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Geelong’s 2023 Festival of Sails will mark a number of key milestones for local sailor Geoff Newman who is officially the 100th entrant in next year’s event. As the regatta gets set to celebrate a major milestone when it returns…
This Saturday will see a bumper fleet hit the start line for the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s novel short ocean race, the Two Capes Race. Sponsored by the Hobart law firm, Wallace Wilkinson and Webster, the race will start off Wrest…
Sunday’s Race 1 of the NSW 18ft skiff Championship is the first step of a long campaign towards becoming the world’s best team at the 2023 JJ Giltinan Championship next March on Sydney Harbour. With the return of the triple…
Western Australian Zoe Thomson has rounded out a consistent week at the ILCA European Championships, finishing eighth overall at the regatta in Hyeres, France. The Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club athlete maintained her form across challenging conditions in a six…
Entrants in the 183rd Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on 30 January 2023 will have the chance to win several major spot prizes totalling well over $10,000 in value, plus much more, thanks to the generosity of the event’s sponsors. Regatta…
Sunday, 20 November 2022Sydney Harbour The Yandoo 18ft skiff team of John (Woody) Winning, Fang Warren and Josh Porebski became the 2022-23 Spring champions after 30-35 knot westerly winds battering Sydney Harbour forced the abandonment of today’s scheduled final race…
For the first time in 30yrs of the event, racing was Abandoned late in the afternoon on the final day before any racing took place due to weather conditions in Pittwater. As a result, the final placings were based on…
There were big scores all around on the penultimate day of the ILCA European Championships in Hyeres, France, with the results shaking up the overall event leaderboard. Following an early start, three races were completed for both the ILCA 6…
Race Day Saturday 19 November 2022 Tough Day on the River Strong and gusty north-easterly winds of around 25 knots roughed up the fleet in the Combined Clubs Harbour Series racing conducted by Bellerive Yacht Club on Saturday. Several boats…
The first day of Finals racing got underway at the ILCA European Championships in Hyeres, France, with the wind conditions continuing to mystify both sailors and the Race Committee. The ILCA 6 fleet only completed one race today due to…
Qualifying concluded today at the ILCA European Championships with just one race being completed in funky conditions. The off-shore Mistral direction persisted during the morning, however following a postponement due to the strong winds, the wind dissipated and became very…
After three full power Freestyle events in the 2022 season, Mikaili Sol and Gianmaria Coccoluto were crowned as the Qatar Airways GKA Freestyle-Kite World Champions on Saturday 12th November in Taiba, Brazil. Following earlier events in Salinas del Rey, and…
Following a short postponement, racing got underway in Hyeres, France for day two of the ILCA European Championships in another strong Mistral breeze. The westerly wind pushed in hard but fell off throughout the day to keep sailors on their…
Matchless sails south from Whitsundays to compete in QOIN Sail Paradise 2023 The countdown is on and with just under 60 days to go over 40 of the best Grand Prix level offshore racing yachts from Brisbane, the Gold Coast…
Australia’s sailors came out firing in Hyeres, France on day one of the Senior ILCA European Championships, with three sailors coming home with race wins. After spending the last week training in a predominately on-shore easterly breeze, the Aussies found…
The 2022 Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship will host the World’s best youth match racing talent, with competitors coming from across the globe including America, New Zealand, New Caledonia and a strong representation from across Australia. After a two-year…
Entries are ramping up for the much anticipated Australian Etchells Championships, which will be held at Adelaide’s Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia from 7-12 January next year. A total of 17 boats are already entered into the event, including…
Billed as the ‘must’ do’ regatta to boost sailing skillsets ahead of the summer season of major yachting events, the 2022 Nautilus Marine Insurance Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) is gathering momentum following the opening of entries in late…
Kraken Scoops the Pool in TasPorts Maria Island Race Kraken 42S, a Cookson 12 owned and sailed by Mark Bayles and Andrew Sinclair, won all three handicap divisions in last weekend’s TasPorts 75th Maria Island Race. In one of the…
Auckland (13 November, 2022) Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink match racing team from France have successfully defended their world title winning the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson World Women’s Match Racing Championships in Auckland, New Zealand. The team were…
There are days in competition that truly go down in the history books and day two of the Copa Kitley GKA Freestyle-Kite World Cup Brazil in Taiba is one of them. As the final Freestyle event of the season, the…
World number 1, Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink team from France, lead the qualifying round at the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship after two days of racing in challenging conditions on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour….
