Stuart Richardson and his crew aboard the yacht Solera has secured a double victory in the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC) based team sailed to victory in both the Fully Crewed PHS and…
Alan Punch, an RYA Navigation Instructor with Navathome Australia, gives some sage advice on how to plan for your next sailing adventure. There is nothing like the thought of casting off and going wherever the wind takes you to represent the…
Belmont, Lake Macquarie: Today the sou’east breezes that fluctuate markedly in strength and direction separated the seasoned campaigners from their younger challengers, following Races 4 and 5 of the 21-22 Red Pumps 16ft Skiff Australian Championship. The yellow jerseys have…
The record Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) fleet is in Puerto Calero and Marina Lanzarote and crews are making final preparations for the 3,000-mile race. Race navigators are studying the latest weather models and the data is predicting a fast,…
If every underdog has its day, today was it at the Red Pumps 16ft skiff Australian Championships being hosted by Belmont 16s. Unheralded local boat Domino’s delivered a 1-2 punch to be boat of the day and the new series…
Solveig, the famous 71-year-old Halvorsen 36, designed, built and raced by the equally famous seafaring Halvorsen brothers in the early years, crossed the finish line of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race at 08:42.11am this morning to bring the Cruising…
One of the smallest yachts in the fleet, a Sydney 38, has won the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria Melbourne to Hobart ‘West Coaster’ Race on handicap. Matt Fahey and his crew of six sailed Faster Forward across the Derwent…
It’s gold, gold, gold for the 16ft Skiff Australian Championships being held at Belmont, Lake Macquarie, from Sunday, January 2, as a host of former Olympic champions feature in the 47-strong fleet. Most attention will be on the all-star crew…
The number one racing boat in Australia was declared overall winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race for a third time, Matt Allen’s TP52, Ichi Ban, this morning announced the 2021 winner, so will yet again have its name…
Sydney sailor Felicity Nelson sailed across the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race finish line at 07:34:34am this morning but there was no major celebration in recognition of her milestone 25th Sydney Hobart, as she doesn’t like the fuss. Nelson has…
Tasmanians John Saul and Rob Gough etched their place in Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race history this evening by winning line honours in the inaugural Two-Handed division. The pair, sailing their Akilaria RC2 designed by Frenchman, Marc Lombard, finished the…
Guillaume Leroux’s Class 40 Lord Jiminy has claimed line honours in a challenging Melbourne to Hobart yacht race that was beset by range of strong and light winds, before ending with a perfect afternoon sea breeze in Hobart’s Derwent River….
Shane Kearns is still confident that his boat White Bay 6 Azzurro can produce an upset and claim overall victory in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. At 2.20pm, his S&S 34 was 12 nautical miles south of Cape…
Grant Chipperfield and Peter Dowdney are among the 10 remaining Two-Handed Division entries still racing in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this morning, all toughing it out in what has not been an easy race by any means….
