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The message to politicians is clear – keep your grubby hands off our boats! A proposed boat tax by a County in Virginia in the USA has failed after a strong backlash. Let's hope politicians around the world – who…
Melbourne Australia. February 28, 2020. It may have been a case of “saved by the wind” for Rio Olympic champion, Marit Bouwmeester. The three-time world champion led by 24 points over night but saw her margin trimmed to just two…
Day 3, 26 February 2020, Antigua. Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay (CAY), skippered by Ned Collier Wakefield has taken Multihull Line Honours in the 2020 RORC Caribbean 600 just four minutes ahead of Jason Carroll's MOD70 Argo (USA). Giovanni Soldini's Maserati…
Matt Allen's Ichi Ban continued its winning ways with another division one IRC win today, solidifying their position on the top of the tables going into the final day of racing. Geoff Boettcher's Secret Men's Business finds itself still in…
LONDON – February 26, 2020 – With all eyes on Sydney as SailGP returns this week, the global championship today announced comprehensive broadcast coverage for the start of Season 2, which will feature the most immersive, multi-platform experience the sport has…
At Double Bay Sailing Club this morning, Ian Chesterton, Chef de Mission for the Australian Olympic Team, announced four more sailing athletes are bound for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, to be held from 24 July to 9 August. Tess…
Ocean Crusaders spend our entire working life removing debris from waterways across Australia. In an 11 day clean up recently of the Cooks River in Sydney, we removed an astounding 13.8 tonnes of debris. The fact we probably missed 95%…
Melbourne Australia, February 27, 2020. Rio Olympic Champion, Marit Bouwmeester (NED), is putting on a sailing masterclass at the ILCA Laser Radial World Championship in Melbourne. She had a hiccup in Race 8 when a massive wind shift caught her…
Matt Allen's Ichi Ban has held off a fast finishing Secret Men's Business to clinch its second Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta in a row. Geoff Boettcher and the Secret Men's Business team won the first of two races on…
Matt Allen's Ichi Ban has added another picket to its Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta score, giving them the edge over rivals Secret Men's Business as we head into the second half of the event. The traditional Teakle Classic Lincoln…
London, Tuesday 24th February: The Race Around has today confirmed the first competitor campaigning to be on the start line of Class40s new around the world race. Having spend a decade on the Multi50 “Arkema”, Lalou Roucayrol embarks on a new adventure…
February 25, 2020 – Three days out from the eagerly anticipated first event of SailGP Season 2 in Sydney and the Great Britain SailGP Team, presented by INEOS, are ready to race. Helmed by the world’s most successful Olympic…
After a sublime start and a reach up to Barbuda in beautiful conditions, the majority of the fleet experienced the first trap of the course. Just before sunset on the first day, the wind shadow of Barbuda enveloped the armada….
The Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR), hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) each year, has deservedly earnt the reputation of being the largest all-women keelboat regatta in the world, with numbers in this 30th edition having the potential to…
Townsville Yacht Club is set to open entry for SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) on 1 March, and rather than risk missing out as some did last year, many fingers are poised, ready to click the online entry button. …
Bloomberg. By Eben Novy-Williams As the International Olympic Committee looks ahead to the Summer Games with trepidation, it does have something that could cushion the blow in case of cancellation: a $897 million ($AUD 1.33 billion) reserve fund to help…
Will the three-boat Queensland team of young sailors coming to the 2020 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour next month (14-22 March), lead to a stronger challenge by the northern Australian State’s once mighty record of development and…
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has had significant interest from yacht clubs all over the globe, entering teams into the revamped 2021 Youth America’s Cup. With the initial entry period closing Saturday 29th February, the RNZYS can confirm that…
Melbourne Australia. February 25, 2020 With all six qualifying races completed, the three pre-event favourites have established a clear lead at the 2020 ILCA Laser Radial World Championships being sailed at Sandringham in Melbourne. Rio Olympic champion, silver medallist at…
Close and competitive sailing was on the menu for the first day of the Teakle Classic Lincoln Week Regatta, with a mix of results across the four divisions. The day greeted sailors with a fickle outlook early on as the…
Antigua 24 February: Sparkling conditions prevailed for the start of the 12th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. The impressive 73-boat fleet gathered outside Antigua's English Harbour, relishing the prospect of racing 600nm…
Having spent the last five years living onboard Leventeia, a Beneteau Oceanis 43, having a great time sailing from Gibraltar to Turkey, we decided to join five other boats to cruise in company through the Red Sea and out into…
In May Port Douglas Yacht Club will host 2020 Quicksilver Port Douglas Race Week “Racing the winds of paradise for the Clipper Cup”. The regatta is to be staged over five days starting on Tuesday May 19 and concluding Saturday…
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…
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