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Tracy Richardson, President of the Adams Ten Class Association of Australia, remembers her first impression of an Adams 10 in 2014 like it was yesterday. “I have a very vivid memory of coming down the marina at Middle Harbour Yacht…
Juliet Costanzo, Sarah Parker, Evelyn Foster, Jemma Hodgson & Rosie Rowell have been crowned John Messenger and Australian Women’s Match Racing Champions this weekend, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Juliet has reclaimed both trophies for the Royal…
Open to all boats with no size limit when it was created in 1978, the most legendary of the transatlantic races still retains its original spirit through the Rhum class. On November 6, 17 competitors will start in Rhum Multi,…
By only one point margin in a seven-event season, silver goes to Fin1Racing and bronze to Swiss Dental Solutions. Puerto Portals, Mallorca, was the venue where 69F crowned the Persico 69F Cup 2022 champions, after a fierce battle on the…
Club Championship, Race 1Today’s Trophy: Mick Scully Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: NoakesSunday, October 30 2022Sydney Harbour The first championship-style race of the 2022-23 Australian 18 Footers League season was sailed on Sydney Harbour today in a 10-15 knot North east breeze…
During its first weekend, the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe village has clearly been a huge success with the crowds turning up, while out on the water, the Rhum mono and multi boats took advantage of ideal weather for…
With no racing possible due to the absence of wind today, Doug DeVos’s Quantum Racing secured the 52 Super Series Barcelona Week title – their fourth regatta title of the five events this year – and in so doing conclusively…
Multiple past winners, international entrants and a record number of two-handed competitors headline a strong contingent of 120 boats entered for the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Entries closed on Friday 28 October for the 77th edition of the…
The skippers competing in the fourth leg of the Globe40 set sail today at 12:00 hours local time just off the famous Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and stretching some 2,300 nautical miles, the first leg should take crews 12…
World Sailing has voted overwhelmingly, with a 93.85 percent majority to approve changes to its governance structure which will enable the federation to be more efficient and increase transparency in line with the requirements of a modern global sporting body….
World Sailing Council met to present a series of reports from each of the committees to update members on the current direction of the sport and future priorities. Opening the Council meeting, World Sailing President, Quanhai Li, praised the resilience…
Another sunny day and a sea breeze greeted the sailors for the last day of Final racing at the 470 World Championships in Sdot-Yam, Israel where Western Australian pair, Nia Jerwood and Conor Nicholas, finished third in the Silver fleet,…
Year on year, the Rolex Middle Sea Race features myriad skirmishes right through the fleet and if you dream of winning one of the classic 600 nautical mile offshore races overall, you must have the determination and commitment to first…
With 14 nationalities represented, the transatlantic Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe has never been so cosmopolitan – there will in fact be 25 skippers coming from outside of France setting off on 6th November local time. Originating from all the continents,…
The penultimate day of the 2021 season at Barcelona Sailing Week proved a painful one for the Plattner family’s Phoenix team and so it was again today, as the five-regatta 2022 52 Super Series season tapers down to the final…
Rome: Translated 9, the Swan 65 now completely refitted, has set sail for the Southern Ocean to finish selecting its crew (70 percent non-professionals) and start training for the Ocean Globe Race 2023. The process of refitting the yacht took…
Start line action from the Passage Race on Sunday. Just a reminder of how close things can get on the beautiful boats. Sometimes a bit too close for Southerly given that red flag being waved at them.
