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The 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has provided Tony Cable with two line honours, an overall victory, lifetime membership of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia – and a wife. It’s not bad for a short, fat, bald bloke…
Team ORCV has been very busy putting the Cock of the Bay to bed and preparing for today's Wyndham Harbour Melbourne to Hobart and Devonport races. We had a lack of wind for the start, just off Portsea Pier…
Being second across the finish line has its advantages. You have your handicap time posted and the boats behind have to beat you. However it usually means up to two days of nervousness, ticking off the smaller boats when it…
As we reach the two day mark of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race it is slow and steady in Hobart. Perpetual Loyal, Giacomo and Scallywag were able to sneak into Hobart in the dying breeze but since then it…
Beau Geste’s sprint south in the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race finished with a slow crawl up Hobart’s sometimes-cruel Derwent River in an early morning breeze too trifling to combat an outgoing tide and help them fight off a…
On paper it was the perfect race for Matt Allens JV52 Ichi Ban and in practice it was until they turned the corner at Tasman Light. Until the early hours of Dec 28, they were leading both their division and…
For Rupert Henry’s JV62 Chinese Whisper it was always going to be a race against Matt Allens JV52 Ichi Ban. The two have been neck and neck during the CYCA’s Blue Water Pointscore Series and when the forecast came through,…
As dawn broke on the second day of the 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, eight-time line honours winner Wild Oats XI had stolen a march on the rest of the fleet. Crossing ahead of nearest rival Pepetual Loyal during…
After a night of high speed sailing in the 72nd Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Karl Kwok’s Botin 80 Beau Geste was sitting fourth ahead of Scallywag and Black Jack and 10th overall on corrected time, the handicap rating that…
When Jim Cooney bought Maserati for the 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart, it became a family project with his daughter Julia, 19, and son James, 18, joining the crew for the great race south. After a quick turn around, they were…
Just after 2:30am on December 28, Anthony Bell's 100ft super maxi Perpetual Loyal was first across the finish line of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, smashing Wild Oats XI's race record by nearly five hours. It was the second…
There were smiles on the faces of the super maxi skippers and navigators after the race morning briefing by BOM meteorologist Jane Golding. The cold front that is expected to hit the fleet tonight has weakened and the big boats…
In passing the finish line of his solo world circumnavigation at 17 h57 (French time) on Christmas Day, Thomas Coville set a new record. The skipper and his 31 metre trimaran Sodebo circled the globe in 49 days 3 hours…
Boxing Day 2016 at the CYCA in Rushcutters Bay. Situation normal. The four fingers of the marina were alive with humanity as the 88 remaining entrants in the 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart finalised their preparations. (Jason Bond's Beneteau 47.7 Enigma…
The 50-foot competition at the 2017 Festival of Sails presented by Rex Gorell Land Rover is a good-looking line up of Victorian and New South Wales boats in among a broad spectrum of Rating Series entries, from a classically restored…
Great lessons to be learned in the January 2017 issue of Cruising Helmsman. Whether you enjoy our destination articles or the more practical ones, each story comes with good lessons we can all remember. From travelling in unsafe waters to…
LATEST NEWS: Finn Alexander confirmed as Laser Radial Boys Champion. A 20th in race 9 was good enough to secure the title. Earlier release below: Gold medals tumbled in Auckland at the 2016 Aon Youth Sailing World Championships as five…
Australia’s up and coming sailors have clinched two Gold and a Bronze Medal at this year’s Youth Sailing World Championship in Auckland. Leading the way for the Aussies was the 29er girls crew of Natasha Bryant and Annie Wilmot who…
Jeff Carter’s Edake and Martin Hill’s Estate Master staged a mighty final charge for supremacy in the deciding race of the Farr 40 Pittwater One Design Trophy, Estate Master’s fourth place to Edake’s sixth gifting them a narrow series victory….
