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Despite all the pe-race hype about the new 100ft super-maxi Comanche, it was the 10-year-old defending champion Wild Oats XI which won bragging rights in the SOLAS Big Boat Race on Sydney Harbour. Abandoning his usual position at the pin…
The Noosa Yacht & Rowing Club’s Youthsail program recently rewarded each of the primary schools in the region a Yachting Australia Tackers Sailing Course to be used as an award for a student aged 6yrs to 12yrs for their efforts…
The McConaghy built Kaiko designed Merlin owned and skippered by Olympian David Forbes finished last weekends Bird Island race in 1st place in division 1 and third overall in IRC. David and…
Skipper Nathan Wilmot and his GAC Pindar team, sailing under the Team Australia flag, will return home for the final leg of the Extreme Sailing Series looking to finish with a flourish in front of the home crowds of Sydney…
Every Volvo Ocean 65 in the Volvo Ocean Race is equipped with a Cape Horn Xtreme 330. Watch the video to get an inside look at the MAPFRE team’s watermaker.
Shifty conditions and a cool and crystal clear Melbourne day greeted all the Olympic events racing off Sandringham Yacht Club on day two of the ISAF Sailing World Cup – Melbourne. Southerly winds 8-10 knots built late in the day…
The 16th Annual Seawind Pittwater Regatta, hosted by Multihull Central on the 28th & 29th of November 2014, was a huge success once again, with a fleet of Seawind catamarans parading down Pittwater just north of Sydney harbour in perfect…
Yachting Australia, in partnership with the Member Yachting Associations, has moved closer to providing a “best practice” governance framework and delivering a cohesive whole of sport approach to optimise the future success of Australian sailing and boating. At a Special…
The nation will get their first look at Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark’s new super maxi Comanche in race mode tomorrow, when the 21st SOLAS Big Challenge starts on Sydney on Sydney Harbour at 12.30pm, in a prelude to the…
Hundreds of entries were received for the chance to win a Guest Sailor spot on an Extreme 40 when the ESS comes to Sydney later this week. The lucky winner was Allan Schepers who nominated is son Aaron to receive…
The Australian Sailing Team (AST), in conjunction with Nautica, are proud to announce their partnership with Melanoma Patients Australia (MPA), the non-profit organisation offering a national network of support and information to melanoma patients, their families, carers and friends. The…
The ISAF Sailing World Cup – Melbourne opened on Port Phillip for the 21st time today. A dry day with cool southerly winds 8-14 knots and reasonably calm water created the perfect entrée before the main dish, which starts tomorrow,…
In 2014, the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta has implemented widespread changes to its class structures, all based on a burning desire by race management to offer close-hauled parry between similarly competitive craft. By the end of Race Day One, a…
On Sunday 25th of October 2015, as tradition dictates, the Transat Jacques Vabre will rally to a coffee producing destination. After more than a week of celebrations around the Paul Vatine harbour in Le Havre, the four classes taking part…
The final day’s racing was set up beautifully to host some epic, close-quarters King’s Cup clashes. Winds were good, crews were psyched, and the final day didn’t disappoint. Saturday saw all classes come to a close with a total of…
The Extreme Sailing Series provides probably of the best spectator experience in the world of sailing. Ten or more high-performance, 40 foot long catamarans are crammed into a restricted space with spectators literally only metres from the action. You can…
Bellerive Yacht Club’s Jeff Cordell and his Mumm 36, Host plus Executive, have emerged as the top performing yacht in Group 1 of the pre-Christmas racing for the Combined Clubs Harbour Series. Host Plus Executive did not win a race…
Careful sailing, exceptional crew work and a new Code Zero have contributed to Robin and Annette Hawthorn’s runaway victory in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s painfully slow Bird Island Race this weekend, with Anthony Bell’s Perpetual Loyal taking line…
NZ Herald. By Paul Lewis: It will be fascinating to see whether the event or events Team New Zealand might bring to Auckland under the banner of the America's Cup are enough to plunge the Government's hand back into the…
After a perfect morning with bright sunshine and moderate breezes, the weather turned ugly at Sail Sydney on the final day. With just 10 minutes before the afternoon session was scheduled to start at 2pm, a thunderstorm swept the harbour…
