52 Super Series
New look, new faces for the 52 SUPER SERIES champions When the 2023 52 SUPER SERIES season opens on May 2nd with the first races of the 52 Super Series Saint-Tropez Sailing Week, the first of five regattas this year,…
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MA Financial acquires the d’Albora marina portfolio for $225m
Diversified financial services firm, MA Financial (ASX: MAF) has entered into an agreement to acquire the d’Albora marina portfolio for a headline price of $225 million from fellow diversified financial services firm, Balmain Corporation. d’Albora is Australia’s largest marina network…
Team Australia secures entry for combined Women’s and Youth America’s Cup Challenge
Australia has been confirmed by the organisers of the 37th America’s Cup as one of the 12 national Youth and Women’s America’s Cup teams in Barcelona 2024 scoring entry for a youth team (under 25) alongside the history making first…
Chris Poole remains undefeated at Congressional Cup
LONG BEACH, CA 19 April 2023 – Chris Poole (USA) remained undefeated on Day Two of the 58th Congressional Cup, as the fight for position in the semifinal stage ramps up. Ten of the top-ranked skippers from around the globe…
Etchells – Leaderboard mix up on Bacardi Race Day
After two days of action on Biscayne Bay, the AON 2023 Etchells World Championships are displaying the depth that so many predicted. There have been different winners of each of the four races and it’s easy for even the best…
Crew changes mark start of second half of The Ocean Race
There are changes up and down the leaderboard as teams rotate crew ahead of leg 4 start Crew rotation is proving to be a big feature in this edition of The Ocean Race. For Leg 4, some big crew changes…
58th Congressional Cup kicked off with fiery action
Poole undefeated, but everyone gets on the scoreboard LONG BEACH, CA 18 April 2023 – The 58th Congressional Cup kicked off with fiery action beneath blue skies and splendid winds of 10 to 14 knots, as 10 of the top-ranked…
18ft Skiffs – Patrick Corrigan AM – Long-time sponsorship
PATRICK CORRIGAN, AM Anyone with an interest in sport knows that some level of sponsorship is essential for the success of an individual, a team, or an organising body. The iconic Australian 18 footer class has been fortunate to have…
Etchells Worlds Day 2 – Champagne Sailing
Canadians take early lead in Etchells Worlds Miami, USA – Strong winds and sunny skies ensured a successful opening day for the AON 2023 Etchells World Championships, being held on Biscayne Bay. Principal Race Officer, Dave Brennan, completed two picture-perfect…
First entry received for 2023 Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta
With destination regattas and and travel back in full swing, Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) is looking forward to hosting a large entry for the 31st Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), to take place over the King’s Birthday weekend of…
Aussies out in force for 2023 Hyeres Regatta
A 60-strong squad from Australia is in Hyeres, France preparing to take part in the 2023 Semaine Olympique Francais, colloquially known as the ‘Hyeres Regatta’, with a Practice race to kick off proceedings on Sunday and the first races to…
Sailors and astronauts connect from most extreme and isolated locations
It’s always good to make friends with your neighbors … Witness a remarkable exchange between sailors racing against the forces of nature in the Southern Ocean and NASA astronauts on the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit. These…
World’s leading offshore racing class heads for the Fastnet Race
An extraordinary phenomenon of modern day yacht racing, especially considering their cost and complexity: 40 IMOCAs are due to compete in the next Vendée Globe in 2024. The majority of these 60 footers, many of them foil-born flying machines, will…
Countdown to Classics
The yachts are now starting to arrive at Nelson’s Dockyard to participate in the 34th Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta this week. Registration will be upstairs in the Officers’ Quarters of the Dockyard on Wednesday, April 19th. Thursday 20th will be…
Etchells World Championships Day 1 Racing Abandoned
Miami, FL – (April 17, 2023) Live to sail another day at AON 2023 Etchells World Championships. That was the philosophy taken by organizers of the AON 2023 Etchells World Championships, which were scheduled to get underway Monday on Biscayne…
2023 Etchells World Championships
MIAMI, USA — Steve Benjamin didn’t know where to begin when asked to handicap the AON 2023 Etchells World Championships, which gets underway Monday on Biscayne Bay. In most one-design classes, only a handful of top tier boats are truly…
Young gun sailor on same tack as famous dad
Like father, like son: Will Mason on same tack as famous dad. He’s sailed around the globe, competed in many of the world’s most iconic yacht races, and lifted the America’s Cup four times – yet nothing has made veteran…
Matador too good in Act 2 of TP52 Gold Cup
David Doherty and his reigning TP52 Gold Cup champion, Matador, is proving a hard act to follow – Doherty won Act 1 of the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup in March and romped home to victory in Act 2, being…
Dragons are back in Cascais
After three days and a full program, with seven sailed races, the Australian Yeahnah team took the HM King Juan Carlos Trophy today, with 11 points. The championship was raced at Clube Naval de Cascais by eight teams, from five…
Quest wins Act 2 opener of TP52 Gold Cup
Craig Neil’s Quest has scored victory on the opening day of Act 2 of the 2023 Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup series, held in conjunction with Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club’s (NCYC) fourth running of SailFest Newcastle Regatta. Scored under TPR,…
Melges 24 -Split to host 2024 Euros and Hyeres the 2025 Worlds
