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A major clash of the titans will take place between two of the world’s fastest maxi-monohulls at August’s Rolex Fastnet Race. While the most sought-after victory is, of course, the overall win under IRC, for the monohull that is first…
Congratulations to the 11 divisional winners from the 2021 Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Winter Series. With the final two races of the series abandoned due to COVID-19 restrictions, the winners were crowned from the seven completed pointscore races. Division…
Silvaplana, Switzerland: After eight races in typical Silvaplana conditions with the Maloja wind (a thermal south-westerly wind) blowing from the south west, it was the French teams that took the first three places in the 2021 Open Nacra 15 European…
Award-winning dealership The Multihull Group (TMG) have once again cemented its reputation as one of the world’s leading marine importers. At the recent world conference for Lagoon Catamarans, TMG were announced as the number one dealer in the Asia Pacific…
Lavrio, Greece: A fleet of 40 yachts have set off on a 600 mile journey around the Aegean Sea (where the Mediterranean Sea meets Asia).
Lavrio, Greece: At Cape Sounion under the gaze of the temple of Poseidon, Greek god of the Sea, the fleet of the first edition of the Aegean 600 set off today for the start of their 605-mile odyssey throughout the…
The weather may not have delivered but make no mistake, for many of the 7,000 crew that headed out for the 90th anniversary of the Island Sailing Club’s Round the Island Race (Cowes, England) this was a big day out….
The Island Sailing Club, Cowes, England, put on a spectacular 90th anniversary party for the 2021 Round the Island Race. The huge fleet of over 1200 boats showed how much people love taking part in this event. This year’s race…
Two brothers winning JJ Giltinan world 18ft Skiff Championships is not too rare. There have been at least ten ‘brothers’ winning boats in the 71 championships held so far, but the Harris brothers have a rare distinction with their victories. The…
Australian sailor Tom Slingsby came out on top at the Foiling Week and the Liberty Bitcoin Moth Cup in Lake Garda, Italy.
The final day of the Foiling Week and the Liberty Bitcoin Moth Cup arrived with an unpredictable wind forecast as rain was expected to come in mid-day. However, Luca Rizzotti and his team hosting the Foiling Week and the Liberty Bitcoin Moth Cup did a brilliant job and they managed…
Nominations for the 2021 Australian Sailing Awards have now opened, giving clubs and club members the opportunity to be recognised for outstanding achievements and contributions to the sailing community across the past year. The Australian Sailing Awards are the peak…
Experienced sailors who had just taken part in a prestigious yacht race had to be rescued when their vessel got into difficulty off the Dorset coast. The crew of three had taken part in the Round the Island Race at…
Riva del Garda, Italy: A single race completed today in the third and final day of the qualification series valid for the Optimist World Championship underway in Riva del Garda. The new World Champion will be crowned on July 9th. The…
The third stage of the Pro Sailing Tour concluded today in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. The seven strong fleet of Ocean Fifty trimarans revelled in excellent racing conditions over the competition with new records in front of the…
Alinghi wins the GC32 Lagos Cup 1 after a dominant final day in strong breeze and dramatic conditions. With the wind gusting close to 25 knots and sometimes arriving with little warning, Red Bull Sailing Team was caught out and…
Alinghi has won the GC32 Lagos Cup 1 after a dominant final day in strong breeze and dramatic conditions. With the wind gusting close to 25 knots and sometimes arriving with little warning, Red Bull Sailing Team was caught out…
2019 reigning World Champions continue their winning streak into the 2021 season taking the GC32 Lagos Cup 1 title.
It is rare even between the ultra-close RC44s for an event to go to the wire in such an extreme way as it did at the conclusion of the 44Cup Marstrand. Going into the tenth and final race of the…
The third day of the Foiling Week and the Liberty Bitcoin Moth Cup saw some of the best sailors in the world race it out on Lake Garda, Italy.
