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When the David Lyons-designed 40-footer, then named Micropay Cuckoos Nest, won the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on corrected time she had to survive a galeforce battering in the Tasman Sea. This weekend’s Maria Island Race looks far more benign for…
Following initial reports that Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss had grounded on rocks during the final miles of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe and while leading the IMOCA class, Race Direction has contacted the British skipper to check his status. They…
The new ZK Seaboot 900 is a product created as a direct result of Zhik’s partnership with team AkzoNobel and the Dongfeng Race Team, overall winners of the recent Volvo Ocean Race. Designed for serious, long distance offshore racers and…
An international gathering of foiling boat and board classes, racing in the Caribbean, in November: What better formula could there be for a modern day sailing regatta? This is exactly what Sirius Events have created with their brand new Martinique…
The story of the Finn class has been, and will always be, the greatest sailing story in the history of the Olympics. But, after 18 Olympic Games, it would seem the Finn is no longer required, effectively excluding the best…
It will soon be coming to an end for the leading IMOCA. Ruling supreme, Alex Thomson has kept a good lead over his closest rivals. Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès are fighting it out to make it to…
Plymouth City Council and the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) have confirmed that Plymouth will host the finish of the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race. Plymouth has marked the end of the biennial yacht race since its inception in 1925. Starting…
NEWPORT, R.I. – For Joe Mele, a 55-year-old retired doctor of internal medicine in New York City and fantastical stunt diver, ocean racing is about more than the competition. “I love the fact that it's not just a race, but…
A national “come-and-try” initiative run by the Australian Sharpie class last weekend has given hundreds of kids around Australia a look into their sailing futures, after clubs across the country got behind the National Kids in Sharpies Weekend. Clubs in…
Lisa Blair is attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate Australia solo, non-stop and unassisted. She is currently off the north-west coast of Western Australia, where she had an unexoected encounter with Indonesian fishing vessels. Here is her latest…
Armel Tripon, the runaway leader in the Multi50 class, is hoping to be the third skipper to finish the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race from Saint Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre in the French Caribbean. Tripon on…
Alex Thomson continues to extend his lead in the trade winds. Now less than 1000 miles from the finish in Pointe-à-Pitre, the British skipper seems well placed, even if Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès will remain a threat…
Dateline 12:00 UTC 13.11.2018 – Les Sables d'Olonne, France Jean-Luc Van Den Heede may have to earn his passage around Cape Horn. The embattled French leader, nursing a damaged mast on his Rustler 36 Matmut after the yacht was pitchpoled…
SailGP has unveiled the fifth team in its new global racing league – the China SailGP Team – with a bold ambition to drive the growth of high-performance sailing in China. The China SailGP Team takes to the water in…
The RL24 Owners Association of Australia have planned a special “Rob Legg Day” to honour Rob Legg’s long list of achievements and his huge input into sailing and trailable yachts in Australia. As an opener to the 46th RL24 National…
Sailors in the north of New Zealand will be able to take part in an exciting week of non-stop competitive sailing from 22 to 28 January 2019, after two of New Zealand’s biggest sailing regattas joined forces to create a…
The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) is pleased to announce it has partnered with Save the Children, the charity founded in 1919 whose vision is for children around the world to attain the right to survival, protection, development and…
The ninth day at sea in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race saw the second capsize in this 11th edition of the four-yearly classic when a 50ft trimaran flipped over about 1,000 nautical miles east of Guadeloupe….
