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London – November 26, 2019: Ben Ainslie – the most successful Olympic sailor of all time – today joined the Great Britain SailGP Team. Beginning in the global league’s second season kicking off in February 2020, Ainslie and a world-class squad…
Glamour conditions greeted the 178 international teams on the opening day of racing at the 2019 49er, 49erFX and Nacra17 Oceania Championships. The three-day warm-up regatta before next week's world championships is hosted by Auckland’s Royal Akarana Yacht Club. With…
Ed Psaltis (Midnight Rambler) was a class act on the water in Saturday’s Combined Clubs Summer Pennant winning Division One IRC, AMS and taking second in PHS on corrected time. The 1998 Sydney to Hobart winner and 2019 entrant kept…
A last minute crew change brought the 2010 JJ Giltinan Championship-winning team of Seve Jarvin, Sam Newton and Tom Clout back together again and the combination showed they had lost none of their 18ft Skiff handling skills when they brought…
After two round robins of racing at the Harken International Youth Match Racing Regatta on Pittwater, the top four teams have been identified, including the two Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club's teams skippered by Alistair Read and Juliet Costanzo. The…
Langkawi: Varying winds made for challenging sailing at the 30th Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR) and the final day of racing today was no exception, with the fleet starting the first race of the day with fair winds that…
Despite the rather melancholy weather, the competition was as stiff as ever in the 42nd running of the Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC), hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC) over the weekend. Gerry Hatton’s Bushranger crew came down…
A Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) team skippered by Alastair Gifford has won the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship on Pittwater this weekend, successfully defending the title won by fellow club member…
Kuah: On the first day of the Langkawi inshore races at Kuah Harbour, participating boats in the 30th Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR) experience a good day of racing despite some tricky winds. Rolf Heemskerk’s ‘The Next Factor’ placed…
The Finn has been the dinghy of choice for generations of sailors seeking to challenge themselves to the limits of their sailing skills and their physical endurance and has a culture that embraces sailors of all ages and a camaraderie…
A fantastic welcome ceremony got underway for the 2019 Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship hosted by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. The star-studded line-up of 10 youth (under 23) teams from both local and international clubs came together…
Three Hobsons Bay Yacht Club boats have collectively taken out an emphatic Lipton Cup victory over their cross-town rivals and event hosts the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV), after the new teams format was introduced for the first time….
The Sail Melbourne – Summer of Sailing 2020 count-down is on with only three weeks to go to the start of an exciting series of world-class sailing in Australia this summer. Seven months out from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games,…
An international cast will take to the race course on Pittwater for the 27th Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship, to be hosted by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) from 20-24 November, 2019. An even split of Australian…
It was such a stunning day racing off Newcastle Beach even the dolphins came out to play, surfing on the bow wake of Edake leading them all the way to victory. Farr 40 racing doesn’t get any closer than today…
It was supposed to be a heavyweight bout between Chris Bake's Team Aqua and Vladimir Prosikhin's Team Nika. These two, among the oldest, most successful teams in the high performance one design monohull class, started the 44Cup Palma, the final…
The Appliancesonline.com.au team (Brett Van Munster, Phil Marshall and Kurt Fatouris) became the 2019-2020 Australian 18 Footers League Spring champions, but it was The Oak Double Bay-4 Pines team of Jack Macartney, Courtney Mahar, Charlie Gundy which took honours on…
Reigning World Corinthian champion Jeff Carter and team Edake proved their offshore experience, and with consistent scores of 2.2.2.2, motored back into the Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club proudly flying boat of the day and regatta leader battle flags. The first…
On the opening day of the Dragon Grand Prix European Cup Finals 2019, Ukrainian Olympic 470 gold medallist, Evgeniy Braslavets, crewed by Sergey Pugachev, Sergey Timokhov and Oleksandr Myrchuk, claimed the golden ticket which allows them to leapfrog past the…
