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In contrast to the almost non-existent wind, which ruined the first day's racing in the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour last Sunday, a southerly wind of more than 25-knots today provided excellent conditions for some fast, action-packed racing…
The Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race line honours contest finished in spectacularly close fashion; four grand prix boats closing in on the finish line within 200 metres of each other in the Festival of Sails’ opening event. Two start lines…
The cheer that erupted for Bay of Islands local, Chris Hornell and his crew on the TP52 Kia Kaha at the CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week prizegiving ceremony last night, was perhaps the loudest in the event’s 17 year…
The world’s leading Olympic sailors, including 34 Olympic medallists, are preparing for the second round of the Hempel World Cup Series in Miami, Florida, USA. More than 650 sailors from 60 nations are gearing up to race on the waters…
Australia’s oldest sporting event, the Festival of Sails, put on a spectacular Australia Day party in Geelong today, as the country’s biggest celebration of sailing got off to a flying start. Thousands of visitors, including competitors from around Australia and…
The 2019 World Cup Series Miami, held out of Coconut Grove from 29 to 3 February, will see nine defending champions return to Biscayne Bay determined to defend their titles. 2019 marks the 30th edition of an Olympic sailing regatta…
Wednesday 23th January marks a next major milestone in the foiling fast development of DutchSail, the brand of the movement that Simeon Tienpont (two-time winner with Team Oracle USA, three-time Volvo Ocean Race) has started by challenging Emirates Team New…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede is now within 450 nautical miles of the Golden Globe Race finish line and expected to receive a huge welcome home in Les Sables d’Olonne on Monday 28th January. The 73-year old Frenchman and his Rustler…
The elastic between Jean-Luc Van Den Heede and Mark Slats has stretched in the Frenchman’s favour over the weekend allowing him to open up a 215-mile lead over his Dutch rival. A week ago, the difference in terms of distance…
Three champions successfully defended their divisional titles, while one new 2019 Saint Moritz by Gurner Australian Yachting Championship winner was declared after Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron rolled out a full series over three days. Light sea breezes of 5-8 knots…
With just two weeks to go until the Round Martinique Regatta begins, preparations are well underway to welcome participants and spectators, with 28 boats now registered for this 33rd edition of the regatta. The official village, the race’s focal point,…
“Good racing in good breeze from the start, with no delays”, was how Regatta Chairwoman, Manuela Gmuer-Hornell, summed up the second day of racing at CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week yesterday. “People were really happy,” she continued. “The fleets…
Montego Bay, Jamaica: With an outright speed record of 2 days, 10 hours, 24 minutes and 42 seconds, set by Tom Hill’s Titan 12 in 2005, it could fall in 2019, as the crew of one of the fastest boats…
Auckland’s Anniversary Day celebrates the founding of the province. And to commemorate the day, one of the world’s single biggest one day sailing regattas takes place each year. This year, 179 years after the first one back in 1840, spectators…
The 28th Edition of the famed Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race Week expects 150 boats, and the number of racing formats has been expanded to attract an even wider array of yachts; ranging from Grand Prix teams to family-friendly…
Sailors from the Royal Selangor Yacht Club in Port Klang, just outside Kuala Lumpur, have touched down in Geelong ahead of this weekend’s Festival of Sails. The crew of four will compete in the three-day regatta for the first time,…
The Australian Team Sailing Association is proud to announce their two major regattas for 2019 are to be hosted in Tasmania – jointly by the Sandy Bay Sailing Club and The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. Sandy Bay Sailing Club…
The annual Crown Series Bellerive Regatta on the River Derwent is known among yachties as being all about Performance Handicap (PHS) yacht racing, and keelboat owners and their crews have a great weekend of fun afloat and ashore. This year,…
With just three weeks to go before SailGP's international debut, the France SailGP Team today unveiled its boat on Sydney Harbour. The new F50 catamaran is the world's fastest and most technologically advanced race boat, and will feature prominently in…
Boats contesting the 2019 Saint Moritz by Gurner Australian Yachting Championship shifted gears on day two, with the short and sharp mode for the opening windward/leeward races replaced by stamina and picking shifts during the Port Phillip passage race. Following…
Langenargen, Dusseldorf: In 133 days, the first starting gun for the 22nd Match Race Germany, to be hosted by Yacht Club Langenargen, will be fired on Germany's oldest and best known sailing classic, attended by top teams around the world….
