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1600hrs (AEDT) | Wednesday 28 December A year ago, Sam Haynes was on the brink of quitting sailing in disappointment after his hopes of overall victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race were dashed by a protest. Today, Haynes…
The focus of offshore racing is often on the performance of maxi and super maxi yachts, but in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s 50th anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, several of the 35 to 40 footers in the…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club are hosting the 2022 MJ Nationals over the next 3 days. It’s great to see the class back on Pittwater again and it brings back some great memories of our kids racing around in…
1200hrs (AEDT) | Wednesday 28 December The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was today treated to an edge of the seat battle for fifth place on line honours between two boats in the fleet – Willow and Stefan Racing. Soon…
Tasmanian Boats in hunt for the prestigious Heemskerk Perpetual Trophy in the 50th Anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race Tasmanian boat Rumbeat, skippered by Justin Barr from the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, with co-skipper and fellow Farr 1104 yacht…
1000hrs (AEDT) | Wednesday 28 December With Line Honours done and dusted, the focus of the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race turns to contenders for the Tattersall Cup, awarded to the overall winner, and since the race began on…
John ‘Herman’ Winning Jr has set his sights on back-to-back Line Honours wins in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race with Andoo Comanche after the maxi claimed this year’s title. Early this morning, Winning Jr skippered the champion 100-footer to…
0130hrs (AEDT) | Wednesday 28 December It may not have been a race record run and it wasn’t a daylight finish, but the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was a thriller from start to finish, with Andoo Comanche taking…
Hundreds of spectators crowded Portsea Pier and Port Phillip Bay today to watch the start of the 50th Anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, hosted by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria, in magnificent conditions on Port Phillip Bay. Under…
Since World Sailing launched its campaign to reinstate sailing into the Paralympic Games for LA28, the overriding message has been that sailing is a sport for all and is life-changing. Sailing – present at every Paralympic Games since Atlanta 1996…
The bumper end-of-year December 2022 episode of the World Sailing show, premiering on 23 December 2022, leads with an in-depth preview of The Ocean Race, which gets under way on 15 January 2023 in Alicante, Spain. Following a nine-stop route,…
On the eve of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Craig Neil’s TP52 Quest sits in her pen at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, equipped for the strong northerly winds that have been forecast. Sails have been tested, boat…
It has been a very busy lead up to the Christmas break with the America’s Cup teams all at full tilt either on the water or in preparation for what is shaping up to be a very intense New Year….
The city of Melbourne is a sports mecca in summer and fans were treated to a sporting spectacle today with a 100-boat fleet competing in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s Cock of the Bay Yacht Race. The stunning summer…
The 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race got off to a fast and dramatic start today. The assisting downwind conditions once the boats turned right at the Heads could see the first boat cross the finish line as early as…
The 50th Anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race is set to be one of the most memorable in history with the weather gods sending a late Christmas gift to the fleet, a swift sail to Hobart and potential entry into…
Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC) and Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) have entered into a partnership to launch the NSW Sailing League (NSW-SL) for the 2022 / 23 Season. The NSW-SL is a part of the wider pathway of…
The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Cock of the Bay Yacht Race, or Boxing Day Dash, is living up to its reputation as a hugely popular 21 nautical mile post-Christmas race with over 100 boats entered in this year’s…
Representatives from the Australian Sailing Team will be boarding boats on Boxing Day to take part in the iconic 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Nacra 17 helmsman Jason Waterhouse and 49er crew Joel Turner will be teaming…
The competitors racing the 18ft skiffs each weekend in the Australian 18 Footers League’s fleet on Sydney Harbour are very talented and prepared to go ten-tenths to claim the big prize, but sometimes things don’t go the way they intend…
The race for Overall victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race can often remain wide open for several days and hinge on the slightest and most unexpected shift in weather conditions. But for the first time, this year the…
International & interstate competitors will return for the 19th Warren Jones International Youth Regatta for the first time since 2020 In it’s 19th year, the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta will again be a Grade-2 Match Racing Event with locals,…
Auckland – 20th December 2022 It’s official, the speed of 222.43km/h (138.21mph) achieved by Emirates Team New Zealand and Glenn Ashby in Horonuku on 11th of December at Lake Gairdner in South Australia has been officially ratified and confirmed as…
World Sailing has joined 20 sports organisations, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a founding partner, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, in signing the first-ever Sports for Nature Framework. Signatories pledge to adhere to four key…
Australian Sailing’s National Performance Pathways team has secured a major coup in attaining the services of Haylee Outteridge to lead the New South Wales performance pathways program. The program is run in conjunction with the New South Wales Institute of…
Elliott Smith, fortitude incarnate. What a difference an ocean makes. Elliott Smith (USA) had a hard time sailing South, dealing with intense frustration in wind holes. He rose up to the challenge and after numerous repairs and eventually found the…
Skippers and crews from the near 50 boat fleet are counting down the days to the start of the 50th anniversary of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race and as final preparations are made,…
In any other sport, a scoresheet listing nine line honours wins and a combined 238 Rolex Sydney Hobarts among the crew of 21 would suggest that team is the pre-race favourite. The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, however, is a…
If you want to know what it takes to win an Australian 16ft Skiff Championship, why not go to the bloke who’s won more of them than anyone? Lee Knapton lifted the famous old shield eight times, winning his first…
Sydney, Australia (19 December, 2022) – Nick Egnot-Johnson, Sam Barnett, Zak Merton & Bradley McLaughlin, representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have been crowned 2022 Open Match Racing World Champions after an epic five days of racing on Sydney…
Varying conditions and a gusty southerly set down a challenge for athletes on the final day of Sail Sydney, with consistency the key for podium finishes. After delays and cancellations to the racing schedule on day three of the regatta,…
110 years of 18 footer racing on Sydney Harbour The Barnett family name and 18 footer racing in Australia goes back at least 110 years to the time when Sid Barnett (Snr) sailed as forward hand on Billy Dunn’s 1912-13…
As part of the NSW government Skilled Fee-Free Training initiative, Superyacht Crew Academy offers courses running through the Superyacht Crew Academy that are FREE to eligible students. If you’re interested in getting into the maritime industry or upgrading your qualifications,…
The 2022 eSailing World Championship Finals will take place in Alicante, Spain, in front of a live crowd, bringing together the world’s best players to compete the ultimate prize in eSailing. A total of 40 sailors began the semi-finals in…
Entries are now open for the largest off the beach classic dinghy regatta in Australia. We look forward to welcoming you back over the weekend of 18th-19th February 2023. Click here for further information.
December 16th at 20H54 hours UTC the Franco-Japanese crew of MILAI Around The World was first across the leg 5 finish line at the entrance to the Beagle Channel, which leads to the Argentinean town of Ushuaia. Hours earlier, Masa…
Multiple classes will have to wait until the last day of racing to decide their winners at Sail Sydney, after wet and windy conditions saw racing delayed or cancelled today on Sydney Harbour. One class that did get racing in…
Sydney, Australia (17 December, 2022) – The four semi-finalists were decided today at the World Match Racing Tour finale event on Sydney Harbour, being co-hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. The winner of the event will be crowned…
Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) has launched the new Australian Ocean Racing Championship (AORC) today, an annual event that will be inaugurated with the Bunbury and Return Ocean Race (Western Australian) in February 2023 and conclude with the Rolex…
This exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum is a unique combination of Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught’s stunning LEGO® models, plus real shipwreck objects, hands-on interactives and audio visual experiences that bring to life astonishing shipwreck stories. Come and try…
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