1 was expected to get…
Competitors in the Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta experienced a blustery southerly breeze on Sydney Harbour for Day 3, producing epic sailing conditions as teams fought for the final four spots in the Quarter Finals. With yesterday blown out…
Having saved their best moves for the final Act of the season, Red Bull Sailing Team stole the show on the first day of Extreme Sailing Series Los Cabos, scoring a pole position hat-trick in the event's opening races. Under…
The period for late entries for the 36th America’s Cup officially closed today, the 30th November 2018. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand can confirm there have been an additional eight Notices of Challenge received…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Two people escaped uninjured after a sailboat crashed into an Ocean Beach jetty, before the vessel itself was crushed by high surf. The 25-foot long boat collided into the North Channel jetty in Ocean Beach with…
Drivers and pedestrians traversing Waterfront Drive in Charlotte Amalie on Wednesday got a sneak peek of the competition to come in the Women’s International Match Racing Series finale held at the Carlos Aguilar Match Race (CAMR), on November 29 through…
The world’s best Finn sailors have arrived in Australia to contest this year’s Sail Sydney (4-7 December 2018) and Sail Melbourne International (13-16 December 2018) regattas and to make the most of what an Australian sailing summer has to offer….
Over 200 guests from the America’s Cup community from around the world gathered at the Yacht Club de Monaco this evening to celebrate the launch of the Prada Cup – the Challenger Selection Series for the 36th America's Cup presented…
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