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The first ever single-handed ocean yacht race, that was originally staged in 1960, is set to return in 2016 when some of the world’s best solo sailors and most spectacular yachts will take on the classic 2,800-mile course of The…
Mainland China will make its debut in the 71st edition of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, joining two other internationals and 14 Australians who were quick in signing up after entry opened last Friday….
Organisation for the 2016 Wooden Boat festival of Geelong is well advanced at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. The festival will be held over the Labour Day weekend commencing on Saturday12th March and running until Monday 14th. Over 150 entries,…
The race to get to the Bay of Biscay and out into the Atlantic was on last night as teams chased each other with good boat speed. However overnight light winds and strong northerly tides off the island of Ushant…
The 12 international amateur teams competing in the tenth edition of the world’s longest ocean race have started their 40,000 nautical mile circumnavigation off the English coast at Southend. Race 1 to Rio de Janeiro of the global series, the…
Southport Yacht Club, on the Gold Coast, is planning an extension to the annual Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Race which is scheduled to start on January 2, 2016. Competitors in the 35th annual Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Race will…
As San Francisco bid adieu to August, it simultaneously said hello to the 2015 International 18ft Skiff Regatta, on San Francisco Bay. Classic early fall conditions were the rule of the day, with miniscule fog which disappeared before the first…
Today was about team racing and there were two stages, ‘Alpha’ and ‘Bravo’. There is no specification for the separation only that there are a large number of competitors. Each team consists of four members who are put forward to…
Winners of the six divisions contesting the ninth annual SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week have been decided today at the completion of a challenging Cleveland Bay triangle course. It was a tough final race where all crew couldn’t have…
Emirates Team New Zealand put together a Super Sunday in Sweden, to vault to the top of the leaderboard and claim the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Gothenburg. It was a difficult day on the tight race course, with…
LONDON, UK, Sunday 30 August 2015: Australian Skipper Wendy Tuck led her team of international amateur sailors under Tower Bridge today at the start of a 40,000 nautical mile global race, between six continents, which will take almost a year…
The seasons are more clearly defined in Tasmania than any other state in Australia, and with two days to go to the official start of spring, there was no question that it was still winter in Hobart for today’s final…
Peter Sorensen and his The Philosopher’s Club have cause for big celebrations today after winning on both IRC and PHS, Race 3 of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. That win has also moved the Sydney team up to first overall…
WISeKey, as the ORACLE TEAM USA Official Fan App Supplier, has released the WISfans© ORACLE TEAM USA app providing fans with a unique mobile experience, facilitating full interaction with the team led by skipper Jimmy Spithill, who will be trying to win…
Prominent Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania member David Graney has sailed in many types of on-design racing dinghies and keelboats, with considerable success at a state, national and international level, but he has never got around to competing in Australia’s…
Is it the journey or the destination? Yachties who, like us, are part-time cruisers live on a limited time schedule. This can often lead people to be too defined about where they want to go and when. They head off…
I do not know about you but I like hot showers. I like hot water to wash up with and sometimes, to save gas, I will fill the kettle with hot water before I boil it for coffee. Problem is…
The Shag Islet Cruising Yacht Club annual Rendezvous has finished once again. Cruising Helmsman attended the weekend-long party as part of its continued support for the 'exclusively, non-exclusive' yacht club. Over 160 boats anchored in the Whitsunday waters of Gloucester…
Civitavecchia’s wind gods smiled on competitors during the Trofeo di Roma’s final day. The wind peaked at 10 knots, adequate not only to get the entire six race schedule completed, but also for the nimble GC32 catamarans to get fully…
The Windcraft Group, one of Australia's largest yacht sales companies, has signed an agreement as exclusive importer for Lagoon catamarans in Australia. Lagoon, working with the design team Van Peteghem and Lauriot Prevost (VPLP), claims the largest manufacturer of catamarans…
Peter Sorensen’s The Philosopher’s Club performance today has kept him in the lead for the IRC and PHS titles on the penultimate day of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. The combined fleet contested two windward/leeward races. Sorensen’s team…
ORACLE TEAM USA won both races on opening day at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Gothenburg. But Land Rover BAR and Emirates Team New Zealand had good days as well with second and third place finishes respectively. …
It was a tough day all round for the 60-boat fleet competing in the signature Around the Island Race on day two of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. In the IRC division Bob Steel’s new Matt 1180 Quest stepped…
It is incredible the difference two knots of wind can make. While the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Trofeo di Roma had to sail two non-scoring Pro-Am races yesterday because of excessively light winds, conditions were just a fraction more today,…
Artemis Racing was pushing hard to put on a show for its home fans in Gothenburg, Sweden on the official practice day Friday. Unfortunately, that extra push led to a capsize, meaning the team missed out on the two practice…
Day two of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Trofeo di Roma will be one that organisers, Italian promoters and sailors alike will be pleased to put behind them. Despite occasionally threatening to do so, the wind never increased above 3…
It’s hard not to call a perfect sailing day Champagne Sailing which is what the visitors and locals were saying as they returned to the dock after day one of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. While Peter Wilcox’s GForce…
Waking up to the gloom of an unexceptional forecast for Civitavecchia today, it was with great delight that the Trofeo di Roma, the fourth event on the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour, got off to flying start – quite literally. At…
“On Saturday afternoon the high pressure ridge will have moved north… we're expecting conditions of 10 to 15 knots. Then on Sunday the high pressure ridge may be close by or overhead, giving us lighter conditions with a chance of…
Following the announcement earlier this week that the 2016 Extreme Sailing Series will be contested in super-light, highly competitive foiling GC32 catamarans, organisers OC Sport and Series Main Partner Land Rover are officially inviting entries for the 2016 season with…
Imperial College London. By Laura Singleton. Imperial researchers have won an Academy of Management award for a study that reveals how imitation can help businesses stay ahead of their rivals. Dr Dmitry Sharapov, Assistant Professor, Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia today announced the release of the Notice of Race for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and invites eligible yacht owners to enter into Australia’s premier blue water event. Now in its 71st edition,…
Recognising the achievements of members of the sailing and boating community over the past 12 months, as well as acknowledging those who have contributed to our sport for many years, will take place at the Yachting Australia Awards 2015. Nominations…
Skipper Mark Richards likes to emphasise that the champion offshore maxi Wild Oats XI is 11-years-old. But she is actually just like Trigger's broom in the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses. She's had so many changes that there are…
A bit more than one month to go to the fifth edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy, and preparations are well under way in Gstaad and St Tropez to welcome some of the most stunning centenarians still competing….
It has only been a month since Emirates Team New Zealand finished second at the first Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Portsmouth, but a month long enough for the sailing team to be chomping at the bit to…
Foiling one design catamaran racing comes to Mediterranean Italy for the first time tomorrow with the fourth event of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour, Trofeo di Roma, being held out Civitavecchia, some 50km northwest of the Italian capital. Here at…
Billed as one of the best cruising destinations in Australia, the Tasmanian Government's Marine and Safety Tasmania (MAST) organisation has launched an online resource for visiting cruisers. Cruising Tasmania is chock full of checklists and resources to get you safely…
Regatta Director Denis Thompson has opened the ninth edition of the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week welcoming 60 boats and almost 600 crew and supporters to the annual regatta. Setting the racing scene for the coming five days was…
Mariquita, arguably one of the world’s most beautiful classic yachts, and the only 19 Metre left in existence, has just finished a third summer season with her current owners, counting podium finishes from three major regattas during 2015 alone. She…
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