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Third Spanish sailor enters Global Solo Challenge

Posted on 12/10/2021 (13/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Juan Merediz smiling

Organisers are pleased to welcome the third Spanish entry to the 2023 Global Solo Challenge, which now has a total of 37 sailors from 13 nations. Juan Merediz has sailied since he was a child, learning from the local fishermen…

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New IMOCA boat to be built from recycled Airbus material

Posted on 12/10/2021 (13/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
An IMOCA boat

As the transportation industry works hard to move toward sustainability in manufacturing, a partnership between an innovator in boat building and a world leader in aviation is taking things in a new direction.  Skipper Armel Tripon and the Airbus Technocentre of Nantes, France are collaborating to develop a new…

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New Zealand SailGP Team: Race to save Antipodean albatross

Posted on 11/10/2021 (12/10/2021) by Steve Bryant

Through its #RaceforTheFuture charity partnership with Live Ocean, the New Zealand SailGP Team is shining a light on an issue that means a huge amount to them. Albatrosses and sailors have a special connection. They’re also the most threatened bird…

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ORCV scoops Australian Sailing Victoria Awards

Posted on 11/10/2021 (11/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Yacht feet sailing upwind.

The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) has scooped the 2021 Australian Sailing Victoria Awards, being named Victoria Club of Year, receiving the Sport Promotion award, while ORCV Life member Robin Hewitt received the Lifetime Achievement award. These awards followed…

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SailGP: Slingsby’s spectacular victory

Posted on 11/10/2021 (11/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Australian SailGP Team smiling onboard the boat with the Australian flag

The home team went from hero to zero when a capsize ahead of the final day of racing in Cádiz, Andalusia, took the Spanish team out of contention for the Spain Sail Grand Prix. However, they weren’t the only team…

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Divine conditions for start of Finn World Masters

Posted on 11/10/2021 (11/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Kristian Sjoberg being photographed from the water.

Not everyone went out for Sunday’s practice race at the 2021 Finn World Masters on the Mar Menor, in Spain, but those who did were treated to divine conditions ahead of what looks set to be a highly memorable championship….

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Australia tops leaderboard as Nina Curtis debuts on the flying ‘roo

Posted on 10/10/2021 (10/10/2021) by Mysailing Editor
Aerial shot of F50 fleet at start line.

Spain: Australia’s Tom Slingsby and crew have secured their spot on the top of the leaderboard, following the first day of racing at the Cadiz Sail Grand Prix, and with the largest crowds to attend a SailGP event to-date, the…

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Mini Transat: Nineteen-year-old reflects on race win

Posted on 08/10/2021 (08/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Melwin Fink holding the edge of orange sail, celebrating.

This Thursday at 15:05 UTC, Melwin Fink crossed the finish line of the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef, completing the 1,350-mile course from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma in first place among the…

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Spain SailGP: Female sailors jump on board

Posted on 08/10/2021 (08/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
SailGP female sailors standing together

SailGP’s road to creating a more inclusive championship reaches another milestone this weekend at the Spain Sail Grand Prix taking place in Cádiz-Andalusia. The sixth event of the season will now include six athletes on board all F50s for racing…

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Mat Belcher tries hand at ocean racing

Posted on 07/10/2021 (08/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Maritimo on kite run.

Australia’s dual Olympic sailing Gold medallist, Mat Belcher, has decided to make his ocean racing debut in next month’s South-East Queensland Ocean Racing Qualifier, a 220-nautical-mile passage race from Brisbane’s Moreton Bay to Main Beach on the Gold Coast. He…

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Destination Western Australia: Fascine fever

Posted on 07/10/2021 (13/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Reddy green cliff coming down to the water.

Cruising Helmsman September 2016 edition: It is difficult to get much further west than Canarvon, Western Australia, so Condy Clark finds it is a good place to hang loose. I have been up the Fascine Channel to Carnarvon a few…

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Route planning with a GPS

Posted on 07/10/2021 (08/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Someone plotting out a route with a portland plotter on a paper chart.

Alan Punch, an RYA Navigation Instructor with Navathome Australia, explores the most effective methods for approaches to route planning with modern navigation tools. The GPS has integrated into modern navigation practices, as well as route planning. Whether you have a…

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Sailing community mourns loss of AC designer Laurie Davidson

Posted on 07/10/2021 (11/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Laurie Davidson and two others smiling, holding the America's Cup.

Yacht designer Laurie Davidson, a key figure in Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup breakthrough, has died. Davidson passed away in Auckland, aged 94. He designed NZL32, better known as Black Magic, which Team New Zealand sailed to win the Auld…

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Ben Ainslie takes franchise ownership of Great Britain SailGP Team

Posted on 07/10/2021 (08/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Ben Ainslie at the steering wheel of the F50 with his headset on.

