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Manly Sailing Club in Auckland has won the bid to host the 2019 O'pen BIC World Championship. Sir Russell Coutts, Manly Yacht Club's newly elected Commodore, led the presentation at the International O'pen BIC Class Association AGM where the vote…
I must be really showing my age; the other day a lovely young lady stood up and offered me her seat on the tram. After I got home a long look in the mirror confirmed the sad fact, time has…
We all want better photographs of our boat and the beautiful places that we visit, but we are normally restricted to sea level unless we can find a convenient hill to climb. Recently, small camera drones have become affordable. They…
Sandy is the fisherperson on our boat. She has always loved fishing and the pile of fishing gear that was on board when we bought the boat is probably her secret reason for wanting this particular vessel. Our steady donations…
We all have a dream. We wanted to circumnavigate the world and part of that dream was to go through the French canals in our own yacht. In 2009 we finally found the yacht we were looking for in New…
These days you will often find published in boat brochures and boat tests, a diagram showing the performance of a particular boat. The diagram is called a polar plot and a typical one is shown in figure 1. Understanding how…
The Cadet World Championship is done and dusted – it was sailed in trying conditions on and off the water and the Australian team performed well and shared a large slice of the silverware. We had our last race as…
The Men’s RS:X at the Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus Denmark 2018 Test Event whetted the appetite for the battles to come here in a year’s time. On a day of light airs, there was drama all the way to…
Oman Air maintained its lead in Hamburg while Red Bull Sailing Team climbed from bottom of the table to second after seven nail-biting races on the penultimate day of Extreme Sailing Series™ Act 5, Hamburg, presented by Land Rover. Four…
Dutch Olympian Renée Groeneveld and her crew have won the Lysekil Women’s Match, beating Pauline Courtois, FRA, 3 – 1 in Saturday’s final on the second stop on the 2017 WIM Series. “My crew did a very good job today,…
With just one day remaining of the RC44 Marstrand World Championship, can Team Nika be caught for the world title? Ask any professional sailor what hopes they have for a week of competition, and generally it's to be in with…
Day 1 at Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing hosted by Whitsunday Sailing Club got off to a fabulous start – lots of sun and a light breeze for entrants to ease into the competition. Sailing in light airs,…
Day two of the RC44 Marstrand World Championship was far too fickle and tricky for any single team to dominate, but the best performers of the day were both Russian crews. Bronenosec Sailing Team won the first heat of the…
In tough conditions on the River Elbe, Oman Air out-sailed its rivals to gain a six-point lead, with the rest of the fleet separated by a narrow two-point margin, after the first day of scoring racing at the Extreme Sailing…
For a third time running, the Rolex Fastnet Race has been a story of French domination, Le Tricolor flying on this occasion from the top spot in IRC 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Class40 and IMOCA 60, the Two…
Xabi Fernández and his in-form MAPFRE team claimed their second victory in Leg Zero qualifying with another commanding performance in the build-up to the Volvo Ocean Race. MAPFRE had a lead of seven nautical miles when they crossed the finish…
Three races were sailed in a light nor’easter of 3-5 knots – this was a new direction we hadn't done much sailing in – and in contrast, this breeze had a one way tendency with the left hand side of…
Mark Skelton forsook the Barbados and the 2017 OK Dinghy World Championship just so he could finally attend Airlie Beach Race Week – and so far it has paid in spades – two wins from two races. Skelton, who finished…
Olympic gold medallist and America’s Cup winning helmsman Peter Burling has joined Team Brunel for the 2017-18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race – and he’s already out sailing with his new teammates in pre-race qualifying. The signing of the…
Mother Nature refused to play ball on the opening day of Extreme Sailing Series Act 5, Hamburg, resulting in no scoring races being completed. Conditions in the German venue are predicted to improve from tomorrow. Light winds versus strong tide…
