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COWES, UK – August 8, 2019 – Home town hero Dylan Fletcher and his Great Britain SailGP Team set the pace during practise racing today, placing a target on their backs ahead of their home event. The six national teams,…
MEDIA RELEAS: Doyle Sails is pleased to welcome David Armitage as the newest member of the Doyle Sails Design team, bringing added one design and performance racing expertise to the team. Hailing from the ‘City of Sails’ in Auckland, New…
A fleet of four Extreme 40 catamarans is gathering ahead of Airlie Beach Race Week, with the crews enjoying the sunshine and looking forward to close, competitive racing for the next three weeks. “We’ve waited close to four years for…
Media Release from Yachting NZ: Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox took advantage of the drama that unfolded around them at the 470 world championships in Japan today to finish second in the medal race and climb up to eighth overall….
COWES, UK– August 7, 2019 – The Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary F50, emblazoned with a giant kangaroo, set sail on the Solent, UK, for the first time today, delivering show stopping drama and a glimpse of what to expect when…
An American VO70 has continued its phenomenal winning streak to claim the Fastnet Challenge Cup, the overall prize for the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race. David and Peter Askew, aboard their VO70 Wizard, came out on top under IRC corrected time,…
Three races on race day 4 and the leader board hosts new series leaders with Mathew Belcher/Will Ryan (AUS) taking over the lead in the 470 men and Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre (GBR) in the women. Stunning track conditions delivered perfect…
Earlier today, at 6.15 pm New Zealand time, the Rescue Coordination Centre NZ (RCCNZ) were alerted to a distress call from the vessel Gwendoline 50 nautical miles west of Niue. The yacht was taking on water and sinking after hitting…
One of the tightest competitions in the 48th Rolex Fastnet Race was between the eighteen Class40 pocket offshore rockets. Like the IMOCA 60s, the world's most successful fleet of 40ft race boats (with hulls 158 and 159 soon to launch)…
All change on race day 3, Tuesday 6 August 2019, at the 2019 470 World Championships and Olympic Qualification in Enoshima, Tokyo as the breeze kicked in and the waves picked up to bring in a whole new set of…
As announced last April by the Ultim Class 32/23, on Sunday 3rd November this year, Actual Leader, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, the Trimaran MACIF and Sodebo Ultim’3 will find themselves on the starting line of a race never before…
Three young sailors from Hobart’s Sandy Bay Sailing Club have finished among the top nine placegetters in the 62-boat fleet at the International Cadet world championship which ended in Poland yesterday. Hugo Allison and James Gough finished fifth overall, just…
After the first day of competition we have four teams on equal points at the top of the leader board in Lysekil Women’s Match, the 2019 World Championship: Johanna Bergqvist, Pauline Courtois, Anna Östling and Claire Leroy all counting four…
COWES, England – August 6, 2019 – Dylan Fletcher’s Great Britain SailGP Team today achieved what no other sail racing team in the world has done, breaking the sport’s elusive 50-knot speed barrier during training ahead of Cowes SailGP. The…
From our weird and wonderful file comes this story by Basit Mamood of Metro in the UK: An ex-soldier has admitted taking a 27ft yacht on a bizarre nautical joyride. Richard Gould, 42, and his partner follow a shamanic existence…
Sebastian Bohm’s Rogers 46 Smuggler pocketed all the key trophies in the 13th Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race, redemption for three years ago when a penalty cost the crew first place on corrected time. The start of…
Organisers from Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) are thrilled to announce that entries for SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) have reached capacity before the event’s closing date; with more than a dozen boats waitlisted should space become available at ‘Maggie…
While IMOCA 60s are renowned for racing non-stop around the world in the Vendée Globe, the double-handed crews of these extraordinary space-age craft appreciate the Rolex Fastnet Race as it offers most conditions of a round the world race within…
Rambler 88 has won monohull line honours this morning, after crossing the Plymouth finish line at 09:55:02. American Owner George David and his all-star crew were delighted to have beaten their rivals on the 100-footer SHK Scallywag to the punch….
After a 1 hour postponement ashore, the 470 Women and 470 Men Yellow and Blue fleets headed out to course area Sagamiand contested two races each in the battle for 2019 470 World Championships medals and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualification….
