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Geoff Waller of BoatsonTV shot footage of the Historical Skiffs racing on Sydney Harbour. Footage includes a dramatic slow-motion capsize by Careening Cove Swimming Club. https://youtu.be/qdHi_8guUdk
We’ve run this on the Cruising Helmsman Facebook page before, but it’s worth revisiting. Sailing a boat in open waters successfully takes practice and skill. Throw in complications like bridges with low clearances and things can get even trickier—but not…
Published on Jan 6, 2016 www (What Went Wrong) in the “Hobart”. Geoff Waller of www.boatson.tv talks exclusively to North Sails’ Michael Coxon on what happened in the recent disastrous 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race when 31 yachts retired….
What happens when you give a yacht designer a jar of red jelly beans and a bucket of pencils? Oceanis 62 concept
In this week’s WoW the Oracle Team USA move into their headquarters in Bermuda, the ISAF Youth Championships in Malaysia, Spindrift 2 returns to France without the Jules Verne Trophy, the 2016 Australian Moth Championships Day 3 in Perth, the…
www.boatson.tv has access to North Sails loft during their build of Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours contender Wild Oats XI’s new Cuben Fibre A2 1000 sq ft sail. We use a drone to show how big this sail really is.
“Mate, could you take my camera and film me helming this Extreme 40?” “Sure”. You give a bowman one job!
Last day of sailing and Phillip Ross, editor of Cruising Helmsman and part of the Yaffa Sailing Team, was given the opportunity to experience the VIP treatment at the last ‘Act’ of the Extreme Series in Sydney. In the end,…
Today is the first time that Rambler 88 will go up against the 100ft super-maxis Wild Oats XI, Ragamuffin and Perpetual LOYAL, along with other big boats who will be handicap contenders in the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart such as…
Gradually pulling away from the Cape Verde Islands, Spindrift 2 is about to face the famous Doldrums dreaded by sailors. This passage between the two hemispheres sees large weather instabilities due to the convergence of trade winds blowing from the…
Selden GX is a furling system for gennakers/asymmetric spinnakers developed and manufactured by Selden. It makes for convenient and safe handling of your downwind sail and it makes your boat faster and your sailing experience more enjoyable.
Every year skiffs, kites and windsurfers hit the bay in San Fran for the Bridge to Bridge race.
Australian Sailing Team’s athletes are ambassadors for MPA (Melanoma Patients Australia) with the aim to raise Melanoma awareness around protection and early detection in the Sailing Community. Hear from Olympic gold medallist Nathan Outteridge about the importance of early detection…
Jason Waterhouse (NSW) and Lisa Darmanin (NSW) as well as Mathew Belcher (QLD) and Will Ryan (QLD) have won a Gold Medal for Australia in the Nacra 17 and Men’s 470 class respectively at the Aquece Rio – International Sailing…
One year out from the largest sporting event in the world, the Australian Sailing Team is set to start racing at the second Olympic Sailing Test Event to be held on Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – the Aquece…
One that’s always worth watching, especially if you’re stuck in an office when you’d rather be sailing. This is a clever video made by the Volvo Ocean Race team, relating the life of an ocean racer with the everyday grind.
It’s been two years since Oracle Team USA were disqualified from the America’s Cup World Series and penalised two points in the Cup itself for using an illegal kingpost on their multihulls. However, Glenn Ashby showed he hasn’t forgotten. At…
The 2014 Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race winner Roger Hickman talk about the Land Rover Sydney-Gold Coast Race which starts next Saturday and the chances of his excellent veteran yacht “Wild Rose” ex Wild Oats.
The new Corsair Pulse 600 trailable trimaran was launched in February 2015. The first boat is in Australia and will be on show at the Sydney International Boat Show in late July. For more details go to www.multihullcentral.com or call 1300…
In some quarters Tom Spithill is known as “Spare Parts”. As in, if brother James Spithill breaks anything they will use Tommy’s limbs to put Jimmy back together again. But according to Jimmy’s Oracle Team USA Australian team mates, Tommy’s…
Double Olympic champion Malcolm Page and his skippers Nathan Wilmot and Mat Belcher are well-known for naming their boats after Nicole Kidman movies. But another two Australian Olympic champions have dedicated their new skiff to a legend of the one-liner…
Team Vestas Wind is back in the race. This is the movie that has been shown exclusively at our cinema in the Race Villages around the world, the full story from when Team Vestas Wind were shipwrecked in the middle…
Published on May 29, 2015 In April 2015 Skiffs Australia hosted the inaugural National Sprint Series. The event was hosted in South Australia in West Lakes and Largs Bay. Filmed by RJ media and Swarm UAV.
Malcolm Page is Australia’s most successful Olympian, with two gold medals from three attempts. Add in his six world championship victories and he is the most successful 470 sailor in the history of the class. But those eight victories may…
An oldie but a goodie… Unfortunately, mishaps like this are not a very rare occurrence in the BVI’s… this was just an extreme case and we happened to have the camera running from the onset. Still amazes me how many…
Gillette World Sport visited Wangi, Lake Macquarie in March for the final 49er training camp ahead of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Hyères, France (22-26 April) and spoke to Australian Sailing Team’s Olympic gold medallists Nathan Outteridge (NSW) and Iain…
Trans World Sport travelled to the ISAF World Cup event in Miami to meet up with Australian Sailing Team’s Men’s 470 duo of Mat Belcher and Will Ryan and coach Victor Kovalenko on their road to the 2016 Rio Olympic…
Their media releases may be very ordinary (that’s being kind) but one thing the VOR is doing well in this edition is the provision of great on-board video. Here are a selection from the Southern Ocean over the past few…
In the spirit of progression, Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher have devised a new 6 meter catamaran that is redefining what’s possible on the open ocean. It’s a vessel that can reach eye-popping speeds of 36 knots while hardly…
On the occasion of the 2015 International Women Day on May 8 2015, Australian Sailing is celebrating our female Australian Sailing Team and Squad athletes this week.
Instead of celebrating a major milestone in his sailing career, ETNZ’s newly-appointed co-helmsman Peter Burling was left to answer awkward questions about the way the team’s management had handled the sacking of Dean Barker. Burling did well in a very…
The roof of a Norris Lake marina in Campbell County, Tenn., collapses after being covered with ice and snow. Damage is estimated to be near $800,000.
Geoff Waller from www.boatson.tv sat down with Roger Hickman the IRC winner of the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and he described his incident filled race to win the Tattersall Trophy. This is an important video as it tells the full…
With the Moth World Championships in the rear view mirror for ORACLE TEAM USA, the sailors reflect on what they have learned and how it will translate to the new foiling AC45s.
Join Jeanneau’s Jean-Francois de Premorel and Phillipe Laperche as they race double-handed in the Transquadra Race aboard the Sun Fast 3600 (YOLO) from St-Nazaire to Madeira, hitting 21 knots.
Peter Burling has a lock on the title, but Nathan Outteridge had a good day and moved back into second place. Watch the video highlights from his brother Beau Outteridge here:
HAve you ever wondered why ocean racers who are sailing around the world go almost to South America rather than hugging the Africa coast? Barcelona World Race strategiest Marcel van Triest explains the key strategies for getting through the South…
Filmed at the 2015 McDougall + McConaghy International Moth Australian/World Championships by Hartas Productions. No racing. Just crashing.
It’s been a frustrating couple of days at the Moth Worlds – no wind, followed by too much wind. Here, Oracle Team USA’s Kyle Langford talks about the challenge of learning a new class.
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