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The ISAF World Sailing Rankings for 2 February 2015 have been released with Australian Sailing securing two World #1 rankings with Mat Belcher (QLD) and Will Ryan (QLD) in the Men’s 470 as well as Tom Burton (NSW) in the…
Perth yachtsman Sam Gilmour heads the leader board after day two of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Hardy Cup with 12 wins out of 13 races in the ISAF Grade 3 Under 25 match racing regatta on Sydney Harbour. However,…
Together with Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam on Cheminées Poujoulat, Altadill and Jose Munoz were today battling the most testing conditions the Barcelona World Race fleet has yet faced, with 40-45 knots of wind and severe sea states of…
The 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was one to remember. The race for line honours was captivating and the battle for the Tattersall's Cup was down to the wire. We have a full recap of the Wild race in…
James “Hot Rod” Lane's Pacific island dream for the notorious “Flyin' Hawaiian” catamaran he built in Marin ended somewhere off Monterey. The Coast Guard rescued five people from the sinking 65-foot catamaran built amid controversy in San Rafael, hoisting them…
The Great Race, is one of the longest Off the Beach Catamaran and Dinghy races in Australia. A challenging marathon race, full of entertainment and endurance. Scheduled for Saturday 7th February, the race starts from Southport Yacht Club’s Sailing Academy…
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron race officers today had to use a countback of wins to decide the order going into tomorrow’s finals of the Hardy Cup match racing regatta after three skippers and their crews ended with 15 wins each…
A new sailing regatta called the APC “King of the Gulf” will be held on the flat racing waters off Port Vincent in the Gulf of St Vincent in South Australia. This new regatta for both monohulls and multihulls involves…
Guillermo 'Willy' Altadill, son of one of the biggest names in Spanish offshore sailing, has the chance to make his own reputation in the Volvo Ocean Race after being called up for the fourth leg by MAPFRE (Xabi Fernández/ESP). The…
New Zealand sailor Chris Steele today made an impressive start to the Hardy Cup ISAF Under 25, Grade 3 match-racing regatta on Sydney Harbour following his close victory last week in the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta in Perth, Western…
Wow! Yachting Western Australia and Yachting Victoria now use the same accounting packages! If, like me, you are initially under-whelmed by that piece of news, please read on. There's something in it for you. The revelation above came out of…
The Caribbean Safety and Security Net (CSSN) has published its 2014 report on crime against yachts in the region. This year there were 69 incidents reported, the top two being theft and burglary and the top three areas were:St Lucia,…
Multihull Solutions is hosting a fun and informative free open day at its upgraded Gold Coast Sales Centre on Saturday 28 February. Set in the marine precinct of The Boat Works in Coomera, the Multihull Solutions Gold Coast sales centre…
When it comes to repelling their Farr 40 classmates time and again, the defence mechanisms on Guido Belgiorno-Nettis’ Transfusion are in place. Despite best efforts from Voodoo Chile and Kindergarten, the successful Sydney sailing team headed up by the Transfield…
The Barcelona World Race fleet is today feeling the effects of both extremes of the Indian Ocean. Leaders Cheminées Poujoulat and Neutrogena are bracing themselves for the possible impact of two cyclonic low pressure systems which could bring 38-40 knots…
720 ABC Perth. By Emma Wynne. Jon Sanders broke world records in 1988 when he completed a triple circumnavigation of the world alone. Twenty-seven years later, at the age of 75, he is still sailing and on Friday returned from…
Maritime Executive reports that three organisations have figured out how to utilise satellites more effectively when searching for missing boats or even airplanes. A space scientist at the University of Leicester in the U.K., in collaboration with the New Zealand…
At the Düsseldorf Boat Show 2015 Cantiere del Pardo, an Italian brand, announced the introduction of the Grand Soleil 58 Performance (LOA 17.4 metres, Bmax 5,2m) to the international market. The GS58 Performance continues a long design and performance line-up:…
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard rescued five people Friday from a sailboat after the sailboat’s mast broke approximately 200 miles off the coast of North Carolina. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 5th District Command Center in Portsmouth received notification…
The Notice of Race is online and entry open to owners of eligible cruising and IRC boats looking for the perfect fusion of sailing and family time at Sail Port Stephens, April 13-19, 2015. With the Audi IRC Australian Championship…
