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This year’s Rolex Middle Sea Race was tough, especially for the smaller boats, and at times during the 606 nautical mile expedition, gale force winds and tumultuous seas battered the fleet. Eleven teams were racing in the Double-Handed class, adding…
Long-time Sydney Hobart commentator and legendary Rugby Union caller Gordon Bray has been announced as the host of the 2021 Australian Sailing Awards. The Awards event will be delivered digitally in 2021, with all award winners being announced during a…
On Friday 29 October at 14:00 UTC, the 87 participants still competing in the 23rd edition of the Mini Transat EuroChef will take to the start line for the second leg of the event. After casting off from Santa Cruz…
The McIntyre Adventure Globe 580 Transat is the first event for the new amateur build: the plywood one design 5.80 Mini Ocean Racer. It is attracting strong interest with 165 builders in 27 countries. The first six launched from five…
Specialist marine underwriting agency RedSky Insurance have announced they will support solo sailor Lisa Blair with a generous sponsorship package and in-kind support to achieve her dream of circumnavigating Antarctica in world record time. Lisa and her yacht Climate Action…
The opening day’s racing of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2021-22 season last Sunday, produced a great result for the club’s policy of introducing talented, young sailors into the high-speed world of 18ft skiff racing on Sydney Harbour. A 10-12…
With Sydney springing back to life in October, we are grateful for the opportunity to launch the second edition of Boating Rendezvous-Sydney in Australia. It is scheduled to take place from November 12-14 at Cockle Bay Marina, Darling Harbour. It is…
Accomplished sailor Nathan Outteridge has joined Team New Zealand for the next America’s Cup campaign. The 35-year-old Australian, a two-time Olympic medallist with a strong America’s Cup history, qualifies under the strict nationality rules to be introduced for the next…
Never before has there been such a tight race between the top group of boats at the 52 Super Series, with the final to take place next week at the Bay of Palma. At stake are the Rolex TP52 World…
The 2021 Women’s Match Racing World Championship, featuring Olympic and America’s Cup champions, is set to take over Europe’s second largest artificial harbour – Cherbourg-en-Cotentin in Normandy, France – from Thursday October 28. The eight teams of four and five…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) together with the Ocean Racing Alliance (ORA) are delighted to announce a new offshore race to start on July 21 2022. The RORC Baltic Sea Race is open to boats racing under IRC, MOCRA,…
In the summer of 2021, Charlie Enright took an excursion out on his local waters of Narragansett Bay with the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation onboard the fishing vessel Christopher Andrew to learn about the problems ghost gear causes for local…
Competitors were relieved to get racing on day three of the iQFOIL European Championships in Marseille, after racing was abandoned on day two.
The 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race continues to live up to its billing as a blockbuster thriller. Over Monday night the list of finishers had lifted from seven to 18 by 0900 CEST and is now up to 31 as more…
Australian Sailing has thrown its support behind World Sailing’s campaign for sailing to be reinstated at the Paralympic Games in Los Angeles (USA) in 2028. World Sailing, the governing body for the sport of sailing, this morning announced a set…
Acclaimed Queensland ocean racing yachtsman, Graham ‘Scooter’ Eaton, will put his family first when he competes in Southport Yacht Club’s Qoin Sail Paradise Regatta in January. The reason is simple; his yacht – the famous 23m long aluminium sloop, Bumblebee…
Many cruising yachties have mentioned that they have cleaned a beach but they couldn’t take the debris with them and didn’t know who to contact. Well now there is a way to handle this scenario and it’s quick and easy. …
Cagliari, Italy: The Youth Foiling Gold Cup has ramped up a gear with the start of the knockouts, a series of direct eliminations that the teams must face over the coming days in order to secure a place in the…
Building on 10 years of sponsorships focused on the power of sport to create change, 11th Hour Racing announced today its support of the 2021 Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre as an official partner of the race. 11th Hour Racing will…
Despite little to no wind, fun was had on day two of the iQFOIL European Championships in Marseille, France.
