Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team today won both the GC32 Menor Mar Cup on Spain’s Costa Calida as well as the 2021 GC32 Racing Tour title. This week’s GC32 Mar Menor Cup has been supported and hosted by the Club Náutico…
We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of respected Tasmanian sailor and friend, Greg ‘Enzo’ Prescott. A champion across a variety of classes, Enzo raced in 29 Sydney Hobarts, his first in 1980 as a 17-year-old aboard the…
Consistent results in the top group sees Germany’s Platoon and South Africa’s Phoenix locked in a three-way tussle with the USA flagged Sled for the Rolex TP52 World Championship title on the Bay of Palma. After six races only one…
The next edition of The Ocean Race will feature the longest Southern Ocean leg in the 50-year history of the event, an incredible 12,750 nautical mile marathon between Cape Town, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil. This is just one of…
This Thursday, the competitors further south in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet have hung a right and are now on a direct route to the West Indies, propelled by the north-easterly trade winds. Sailors started the second leg of…
A fleet of over 26 yachts will contest the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Gascoigne Cup, one of the oldest and most prestigious short offshore races on the summer calendar, off Sydney Heads this Saturday. This will be the 112th running…
Uniting behind a set of principles, sports organisations and their communities have created an initiative by collaborating in order to position their sector on the path of the low carbon economy that global leaders agreed on in Paris: Sports for…
Sail Sydney is Australia’s premier regatta for ‘Off the Beach’ dinghy classes. Held annually on the waters of Sydney Harbour, this year’s Sail Sydney will take place from Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 December 2021. Woollahra Sailing Club is proud…
France’s Pauline Courtois, Bronze medallist at the 2019 Women’s Match Racing World Championship, on Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team took gold in emphatic style at this year’s World Championship on home waters in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. Starting strongly, Match in…
Mallorca, Spain: With two solid wins, Hasso Plattner’s South African flagged Phoenix team lead the Rolex TP52 World Championship and move to the top of the overall 52 Super Series leaderboard. With Tom Slingsby and Cameron Dunn combining on tactics…
First organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in 1976, the 1,805nm Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race is a true marathon of epic proportions. Held every four years, the next edition will start on Sunday 7th August 2022. Roughly…
The monohulls make up the largest fleets in this year’s Transat Jacques Vabre race. Lining up on the start line will be 22 60 foot IMOCAs and 45 Class40 boats. We asked the skippers for their race favourites. IMOCA 60s – An impossible…
Melbourne turned on the perfect weather for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) ‘Return to Racing Celebration’ race, with Leo Cantwell’s Cavalier 350 Sl Magic Bullet taking first place on AMS and the overall win. A fleet of 21 yachts from six Port Phillip Bay clubs sailing in perfect conditions participated in the race. “I’ve been lucky enough to…
Only three women have ever won the Transat Jacques Vabre. Incredibly, for a race so embedded in the French sporting psyche, only one of those women is from France, the other two are British. You have to go back 22…
Ideal weather conditions for the first race of the 2021/22 Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series helped competitors dust off the cobwebs after many hit the water for the first time in months following the NSW Covid-19 lockdown. The series is…
Super maxi Comanche (CAY), skippered by Australian Mitch Booth, has been confirmed as the overall winner of the 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race after taking line honours and breaking the race record. An exceptional crew of 23 included in its…
The stage is set for the return of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with a fleet of 112 boats confirmed for the 2021 running of the prestigious race. Among them is Matt Allen’s Botin 52 Ichi Ban, the 2017…
Long-time Sydney Hobart commentator and legendary Rugby Union caller Gordon Bray has been announced as the host of the 2021 Australian Sailing Awards. The Awards event will be delivered digitally in 2021, with all award winners being announced during a…
On Friday 29 October at 14:00 UTC, the 87 participants still competing in the 23rd edition of the Mini Transat EuroChef will take to the start line for the second leg of the event. After casting off from Santa Cruz…
The McIntyre Adventure Globe 580 Transat is the first event for the new amateur build: the plywood one design 5.80 Mini Ocean Racer. It is attracting strong interest with 165 builders in 27 countries. The first six launched from five…
