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With two days of light airs kicking off Hamilton Island Race Week, the hype building for some serious heavy air racing on day three delivered. Big Tuesday opened with a bang, the southeast winds whistling across Dent Passage and winding…
Melbourne 20/08/2019: The Victorian Laser Association is expecting a flood of entries this month, as the “early bird” deadline for the 2020 Australian Laser Championships expires on August 31. All sailors who have entered by that date go in the…
Jay Golison, Steve Flam, and Eric Doyle from the host Alamitos Bay Yacht Club (Long Beach, CA) sit atop the leader board after the first three races of the Goslings 2019 Viper 640 World Championship. With a scoreline of 1-2-6,…
As Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, the official test event for Tokyo 2020, reaches its mid-way point, it’s fair to say that all 353 athletes here have been put through their paces so far. Day 3 produced a different bout…
Day two at Hamilton Island Race Week was the classic calm before the storm, another picturesque light-air outing and procession of coloured kites setting off for their designated island marks of the course belying the approaching weather change. Trade winds…
The 2019 Spice Islands Darwin Ambon Yacht Race began in champagne conditions on the morning of Saturday August 3rd. An enthusiastic crowd gathered on the wharf and a group of supporters enjoyed a sponsored chartered to watch the start and…
In little more than four months’ time, the 5.5 Metre Class World Championship 2020 and its lead-in events will be heading to Pittwater, where the locals are prepped, ready and excited for what lies ahead at the Royal Prince Alfred…
A day of light wind saw a slightly disrupted race schedule on Day 2 of Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, the official test event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. But, after a short postponement, all fleets managed to…
Two hundred and thirty-four crews enjoyed a gentle entrée to racing in the annual Whitsundays series, light trade winds and winter sunshine bathing the second largest Hamilton Island Race Week fleet in event history. All divisions completed round-the-island courses in…
St. Moritz, 18 August 2019 – The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron turned on the afterburners in a thrilling four-boat showdown to win the Sailing Champions League 2019 on the lake of St. Moritz. The crew from Sydney was the only…
The official test event of Tokyo 2020, Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, got underway in Enoshima, Japan today with the first day of racing, and the 363 sailors from 47 nations were met with strong winds and big waves, an…
Port Klang, Malaysia: The Notice of Race for the 2019 Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR) was issued in April and registration is still open for the 30th edition which will run from 15 to 23 November and retain the…
In two months’ time, some of the most striking boats from the classic yachting circuit will gather once more on the Cote d'Azur for the 9th edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy. It seems only recently that the…
It is always a big deal in any America’s Cup cycle when the first tranche of AC Class yachts is revealed – when fans and teams alike pore over every photograph and video they can get their hands on to…
Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders, the fourth place Nacra 17 team from Rio 2016, have split up just one year from the 2020 Games, each forming a new partnership, making it three new Nacra 17 crews forming with less than…
A fleet of 22 Finns, three larger than next year’s Olympic Games, has gathered in Enoshima for the 2019 Olympic test event – Ready Steady Tokyo. The fleet includes 17 nations and 12 sailors who competed in Rio 2016. It…
Taking place from 15-22 August at Enoshima Yacht Harbour, the official Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing venue, is Ready Steady Tokyo, the official test event for the Games in one year’s time. And if the last two Olympic Games are anything…
The 31st running of Airlie Beach Race Week has come to a close late this afternoon and all winners and placegetters will be feted at the official prize giving at Whitsunday Sailing Club this evening. Marcus Blackmore (Hooligan, NSW) was…
The 31st Airlie Beach Race Week, hosted by Whitsunday Sailing Club, is in its closing stages with just one day of racing remaining, so all 114 competing boats were out on the various courses today doing their best to cement…
The largest Gold Coast sailing event has moved dates. This year Sail Paradise Regatta will be run from Thursday, January 2nd to Sunday January 5th, four days earlier than normal, allowing participants to bring their families for a long weekend…
Paul Mitchell skippered Ullman Sails to one final win at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) 2019 Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) to claim the Australian Multihull Championship title; finishing 11 points clear of nearest rival, Julian Griffiths The Boat Works….
