The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, home of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, remains hopeful the ‘Great Race’ will return in 2021. With 100 days until the start of the race, Noel Cornish AM, CYCA Commodore, provided an update…
Australian Sailing regrets to announce that the 2021 Australian Yachting Championships have been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled to be run as a part of Hamilton Island Race Week (HIRW) from 21-28 August. With…
Following a very close 37th America’s Cup (AC37) Host Venue selection process consisting of three compelling and professional international proposals, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) together with Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ), announced today that they are extending…
French skipper Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) crossed the finish line off Saint Nazaire on France’s Loire Atlantique coast at 22:23:30pm on Thursday evening to win (subject to jury), the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, the longest and toughest edition of…
The second day of the Xacobeo Six Metre European Championship at the Real Club Nautico Sanxenxo in Galicia got off to a regal start with a visit from Her Royal Highness Infanta Dona Elena of Spain. The Infanta is a…
The Royal Thames Yacht Club’s entry competing in the 2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, put on an almost perfect display of racing on the first day of the event. The British team, which won the event in…
Emil Kjaer, representing the Royal Danish Yacht Club, won the 2021 Ficker Cup on Sunday, official event of the World Match Racing Tour, qualifying his team to this week’s 56th Congressional Cup along with second and third placed Ficker Cup skippers…
It is two years until the start of the Ocean Globe Race (OGR) and a return to Corinthian round the world racing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread round the world race back in 1973/74. Sir Chay Blyth,…
The furthest Graham Collins sails his boat is along the coast of Nova Scotia, so the Haligonian was stunned when he got a call from the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, asking if he was sailing through the eye of Hurricane…
In the third instalment of the ‘Making of IMOCA 60 11.2’ members of 11th Hour Racing Team dig into the details of innovative projects that were realised as a part of the IMOCA 60 boat build. By 11th Hour Racing…
The scintillating waters of Saint-Tropez lit up with excitement for thousands of fans on the final day of racing of the France Sail Grand Prix, the fifth event of the season. Equipped with the newly-fitted, mammoth 29 metre wingsail, the…
The spectator-lined seawall of Saint Tropez was matched by the dazzling array of superyachts surrounding the F50 racecourse for the opening day of the France Sail Grand Prix, where fair weather brought out large crowds for an adrenaline-fueled day of…
Akos Lukats has won the 2021 Finn European Masters at the Tihanyi Hajós Egylet in Tihany, Hungary after no more races were possible on the final day, with Bas De Waal (NED) and Taras Havrysh (UKR) placing second and third…
France: The fifth event of SailGP will make its debut in the world-famous French seaside resort of Saint-Tropez this weekend, for the France Sail Grand Prix, where Tom Slingsby and the Australia Team are hoping to keep their winning streak…
Today, after three relatively light races, the wind was knocking on the door of 20 knots for the penultimate day of competition at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. This was the most breeze seen all week and the reason the…
When he crossed the finish line off Roscoff on Thursday morning at 11:59:54am (local time) to win Stage 3 of La Solitaire du Figaro, Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) crucially extended his lead at the top of the General Classification…
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) and Defender Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) along with the Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd (RYSL) and Challenger of Record INEOS Team UK made an announcement today in regards to the exciting initiatives that…
The 14th SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) was over too quickly, the week flying by as it does when you are in such a beautiful tropical location at the beginning of spring and the conditions are conducive – but that…
Following the abandonment of racing due to unsuitable conditions yesterday, it’s back on at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) this morning, as the fleet heads out from the marina for the earlier start time of 10am on the final…
Australia’s Tom Slingsby has won the Redoro Frantoi Veneti Moth World Championship at the Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, with two races to spare. The first warning signal for the Gold fleet at 8 o’clock made the athletes get…
