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When Yvette Heritage, Richard Heritage and Daniel McLachlan line up for Race 1 of the Australian 18 Footers League’s Spring Championship next Sunday (14 October), Yvette and Richard Heritage will create history in the 125-year-old 18ft skiff racing class. It…
Cagliari, Italy: After yesterday's opening race day postponement, the weather cooperated on Day 2, officially getting the 2018 Melges 20 World Championship underway. It was obvious that crews were feeling the pressure to do well. The high and choppy waves…
At 77, Lake Macquarie skipper Doug Coulter has no intention of slowing down over the Christmas-New Year break – if anything, his yachts are getting faster with advancing years, and he’s hoping to again vie for line-honours in the Pantaenius…
Winds had abated after yesterday’s storm off the Cote d’Azur, but sadly the sea state on the Rade de Toulon was considered too large for the nimble flying catamarans to race safely on day one of the GC32 TPM Med…
While the weather is difficult to predict with any certainty one week out from the race start, one thing that the organisers of the PIC Coastal Classic do know for sure, is that there is a fresh buzz about the…
Comanche led the fleet out of Sydney Heads on Friday evening after the start of the Newcastle Bass Island Race, the third event in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore series. Jim Cooney…
With 20 skippers at the start in St Malo on November 4, including 10 foiling boats, this edition of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe in the IMOCA class promises to be competitive and exciting. In the space of four years,…
Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex: The effect of Storm Callum currently sweeping across England has done little to affect proceedings at the opening day of the Endeavour Trophy weekend, from 12-14 October. Although gusts reached well over 25 knots, the on-water session of…
After the storms, torrential rain and general greyness of the last days, the Rade de Toulon was in an entirely different mood for day two of the GC32 TPM Med Cup, the final event of the GC32 Racing Tour, held…
Cagliari, Italy: Three additional races were completed at the 2018 Melges 20 World Championship, hosted by Yacht Club Cagliari, bringing the number of completed races to six, which also prompts a discard of each team's worst score. With the results…
Alexandros Kalpogiannakis (GRE) and Giorgia Speciale (ITA) became the first sailors to take the titles of 2018 Youth Olympic Champions at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition, held at Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first Medal Races were…
Geneva, 10 October 2018 – The 2018 golden jubilee edition of Malta’s most famous yachting event promises to be the biggest ever. The Rolex Middle Sea Race, which this year marks the 50th anniversary of its founding, will again start…
The largest fleet in the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe 2018 – the solo transatlantic race that starts from St Malo on November 4th – is the Class40 monohull division with 53 sailors taking part. This record entry, that makes up…
Two teams have been confirmed for the semi-finals of the 2018 Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship with last year’s two finalists, defending champion, Tom Grimes (CYCA) and current regatta leader James Hodgson (CYCA), both securing enough points for the…
Twenty-nine yachts are set to line up for the start of the Blue Water Pointscore Newcastle Bass Island Race this weekend, representing the greatest number of competitors in the event’s short but successful five-year history. The 215-nautical-mile challenge marks Race…
A dazzling display on the water from Alina Kornelli (GER) ensured she remains top of the Girl’s Kiteboarding fleet at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition at Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. With lighter windspeeds than the previous day,…
Two organisations who pride themselves on the wellbeing of New Zealanders at sea are due to square off as part of next week’s PIC Coastal Classic yacht race from Auckland to the Bay of Islands: it’s the New Zealand Defence…
More than 250 sailors are set to descend on Sandringham Yacht Club this weekend as the two-day Sail Sandy Regatta gets underway on Saturday. Entries have already surpassed last year's numbers of 160 boats with more than 170 entries…
2017 Australian Youth Match Racing Champion, Tom Grimes, representing the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has made an impressive finish to his double round robin stage, taking out the top spot with a 17-1 (win-loss) scorecard, to go through Round…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) have dominated the opening day of competition at the 2018 Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship with James Hodgson & Finn Tapper both remaining undefeated after the first seven flights in the Championship….
