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Geelong’s Festival of Sails will be celebrating a major milestone when it returns in January 2023, as it salutes the 180th anniversary of its Passage Race between Melbourne and Geelong. The Passage Race normally attracts more than 200 entries as…
18ft SkiffsSpring Championship, Race 2Today’s Trophy: Alf Beashel Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: The Kitchen MakerSunday, October 23 2022Sydney Harbour The young Oak Double Bay-4 Pines team of Alex Marinelli, Matt Doyle and Darcy McCracken won their first 18 footer race when…
This time last year the Rolex Middle Sea Race reporting was struggling to keep up with the pace of the frontrunners, as the Maxi Multihulls had scorched 450 nautical miles of the 606nm course. What a difference a year makes:…
Two Australian teams are gearing up in Sdot-Yam, Israel, ready for day one of the Mixed 470 World Championships which commence today. Sixty teams will take to the water from Monday 24th through to Saturday the 29th of October on…
Organisers of the World Match Racing Tour have announced the 2022 WMRT Final has been re-scheduled to 13-18 December in Sydney, Australia. The event will be co-hosted with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) and the winner will be…
Malta: Grand Harbour performed some magic today, as an assembled 118 yachts set off on the 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race, behind them the ancient limestone walls of Valletta seemed to come alive in bright sunshine, duly offering the gathered…
Three days before the opening of the village in Saint-Malo on Tuesday, Race Direction have released the final list of ratified entries for the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe, with 138 solo skippers setting off on Sunday November 6…
There are now less than 100 days until the start of The Ocean Race, 85 to be precise, and our team is in full training mode. Based out of our second home in Concarneau, Brittany, France, the shore crew is…
From Tuesday, the historic start town of Saint Malo, in the heart of the Brittany region, will welcome more than 138 boats that are set to compete on the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe. This…
Wind, and plenty of it, was the hallmark of the penultimate day in Brest for the Aussie sailors contesting the IQFOiL Worlds. In the earlier part of the afternoon, it peaked at 45 knots, along with plenty of rain. Later…
For only the second time since 2009, a monohull keelboat has won the PIC Coastal Classic when V5, an Alan Andrews TP52 skippered by Brian Peterson of the RNZYS, crossed the line at 23:46:23. It was a race with many…
A global fleet has once again answered the call of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, with the 43rd edition, which starts at 1100 CEST, tomorrow Saturday, 22nd October, attracting a fleet of 120 yachts from 25 countries, including Australia, New…
Most leading contenders are safely through to the finals, with Mario and Chabloz surprisingly swept aside at Qatar Airways Freestyle-Kite World Cup Neom after a strange passing rain system overnight delivered super strong conditions in the morning as the weather…
The first Warning Signal on the triangular courses will be given at the next Kiel Week (June 17-25, 2023) in the Olympic disciplines, with five regatta days planned for all, with the final Medal Races at the end. In contrast,…
The 52 Super Series will celebrate its 10th anniversary in Barcelona next week by returning to where the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit was started in May 2012 at the Real Club Náutico, Barcelona’s prestigious Trofeo Conde de Godo…
The Yachting Malta Coastal Race is the traditional curtain-call for the Rolex Middle Sea Race. This year’s race was a light wind affair with the fleet enjoying a gentle 12-mile race to Comino Island. The overall winner after IRC time…
Simon Curwen’s close call stuck up the mast and Damien Guillou breaks his windvane. Tapio in the lead, but is he really? Next gate favours eastern positioned yachts. South Atlantic high reshuffles cards for the leaders, northern yachts with less…
Day 1 update – Wednesday 19th October:The rich, deep turquoise hues of the lagoon water contrasting the yellow sands of the Neom Beach Games kite spot looked out of this world, but it was the 8.87 that Gianmaria Coccoluto scored…
Persico 69F Cup GP 4.1 and 4.2 are about to begin in Puerto Portals, Mallorca, Spain. It will be a first time for the only one-design, foiling, team monohull to hit the Palma Bay waters, some of the best known…
