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As per the forecast, the ‘Fremantle Doctor’ made an appearance on the second day of the 2018 Etchells Australian Championship to provide 32 competitors with the sort of sailing conditions Fremantle is renowned for. As competitors left the dock this…
After the Clipper Race fleet split into two packs, it has converged again over the last 24 hours as teams tackled stormy conditions, known locally as Southerly Busters, ahead of the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint. During the fifth day of…
When the Volvo Ocean Race fleet first encountered the notorious Doldrums as they raced through the Atlantic between Lisbon and Cape Town on Leg 2, they breezed through with minimal disruption. On the eighth day of Leg 4, it seemed…
Volvo Ocean Race skipper Dee Caffari, whose Turn the Tide on Plastic boat is collecting samples that are analysed for levels of microplastics, has welcomed the news that the UK Government has introduced legislation to ban the manufacture of plastic…
The pressure heats up on the final day at Bartercard Sail Paradise. It may be the final day of racing but by no means has there been any easing off on the race course by competitors, the start line had…
Export Roo, Tasmania’s major hope to win the SB20 World Championship 2018 on Hobart’s River Derwent today slid down the leader board from first to sixth place overall. Export Roo, skippered by prominent local yachtsman Michael Cooper, began day three…
Sanya Serenity Coast retains its lead during the fourth day of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race as mixed conditions splits the fleet into two, as it progresses up the coast of Australia. Racing remains close though with 32 nautical…
Day 1 of the 2018 Etchells Australian Championships was a blast, a typical warm summer cloudless day on the waters off Fremantle with three back to back, 2 lap windward/leeward races. The breeze begun in the East at 6 –…
As Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race neared its halfway point on Tuesday, any memories of the freezing cold Southern Ocean had long been banished. With every mile that the fleet climbs further north through the South Pacific, so…
Yann Guichard has made the decision to return to Brest following analysis of this evening's weather files. The weather window, which mobilised Guichard and his eleven crew to leave Brest at 1800h did not materialise as expected. “The weather window…
Saturday 6th January marked a special day for close to two-hundred intrepid cruising sailors chasing new adventures with annual editions of World Cruising Club's round-the-world cruising rally World ARC. In the rally's Caribbean home port of Saint Lucia, the World…
Metung Yacht Club is located in the picturesque Gippsland Lakes on the South East coast of Victoria and is the venue for the Prince Philip Cup, the 2018 Australian Dragon National Championship. The event is set to be a great…
The new week started with a reshuffle of the Leg 4 leaderboard as the seven-strong Volvo Ocean Race fleet eased into the Doldrums for the second time so far this race. After six days at sea, racing is so tight…
New Zealand’s Francesco KAYROUZ and Jackson KEON (NZL12) took the title of the 2018 Zhik 29er World Champions today with top four results in all races and a nine point cushion separating them from their closest competition. New Zealand got…
Tension is high as the Etchells fleet cranes in to moor up on the pontoons in Fremantle ahead of an incredibly competitive Etchells Australian Championship. The reason why this event is so significant is the fact that the Etchells fleet…
British yachtsman Richard Powell snatched victory on the final spinnaker run of race five of the SB20 Worlds today, ending a boat-for-boat duel between Tasmanians Brett Cooper and Michael Cooper. As they crossed the finish line it was Powell at…
A gripping race to the Scoring Gate unfolded during the third day of Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays Race which ultimately saw Sanya Serenity Coast come out on top followed closely by Visit Seattle in second and Qingdao, which has…
The temperature hit 35 plus degrees in the sun and that was agony as the crews waited to get a final start for almost three hours. With the breeze literally switching thru 180 degrees of the compass, to their credit…
Over 450 sailors competed on water between the shores of Main Beach and Currumbin on the second day of Bartercard Sail Paradise, which is sure to be a record number of sailors offshore the Gold Coast. With day two of…
Fountaine Pajot’s stunning new Saona 47 sailing catamaran has won the category of “Best Multihull Sailing Yacht Under 15m” at the inaugural Christofle Yacht Style Awards. The awards, which recognise the very best of the yachting industry in Asia and…
Boating enthusiasts will be out in force on February 24 as Multihull Solutions hosts a Free Multihull Boat Show and Open Day from its Gold Coast Sales Centre. The event will showcase an expansive range of quality new and pre-owned…
Four boats are within just six miles as the leaders approach the Solomon Islands, the easternmost point of which is a mark of the race course for Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race. Dongfeng continues to lead over team…
It was another seriously brisk day for the second day of the final series of the 2018 Zhik 29er World Championship. Racing was cancelled yesterday with the breeze far above the 29er wind limit and the Race Officer even reporting…
Hobart yachtsman Michael Cooper yesterday made an impressive start to winning the SB20 World championship on the River Derwent that he so narrowly missed at Cowes, England, last August. Steering Export Roo, with same crew of David Chapman and Gerry…
Today, Sunday 7th January 2018 concludes the 56th International OK Dinghy Australian Championships, a six-day offshore regatta hosted by Southport Yacht Club’s Hollywell Sailing Squadron. With a remarkable 18 point lead, Rob McMillan has been crowned the Australian titles champion….
