Manly 16′ Skiff Club Report
You can’t be what you can’t see, so the old saying goes. At Manly 16ft Skiff Club, a record number of females are entering the various classes on the back of the path paved by some of Australia’s finest women…
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Local community benefits from SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week
There is a lot more to SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) than meets the eye, as organisers at Townsville Yacht Club continue their mission to make sure the Island’s community benefits from the annual event in more than the…
First ever OK Dinghy major championship in Spain opened in Palma
The OK Dinghy European Championship was opened in Palma Tuesday evening with 82 sailors from 14 nations completing registration. Hosted by the Real Club Nàutico de Palma, it will be the first ever international OK Dinghy championship to be held…
2024 Bermuda Gold Cup kicks off in Hamilton Harbour
(Hamilton, Bermuda 29 October, 2024) The 2024 Bermuda Gold Cup kicked off today in exhilarating 18-22 knot conditions in Hamilton Harbour, providing the ideal stage for the world’s top match racing teams to master the challenging International One Design (IOD)…
World Sailing invites events from across the sport to take part in World Sailing Championships showcase
World Sailing is inviting proposals for exhibition events at the 2026 and 2027 World Sailing Championships. Successful events will also have the opportunity to be considered for inclusion in future World Sailing events and the Olympic Games programme from 2032. …
Star World Champions heading to Etchells World Championship 2025
The Etchells National and World Championships in January 2025 at the Royal Brighton Yacht Club, are attracting a range of international performers across classes including the most recent Star Class World Champions, John Kostecki and Austin Sperry. “I am still…
IOM Worlds final day
2024 IOM World Championships in Gladstone Queensland, Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day Six. The International One Metre World Championships are complete. By day three of the regatta, two sailors…
Former Kiwi flight controller Andy Maloney leaves the Black Foils and joins Brazil
Former Kiwi flight controller Andy Maloney has opened up about his decision to leave the Black Foils and join incoming team Brazil on the start line of next season. Maloney’s departure marked one of the highest profile athlete transfers in…
A close encounter to the end at ClubSwan Racing’s crucial season decider
The Swan One Design Worlds came to a dramatic conclusion today in Palma de Mallorca, with the world champions in three ClubSwan Racing classes crowned — two by a single point — and the season-long Nations League contest ultimately decided….
IOM Worlds – Day 5 report
2024 IOM World Championships in Gladstone Queensland, Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day Five. The second last day of the IOM World Championships was, for the leaders, akin to a…
18ft Skiffs – Spring Champs – Race 2
Race 2 of the 2024 Sixt Spring 18 footer Championship was conducted by the Australian 18 Footers League on Sydney Harbour today when 16 of the club’s teams faced the start in a 8-12 knot north-east wind, which produced much…
GWA Wingfoil World Tour – Ibiraquera, Southern Brazil
The GWA Wingfoil World Tour crowned two new world champions in the Wave discipline at the third and final stop of the season after an epic day of action in the left-hand break of Ibiraquera in southern Brazil. The US’s…
Sydney-Hobart winner enters 2025 Teakle Classic Adelaide-Lincoln Race
Have you wondered what happend to the classic maxi Brindabella? The iconic maxi yacht and former Sydney-Hobart line honours winner, Brindabella, will compete in next February’s 75th running of the Teakle Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race. This special…
IOM Worlds – Day 4 report
2024 IOM World Championships in Gladstone Queensland, Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day Four. Day four was magnificent. Perfect conditions greeted the competitors today, 10-15 knots from the East, which…
FEZ takes keelboat handicap win – Romanza secures multihull victory after redress
No two of 67 starters in this year’s PIC Coastal Classic are identical. That is where the handicap system kicks in, giving opportunity to any boat no matter how big, small, new or old, to take away a victory based…
Finn Open Europeans – Alessandro Marega seals it in Cannes
Australia’s Paul McKenzie finishes 5th overall and 1st Grand Master. Italy’s Alessandro Marega has won the Finn European Championship in Cannes after the final day brought even more drama and turnarounds. Valerian Lebrun, from France, ended up second, and also…
Fleet of 67 embarks on 2024 PIC Coastal Classic
67 yachts set sail from Auckland this morning in the much-anticipated 2024 PIC Coastal Classic, one of New Zealand’s premier yachting events. The fleet departed from Devonport in nearly perfect conditions, with a moderate breeze of 10 to 12 knots…
Finn Open Europeans – Cannes it be any closer?
The fourth day of the 2024 Finn Open Europeans was, and is, filled with drama and uncertainty after a day of waiting for wind, then multiple restarts and finally multiple hearings in the jury room. As this report goes out…
IOM Worlds – Day 3 report
2024 IOM World Championships in Gladstone Queensland, Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day Three. It was deja vu all over again at the IOM World Championships in Gladstone. For the…
SailGP confirms 11-team lineup, with one month to Dubai season opener
Final team sales set to unlock a range of shock athlete transfers and exciting appointments. Both New Zealand and France will race in the 2025 Season alongside two new national teams, as SailGP confirms a new points sytem and expanded…
What We Learned from the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup
Here’s an interesting little breakdown from the team over at the 49er and Nacra 17 organisation on the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup. It points out some interesting facts and observations. You may not agree with all their observations, but…
IOM World Championships – Day 2
2024 IOM world Championships in Gladstone Queensland Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day Two. Day two of the IOM World Championships in Gladstone Australia was almost an exact repeat of…
Open Finn Europeans – Cannes we have more wind please?