Day 4 at 2019 Airlie Beach Race Week and the 31st running of Whitsunday Sailing Club’s largest sailing event, which reels in the big tourism dollars to the region, hit a new high note today, with winds reaching in excess…
World Sailing, the world governing body of the sport, has set an ambitious challenge to the marine industry to push the boundaries of low carbon innovation for support boats at international events. Titled Challenge 2024 and announced at Monaco Yacht…
Cruising boats such as Eve, Vanilla 2 and White Swan are providing the glamour at Airlie Beach Race Week, the multihulls and today’s weather are the glitz factor, and in fact the entire 114 entries put on a stunning show…
COWES, UK – August 11, 2019 – In extreme conditions at the European debut of SailGP, Australia’s Tom Slingsby proved once again that he is the one to beat in the league’s first season. The Australia SailGP Team dominated the…
Pioneer Bay provided the perfect vehicle for sailors, photographers and spectators on Day 2 of 2019 Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW), with Whitsunday Sailing Club officials decreeing all classes sail on the Bay, resulting in a mass of colour around…
Racing was delayed for a couple of hours, but finally got underway at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 2019 Airlie Beach Race Week, with 5 knots starting the day off and the entire fleet headed from Pioneer Bay and up past…
Chief Communications Officer Christy Cahill: Due to forecast severe adverse weather, and in order to ensure the safety of all athletes, staff, spectators and guests, Cowes SailGP will not proceed with racing on Saturday, August 10. Experts are predicting winds…
Race day 5 on Thursday 8 August was the day of reckoning at the 2019 470 World Championship in Enoshima, as the top-10 medal race line-up was decided in the 470 Men and Women and Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification spots…
COWES, UK – August 8, 2019 – Home town hero Dylan Fletcher and his Great Britain SailGP Team set the pace during practise racing today, placing a target on their backs ahead of their home event. The six national teams,…
A fleet of four Extreme 40 catamarans is gathering ahead of Airlie Beach Race Week, with the crews enjoying the sunshine and looking forward to close, competitive racing for the next three weeks. “We’ve waited close to four years for…
Media Release from Yachting NZ: Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox took advantage of the drama that unfolded around them at the 470 world championships in Japan today to finish second in the medal race and climb up to eighth overall….
COWES, UK– August 7, 2019 – The Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary F50, emblazoned with a giant kangaroo, set sail on the Solent, UK, for the first time today, delivering show stopping drama and a glimpse of what to expect when…
Three races on race day 4 and the leader board hosts new series leaders with Mathew Belcher/Will Ryan (AUS) taking over the lead in the 470 men and Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre (GBR) in the women. Stunning track conditions delivered perfect…
All change on race day 3, Tuesday 6 August 2019, at the 2019 470 World Championships and Olympic Qualification in Enoshima, Tokyo as the breeze kicked in and the waves picked up to bring in a whole new set of…
Three young sailors from Hobart’s Sandy Bay Sailing Club have finished among the top nine placegetters in the 62-boat fleet at the International Cadet world championship which ended in Poland yesterday. Hugo Allison and James Gough finished fifth overall, just…
After the first day of competition we have four teams on equal points at the top of the leader board in Lysekil Women’s Match, the 2019 World Championship: Johanna Bergqvist, Pauline Courtois, Anna Östling and Claire Leroy all counting four…
COWES, England – August 6, 2019 – Dylan Fletcher’s Great Britain SailGP Team today achieved what no other sail racing team in the world has done, breaking the sport’s elusive 50-knot speed barrier during training ahead of Cowes SailGP. The…
Organisers from Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) are thrilled to announce that entries for SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) have reached capacity before the event’s closing date; with more than a dozen boats waitlisted should space become available at ‘Maggie…
After a 1 hour postponement ashore, the 470 Women and 470 Men Yellow and Blue fleets headed out to course area Sagamiand contested two races each in the battle for 2019 470 World Championships medals and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualification….
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