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UK: In 2019 the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboats were called out to assist people on the water over 8000 times. Here’s why…
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Airlie Beach Race Week: Final Day and all to play for
This is the final day at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) Airlie Beach Race Week and the stakes are high in some divisions where the pointscores are so close that the top three will be decided by a triangle course…
Ben Ainslie and Great Britain SailGP Team break speed record
Great Britain SailGP Team CEO and driver Sir Ben Ainslie returned to the wheel of the British F50 today as the team began training ahead of the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in Aarhus (August 20-21). It was an eventful…
Perfect conditions continue at Youth Foiling Gold Cup
Lake Garda finally fulfilled its promise as one of the best sailing venues in the world and the Persico 69F fleet ran seven races in perfect conditions at the Youth Foiling Gold Cup (YFGC). The experienced teams and newcomers alike…
Dragon Gold Cup: Racing at last
At the Dragon Gold Cup 2021 by Yanmar in Marstrand the long wait for racing finally came to an end as day four of the regatta brought perfect sailing conditions, allowing the Race Committee to run the opening two races…
Jimmy Spithill tests cutting-edge wing ahead of SailGP Aarhus
As SailGP’s eight national teams ready themselves for the fourth event of Season 2, the waters of host city Aarhus played a key role in the continuing development of our cutting-edge F50 catamaran. The City of Smiles this week hosts…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Another wind filled thriller
The weather gods were smiling down on competitors at Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing again, offering up a superb 10-17 knot south-easterly wind, and bucket loads of sunshine on the penultimate day of the week-long regatta in the…
America’s Cup hydrogen-powered foiling chase boat
The winner of the America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand, has committed to developing hydrogen-powered chase boats for its sailing yachts. It is also pushing for this to be included in the ‘Protocol’ (the official rules for the race series)…
Making a living while cruising the seas
In late 2018 my wife, Roxy, and I took a few suitcases of belongings and moved aboard our 47 foot Cheoy Lee monohull to start the cruise of a lifetime. So far, a familiar start to a familiar sounding story. Except unlike…
Airlie Beach Race Week’s penultimate day
Two days of racing remain at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week, which continues today with a mix of windward/leewards and passage racing, all starting on Pioneer Bay in the stunning Whitsunday Islands – or Paradise, as it is…
Hairy blokes have their day at Airlie Beach Race Week
Tim McCall and the Hairy McClary crew from the Capricornia Cruising Yacht Club in Queensland had their day in the sun at Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing, their race win taking Tim McCall’s Trailable yacht to a one…
Dragon Gold Cup: Racing abandoned – again
It’s rare to loose three consecutive days of racing at a major sailing championship, and even rarer to loose three days of racing in the Swedish yachting capital of Marstrand, but sadly that is now the case for the Dragon…
12 Metre World Championship: Close racing in challenging conditions
Official competition for the 2021 EVLI 12 Metre World Championship commenced today with two races held in the Gulf of Finland. In Race 1 keeping an eye to the sky paid off for the hometown Blue Marlin (FIN-1) team, skippered by Henrik…
History of standing rigging
In this article we will deal with the tuning of standing rigging on a typical sailboat. Historically, the most traditional rig type is the masthead one. That is with the forestay and backstay attached to the masthead as fixed standing…
Smart boat ownership with Cobli
The founders of start-up Cobli say boat equity ownership is the best way forward for boat lovers who want to make a smart investment ahead of the summer months. John Cowpe and Peter Hrones have long been the importers for…
SailGP: Rising Expectations
This episode of the behind-the-scenes documentary series explores two of the season’s most compelling storylines: the Denmark SailGP Team’s struggle to close the gap with more experienced competitors, and British driver Sir Ben Ainslie’s abrupt hiatus from racing. – SailGP
Airlie Beach Race Week reaches halfway point
Fun was had by all on yesterday’s lay day and today the proof will be in the pudding at Airlie Beach Race Week – who will turn up prepared, and who will be dusty – the results will be the…
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week returns in September
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) returns to the sailing calendar in September, and Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) and its organising committee are looking forward to hosting this essential event for the community, and those entrants who are able to join…
America’s Cup: Design work resumes for American Magic
American Magic, the U.S. Challenger for the 36th America’s Cup [AC36], is moving ahead with performance development work in preparation for a challenge for the 37th edition of the oldest event in international sport. To lead the design effort for…
Emirates Team New Zealand ceo addresses AC37 venue rumours
Grant Dalton, Emirates Team New Zealand ceo, addresses the on-going speculation regarding the venue for the 37th America’s Cup. So today, being five months since we won the 36th Americas Cup and just one month from the Venue Announcement of…
International Dragon Gold Cup: Wind Gods fail to deliver
For the second day running the wind gods refused to shine on the International Dragon Gold Cup 21 by Yanmar in Marstrand; on the opening day they provided far too much wind and today they refused to send any wind…
SailGP Christchurch future in jeopardy
The Christchurch leg of the prestigious SailGP yachting series has been scuppered with SailGP announcing that the Government had refused its application for contestants to access MIQ facilities (these facilities include accommodation, testing regimes and more.) Organisers and Christchurch authorities…
Youth Foiling Gold Cup: Italian team is out to impress
The Italian team, Young Azzurra is set to begin racing today in the second event of the Youth Foiling Gold Cup at Lake Garda. The Youth Foiling Gold Cup was established as an alternative to the Youth America’s Cup, which…
Best boats of 2022
Turns out it takes more than a pandemic to keep sailors, naval architects and boatbuilders down. It wasn’t fair, but there’s no denying some parts of the global economy fared better than others this past year, and among the lucky…
Waszp European Games 2021 – Final day highlights
After five days of intense competition, WASZP UK sailor Matt Beck came away with the win at the Waszp European Games at Lake Garda, Italy.
