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The intense competition within coach Michael Blackburn's Australian Laser squad is again paying dividends, with three members of the squad vying for the lead at the 2018 Aarhus World Championships. Western Australians Luke Elliott and Matt Wearn are tied for…
Entries have closed and Whitsunday Sailing Club organisers are pleased with the large jump in numbers to 119 received for the 30th anniversary Airlie Beach Race Week, which for a range of reasons, continues to attract a profusion of boats…
Andrew Wiklunds Farr 40 Crankster is the Overall Winner of the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race after great closing run up the Capricornia coast. The team from the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron completed the race just after Sunset on…
Gosford Sailing Club (GSC) is pleased to announce it has sponsored the revival of the Ton Yacht Association and as such, will be the organising authority to run the Australian Quarter and Half Tonner Championship on the first weekend of…
Well the Worlds are done and dusted and what a great regatta, so thank you Germany. Firstly to the sailing. After being held ashore for the morning, the Race Committee, in their wisdom, decided to launch with the expectancy of…
As expected, super maxi’s Black Jack and Wild Oats XI are leading the pack in the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Race, but at 9.5-knots, it’s cruising speed only for these 100ft yachts and the rest of the pack. No wind…
The 37 Copa del Rey MAPFRE will be remembered for its record fleet of 152 yachts representing 29 different countries, with 13 classes racing, and for the first time, five different race areas had to be employed. It marked the…
After nine months in 65ft Volvo Ocean Race boats chasing each other around the world, Martine Soffiatti Grael (Brazil), Jena Mai Hansen (Denmark) and Tamara Echegoyen Dominguez (Spain) have lost 50 foot in the last month, but gained more familiar…
A pretty short blog today, as the penultimate day’s sailing was a bit of a fizzer – unusually hot conditions are making the local conditions very frustrating for race management and competitors. Yesterday, as the temperature soared into the 30’s,…
Ever consistent Bay of Palma gave the eight GC32 flying catamaran crews a more complete test on the penultimate day of the Mediterranean's most prestigious multi-class regatta, Copa del Rey MAPFRE. Changeable conditions kept both competitors and race officials on…
Renowned Coffs Harbour sailor Pierre Gal is putting the finishing touches to a bespoke, “home-made” IRC 34-footer with the aim of using the 2018 Pantaenius Newport Coffs Coast race as its maiden offshore outing. The French expat has spent the…
Sailing World Championships are often pitched as nations competing against each other, but the real tensions are often within the national teams as individuals begin to try and secure their Olympic selection. The amount at stake for many of the…
Fresh from winning The Hague Offshore Sailing World Championship, Karl Kwok and Team Beau Geste, guided by tactician Gavin Brady, are on course to make their first visit to the Copa del Rey MAPFRE a winning one. With another two…
Out of a mixture of modesty and misinterpretation sportsman often talk up luck. Sailors are no different, but on the opening day to Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018, when the words “shifty”, “tricky” and “lucky” were thrown about the…
Palma, 1st August 2018 The traditional coastal race at 37 Copa del Rey MAPFRE is a break from the usual diet of windward-leeward races. In today’s light sea breeze conditions and sweltering summer temperatures it may have felt longer than…
With 1,400 sailors from 85 nations in close to 1,000 boats in 10 Olympic classes studded with stars old and new, the competition (August 2-12) promises to be ferocious, with epic head-to-heads in every fleet. More than 1,100 volunteers will…
Skipper Norbert Sedlacek has decided to stop his record attempt this morning at 10.30 a.m. west of Ireland and to come back to the port of departure, Les Sables d’Olonne. “Sometimes it is necessary to take note of the reality…
The Finn class is not only the physically toughest of all the Olympic classes, but the level of the competition is perhaps at its highest level for a long time. In Part 2 of our preview of the Hempel Sailing…
Coaches Blog #7 It is a well earned lay for our team. Most will spend the day sightseeing and taking it easy. It is still very important to keep to our daily routine and not disrupt our sleep patterns and…
Sometimes it's hard to tell the diffence between reality and fiction. Following is a harrowing tale of two British backpackers who hitched a ride on a yacht – with terrible consequences. Although it would make a great novel, sadly this…
