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Racing started today in earnest at the ‘A’ Class Worlds on the beautiful warm waters and beaches of Hervey Bay in Australia, following the cancellation of yesterday’s racing after all the fleet had arrived at the race areas. The weather was…
Paul Darrouzet, owner of the multi award-winning Airlie Beach marina precinct, Abell Point Marina, last week exchanged unconditional sale and purchase contracts for the acquisition of the iconic Coral Sea Resort. This strategic move is the next step in Darrouzet’s…
The Royal Geelong Yacht Club, home of the Festival of Sails, will soon have a new look thanks to a multi-million dollar re-development which is set to dramatically transform the Geelong waterfront. Following the 2019 Festival of Sails regatta, held…
Following two shark attacks at Cid Harbour in the Whitsundays, one of which proved fatal, Whitsunday Escape has purchased 40 of Ocean Guardian’s FREEDOM7 shark deterrent devices. They will be included on all 40 of the boats in the Whitsunday…
Simon Nearn's R Marine Pittwater took out today's final race of the Spring Championship series on Sydney Harbour today, but it was the young Rag & Famish team which became the 2018 champion when the team finished just one point…
Giant waves kicked up by an Atlantic gale oddly combined with no wind in the vicinity of Cascais resulted in racing being cancelled on the final day of the RC44 Cascais Cup. This made for a surprise, come-from-behind winner of…
Whitehall, London, November 17, 2018 – The 2018 Royal Ocean Racing Club Annual Dinner and Prize Giving was held at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, with over 200 guests attending the spectacular black tie event and where prize winners, competitors, crews,…
The majority of boats and crews taking part in the 33rd edition of the ARC – the world's largest transocean rally for cruisers – have now arrived in their temporary 'home' of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Today, it was…
In the famous words of the British journalist Brian Hanrahan, aboard HMS Hermes ‘I counted them out, and I counted them all back’. This is how it felt on the first dramatic day of the ‘A’ Cat Worlds at Hervey…
Eleven nautical miles down the River Derwent from the finish of the 180 nautical miles Maria Island ocean race early Sunday morning it looked like a potential winning day for two of the smaller boats in the fleet, Off-Piste and…
Global sailing league SailGP today announced its exclusive appointment of Captain Cook Cruises to deliver the official on-water fan experiences at the inaugural SailGP Grand Prix in Sydney in February 2019. Last month, Sydney Harbour was unveiled as the…
The first stage of the redeveloped Margate Marina at Baretta is now open for business. Sail and power boat customers are now moving in to the initial 50 berths which are complete with power, water and CCTV monitoring… ideal timing…
French solo skipper Paul Meilhat at the helm of SMA was crowned the unexpected winner of the IMOCA class in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race today from Saint Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe. The…
Seven Australian yachting legends have been inducted into the inaugural Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Hall of Fame at the Club last evening. At the newly refurbished club, Captain John Illingworth, Stan Darling, Trygve and Magnus Halvorsen, Syd Fischer AM…
When he crossed the finish line in Pointe-à-Pitre at 0023hrs UTC last night, Paul Meilhat won the Route du Rhum in the IMOCA category, taking into account the 24-hour penalty given to Alex Thomson for starting his engine after running…
How things can change – and after two light days, but with a comparatively large Atlantic swell running, an aggressive-looking cold front off the Portuguese coast looked set to make racing impossible on the penultimate day of the RC44 Cascais…
Port Klang: The 29th Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR) is set to be an exciting affair with strong contenders vying for the Raja Muda Cup this year. Singaporean entry ‘Windsikher’, which is owned and skippered by Sarab Jeet Singh,…
Abell Point Marina has been named the first marina in Australia to achieve a score of 100% on the International Clean Marina audit. In an assessment on 30 October, Abell Point Marina was re-accredited as a Level 3 Clean Marina…
The Australian 18 Footers League's seven-race Spring Championship won't be decided until almost half the 18-boat fleet has crossed the finish line in the final race of the series, on Sydney Harbour next Sunday (18 November). With all seven races…
Entries have soared for the 29er fleet at this year’s Sail Sydney event, with competitors coming from across the country and also from New Caledonia and New Zealand to compete at the regatta to be hosted by Woollahra Sailing Club…