When I spoke to Australian sailor Matt Wearn over the phone, he was in Belgium taking a well-deserved break with his fiancée Emma Plasschaert, following his gold-medal win in the Men’s Laser class at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. “It…
A young and ambitious Swiss team, led by Olympic sailor Sébastien Schneiter from Geneva, will compete in the next SailGP season. “This is a major new chapter for Swiss sailing,” said Schneiter. “Our goal is to create a competitive team…
As the weather forecast earlier foretold, a lighter breeze, so ideal sailing was experienced by all at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) on the variety of courses constructed by organisers at Townsville Yacht Club (TYC). Ragamuffin III (Stuart Tivey…
Australia continued its dominance on the first day of the Redoro Frantoi Veneti Moth World Championship finals at the Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, securing four of the five top positions. The Ora remained for only five races. Unfortunately,…
An Australian, who at this stage wishes to remain anonymous, has become the 32nd person to enter the 2023 Global Solo Challenge (GSC). He will be competing in a 50 plus foot performance yacht. He has been in touch with…
A spectacular sight awaited locals and tourists who were out and about on The Strand at Townsville, where they were treated to racing at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week with the Strand Race, including a leg that took competitors on…
By the end of six races held on Day 2 of the Redoro Frantoi Veneti Moth Worlds at the Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, four Australians feature in the top five, led by Tom Slingsby and Iain Jensen. The…
Today at the Fraglia Vela Malcesine, on the shores of Lake Garda, the first day of the Moth World Championship took place; where over 150 athletes from more than 24 nations were on the water to hash it out on foils. A stable 8…
Dive below the surface of the colourful artwork splashed on the hull and sails of 11th Hour Racing Teams brand new IMOCA 60. To inspire a connection with the ocean, 11th Hour Racing enlisted the extremely talented artists of Van…
The Andaman Sea shone in all its glory upon the return of the award-winning Phuket Raceweek. After a one year hiatus due to pandemic restrictions, organisers pulled out all the stops and worked with the Thai yachting community to showcase…
The Ocean Race, the round-the-world sailing competition known as the toughest test of a team in sport, is set to play a leading role in one of the world’s most important environmental conferences. Starting on Friday in Marseille, France, The IUCN…
‘Downwind Faster than the Wind’ is a ground breaking and intriguing book by Nicholas Landell-Mills, an independent researcher in applied physics, which explores the theory of sailing in a new and perhaps controversial way that breaks with established models. His analysis…
Following his Stage 2 win of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) now takes the overall lead by 1 hour and 36 minutes after Stage 1 winner Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF) had to dive on Monday…
US match racer Chris Poole and his Riptide Racing crew, including Aussie Ryan Wilmot, clinched a valuable win at the 2021 Oakcliff International Regatta at Oyster Bay, New York, August 26-30. Poole defeated French opponent Aurelien Pierroz 3-1 in the finals…
Nothing has changed as much as Global Navigation Systems. But as Alan Punch from Navathome Australia writes – paper charts are still and always will be relevant. To avoid any on-water incidents, a balance between new and old systems is…
Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF), the French skipper who last Thursday conclusively won the marathon first stage into Lorient was this afternoon battling to get back on terms with the leading peloton of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro’s Stage 2, a…
Javier Lapresa from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, is the 31st person to enter the 2023 Global Solo Challenge. From a young age Lapresa has inherited his family’s passion for sailing. He has entered the GSC with a competitive spirit, it…
It is with great sadness that World Sailing reports the passing of former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge at the age of 79. Rogge was, elected as the eighth IOC President in July 2001 and had a long…
Four-time America’s Cup winner and America’s Cup Hall of Fame inductee Grant Simmer OAM has been appointed to the Board of Australian Sailing for a term of two years. The vacancy on the Board was created with Alex Baumann’s resignation…
For a second day in a row the wind abandoned the Wannsee in Berlin, Germany, therefore the 2021 5.5 Metre German Open at the Verein Seglerhaus am Wannsee (VsaW) was decided by the long distance race on Friday. Sunday began…
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