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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…
A sports boat limped home under motor after breaking its rudder, while other boats broached in up to 25 knots wind with gusts, their crews finding it difficult to control their rides – all part and parcel of the forecast…
Three days of racing at the 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, three different types of conditions and today’s was champagne sailing, with light 7-9 knots around the course on Pioneer Bay for the entire fleet. IRC Passage was won…
Lysekil Women's Match 2018 is over and the winner is French skipper Pauline Courtois with her team Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team. Courtois ended on second place 2017, but this was her year. ”Koch’s team were very good,…
The first phase of Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification for sailing has concluded after fleet racing wrapped up in the Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17, Men’s Skiff – 49er and the Men’s and Women’s Windsurfing – RS:X. at the Hempel Sailing…
Annemiek Bekkering and Annette Deutz won a dramatic 49erFX medal race at the Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 on Saturday after Austria pair of Tanja Frank and Lorena Abicht capsized in a huge wind shift. The 49erFX was an…
Could be too much of a good thing in one place and after two great and very different days of sailing at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week, Race Director, Denis Thompson, was looking at a weak and fading…
Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing has been attracting more and more former and current skiff sailors to the Whitsunday Sailing Club hosted event. Old skiff sailors don’t die – they come to Airlie Beach and take advantage of…
Emma Plasschaert won Belgium's first world championship gold in the Laser Radial at the Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 on Friday, proving along the way that Marit Bouwmeester is beatable. On a bright and breezy day in Denmark's Bay…
Competitors in Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 30th Anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week sailed in conditions quite different to yesterday’s when a light 7 plus knot breeze wafted across Pioneer Bay and beyond, giving the light air specialists their chance to shine…
AUCKLAND, July 25, 2018. Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have today confirmed their intention to try to win another gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games as well as being part of Emirates Team New Zealand’s defence of the…
Well we have arrived in Bodstedt, Germany, the first team to set up and warmly welcomed by our great hosts, big Alex and the German contingent. We came in by dribs and drabs, Big Alex and his daughter Saskia (little…
Radio New Zealand Having run out of room to put their America's Cup win in Bermuda on the Auld Mug, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron are having a silver band on the trophy re-modelled to fit their victories on….
New York Yacht Club American Magic, the U.S. sailing team challenging for the 36th America's Cup has announced an initial roster of 17 sailors who will train and compete with the team. The accomplished group includes nine Americans and sailors…
Despite 21 past British challenges, 167 years has passed and Britain has still not won the trophy. The current holders Emirates Team New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have accepted the British challenge. In the few months…
The 30th of June 2018 marks the end of the initial challenging period for the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada, which commenced on the 1st of January 2018. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron confirms three Challenges have been…
After several years of growth the OK Dinghy continues to go from strength to strength. A number of highly successful early season events has created further interest in the class, with the fleet now attracting more top sailors looking for traditional…
Stuff.co.nz by Duncan Johnstone They are like classic pieces of silver right out of a sailor's treasure tale and they're finally back in the hands of Team New Zealand. The two chunks of buckled silver are leftovers from the three-month repair work…
Stuff.co.nz. Speculation has increased on the foiling catamarans used in last year's America's Cup in Bermuda being modified for a new professional world circuit backed by American billionaire Larry Ellison. The well-connected Tom Ehman in the United States has ramped…
Australia’s sailing stocks are set for a major boost with brother and sister duo Nathan and Haylee Outteridge returning to Olympic class competition in the Nacra 17 at the Kiel Week regatta in Germany, starting tonight (AEST). Australian Sailing Team…
The annual Barmouth to Fort William 3 Peaks Yacht Race is always a great test of endurance, in both sailing and running, and this year the weather conditions for the race pushed teams to the limits to cope with the…
David Dellenbaugh, America's Cup winning tactician and world champion strategist and helmsman, publishes a regular bulletin that gives excellent advice on every aspect of yacht racing. His latest 15 page bulletin covers the subject of a startline plan. Here is…
In the early hours of Saturday morning (9 June), a fire broke out in Lorient, Brittany, in Groupama Team France's former base utilised during the 35th America's Cup.The team said it was “extremely fortunate that there were no victims to…
Italian syndicate Sardinia Challenge has announced that it will Challenge for the America's Cup in Auckland in 2021. It joins the other formally announced challengers Luna Rossa (Italy), Ineos Team UK (Great Britain) and American Magic (US). There are rumours…
Newsroom.co.nz. By Suzanne McFadden. For the first time in the syndicate's history, Emirates Team New Zealand will build their own America's Cup yachts. The Cup defenders have decided to build the hulls of their two AC75 foiling monohulls in-house for…
Stuff.co.nz Norway is seriously considering an America's Cup challenge for Auckland 2021. It's new ground for a proud sailing nation but Christian Loken, 40, and Petter Morland Pedersen, 34, believe the land of vikings has the technology and expertise to have a decent crack at…
Being with Benny is the story of how Bob Miller, from a shattered childhood in rural Australia and only four years of schooling became one of the world’s leading yacht designers. His creation Australia II won the America’s Cup in…
NZ Herald. By Bernard Orsman. The Government has confirmed funding for the America's Cup with $100 million set aside in the budget. When a final agreement for the location of the America's Cup costing $212 million was confirmed in late…
Yachting New Zealand has come out in support of the Wynyard Hobson Application for the America’s Cup infrastructure and event, including the following: the construction works for operations as well as the plan to host events under the unitary plan…
Anyone has the right to start a petition. However, when it’s as misleading as the one about the equipment for the 2024 Sailing Olympic Games, it deserves a response. Some of the impressions that you might have from the petition…
The appointment of the Arbitration Panel for the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada has been announced today by the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand and Challenger of Record, Luna Rossa Challenge in accordance with the requirements of the Protocol…
Stuff.co.nz Sir Ben Ainslie has had to rename his America's Cup syndicate for the second time in a fortnight after a branding row with the British Olympic Association. Ainslie's Land Rover BAR team were changed to Ineos Team GB when…
NZ Herald. By: Cheree Kinnear Yachting New Zealand boss David Abercrombie has slammed the America's Cup class rule for not allocating a specific position for female sailors. The AC75 class rule, written by Emirates Team New Zealand in conjunction with Luna…
World Sailing is currently reviewing the equipment to be used in sailing events at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 and Los Angeles in 2028. As the following statement from Australian Sailing outlines, an equal number of medals for men…
The former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of the United Nations Development Program has accepted the offer from Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton to become an ongoing advocate of the team and its objectives towards defending…
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