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Melbourne Australia. February 25, 2020: The weather played havoc again at the ILCA Laser Radial World Championships in Melbourne today. Two attempts were made to get Yellow Fleet started shortly after 2pm but a series of rolling thunderstorms, accompanied by…
Conditions on Day One of the ILCA Laser Radial World Championships were difficult for sailors and race committee alike. Winds that were shifting between 30 and 50 degrees at times caused Blue Fleet's first race to be abandoned at the…
When 81-year-old Bill Hatfield sailed through the Southport Channel into the Gold Coast waterway, he had finally achieved his dream of sailing solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. It had taken him 295 days and was all the more…
On the 15th March, RFS Firefighters and their families will be arriving at the following hubs around Australia, beginning with a welcome BBQ, and then a great time on the water. Middle Harbour Yacht Club, Sydney HarbourCruising Yacht Club of…
Winnipeg Free Press. By: Doug Speirs It may not rival the legendary Flying Dutchman, but the MV Alta is a ghost ship all the same. The 77-metre “ghost” cargo ship made headlines around the world when it ran aground on rocks…
Melbourne, Australia. February 24, 2020 Light and variable winds again caused havoc at the 2020 ILCA Laser Radial World Championship being sailed out of Sandringham Yacht Club in Melbourne. For the second day in a row, only one race was…
David Griffith’s JV62, Chinese Whisper, has set a new record in the 2020 Teakle Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race on Saturday morning, finishing at 1:34:17 hours in the time of 10 hours, 34 minutes, 17 seconds. Chinese Whisper…
It was a no-start first day of the NSW Championship, with PRO Phil Yeomans giving skippers options at the morning briefing to either bob around waiting for breeze offshore or bob around waiting for breeze inside Sydney Harbour – and…
Melbourne, Australia. February 23, 2020. After a day of light and fluky conditions in which only one race could be sailed at the ILCA Laser Radial Women’s World Championship, defending titleholder Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN) took first place in Yellow Fleet…
The defending champion Shaw & Partners Financial Services team of James Dorron, Harry Bethwaite and Steve Thomas (replacing Tim Westwood on the day) led all the way against a strong fleet to score a clear victory in Race 8 of…
London: Just ahead of the start of its second season, SailGP today launched Winning the Race, an ambitious plan to reach zero carbon by 2025, and the bold target puts the global league at the forefront of the industry in…
Giovanni Soldini and the Maserati Multi 70 arrived in Antigua, in the Caribbean, ready for the 12th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, which will start on 24 February at 11.30am local time from Fort Charlotte. For this edition the…
Business News Australia As part of its commitment to developing The Spit on the Gold Coast the Queensland Government has announced it will provide $2 million to help deliver a new superyacht berth. The funding is a part of the…
Trade Winds By Gary Dixon A UK ferry smashed into a yacht before grounding after its master became disorientated in poor visibility and steered the ship in the wrong direction. The accident happened on the morning of 21 October 2018 in…
The brightening dawn spread pink-tinged fingers in the Easter sky, throwing the mountains of mainland Greece into violet silhouette: leaving the crags, cliffs and defiles etched in darker hues. The brilliance of the coming sunrise gathered momentum as its gold-stitched…
Adelaide-based race yacht Aikin Hames Sharley will have a crack at redemption today when it competes in the Teakle Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race – its first event since being ruled out of the 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart…
Melbourne Australia. February 21, 2020. All three medallists from the Rio Olympics will take to the water off Sandringham Yacht Club to compete in the ILCA Laser Radial Women’s Championship which starts on Sunday. They head a star-studded field of…
Transport for NSW Media Release 21 FEBRUARY 2020 NSW Maritime Executive Director Maritime Mark Hutchings today reassured the community recovery efforts on the NSW waterway network are well under way. “The size of the job is considerable in re-establishing the…
The IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran sailed by Francis Joyon, Bertrand Delesne, Christophe Houdet, Antoine Blouet and Corentin Joyon, set a new record for the Tea Route between Hong Kong and London this morning (Wednesday 19th February 2020). The new reference…