Significant shifts, and changes up and down range in the winds off Brest in France were the hallmark of the second day’s racing at the 2022 iQFOiL World Championships. In spite of the challenges this brings, several of Australia’s sailors…
In 2019 the remarkable multihull Beau Geste sailed into New Zealand and set a new race record in the country’s most famous yacht race. It completed the 119 nautical mile course, which starts in Auckland and finishes in Russell, in…
Triple Olympic medalist Mat Belcher OAM has announced his retirement from Olympic sailing. Australia’s most successful Olympic sailor, Belcher had been considering a tilt at the new Mixed 470 class at the Paris 2024 games before calling time on his…
Lake Gairdner: It has not been an easy few days for the Land Speed Team on Lake Gairdner. Like much of Eastern Australia, it too has seen more precipitation than welcome. The eternally optimistic pilot Glenn Ashby has been closely…
When the two-handed S&S 34 ‘Crux’ team of Carlos Aydos and Peter Grayson, saw the weather forecast before the start of the Tollgate Islands Race (260nm), they applied for leave for work on the following Monday, almost certain they would…
Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club is gearing up for their 2022-23 season Opening Day on Sunday 30 October 2022, with a special landmark celebration for their 60th year. Back in 1962-63, the co-operative vision of sailors from various keelboat clubs around…
After the first day of racing at the 2022 iQFOiL World Championships was abandoned due to no wind, it meant that there would be just the one day to arrange qualifying for the Gold Fleet. This was always going to…
Capitalising on the success of the inaugural ORC NSW Championship last February, organisers at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) are pleased to announce entry is open and the Notice of Race available for the event that will again run…
Cagliari, October 13th, 2022 – The futuristic Luna Rossa Prototype, that will showcase the team’s return to on-water training, was launched today at 2 pm local time at the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli base. The sailing sessions with this boat…
The Brest Bretagne Nautisme watersports district is on the Western tip of Brittany, which is just to the East of Brest itself. The Autumnal weather offers low 20s falling to the mid-teens, with a chance of rain later on in…
Editor – Congratulations to Jules and the Easy Tiger Racing who finished 7th overall. See you back on Pittwater soon. Corfu, Greece (17 October 2022) – Pauline Courtois and her ‘Match in Pink’ Normandie team from France have won the…
The GWA Wingfoil World Cup Tarifa was the penultimate event in this five stop season of the GWA Wingfoil World Tour. The final climax will run at Taiba in Brazil, 16 – 20th November. 48 men and 15 women registered…
The start of the 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race is less than a week away. The Royal Malta Yacht Club has been a hive of activity over the past month, and the clubhouse and moorings are ready to welcome the…
Buying a reverse osmosis watermaker is one of the best investments you can make for your yacht and your quality of life on board. Before you jump right into a purchase, however, you need to figure out how much water…
At 09.18 hours local time, it was the Dutch crew on SEC HAYAI which took line honours and leg three victory in the GLOBE40 at the entrance to the Auckland Bay. Spanning some 7,000 nautical miles in all, it proved…
With no fewer than 55 entries Class40 is the biggest fleet of the 12th Route du Rhum Destination Guadeloupe. And within this big, competitive fleet there are a group of brand new, latest generation boats from renowned designers sailed by…
Editor – apologies for mistakenly reporting earlier that Breiana had finished 5th Aussie Breiana Whitehead has capped off a magnificent week at the Formula Kite World Championships finishing seventh after a rollercoaster Semi Final series. The final day started with…
Two races were completed on the final day of the ILCA 6 World Championships to round out the event and crown the newest champion. Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN) took out the Championships by a commanding 20…
The 2022 EurILCA Master European Championships concluded in great way today after the last two scheduled races held in L’Escala, Spain. 7-10 knots of wind and almost flat water were the prevailing sailing conditions for all 5 fleets. The day…
18ft SkiffsSpring Championship, Race 1Today’s Trophy: Major Arthur Frizelle TrophySunday, October 16 2022Sydney Harbour The Shaw and Partners Financial Services team of Jim Colley, Charlie Wyatt and Tom Quigley, took out the opening race of the Australian 18 Footers League’s…
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