SailGP have just released episode 7 of their Season 3 ‘Racing on the Edge’ entitled ‘Team and Nation’, which goes behind the scenes of what makes Australian driver Tom Slingsby and his team so successful and how they pulled off…
Alinghi Red Bull Racing’s first AC40 – delivered to the team base in Barcelona at the end of January – was christened today. This second boat marks the start of a new phase of training towards the 2024 America’s Cup…
18ft SkiffsClub Championship, Race 14Race Sponsor: Marine OutletSunday, 12 February, 2023Sydney Harbour The talented young Rag & Famish Hotel team of Harry Price, Josh McKnight and Harry Hall tamed a wild, windswept Sydney Harbour with some brilliant sailing to win…
Blast from the past returns in top form to win Fireball State Titles 2023. A small but competitive fleet contested the Fireball State Titles at Royal Geelong Yacht Club, home of the 2024 world championship. Brendan Garner and Ben O’Brien…
From slow boat to seven bullets The 44th Sabre Nationals 10 race series was held 11-14 January 2023 at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania on the Derwent River, Hobart, with 47 boats facing the starting line. The weather gods…
Photo finish into Cape Town sees top three boats within three miles Skipper Kevin Escoffier and his Team Holcim – PRB have won Leg 2 of The Ocean Race from Cabo Verde to Cape Town after a tense battle through…
Pattaya, Thailand – Two more races were completed today at the 2023 ILCA 6 Masters World Championships, hosted by the Royal Varuna Yacht Club, which marks the halfway point of the event. In the Apprentice division, Lithuania’s Tokyo Olympian Viktorija…
Three days of racing in varied conditions across a combination of inshore races, a passage race and finally three offshore windward/leeward races in high winds, tested all in the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) ORC NSW Championship and decided…
The ETA is Sunday near noon local time – for the top four boats – as a light wind battle rages on the final approach With just 250 nautical miles left to race (as of noon UTC on Saturday) the…
HIGHLIGHTS: Big wind and huge, steep swell set a massive physical challenge for the three Olympic fleets on day two of the Lanzarote International Regatta in the Canary Islands. British skiff sailors surfed to the top of the rankings in…
While the ORC NSW Championship resumed at Pittwater today, Pittwater Regatta competitors relished their first outing with two inshore races across three divisions, both events hosted by Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC). Under ORC, the main scoring system this…
Pattaya, Thailand – Two races were completed today at the 2023 ILCA 6 Masters World Championships, hosted by the Royal Varuna Yacht Club, in a steady breeze of 12 knots and with a strong current in the Gulf of Thailand….
Times are tense as the fleet compresses on day 16 of leg 2 to Cape Town For nearly 4700 nautical miles, the five IMOCA teams competing in leg 2 of The Ocean Race have been dueling south from Cabo Verde…
The second running of the ORC NSW Championship, hosted Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) at Pittwater, opened on Broken Bay today, with two inshore races put to bed and the defending champions putting their rivals on notice. Both Gerry…
After a week of intense racing on Sydney Harbour, Will Sargent and his team from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia have prevailed with the winning title of the Hardy Cup Sydney International Match-Racing Regatta 2023.Sargent has an impressive record…
More than 360 of the world’s best sailors are ready to compete at the Lanzarote International Regatta, which takes place in the south of the Canary Island from 9 to 17 February. Only in its third year, Lanzarote International Regatta…
The fleet is heading northeast again, away from the ice exclusion zone, and making miles directly towards the finish in Cape Town Team Malizia is leading the way on Thursday as the five IMOCA teams gybed away from the ice…
British Olympian Tom Squires is the latest big name to join the Australian Sailing Performance Pathways team, signing on to become the NSW State Coach – Foiling. Squires will be focusing on work with iQFOiL and Formula Kite sailors, as…
9 Feb 2023With the remnants of yesterday afternoon’s front still lingering over the Bay of Palma, INEOS Britannia were determined to continue their stellar testing season despite winds of some 15 knots inside the harbour and predicted gusts up to…
STORM ALERT! Golden Globe Race leaders face a big one– A Large storm is pounding Abhilash and Kirsten right now 1100 miles NW of Cape Horn.– With 20.000 miles and 156 days on the clock, boats and sailors suffer wear…
