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Cardiff Bay was alive with action today, as two boats capsized within moments of each other on the Extreme Sailing Series racecourse. Charging downwind on the third race of the day (race 19), the Omani boat and Team Wales were…
A team of five boys and two girls represented Australia in the massive line of teenage sailors who contested the 2018 Laser Radial World Youth Championships at Kiel, Germany last week – 269 boys and 96 girls. The young Australians…
A New Zealand crew won the JJ Giltinans this year for the first time in 44 years, considered the world championships of 18-foot skiff racing, when the Honda Marine team of Dave McDiarmid, Matt Steven and Brad Collins finished only…
With so many now in the country, Marcus Blackmore has confirmed a TP52 circuit for Australia, starting in November. “The owners have talked and we’re going to start with three – one in Sydney, one in Pittwater and one in…
Fifteen divisions, 233 boats and close to 2,000 sailors from Australia, New Zealand and around the world spent Hamilton Island Race Week in the Whitsundays dashing around tropical islands with only saltwater hitting the decks, until the final afternoon rainstorm…
Four titles were won at the Laser Radial Youth World Championships in Kiel, Germany, and pointedly, three of them went to Italy, with one to Britain, sailors spoilt with all types of conditions from strong to light, shifting winds. “Therefore,…
New Moon (Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov, BAH) has won 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, after a thrilling final day of racing in the Solent. Marie-Françoise XIX, (Jürg Menzi, Jurgen Eiermann,…
Multiple divisions at Hamilton Island Race week are going into the final race on Saturday needing those last points to cement victory, while in a couple of divisions the winners are already quietly celebrating. Ray ‘Hollywood’ Roberts’ Fast 40 Team…
Wind and waves increased quite a bit on Friday, and a storm front approaching Kiel in Germany on the second last day of the Laser Radial Youth Worlds after the first race had finished, but passed as the boats waited…
A new windward/leeward course around Yandala and Edwards Islands to the north-east of Hamilton Island benefitted Peter Harburg’s Queensland 100-footer Black Jack. They took a first line honours win off Wild Oats XI from four starts, despite potentially handicapping themselves…
Cowes produced a complete contrast of conditions on the penultimate day of the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes with wind ranging from 5 to 22 knots. However New Moon, BAH 21, (Mark…
The overnight leader at the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, John B, BAH 22, (Gavin McKinney, Lars Horn-Johannessen, Mathias Dahlman) extended her lead after a first and a fifth on the third…
Air of tension within the boat park – things are getting serious and the winds dropping allowing the lighter crews the chance to hit the front. After a postponement ten seconds before the start of Race 5, which would have…
A typical Whitsunday winter blessed the Hamilton Island Race Week fleet: sun, wind and whales, to see out the first half of the annual Whitsunday series. The classic long and medium race for IRC division 1 and 2 was a 50…
Defending world champions, John B, BAH 22, (Gavin McKinney, Lars Horn-Johannessen, Mathias Dahlman) put on the best performance on the second day of the 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes with a first…
Morning breeze on at Hamilton Island left some opting for an extra layday while those who did venture out in the sou’easterlies were paid handsomely with moderating conditions and another perfect pour of winter sunshine at Hamilton Island Race Week…
From 24-27 August, the Extreme Sailing Series of hydrofoiling GC32 and double-handed Flying Phantom fleets will foil into Cardiff Bay as the headline act of Cardiff Harbour Festival. Racing in an amphitheatre style, inland course with fickle and fluctuating winds,…
The 2018 International 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, UK opened Monday with one afternoon race that was won by New Moon, BAH 21, (Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov). Nearly seventy years ago the…
Phil Sharp's Imerys Clean Energy is under 200 miles from the finish, Tony Lawson's Concise 8, skippered by Jack Trigger is stalking the leader. The battle for line honours is expected to conclude today (AUS time) with both teams well…
Not much information coming through but no need, the Australians revelled in the brisker wind conditions of San Francisco Bay and stormed up the leader board after an earlier showing by the British. It was day four and race three…
An unhurried start gave way to a magic opening race around the Molle Islands group for most of the 233 yacht crews contesting Hamilton Island Race Week 2018. On the water, day one began quietly with all but IRC, Hamilton…
In very tricky conditions, Lucy Macgregor and her British Team Mac with teammates Annie Lush, Nicky Walsh, and Kate Macgregor were declared 2018 Women’s Match Racing world champions in Ekaterinburg, Russia, defeating the French Match in Pink by Normandy Elite…
After yesterday's Practice Race, the main course began at Richmond Yacht Club, USA and the British contingency is on a high after winning the Team Racing regatta which was the starter for the intrepid skiff sailors enjoying the San Francisco…
Hamilton Island Race Week’s second largest fleet since inauguration has 233 boat crews itching to get off the dock and into forecast trade winds; at least for the first three days of the annual Whitsunday series, August 18 – 25….