April 14, 2023 – The World Council of the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA) at its Extraordinary General Meeting held on April 12, voted to hold the 2024 Melges 24 European Championship in Split, Croatia in early October and…
2023 Worlds Preview – Etchells Class Still Going Strong After Almost Sixty Years
As the International Etchells Class prepares to contest its 47th world championship next week in Miami (April 16-21), some of the greatest sailors to ever step foot on the boat reflected on its enduring popularity. This 15-minute read takes an…
What’s happening in the America’s Cup
The announcement of the first pre-regatta to be held in the beautiful Catalan seaside port of Vilanova i la Geltrú from the 14th-17th September 2023 was the month’s big news from an organisational standpoint and certainly sharpened the minds and…
Horonuku’s additional record run of 225.58 KM/H revealed
Emirates Team New Zealand and Glenn Ashby’s World Record Run of 222.43km/h in Horonuku was widely celebrated when achieved on December the 11th 2022, breaking the previous record of 202.9km/h by Richard Jenkins which had been unbroken for over 13…
KISS is back for 2023
Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club is excited to announce the second running of their successful “Keelboat Introduction to Sailing Savvy” (KISS) program is back for 2023. Buoyed by positive feedback from the graduates of the inaugural class of 2022 and with…
Newcastle steeling itself for SailFest TP52 showdown
Newcastle’s working harbour will doff its hard hat to the sight of vibrant spinnakers and eager crews as the fourth SailFest Newcastle Regatta is staged this weekend, bringing a flotilla of grand prix yachts and fleet-footed performance craft to the…
Mayfair first interstate entry for inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race
James Irvine is the latest to sign on for the inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race and represents the first interstate entrant for the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) race, which starts on Saturday, 7 October 2023 and finishes…
WingFoil – Final wrap-up of the Mondial du Vent
The Mondial du Vent kicked off with a bang as strong Tramontana winds swept across the competition venue, allowing us to run the competition from sunrise to sunset on the first day. We completed the women’s Surf-Freestyle division, and made…
18ft Skiffs – Chris Webb the first great 18 footer champion
Chris Webb was the most famous 18 footer skipper during the early period of the class. He was a legend and a major draw card every time he raced for the Sydney Flying Squadron (SFS), won four ‘official’ Australian Championships,…
Lifejackets and you – it’s time to get personal
There has been a bit of a quiet revolution going on in Australia with lifejackets over the past two decades. Better design and technology have led to a range of lifejacket styles that look good, are easy to wear and…
HIRW 2023 – First timers join regulars for the ultimate action-packed week on the water
The internationally acclaimed Hamilton Island Race Week will be contested on the tropical waters around Hamilton Island from August 19 – 26, 2023. A longstanding feature of the east coast sailing calendar, Race Week 2023 has so far drawn 170…
GGR – Ian Herbert Jones rescued
It was 1740 UTC when Ian Herbert Jones first saw the Taiwanese Fishing Vessel ZI DA WANG arriving from the North. 26 hours before, the Shropshire sailor closing the GGR fleet in the southern Atlantic was unable to make contact…
FreeFly-Slalom Day 5
MEN’S ELIMINATION 2 During the Men’s Elimination finals, the wind was blowing at around 12 knots, providing the perfect conditions for the competitors to showcase their skills. Mathis Ghio, one of the top contenders, took an early lead at the…
GGR – Puffin activates EPIRB in extreme storm
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Monday, 10th of April, 2023 At 1540UTC Ian Herbert Jones SKIPPER PUFFIN rang the GGR Race Office on Iridium phone to advise that he was in extreme weather and confused sea, 50 knots, gusting over 70…
Classic yachts finish top of the table Brisbane to Gladstone
The classic pint-sized yachts have proven their might weathering this year’s brutal and long 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which set sail on Good Friday (7 April) with the oldest yacht in the race fleet winning overall on corrected…
Season 24 – Meet the Characters
It seems like only yesterday we packed down Tokyo, but the sprint is on for Paris 2024 and the Princess Sofia Trophy 2023 is our first chance to see the new characters and who is returning. For all the talk…
First finishers in a historic and brutal Brisbane to Gladstone
Celestial was the first yacht across the Gladstone Harbour finish line at dawn on Sunday morning in what has been a historic but brutal 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race (75th B2G). 2022 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race overall…
FreeFly-Slalom discipline continues for Day 3 in Leucate
MEN’S ELIMINATION 1 and 2 Following a protest that had taken place the day before, the race committee had decided to re-run the men’s elimination 1 final. The decision was made after carefully considering the circumstances that had led to…
Brisbane to Gladstone
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: There are still 38 of the original 46 starting fleet out on course racing one of Australia’s oldest and most iconic yacht races, the Gladstone Ports Corporation 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which set sail on Good…
Silver flows for Thomson, Burton and Paul in Palma
It was a breakthrough kind of day for Australian sailors in Palma today, with Zoe Thomson (ILCA 6) and Tom Burton OAM and Max Paul (49er) both claiming silver medals in personal best international performances that highlight their intentions for…
