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Bridgetown, Barbados: The launch of the J/24 race series at Barbados Sailing Week attracted quality competition and with four races on short windward/leeward-style courses in Carlisle Bay, there was barely time to draw breath. Variable and shifty winds up to…
The APS Homes 52nd International Fireball Australian Championship was held at Nedlands Yacht Club on the Swan River and although the number of boats that travelled to Perth was lower than expected, there was still plenty of excitement and close…
Matt Allen’s new Botin 52, Ichi Ban, has had a flawless performance on the first two days of the 2018 Australian Yachting Championship and is sitting at the top of the Division 1 IRC table with one day to go….
MAPFRE crossed the Hong Kong finish line at 09:51 local time (02:51 h in Spain) after 17 days 22 hours 36 minutes and 10 seconds. Xabi Fernandez's team maintain their lead of the round-the-world race with four points’ advantage over…
Bridgetown, Barbados: While final preparations are underway for the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race tomorrow, the J/24 fleet crowned its winner in the closely contested final showdown in the J/24 Coastal Racing Series at Barbados Sailing Week. . J/24 racing…
Shortly after sunset in China, under a cloudy sky and with light winds, the trimaran Maserati Multi 70 left Hong Kong in search of the famous record set by Gitana 13 in 2008. An official from the World Sail Speed…
The David Witt skippered Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag has won Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race, from Melbourne, Australia to her home port of Hong Kong. It’s an historic win for Australian David Witt and his team who had to…
Organisers are expecting one of the largest fleets ever recorded in the event’s 16 year history, with 99 boats entered to date for the CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week, with more expected to sign up before racing gets underway…
At 1300 UTC Scallywag were 37 miles ahead of Dongfeng, but both teams – and race fans – were left guessing as to where Vestas 11th Hour Racing and Akzonobel were. If we assume the Vestas team remains ahead of…
There were originally two of the more colourful characters of the Goolwa community, Bill Appleby and Bill Ballard, who owned the yachts ‘Esther’ and ‘Edith’ and were constantly arguing about whose yacht was the fastest on the river. In order…
The Australia National Maritime Museum is delighted to be offering visitors the opportunity to climb on board legendary maxi yacht Wild Oats XI as it visits the museum this Australia Day weekend. From 26 – 28 January visitors can discover…
A strong and even fleet competing in anticipated variable conditions will test even the most experienced sailors when the Australian Yachting Championship begins on Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne on Friday. The monohull division of Australia’s premier keelboat regatta sports…
Bridgetown, Barbados (17 January, 2018): Glorious conditions with up to 18kts of breeze and accompanying swell made for an exciting day on the water for the opening day of the three-day Coastal Series at Barbados Sailing Week writes Sue Pelling….
An important safety bulletin has been issued by the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) to highlight a safety lesson that has arisen following a fatal man overboard incident in the Indian Ocean. BACKGROUNDThe sailing yacht CV30 was taking part…
Bridgetown, Barbados (18 January, 2018): With winds up to 17kts, competitors enjoyed more thrilling sailing and tactical racing for the second day of Barbados Sailing Week. The second and penultimate day of the Coastal Series, traditionally known as the Two…
Eden Magnet: By Jodie Stewart. A yacht that was sinking in Bass Strait after hitting a sunfish is now in Eden awaiting repairs. Allan Barnett, from Allan Barnett Fishing in Bridport Tasmania, received a call to pick up an abandoned yacht, the…
Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag skipper Dave Witt says the next 24 hours are the most vital of Leg 4 as they close in on an historic victory in their home town of Hong Kong. Witt’s crew were sitting almost 100…
Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag were showing no signs of relinquishing their grip on the Leg 4 lead on Tuesday as they geared up to break the 1,000-miles-to-go barrier. Hell-bent on arriving in their home port of Hong Kong as heroes,…
TVNZ News Just over a year ago Enda O'Coineen was forced to abandon the Vendee Globe around the world yacht race. The Irish solo sailor limped into Dunedin with no mast, but now he's back to finish what he started….