They have been building up the excitement all week with teaser shots on social media, but today (Thursday) the veil was lifted out at the INEOS Britannia training base in Palma, Mallorca of the British team’s LEQ12 – its prototype…
After a challenging three race day at the 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week which saw the Tina Plattner steered South African flagged Phoenix score a third, first and a second while the American Quantum Racing netted 14pts, Doug DeVos’…
The conditions on the Mediterranean Sea are making for challenging and exciting racing at the 470 World Championships in Israel. A persistent offshore breeze has kept the sailors’ heads on a swivel as they seek to link the gusts together…
A change of start date and the large numbers taking part in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 50th Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race (Westcoaster) has prompted record numbers for the Club’s annual Melbourne to Devonport Race – or…
Prominent Australian sailing administrator David Tillett AM has been awarded World Sailing’s prestigious Beppe Croce Trophy, which honours an individual for their outstanding voluntary contribution to the sport of sailing. Tillet was presented with the Trophy at the World Sailing…
Neom, Saudi Arabia is firmly on the event map after four consecutive days of excellent conditions, delivering sensational and heavily contested Freestyle finals in both the men’s and women’s competitions on Saturday. Claudia Leon’s unmatched consistency in the women’s final…
Although the ten boat fleet went afloat for most of the afternoon and a race course was set up, in the end there was not enough wind off the Barcelona waterfront today for competition to take place at the 52…
With a few exceptions, all the of the solo skippers who are set to take part in the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe will have arrived safely in Saint-Malo by the end this Wednesday evening….
At 1600 CEST on Wednesday, 26 October, the winner of the 43rd edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race was announced as Eric de Turckheim’s French NMYD 54 Teasing Machine. The Royal Malta Yacht Club has confirmed that none of…
Conditions got funky in Sdot Yam, Israel for the second day of the 470 World Championships, with a rare offshore breeze making for shifty racing. After a disappointing first day for the Australian Sailing Squad members, Nia Jerwood and Conor…
Light winds prevailed for the first day of the 2022 season title deciding regatta, the 52 SUPER SERIES Barcelona Sailing Week, which saw a comfortable win for Doug DeVos’s Quantum Racing. With De Vos steering they started sharply and with…
The unstoppable Nacra 17 duo of Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti have added more awards to their impressive collection after being named Male and Female Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2022, respectively, at the World Sailing Awards at the…
Japan is celebrating after hosting its first simultaneous Para World Sailing Championship with the Hansa Class Asia Pacific Championship in Hiroshima, marking a major step forward for diversity and inclusion after the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A total…
The Farr designed 30.48 metre/100 foot maxi, Leopard 3 (NED), skippered by Chris Sherlock, crossed the finish line of the 2022 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 10:54:29 CEST to take Monohull Line Honours in an elapsed time of 70 hours…
ABC Tropical North has reported extensive damage to a luxury yacht during blaze at Hamilton Island Marina The 25 metre Sunseeker 82 model has been engulfed in a fire at the marina of Hamilton Island, in Queensland, Australia. The yacht…
25 October, 2022 Riccardo Pavoncelli’s MOD70 Mana (ITA) crossed the finish line of the 2022 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 00:32:38 CEST on Tuesday 25 October to take Multihull Line Honours in an elapsed time of 61 hours 32 minutes…
The Mixed 470 World Championships are now well underway in Israel with three races completed on the first day of the Qualifying series. A building sea breeze, very typical of Sdot Yam at this time of year greeted sailors on…
Couta Boat Nationals return to NSW. Avalon Sailing Club on Pittwater hosted the National Couta Boat Titles over the weekend, at least 14 boats made the trip from Melbourne for the regatta along with Jim Wilshire and his boat Southerly…
This year’s international IRC Congress was held in Malta ahead of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, giving delegates the opportunity to see some of the impressive fleet arriving for the race. The meeting was chaired by Michael Boyd, also Chairman…
The 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race came alive today, for some at least. It really is a race of two halves, as those crews to the west stretch their legs metaphorically in a stiff southerly, and those still to the…
Gran Prix 4.1 of the Persico 69F Cup has just finished in Puerto Portals, Mallorca, after a week of training and racing in the world-famous Bay of Palma. Two bullets out of 11 races were enough to claim victory in…
Two official training races today gave the ten 52 Super Series Barcelona Sailing Week teams a final chance to re-acquaint themselves with the race course area and reading the light winds which are likely to prevail this week, on the…
The most exciting racing on water arrives for the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney on 18-19 February 2023. Witness the world’s best sailing athletes from nine nations go to battle in flying F50 foiling catamarans on Sydney Harbour….
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