Port Klang: The Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR) celebrates another milestone with its 30th anniversary this year, and participating boats pushed off from Port Klang earlier today with HH Raja Muda Selangor, Tengku Amir Shah, sailing on Fujin. The…
Racing in Palma in November was always going to be challenging, not just for crews, but especially for race officials more used to racing here in summer in a sea breeze you can set your watch by. Yesterday racing was…
LONDON – November 14, 2019 – Following its European debut event last year that resulted in some of the most dramatic moments of Season 1, SailGP is returning to the UK in Season 2. On August 14-15, the world’s fastest…
Changing the dates of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta from the usual second half of April to the very beginning (1-7 April 2020) has enabled various past participants to join again, notably the magnificent 137’ Herreshoff gaff schooner Elena of…
After the traditional end of season round of national championships across Europe, there is no movement in or out of the top 10 of the final OK Dinghy World Ranking List of the year. Thomas Hansson-Mild, still leads from Fredrik…
11 November 2019 – Puerto Portals, Mallorca – The fourth and final event of the Dragon European Grand Prix circuit, the Dragon Grand Prix Spain hosted by the Club de Regatas Puerto Portals, began today in the Bay of Palma…
International competitors have started to arrive in Melbourne for what promises to be a massive summer of Laser sailing in Australia. Turkey was the first country to send their boats, via airfreight, while the German team had to unload their…
It will be on for young and old, literally, when the upcoming Australian 16ft Skiff & 13ft Skiff Championships get underway at Port Stephens from January 4. The stage was set for an intriguing, rivalry-tinged tussle after last year’s national…
Cheche Team conquered the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet at the China Cup International Regatta after a lack of wind meant no racing in Shenzhen on the final day of competition. The only fleet that managed a race on Sunday was…
The Appliancesonline.com.au team of Brett Van Munster, Phil Marshall and Kurt Fatouris only have to appear at the starting line next Sunday to take of the Australian 18 Footers League's 2019-2020 Spring Championship after a totally dominant performance in both…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand won't hesitate to incorporate good ideas from rival teams as they step up the design of their second boat which will be used to defend the America's Cup. The four heavyweight syndicates –…
Half a century ago on an island nation in the middle of the Atlantic, the idea was born to create an event for Finn sailors over 40 years old. At the class AGM during the 1969 Gold Cup in Bermuda,…
Shenzhen, China: Another race win for Cheche Team has virtually wrapped up victory for the Spanish crew with a day to spare in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet at the China Cup International Regatta. Rayco Tabares Alvarez and his crew…
In yet another flawless display by the world’s top catamaran sailing team, Alinghi today won the GC32 Oman Cup and the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour. This Ernesto Bertarelli’s Swiss team adds to their GC32 World Championship title and victory in…
Going into Sunday’s two races of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2019-2020 Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour, the series is wide open with the consistent Appliancesonline.co.au team of Brett Van Munster, Kurt Fatouris and Phil Marshall leading the 18-boat fleet…
The South Australian Sharpie fleet has announced a new travel grants program as an incentive for more sailors to attend the national championships, which often has significant costs associated with it. The program allows teams doing it a little tough…
Shenzhen, China: Cheche Team from Spain extended its lead in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet on day three of the China Cup International Regatta, but it was Craig Monk’s young crew on ChinaOne.Ningbo who won the last race of the…
While it may have been their turn to be top scoring boat on day three of the GC32 Oman Cup, the math is not looking great for Oman Air in its fight with Alinghi to become 2019 GC32 Racing Tour…
Cheche Team from Spain flipped the switch on day two of the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen to dominate racing in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet. Julio Bernardeau Navarro steered his crew to scores of 1,3,1 – by far…
SYDNEY – November 8, 2019 – Olympic gold medalist and SailGP Season 1 champion Tom Slingsby returned to his home sailing club in New South Wales to help launch an innovative new program that aims to create a pathway into…
With a light forecast, the opening day of the GC32 Oman Cup looked like it might be marginal. However in the end four out of the five scheduled races were sailed just north of the Al Mouj marina with a…
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