Ahead of the sixth event in the global racing league’s second season in Cádiz – Andalusia, the Great Britain SailGP Team has become the first of the existing eight SailGP teams to evolve to a third party owned franchise with…

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Latest edition of Brown’s Nautical Almanac now available

Posted on 07/10/2021 (08/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
The cover of the almanac

Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. is proud to announce that the 2022 publication of Brown’s Nautical Almanac will be the 145th Edition. The Almanac will be available in the UK and abroad from October 2021. Established in 1850 on the…

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Peter Davison named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year

Posted on 06/10/2021 (06/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Peter Davidson smiling and holding a trophy.

Victorian yachtsman Peter Davison, the owner/skipper of the Archambault 40 Arcadia, was named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year by Australian Sailing last evening.  An ORCV and Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) member, Davison has successfully competed in several of…

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Impressive entry list for Rolex Middle Sea Race

Posted on 06/10/2021 (15/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Cannons firing as the fleet start in Malta surrounded by historic looking buildings.

With three weeks to go to the start of the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race, the entry list augurs the possibility of a fabulous and fascinating race. 124 yachts are currently entered, just shy of the 130-boat record set in…

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Excitement for 50th Finn World Masters

Posted on 06/10/2021 (06/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
A big fleet of boats working upwind after the race start.

After nearly two and a half years of waiting, the 50th Finn World Masters will finally take place next week at Los Alcazares on the Mar Menor in Murcia, Spain. Despite the challenges of travelling, around 120 entries from 27…

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RORC Caribbean 600 back in action

Posted on 06/10/2021 (20/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
A boat sailing on a reach with a huge orange kite, into the sunset with a headland off their leeward bow.

The hiatus is over – the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Caribbean 600 is back and set to start in Antigua on February 21, 2022. Early entries include teams representing a dozen different countries from around the world. The RORC Caribbean 600…

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New partnership offers luxury yacht shares

Posted on 05/10/2021 (11/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Aerial short of Coral Sea Marina

Two major players in sailing have joined forces to offer shared ownership in luxury yachts out of Airlie Beach in Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands. Yacht Share Mariner and Dream Yacht Charter will offer the yacht share service under the tagline: Share…

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Sydney Hobart Yacht Race entrants raise money for charity

Posted on 05/10/2021 (05/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Rogue Wave sailing.

Port Stephens based offshore sailor Kevin Le Poidevin and his Adelaide based co-skipper Darrell ‘Daz’ Greig, are two long serving Air Force aviators preparing themselves and their 1983 Sigma 36 Rogue Wave, to race in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart…

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America’s Cup: INEOS Britannia launches world-class team

Posted on 05/10/2021 (05/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Britannia on foils, sailing towards the camera with a chase boat behind her.

INEOS Britannia has confirmed its core leadership team to lead the British challenge for the 37th America’s Cup at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team HQ in Brackley, UK. The America’s Cup is sport’s oldest international trophy, predating the modern Olympic Games by…

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Mini Transat: Melwin Fink on track for heist of the century?

Posted on 03/10/2021 (04/10/2021) by Mysailing Editor

Alerted to the issuing of a severe weather warning affecting the areas of North Finisterre and South Finisterre, all but a few competitors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have taken the decision to take shelter – and for one,…

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Platoon’s 52 Super Series Sailing Week triumph

Posted on 03/10/2021 (04/10/2021) by Mysailing Editor

Several rival teams left the island of Menorca today, regretting small mistakes that ultimately cost them chances of lifting the TP52 class’s prestigious Royal Cup, which ultimately went to Platoon. Harm Müller Spreer’s can point to a consistent series as…

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Mini Transat – take cover!

Posted on 02/10/2021 (02/10/2021) by Mysailing Editor

While the top four prototypes in the Mini Transat EuroChef are continuing to power along in the Portuguese trade wind offshore of Nazaré, and Cape Finisterre now in the wake of the first production boats, a large part of the…

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44Cup back in Italy after four-year absence

Posted on 02/10/2021 (02/10/2021) by Mysailing Editor

The 44Cup returns to Italy next week for the first time since Porto Cervo in 2017, and this time the high-performance owner-driver one designs will be racing around the mainland area, at a new venue for the 2021 44Cup World…

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Mat Belcher’s triumphant finalé to Olympic campaign

Posted on 30/09/2021 (05/10/2021) by Steve Bryant
Mat Belcher and Will Ryan smiling and patting each other after finishing the Medal Race.

Three-time Olympic medallist in the 470 class, Mat Belcher, chatted to me from the Gold Coast, where he is winding down with his family following a successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. For Belcher, Tokyo marked the end of his 470…

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52 Super Series: Alegre in top form

Posted on 30/09/2021 (30/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
The stern of Alegre sailing upwind.

