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World Sailing, supported by Virtual Regatta, the leading digital sailing platform, have partnered with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to join the Olympic Virtual Series (OVS). Olympic Virtual Series The first ever Olympic-licensed event for physical and non-physical virtual sports…
The final piece of an important puzzle has been put in place today, with Australian Sailing announcing the appointment of performance development specialist Ken Lynch to the role of National Performance Pathway Manager. Lynch will be charged with leading the…
Having not lined up since November 2019, 44Cup competition resumed today for the high performance owner-driver one designs, with three races successfully held on the Bay of Piran. These started in a 6 knots and built to 12 over the…
With its light start, brilliant sunshine, and the ancient town of Piran with its still snowcapped Slovenian Alps as a backdrop, the day could not have been better for the 44Cup fleet to blow away any cobwebs after such a…
This morning the fleet of 62 boats competing in the ORC European Championship took to the race course located 4 miles off Capri’s Marina Grande. Conditions were somewhat more stable than yesterday, with about 10 to 12 knots of breeze…
The Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race has reached a milestone, with the 50th entrant – Kevin Whelan and his Beneteau 45F5 Reve – representing the host club in the annual race from Sydney Harbour to Gold Coast. The Cruising…
The 2021 Australian Superyacht, Marine Export and Commercial Industry (ASMEX) conference held at Sanctuary Cove on Tuesday May 18 successfully delivered a diverse and dynamic cross section of speakers and session topics on the Australian marine industry. Now in its…
The Ocean Race, the world’s toughest test of a team in sport, will host a high-level Summit on 16th June to help drive new and improved policies to tackle some of the most urgent issues facing our blue planet. The…
Mercury Marine is proud to announce that Brisbane Marine in Queensland has earned the title of Mercury Marine’s Australian Dealer of the Year for 2020. Brisbane Marine prides itself on being a one-stop marine experience offering sales of boats, outboard…
Simon Torvaldsen is having a real blast in his JPK 10.80, ‘Atomic Blonde’, winning the prestigious Siska Trophy as the best performing yacht on IRC Overall during Western Australia’s 20/21 season. The Siska Trophy is based on the overall handicap…
Two of Australia’s fastest men on water; maritime marvels who have been quite comfortable while travelling at more than 130 knots, will go head-to-head in August at Australia’s premier yachting regatta, Hamilton Island Race Week. This time, though, their circumstances…
Following a few days training here in Slovenia, owners and crews of the eight RC44s are now back in the saddle and ready for tomorrow’s start of the 44Cup Portorož. The last time the 44Cup fleet raced was in Palma…
The first edition of The Ocean Race Europe, scheduled to start on May 29 from the Lorient, France, has partnered with Quirónprevención of the Quirónsalud group for the design and implementation of a strict Covid-19 prevention protocol. A multidisciplinary team…
New Zealand’s packed summers of superyacht racing are set to continue with entry open and the release of the 2022 NZ Millennium Cup Notice of Race Four superyacht owners have already declared their interest in racing in the world’s longest-standing…
The Boating Industry Association joined with TAFE NSW recently to deliver the Green Light Day webinar as a promotion of skills, training, and career opportunities in the marine industry. BIA and TAFE used the webinar to showcase job opportunities and…
Five years ago we were at a remote Pacific island with just a few other yachts. There was socialising ashore and chatter on the VHF. This year we sailed to another remote island: Lord Howe. It was an easy 470…
In this video, Shaun Priestley demonstrates some of the key settings for your sail controls when sailing downwind in medium winds. For this example, we are looking at wind speeds between 8 to 15 knots. RYA – http://www.rya.org.uk
Three months out from the start of the prestigious race, the team this week returned their IMOCA 60 yacht, HUGO BOSS, to the water, with training set to commence in the coming days. “The boat has had a full inspection,…
After a successful 2020 event in late October last year, a fleet of 38 women and 69 men for a total of 107 windsurfers gathered on Lake Garda for the 2021 iQFOiL International Games hosted by Univela Sailing in Campione…
Rolex Capri Sailing Week 2021 The first day of mark racing got underway today in ORC European Championship 2021 with a fleet of 62 hulls from 12 different nations taking to the waters off Capri this morning to do battle…
