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Here’s a great opportunity for visitors to the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Tasmania in February to literally ‘get into the spirit’. One of the American wooden boats visiting the 2019 festival is Spirit, a monohull, six-oared Pilot Gig. Spirit…
Unfortunately, Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship had to be abandoned for the day, by Australian 18 Footers League officials today, when 25-30-knot Westerly winds, gusting to 40-knots, pounded Sydney Harbour. Earlier, the start had been delayed…
With eyes on the prize, the Swiss sailed a superb day on the water on the penultimate day of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series season finale in Los Cabos, climbing one position from their unsafe third place finish on Friday,…
Twelve of the world’s top women’s match racers started competition on Thursday in the 2018 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) Finale, hosted at the Carlos Aguilar Match Race (CAMR). After three days of racing, there are four teams…
Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina played host to the multihull prize giving for the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race. Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi70 was the winner of the Multihull Line Honours Trophy. Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay was presented with a…
inews.co.uk. By Pascale Hughes A sailor who investigated the world’s largest accumulation of marine plastic by carrying out scientific experiments on the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” in July is now inviting applications for an all-female sailing voyage and scientific research…
Maintaining control, rather than having to regain control, is a strategy that earned France’s Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team of Maëlenn Lemaître, Louise Acker and Sophie Faguet first place at the 2018 Women’s International…
Past Commodore of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) and current President of Australian Sailing Matt Allen, has on the weekend skippered his Botin-designed TP52 Ichi Ban to her fourth Blue Water Pointscore (BWPS) series win from five starts…
NZ Herald. A respected yachting commentator claims teams' preparation for the next America's Cup could be set back by up to three months due to technical difficulties, while a proposed second preliminary regatta could be scrapped altogether. Peter Montgomery told…
For the fourth time in their eight-year history of competing in the Extreme Sailing Series, Swiss team Alinghi took the championship title after a remarkable final in Los Cabos, Mexico. This feat makes them the joint most successful team ever…
Weather tested the tactical skills of the 12 international teams who raced the first full round robin’s flights 12 through 19 on the second day of racing in the 2018 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) Finale, hosted at…
Following their second place finish yesterday, Team Oman Air reached new heights on the second day of Extreme Sailing Series Los Cabos, closing the racing at the front of the seven-strong international fleet. Soaring across the sun drenched sea, the…
In a 5-10 knot building nor ‘east breeze on Sydney Harbour this morning, the 40-boat fleet packed-out boat-end at the start of the Bird Island Race, Comanche and Black Jack leading the way out of the Heads to the small…
The American team of Frankie Dair, James Jennings, Alistair Gifford and Niall Malone have won the 2018 Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta, defeating New Zealand's James Wilson 3-1 in a stellar Finals Series. This marks the first win for…
It wasn't the text book start to the Australian summer for the launch regatta of the SA Summer of Sail today, with strong northerlies of more than 25 knots forcing racing at the Adelaide Sailing Club to be postponed. With…
Jim Cooney sailed Comanche to line honours and a new record in the Bird Island Race, crossing the finish line at 04:08:27 hours on Saturday, in the time of 6hrs 8mins 27secs, just 25 minutes ahead of Peter Harburg’s Black…
Giovanni Soldini's Italian Multi 70 Maserati was the first to cross the line in the fifth edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, taking multihull line honours and completing the 3,000 nautical mile race between Lanzarote and Grenada in an elapsed…
Following an intense 3,000 nautical mile battle across the Atlantic from Marina Lanzarote to Camper & Nicholson's Port Louis Marina, Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 has taken Multihull line honours in the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race in an elapsed time…
Expected big winds and squalls on Port Phillip have forced organisers at Hobsons Bay Yacht Club to abandon racing in the opening round of Victoria’s Port Phillip Women’s Championship in Melbourne today. Racing in Division 1 was expected to get…
Competitors in the Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta experienced a blustery southerly breeze on Sydney Harbour for Day 3, producing epic sailing conditions as teams fought for the final four spots in the Quarter Finals. With yesterday blown out…