For Australian OK Dinghy sailors there is only one place to be for New Year. The 57th Australian OK Dinghy Championships will be hosted by Black Rock Yacht Club from 28 December 2018 to 3 January 2019. Black Rock YC,…
After Francis Joyon’s victory in the Ultime category, the battle between the IMOCAs is in the spotlight. For behind Alex Thomson, the clear leader, Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès have shown once again that in the Route du…
Monday 12 November 2018, Shenzhen, China Wanhang Longcheer has won back the Beneteau 40.7 trophy at the 12th China Cup, after losing out to Yiihua-Pocket Emirates Team New Zealand a year ago. Steve McConaghy suffered a stressful few hours in…
The deadline for standard entries to close in Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s (MHYC) annual Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) has been extended to Friday 16 November, with late entries extended to midnight on Wednesday 21 November, allowing extra time…
At 4.00 pm (UTC+1) this Sunday, 11 November, François Gabart was still leading the Route du Rhum, with roughly 50 nautical miles to go before clearing the tête à l’Anglais and starting to go round the island, a last tactical…
A tricky Pittwater shone, the MC38s sparkled and Neville Crichton’s Maserati cleaned-up the class’ closing seven-race Act 5 by a monumental 12 points, plus sealed the five-round season pointscore. A frustrating stop-start beginning to day two of the MC38 2018…
With the final outcome being decided in the Ultime category tonight, the leading IMOCAs are about to cross the halfway point in the Route du Rhum. Alex Thomson, Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès may finish in Pointe-à-Pitre before…
The docks of Muelle Deportivo in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria were a hive of activity this morning as crews of ARC+ 2018 prepared to lead the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers across the Atlantic. As so many boats now want…
Ray Roberts gets better every day and has now manoeuvred BoomEgg – JoyOurs Team to just two points off the lead in the hotly contested Beneteau 40.7 at the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen. The Australian veteran of many…
The doyen of Hobart keelboat racing, Don Calvert, has given himself an early 83rd birthday present, scoring a hat-trick of wins with his 34-year-old yacht Intrigue in the Combined Clubs Summer Pennant on the River Derwent. Skillfully skippered in the…
If you were thinking of sailing across the Tasman and using your yacht as cheap accommodation during the 2021 Amrica's Cup in Auckland, think again. This report by Tom Dillane in the NZ Herald outlines the problems: A dire shortfall…
By Annette Lambley on Stuff.co.nz A Whangarei yachtie, who was towed off rocks at the Poor Knights Islands by the Protector class off-shore patrol vessel, HMNZS Wellington says he has learned a few lessons. Lucas Remmerswaal had been enjoying his sail from Tutukaka Harbour…
After sailing just over 26 hours, with most of the time spent working upwind, CYCA Vice Commodore Noel Cornish and his team aboard St Jude have been declared the Overall Winner of the Cabbage Tree Island Race. “We are very pleased with…
In the closest finish since it was first staged in 1978, the French ocean racing veteran Francis Joyon won the 40th anniversary Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race from Saint Malo to Pointe-À-Pitre early this morning. In the clammy…
Cheung Kong Sailing Club Team moved to the top of the Beneteau 40.7 leaderboard after a solid performance on day three of the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen. Jono Rankine steered his crew across the finish line of the…
With less than 800 nautical miles to sail to the finish of the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race – from Saint Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe – the French sailor François Gabart is on course…
ith just a handful of boats left at sea, Noel Cornish’s St Jude has won the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 180 nautical mile Cabbage Tree Island Race – the big leveller before the Rolex Sydney Hobart in December –…
On the sixth day of racing in the Route du Rhum, British skipper Alex Thomson is still leading the fleet of IMOCAs, and in the trade winds, he is being chased by three skippers, Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann…
On Nov.6 at 0200hrs, French solo yachtsman Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, the current Golden Globe Race leader, rang GGR organisers to advise that his yacht Matmut had sustained mast damage, that all was OK, and that he intended to sail…
Cheung Kong Sailing Team closed to just a point off the lead of the Beneteau 40.7 fleet after an up and down day of light winds at the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen – day two of the regatta…
After five days of tough racing in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race from Saint Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre in the French Caribbean, Britain’s Alex Thomson is in good spirits and looking to put the hammer down on…
On Friday, eleven IMOCAs are continuing to race towards Guadeloupe, but Yannick Bestaven has unfortunately been forced to retire, while Jérémie Beyou, Alexia Barrier, Fabrice Amedeo, Manuel Cousin and Romain Attanasio intend to set sail again after carrying out pit…
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