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The passing of Jim ‘Ace’ Mowtell, long-time Australian 18 Footers League member and director of the Australian 18 Footers League since 1993, will be celebrated at the Club at 2pm on Tuesday, 2 August. ‘Ace’ was a true character in…
Portugal: Normally 44Cup events are decided in the final gybes of the last leg of the last race after four days of competition. But at the 44Cup Cascais, the second of the 2022 series for the high-performance owner-driver one designs,…
Hamilton, Bermuda: Tom Slingsby’s Australian crew has finished the first day of racing in Bermuda in third place, despite the team’s mixed performance, while newcomer, Canada, has taken a surprise lead. The battle between the world’s top sailors erupted on…
Portugal: After two days of sun, Atlantic swell and prevailing north westerlies, conditions turned around for day three of the 44Cup Cascais, as overnight the wind veered into the south and in the morning the eight RC44 teams waited ashore…
Portugal: On the opening day of the 44Cup Cascais we saw the rare occurrence of one boat – Nico Poons’ Charisma – winning all three races, but on Day 2, it was back to the 44Cup ‘norm’ with lead changes…
The 52 Super Series fleet arrived in Baiona, Spain this week and with it the countdown to the start of the Abanca 52 Super Series Baiona Sailing Week to be held from 23-28 starting to feel very real. The preparations…
Two dozen maxi yachts are set to contest the annual Regata dei Tre Golfi that departs on Saturday evening (14 May) from Naples, Italy, with the 67th edition of Italy’s second oldest offshore race forming the opening event and offshore…
Bermuda: After taking home the SailGP Championship trophy for the second season running, Tom Slingsby, the Australia Team driver and CEO announced today that the team will donate $72,000 (AUD) from the team’s $1,000,000 prize purse to its Race For…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Finn Tapper has won the Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta, hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (RSYS), for the second year running. Eight youth teams representing a range of clubs from NSW…
In its 25th year the Mooloolaba Australasian Etchells Championship has hit a hurdle causing the event to be postponed in 2022. The national regatta was due to be held from June 9 to 12. International Etchells Australia representative Jan Muysken…
Despite the “super shifty” northeasterly winds and occasional downpours on the penultimate day of Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta on Sydney Harbour, the teams and the umpires, led by Chief Umpire Damien Boldyrew, still came to…
One of the most coveted trophies in the sport of sailing will be raced for next week at Fragila Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy. The 2022 Finn Gold Cup opens on Sunday with an impressive 110 entries from 23…
Portugal: Monaco-based Dutchman Nico Poons’ Charisma defied the odds to win all three races on the opening day of the 44Cup Cascais. This annihilation of his ultra-competitive opposition comes after Charisma was on the ‘receiving end’, having suffered an eighth-place…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is now welcoming entries from boats across Australia and abroad for a historic edition of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race in 2022. Following cancellations in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19…
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (RSYS) really turned on the charm as host of the Farr 40 25th Year Anniversary Regatta on May 7-8. For Saturday’s race, Principal Race Officer Rob Ridley set off the eight-boat fleet on a passage race around…
Following on from its inshore and offshore circuits in the Mediterranean, for 2022 the International Maxi Association introduced its new Caribbean Maxi Challenge. Following January’s RORC Transatlantic Race in association with the IMA, the Caribbean Maxi Challenge comprised the RORC…
Portugal: Igor Lah, tactician Adrian Stead and their CEEREF powered by Hrastnik 1860 are the team with the biggest target on their back going into the 44Cup Cascais, which sets sail tomorrow. In early February the Slovenian team won the…
SailGP’s highly anticipated Season 3 is set to kick off in a matter of days, but Japan will not race in the first three events of Season 3, resulting in a bespoke scoring system for the Season 2 runner up….