The third day of the Foiling Week and the Liberty Bitcoin Moth Cup was another successful race day. Four races were held in a strong southerly breeze, ranging between 14-20 knots. Again, the bookmaker’s favourite Tom Slingsby (36) from Australia was the sailor to watch. Tom had another…
Alinghi struggled early on with an out-of-character fifth place in the opening race of the GC32 Lagos Cup, but the Swiss regrouped and soon rediscovered their mojo to take the last three winner’s guns of the day from five races,…
Just when the pecking order seemed to be firming up at the 44Cup Marstrand, today’s final race off the picture postcard Swedish island turned the results on their head, yet again. Hugues Lepic’s Aleph Racing and Nico Poons’ Charisma were…
Greece: Preparations are well underway for the start of the Aegean 600, organised by the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club and the Region of Attica and most of the foreign boats that will take part are already assembled in Lavrio at…
Fraglia Vela Malcesine, Italy: The bookmaker’s favourite, Tom Slingsby, did not disappoint on the second day of the Foiling Week and the Liberty Bitcoin Moth Cup where four races were sailed in a 10-16 knot southerly. Australian Slingsby, the reigning…
In an example of the high performance RC44 one design class’ typically ultra-close racing, yesterday’s winners dropped to the bottom of the pile at the 44Cup Marstrand today, as those that were consistent rose to the top. For competitors and…
Langenargen: The 23rd Match Race Germany will be sailed and celebrated from 2-6 June in 2022 (this 25 years after its premiere in 1997) and will attract tens of thousands of visitors to Langenargen’s famous Gondola Harbour and its surrounding…
Joining UN Sports for Climate Action, collecting scientific data about the state of the seas, cutting out single-use plastic, measuring and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and engaging with world leaders about the threats to the ocean, were just some…
The best Nacra 15 sailors have travelled to Lake Silvaplana in Swizerland’s Grison region, not far from St. Moritz, to sail the European Nacra 15 Championships this week from June 26th – July 4th. The Nacra 15 is a size…
The Magenta Project’s Mentoring Programme supports young female sailors around the world, empowering them to work towards achieving their goals in the sport. Find out more: http://themagentaproject.org/mentoring
Pantaenius Insurance has established an office at The Boat Works (Gold Coast, Queensland). The Pantaenius team have expanded from their NSW headquarters to now offer instant boat insurance quotations and cover to owners from their new premise. Other businesses to populate the purpose-built professional facilities include…
Riva del Garda, Italy: Just a few hours to go until the start of the Optimist World Championship, the flagship event of youth sailing sailing season, which for this year, after the postponement of the 2020 edition, has confirmed Fraglia…
Matt Donald – the co-owner and skipper of the TP52 racing yacht Gweilo, discusses his and Gweilo’s transformation from newcomers on the Australian ocean racing scene to champions of the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore.
The third episode of the Pro Sailing Tour has gathered the largest ever fleet of the Ocean Fifty trimarans for four days of racing in the waters of Gran Canaria (a Spanish island, located off northwestern Africa). This is the…
La Grande-Motte, France: Gunboat announces the Gunboat 72V, a new catamaran concept to complement the existing heritage series’ currently in production (the Gunboat 68 and Gunboat 80) – the first catamaran with Gunboat sailing performance and a flybridge. Design and…
The 44Cup Marstrand had a tricky start today off the Swedish paradise island bearing its name. A weather front slowly moving across the west coast of Sweden brought with it solid 25 knots winds, 30+ knot gusts and the real prospect of…
A solid 25 knots of wind was in full force for day 1 of the 44Cup Marstrand in Sweden.
A day of excitement is guaranteed when you get five foiling catamarans battling it out on the Algarve Coast, Portugal. And there was plenty of excitement around, to say the least, on day 1 on the GC32 Lagos Cup.
Four challenging races on day one of the GC32 Lagos Cup 1 brought sailors back to the marina with smiles seen all round. OK, so a lack of wind on the Algarve coast, located in Southern Portugal, meant racing was…
Italy: The 9th S&S Swan Regatta, an event that takes place every two years, took place in Marciana Marina from June 23rd to 26th. The event is reserved for the legendary ‘swans’ of the Finnish sea created by the American…
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