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Defending champion Honda Marine won its second race of the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship today, after another eventful day of racing on Sydney Harbour. After trailing Winning Group (John Winning Jr.) for half the NE course,…
By popular demand, the Australian Sports Boat Association (ASBA) is returning to Sail Port Stephens for an unprecedented third consecutive year to stage its 2019 national titles. And joining them for the first time is the VX One class for…
The defending champion Honda Marine team of Dave McDiarmid/Matt Steven/Brad Collins showed that they will be hard to beat again this year when they scored an impressive win in Race 1 of the Winning Group JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship…
Races 3 and 4 of the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series, hosted by the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria were held on Port Phillip today and the women sailed two long courses in oscillating winds at both ends of the…
Winners were crowned on the final day of the Sydney Harbour Regatta, conducted by Middle Harbour Yacht (MHYC), over three days for the Sydney 38s and the weekend for all other classes. This is the 14th running of the regatta…
Alan and Tom Quick have added the Yoti Sydney 38 Australian Championship to their trophy cabinet at Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Harbour Regatta, which finished late this afternoon. The Quicks (CYCA), who were crowned Farr 40 NSW champions in…
For the 13th consecutive year, the JJ Giltinan Championship has been sponsored by the Winning Group brands, but there is so much more to their participation at all levels of the sport. The Winning Group is also one of the…
The Notice of Race for the Copa del Rey MAPFRE was published on the event’s official web site on Friday, and includes changes to the 2019 edition. The new classification, which will keep expectations running high up until the very…
From the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, all the way down to the Sound at Manly – boats, boats and more boats, as Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s well-named key event, the Sydney Harbour Regatta, did as its name implies…
Peter Byford and David Hudson have come out the cream of the crop on Day 1 of the Yoti Sydney 38 Championship at the Sydney Harbour Regatta, hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC), sailing Conspiracy to two wins from…
After losing the title to the red-hot New Zealand Honda Marine team in 2018, the local Australian fleet has been strengthened, but they will all have to produce their best and most consistent form if they want to repel the…
As part of its “La Belle Classe Academy” training centre, dedicated to professionals in the yachting industry and offering an “Art of Service” module, the Yacht Club de Monaco is partnering with Bluewater to organise – for the second consecutive…
Champion Hobart yachtsman Nick Rogers has earned the right to defend the historic Sayonara Cup which he won for the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania a decade ago from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. The Squadron is the challenger. Rogers…
Three long-time friends and sailing champions have all finally come together in the one boat as they set their sights on winning the 2019 JJ Giltinan (world) 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour from March 2-10. Skipper Micah Lane, sheet…
Roger Jackman’s Doctor Who and Don Calvert’s Intrigue on Saturday on Saturday showed they still head the who’s who of yacht racing on Hobart’s River Derwent, each notching up another win the Combined Clubs Summer Pennant. With two more Pennant…
Marina berths have become rarer than hen’s teeth in the lead-up to Sail Port Stephens 2019, such is the demand from the keelboat brigade, yet there’s room aplenty for off-the-beach and trailable classes to be part of the action. Separate…
The Asko Appliances team had to recover from a mid-race capsize before taking out the 2018-2019 Australian 18 Footers League Club Championship in a dramatic day of 18ft Skiff Racing on Sydney Harbour today. Going into today's final race of…
The Asko Appliances 18ft skiff team is set to add the Australian 18 Footers League Club Championship to its trophy cabinet as the team leads the 18-strong fleet into Sunday’s last race of the series on Sydney Harbour. Skipper James…
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania has received a challenge from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron for the coveted Sayonara Cup, renewing the match-racing contest between two of the nation's senior clubs after a break of a decade. The RSYS…
Ichi Ban, skippered by Matt Allen, has come away with a resounding Division 1 IRC win at this year's Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta, dropping just one less than perfect result to end up carrying a picket fence. The regatta…
