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Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone Team New Zealand's build of their first foiling monohull for the 2021 America's Cup is under way. Dan Bernasconi, head of design at Emirates Team New Zealand, confirmed there was progress being made on the 75…
Not one but two new Australian-owned TP52s will make for a thrilling battle in the Rating Series at the 2019 Festival of Sails conducted annually on the Australia Day long weekend by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. Numbers in the…
With the 12 foot skiff Upper Harbour and Parramatta Championships done and dusted, all skiffies focus is on the Your Move Conveyancing NSW Championship to start on Sydney Harbour later this month – and the all-important Interdominion in January. In…
Racing started today in earnest at the ‘A’ Class Worlds on the beautiful warm waters and beaches of Hervey Bay in Australia, following the cancellation of yesterday’s racing after all the fleet had arrived at the race areas. The weather was…
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club, home of the Festival of Sails, will soon have a new look thanks to a multi-million dollar re-development which is set to dramatically transform the Geelong waterfront. Following the 2019 Festival of Sails regatta, held…
Simon Nearn's R Marine Pittwater took out today's final race of the Spring Championship series on Sydney Harbour today, but it was the young Rag & Famish team which became the 2018 champion when the team finished just one point…
Giant waves kicked up by an Atlantic gale oddly combined with no wind in the vicinity of Cascais resulted in racing being cancelled on the final day of the RC44 Cascais Cup. This made for a surprise, come-from-behind winner of…
In the famous words of the British journalist Brian Hanrahan, aboard HMS Hermes ‘I counted them out, and I counted them all back’. This is how it felt on the first dramatic day of the ‘A’ Cat Worlds at Hervey…
Global sailing league SailGP today announced its exclusive appointment of Captain Cook Cruises to deliver the official on-water fan experiences at the inaugural SailGP Grand Prix in Sydney in February 2019. Last month, Sydney Harbour was unveiled as the…
How things can change – and after two light days, but with a comparatively large Atlantic swell running, an aggressive-looking cold front off the Portuguese coast looked set to make racing impossible on the penultimate day of the RC44 Cascais…
The Australian 18 Footers League's seven-race Spring Championship won't be decided until almost half the 18-boat fleet has crossed the finish line in the final race of the series, on Sydney Harbour next Sunday (18 November). With all seven races…
Entries have soared for the 29er fleet at this year’s Sail Sydney event, with competitors coming from across the country and also from New Caledonia and New Zealand to compete at the regatta to be hosted by Woollahra Sailing Club…
To make up for yesterday's missed race and with the prospect of a possibly 'too big' weekend ahead, four races were held on day two of the RC44 Cascais Cup, the final event of the 2018 championship for the high…
When the David Lyons-designed 40-footer, then named Micropay Cuckoos Nest, won the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on corrected time she had to survive a galeforce battering in the Tasman Sea. This weekend’s Maria Island Race looks far more benign for…
Despite being mid-November, Portugal laid on warm temperatures and light winds for the opening day of the RC44 Cascais Cup, the final regatta of 2018 for the high performance one design monohulls. However with an offshore easterly to southeasterly blowing,…
An international gathering of foiling boat and board classes, racing in the Caribbean, in November: What better formula could there be for a modern day sailing regatta? This is exactly what Sirius Events have created with their brand new Martinique…
The story of the Finn class has been, and will always be, the greatest sailing story in the history of the Olympics. But, after 18 Olympic Games, it would seem the Finn is no longer required, effectively excluding the best…
A national “come-and-try” initiative run by the Australian Sharpie class last weekend has given hundreds of kids around Australia a look into their sailing futures, after clubs across the country got behind the National Kids in Sharpies Weekend. Clubs in…
SailGP has unveiled the fifth team in its new global racing league – the China SailGP Team – with a bold ambition to drive the growth of high-performance sailing in China. The China SailGP Team takes to the water in…
The RL24 Owners Association of Australia have planned a special “Rob Legg Day” to honour Rob Legg’s long list of achievements and his huge input into sailing and trailable yachts in Australia. As an opener to the 46th RL24 National…