A UK man who entered Australian waters on a yacht he sailed from Tahiti has been rescued and placed in hotel quarantine after his vessel sank in rough seas off the coast of Newcastle. A gruelling 26-hour operation ended in…
Australian Brian Pattinson from Melbourne Australia is an extremely experienced skipper with over 500 thousand miles of sailing and racing double or single-handed to his account. He is used to sail in the treacherous waters of the Bass Strait and…
24 boats and over 140 sailors had eagerly waited for the 2021 Beneteau Pittwater Cup. Its arrival brought welcome sun, and much lighter breezes, raising the hopes for yet another brilliant event. There have been 20 of them, in fact,…
From FRIDAY 21st MAY to SUNDAY 30th MAYHeld over a 10-day period across two separate events – one in the Northern and the other in the Southern Hemisphere – the festival will bring together sailing communities from all backgrounds, with…
We are seeking a talented journalist and sailor for Mysailing.com.au. You will be expected to publish a large volume of news and feature content received by the site daily. You will work closely with a wide range of sources to…
Entries are now flowing in for both the Sunshine Coast Ocean Regatta and its feeder race Brisbane to Sunshine Coast. SCYC Members and their families are excited about welcoming this year’s fleet of competing yachts on the Sunshine Coast. The…
High performance racing with the Royal Ocean Racing Club is back with the Vice Admiral’s Cup taking place in the Solent from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd May and over 50 teams have taken up the challenge for 2021. The…
The newly implemented air travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand, combined with an existing sea border exemption for vessels, means New Zealand is now open to business for cruising yachts and superyachts coming from Australia. The yachts can visit…
The new IMOCA rule, which will be applicable from 2022 to 2025, was voted on at the class association’s general assembly on April 15. To understand the main developments, Tip & Shaft interviewed the class president, Antoine Mermod. Also interviewed…
The Port of Eden is set to become a safe small boat harbour, with construction of a wave wall to begin this year. Member for Bega, Andrew Constance, confirmed Austral Construction has been awarded the tender for the project, which…
With just two points separating the leader, Realteam and second-placed Alinghi, there was the potential for an exciting showdown at the TF35 Nyon in Switzerland, but the weather decided otherwise, and racing cancelled, Realteam prevailed. Looking at the forecast overnight,…
British skipper Pip Hare and her sponsors, Medallia, have confirmed they are the new owners of the IMOCA Bureau Vallée 2, which Louis Burton sailed to third place on the last Vendée Globe, and which Armel Le Cléac’h sailed to…
I had not been in control of a boat since I was 16 years old. Sure, that is not exactly true. We hired a tinny on the Sunshine Coast with the view to catching a fish. Fortunately, no fish were…
While on day one there was no stand-out team, today Esteban Garcia’s Realteam Sailing, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, had the bit between her teeth, posting an almost perfect 1 1 2 1 scoreline. Race 1 got underway in a steady…
Every new MC38 team knows it takes a season or two to get a handle on the nuances of the slippery one design keelboat, and usually much longer to climb past the class stalwarts – a couple of them with…
London landmark, run aground by lost revenue and a big repair bill, supplied Shackleton and Everest climbers. Next month, Arthur Beale Ltd., a nearly 500-year-old business that sells maritime supplies from central London, is set to close a store famed…
In this video, Shaun Priestley demonstrates some of the key settings for your sail controls when sailing upwind in medium winds. For this example, we are looking at wind speeds between 8 to 15 knots. RYA – http://www.rya.org.uk
As well as beating Australia to win the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess, Great Britain also dealt a further blow to the Aussies by breaking their SailGP racing speed record. Tom Slingsby’s team had held the F50…
After a break the 2021 GC32 Racing Tour will once again see top foiling catamaran competition between some of the world’s top professional teams as well as owner drivers kicking off in Lagos, Portugal at the end of June.
World Sailing’s Council have approved the Men’s and Women’s Kiteboarding (Formula Kite) and Men’s and Women’s Two Person Dinghy (470) as the first and second alternative event proposals to Mixed Offshore at Paris 2024 following their meeting at the 2021…
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