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Stuff.co.nz Jimmy Spithill has opened up on his decision to have another crack at the America's Cup, describing the new foiling monohull as “a praying mantis on steroids” that was irresistible. Spithill, the colourful Australian who won the Cup twice…
Members of the Australian Sailing Team have arrived in the Spanish coastal town of Palma, Mallorca, where they are preparing for the first European Olympic classes event of the season; the 50th Trofeo SAR Princess Sofia in Palma, where they…
27 March, 2019 – Tortola, British Virgin Islands – “Hard to get to, harder to leave, impossible to forget” – a beloved cliché maybe but one that Brits Tony Mack and his wife Sally like to remember when they think…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 26th March 2019. The 12th edition of the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with title sponsor Loro Piana, is scheduled to take place in Porto Cervo from 3 to 8 June…
25 March, 2019 – Tortola, British Virgin Islands – A perfect day for record setting at the BVI Sailing Festival saw Fujin, the Bieker 53 catamaran owned and skippered by Greg Slyngstad, win the Nanny Cay Challenge with the fastest…
Stuff.co.nz The Netherlands has resorted to crowdfunding to keep their America's Cup challenge afloat. Cup rookies DutchSail, one of three late entries, are showing the strain of their game of catchup. They are appealing to individuals and corporates to provide €100…
The fastest rooster on Newcastle Harbour will be crowned on Saturday March 30 when Port Hunter 16 Foot Skiff Sailing Club holds its legendary Cock-of-the-Harbour as part of the inaugural 2019 SailFest Newcastle Regatta. The race name may furrow a…
Another day on the Derwent and another day of wins for Shaun Tiedemann’s Sydney 36cr Philosopher on Saturday as she sailed to an overall victory in the Combined Clubs Inshore Series for 2018-19. Philosopher convincingly won all three Division 1…
(Sanremo, 24th March 2019) – Ian Williams and his GAC Pindar team today claimed the M32 European Series warm-up event in Sanremo with a race to spare, at least. The British six time Match Racing World Champion and defending M32…
Italy: Once again Sanremo defied the forecasters for day two of the warm-up event for the 2019 M32 European Series; zero wind was predicted, but a south-westerly filled in, perfectly timed for today’s guest racing and had built to 9-10…
When the 12 Metre World Championship comes to Newport, Rhode Island this summer from July 8-13, the significance of the venue will not be lost on sailing buffs, or for that matter, on sports historians in general. The America’s Cup,…
Matt Allen and Wendy Tuck have headlined a list of winners at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s annual gala function to herald a new round of Ocean Racer of the Year recipients and acknowledge the champions of the Club’s…
The nimble M32s came into their own on the first day of the San Remo warm-up event for the 2019 M32 European Series, when the featherweight one-design catamarans provided fair, even and exciting racing in just 4-7 knots of wind….
Stuff.co.nz America's Cup veteran Jimmy Spithill has been freaked out by the new foiling monohulls to be sailed at Auckland 2021. Double winner Spithill has returned to Italian syndicate Luna Rossa for the 36th edition of the Cup and has…
London, UK (March 20, 2019) The World Match Racing Tour, under new ownership since 1 January, has announced an extension to the 2018 season in order to complete the World Championship following its sale by Aston Harald in December. The revised…
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Mar. 20, 2019) — The addition of four of the world’s top match racers, including Women’s World No. 1 Pauline Courtois of France, makes the field for the 2019 Argo Group Gold Cup one of the most diverse…
Stuff.co.nz. By Bernie Wilson. Out on Pensacola Bay, the combination of a fantastical-looking test boat called the Mule and technology from aviation giant Airbus is giving the New York Yacht Club's American Magic a flying start toward trying to win…
The inaugural edition of World Sailing's Offshore World Championship will be held in October 2020 in Valletta, Malta, alongside the Rolex Middle Sea Race. Announced in 2017, the Offshore Sailing World Championship will be a powerful platform to accelerate the…
Yachting New Zealand has joined the growing opposition to a proposal to impose high anchorage fees on superyachts intending to visit for the 2021 Amercia’s Cup. Marine Industry Association chief executive Peter Busfield has labelled the proposed fees as “scalping”…
Three generations of Hobart’s well-known sailing family, the Calverts, were aboard champion yacht Intrigue when she notched up yet another double rating win in the Combined Clubs Summer Pennant on the River Derwent on Saturday. Sailing with owner/skipper Don Calvert…
