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Kapok lifejackets This safety alert aims to raise awareness of the risks associated with the use of out of date, and dangerous, kapok filled lifejackets.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…
Yahoo News Australia Sailing authorities have loosened the rules on lifejackets at their Tokyo 2020 Olympic test event to help athletes cool down, the latest sport to take measures to beat sweltering heat in the Japanese capital. Fears over intense…
On Tuesday, 20 August, the next generation of high performance foiling catamaran was unveiled as the TF35 splashed on Lake Geneva for its first test sail. Compared to its predecessors, the TF35 has been designed with the ambitious brief to…
TasPorts’ innovative proposal to build a floating marina within historic Constitution Dock on the Hobart waterfront has been welcomed as a key for berthing the huge fleet for the 75th edition of one of the world’s most famous ocean yacht…
The show is over, and the divisional winners at the windiest Hamilton Island Race Week in years are gearing up for a big evening of celebration, marking the end of another fantastic series in the sailing wonderland of Queensland's Whitsunday…
Long Beach, California: Day three of the Goslings Viper 640 World Championship, hosted by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, is what the sailors called “moving day,” as the Catalina High was predicted to suck the air out of the race course…
Vera, owned by the Argentinian Miguel Galuccio, is the first yacht to cross the finish line of the XV Palermo-Montecarlo: the 82' long hull with, crewed by stars such as Volvo Ocean Race legend, Bouwe Bekking and Olympic champion, Michele…
Sydney boats Hooligan, Marcus Blackmore's TP52, and Team Hollywood, Ray Roberts' Botin 40, have captured the top divisional prizes at Hamilton Island Race Week on the penultimate day, as the whales came out to play in Whitsunday Passage. Wind over…
History and statistics may weigh in on the side of Quantum Racing, which is the defending world champion and six-time winner, but skipper-strategist Ed Baird refuses to consider that the US-flagged team start favourite at the Rolex TP52 World Championship…
The weather gods smiled on all sailors in the Goslings Viper 640 World Championship at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club in Long Beach, California, allowing the maximum four races to be run by PRO, Mark Townsend, in breezes that ranged from…
After almost 30 hours of navigation, the fleet of the Palermo-Montecarlo is expectedly dealing with a rather uncertain situation because of the very unstable sea and weather conditions. “On the Tyrrhenian Sea there is a very high pressure, and everything…
Just one Medal Race could be sailed on Day 6 of Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, the official test event for Tokyo 2020 in Enoshima. Only the 470 Women’s Medal Race went ahead, starting just after 16:00 local time, and it…
The brand new Tf10 Mad Max up on one hull through a gybe and Kim William’s Melges 32 Rock n Roll living up to its name by performing a massive wipe-out at the northern end of Dent Island in a…
Five Medal Races took place on the fifth day of racing at Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, with the top three sailors of each fleet laying down the marker ahead of next year’s Games. At the official test event for Tokyo…
Palermo-Montecarlo, the fifth and final event of the International Maxi Association’s Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge 2018-2019, set sail from Sicily at midday today with crews anticipating a long, tactical race north along the Sardinian and Corsica coasts to reach the…
The pressure will be on tomorrow at Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, with fleet racing wrapped up in five Olympic events on Day 4. The RS:X Men, RS:X Women, 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 fleets will all sail their Medal Race…
With two days of light airs kicking off Hamilton Island Race Week, the hype building for some serious heavy air racing on day three delivered. Big Tuesday opened with a bang, the southeast winds whistling across Dent Passage and winding…
The Maritime Executive The Mariner's 1-2-3 Rule is the guideline mariners follow to keep out of a tropical storm or hurricane's path. The Mariner's 1-2-3 rule, also referred to as the Danger Rule, is an important guideline mariners follow to…
KCRA3 TUOLUMNE COUNTY, Calif. — A three-story houseboat sunk in a Tuolumne County lake during a poker event after the vessel became overloaded from too many people on one side, authorities said. The houseboat, which was near the shore on…
