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The New Zealand 18ft Skiff fleet may not be coming to contest the 2021 JJ Giltinan world 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour in March, but there is one Kiwi sailor who will be at the JJs, and who has…
Four state championships and the addition of Super Group racing to Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Harbour Regatta will intensify the kaleidoscope of colour and course area changes will spread the action around the natural amphitheatre of Sydney Harbour over…
Australian Sailing has taken a step towards securing the next generation of sailing champions with the launch of the Performance Pathway Futures Program. The program has been made possible in part due to Australian Sailing’s successful application for one of the…
The Challenger of Record and the Defender, in consultation with the Regatta Director, have decided to amend the Race conditions for the Prada Cup Final and the 36th America’s Cup Match as follows: UPPER WIND LIMITAfter reviewing the performance of…
This coming weekend will see the commencement of the America's Cup challenger series, Prada Cup, final stage, where Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli will face off against Ineos Team UK. The first to win 7 races will then compete in the 36th…
Rock Solid has faced 16 consecutive Adams 10 Australian championships and finally the Middle Harbour Yacht Club boat owned by Mitch Miller and Andy and Ben Gunton prevailed at Lake Macquarie, albeit by the slimmest margin. The new Australian Adams…
Quentin Stewart and Shaun Lane’s Lazy Dog team showed once again they are in a different realm, dropping just one race win from seven starts in the MC38 class’ opening act hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club. Only Chris Way…
The defending champion tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake produced a last-minute victory in Race 7 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour, to take a narrow lead in the series with just two…
With tired boats, tired bodies and minds, each face their own personal battles to make the final 1,000-1,500 nautical miles to the finish, but all share the same utter commitment and determination. The next five boats are within 100 nautical…
As the year 2021 tentatively creeps into its second month, a UK sports writer penned this interesting column: to save this year's Olympics in Tokyo, maybe they should cut half the sports from the Games. Now the writer is, apparently,…
The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron will once again host the historic four-day Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta around Kirribilli’s stunning foreshore on Sydney Harbour, with races to start in front of the Squadron on Monday from 10:20am. Due to international…
For more than 100 years there has been a strong family influence over the generations in the 18 Footers. For a number of seasons, John ‘Woody’ Winning and his son John ‘Herman’ Winning have been locking horns at the highest…
Victoria's Mornington Yacht Club will host the first leg of the Sailing Champions League – Asia Pacific this weekend with 12 teams entered from a number of clubs across Victoria, as well as a team from Tasmania. With the restart…
Both the brutal Adams 10s and the fast and furious Melges 24s will be racing for the chocolates on NSWs Lake Macquarie this weekend to excite the locals. The NSW Melges 24 fleet will join the Adams 10s on New…
Defending champion tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake holds a slender lead in the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship after today's incredible day's racing in Races 4 and 5 of the series being sailed on Sydney Harbour….