The nature of the boats and the people who have sailed them over the past 130 years always made 18 footer racing unique in the sailing/yachting world and one of the unique parts of the sport has been the gambling…
Emirates Team New Zealand have been continuing the successful commissioning and testing of their hydrogen powered foiling chase boat ‘Chase Zero’ on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf since its launch just five weeks ago. The team have now run Chase Zero for…
Smile you are on camera! Check out the amazing photos from the first day of racing for the Hardy Cup 2022, hosted by Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. After a slow start in a dying westerly, teams were treated to a…
Zoe Dransfield is 19-years-old, yet she has taken the Australian sailing community by storm. I talked to the two-time Flying Eleven National champion and 470 sailor about her passion for sailing. Zoe Dransfield was a six-year-old in 2009 when her…
Raise a sail and a glass to Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité at the Queensland French Yacht Owners Association Inc inaugural 2022 Bastille Day Race on Saturday July 16, supported by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. On July 14, 1789, Parisian…
From the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA): The CYCA mourns the passing of 20 year Member, Dean Harrigan. Dean joined the CYCA in 1998 and was a generous supporter of youth sailing and the CYCA’s Youth Sailing Academy, sponsoring…
Sydney: The eight competing teams for the 2022 Hardy Cup (May 9-13), hosted by Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, are currently on the water relishing their first international match racing regatta in two years. Under a bright sun and a building…
SailGP welcomed more viewers, attendees, online followers and athletes than ever in Season 2, while making a greater positive impact on the planet, as the league releases its look back at Season 2. From the broadcast product to the on-water…
Tom Slingsby’s Australian crew commenced training on the Great Sound in Bermuda today, with newest and youngest team member Natasha Bryant getting behind the wheel of the F50. Bryant, 21, of Sydney will join the team for Season 3 through…
In December 2023, the southern end of Port Phillip Bay will come to life, with Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club set to host the International Waszp Games (Worlds). Sorrento has been a fantastic supporter of Waszp sailing since the class…
The first iQFOiL foiling tack has just been completed by a 15-year-old. The performance gap between youth and senior sailors has never been smaller. iQFOiL history was written by 15-year-old Harry Joyner from Australia as he foiled through the first-ever…
Spain: The Wally Cento Galateia won the IRC-IMA Maxi division at Mallorca’s big boat season opener PalmaVela with a perfect scoreline of six wins from six starts. Galateia in a final light-winds coastal race back-and-forth across the Bay of Palma maintained their…
After a two-year hiatus the 53rd edition of Antigua Sailing Week was brimming with success. The trade winds blew all week, with the international fleet enjoying exhilarating racing in sailing paradise. The compliments from sailors from the four corners of…
After a slow day punctuated by a long wait for the breeze to reappear, the Bay of Palma returned to what might be considered ‘normal service’ today for the 100-boat field racing the penultimate day of Mallorca’s PalmaVela regatta. For…
The final day of racing at Antigua Sailing Week featured a full schedule of racing for all classes, with teams from over 20 countries competing, making for a welcome return after the disruption of travel for the last two years….
Next week, the 44Cup will return to the Portuguese sailing mecca of Cascais for event two of its 2022 season, with racing in the eight high-performance one-design monohulls to take place from 11-15 May. Joining the fleet for the first…
Spain: The Wally Cento Galateia retains an unbeaten record at the 18th edition of PalmaVela and after three races leads the IRC-IMA Maxi fleet by six points with two days of racing to go. After conclusively winning Thursday’s blustery 28…
Following on from the success of the new two-week format, which won widespread approval during the unforgettable 2021 edition the Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez, which is consistently in the vanguard of development, is opening up its 2022 start lines to…
SailGP Season 3 launches on May 14-15 and is back bigger and bolder, with an expanded season, new national teams, innovative tech, world-class athletes and even more impact, all of which will guarantee high speeds, fierce rivalries and some breath-taking…
Victoria, Australia: Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club’s (QCYC) Commodore Lee Renfree is on a mission to encourage more women to become active participants in keelboat sailing. Elected as the Club’s first female commodore in October 2021, she acutely observed the low…
Locman Italy Women’s Day at Antigua Sailing Week was blessed with solid trade winds of 15-18 knots, just north of east, with squall activity raising the tempo during the day. All 15 classes completed their full programme of races with…
The 18th edition of Mallorca’s showcase PalmaVela regatta opened with a blast of gusty northeasterly winds which produced spectacular, challenging conditions during the 28 miles coastal race which was sailed by the seven strong fleet of IRC-IMA Maxi yachts. Revelling…
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