Coaches Blog #6 Well getting into the mid point of the regatta. Five races done after three more yesterday and the possibility of another seven to go weather depending. The three races yesterday were held in a pretty reasonable sailing…
Bruce Taylor’s Victorian 40-footer called Chutzpah has been officially declared the IRC overall winner of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race after a 15-hour wait for the only challenger still on the course to drop out of contention. “They…
It’s the Friday before the Brisbane to Keppel yacht (B2K) race and the Keppel Bay Marina is buzzing. Supermaxi’s Black Jack and Wild Oats XI are preparing to sail into town and the stakes are high. For Keppel Bay Marina…
Today, the MACIF trimaran left Keroman Technologies, the yard which created her in 2015, after a seven-month refit designed to further optimise the performance of this reference Ultime multihull. Already a solo round the world record holder, MACIF has been…
With just two days to go until the start of the Hempel Sailing World Championships 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark, the Finn fleet is making final preparations and controlling its excitement as the first race day approaches on Thursday. The result…
The Festival of Sails 2019 has its first entry in Hugh Ellis’ Reichel/Pugh 63 called Voodoo, which last campaigned the popular Geelong regatta in 2009 as Limit and now sails for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria. Within an hour…
BBC News reports that British yachtsman Tony Bullimore has died at the age of 79. He had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. His name became widely known, especially in Australia, after he spent four days in the capsized…
Months of organisation, preparation and training are done and the finest Olympic class sailors in Australia are ready to put their skills and determination to the test when the 2018 World Championships starts at Aarhus in Denmark tomorrow night (AEST)….
Day two of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race has Jim Cooney’s 100ft Comanche eating up the miles and holding a 10 nautical mile buffer to the nearest challenger, the Oatley family’s Wild Oats XI. Comanche’s ETA at the…
Coaches Blog #4 Hello from Bodstedt, today we start racing in the world championship! We have had a great training week and partaken in the invitation race and opening ceremony. Prior to this we has a rest day as intended,…
Today, at 10:18 a.m. local time the extreme sailor Norbert Sedlacek started from Les Sables d’Olonne, France to circumnavigate the world single-handed, non-stop and without assistance through all five oceans including the Arctic oceans and the Northwest Passage. It will be…
Risør, Norway (29th July, 2018) – With brilliant sun and a southerly wind at times exceeding 20 knots in the gusts, Risør saved its best conditions for the Semi Final and Final stages of Match Cup Norway. New Zealand’s Phil…
In a gripping finish to the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, Queensland supermaxi Black Jack match-raced and beat Wild Oats XI to the finish line by just under two minutes over a 384 nautical mile course. Peter Harburg’s 30m…
World Sailing is pleased to announce that three new prestigious, perpetual annual global sailing awards will be introduced at the annual World Sailing Awards from 2018. The World Sailing Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and exceptional contributions to the sport…
WGN9 Chicago CHICAGO — The body police recovered in Lake Michigan on Saturday has been identified as a missing Chicago sailor. Jon Santarelli of Lincoln Park fell overboard in the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac a week ago. The 53-year-old…
Ken Berkeley, who represented Australia crewing for Bob Miller (later Ben Lexcen), in the Soling class at the 1972 Olympics, has died, aged 88. Berkeley and his brother Carl founded a successful contract cleaning business in Sydney in 1955. He…
Yaffa Media, the publishers of Australian Sailing magazine, have announced that the February/March issue will be the last to be published. Falling advertising revenues have made the publication unviable. The magazine was founded in 1976 by Bob Ross, who remained…
Bavaria Yachts Australia announces it will introduce two new models at this August Sydney International Boat Show (SIBS). But it is its C range 45 foot 'Style' yacht that promises to deliver the most interest. Originally launched at the boot…
By Mary Halton Science reporter, BBC News. Scientists have mapped marine “wilderness” areas around the world for the first time. These are regions minimally impacted by human activities such as fishing, pollution and shipping. The team, led by researchers…
The first battle in the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race went to Jim Cooney’s Comanche, the imposing black and red super maxi narrowly leading the Oatley’s same-length Wild Oats XI to Sydney Heads on a mild winter day, closely…
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