Menorca, Spain: Not since Quantum Key West Race Week in 2014 has a 52 Super Series team opened a regatta with three back-to-back race wins, but Andy Soriano’s Alegre team matched the record of Quantum Racing on Wednesday. Alegre won…

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France SailGP Team announces new driver

Posted on 29/09/2021 (29/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Aerial shot of France SailGP Team sailing.

The France SailGP Team will have a new driver for the Spain Sail Grand Prix in Cádiz, Andalusia, following the announcement that Quentin Delapierre will be taking the helm of the team’s F50. Fresh off the back of the Tokyo…

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Two Person Offshore Worlds: Home waters victory for Italy

Posted on 27/09/2021 (28/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Claudia Rossi and Pietro D'Alì about to pop champagne on their boat on the dock.

Italian team Claudia Rossi & Pietro D’Alì have been crowned winners of the 2021 Hempel Mixed Two Person Offshore World Championship after a hard-fought final leg to Venice. When the final leg started at lunchtime on Friday, Rossi and D’Ali were slow out of the starting blocks of the 100-mile overnight race…

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T35 Scarlino: Two wins for Realteam Sailing

Posted on 27/09/2021 (28/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Teams having a champagne celebration on the podium.

With ominous black clouds rolling over Scarlino, Italy, the morning of the final day racing looked borderline from the start with a forecast of 18 knots, building to gusts of 25 knots by lunchtime. After the morning briefing, Principal Race…

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SailGP returns to Sydney Harbour

Posted on 27/09/2021 (27/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Three SailGP F50s sailing with the harbour bridge in the background.

One of the world’s most exciting sailing races, Sail GP, will return to Sydney in December making it the first major global sports tournament to be held on the harbour since the outbreak of COVID-19.  Tickets are on sale now…

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Whitsundays fundraising for prostate cancer success

Posted on 26/09/2021 (28/09/2021) by Mysailing Editor

The Coral Sea Marina community came together last week to showcase the spirit of the Whitsundays in a bid to raise much needed funds and promote awareness for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) by holding the ’ Big…

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Entries open for The Race Around

Posted on 25/09/2021 (27/09/2021) by Mysailing Editor

With two years to go until the start of Class40’s official round-the-world race, The Race Around’s organisers, 5 Ocean Sports Marketing and their US counterpart Manuka Sports Event Management, are delighted to officially open registration. The event’s preliminary Notice of…

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True cost of living on board

Posted on 24/09/2021 (29/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Someone with their legs out, looking onto the water, the yacht's bimini is up.

Brett Campbell has interviewed over 20 live-aboards after he and his wife moved onboard their yacht. These and their own experiences form the basis for a series of articles on living on board which Brett wrote for Cruising Helmsman. In…

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Meet Lisa Blair at world record launch event

Posted on 24/09/2021 (27/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Lisa Balir sailing, waving at camera

Australian sailing legend Lisa Blair is preparing her yacht, Climate Action Now, at Rivergate Marina, Brisbane for her next world record. Lisa sets off in December to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica. The team at Rivergate Marina invite…

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Sparkling opening to TF35 final

Posted on 24/09/2021 (24/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Aerial shot of fleet sailing upwind, sun glistening on the water.

As if easing the teams into the final decider of the inaugural TF35 season, Scarlino delivered a warm sea breeze between 6 – 11 knots, flat water and blue skies on the sparkling Tuscan coast for the opening day of…

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Pasquale De Gregorio on his Vendée Globe

Posted on 24/09/2021 (27/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Pasquale De Gregorio on a boat on a dock, holding ropes.

Eighty-year-old Italian offshore sailor Pasquale De Gregorio reflects on his sailing career; most notable is his completion of the 2000/01 Vendée Globe race, where De Gregorio was considerably older than the other competitors. “I was born in Abruzzo, on the…

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Swan 120 debuts at Monaco Yacht Show

Posted on 23/09/2021 (24/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
The Swan 120 sailing, brown-bronze hull colour.

With the announcement of the New Maxi Era of performance Swan Superyachts – the launch of the new Swan 88, the first Swan with a hybrid propulsion and the Swan 108 last Spring, Nautor’s Swan has paved the way for…

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Hempel Two Person Offshore Worlds: Italian duo’s resounding victory

Posted on 23/09/2021 (23/09/2021) by Steve Bryant
Giovanna Valsecchi & Andrea Pendibene showering champagne on their boat.

Giovanna Valsecchi & Andrea Pendibene have sailed to a resounding victory on leg two of the 2021 Hempel Mixed Two Person Offshore World Championship in Italy. The crew representing Marina Militare (Italian Navy) crossed the finish line at Marina di…

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