There has been a huge upset in the race between the IMOCAs, as comfortably leading the Route du Rhum and on his way to a clear victory, British sailor Alex Thomson ran aground last night at the foot of a…
The British yachtsman Alex Thomson stood on board his damaged yacht, Hugo Boss, moored to the quayside in Guadeloupe this morning and told the assembled media that he did not deserve to win the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. Thomson had…
To make up for yesterday's missed race and with the prospect of a possibly 'too big' weekend ahead, four races were held on day two of the RC44 Cascais Cup, the final event of the 2018 championship for the high…
It is shortly after midnight in Europe that Alex Thomson is expected off Tête à l’Anglais island to the north of Basse-Terre. He will then have the tricky task of sailing around Guadeloupe. The skipper of Hugo Boss appears to…
The inaugural edition of ARC+ St. Vincent set sail today from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria marking the second wave of boats in the 2018 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers to begin their Atlantic adventure. They now are on their way…
Despite being mid-November, Portugal laid on warm temperatures and light winds for the opening day of the RC44 Cascais Cup, the final regatta of 2018 for the high performance one design monohulls. However with an offshore easterly to southeasterly blowing,…
An operation is under way to rescue Lalou Roucayrol, the French skipper who capsized 1,000 nautical miles east of Guadeloupe early yesterday morning (Wednesday). The plan to recover Roucayrol from the upturned Multi50, Arkema, will involve fellow Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe skipper…
Blessed with bright Caribbean sunshine and a 20-knot trade wind for the final passage around the island of Basse Terre, French solo skipper Armel Tripon today won the Multi50 class in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. The 43-year-old solo…
When the David Lyons-designed 40-footer, then named Micropay Cuckoos Nest, won the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on corrected time she had to survive a galeforce battering in the Tasman Sea. This weekend’s Maria Island Race looks far more benign for…
Following initial reports that Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss had grounded on rocks during the final miles of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe and while leading the IMOCA class, Race Direction has contacted the British skipper to check his status. They…
The new ZK Seaboot 900 is a product created as a direct result of Zhik’s partnership with team AkzoNobel and the Dongfeng Race Team, overall winners of the recent Volvo Ocean Race. Designed for serious, long distance offshore racers and…
An international gathering of foiling boat and board classes, racing in the Caribbean, in November: What better formula could there be for a modern day sailing regatta? This is exactly what Sirius Events have created with their brand new Martinique…
The story of the Finn class has been, and will always be, the greatest sailing story in the history of the Olympics. But, after 18 Olympic Games, it would seem the Finn is no longer required, effectively excluding the best…
It will soon be coming to an end for the leading IMOCA. Ruling supreme, Alex Thomson has kept a good lead over his closest rivals. Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès are fighting it out to make it to…
Plymouth City Council and the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) have confirmed that Plymouth will host the finish of the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race. Plymouth has marked the end of the biennial yacht race since its inception in 1925. Starting…
NEWPORT, R.I. – For Joe Mele, a 55-year-old retired doctor of internal medicine in New York City and fantastical stunt diver, ocean racing is about more than the competition. “I love the fact that it's not just a race, but…
A national “come-and-try” initiative run by the Australian Sharpie class last weekend has given hundreds of kids around Australia a look into their sailing futures, after clubs across the country got behind the National Kids in Sharpies Weekend. Clubs in…
Lisa Blair is attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate Australia solo, non-stop and unassisted. She is currently off the north-west coast of Western Australia, where she had an unexoected encounter with Indonesian fishing vessels. Here is her latest…
Sailors in the north of New Zealand will be able to take part in an exciting week of non-stop competitive sailing from 22 to 28 January 2019, after two of New Zealand’s biggest sailing regattas joined forces to create a…
The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) is pleased to announce it has partnered with Save the Children, the charity founded in 1919 whose vision is for children around the world to attain the right to survival, protection, development and…
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