Elite cyclists got a taste for life at sea when around 50 professionals from around the world swapped their bikes for yachts last night for a sailing challenge on Corio Bay, Geelong ahead of this weekend’s Festival of Sails. The…
Delays didn't do much to dampen spirits on day one of CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week yesterday, as in what’s becoming fairly typical of conditions at the annual regatta, racing got underway to a slow but sunny start. With…
Newport, Rhode Island: Brazil’s Torben Grael and Denmark’s Jesper Bank, who have eight Olympic sailing medals between them, will face off in the 2019 12 Metre World Championship, joining sailing royalty from around the globe for the largest-ever gathering of…
he 2019 Australian Ton Cup has been reluctantly postponed as a result of some technical issues complicating the compliance and entry requirement which then directly contributed to entries that failed to meet expectations. The Australian Ton Cup Association in conjunction…
Day one of the 2019 Saint Moritz by Gurner Australian Yachting Championships on Victoria’s Port Phillip yielded building southerlies and plenty of summer sparkle to open the three-day national series hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron. The quality fleet put…
Held off Portland Victoria, the Taipan Catamaran Association of Australia (TCAA) celebrated its 30th birthday in style, with an outstanding National Championships run by Portland Yacht Club. Nineteen Cat Rigs, six Sloop Rigs and seven 5.7’s enjoyed magnificent conditions, with…
The stakes will be higher than ever in the 2019 eSailing World Championship as the second season was officially launched today (22 January 2018) at boot Düsseldorf in Germany. Following a successful first season, in which 169,000 eSailors from 74…
The Antigua Bermuda Race, organised by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in association with Antigua Sailing Week, will start from Fort Charlotte Antigua, just after Antigua Sailing Week on Wednesday 8th May. The 2019 Antigua Bermuda Race will be the…
At the 11th hour, the 49er class has been added to the Pan Am Games (PAG) line-up, along with additional quota places for the athletes expected to race and joins the 49erFX and Nacra 17, along with eight other disciplines….
The seven boats in the Volvo Ocean Race collected new scientific data during the nine-month fully-crewed, round the world yacht race. This helped increase scientific understanding of the impacts plastic pollution and other human activity are having on ocean health….
CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week is the biggest regatta of its kind in New Zealand and is regarded as one of the Southern Hemisphere's premier yachting events. Held over three days in the spectacular setting of the Bay of…
Australian Sailing CEO John Lee has announced that he will be leaving the organisation in March this year after leading the National sporting organisation for nearly two years and delivering a series of reforms and improvements to sailing over this…
For the first time in the history of Emirates Team New Zealand, the team has begun construction of its own America’s Cup boat in its own purpose-built boatyard on Auckland’s North Shore. Led by Emirates Team New Zealand Build Operations…
The Festival of Sails, with the support of Barwon Water, has joined an international campaign to provide ‘clean regattas’ in a bid to protect our local waters. The Festival of Sails, which starts on Saturday, has registered with the Sailors…
Another beautiful day in Goolwa on Monday greeted entrants in the 2019 Finniss River Vineyard/Coorong Quays Hindmarsh Island Goolwa Regatta Week Radio Controlled Yacht Regatta. With the start scheduled for 1400 hours, the car park and lawned area adjacent the…
On Monday 21 January at 07h45 UTC, Spindrift 2 broke her own record by just over an hour, by crossing the Equator in 4 days 19 hours 57 minutes – and this also gave the black and gold team an…
The elastic between Jean-Luc Van Den Heede and Mark Slats has stretched in the Frenchman’s favour over the weekend, allowing him to open up a 215-mile lead over his Dutch rival. A week ago, the difference in terms of distance…
The number of Challengers doubled in December – Malta Altus Challenge, Stars & Stripes Team USA and a Dutch challenge were all announced by Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron – more news on each of them below. Where will all…
What better way to start a new year than to announce an all-new, all-encompassing sailing event for Newcastle in NSW? Billed as the SAILFEST Newcastle Regatta, the event will be co-hosted by Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC) and Port Hunter…
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