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Charlie Julien’s Rated X Reigns Supreme at M32 Miami Winter Series Kickoff MIAMI (Jan. 12, 2025) — “To win is the best feeling ever,” said Charlie Julien after his Rated X team claimed the tiebreaker victory over Ava Wilson’s Convexity. Julien…
(Macao, January 12, 2025) – Great Britain’s Ian Williams and his Pindar by Manuport Logistics Team of Richard Sydenham, Jon Gundersen and Gerry Mitchell have been crowned champions of the inaugural Macao Match Cup, the opening event of the 2025…
Magpie AUS1486 skippered by Graeme Taylor, with James Mayo and Ben Lamb have maintained their lead in the Etchells World Championship 2025 with a 7, 1, 2 with a total of 17 (now with one drop). The next closest, DanEgerous…
It was an emphatic as it was impressive. Manly boat Harken lived up to all the pre-regatta hype and expectation to blow the opposition out of the water and claim the Australian 13ft Skiff Championship by an astonishing 21 points…
(Macao, January 11, 2025) – The penultimate day of the 2025 Macao Match Cup saw the completion of the Quarter-finals stage of the event with Great Britain’s Ian Williams, USA’s Chris Poole and Gavin Brady, and New Zealand’s Nick Egnot-Johnson…
The Etchells World Championship 2025 is looking like a family affair on day two of racing, with Nigel Abbott’s Tiger AUS1524 and Lisa Rose AUS1484, skippered by Jack Abbott AUS1484 both featuring in the results. Nigel Abbott, who celebrated a…
Young gun etches names into skiff history books Manly’s IMEI, skippered by Joel Beashel and with old hands Rob Napper and Trent Barnabas aboard, has claimed victory in the 2025 Hervey Bay Boat Club 16ft Skiff Australian Championships after the…
IMEI surfs into lead as Hervey Bay becomes heavy One of the cushier jobs at Queensland’s Hervey Bay is to be a surf lifesaver at a beach with no surf – until yesterday, that is, when the waterway bared its…
The final day of the ACO 14th Musto Skiff 2025 Worlds started with Jon Newman and Andy Tarboton on equal points. Andy was sitting at the top of the leaderboard on countback, and Rob Richardson was just a couple of…
(Macao, January 10, 2025) – It was an all-action day at the 2025 Macao Match Cup as the twelve teams were put to the test in the final matches of the qualifying round-robin stage to decide which eight teams would…
The second event of SailGP’s record-breaking 2025 Season takes place next weekend on January 18/19, with the F50 fleet going head to head in Auckland for the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix. Ahead of the event, teams have posted…
Defending World Champions Magpie AUS1486 skippered by Graeme “GT” Taylor with James Mayo and Ben Lamb lead the Etchells World Championship 2025 after day one at the Royal Brighton Yacht Club, following a pair of second places in the first…
MIAMI (Jan. 10, 2025) — The high-flying M32 fleet has returned to its winter home on Biscayne Bay, with an arsenal of catamarans assembling at Shake-A-Leg Miami for the 11th edition of the M32 Winter Series. This season, the M32…
World Sailing is thrilled to announce the launch of the first World Sailing Inclusion Championships, a groundbreaking event set to celebrate and showcase inclusivity in the sport of sailing with a focus on disability. The event celebrates the diverse community…
It was the penultimate day of the ACO 14th Musto Skiff 2025 Worlds, and the fleet was presented with an unseasonably low-pressure system bringing with it rain and a strong southerly. There were 4 races planned for the day to…
Richard Lynn and his team sailing Gordon have won the Prince Philip Cup, the Australian Dragon class championship by just one point after a nail biting final day of the series, hosted by Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and sailed…
Richard Lynn and his team sailing Gordon are clinging to a one point lead at the end of the penultimate day of the Dragons’ Prince Philip Cup, the class’s Australian Championships. Chalking up two second places today Lynn, crewed by…
The Etchells World Championship 2025 kicks off with full force on Friday following Thursday’s practice race. The first to cross the line was David Dunn, owner and skipper of Great White Hunter AUS1483 after a beautiful final work which he…
At just 19 years of age, Mattias Coutts has taken out the PredictWind Moth World Championships at his home venue, Manly Sailing Club with a crowd of fans and spectators cheering him on from the sidelines. The final day of the PredictWind Moth World Championships was…
(Macao, January 8, 2025) – Twelve teams tackled light conditions today on the opening race day of the 2025 Macao Match Cup as the first eight flights of the qualifying round-robin stage were completed. Defending Match Racing World Champion Ian…