The fleet has pushed south into the Roaring 40s and close to record-breaking speed runs… It’s been a productive and fast 24 hours for the IMOCA fleet in The Ocean Race as the teams are diving south towards an ice…
In the midst of the lead up to the 73rd JJ Giltinan World 18ft Skiff Championship next month, the Australian 18 Footers League staged a three-race short-course series last Friday evening on Sydney Harbour, which featured former 18 footer skippers…
Entry is open and the Notice of Race online for the 35th edition of Airlie Beach Race Week, but with marina berthing limited, necessitating a cap of 100 yachts/multihulls, organisers at Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) urge all prospective competitors to…
They say lightning doesn’t strike twice. But try telling that to the Australian 16ft skiff fraternity. Less than a month after Typhoon came back from the dead to pip the luckless St George entrant Noakes (Dave O’Connor) for the Australian…
On February 6, the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron welcomed ten teams to Raceday One of the annual Hardy Cup Sydney International Match Racing Regatta. Sailors represent six different clubs across three nations showing that international entries have returned to healthy…
February 6, 2023 (Miami, FL) – With Gale Warnings up and down the Floridian coastline on Saturday, it was an easy decision for the Race Committee to call off the first day of racing for Florida States, the third regatta…
The rankings have flipped over the weekend with 11th Hour Racing Team jumping into the lead… The American-flagged 11th Hour Racing Team pushed into the lead on leg 2 of The Ocean Race over the weekend. Skipper Charlie Enright and…
Three-time running MC38 National Champions Lazy Dog skippered by part-owner Quentin Stewart out of Middle Harbour Yacht Club proved too consistent to be beaten at Act 1 of the MC38 Season over the weekend out of the Cruising Yacht Club…
Race Sponsor: Burrawang Village HotelSunday, 5 February, 2023Sydney Harbour With just two more championship races to be sailed before the 73rd JJ Giltinan World 18ft Skiff Championship is held on Sydney Harbour, today’s Burrawang Village Hotel-sponsored Australian 18 Footers League…
Every boat in the fleet has gybed to the east, making miles towards Cape Town… It was near midnight UTC on Saturday night when boats in The Ocean Race fleet started to make their first significant move to the east…
At 15:00 hours local time today, the GLOBE40 skippers took the start of the 7th and penultimate leg of the event, which will lead the fleet to the island of Grenada in the West Indies. The crews cast off from…
Qatar GKA Freestyle Kite World Cup A packed house at Fuwairit Kite Beach witnessed the first clash of the season on Friday where Bruna Kajiya made an ecstatic return to the top step and Gianmaria Coccoluto’s title defence held firm,…
Compression and a move to the south from the western contingent leaves GUYOT environnement looking for answers… “Around the outside” is a trope that gets pulled out at one point or another on every edition of The Ocean Race. It…
Nine boats took to the race track today for the first day of Act 1 of the MC38 Association 2023 series. It was Lazy Dog skippered by Quentin Stewart who took boat of the day with a 2, 2, 1…
ADRIAN KUTTEL SAILING ON ATALANTA, WINS 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAPE2RIO RACE The 50th anniversary of the Cape2Rio race concluded with some incredible victories and sadly three retirements.There was a party atmosphere in Rio de Janeiro as the winners were…
Entrepreneur and designer Gebbia’s contribution marks the organization’s largest private donation to date, and will advance global cleaning efforts in oceans and rivers Rotterdam, The Netherlands, February 3, 2023 – Today, The Ocean Cleanup – the international non-profit project developing…
There is a split in opinion that is playing out on the race course as the fleet races south… Credit to GUYOT environnement – Team Europe who have regained the lead on the race tracker as well as their position…
Set to be stand-out global events, the Women’s & Youth America’s Cup Regattas are two of the major highlights of AC37 in Barcelona, shining an intense spotlight on the next generation of America’s Cup sailors. It is the ultimate showcase…
On February 25th Manly 16FT Skiff Club will be celebrating 100 Years of memories. It’s said the greatest of ideas are sometimes hatched by accident. You could safety slot the Manly Sailing Club – later to morph into the Manly…
Friday, 03 February 2023 // Perth, Western Australia The final day of racing at the 2023 Warren Jones International Youth Regatta resulted in success for local legend Ethan Prieto-Low from the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club! It was absolutely glamour…
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