Luna Rossa’s relentless pursuit of legal options is growing tiresome for their opponents, who have labelled the Italians “disingenuous” and “frivolous” according to Duncan Johnston, writing for the Stuff website in New Zealand. Luna Rossa has had yet another attempt…
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli has booked a place in the Prada Cup final against INEOS TEAM UK after defeating the New York Yacht Club's American Magic 4-0 in the semi-final. The Italian syndicate looked in total control on Friday and…
The first day of the PRADA Cup Semi-Final went smooth as silk for Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli which scored the first two points on the leader board against New York Yacht Club American Magic that, against all the odds, managed…
Auckland, New Zealand – New York Yacht Club American Magic, the U.S. Challenger for the 36th America's Cup, on Wednesday re-launched its racing yacht, PATRIOT, for the first time since a damaging capsize and near-sinking suffered by the team during a…
Bob Fisher, a world champion sailor and a respected sailing journalist who covered 16 editions of the America's Cup and wrote a history of the event, has died in Britain aged 85. The Guardian, for whom Fisher wrote from 1958…
Stuff.co.nz By Duncan Johnstone America’s Cup officials appear set to review a key rule that has a disqualification hanging over Sir Ben Ainslie’s rampant British syndicate. The complaint of non-compliance rule allows teams to question opposition developments they feel are…
The recently crowned NSW champion tech2 18ft Skiff team totally dominated a great day's racing in races 2 and 3 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. In North East winds ranging from 18-25 knots, the…
Kicking off at 9:30am from Williamstown, a strong fleet of over 140 boats raced down Port Phillip toward the finish line in Geelong in the 178th running of the Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race yesterday. While the full Festival of…
INEOS TEAM UK stays unbeaten after what was probably the closest race seen so far on the AC75s, with nine lead changes and three close crosses throughout the nail biting race against Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli. With that result, Sir…
Inside the Games. By Nancy Gillen. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed there is “no reason whatsoever” to think Tokyo 2020 will not be staged from July 23 to August 8. Bach made the comments in an interview…
Inside the Games. By Michael Pavitt. Greek Olympic sailing gold medallist Sofia Bekatorou has alleged she was sexually abused in 1998 by a high-ranking member of the Hellenic Sailing Federation. Bekatorou, who won gold in the 470 class at her home…
LONDON – January 20, 2021 – SailGP has announced a full race schedule for its second season, which will feature eight national teams made up of the sport’s best athletes squaring off in eight events across three continents. The schedule…
London, UK (20 January, 2021) – The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) today announced the six skippers awarded WMRT Tour Cards for the 2021 championship season. Defending match racing world champion Taylor Canfield (USA) leads the line-up alongside six-time world…
Following New York Yacht Club American Magic informing the Regatta Director that they will not be racing in Round Robins 3 and 4 of the PRADA Cup this weekend, the racing schedule has been revised as follows: Saturday 23rd of…
The tech2 team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake became the 2020-2021 NSW 18ft Skiff champion following an impressive all-the-way victory in today's re-sail of Race 2 of the championship on Sydney Harbour. Going into today's final…
It was a tricky and yet revealing day for the Challengers competing in the PRADA Cup Round Robins owing the to the tricky light wind conditions that frequently forced the AC75’s off their foils. It was a positive day for…
It was a day of drama on the Hauraki Gulf on Sunday January 17. The first race between INEOS TEAM UK and Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli was abanodoned after a 90 degree wind shift. When the race was re-sailed, there…
INEOS TEAM UK's challenge for the 36th America's Cup in Auckland, New Zealand, begins in earnest today (Friday January 15) with the PRADA Cup, the Challenger Selection Series. The first two Round Robins in the PRADA Cup will be the…
Auckland. 15th January 2021: Today all the build up and discussion ended and the points started to count in Auckland as the first two races of the PRADA Cup officially kicked off. INEOS TEAM UK went from zero to hero…
Racing resumed today, after the annual break over the Christmas-New Year period, when the Australian 18 Footers League conducted race 5 of the 2020-2021 NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour. Defending champion Winning Group team of John Winning…
With safety plans in place and fingers firmly crossed, Sail Port Stephens is accepting entries for its 2021 regatta in April and once again aiming to provide an unforgettable sailing holiday for crews aboard everything from small dinghies to family…
Bartercard Sail Paradise came to an end yesterday with a bang. A strong south-easterly wind swept across the course during the morning and made for spectacular sailing. Wind gusts to 30 knots and rising seas led to one yacht being…
The Cockburn Sound Regatta is a four day event held between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve on the beautiful and protected waters of Mangles Bay off Rockingham. Conditions were light and very hot for the whole regatta although the…
Marine Weather University was launched just six months ago when veteran sailing meteorologist, Chris Bedford and two-times America's Cup winning navigator Peter Isler teamed up to provide the best marine weather education on the planet. Today MWU’s university-level curriculum features…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. One of the most enduring and respected figures in the America’s Cup has hit back at critics of the current boats, insisting foiling is the future and there must be no return to the sluggish monohulls…
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