For Australian OK Dinghy sailors there is only one place to be for New Year. The 57th Australian OK Dinghy Championships will be hosted by Black Rock Yacht Club from 28 December 2018 to 3 January 2019. Black Rock YC,…
Monday 12 November 2018, Shenzhen, China Wanhang Longcheer has won back the Beneteau 40.7 trophy at the 12th China Cup, after losing out to Yiihua-Pocket Emirates Team New Zealand a year ago. Steve McConaghy suffered a stressful few hours in…
A tricky Pittwater shone, the MC38s sparkled and Neville Crichton’s Maserati cleaned-up the class’ closing seven-race Act 5 by a monumental 12 points, plus sealed the five-round season pointscore. A frustrating stop-start beginning to day two of the MC38 2018…
With the final outcome being decided in the Ultime category tonight, the leading IMOCAs are about to cross the halfway point in the Route du Rhum. Alex Thomson, Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès may finish in Pointe-à-Pitre before…
Ray Roberts gets better every day and has now manoeuvred BoomEgg – JoyOurs Team to just two points off the lead in the hotly contested Beneteau 40.7 at the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen. The Australian veteran of many…
The doyen of Hobart keelboat racing, Don Calvert, has given himself an early 83rd birthday present, scoring a hat-trick of wins with his 34-year-old yacht Intrigue in the Combined Clubs Summer Pennant on the River Derwent. Skillfully skippered in the…
If you were thinking of sailing across the Tasman and using your yacht as cheap accommodation during the 2021 Amrica's Cup in Auckland, think again. This report by Tom Dillane in the NZ Herald outlines the problems: A dire shortfall…
Cheung Kong Sailing Club Team moved to the top of the Beneteau 40.7 leaderboard after a solid performance on day three of the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen. Jono Rankine steered his crew across the finish line of the…
Cheung Kong Sailing Team closed to just a point off the lead of the Beneteau 40.7 fleet after an up and down day of light winds at the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen – day two of the regatta…
Next week the RC44 fleet will once again take to the waters of Cascais, Portugal, for the final showdown of the 2018 season, over the 14th– 18th November, and of the eight teams competing, five are in contention for the…
Thursday 8 November 2018, Shenzhen, China: Former winner Vanhang Longcheer has become the early leader of the ultra-competitive Beneteau 40.7 fleet after winning the New Sports Passage Race on the opening day of the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen. Last…
NEWPORT, RI (November 6, 2018) – With a little over eight months to go, Ida Lewis Yacht Club, the International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA) America’s Fleet and the 12 Metre Yacht Club are gearing up for the largest-ever gathering of…
They helped bring the America's Cup back to New Zealand and remain teammates but for a couple of weeks this month Glenn Ashby, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will be rivals. The trio will be among more than 100 sailors…
More than 70 entries have already been received from international sailors for the 2019 O'pen Bic world championships to be sailed at Manly, north of Auckland, in the New Year period. As many as 127 sailors had already registered for…
By Deborah Dalziel, 2 November 2018 On 22 October more than 430 yacht racing industry professionals gathered in Lorient, France to discuss the state and future of the global yacht racing industry. Over two jam-packed days the event covered everything…
The Smeg 18ft Skiff crew of Michael Coxon, Mike McKensey and Ricky Bridge were brilliant as they led the fleet from start-to-finish and dominated Race 4 of the Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour today. The team won the start…
The International Finn Association (IFA) is extremely disappointed to see the decision taken today at the World Sailing AGM in Sarasota, USA, to exclude any event options for the Finn in favour of adopting the Mixed Two-Person Keelboat. Most of…
Between the 31st of October and the 3rd of November, the world’s best female match racers gathered in Ascona to compete in the Swiss International Women’s Match. Despite heavy rain and tricky wind conditions an impressive 66 matches were completed…
A Mixed Two Person Keelboat Offshore Event will feature at the Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition, providing a new dynamic to the Olympic movement, following ratification at World Sailing’s Annual General Meeting. After a week of meetings, the AGM brought…
Sunday was a winning day in Tasmania for Huon Valley orchardist and sailor Andrew Smith – he organised the raising of more than $15,000 as drought relief for farmers and his boat Smigger won the SB20 sports boat class at…
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