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Media Release from Australian Sailing: The Notice of Race for the 2020 Australian Yachting Championships has been released, with online entries now open for what is sure to be one of the most competitive instalments of the pinnacle title for…
Production at the NSW Central Coast factory of Performance Sailcraft Australia is in full swing as the company looks ahead to a busy summer of Laser sailing in Australia. Laser 2020 begins on January 1 with the Australian Laser Championships…
For the 47 competitors, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup got off to a superb start today with a northwesterly that built to 20+ knots and a superb beat up the La Maddalena archipelago’s ‘Bomb Alley’. The 30th edition of the…
Racing was delayed for an hour as officials waited for a light 5 knot breeze to fill in on Day 3 of Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW); and finally, all but Division 1 yachts were…
What better way to blow out the winter cobwebs, without blowing the budget, than to contest the annual Asahi Regatta hosted by Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC). Alternatively known as the NSW Country Yachting Championships, the event intentionally coincides with…
Last year it was a dynamic new deck layout by Galeon that picked up the Innovative On-Board Design Solution award sponsored by Fusion. As foilers enter the mainstream, will the technology make them a front runner in this year’s Awards?…
The Victorian WASZP fleet will kick off its 2019/20 season in October with a big fleet expected to descend on the Sandringham Yacht Club for the 2019 Sail Sandy Regatta. Hosted on 12-13 October, the Sail Sandy event will see…
Racing ar Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) got underway late today as race officials waited for the light south-easterly wind to fill in, and when it arrived shortly before 12.30pm it was a magic day’s…
Australia's Mat Belcher and Will Ryan won their third consecutive Men's 470 gold medal on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic waters as the Hempel World Cup Series Enoshima event in Japan concluded. Belcher and Ryan won the 470 World Championship…
Forty-seven of the world’s largest race boats (plus another six not racing) are gathered in Porto Cervo primed for tomorrow’s start of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. This year’s event marks the 30th edition of this most famous of maxi…
Father’s Day lay day is over and the on-water battles resume today at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) with racing on the bay off Townsville to start from 11am this morning. Yesterday competitors enjoyed the Rotary Beer Can Regatta,…
The sun shone on the thousands of supporters who lined the banks of St. Katharine Docks and the River Thames to witness the Clipper 2019-20 Race departure. Tower Bridge was lifted to mark the occasion and the eleven strong fleet…
Five Hempel World Cup Series Enoshima champions were crowned on Saturday 31 August as the first day of Medal Races sprung some surprises. France's Quentin Delapierre and Manon Audinet claimed a superb Nacra 17 gold, moving up from fifth to…
A number of newcomers joined the multitude of repeat offenders for the opening day of Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), and although competitors waited for over an hour for the breeze to fill in, when…
The Men’s and Women’s 470 fleet are sailing their third consecutive regatta in Enoshima, Japan; their World Championships concluding on 9 August before Ready Steady Tokyo before the Olympic Test Event, and now the first regatta of the 2020 Hempel…
The Ocean Race will come to Aarhus, Denmark during the spring of 2022, following a popular ‘Fly-By’ of the city during the final leg of the 2017-18 edition of the Race. The success of the Fly-By, where the fleet raced…
Day 2 has dawned bright and clear at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) and already the gauntlet is being thrown down in some divisions where bets are on for the yachties’ favourite tipple – rum and coke – and…
Day 2 started much the same as yesterday, except the light breeze came in on cue; Principal Race Officer, Denis Thompson, able to proceed with racing on time from 11am at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, held off Townsville in…
The physical limits of the 496 sailors from 46 nations racing at the Hempel World Cup Series regatta in Enoshima, Japan were pushed on Thursday as big waves rolled through Sagami Bay. With thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean…
(Thursday 29th August, Puerto Portals) – Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon team won the Rolex TP52 World Championship title on the Bay of Palma today, but the German-flagged team, led by the Hamburg-based owner-driver did not make it easy for themselves as…
It is only Day 1 and the parties have already started at Townsville Yacht Club’s (TYC) renowned SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW), with the Cape Upstart barbecue kicking off proceedings two days in advance and the welcome party held…
The Men’s and Women’s RS:X and Finn fleet battled against the elements at Hempel World Cup Series Enoshima as wild winds and booming waves hit Sagami Bay. As the seven remaining Olympic fleets were postponed early on in the day,…
(Wednesday 28th August, Puerto Portals) – A testing, northwesterly offshore wind of 12-17kts produced fantastic racing conditions at the Rolex TP52 World Championship on the Bay of Palma out of Puerto Portals as Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon took control of the…
Friends and business partners from all over the world, including the directors at Australia's ATL Composites, Lorraine Murray and Nicholas Cossich, came together at a monumental celebration for Gougeon Brothers Inc. at Bay City, Michigan. Over the last 50 years,…
Regular Mysailing reader, Bob Dunne, has created some interesting and informative maritime quizzes which will test your knowledge of a range of maritime matters. There are three separate quizzes on Marine Radio operation (mostly VHF); Racing Rules of Sailing; and…
Brazil’s Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze got off to a perfect start in the 49erFX as racing commenced at the first regatta of the 2020 Hempel World Cup Series in Enoshima, Japan. Fresh from last week’s gold at Ready Steady…
By The Maritime Executive 2019-08-24 21:15:16 NOAA's official value for the total length of the US shoreline is 95,471 miles. As there is no reference that designates one specific shoreline as the “legal” shoreline, numbers for…
(Tuesday 27th August, Puerto Portals) – A series of thunderstorms put plans to rest on the third racing day here at the Rolex TP52 World Championship Puerto Portals 2019. The fleet of 11 boats was held ashore while a first…
Four months ago, Charles Caudrelier and Franck Cammas joined Gitana Team and took over the helm of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild to form a rather atypical if complementary duo. In late May, the 32-metre giant returned to the water…
The Ocean Race Summits – an international series of events held by The Ocean Race – aims to bring together leaders from sport, business, politics and science to advance efforts to restore ocean health. Ocean health summit to bring together…
(Monday 26th August, Puerto Portals) – Delivering a 1,1,2 from three of the four races sailed so far, Takashi Okura’s Sled team now leads the Rolex TP52 World Championship just one point up ahead of the 2017 World Champions Platoon…
Congratulations to Marcus Eagan, Andrew Eagan, and Jackson Benvenutti (Mandeville, LA) for winning both the Goslings 2019 Viper 640 World Championship and the 2019 Viper 640 North Americans. Hosted by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club (Long Beach, CA), the four-day Championship…
The 2019 Multihull Solutions Phuket Rally is now open for entry with strong numbers expected to participate in the inaugural event. Held from 8-11 November, the casual cruising rally will bring together multihulls of all sizes to enjoy a weekend…
The 2020 Hempel World Cup Series is set for the lift off with 496 sailors from 46 nations ready to race across ten Olympic fleets on Sagami Bay in Enoshima, Japan. Hempel World Cup Series Enoshima follows on from Ready…
When Ken and Rhonda Thackeray started the Shag Islet Cruising Yacht Club in 2009, they could never have predicted what lay ahead. In just over a decade, the story of the world’s most exclusively non-exclusive yacht club has become firmly…
Kapok lifejackets This safety alert aims to raise awareness of the risks associated with the use of out of date, and dangerous, kapok filled lifejackets. Kapok filled lifejackets with cotton straps are decades old and have not been manufactured since…
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