The Clipper Cup was once contested on the waters of Hawaii. Now it's the prized trophy at Port Douglas Race Week in Far North Queensland. How did this valuable lump of silverware make such a journey? The yacht race that…
Team Windcraft sailed the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in style this year. The crew on board the Moody 54DS enjoyed gourmet food with fine wine every night, panoramic views cocooned in the cockpit and a thrilling race up the…
There is more to the modern chined hull’s used by Jeanneau than may be obvious, whether designed by Philippe Briand, Marc Lombard or Daniel Andrieu, Performance Boating Sales explains. This hull design is combined with other factors like the position…
The International Paralympic Committee has determined the sporting programme for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with Sailing and 7-a-side football having been removed from the programme. The decision was published over the weekend. The full IPC press release is here Yachting Australia…
Reigning Australian Farr 40 champion Transfusion was able to extend their lead on the second day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Farr 40 Victorian State Title on Port Phillip, but at the close of a riveting three race battle, Guido…
Merlin, the Kaiko 51, owned by David Forbes claimed IRC honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Port Hacking Race today, ahead of Ed Psaltis/Bencsik’s Ker 40, St George Midnight Rambler and Ocean Pointscore leader Julian Farren-Price’s Cookson 12,…
Cheminées Poujoulat has passed the Kerguelen Islands as Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam continue to lead the Southern Ocean charge in the Barcelona World Race. The duo were just over 300 miles north of the largest island of Kerguelen at 1400hrs this afternoon. Despite…
The wind was back for the final day of the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Miami (26-31 January 2016) with Australian Sailing crews taking home two silver medals in the Men’s 470 and Men’s 49er skiff as well as…
Sailing is one of two sports, along with 7-a-side football, that have been dropped from the Paralympic program for the Tokyo Games in 2020. The IPC has released the following announcement: The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the…
Tasmania’s biggest and fastest ocean racing yacht, Alive, yesterday slashed the record for the 29 nautical Betsey Island Race in a brilliant display of power sailing from Hobart down the River Derwent, around the island in Storm Bay and return….
The Thurlow Fisher Lawyers team of Michael Coxon, Trent Barnabas and Dave O’Connor won one of the most amazing NSW 18ft Skiff Championships in the 120-year history of the sport following a brilliant finish in today’s last race of the…
Four races and three different winners on the opening day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Farr 40 Victorian State Title make the proposition of predicting any sort of finish order for the three-day Port Phillip series a risky one. Gordon…
Another landmark will be ticked off tomorrow for Barcelona World Race leaders Cheminées Poujoulat when they sail north of the lonely Kerguelen Islands. Coralled north by the race's Antarctic Exclusion Zone, Bernard Stamm and Jean La Cam will pass 300…
Chris Steele and his crew from the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have won the 2015 Warren Jones International Youth Regatta, beating local skipper Sam Gilmour on a count back after racing in the final was curtailed by light winds….
London 2012 Paralympic gold medallists Daniel Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch have taken home the win in the SKUD 18 at the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Miami on Friday (30 January / Saturday, 31 AEDT). Paralympian Matt Bugg (TAS) finished…
The world’s elite sailors are preparing to meet in Singapore for the opening Act of the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series™, which is set to bring the world famous Marina Bay alive with its pioneering Stadium Racing concept. With the transfer…
Becalmed in the South Indian Ocean with no escape south becuase of the Antarctic Exclusion Zone means a painful waiting game for Anna Corbella and Gérard Marin on GAES Centros Auditivos. For all that the Southern Ocean is renowned for…
In the tightest event in the history of the Warren Jones Youth Regatta, three skippers from three nations share the top spot on the leader board at the end of the double round robin. Australia’s Matt Jerwood, Dane Joachim Aschenbrenner…
It was again challenging racing at the ISAF Sailing World Cup with wind back in the east at 13-15 knots all day. But day four (Thursday, 29 Jan local time, i.e. Friday, 30 Jan AEDT) saw little change in the…
The Guardian. By Ben Beaumont-Thomas: It’s a tale of ambition, adventure, madness and tragedy that seems tailor-made for the big screen: the true story of Donald Crowhurst, whose attempt to circumnavigate the world solo ended catastrophically. Now it’s set for…
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