Auckland, New Zealand (10 November 2022) The home of the America’s Cup delivered thrilling conditions for the opening day of the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the final stage of the Women’s World Match Racing Tour….
The Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand is set for its second consecutive week of world-class sailing with the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron hosting the Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championships from 9-13 November, the final event…
The latest in a line of Rag & Famish Hotel 18ft skiffs, dating back to 1996, was launched in the rigging area alongside the Australian 18 Footers League clubhouse in Double Bay on Sunday October 30 and continues the unbroken,…
New teams, a new coach and new equipment have been the keys to unlocking Australia’s quest for success in the 49erFX class at the Paris 2024 Olympics. The squad, which is comprised of experienced Olympians and emerging talent, competed overseas…
Sebastian Bohm’s NSW based TP52 Smuggler is among the latest entries received by Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC) for the 2023 Festival of Sails, Australia’s oldest and largest keelboat regatta, to be held from 26 to 29 January 2023. Campaigning…
18ft SkiffsSpring Championship, Race 4Today’s Trophy: Eric Bowen Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: Rag & Famish HotelSunday, 6 November 2022Sydney Harbour The Noakes Youth team of Tom Cunich, George Richardson and Jed Cruikshank took full advantage of the 3-buoys handicap system to…
Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart’s Lazy Dog is both 2022 MC38 season champion and three-time back-to-back Australian champion after sealing the national series on Sydney Harbour nine points clear of Steven Proud’s Swish. “We had good teamwork by the end…
Three wins from four starts for Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart’s Lazy Dog branded her breakaway MC38 and boat of the day on day two of the class’s Australian Championship. In perfect spring conditions, an east-north-easterly 10-15 knot breeze on…
Following a very successful 2022 season, celebrating 10 years since the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit started in Barcelona in 2012, the 52 Super Series again follows the preferences of its passionate, committed owners in 2023, with an itinerary…
The 2022-23 Spring 18ft skiff Championship reaches the half-way mark on Sunday (November 6) when the Australian 18 Footers League conducts Race 4 of the seven-race series, for the Eric Bowen Memorial Trophy, on Sydney Harbour. Racing in the series…
Nine MC38s will vie for the class Australian Championship this weekend, among them the first all-female crew, as a trophy trifecta is dangling in front of the defending champion, Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart’s Lazy Dog. The national title will…
Tracy Richardson, President of the Adams Ten Class Association of Australia, remembers her first impression of an Adams 10 in 2014 like it was yesterday. “I have a very vivid memory of coming down the marina at Middle Harbour Yacht…
Juliet Costanzo, Sarah Parker, Evelyn Foster, Jemma Hodgson & Rosie Rowell have been crowned John Messenger and Australian Women’s Match Racing Champions this weekend, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Juliet has reclaimed both trophies for the Royal…
Club Championship, Race 1Today’s Trophy: Mick Scully Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: NoakesSunday, October 30 2022Sydney Harbour The first championship-style race of the 2022-23 Australian 18 Footers League season was sailed on Sydney Harbour today in a 10-15 knot North east breeze…
With no racing possible due to the absence of wind today, Doug DeVos’s Quantum Racing secured the 52 Super Series Barcelona Week title – their fourth regatta title of the five events this year – and in so doing conclusively…
Another sunny day and a sea breeze greeted the sailors for the last day of Final racing at the 470 World Championships in Sdot-Yam, Israel where Western Australian pair, Nia Jerwood and Conor Nicholas, finished third in the Silver fleet,…
The penultimate day of the 2021 season at Barcelona Sailing Week proved a painful one for the Plattner family’s Phoenix team and so it was again today, as the five-regatta 2022 52 Super Series season tapers down to the final…
Start line action from the Passage Race on Sunday. Just a reminder of how close things can get on the beautiful boats. Sometimes a bit too close for Southerly given that red flag being waved at them.
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