The mast has been installed back into Ludde Invall’s CQS in preparation for the Rolex Sydney Hobart race, after routine maintenance and some minor modifications. Ludde thanked his team and staff from Hall spars for their work to ensure the…
The 31st Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) came to a rousing conclusion last night, 17th December, with the final Prize Giving ceremony held at the Beausejour Indoor Facility in Saint Lucia. Crews, friends and families of more than 200 boats…
France's Nacra 15 team and Australia's 29er girl's have wrapped up gold with a race to spare at the 2016 Aon Youth Sailing World Championships. Tim Mourniac and Charles Dorange lead the Nacra 15 fleet by 23 points going in…
At 1742 UTC on Saturday 17th December, Stéphane Le Diraison informed the Vendée Globe Race Directors that his Imoca Compagnie du Lit / Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt had dismasted. The skipper was not injured and sounded in good health on…
The sun came out to play today on the Sydney Harbour and while the breeze drifted in and out, class champions were decided and Flying 11s, Optimist Fleets, Nacra 17s, Sabots, Pacers and Tasars all started their Sail Sydney campaigns….
Pittwater, sometimes called ‘shift water’, exhibited its best and worst on day one of the Farr 40 One Design Trophy and still the race management team managed four races in breeze three to 15 knots between Taylor’s Point at Clareville…
It's tight at the top of the 2016 Aon Youth Sailing World Championships Laser Radial fleets as the discard came into play, allowing a chosen few to start forming breakaways from the rest of the field. Conditions were mixed on…
This year Brad Kellett will set a record no-one will ever beat when he becomes the youngest sailor ever to sail 25 consecutive Sydney Hobart Yacht Races. “Twenty five races was a milestone I always wanted to achieve when I…
If you want to lose some money, you can always bet on the favourite in the Melbourne Cup, but if you want to maximise your chances of losing money, bet on a yacht to win the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht…
It was a dazzling debut for the Nacra 15 at the 2016 Aon Youth Sailing World Championships as sailors got their feet, and everything else, wet on day one of racing in Auckland New Zealand. With plenty of thrills and…
At 08:19:00 UTC* in the first glimmer of light this Friday, IDEC SPORT crossed the start line off Ushant at more than twenty knots in her dash to grab the outright round the world record. The six men on board…
For the ninth time Wild Oats XI has won line honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s annual SOLAS Big Boat Challenge around Sydney Harbour. But this year there was no sense of deja-vu at all. This was a much…
Karl Kwok’s Team Beau Geste and Larki Missiris’ Wld1 have capitalised on their leads of yesterday to win the CYCA Trophy-Passage Series this weekend. In Division 1, Team Beau Geste, a TP52 representing Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, was unstoppable…
Melbourne turned on its best day at the Sailing World Cup Final, loads of summer sunshine and cool S-SW winds 10-15 knots for the close of the Olympic and Invited classes competition that drew sailors from around the world aged…
The Sailing World Cup Melbourne Final presented by Land Rover saved the best to last with the Laser rounding off the week of competition and serving up two tantalising in-race battles that decided the podium places. Matt Wearn (AUS) and…
The Thurlow Fisher Lawyers crew’s decision to go with their new big rig proved a winner in today’s Syd. Barnett Jr. Memorial Trophy 3-Buoy 18ft Skiff race on Sydney Harbour. With a 12-15 knot ENE wind prevailing, only four of…
Swiss team Alinghi were crowned 2016 Extreme Sailing Series champions today after an epic final-day shoot-out at the season finale in Sydney. In a nail-biting showdown that went right down to the wire, Arnaud Psarofaghis' men saw off a last-ditch…
Three of the four super maxis taking part in the 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will clash on Sydney Harbour in the highly anticipated SOLAS Big Boat Challenge, organised by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. The Oatley family’s…
Campagne de France has taken Line Honours for the first Class40 Division and is the first two-handed team to complete the 2016 RORC Transatlantic Race. Swan 82, Stay Calm and Baltic 112, Path finished within three hours of each other after 2,865nm….
For Alex Thomson and Armel Le Cléach'h the leaders of the Vendée Globe, Sunday morning should provide some time to regroup mentally, to snatch some rest, to thoroughly check their boats and to somehow prepare for the next battering. Their…
The battle for the Extreme Sailing Series™ title took a new twist today as Red Bull Sailing Team squeezed in between Act 8 leaders Alinghi and overall table toppers Oman Air on the penultimate day of the 2016 season finale…
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