When Jen Linkova recalled her experience almost halfway into the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race yesterday evening, the Sydneysider’s words had the air of an ocean racing rookie. However, her remarks about her highs and lows in the 76th…
David Witt could not hide his frustration for again missing out on his first Line Honours win in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after he skippered SHK Scallywag 100 to third place. Black Jack took Line Honours in the Cruising…
After Mark Bradford steered Black Jack to line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this morning, he said he knew “pretty much after the start” that the boat would win. The confident remark from Bradford to a brilliant…
On the sail from South Australia to Sydney on board the Northshore 38 Inukshuk, Rob Large (60) and Chris Riggs (63) calculated that they have a century of sailing experience between them. That should come in handy for the sailors,…
Yachts will set sail from Portsea on the afternoon of December 27 to Hobart and Devonport. Preparation for long distance ocean races, particularly those that start in Bass Strait, is onerous in any year. In 2021, with multiple lockdowns and…
Zac Heyes’ first memory of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is of the Boxing Day start, trying to see his father Paul on television somewhere in the fleet. This year, Heyes,18, will finally get to see his dad close up and…
The forecast of strong southerly winds and rough seas may be a concern for many in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race for the Boxing Day start; but not for Christian Beck. The owner/skipper of the 100-foot LawConnect, one of the…
Geelong’s iconic Festival of Sails is proud to be supporting a new entertainment program for the 2022 event, unveiling a new CBD initiative, ‘Gigs by Festival of Sails’. The Royal Geelong Yacht Club’s 2022 event will be held from Saturday,…
Ed Psaltis planned to stop sailing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after 35 starts; he tried, but it didn’t work, and nearing his 39th participation, his enthusiasm for the 628 nautical mile race – and his passion to win…
An elite fleet of 45 boats is set to contest the 2021-2022 Red Pumps Australian 16ft Skiff Championships at Belmont, Lake Macquarie, from January 2-8, following the close of entries yesterday. A further nine boats have nominated for the accompanying…
Having finished second in Australia, Jimmy Spithill now hopes to lead the United States SailGP Team to Grand Final glory on home waters in San Francisco. Jimmy Spithill: We hit a top speed of 53.1 knots (0.1 knots short of…
A dream to sail solo transatlantic is all well and good, but if you’re 14-years-old and your mum says no, it’s time to look for options closer to home. I had lived on a boat since I was two weeks…
When Mark Drobitko bought the green and orange yacht he will soon sail in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race for the first time, he and his crew were immediately smitten. After the Queenslander purchased the Beneteau First 40 in Southampton,…
A 278-foot sailing vessel called by many ‘the most beautiful ship in the world’ sailed majestically into ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Sunday morning. The Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Norway’s 107-year-old three-masted tall ship, will be docked at the marina until…
Despite the challenges water sports events have faced throughout the Covid pandemic, the Windsurfer Class of Australia continues to buck the trend with growing participation across the country and a return to national racing this season that will see more…
A battle of wits and minds is expected in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, based on the long range weather forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology released today. The forecast of southerlies and possible thunderstorms early after the Boxing Day…
Stuart Richardson is an established sailor in Geelong, Victoria who sails on a variety of boats, and the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is on his radar again, this time with a comfortable Elliott 1350 Tourer that is set up…
The opening day of SailGP’s seventh and penultimate event of Season 2 saw destruction on the harbour, as Sir Ben Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history, sent the Great Britain SailGP team right through the bow of the Japanese…
Sydney Harbour was busy on Wednesday morning, as many leisure boaties got a surprise preview of Australia SailGP, as the Australian Team went out for their first training session prior to the event, to be held on the afternoons of…
Michael ‘Zappa’ Bell was itching to be among those taking part in the inaugural Two-Handed Division of the 2020 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and entered with his younger son, Oli. Fortunately, the same yacht, Kayimai, is available this year, allowing him to…
On December 13, Etienne Messikommer (Switzerland) with his colourful Numbatou (Hull 88) crossed the finish line at 20:48 UTC, sailing into Antigua after 26 days, 7 hours, and 48 minutes at sea, to win the inaugural 2021 McIntyre Adventure Globe 5.80 Transat…
A new team will be challenging for the next America’s Cup, as Red Bull joins forces with double America’s Cup–winning syndicate Alinghi in a campaign for the oldest trophy in international sport. Alinghi founder Ernesto Bertarelli and two-time Olympic champion…
This episode of the behind-the-scenes docuseries in partnership with Rolex takes us behind the curtain of Tom Slingsby’s road to SailGP redemption after being defeated on home waters by Ben Ainslie in 2020. Can Tom and the Australian team claim…
The defending champion Tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake produced a brilliant finishing burst to grab a last-minute victory in Race 4 of the 2021-2022 NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Tech 2’s team…
Sydney Harbour put on a show for the last day of Sail Sydney, with a gusty southerly providing perfect racing conditions for the 200-plus competitors. The regatta has been the first opportunity for many athletes to test their skills against…
The future stars of Australian sailing were on show at Sail Sydney, with a mix of Australian Sailing Team, Australian Sailing Squad and Australian Sailing Futures athletes among the big winners on day one of the annual regatta. Since many…
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