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Powerful winds on Wednesday, with 42 knots (gusts up to 50 knots) recorded in the bay, meant that the 45 Maxi Yachts competing in the second week of Les Voiles de Saint Tropez regatta remained tucked away in the harbour….
Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. is proud to announce that the 2022 publication of Brown’s Nautical Almanac will be the 145th Edition. The Almanac will be available in the UK and abroad from October 2021. Established in 1850 on the…
Victorian yachtsman Peter Davison, the owner/skipper of the Archambault 40 Arcadia, was named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year by Australian Sailing last evening. An ORCV and Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) member, Davison has successfully competed in several of…
Luke Elliott continued his fine form at the 2021 ILCA Senior European Championships, winning the only Men’s Laser class race completed on a day impacted by long delays. When the second day of races in Varna, Bulgaria did get underway…
With three weeks to go to the start of the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race, the entry list augurs the possibility of a fabulous and fascinating race. 124 yachts are currently entered, just shy of the 130-boat record set in…
After nearly two and a half years of waiting, the 50th Finn World Masters will finally take place next week at Los Alcazares on the Mar Menor in Murcia, Spain. Despite the challenges of travelling, around 120 entries from 27…
Whilst the first four competitors in the prototype category of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have now arrived in Santa Cruz de La Palma, there is still an intense battle underway throughout the remainder of the fleet still out on…
The hiatus is over – the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Caribbean 600 is back and set to start in Antigua on February 21, 2022. Early entries include teams representing a dozen different countries from around the world. The RORC Caribbean 600…
Bo Petersen has won the 2021 Art of Racing Euro Series in the OK Dinghy class, which came to a windy conclusion at the German Championship at Wismar over the long weekend of 30 September to 3 October. Sixty-six sailors…
In this Olympic Webinar Series, Ash Brunning chats to Laser Radial sailor Mara Stransky. Stransky made her Olympic debut in the Laser Radial class at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. She finished 14th at the Games with highlights include winning…
Leaders from officiating, coaching, administration and sailors themselves talk about their journeys in sailing.
Day one of 2021 ILCA European Championships saw 220 sailors from 45 nations battle it out in gusty and shifty winds. The racing in Varna, Bulgaria was a timely reminder of the intricacies of racing for the Australian Sailing Team…
Two major players in sailing have joined forces to offer shared ownership in luxury yachts out of Airlie Beach in Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands. Yacht Share Mariner and Dream Yacht Charter will offer the yacht share service under the tagline: Share…
INEOS Britannia today confirmed its core leadership team to lead the British challenge for the 37th America’s Cup live from the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team HQ in Brackley, UK. The America’s Cup is sport’s oldest international trophy, predating the modern…
This episode of the behind-the-scenes docuseries we get to know Japan SailGP Team driver Nathan Outteridge. Find out why he earned the nickname “The Wind Whisperer”, how he keeps his cool under pressure, and what coming this close to winning…
The body of a man who went swimming in Sydney Harbour on the Labour Day public holiday has been recovered by police divers. Emergency services were called to Obelisk Beach, Middle Head about 5.10pm on Monday following reports a swimmer…
Port Stephens based offshore sailor Kevin Le Poidevin and his Adelaide based co-skipper Darrell ‘Daz’ Greig, are two long serving Air Force aviators preparing themselves and their 1983 Sigma 36 Rogue Wave, to race in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart…
On Monday at 3pm UTC, Tanguy Bouroullec was the first skipper across the finish line in the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef taking competitors from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma. Bouroullec is now…
INEOS Britannia has confirmed its core leadership team to lead the British challenge for the 37th America’s Cup at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team HQ in Brackley, UK. The America’s Cup is sport’s oldest international trophy, predating the modern Olympic Games by…
The enduring, friendly rivalry between J Class duo Velsheda and Topaz will resume on October 5-9 at the famous Les Voiles de Saint Tropez regatta in the south of France. The crew of the Frank C. Paine designed, 2015 launched…
The 2021 ILCA European Championships will commence on Monday in Varna, Bulgaria. The event is a key milestone for the Australian Sailing Team (AST) and Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) athletes who have their sights firmly set on Paris 2024. Fresh…
The latest Global Solo Challenge (GSC) entrant Olivier Jehl lives in Brest, Brittany – the centre of the French offshore sailing scene. Jehl worked his way up the sailing world first by becoming an instructor for the famous Glénans sailing…
Alerted to the issuing of a severe weather warning affecting the areas of North Finisterre and South Finisterre, all but a few competitors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have taken the decision to take shelter – and for one,…
Several rival teams left the island of Menorca today, regretting small mistakes that ultimately cost them chances of lifting the TP52 class’s prestigious Royal Cup, which ultimately went to Platoon. Harm Müller Spreer’s can point to a consistent series as…
While the top four prototypes in the Mini Transat EuroChef are continuing to power along in the Portuguese trade wind offshore of Nazaré, and Cape Finisterre now in the wake of the first production boats, a large part of the…
The 44Cup returns to Italy next week for the first time since Porto Cervo in 2017, and this time the high-performance owner-driver one designs will be racing around the mainland area, at a new venue for the 2021 44Cup World…
With no racing possible due to a lack of wind off Mahon today, Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon team goes into the final day of the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week with a lead of two points. Nacho Postigo, navigator of…
Australian sailing legend Iain Murray AM has many accomplishments on his resume, but the man affectionately known as “Big Fella” can now add leading an Olympic campaign that netted two Gold medals to it. Murray has completed his contract in…
Menorca, Spain: Platoon has overtaken Alegre, and are now the overall leaders of the Menora 52 Super Series Sailing Week.
This Australian Sailing webinar features Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gold Medallist Matt Wearn. Matt brought home Australia’s third consecutive Olympic medal in the Laser class and impressively assured gold before the medal race.
Harm Müller Spreer’s Platoon crew, who won the event in 2019, took the lead at the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week after a fourth place and a race win saw them overtake Andy Soriano’s Alegre on the overall leaderboard….
While the front runners of the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet, taking competitors from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma, have negotiated Cape Finisterre and are now powering along in the Trade Winds,…
Three-time Olympic medallist in the 470 class, Mat Belcher, chatted to me from the Gold Coast, where he is winding down with his family following a successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. For Belcher, Tokyo marked the end of his 470…
Alegre has established a 10-point lead after two days of racings at the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week.
Menorca, Spain: Not since Quantum Key West Race Week in 2014 has a 52 Super Series team opened a regatta with three back-to-back race wins, but Andy Soriano’s Alegre team matched the record of Quantum Racing on Wednesday. Alegre won…
As expected, the front which swept across the Bay of Biscay last night during the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat, taking competitors from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma, whipped up some strong winds, gusting up…
Andy Soriano’s Alegre holds the lead after the first day of racing at the Menorca 52 Super Series Sailing Week, comfortably winning the only race which could be contested due to very light, shifty and unsettled northerly breezes which kept…
The France SailGP Team will have a new driver for the Spain Sail Grand Prix in Cádiz, Andalusia, following the announcement that Quentin Delapierre will be taking the helm of the team’s F50. Fresh off the back of the Tokyo…
Having left Les Sables d’Olonne on Monday afternoon in 15-20 knots winds, the 90 sailors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef saw the wind abate a few hours after the start as forecast. At that point, they began weaving their…
A weepy, funeral-like procession in midtown Manhattan and an empty champagne bottle turned upside down: two striking images from the day the US lost the America’s Cup for the first time after more than a century of dominance — exactly 38…
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