It was clear that the fight to take the Paul & Shark Trophy, International Dragon Cup, would be tough and decided down to the very last race for the teams aiming at the podium. Going into the last racing day…
2019 is set to be a year of great changes in the Copa del Rey MAPFRE. Following the recent announcement of the new classification system (including a final stage and the new distribution of the ORC classes), a new Women’s…
Some of the largest and fastest multihulls, both catamarans and trimarans, will descend on Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing to compete in the 2019 Australian Multihull Championship, to be held from 8-15 August. The…
Mount Gay Rum was one of the original sponsors of the BVI Spring Regatta (BVISR) having first partnered with the popular Caribbean regatta in 1972 through its distributor, Road Town Wholesale. The brand, synonymous with sailing, has always been an…
Following the press release sent out by the Defender in the early hours of 15 March 2019, regarding the most recent decision of the Arbitration Panel, the Challenger of Record wishes to clarify that the New York Yacht Club was…
Sail Port Stephens 2019 has welcomed aboard Bannisters Port Stephens as a new sponsor for its entrée event, the Commodores Cup, starting April 8. The three passage races that constitute the Commodores Cup take competitors on a scenic loop around…
The America’s Cup Arbitration Panel decision finding all three Late Entry challenges to be valid has been released today. The Challenger of Record and the Defender had already reached a settlement agreement under which the validity of the Challenges was…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is the first club to enter a team for the April National Sailing League Final in Sydney. CYCA Youth Sailing Academy head coach Jordan Reece won’t name his youth team just yet. He still…
The Australian MC38 class will commence its national regatta with weigh ins taking place on Thursday 14th March, to compete across the following three days. Hosted at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, the weekend will see the fleet in…
Entries are open for Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron’s (RMYS) 29th Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) and Victorian competitors are throwing down the gauntlet; many will come fresh from competing in the 2018/19 Port Phillip Women’s Championship in Melbourne, ending on…
In 2019 the International Maxi Association (IMA) celebrates the 40th anniversary of its establishment by notable maxi boat owners of the day, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Raul Gardini, John Kilroy and William Whitehouse-Vaux. From its modest, relatively low-key beginnings, today…
Tom and Alan Quick’s Outlaw sailed in a league of its own at the three-day Farr 40 National Championship: John Calvert-Jones Trophy, eight wins from 10 starts creaming the rest of the fleet and creating an extraordinary 22-point buffer back…
After moderate sea breeze conditions on the first day and even lighter northerly winds on the final day, the SA Youth Champs are now in the books with the champions crowned across the five classes. Competitors from the 420, International…
New Zealand’s Honda Marine 18ft Skiff team of David McDiarmid, Matt Steven and Brad Collins became the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan champions today, when they successfully defended the title they won last year on Sydney Harbour. Honda Marine completed…
Stuff.co.nz. By Harrison Christian and Nicole Lawton. Former America's Cup sailor Simone de Mari has been badly injured in a surfing accident. The incident reportedly happened last Sunday, and the Italian-born athlete was taken to Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. A spokesperson…
Famous former America’s Cup challenger Gretel II showed her evergreen racing ability in yesterday’s final race of the Cygnet Regatta Weekend, winning both the Classics and Division One. The regatta, first held in 1863 and revived by the proactive Port…
Points are starting to spread out at the Farr 40 Australian National Championship: John-Calvert Jones Trophy after three more races on a gloomy day two offshore, but Tom and Alan Quick’s stronghold on the national championship tightened with two further…
The New Zealand champion ASCC team of Josh Porebski/Jack Simpson/Dave Hazard produced a brilliant performance to win Race 8 of the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour. Despite the brilliance of the ASCC victory, the…
In what is possibly a world first, two winning America’s Cup skippers from different eras – John Bertrand and Glenn Ashby – will sail together to compete in the Victorian Etchells Championship from 9 to 11 March at Royal Geelong…
In building nor’easters, Outlaw seized three bullets from four races on Day 1 of the Farr 40 Nationals, only Sam Hill’s Forty able to slow the Quicks’ momentum. “My team was fantastic; it was a pleasure to go sailing today,”…
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