Having saved their best moves for the final Act of the season, Red Bull Sailing Team stole the show on the first day of Extreme Sailing Series Los Cabos, scoring a pole position hat-trick in the event's opening races. Under…
It's game on in the thrilling race for multihull line honours in the RORC Transatlantic Race, with Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay expected to arrive at Camper & Nicholson’s Port Louis Marina in the early hours…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Two people escaped uninjured after a sailboat crashed into an Ocean Beach jetty, before the vessel itself was crushed by high surf. The 25-foot long boat collided into the North Channel jetty in Ocean Beach with…
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Coast Guard crews returned four mariners to shore Wednesday, after their sailboat was demasted in a storm more than 100 miles off Cape Lookout, North Carolina. Rescue Coordination Center Norfolk received a satellite emergency distress notification Monday…
At 1200 UTC on 29 November, Giovanni Soldini's Multi70 Maserati and Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay were into the sixth day of their high-speed duel in the RORC Transatlantic Race. Both teams were just under 1,000 miles from the finish at…
Drivers and pedestrians traversing Waterfront Drive in Charlotte Amalie on Wednesday got a sneak peek of the competition to come in the Women’s International Match Racing Series finale held at the Carlos Aguilar Match Race (CAMR), on November 29 through…
Lisa Blair is attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate Australia solo, non-stop and unassisted. After sailing up the east coast from Sydney, through the Torres Strait and dwon the west coast, she is now off Cape Leeuwin and…
Zhik continues to offer new products in the performance dinghy market, with the launch of the new T3 Trapeze Harness exceeding previous levels of quick release safety, performance and comfort. In addition to excellent back support and unhindered movement, the…
Race 5 of the CYCA's Blue Water Pointscore series, the Bird Island Race – the final event in the series before the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – starts this weekend. At 10:00 on Saturday 1 December, a 41-strong fleet takes the…
The world’s best Finn sailors have arrived in Australia to contest this year’s Sail Sydney (4-7 December 2018) and Sail Melbourne International (13-16 December 2018) regattas and to make the most of what an Australian sailing summer has to offer….
Over 200 guests from the America’s Cup community from around the world gathered at the Yacht Club de Monaco this evening to celebrate the launch of the Prada Cup – the Challenger Selection Series for the 36th America's Cup presented…
Gordon Maguire, 57 years old, hails from Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in Lake Macquarie, Australia. He has been a professional sailor for 32 years. Gordon has competed in five Whitbread/Volvo Ocean Race Round the World races. He has also…
The competition will be fierce on the water in the Youth Division of the 2018 SB20 Australian Championship which gets underway on the River Derwent in Hobart today. There are five youth entries in the championship and they will be…
The sea-filled volcanic crater that is today the Charlotte Amalie harbour is picture postcard famous for its lush green mountains rising to over 1500-feet high. It is this topography that created a continual curve ball of wind shifts that challenged…
The period for late entries for the 36th America’s Cup officially closed today, the 30th November 2018. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand can confirm there have been an additional eight Notices of Challenge received…
The leading multihulls are now approximately halfway along the course in the RORC Transatlantic Race having already sailed 1,700 miles. Conversely, the smaller boats have only covered between 500 and 600 nautical miles and still have around 2,500 miles to…
The latest edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in Alicante, Spain in October 2017 and finished in The Hague in the Netherlands in June 2018, will be remembered as the closest in race history, as well as a…
It was a mammoth opening day at the 2018 Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta with the entire round robin completed with the United States of America, New Zealand and Australia ending the round tied on 9 points. With a…
29 November 2018 – Australia’s SailGP Team boat has been revealed for the first time today as the crew, led by skipper and Olympic gold medallist Tom Slingsby, tests the revolutionary new F50 off the coast of New Zealand’s Northland…
The volunteer crew from Crosshaven were requested to launch their inshore lifeboat at 5.20pm this evening to reports of a person shouting for help at Drakes Pool, a mile upriver from the lifeboat station. On arrival, it was found the…
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