January 16, 2018. A 51-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man from Noumea were rescued by Tasmania Police with assistance of tender craft from the cruise ship Coral Discoverer after the couple's 12m yacht Claire de Lune ran on to rocks…
(Sydney) America’s Cup sailor Paul Campbell-James has announced he will be flying the English flag as the first international team to confirm their participation in this Summer’s SuperFoiler Grand Prix. The four-time national match racing champion will pair with another…
Phuket News PHUKET: The skipper sailing a yacht from Phuket to Langkawi, Malaysia, that washed ashore unmanned in Sabang, Indonesia, has been safely rescued by a passing cargo vessel off Sumatra. Paul Van Isacker reported reported himself to be alive…
After one of the most challenging races so far in the Clipper 2017-18 Race, Visit Seattle has held off a strong challenge from three other teams to chalk up a thrilling maiden victory in Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race….
Australia will field a team laced with raw talent, discipline and experience at the Youth Sailing World Championships this year, with most of the sailors declaring hard work as the biggest requirement to achieving success at Corpus Christi in the…
As the giant trimaran made its way to the Créac'h lighthouse (Isle of Ouessant) for a second attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy, Spindrift 2 dismasted at about 1615h today (Monday 15 January 2018), south of Pointe Saint-Mathieu in a…
Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag increased their lead in Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Monday as the sprint for the Hong Kong finish line moved inside 1,500 nautical miles. Dave Witt’s team shot to the front of the…
Dramatic weather systems that have dominated much of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race continue to make conditions challenging for the Clipper Race fleet during the tenth day of racing. Whilst the fleet is enjoying some long-awaited downwind weather conditions,…
The 2018 Australian Youth Championship has wrapped up in style at Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron with tight racing on the final day deciding national titles, podium finishes and Australian Youth Team selection. The stars of tomorrow showed their skills in…
Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag retains the lead in Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race, despite a dramatic man overboard scenario on Sunday. Crew member Alex Gough was washed overboard by a wave during a sail change, near midday local time…
Gordon Ingate has won the Prince Philip Cup Australian championship for the Dragon class for the fourth time, at the age of 91. Ingate, from Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, was crewed by Aimee Walsh and David Giles, aboard Whimsical, the…
Teams have been continuing their upwind slog as they tack up the Queensland coast, and positive thinking finally looks set to pay off as the latest weather forecast predicts a front will shortly pass over which should leave behind Southerly…
Four male divisions remain delicately poised after a challenging penultimate day of racing at the 2018 Australian Youth Championships at Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron on Sunday. Glory is for the taking in the Laser Radial, Laser 4.7, 29er and Bic…
Jan 15, 2018. Ray Roberts' Farr 55 Hollywood Boulevard sank in icy waters 150km east of Flinders Island on Sunday night. She was being delivered back to NSW by a crew of six after the 2017 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race….
For the previous two week’s Hobart’s River Derwent provided near perfect sailing conditions for the SB20 world championship, but last Friday evening and Saturday it turned sour for the ‘’old-timers’’ in the IOR Cup. Designed and built back in the…
On Australia Day, Friday January 26, a fleet of up to 300 yachts big and small will take off from Williamstown in a mass start of the largest keel boat regatta in the southern hemisphere, the Festival of Sails. The…
The latest Jeanneau 51 has taken a lot of the ideas used in the big sister 54 and utilised them into the shorter version. Indeed, as I walked down the marina arm at Middle Harbour Yacht Club, I saw the…
With Youth Olympic qualification on the line, Bic Techno Plus and Nacra 15 competitors are finding their groove at the half way point of the 2018 Australian Youth Championships. A fascinating battle between Max van der Zalm from New Zealand…
The fleet has continued to face frustrating conditions on Day 8 of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race, with teams struggling over the end gate of the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint, but the final result will be announced once all…
Following one of the longest and most painful doldrums crossings in memory, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet is now in the north-east trade winds and speeding towards the finish line in Hong Kong, some 2,700 nautical miles to the north-west….
Auckland, New Zealand – Vesper Marine, a leading manufacturer of innovative marine safety products, and Volvo Ocean Race, one of sailing’s biggest events and the ultimate human adventure, has announced that Vesper Marine’s Guardian AIS system has been selected by…
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