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Solo sailing is not for the faint-hearted – it requires all-round sailing skills and knowledge, a high level of fitness, quick thinking and reflexes, common sense and a mighty dose of bravery. Add to that the challenges that come with…
One hundred and nine Finns from 19 nations have gathered at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy for the 2022 Finn Gold Cup. Ten races are scheduled over the next five days to determine the 2022 Finn World Champion. …
The TF35 Trophy 2022 season gets underway next week, racing out of Nyon, Switzerland, over 19-22 May, for the Realstone Cup for Léman hope. Seven teams will contest the TF35’s second season, and making their debut on the cutting-edge hydro-foiling…
Emirates Team New Zealand and Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei today christened the land yacht to be used in their Wind Powered Land Speed World Record attempt as ‘Horonuku’ in front of team members and land speed suppliers and supporters at their…
Sailed double-handed by owner Alex Toomey and crew-mate Andrew Hibbert, Ryujin has won the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 2022 Apollo Bay Race, in which Margaret Rintoul V (Damien King) took line honours in a close race across the…
Tom Slingsby delivered a masterclass against Great Britain driver Ben Ainslie, known as the sailing ‘GOAT’ (greatest of all time) and most successful sailor in Olympic history, and Phil Robertson’s Canada Team, to win the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix. The…
After building nicely this season and knocking on the door of a series win, Leslie Green’s MC38 team on Ginger wrapped up a shortened Act 3 with plenty to spare. A 5-12 knot autumn nor’easter meant Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s…
The Tasar class, a hugely popular and highly competitive class, will be taking to the waters of Port Phillip from 28 to 31 December 2023 for the Australian National Championship and will follow this up with the main event –…
If your dream is a Sydney Hobart Yacht Race podium in 2022, here’s the opportunity. Atomic Blonde, a JPK 10.80 and 2021 Ocean Racing WA Siska Trophy winner is now available through private sale by JPK Pacific. This is the…
The passing of Jim ‘Ace’ Mowtell, long-time Australian 18 Footers League member and director of the Australian 18 Footers League since 1993, will be celebrated at the Club at 2pm on Tuesday, 2 August. ‘Ace’ was a true character in…
Portugal: Normally 44Cup events are decided in the final gybes of the last leg of the last race after four days of competition. But at the 44Cup Cascais, the second of the 2022 series for the high-performance owner-driver one designs,…
To say the 60 sailors who set sail this Sunday on the 13th Normandy Channel Race were eager to get going would be an understatement. In stormy yet magnificent conditions, the Class40s were released onto the racetrack at bang on…
Quentin Vlamynck (FRA), the youngest skipper in the history of the Ocean Fifty class, along with his two crew, Alex Pella (ESP) and Antoine Gautier (FRA), won his first-ever Pro Sailing Tour Episode on Sunday afternoon in Bonifacio, Corsica. He drove…
Hamilton, Bermuda: Tom Slingsby’s Australian crew has finished the first day of racing in Bermuda in third place, despite the team’s mixed performance, while newcomer, Canada, has taken a surprise lead. The battle between the world’s top sailors erupted on…
Portugal: After two days of sun, Atlantic swell and prevailing north westerlies, conditions turned around for day three of the 44Cup Cascais, as overnight the wind veered into the south and in the morning the eight RC44 teams waited ashore…
Portugal: On the opening day of the 44Cup Cascais we saw the rare occurrence of one boat – Nico Poons’ Charisma – winning all three races, but on Day 2, it was back to the 44Cup ‘norm’ with lead changes…
The 52 Super Series fleet arrived in Baiona, Spain this week and with it the countdown to the start of the Abanca 52 Super Series Baiona Sailing Week to be held from 23-28 starting to feel very real. The preparations…
Two dozen maxi yachts are set to contest the annual Regata dei Tre Golfi that departs on Saturday evening (14 May) from Naples, Italy, with the 67th edition of Italy’s second oldest offshore race forming the opening event and offshore…
Bermuda: After taking home the SailGP Championship trophy for the second season running, Tom Slingsby, the Australia Team driver and CEO announced today that the team will donate $72,000 (AUD) from the team’s $1,000,000 prize purse to its Race For…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Finn Tapper has won the Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta, hosted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (RSYS), for the second year running. Eight youth teams representing a range of clubs from NSW…
In its 25th year the Mooloolaba Australasian Etchells Championship has hit a hurdle causing the event to be postponed in 2022. The national regatta was due to be held from June 9 to 12. International Etchells Australia representative Jan Muysken…
Join Philip Fontaine from Multihull Central as he tours the beautiful HH50 OC catamaran built by high performance builders @HH Catamarans and designed by @Morrelli Melvin Design and Engineering, with a very detailed overview from President Seth Hynes (formerly of…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
Despite the “super shifty” northeasterly winds and occasional downpours on the penultimate day of Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Hardy Cup Match Racing Regatta on Sydney Harbour, the teams and the umpires, led by Chief Umpire Damien Boldyrew, still came to…
One of the most coveted trophies in the sport of sailing will be raced for next week at Fragila Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy. The 2022 Finn Gold Cup opens on Sunday with an impressive 110 entries from 23…
Portugal: Monaco-based Dutchman Nico Poons’ Charisma defied the odds to win all three races on the opening day of the 44Cup Cascais. This annihilation of his ultra-competitive opposition comes after Charisma was on the ‘receiving end’, having suffered an eighth-place…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is now welcoming entries from boats across Australia and abroad for a historic edition of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race in 2022. Following cancellations in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19…
The Worrell 1000 Race is an offshore long distance beach catamaran sailboat race that is held from May 9-22, 2022. The race runs in the waters between Florida and Virginia Beach, VA. The race will cover approximately 1000 miles with overnight…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron (RSYS) really turned on the charm as host of the Farr 40 25th Year Anniversary Regatta on May 7-8. For Saturday’s race, Principal Race Officer Rob Ridley set off the eight-boat fleet on a passage race around…
From Volunteer Marine Rescue Southport’s Facebook page: VMR Southport and the Gold Coast Water Police were last night involved in a massive operation to assist a distressed vessel and crew. At approximately 1640 on Wednesday VMR Southport were advised of…
Following on from its inshore and offshore circuits in the Mediterranean, for 2022 the International Maxi Association introduced its new Caribbean Maxi Challenge. Following January’s RORC Transatlantic Race in association with the IMA, the Caribbean Maxi Challenge comprised the RORC…
Portugal: Igor Lah, tactician Adrian Stead and their CEEREF powered by Hrastnik 1860 are the team with the biggest target on their back going into the 44Cup Cascais, which sets sail tomorrow. In early February the Slovenian team won the…
Early yesterday morning, the large doors to the Gitana shed were opened to release the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild from her five-month refit. Enjoying a ringside seat, her skipper, Charles Caudrelier, looked on attentively, though his mind is already geared towards the…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
SailGP’s highly anticipated Season 3 is set to kick off in a matter of days, but Japan will not race in the first three events of Season 3, resulting in a bespoke scoring system for the Season 2 runner up….
The nature of the boats and the people who have sailed them over the past 130 years always made 18 footer racing unique in the sailing/yachting world and one of the unique parts of the sport has been the gambling…
Emirates Team New Zealand have been continuing the successful commissioning and testing of their hydrogen powered foiling chase boat ‘Chase Zero’ on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf since its launch just five weeks ago. The team have now run Chase Zero for…
After a two-year hiatus the 53rd edition of Antigua Sailing Week was brimming with success. The trade winds blew all week, with the international fleet enjoying exhilarating racing in sailing paradise.
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
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