Earlier in the year, we warned yachties who intended travelling between the Gold Coast and Brisbane of two “pinch points” in the Canaipa Passage where yachts with a draft of around 1.5m were running aground at low tide. The Gold…
At the Annapolis boat show in America, Spinlock launched their new VITO lifejacket which was derived from the custom Deckvest VOR 170N lifejacket worn by Volvo Ocean Race teams. The VITO is the first lifejacket harness to include a revolutionary…
Argentinean athletes are coming to the forefront on their home waters as the breeze came to town on the third day of competition at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition. Held out of Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, the…
CHICAGO, IL (October 9, 2018): The culmination of the 2018 Farr 40 World Championship served up nail-biting competition, coming down to the final race of the event as Wolfgang Schaefer's Struntje light edged out Alex Roeper's Plenty which finished a…
The Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe “Rhum” multihull division is made up of 21 catamarans and trimarans that range in size from 39-59ft and are sailed by skippers who are almost all amateurs. The fleet includes sisterships of the first winner…
The 5500 nautical mile Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race and return journey left Annette Hesselmans still champing at the bit, so she solved the problem by forming a short-handed female crew to take part in the Melbourne to…
Titouan Petard and Kenza Coutard (FRA) struck the first win in the solitary Mixed Multihull (Nacra 15) race at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition at Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A frustrating day epitomised by light winds meant…
Four huge Laser regattas are coming to Sandringham in the summer of 2020. The Laser Class, representing the world’s largest one design Olympic boat the Laser single hander, has awarded Sandringham Yacht Club hosting rights for three ILCA Laser World…
Would you like to know more about sailing from Australia to Indonesia and SE Asia or destinations in the SW Pacific such as New Caledonia, Vanuatu & Fiji? Join the Down Under Rally Team for our “Sailing Asia and the…
CHICAGO, IL (October 8, 2018): Competitors at the Farr 40 World Championship have emphasized that consistency is key and that is what Alex Roeper's Plenty had going for them today. Day Three's racing has both Plenty and Wolfgang Schaefer's Struntje…
Whistler, one of Tasmania’s most prolific long race winners, today began another season on a winning note, taking IRC and AMS handicap honours in the Channel Race, the first event of the summer season. Traditionally run by the Royal Yacht…
CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2018): Patience paid off for Day 1 of the Farr 40 World Championship Day 1 in Chicago, Illinois. After a brief shoreside postponement, the fleet headed out for steep waves and winds of 15-20knots. The northeast…
Lisbon, Portugal (7th October, 2018) – “A full on day” quoted Race Officer Mattias Dahlström, reflecting on day four of the Regata de Portugal, hosted on the capital’s shoreline. The Quarter Final Stage concluded today, and defending Match Racing World…
In light winds, Italian and Greek windsurfers took an early advantage on the first day of racing at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition being held out of Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Girl’s and Boy’s Windsurfing fleets…
Lisbon, Portugal (7th October, 2018) – Nicklas Dackhammar and his all-Swedish Essiq Racing Team wrote their name in the history books today as they became the first name to be scratched on to the WMRT Regata de Portugal Trophy, a…
David Yaffa, proprietor of Yaffa Media, publisher of Cruising Helmsman magazine and the Mysailing website, has died aged 84. A staunchly independent and passionate publisher, he built an empire of more than 30 business and consumer magazines and websites, becoming…
Issued: Monday, 8 October 2018 The Bureau of Meteorology is advising residents in Australia's northern coastal regions to prepare for the potential impacts of tropical cyclones. The advice comes with today's release of the 2018-19 Tropical Cyclone Outlook. The outlook…
This weekend, for the first time, the Australian Schools Match Racing Championship was held on Sydney Harbour. An inconsistent storming southerly breeze ranging from 8-28 knots made for some fast paced sailing for the eight schools competing at the Cruising…
CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2018): The point spread grew at the top of the Farr 40 World Championship leaderboard on Day Two with Enfant Terrible finishing at the front of the fleet while Plenty fell to third. Three races were…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede reached the BoatShed.com Hobart film gate at 07:30 local time on Saturday (21:30 UTC Friday) to drop film and letters before heading out of Storm Bay to resume his lead in the Golden Globe Race. The…
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