After a windless second day at 2024 Open Finn Europeans, the third day of the event also started windless with a long postponement on shore in increasing temperatures. Confidence was reasonably high that some wind was coming, but it took…
18ft Skiffs – Sixt Spring Championship Continues
After being battered by a 20-25 knot southerly wind on Sydney Harbour last Sunday, the Australian 18 Footers League fleet returns to the harbour waters again next Sunday to contest Race 2 of the Sixt Spring Championship and Mick Scully…
IOM Worlds report Day 1
2024 IOM world Championships in Gladstone Queensland Australia. Hosted by the Australian Radio Yachting Association and the Gladstone Radio Controlled Yacht Club Day One. Day one of the IOM World Championships was intense. It was a slow start, with an…
Looking to the future by building on the success of Barcelona
Emirates Team New Zealand have completed one of the most successful America’s Cup campaigns in history. For the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand having won the America’s Cup three times in a row, it now presents an unprecedented opportunity for…
Sydney Multihull Regatta Announced
Multihull Central are excited to announce an all-new Regatta on Sydney Harbour dedicated to Multihulls, with an offer extended to all cruising and racing catamarans and trimarans with accommodation, including owners of Seawind, Corsair and all other brands who would…
Port Jackson Championship – Manly 16’Skiffs Club Report
The Port Jackson Championship is regarded as one of the most unforgiving races on the 16ft skiff calendar. One small mistake or miscalculation and your day can be over as Sydney Harbour shows who’s boss over two gruelling hours. The…
Australian Women’s Match Racing Championships 2025 and 2026 – Fremantle Sailing Club WA
Fremantle Sailing Club (FSC) and its Women’s Racing and Mentorship Program (RAMP) are pleased to announce their successful bid to host both the 2025 and 2026 Australian Women’s Match Racing Championships. Hosting this event will see world ranked athletes from…
Open Finn Europeans begins – Cannes it get any better?
Italy’s Alessandro Marega is the early leader at the 2024 Finn Open European Championship at the Yacht Club de Cannes after three great races in a building breeze. He won all three of his group races to sit five points…
Record breaking Finn Europeans opened in Cannes
The 2024 Finn Open European Championship was opened in sunny Cannes Sunday evening with more than 150 boats completing registration and equipment inspection. This makes it the largest Finn European Championship of all time and heralds the start of what…
Ronstan Junior Foiling Cup
The Ronstan Junior Foiling Cup is a revolutionary new sailing series, specifically designed to inspire Junior sailors from 10 to 16 years old, by providing them the opportunity to compete in the very latest, one design foiling dinghies. The concept…
NOR posted for 60th Anniversary Congressional Cup
LONG BEACH, CA (21 October, 2024) – The Long Beach Yacht Club today posted the Notice of Race for its milestone 60th Anniversary of The Congressional Cup, the club’s flagship event, from April 30 – May 4, 2025. The event…
18ft skiffs – Spring Champs & Club Champs – Race 1
The Australian 18 Footers League’s 91st season of 18ft skiff racing began on Sydney Harbour today when the club conducted Race 1 of its 2024-25 Club Championship and Race 1 of the Sixt Spring Championship, for the Alf Beashel Memorial…
Ineos Britannia – A brilliant campaign for the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup
The most successful British Challenge in over 90 years ended in defeat in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match after a spirited series against the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, that was closer and more hard-fought than the 7-2…
Emirates Team New Zealand make history to win the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup
Emirates Team New Zealand concluded a historic chapter, winning the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup after an epic final showdown in Barcelona against the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia, in a single race that ebbed and flowed from the outset…
ETNZ brilliance takes the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup to match point at 6-2
It was a fired-up, proficient and efficient Emirates Team New Zealand that raced the hardest to interpret wind direction here in Barcelona and took two clean races off the fast-charging Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia who left very little out…
Record entry for 2024 Open Finn Europeans in Cannes
The 2024 Finn Open European Championship opens in Cannes this week, with a record-breaking entry of around 150 boats. Hosted by the Yacht Club de Cannes (YCC), it follows on the back of a hugely successful year for the class…
Cramped arms and lost leaders leave French on top of day one
It was a dramatic first day of the Wingfoil Racing World Cup Italy with two grueling long-distance races that had riders shaking their arms to send blood to cramping forearms. A wincing sailor was staring at a bleeding foot, riders ducked through the prop wash of the rabbit…
Race Preview: Combined Clubs Long Race Series – Race 2 – Saturday, October 19th
Excitement is building as 37 boats prepare to hit the water this Saturday for the second race in the Combined Clubs Long Race Series. The Derwent Sailing Squadron will host the event, with the action kicking off at 10 am….