IRC Three went to wire this afternoon in the Rolex Fastnet Race between two French JPK 10.80s. Coming into the finish, Timeline of past class winner Marc Alperovitch seem to be the victor, but when Arnaud Delamare and Eric Mordret's…
Sometimes success is about being in the right place at the right time, and that's exactly what launched Team Nika into the lead on day one of the RC44 Marstrand World Championship in Sweden. Things fell into place beautifully for…
Coach's Blog #8 Well 8 races completed and our regatta is 2/3 of the way through. It was nice to get back out on the water to race and enjoy the sailing challenges. We had our best wind for the…
In bright sunshine and shifty westerly winds, the round-robin stage of the Lysekil Women’s Match concluded Thursday afternoon. Trine Palludan of the Royal Danish Yacht Club took nine matches to win it. “Now we appreciate getting a little rest before…
Sailors from around the Pacific and beyond are already signalling their intention to be part of the legendary Musket Cove Fiji Regatta, which will be staged from September 15-20 this year. Such is the interest in the colourful event, that…
The racing yacht Bumblebee V has run aground off Byron Bay on the north coast of NSW. She was being delivered to Hamilton Island Race Week by a professional crew when she hit a reef. The crew abandoned the stricken…
Aside from the Volvo Ocean Race seven, another tight competition in the Rolex Fastnet Race has been between the twenty-six Class40s racing. These boats are designed to a box rule created in France in the early 2000s. With more than…
The wind, the spectators and finally also the sunshine, came to Lysekil Women’s Match, the 2nd event on the 2017 WIM Series, on Wednesday. Trine Palludan from the Royal Danish Yacht Club picked up another couple of matches, and is…
There has been one question on the lips of the many thousands of Finn fans around the world since the Rio Olympics – ‘Where can we see footage of the incredible Finn racing on the courses outside the bay?’ Everyone…
Coaches Blog #7 Well a nice short one today. Not a lot happened on the water, but a fair bit going on ashore. I went down to the club and attended the daily coaches briefing. It was quite fiery with…
Day one of the Test Event began with clear skies and low wind speeds of around seven knots. The wind increased in the latter part of the day to 12 knots. Races were scheduled to start at 1200 hours but…
Stuff.co.nz America's Cup great Dennis Conner predicts a “wonderful” regatta in Auckland sailed in foiling 60-foot sloops with no involvement from Larry Ellison and Sir Russell Coutts, but the United States being represented by another billionaire. Conner, a four-time winner of…
Day 5 of the Gul Mirror Worlds, only one more race and the Cornish weather was a bit more like it with a moderate, but shifty wind and sunny intervals. The first attempt at getting Race 12 away failed when,…
The Notice of Race for the 175th Festival of Sails is now online and organiser Royal Geelong Yacht Club is ready to welcome entries for the significant anniversary edition of Victoria’s oldest sporting trophy. Download the Notice of Race here…
Unchallenged, Concise 10 blazed into Plymouth this morning, first boat home in the 47th Rolex Fastnet Race. Tony Lawson's MOD70 trimaran crossed the finish line off Plymouth breakwater at 05:55:00 BST with a race time of 42 hours and 55…
American George David's Rambler 88 arrived in Plymouth to claim monohull line honours. The silver maxi crossed the finish line off Plymouth breakwater at 22:14:21 BST in a time of 2 days 9 hours 34 minutes and 21 seconds. This…
Two-time America’s Cup challenger, Vincenzo Onorato, is among the seven early international contenders for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. From 1993, the Italian shipping magnate has branded his team and boats ‘Mascalzone…
China’s Dongfeng Race Team edged out MAPFRE by just 56 seconds in a Rolex Fastnet Race thriller in the early hours of Wednesday, as an intense night of lead changes and fickle winds ended with the entire fleet separated by…
At 15:49:37 BST Tony Lawson's MOD70 trimaran Concise 10 became the first boat to round the Fastnet rock off southwest Ireland. At the time the next boat in the race, George David's Rambler 88 was 111 miles astern. However thanks…
Entries for Townsville Yacht Club’s SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week have reached 65 and competitors are already gearing up for a week of sailing, soaking up sun and catching up with friends for the final northern regatta, held during the…
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