44Cup Cowes: An unexpected final race day
Aleph Racing have won their first event of the 44Cup series, taking them to third on the overall leaderboard. For the full results, see: https://www.44cup.org/results/annual
Tokyo 2020: Men’s Laser race analysis
Laser gold medallist Matt Wearn (AUS) made the most manoeuvres out of the top 10 of the fleet at Tokyo 2020. And although he was the oldest competitor out of 35 sailors, Robert Scheidt (BRA) hit the fastest single average…
Fastnet Race 2021: Inspired performance
The 49th Rolex Fastnet Race closed with a celebratory prize giving in Cherbourg, France for all class winners. The most significant trophy awarded was the Fastnet Challenge Cup presented to Tom Kneen and the British crew of Sunrise for winning…
Good times keep rolling at Airlie Beach Race Week
Three days of superb racing conditions and a fabulous social atmosphere a world away from lockdowns and the serious business of work life as competitors acknowledge and appreciate their week of racing at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) Airlie Beach Race…
44Cup Cowes: French team wins by a slim margin
The final day of the 44Cup Cowes was always going to be big. Despite the overnight seven point gap between the leaders Aleph and second placed Ceeref, experience told Hugues Lepic and his team that they should take nothing for…
Local sailor wins Youth Matching Racing World Championship
After the Balboa Yacht Club saw one of its own win the 54th annual Governor’s Cup just two weeks ago, on Saturday the host club was treated to an all-Balboa Yacht Club final at the Youth Match Racing World Championship on Saturday….
Dragon Gold Cup: Day one of racing abandoned
Marstrand, Sweden: The Race Committee went to sea to inspect the conditions on day one of the International Dragon Gold Cup by Yanmar, but sadly the sea state was too severe so racing had to be abandoned for the day….
Teams ready to race for International Dragon Gold Cup
Seventy-three teams from across Europe and as far afield as Japan and Australia have arrived in Marstrand, Sweden to compete for the International Dragon Gold Cup by Yanmar, to be raced from 15 to 20 August. The 2020 Gold Cup…
Austrian sailor sets sail on a world-record voyage
Today fans, colleagues and sailing aficionados saw innovator and skipper Norbert Sedlacek set sail on his lifetime mission to set a world record, unassisted, single-handed and nonstop around the world. This is his third attempt to tackle the biggest challenge of his career as a sailor. A trip around…
Something a little different at Airlie Beach Race Week
They say it takes all kinds when it comes to sailing and that something a little bit different on Jono and Gemma Winterbottom’s Seawind 1000, About Time, has them all talking at the 33rd edition of Airlie Beach Race Week….
44Cup Cowes: Changing gear
Practice or showcase, call it what you will, the 44Cup fleet simply call it another opportunity to line up against each other – and while starting off the Royal Yacht Squadron to canon fire is always special, so too is…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Just another day in paradise
Another day of ideal sailing at Airlie Beach Race Week with a race course weaving through the beautiful Whitsunday Islands and an ideal 15- 20 knot wind, but fun seems to be the focal point for most competitors who are…
Day 2 dawns bright at Airlie Beach Race Week
Day 1 out of the way, officials and competitors at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s annual Airlie Beach Race Week have dusted themselves off after the night’s celebrations and are now looking forward to the day ahead, which Event Chairman, Ross Chisholm,…
44Cup Cowes: Action stepped up
Since arriving in Cowes for the 44Cup, all eight teams had been expecting conditions to build for the second day of racing, and with 20-24 knots to kick things off, that was precisely what was delivered and Aleph finished the…
IRC Four decided in Fastnet Race
With nine JPK 10.10s in action in IRC Four, the smart money was on a fifth in a row win for the highly successful model from Jean-Pierre Kelbert’s boatyard, however, this year’s IRC Four podium did not contain a single…