Australian 16 Footer champion Lee Knapton won his first 18ft Skiff race when he teamed with Ricky Bridge and Mike McKensey in Mojo Wine to win a remarkable Race 4 of the Australian 18 Footers Club Championship on Sydney Harbour…
Rod Jones’ one design comeback with his new Farr 40 called Kindergarten scuttled the familiar finish order of Transfusion then Kokomo, who are both long-standing Farr 40 classmates and pacesetters. Instead it was Transfusion (MHYC) then Kindergarten thanks to a…
It’s been four months since the finish of the last edition in Nice and the annoucement of the Tour de France à la Voile new boat, the Diam 24. And the trimaran builder, Vianney Ancelin, has had his order book…
Phuket, 4th December 2014 – Consistent winds made a very welcome return for Day Four of the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta, with the best of conditions apparently on the way tomorrow. All classes sailed today, with some exceptionally tight action…
The Australian Sailing Team and Squad will kick-off the 2015 ISAF World Cup season at next week’s ISAF Sailing World Cup – Melbourne, the premium sailing event for Olympic classes in the southern hemisphere. The ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne…
Team Abeam Goto/Tabata training in Melbourne. During bow down, dig the water, and I was swung away to the front. Everybody thought we will capsize, but luckily came back from the other side! – Goto Hiroki
One of the many benefits with the Tasar class is that it has regular world championships scheduled in interesting and exotic locations around the world. This year the Worlds are being sailed in Busselton, Western Australia, with a fleet of…
Bangor Daily News, Maine. By Abigail Curtis: EASTPORT, Maine — A “catastrophic failure” very early Thursday morning caused a large section of the Eastport breakwater to collapse into the inner harbor, injuring one man, sinking a boat and damaging numerous…
Emma Commerford is just nine years old and is sailing in her first big regatta at Sail Sydney 2014. The Middle Harbour Yacht Club member only learned to sail this year but has entered the big event to get more…
Sailing is a family sport and often three generations will crew together in larger yachts. But in the dinghy and skiff fleets at Sail Sydney today, two members of the same family sailed different boats but both enjoyed success. On…
Most of the active Australian east coast Farr 40 fleet assembled at Pittwater today for the opening three races of the class’ One Design Trophy hosted by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. Reigning Australian champion Guido Belgiorno-Nettis’ Transfusion sailing…
Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) is pleased to announce it will be working with Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT), a division of the Red Bull Formula One group, as it progresses with its campaign to claim the 35th America’s Cup. Operating…
The maxi-trimaran Spindrift 2 reached her home port of La Trinité-sur-Mer in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a week-long crossing from Guadeloupe. Conditions were ideal for Yann Guichard and his eight crew members. The return trip across the…
“We have had a spectacular season on Alinghi but relaxing now would make it all worthless.” With just one week to go until the final Act of the 2014 season, Morgan Larson and the Swiss team Alinghi have only one…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club announced today they have extended the closing date for the first round of Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race entries by a week to Friday December 12, 2014. After the cut-off a late…
Rockingham Race Weekend was blessed with ideal conditions for the two-day event hosted by Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. The event is part of the Farrawa Cup Series. Day one was the Dolphin Race which began with an early start…
Here’s what the onboard cameras captured as Team Vestas Wind hit a reef off Mauritius. Warning: Some coarse language, but you have to expect that from a man who was in the heads when the impact happened.
NZ Herald. By Dana Johanssen: Just as the news Bermuda is the next home of the America's Cup was expected, so too was Team New Zealand's bullish response. Little more than 15 minutes had passed following the close of the…
She’s the Grande Dame of ocean yacht racing and had near a dozen makeovers in the past 10 years. Now it’s hoped her latest upgrade will literally wing her to unsurpassed levels of acclaim on the international sailing scene. The…
Conditions were perfect on Sydney Harbour when three Youth classes went out at 11am for their first day of racing at Sail Sydney. A gradient breeze of 8 to 10 knots filled in to become a steady 15 knots from…
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