Middle Harbour Yacht Club is gearing up for another busy season of youth sailing with a number of programs put in place. Discover Sailing Centre The Club is delighted to welcome back Andrew Phillips who is leading the MHYC Discover…
Ekaterinburg’s famous Verkh-Isetsky pond keeps presenting the sailors with great challenges and the penultimate day of the 2018 Women’s Match Racing World Championship saw the trend continue as the field was reduced to four teams in a strong north-westerly wind….
The top four teams after the round robin earned the rights to play tourist for the day and explore the historic city of Ekaterinburg while the remaining teams fought for the chance to join the top four in the quarter…
Australia’s squad for the first official Tokyo 2020 Olympic test event next month will be headlined by six of the seven sailors who won medals at the 2016 Rio Games, Australian Sailing announced today. The strong squad of 19 also…
Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week surpassed expectations – anyone would be hard put to remember better weather at a regatta, accentuated by the variety of winds, courses and the sunny days. At the top end, winds…
John Eren, Victorian Minister for Tourism, Sport & Major events, announced that Royal Geelong Yacht Club will host the following world championships during February and March 2020. 2020 49er world championship 2020 49er FX world championship 2020 Nacra world championship…
The second day of round robin sailing in Ekaterinburg, Russia, at the 2018 Women’s Match Racing World Championship saw a change of conditions as the first four teams punched their tickets for the Quarter Finals and will wait for the…
Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Airlie Beach Race Week comes to a close this afternoon and the final day of racing is likely to be superb, according to Race Director Dennis Thompson, who says competitors will sail in the remnants of…
The nomination period for individuals to submit who they believe should be crowned Rolex World Sailor of the Year is now open. Anyone can nominate male and female sailors in any discipline of the sport. Click here to nominate a…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Fancy owning an America's Cup catamaran? Got a spare $200,000? Then Sir Ben Ainslie is looking for you. The boat is a proven winner and has even been sailed by British royalty. Ainslie is selling the…
The racing for the 2018 Women’s Match Racing World Championship got underway under cloudy skies with a light rain falling most of the day. But the dark skies did not dim the enthusiasm as the sailors and race officials hit…
Day 5 of Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing and conditions during the morning were above and beyond the forecast 15 knots, the wind whipping seas up quickly and crews had to stay on their toes, then winds eased…
CHICAGO – Leif Sigmond called it a “great precursor” to the Farr 40 World Championship, and that assessment seemed spot on. A strong fleet of 10 Farr 40s gathered at the Chicago Yacht Club for the Verve Cup and four…
Another day, at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week and the wind gods pulling out all stops with a 22-23 knot south-easterly breeze on order – different again to the previous three days of racing. “They…
Renowned navigator and marine biologist, Will Oxley, is to attend opening night at 2018 SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week to impart his weather knowledge – and it is anticipated the Townsville sailor will recount a story or two on his…
Queenslander Dennis Lehany’s Jim Brown 6 metre trimaran, Billy the Kid, flipped while racing in shifty and gusty 25 knot winds at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing today. Three fellow racing yachts went to their…
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