February 7, 2020 – The Great Britain SailGP Team, presented by INEOS, has revealed its full team line-up ahead of the SailGP Season 2 opener in Sydney on 28-29 February. The new look race crew has a wealth of talent…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 18 February 2020 – The Denmark SailGP Team unveiled its supercharged F50 catamaran in Sydney on Tuesday, as preparations for the first SailGP race of Season 2 gather pace. The Danish crew will join six other nations on…
Francis Joyon and the crew of the IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran are expected to cross the finishing line for the Tea Route between Hong Kong and London tomorrow morning (Wednesday) between 7 and 9 a.m. After 32 days at sea,…
SYDNEY – February 19, 2020 – SailGP champion Australia – led by Olympic hero Tom Slingsby – launched its 2,400kg supercharged F50 into Sydney Harbour for the team’s first official training session on Wednesday, kicking off a grueling training schedule…
Rapido Trimarans has appointed Multihull Solutions as the Asia Pacific dealer for its range of ocean-cruising trimarans. The Rapido Trimarans range, comprising the Rapido 60, 50 and 40, are receiving international acclaim for their remarkable speed, performance and value. Designed…
The Maritime Executive A drifting vessel that the U.S. Coast Guard evacuated in October 2018 has run ground on the shores of County Cork, Ireland, with no one on board. The 1976-built cargo ship Alta was disabled in the mid-Atlantic…
By The Maritime Executive 02-17-2020 01:03:54 The director of Wellington-based Megisti Sailing Charters, Timothy James Newman, has been fined NZ$2,500 ($1,600) for being asleep at the wheel of the catamaran MV Megisti when it collided with the Port Howard Wharf…
The Australian SailGP team were the first out on Sydney Harbour today (Wednesday 19th February) for the first training session before the second season begins on the 28-29 Feb. The night before was surreal, with the city of Sydney hunkered down…
Less than 900 miles from the finish of the Tea Route record in London, the IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran continues to extend her lead over the record holder, Giovanni Soldini’s trimaran, Maserati, sailed by an Italian crew. Francis Joyon, Christophe…
We all want to share our onboard adventures with family and friends. E-mails, photos and blogs are a great way to stay connected but can often fall short capturing the whole sailing experience. In my opinion the only way to…
Two spectacular wins by Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Trent Barnabas on Tech2 in Races 6 and 7 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today has given the team a nine points lead in the series with…
This morning (Sunday), Francis Joyon and the crew of IDEC SPORT reached the Portuguese islands of the Azores. They are passing through the middle of the islands between Flores and Faial. Since yesterday, the maxi-trimaran has been back in conditions…
Many people learn to sail to go cruising in great places but if you can extend your learning while cruising in a great place then you have the opportunity to combine the two in a great experience. This is the…
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke from New Zealand dazzled to win another 49er world championship, the sixth for the magic combo, which is a class record and two more than a pair of Australians – Chris Nicholson and more recently,…
WTC Logistics has won its first podium after finishing Race 6 of the Clipper Round the World Race, The Sanya Tropical Paradise in dramatic fashion when her crew found the overtaking lane – and used it. Skippered by Rich Gould,…
The Tea Route, which Francis Joyon and the crew of the IDEC Sport maxi-trimaran are following (ETA in London on Wednesday), is the basis of an ocean record dating back to the 10th Century. At that time, the big American…
The Maritime Executive By Tony Munoz 02-13-2020 05:34:27 (Article originally published in Nov/Dec 2019 edition.) From 1900 to 2017, 197 hurricanes made landfall in the U.S. causing about $2 trillion in damages or roughly $17 billion per year. The…
Melbourne Australia. Feb 16, 2020: Philipp Buhl dominates 2020 Laser Standard World Championship German Laser sailor Philipp Buhl put together an exemplary scorecard to win the 2020 ILCA Standard Men’s World Championship by 12 points. Buhl recorded four straight wins…
Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) members, Peter Byford and David Hudson, have been crowned the 2020 Sydney 38 One-Design Australian Champions following a three-day battle over nine races at Pittwater in Sydney. Class President Byford and Hudson, co-owners of…
With no racing on Friday February 14 due to summer storms that wreaked havoc with the breeze, Saturday’s final day of the 49er, 49er and Nacra 17 2020 World Championship on Corio Bay in Geelong has been decided. Schedule: Two…
The Notice of Race for the three remaining 2020 SAILING Champions League – Asia Pacific events are now online. The events are: SCL-Asia Pacific: Qualifier 2 (north) at Hunters Hill SC (14/15 March), SCL-Asia Pacific: FINAL at Royal Sydney Yacht…
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