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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021 | SailGP
This International Women’s Day we celebrate the incredible female athletes from all over the world who participated in our recent invitational camps. They may have thought they were learning from us, but in reality we were learning from them. Learning…
71st JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship – Race 2 – 07/03/2021
71st JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship – Race 1 – 06/03/2021
71st JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship – Invitation Race – 05/03/2021
#37 | Off Watch – Abby Ehler: More than a sailor
Abby Ehler has sailed in The Ocean Race three-times and is a seasoned boat captain dealing with repairs in less than ideal circumstances. As a woman working at the top of the sport of sailing both on and off the…
‘Fighting Spirit’ Alexia Barrier finishes 24th in the Vendée Globe on TSE – 4myplanet
On a perfect Sunday morning, 28th February, at 06 23 44 hrs UTC French skipper Alexia Barrier crossed the finish line of the ninth Vendée Globe off Les Sables d’Olonne to finish her race in 24th position of the 33…
STARTING BASICS – Connect to Coaching – Coaching the fundamentals of a dinghy race start
This episode we focus on coaching the fundamentals of a start, who are you coaching , what are you coaching and how is it coached?
START LINE TRANSITS – Connect to Coaching – Help Sailors sight a line transit and judge position
This episode we focus on the start line transit, we will look at activities a coach can use to help sailors sight a line transit and judge a position on a start line.
LEEWARD MARK ROUNDING – Connect to Coaching – Help sailors make good strategic decisions
This episode we look at ideas for coaches on how to support sailors to develop strategic competencies to make good choices as they approach round and exit a leeward mark.
Australian Sailing Team takes aim at plastic pollution
The Australian Sailing Team (AST) is proud to announce our new partnership with Cheeki, an Australian brand of stainless steel water bottles and lifestyle products which will become the Team’s official hydration supplier. The company ticked two major boxes for…
18ft Skiff Supercup goes to Winning Group
Several past 18ft Skiff champions returned to the class on Friday when they skippered boats from the Australian 18 Footers League's 2020-2021 Season fleet in the annual 'Supercup' series on Sydney Harbour. A 12-16 knot south-east breeze allowed each team…
Lion-hearted Sam Davies completes her Vendee Globe
Forced to abandon her race on 5 December following a violent collision with a floating object south of Cape Town two days earlier, Sam Davies has sailed back into Les Sables d’Olonne in beautiful spring sunshine to complete an inspirational…
Sailing World on Water February 26.21 Sir Ben Is Upset, 12 Metre Beauty, ETNZ, Angry Ainslie- more
These are some of the highlights in the sport of Sailing Globally, in the last seven days. The PRADA Cup Day 3 Action, and INEOS Team UK live to fight another day. For all you traditionalists, here are the beautiful…
36th America’s Cup Start Postponed Feb 28.21
Due to the NZ Government legislating a 7 day shut-down due to the pandemic the America’s Cup Events (ACE) Authority has postponed the start of the 36th America’s Cup between the Italian Challengers and Defender Emirates Team New Zealand. Keep…
Lesson for all of us: Plan, Prepare, Practise
In a frustrating but ultimately happy outcome, media outlet Stuff New Zealand reports how a distress call made in a hurry and not monitored by the sender led Maritime NZ on a wild goose chase, 80 nautical miles further south…
Two to come while non-ranked sailors still finishing
Franco German skipper Isabelle Joschke was rewarded with beautiful spring sunshine and a big, warm and affectionate welcome back to the Les Sables d’Olonne channel today after completing her solo circumnavigation without a final Vendée Globe ranking. Joshcke was forced out of…
Put females on the helm
Why do we keep trying (and failing) in getting gender equality in elite sailing? Answer: we don’t put females on the helm in the big races there is a perception that females aren’t as good mentally owners and sponsors don’t…
Walk on through electric avenue with Elan
Sailing was never about motoring, never about engine speed: it is about connection to nature, the serenity of the sea and the challenge. So why not get rid of the dirty and loud diesel engine and simply exchange it for…
Superyacht Cup: one European regatta determined to go ahead
With an encouraging level of interest from owners and skippers, organisers are optimistic the 25th anniversary of Europe’s longest-running superyacht regatta will attract a competitive range of entries. Organisers have put the focus firmly on the racing in the Bay…
Tasmania's Parade of Sail goes off without a hitch
The team at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart were ecstatic about finally getting some classic wooden boats out on the Derwent River: “Now that we have returned our wooden boats to port, we have had a chance to…
Head north to Hamilton Island for Australian Yachting Championships
Australian Sailing has confirmed that the Australian Yachting Championships will be returning to Hamilton Island for the next two years. The 2021 and 2022 editions of the event will be hosted by Hamilton Island Yacht Club (HIYC) as a part…
Four weeks later, yet every Vendee finisher still has a story
Nearly every Vendée Globe, including this ninth edition, has delivered a sting in the tail of one sort or another to unfortunate solo skippers. While the most damaging this time was Boris Herrmann’s collision with a Spanish fishing boat just…
Prada Cup fizzle? 7:1, what's next?