With Sydney springing back to life in October, we are grateful for the opportunity to launch the second edition of Boating Rendezvous-Sydney in Australia. It is scheduled to take place from November 12-14 at Cockle Bay Marina, Darling Harbour. It is…
Accomplished sailor Nathan Outteridge has joined Team New Zealand for the next America’s Cup campaign. The 35-year-old Australian, a two-time Olympic medallist with a strong America’s Cup history, qualifies under the strict nationality rules to be introduced for the next…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) together with the Ocean Racing Alliance (ORA) are delighted to announce a new offshore race to start on July 21 2022. The RORC Baltic Sea Race is open to boats racing under IRC, MOCRA,…
The 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race continues to live up to its billing as a blockbuster thriller. Over Monday night the list of finishers had lifted from seven to 18 by 0900 CEST and is now up to 31 as more…
Australian Sailing has thrown its support behind World Sailing’s campaign for sailing to be reinstated at the Paralympic Games in Los Angeles (USA) in 2028. World Sailing, the governing body for the sport of sailing, this morning announced a set…
Acclaimed Queensland ocean racing yachtsman, Graham ‘Scooter’ Eaton, will put his family first when he competes in Southport Yacht Club’s Qoin Sail Paradise Regatta in January. The reason is simple; his yacht – the famous 23m long aluminium sloop, Bumblebee…
Many cruising yachties have mentioned that they have cleaned a beach but they couldn’t take the debris with them and didn’t know who to contact. Well now there is a way to handle this scenario and it’s quick and easy. …
With seven yachts in harbour, and no more expected until much later tonight (Monday) or the early hours of Tuesday, one might be excused for thinking the Rolex Middle Sea Race is over. Far from it. Close to 100 yachts…
British sailor Alex Thomson has announced he won’t compete as a skipper in the 2024 Vendée Globe, the solo, non-stop race around-the-world, but doesn’t rule out returning to the race in 2028. Thomson has competed in the IMOCA circuit for 19 years including five successive Vendée Globe’s with two podium…
Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo (USA) crossed the finish line of the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 20:39:28 CEST on Sunday October 24 to take Multihull Line Honours in an elapsed time of 33 hours 29 minutes 28 seconds. Argo has smashed both the existing multihull record of…
With a final race sailed on Saturday, Girls on Film, sailed by Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey and Ben Cornish, has retained the 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Circolo Vela Torbole, which they also won in 2019, the 2020 event cancelled…
When I spoke to Kristina Costalos on the phone from my home ‘office’ mid-Sydney lockdown (the closest body of water to me is the Cooks River in Sydney’s south-west) she was cutting up fruit on a 50ft yacht at anchor…
On November 7 2021, 81 boats will take to the start line of the 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre. Created back in 1993 and run biennially, this legendary two-handed race enables some of the big…
Triple Olympic medallist Mat Belcher is used to being at the top of his game and, in the wake of his gold medal at Tokyo 2020, has just been appointed to join the Zhik Board of Directors. The move comes…
SailGP has announced that the line-up for Season 3 – starting May 2022 – will be further enhanced with the addition of Canada. This is the league’s second expansion franchise to be announced, with Canada joining Switzerland on the start-line…
The Yachting Malta Coastal Race started at 10:00 CEST on Wednesday October 20. Forty two teams entered the race representing 17 countries. Royal Malta Yacht Club Principal Race Officer, Peter Dimech, sent the competitors on a course of approximately 30 nautical miles northwest to Comino. The…
The Brazilian navy tall ship Cisne Branco collided with a draw bridge over the Guayas River in Ecuador on Monday. Video of the incident was posted online and shows the tall ship pinned broadside against the bridge after apparently attempting…
The finalists for the 2021 Australian Sailing Awards have been announced, with volunteers, clubs and our Olympic sailing stars all in contention for Australia’s peak sailing awards. The 2020-21 season was not your standard sailing season with lockdowns and border…
Sydney Fish Market’s redevelopment is underway, with on-water works taking place to transform the iconic market into a world-class attraction on Blackwattle Bay. These works require the closure of the boardwalk’s public drop-off pontoon, with recreational vessels no longer able…
Getting crew can be fraught with danger, while Cruising Helmsman contributor Michael Kildea went through the agony he ended up with the right Juan. This is the story of Juan and me, okay more about me than Juan. I was…
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