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AUCKLAND, New Zealand, March 12 – This weekend’s Volvo Ocean Race Leg 5 start, from Auckland, New Zealand to Itajaí, Brazil, has been delayed due to the development of a potential supercyclone. The six-strong fleet was originally set to depart…
Harbour Country News (New Buffalo, USA): NEW BUFFALO — A fire that broke out early Monday evening, March 9, on a sailboat docked in New Buffalo's harbor destroyed and sank that vessel while damaging another. According to a New Buffalo Police…
Associated Press. By Bernie Wilson. SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dirk de Ridder will sail the fifth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race with Team Brunel, his first major competition since serving an 18-month suspension stemming from one of the biggest…
In the wake of category 5 Cyclone Marcia (and with another (Nathan) bearing down), Aileen and Don White have sent in some sad photos of the damage done to the famed Percy Hilton. Aileen writes: “Just thought you may…
Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) today announced that Martin Whitmarsh, former CEO of the McLaren Group and Team Principal of the McLaren F1 team, will be joining the British challenger for the 35th America's Cup. Whitmarsh will take the position of…
It has been a day of landmarks – both tangible and invisible – for the Barcelona World Race fleet. For Jörg Riechers and Sébastien Audigane the landmark was very much a physical one, as Cape Horn presented the Renault Captur…
By the end of the most recent standard entry deadline a week ago, the Transpacific YC has received entries from 60 boats from five countries around the Pacific region, including 57 monohulls and three multihulls, for its 48th edition of…
A DESPERATE search for the crew of a missing yacht is focused on an area 2200 nautical miles west of Perth. Thousands of internet users across the world have joined an online “crowd sourcing” search effort by scouring satellite images….
Three French sports personalities participating in a reality TV show were among 10 people killed on Monday when their helicopters collided in mid-air while filming in northwestern Argentina. Champion sailor Florence Arthaud, Olympic gold medallist swimmer Camille Muffat, Olympic boxer…
Departing skipper challenges Team NZ’s version of break-up and says he won’t rule out joining a rival team Dean Barker says Team New Zealand is trying to “rewrite history” with their version of his split from the team. And the…
There is always a measure of relief in completing the passage of Cape Horn, escaping from the hostile Pacific into the Atlantic. But, come early Tuesday morning, it should be a especially pleased Jorg Reichers and Sébastien Audigane who bring…
Australian Sailing Team’s Paralympian Matt Bugg (TAS) has won the 2015 Australian 2.4mR Championship – his fifth nationals’ title in a row. The regatta, held at the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, finished today, Monday, 9 March 2015m with Matt…
An independent report into the grounding of Team Vestas Wind on Leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race was released today. It included a set of recommendations aimed at improving safety at sea for the entire offshore racing community. In…
Glenn Bourke and his crew of Rob Jeffreys and Australian Sailing Squad member Jake Lilley have capped off an incredible week of sailing in Tasmania to be crowned the SB20 2015 Australian Champions. Following on from their impressive win in…
Speaking on behalf of Emirates Team New Zealand, Chairman Keith Turner today confirmed that Dean Barker has decided not to accept the position of Performance Manager/Coach and Executive Team Member offered to him following a four month period of restructure…
On Friday 6 March ISAF President Carlo Croce and ISAF Vice-President Scott Perry visited the International Olympic Committee (IOC) where they met with IOC President Thomas Bach and members of the IOC staff to discuss the shared concern about pollution…
A nervous start to the final day program left points leader Michael Manford seemingly vulnerable in his quest for another State title in the Etchells class. In breeze which has just turned from east to west and was still settling,…
Auckland, New Zealand, March 9, 2015 – Team Alvimedica will add some Southern Ocean experience to the crew for Leg 5 with the addition of Volvo Ocean Race veteran Stu Bannatyne. The New Zealander will start preparing with the crew…
Noosa Yacht & Rowing Club is holding a Boatshed Sale this Saturday with plenty of bargains available. There will be Blazer 23 sails, Sabots, Lasers, an Open Bic dinghy, a Walker Bay 8 with sail kit, a 29er, outboard motors,…
It could be said that the challenge to be fully race ready for the new 52 SUPER SERIES season stepped up a gear when Germany’s Harm Müller Spreer launched his new Vrolijk-designed Platoon in Dubai. In Auckland sea trials are…