In an expectant hope that Sir Ben Ainslie could inflict the same pain on James Spithill that Spithill inflicted on Dean Barker way back in 2013, it turns out Britannia sadly lacked the speeds in the light airs plus the Ineos…
How well are big waves depicted in movies?
Disaster movies that include monster waves are a sure fire box office winner; from the Poseidon Adventure to Perfect Storm to Day After Tomorrow. Some of them are good, some of them are bad; remember Pierce Brosnan kite surfing down…
If you can't get to a boat show – let the boat show come to you
For only fiveUS dollars an entry fee the Worldwide Classic Boat Show is designed to bring the world of classic boats to life onscreen. You are able to travel all over the world to see many of the finest classic…
Prada Cup Final Day 3: A win to the Brits but Italians in control
The Prada Cup Final is not done and dusted yet, and with INEOS TEAM UK marking its first point on the scoreboard, there may still a long way to go. In the first race of the day, Luna Rossa Prada…
Manuel Cousin home 23rd in Vendée Globe
'You have to live your dreams, not dream your life away' – was the maxim that drove Manuel Cousin to leave his life as an executive selling forklift trucks to major accounts with Toyota, to move from his native Normandy…
Australian Championship Race 9 – 21/02/2021
11th Hour Racing Team's IMOCA 60 boat build
11th Hour Racing Team began planning the build of its new IMOCA 60 in June 2019, before the team had even announced its plans to be entering a team in the world's longest sporting event – The Ocean Race 2022-23….
Victorian Youth Champs Head to Royal Yacht Club of Victoria
Victoria’s most talented youth sailors will descend on the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria in April for the return of the Victorian Youth Championships and Coaching Clinic. Running from 15-18 April, the event will be made up of a two-day…
Vendee Globe feature on SBS today
Those fans who missed catching seeing the action of the 2020 Vendee Globe can get their fill in an hour-long feature of the highlights on SBS TV at 3.30pm today. The Vendee Globe, which starts and ends in Les Sables-d’Olonne,…
Sailing World on Water Feb 19.21 18 Footer Capsize, ACE v COR The Fight, Skiffs at speed
Highlights of what happened globally in the sport of Sailing in the last 7 days. Chaos on Sydney Harbour brings the 18’s undone. It’s “swim-time”. The Americas Cup Events Committee and the Challenger of Record clash over race dates as…
Prada Cup is go – tomorrow
Prada Cup final will resume on Saturday 20th of February NZT. Race 5 will see Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli facing Ineos Team UK Britannia, the race will start from 4:00PM local time weather permitting, 2:00pm Sydney time. Race 5 and…
Tapper tops Hardy Match Racing Challenge
After a week of tight racing, Finn Tapper of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia prevailed to win the 2021 Hardy Cup, held at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Teams gathered at the Squadron to celebrate the week’s racing and…
Maritime Trail in lieu of wooden boat fest sponsored by ATL
Instead of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart this year, the organisation will host the Maritime Trail, showcasing the rich maritime heritage and culture within Tasmania. History comes alive during the 2021 Maritime Trail, 10 and 11 April 2021,…
#36 | Off Watch – From Whitbread races to ice adventures with Skip Novak
This week we take a wonderful journey back to the Whitbread years, and also to some extremely cold climates with legend of The Ocean Race Skip Novak. Skip competed in four editions of the Whitbread Round the World Race before…
So it is on, but not yet – or will it?
Following the press release yesterday from America’s Cup Event Ltd (ACE) that Prada Cup racing would continue to be postponed until the New Zealand government announced Covid-19 alert levels are at level one, the responses from the two competitor teams caused a…
Lighter, stronger, safer hiking pads from Zhik
Zhik’s PowerPads have been re-engineered, to create a light, carbon fibre hiking pad, providing improved leg support as well as integral flexion for movement around the boat. In a collaboration with flexible carbon fibre experts Carbitex, the internal carbon pads use…
So, is it on or is it not?
In a 500 word press release online, the America's Cup Event (ACE) people have managed to give no clear indication of what is going to happen. What appears to have been written by lawyers and public relations people the press release uses…