Matt Allen’s JV 52 Ichi Ban has been declared the IRC overall winner of the inaugural Lendlease to Hamilton Island Yacht Race, none of those still at sea able to better the champion Sydney boat’s corrected time for the new…
The 32m long Ultim trimarans laid on a spectacular finish in this 48th Rolex Fastnet Race resulting in MACIF, the leader since rounding the Fastnet Rock earlier this morning, being beaten to the finish line in the last breath of…
Champion young Hobart keelboat helmsman Sam Tiedemann has been named 2018-19 Tasmanian Male Sailor of the Year, culminating a remarkable season of yacht racing. Sam’s award headed a long list of Tasmanians recognised by Australian Sailing – Tasmania for their…
The Oatley family’s Wild Oats sailing campaign has chalked up another win, this time with the Reichel Pugh 66, Wild Oats X, which finished first monohull home in the Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race. First multihull was the…
Designed in partnership by the Alex Thomson Racing team – led by Design Manager Pete Hobson – and French naval architects VPLP, the new HUGO BOSS boat is the first of its kind in the world. The product of more…
The 2019 Australian Para Sailing Championships have concluded today at Southport Yacht Club in Hollywell, Queensland. The Championships were held from Friday to Sunday August 2-4 in conjunction with an Open Regatta for inclusive classes. Ross Manning and Max Quan…
At the Zhik 29er World Championship in Gdynia, Poland, Australia’s Archie Cropley and Max Paul combined skillfully on a tough Baltic coast track to finish sixth in the open results from a starting list of 175 skiff teams. Final results…
A class win at the famous Copa del Rey Mapfre, the Mediterranean’s annual summer showcase regatta, has eluded even some of sailing’s top teams for many years, while others seem able to impose themselves year on year in their chosen…
A record fleet of 388 yachts set sail this afternoon from Cowes on the Rolex Fastnet Race, and from the outset, this 48th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's pinnacle event was unusual. Whereas in most 'normal' Fastnet Races,…
Brisbane turned on perfect conditions for the 1100hrs start of the inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race; sunshine and 12-15 knots of sou’east breeze on Queensland’s Moreton Bay setting up the first of what could be one long…
Artemis XIV (NOR 57 Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Trond Solli-Sæther) has won the 5.5 Metre World Championship in Helsinki, Finland, after a dramatic final day in which they first lost the overall lead and then reclaimed it in the thrilling…
With Saturday’s one single race left to sail at the 38 Copa del Rey Mapfre most sailors at the Mediterranean showcase would agree that the new scoring format looks set to deliver a number of high tension showdowns in the…
With just over one week to the European debut of SailGP in Cowes, the Great Britain SailGP Team was the first of the six national teams to take to the water, and sailed down to the famous Needles, the Isle…
Whether to go inshore or offshore, how long will it take, will it be a big boat or small boat race, how to handle the powerful tides and will I need an anchor and an umbrella – the answers for…
The 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race will bring together no fewer than 20 IMOCA monohulls on Saturday (including eleven foilers), at the start from Cowes in the UK with the finish in Plymouth after sailing via the Fastnet Rock in Ireland….
No racing was possible on the fourth day of the 5.5 Metre World Championship in Helsinki, Finland, with no wind on the race course, despite a healthy breeze back at the sailing base at Nyländska Jaktklubben in the centre of…
The new scoring system being employed at the 38 Copa del Rey MAPFRE started to take effect today. As the 132 boat 11 division regatta moves from its Preliminary Series to two days of Finals racing, scores are allocated by…
The Australian National Maritime Museum will open their latest exhibition Bligh – Hero or Villain? this week – the first major exhibition the Museum has created after undergoing a dramatic and stunning brand refresh. The exhibition is a radical new…
While the toughest competition in the Rolex Fastnet Race will be within the individual classes, the ultimate kudos comes from winning the Fastnet Challenge Cup, the outright prize for IRC corrected time for the world's largest offshore yacht race. The…
The Maritime Executive. By Alejandro Guzmán Woodroffe. Contrary to the version portrayed by Disney in its franchise Pirates of the Caribbean, piracy does not take place in a universe full of adventures and adrenaline. The…
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