A world leader in luxury custom catamaran manufacture, Sunreef Yachts is to build an all-carbon fibre Sunreef 80 sailing superyacht. This recently commissioned carbon edition of the Sunreef 80 will be delivered in 2020. Its weight-reducing features will also include…
Melbourne 20/08/2019: The Victorian Laser Association is expecting a flood of entries this month, as the “early bird” deadline for the 2020 Australian Laser Championships expires on August 31. All sailors who have entered by that date go in the…
Jay Golison, Steve Flam, and Eric Doyle from the host Alamitos Bay Yacht Club (Long Beach, CA) sit atop the leader board after the first three races of the Goslings 2019 Viper 640 World Championship. With a scoreline of 1-2-6,…
As Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, the official test event for Tokyo 2020, reaches its mid-way point, it’s fair to say that all 353 athletes here have been put through their paces so far. Day 3 produced a different bout…
Day two at Hamilton Island Race Week was the classic calm before the storm, another picturesque light-air outing and procession of coloured kites setting off for their designated island marks of the course belying the approaching weather change. Trade winds…
The 2019 Spice Islands Darwin Ambon Yacht Race began in champagne conditions on the morning of Saturday August 3rd. An enthusiastic crowd gathered on the wharf and a group of supporters enjoyed a sponsored chartered to watch the start and…
In little more than four months’ time, the 5.5 Metre Class World Championship 2020 and its lead-in events will be heading to Pittwater, where the locals are prepped, ready and excited for what lies ahead at the Royal Prince Alfred…
A day of light wind saw a slightly disrupted race schedule on Day 2 of Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, the official test event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition. But, after a short postponement, all fleets managed to…
Two hundred and thirty-four crews enjoyed a gentle entrée to racing in the annual Whitsundays series, light trade winds and winter sunshine bathing the second largest Hamilton Island Race Week fleet in event history. All divisions completed round-the-island courses in…
The search for a 33-year-old man missing since Friday in Cockburn Sound has been suspended. The man went missing around 3.25pm on Friday, about one nautical mile offshore in Cockburn Sound. Two other men onboard sailed the yacht back to…
St. Moritz, 18 August 2019 – The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron turned on the afterburners in a thrilling four-boat showdown to win the Sailing Champions League 2019 on the lake of St. Moritz. The crew from Sydney was the only…
Alamitos Bay Yacht Club (Long Beach, CA) will be hosting the 2019 Viper 640 World Championship powered by Goslings from August 17-24, 2019. The host of the Viper’s 2014 North American Championship and the home of the world’s largest fleet…
The official test event of Tokyo 2020, Ready Steady Tokyo – Sailing, got underway in Enoshima, Japan today with the first day of racing, and the 363 sailors from 47 nations were met with strong winds and big waves, an…
Port Klang, Malaysia: The Notice of Race for the 2019 Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR) was issued in April and registration is still open for the 30th edition which will run from 15 to 23 November and retain the…
In two months’ time, some of the most striking boats from the classic yachting circuit will gather once more on the Cote d'Azur for the 9th edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy. It seems only recently that the…
It is always a big deal in any America’s Cup cycle when the first tranche of AC Class yachts is revealed – when fans and teams alike pore over every photograph and video they can get their hands on to…
Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders, the fourth place Nacra 17 team from Rio 2016, have split up just one year from the 2020 Games, each forming a new partnership, making it three new Nacra 17 crews forming with less than…
The Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat will join kiteboarding, windsurfing, multihulls, singlehanded and double-handed dinghies and skiffs as an Olympic class, promoting the diversity of the sport. This in turn will support World Sailing’s desire to promote and grow universality…
A fleet of 22 Finns, three larger than next year’s Olympic Games, has gathered in Enoshima for the 2019 Olympic test event – Ready Steady Tokyo. The fleet includes 17 nations and 12 sailors who competed in Rio 2016. It…
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