SailGP Moments is a new series where we are breaking down defining moments on the racecourse with commentator Stevie Morrison. First up Stevie analyses the France Sail Grand Prix in Saint-Tropez, including close calls, collisions and exactly how the Japan…
With seven yachts in harbour, and no more expected until much later tonight (Monday) or the early hours of Tuesday, one might be excused for thinking the Rolex Middle Sea Race is over. Far from it. Close to 100 yachts…
British sailor Alex Thomson has announced he won’t compete as a skipper in the 2024 Vendée Globe, the solo, non-stop race around-the-world, but doesn’t rule out returning to the race in 2028. Thomson has competed in the IMOCA circuit for 19 years including five successive Vendée Globe’s with two podium…
From racy runabouts to luxury liners: the Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show shores up its status as the hottest ticket in town when it returns from 19 – 22 May 2022. Applications for new and returning exhibitors are now open…
Cagliari, Italy: With five races held on Monday, eight flights have been completed and the five qualifying days of Youth Foiling Gold Cup, Act 3, have drawn to a close. The fleet was called onto the water shortly after 10…
This year the Navy One crew will look to defend the Oggin Cup, which is awarded to the first Armed Services yacht on corrected time in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. By CYCA
One of the highlights in the international yachting calendar, the annual Rolex Middle Sea Race commenced on Saturday from Grand Harbour, Valletta. Organised by the Royal Malta Yacht Club and partnered by Rolex since 2002, the 606-nautical mile (975 kilometre)…
Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo (USA) crossed the finish line of the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 20:39:28 CEST on Sunday October 24 to take Multihull Line Honours in an elapsed time of 33 hours 29 minutes 28 seconds. Argo has smashed both the existing multihull record of…
The Australian 18 Footers League’s 2021-2022 18ft skiff racing season began on Sydney Harbour yesterday, when the Club staged races one and two of the annual seven-race Spring Championship series. In ideal 10-12 knot SE winds, the day was a triumph…
A top racing yacht from the Royal Cork Yacht Club was washed onto the rocks in Cork Harbour, Ireland, after a Mayday emergency incident on the final day of racing in the Club’s Autumn League. All crew are reported safe. For the full story,…
With a final race sailed on Saturday, Girls on Film, sailed by Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey and Ben Cornish, has retained the 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Circolo Vela Torbole, which they also won in 2019, the 2020 event cancelled…
The International Finn Class and Fragila Vela Malcesine are pleased to announce that the 2022 Finn Gold Cup will be held at Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy, from 15-21 May. Following its exclusion from the Olympic Games, the Finn class…
Introducing Apelo underwater lighting from Hella marine, featuring Edge Light technology and Optical Intelligence for superior brilliance, and advanced materials that offer maximum durability. The Apelo range comprises of three models offering 1,800 or 3,000 lumens of underwater illumination in…
Peter Morton’s Girls on Film (GBR) crewed by Peter Morton/Andrew Palfrey/Ben Cornish, has taken the lead at the 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Circolo Vela Torbole on Lake Garda, after three more races were sailed on Friday local time. John…
With 114 boats scheduled to cross the start line of the 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race, tomorrow, Saturday 23 October, offshore yacht racing fans are in for a real treat, as the Royal Malta Yacht Club has once again attracted…
The SAEM Vendee, the organising entity behind the Vendee Globe, has published the Notice of Race, detailing the rules for competing in the 10th edition of the Vendee Globe. Applications for the Vendee Globe 2024 will open on Monday February…
For the first time in France, all 10 Olympic classes to be contested at the Paris Games will be on show at the Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères, which returns to the calendar in April 2022 following a hiatus due…
During the latest edition of Salone del Mobile in Milan, Giovanni Pomati, Nautor Group CEO, and Lucio Micheletti, Designer, met at Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia to share their ideas about their design choices for living well on a…
The 5.5 Metre Alpen Cup at Circolo Vela Torbole, on Lake Garda, Italy, is normally the opening event of the season, but it has been cancelled the last two years because of COVID. However, this year the club kindly offered…
When I spoke to Kristina Costalos on the phone from my home ‘office’ mid-Sydney lockdown (the closest body of water to me is the Cooks River in Sydney’s south-west) she was cutting up fruit on a 50ft yacht at anchor…
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