With adverse weather conditions on the final day of racing at the Flying Fifteen Australian Championships held out of Mornington YC on Port Philip Bay, the penultimate day's results stand handing the title to Matt Owen and Andrew Reed from…
A mixed bag of conditions has kept the fleet very busy during the second day of racing in Race 6: The Wondrous Whitsundays race but the main focus for each of the eleven teams is the closely matched race to…
With the 2018 Queensland Yachting Championships up for grabs, BEACH BALL, skippered by Bradley Ginnivian from Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron currently leads the fleet today going into day two of the 2018 Bartercard Sail Paradise Series. Forty-two competitors took to…
Races 5 & 6 proved pivotal in the make-up of the final show down for the battle for the Peroni 16 and 13 foot Skiff Australian Titles. Just like the old days when the milkman delivered your bottles to the…
Australian Sailing’s Victorian Trailable Yacht Division has an annual calendar of events making up the Trailable Yacht and Sports Boat Travellers Series. Two heats were sailed in 2017 and coming events include the following: Heat Date Club / Event …
Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron’s 2016 Youth Sailor of the Year, Tom Needham, is treating the upcoming Australian Youth Championships at his home club as a chance to add to his rapidly growing sailing knowledge. But, with this being his last…
After a testing first 24 hours beating upwind in Leg 6: the Wondrous Whitsundays Race, the Clipper Race fleet remains close together with just over one nautical mile (nm) being the difference between the first four boats on the leaderboard…
The leaders on Leg 4 are still making good progress, but only have about 200 miles to go until the wind starts to ease significantly on approach to the Solomon Islands. As at 1300 UTC on Saturday, the wind was…
What a difference a day makes – the race committee’s decision to utilise the lay day proved to be a good one with back-to-back races sailed in a good 15 knot nor’/nor’ easter, although a big tide made for choppy…
As a six-year-old, Seisa Mair cruised the Pacific on her parents Duncan and Cheryl’s yacht and today, aged 13, she will be the youngest skipper when the SB20 World Championship starts on Hobart’s River Derwent. In the years between, Seisa…
A light day on Port Philip Bay on the penultimate day or racing at the Flying Fifteen Australian Championship shuffled up the pack a bit with some of the leaders suffering double digit scores, however Matt Owen/Andrew Reed (Canberra YC)…
Four days into Leg 4, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet was starting to compress again – with overall race leaders MAPFRE rapidly rising through the rankings and closing in on leaders. Skipper Xabi Fernandez spoke on Thursday about plenty of…
The Whitsundays leg may only be six hours into its journey but some divisive early navigational choices and tight racing means the leaderboard is already making for gripping viewing. In the past hour, PSP Logistics, which is the current race…
With the OK Dinghy fleet becoming the fasted growing dinghy division at Southport Yacht Club it was a no brainer for SYC member Emma Hutcheson to jump on board. “Only twelve months ago I began my OK Dinghy adventure, the…
The final four races of the qualifying series for the 2018 Zhik 29er World Championship were held today off the Po Toi Islands in Hong Kong, where Australia has made it into the Gold Fleet. With consistent top five finishes,…
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