In the northern hemisphere the Sailing Champions League is a winning concept, taking off from the start-up league in Germany in 2013 to involve 21 nations and more than 300 clubs in 2019. Now it’s the southern hemisphere’s turn. Mark…
Sailfest Newcastle Regatta is steeling itself for the hottest TP52 showdown outside Europe’s 52 Super Series when the inaugural Gold Cup starts on March 29 with a record fleet. Race organisers from the Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC) are expecting…
Stuff.co.nz British yachting great Sir Ben Ainslie has described sailing the America's Cup test boat as “an eye-opener”. American rival Terry Hutchinson summed up being on his syndicate's scaled-down version of the 75-foot foiling monohulls to be used at Auckland…
With four out of the six races now in the books, things are starting to heat up on the scoreboard at this year's Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta. Yesterday's race was a short passage race out to the Lincoln National…
The Rag & Famish Hotel has been a successful sponsor of the 18 Footers on Sydney Harbour since the 1996-1997 Season, but the hotel and the sport of 18 Footers racing have more in common than simply being the combination…
Tropical Cyclone Oma formed in the Fijian area of responsibility and was forecast to approach the southern Queensland coast this weekend. The 11am (AEST) track map yesterday (Thursday) showed the system moving closer to Queensland and into the Bureau's area…
The Match Race Super League has announced that the AIRCALIN Match Race in Noumea (NCL) will be the sixth event of the 2019 season, taking the schedule to 12 events worldwide in 10 countries on four continents. The organizing CNC…
For as long as the 49er class has existed, the Australia Sailing Team has performed at the highest level. From Chris Nicholson winning the classes’ first three World Championships, to Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen taking gold and silver in…
It is one of the most picturesque days on the South Australian sailing calendar, however yesterday's Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta 'long race' was slow going in light conditions for the four divisions. Divisions one and two raced out of…
Fabulous prizes await placegetters in Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s (MHYC) Sydney Harbour Regatta to be held over the first weekend of March – but you have to enter first and the early entry rate has been extended to February 25,…
Bellerive Yacht Club member Jeff Cordell has won a somewhat rare collection of trophies in the weekend’s Crown Series Bellerive Regatta with his Mumm 36 yacht B&G Advantage. Cordell skippered B&G Advantage to overall first place in both the AMS…
One of the strongest Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta fleets seen for some time kicked off this year's event yesterday with two races around the cans on Boston Bay. Sailors were greeted with a moderate 10 to 15-knot southwesterly breeze…
Annette Hesselmans is to be guest speaker at Royal Brighton Yacht Club in Victoria ahead of the Brighton Ladies Skippers Series (BLiSS) in the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series (PPWCS) on the evening of 22 February – and she offers…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (February 16, 2019) – Racing got started on time this morning in beautiful conditions for the second day of racing in the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta St. Petersburg, held out of the St….
The Asko Appliances team of James Dorron, Harry Bethwaite and Trent Barnabas became the 2018-2019 Australian 18ft Skiff champions after a wonderful day of action-packed racing on Sydney Harbour today. Going into today's final two races, only four points separated…
Royal Yacht Club of Victoria member, Clare Olding, has skippered Vertigo to an overall win in Race 3 of the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series sailed in light air on Port Phillip today. The Women in Sailing Challenge (WISC), hosted…
Dan Slater has won the 2019 Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship at Wakatere Boating Club after a challenging final day of racing with at first light winds, then breezy conditions, but always difficult and shifty. Fredrik Lööf almost did enough…
The second day of the inaugural SailGP on Sydney Harbour was sailed in light conditions, with just 10 knots of easterly as the six boats made their way out to the start line. However, as we saw yesterday, this is…
St. Petersburg, Florida: The first day of racing for the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta St. Petersburg had a late start, due to a postponement for light winds in the morning, with racing underway by 1:30, allowing…
The 2019 Historic 18 Footer Australian Championship for the Galloping Ghost Trophy was conducted by the Sydney Flying Squadron in conjunction with the Australian Historical Sailing Skiff Association (AHSSA), on Sydney Harbour over 3 races on 19 January, 1 and…
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