Following a night of heavy rain, the fleet arrived at the club knowing a new weather system was now in play. The wind had swung round to a little west of south, a fairly rare thing in these parts, and…
After 12 races showcasing a vast range of conditions on the waters off Manly in Brisbane, Zac Littlewood and Mara Stransky have emerged victorious at the 2025 ILCA Oceania and Australian Championship in the ILCA7 and ILCA6 classes, respectively. The…
It was game on for the penultimate day of racing at the PredictWind Moth World Championships at Manly Sailing Club, north of Auckland for the first day of finals racing. After three days of qualifying, with nine races completed, the…
Macao (7 January, 2025) The 2025 World Match Racing Tour season kicks off this week at the all-new Macao Match Cup, 8-12 January, hosted alongside the annual MGM Macao International Regatta organized by the Sports Bureau of the Macao SAR…
Light air specialists the ones to watch at skiff nationals Queensland’s Hervey Bay is renowned as the whale-watching capital of Australia but yesterday it was the giants of sailing who entertained spectators aboard a tour boat as Race 4 of…
First and third places on a day of boat busting conditions were enough to keep Richard Lynn and the Gordon crew at the top of the leader board on the second day of the Dragons’ Prince Philip Cup, the class’s…
The final day of the Wireless Communications International 505 World Championships was crazy. Racing started early at 11am. Two races were planned. The weather was beautiful, the breeze in the morning was easterly, straight offshore. The forecast was for 15-20kn…
Richard Lynn and his crew sailing Gordon have grabbed an early lead at the end of the first day of the Prince Philip Cup, the Dragon Australian Championships, being hosted by the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club on Perth’s Swan…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) is proud to announce the Club’s entry for the highly anticipated return of the Admiral’s Cup in 2025. Representing the CYCA and Australia will be Zen, the well-known TP52 owned by Gordon Ketelby, and…
Day two of the Musto Skiff World Championships dawned with blue skies and a slightly lighter forecast than day 1, and with the building tide and the NE breeze at 15 to 20 kts, it provided a glamorous set of…
Conditions for day 4 of the Wireless Communications International 505 World Championships were windy. The forecast was for 20-25kn South East -South Freshening to 30 knots late in the day. We expected the strongest part of the breeze to be…
It’s well known that you can’t win a nine-race series on Day 1 but the Imagine Signage crew of Nathan Wilmot, Ricky Bridge and Simon Hoffman made a commanding statement yesterday as the 2025 Hervey Bay Boat Club 13ft and…
Willy Packer sailing Scoundrel made a clean sweep of the Dragon class’s Ted Albert Memorial series, winning all three races, but by his own admission there was a bit of luck involved. Sailing with Randall Harding and Jock Packer the…
With the Pre-Worlds behind us, the fleet strapped in for what promised to be a bold and beautiful first day of the Musto Skiff World Championships with a strong north-easterly blowing down the main harbour against an ebb tide and…
Reigning Etchells World Champions, Graeme “GT” Taylor and James Mayo, with the return of former crew Ben Lamb on Magpie AUS1486 sailed an incredibly consistent final day in variable conditions to take the pre-Worlds regatta win. In what ended up…
An earlier start didn’t bother the young Kiwis who were the first out of the boat park for Day 2 of the PredictWind Moth World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand. The home advantage is making waves on the scoreboard with Mattias…
Mal Hart sailing his newly launched ‘Betty’ takes Line Honours title in the TLC Healthcare CBA Nationals hosted by Sorrento Sailing and Couta Boat Club with over forty starters. Close racing between Nick Williams ‘Wagtail’, David Beck’s ‘Jocelyn’ and Harry…
The 2025 Festival of Sails will open with a truly historic spectacle, as the iconic tall ship STS Young Endeavour is announced as the official start boat for the 182nd Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race. This marks an exciting moment…
The 1200km drive north is done and dusted, so too registration and boat weighing. Now, all that remains to awaken Queensland tourist town Hervey Bay from its summer slumber is for racing to commence tomorrow in The Boat Club Australian…
Willy Packer sailing Scoundrel sailed to a comfortable win in the opening race of the Ted Albert Memorial Series, the warm up regatta for the Dragons’ Prince Philip Cup, their national championship. Crewed by Randall Harding and Jock Packer, Willy…
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