Tony Kirby and his Patrice crew dominated IRC and ORCi Division 1. Four wins and two second places resulted in an eight and a half point victory over second placed Nine Dragons, Ichi Ban finished third a further two points…
The first day of the 2015 Victorian Optimist Championships was an overcast day with a south-westerly of about ten knots that softened, backed and became more variable as the afternoon progressed. At the same time Port Phillip was quite choppy,…
Virgin Gorda (BVI), 7th March 2015. The second edition of the Rolex Swan Cup Caribbean drew to a close today with a fourth day of picture perfect sailing for the 21 participating yachts. Overall winners of the event, organized by…
At the end of the first day of racing in the Etchells WA Championship, Michael Manford has a solid lead over Peter Chapell with Martin Webster holding down third place. Crew recruitment is interesting. Former world flying fifteen champion Dean…
World champion and former Olympic sailor Glenn Bourke (Red) and his crew of Rob Jeffreys and Jake Lilley have carried their 2015 Tasmanian State Title form into the first day of sailing in the 2015 SB20 Australian Championships, blitzing the…
Light weather ensured that most started a little late at Middle Harbour Yacht Club for the beginning of the 10th anniversary Sydney Harbour Regatta being held this weekend, but once underway, all 180 boat crews had a wonderful autumn sail…
We Are Water, sailed by Bruno and Willy Garcia, crossed the longitude of Cape Horn (67º 17' 35 W) at 22:06 UTC (23:06 in Barcelona, 19:06 in Chile). Their elapsed time since the start in Barcelona on 31st december 2014…
The Thurlow Fisher Lawyers crew of Michael Coxon, Dave O’Connor and Trent Barnabas capitalised on a brilliant start to lead all the way for a convincing victory in Race 10 of the Australian 18 Footers League Club Championship on Sydney…
With one race to make up for the Open Fleet after yesterday’s light, variable and cloudy conditions, there were high hopes for a better day two of the Victorian Optimist Championships. But after the fleets were released from the beach…
Alive has today been crowned the champion at Southport Yacht Club’s XXXX Sail Paradise regatta for 2015. This is a back to back win for Alive after first competing in the regatta in 2014. 2014’s XXXX Sail Paradise Regatta was…
NZ Herald/AP: Marshals have been authorised to seize America's Cup champion Oracle Team USA's prototype boat in response to a lien filed by New Zealand sailor Joe Spooner, whose contract was terminated in January. The warrant was issued late Friday…
Tasmania’s Michael Cooper (Export Roo) and Queenslander Glenn Bourke helming Rob Jeffrey’s Red go into the last day of racing neck and neck. In stunning weather conditions on the River Derwent, Cooper and Bourke played seesaw at the top of the…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s 10th anniversary Sydney Harbour Regatta came to a close tonight with winners announced after what competitors described as “a perfect day’s sailing.” Tony Kirby and his Patrice crew dominated IRC Division 1 again. Two wins a…
Saturday night should see two IMOCA 60 crews of the Barcelona World Race reach Cape Horn ready enjoy the relase from the Pacific and start the climb up the Atlantic. Both of the Barcelona based duos of We Are Water…
Former Olympic sailor and three times Laser world champion Glenn Bourke is a hot favourite to win the Australian championships in the SB20 one-design sports boat class on Hobart’s River Derwent this weekend, following a strong victory in the Tasmanian…
Two favourites, Peter Harburg’s Volvo 70 Black Jack, and Duncan Hine’s Reichel/Pugh 66 Alive, battled it out today for first place, at the Southport Yacht Club’s XXXX Regatta. Alive took out day one with Black Jack close behind. Also racing in…
The recent theft of a cruising yacht in New Zealand, which was spotted and reclaimed in Australia, has increased interest in tracking devices for yachts. One such product is Spot Trace. The agents say that while most tracking devices have…
Saturday the 7th March at 4am will see a fleet of 14 yachts set sail from Queenscliff en route to Grassy Harbour, King Island. A favourite race of the Ocean Racing Club's annual calendar, this race often delivers poor weather conditions….
Scarlet Runner skippered by Robert Date crossed the line at 14:17:01 to take Line Honours in the 2015 Melbourne to King Island yacht race. With 20 – 25 knot westerlies staying in since the start at 4am they have enjoyed…
A gloomy rainy morning greeted competitors as they arrived at Middle Harbour Yacht Club this morning, but by 9.30am, the clouds had parted, the sun was out and the rain had stopped as crews prepared their various boats for the…
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