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Racing took a backseat at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week yesterday, as competitors got into the Father’s Day fun on Lay Day, including the popular Rotary Beer Can Regatta, mud crab races, the Artisan markets and more at beautiful Picnic…
The 2018 America's Cup Hall of Fame honored Syd Fischer, John Marshall, Ken McAlpine and Doug Peterson (dec.) at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK on the evening of August 31st. Syd Fischer Australia’s Syd Fischer…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Olivia Price, Rachel Bower, Emma May, Tara Blanc-Ramos and Wallis Brewer have won the CYCA Women’s Match Racing Regatta for 2018, defeating New Zealand’s Celia Willison in a white-wash Finals series, 3-0 on a…
A delay ashore as race officials waited for the wind to fill in – and finally competitors heard the sound signal they were waiting on – and racing got underway in a light breeze at 12.40pm at SeaLink Magnetic Island…
Marseille, France: “I just want to get out there and beat the boys,” said Vilma Bobeck of Sweden this morning as leader of the 49erFX World Championship, and second overall in the open 49er Class Championship. Unfortunately for her and…
Today was another fierce test for the 49erFX and 49er Gold fleets which were first up on the schedule. With the mistral forecast, everyone knew the tough conditions were coming; it was just a matter of when. One race was…
Sydney, Australia: Last night, Multihull Central, in partnership with Pacific Sailing School, hosted the first introductory session on the RYA accredited training programs, including Competent Crew and Day Skipper courses to be run on board catamarans, launching a dedicated RYA…
On the day that the America's Cup race course and event dates were announced in Cowes, Isle of Wight, where the Cup began back in 1851, INEOS Team UK the British Challenger for the 36th America's Cup also released the…
Ondrej Teply, from Czech Republic, has won the 2018 U23 Finn World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Silver Cup after no more racing was possible on the final day in Koper, Slovenia. Joan Cardona, from Spain, took the silver while…
The America’s Cup community from around the world gathered in Cowes today for the first opportunity to meet the teams entered in the 36th edition and hear about what lies ahead including two milestone announcements made by Emirates Team New…
The first morning of spring is truly living up to expectation at Magnetic Island this morning as yachties prepare for a new race at SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, the Strand Bay Race, which will give the people of Townsville…
The weather played havoc with plans to sail a Strand Bay Race at Townsville Yacht Club’s SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week today, but Principal Race Officer Denis Thompson and his team had a trick or two up their sleeves, and…
After three breezy races to end qualifying, the fleet headed back to the base. Daniel Nybork and Sebastian Olsen (DEN) sailed brilliantly with a 2, 1, 1 and upon reaching shore with their first ever lead in a 49er championship,…
With a race win each on the penultimate day at the 2018 U23 Finn World Championship for the Silver Cup in Koper, Slovenia, Ondrej Teply and Joan Cardona recorded the best scorelines of the day in the 36-boat fleet to…
Day 1 SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, hosted by Townsville Yacht Club, dawned bright and sunny and while the bulk of competitors were contemplating navigator and marine biologist, Will Oxley’s light weather forecast, others were discussing moving the beer to…
Hector Simpson found his pace on the third day of the 2018 U23 World Championship for the Finn Silver Cup in Koper, Slovenia, to win the day after taking three second places. He moves up to fifth overall, while Ondrej…
Following the completion of the sailing event, the groundbreaking science element of the Sustainability Programme revealed the spread of microplastic pollution. Only three of the 75 samples collected during the race, south of Australia, east of Argentina and west of…
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week has partnered with clothing brand Musto to ensure their committee members are protected from the elements while remaining chemical free. Musto has developed new technology just in time for Summer down under with UPF30 protection…
Turnto10 News EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WJAR) — A woman who fell off a 38-foot sailboat while she and her husband were out on the water will be fined after their vessel hit the Newport Bridge. William and Delyse Shakespeare, of Johnston,…
2019 Beneteau Four Peaks Race is now open for enrollment. Its upcoming 35th edition is aimed at enthusiastic sailors and runners of various levels and ages across Asia. The region’s ultimate sailing and peak running challenge will take place on…
Only one race was managed at the U23 Finn World Championship, for the Finn Silver Cup, in Koper, Slovenia, after another day of shifting winds and demanding conditions. Former champion, Ondrej Teply, maintained his overall lead, but a second race…
By Bryony Jewell For Mailonline The Italian Navy tall ship the Amerigo Vespucci has left Portsmouth Harbour after a four day stay US aircraft carrier the USS Independence flashed the vessel while it was sailing in the Mediterranean in 1962….
While Townsville and other Queensland sailors flock to SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week each year, over half the fleet sails long distances to take part – from New Zealand and Australia wide, they come to enjoy something unique. Townsville Yacht…
2019 is the 50th Anniversary of Gougeon Brothers Inc, USA. 1969 marked a point in the Gougeon brothers’ careers when they applied all they had learned about wooden structures and epoxy technology to manufacturing – for the first time –…
Reigning Olympic gold medallist Tom Burton will enter the first official Tokyo 2020 Test Event next month drawing inspiration from a twist of fate he experienced as a youth sailor almost exactly a decade ago. The Laser ace emerged from…
The 2015 youth world champion, Ondrej Teply leads the first ever international Finn championship in Slovenia after two races on Monday in a very unstable Bora wind. The 2018 U23 Finn World Championship for the Finn Silver Cup opened to…
DAY 58: Dateline 20:00 UTC – Les Sables d’Olonne, France Golden Globe Race skipper Are Wiig made a satellite phone call to Race HQ at 16:30 UTC today to report that his 32ft yacht Olleanna had been rolled through 360°…
Having climbed the ranks throughout the Extreme Sailing Series Cardiff Act, Alinghi – the Swiss kings of foiling – seized victory from the clutches of SAP Extreme Sailing Team on the final day of the event. In a nail-biting finish…
Giles Redpath's Lombard 46 Pata Negra is the overall winner of the 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Pata Negra scored the best corrected time for yachts racing under the IRC Rating Rule for the 1,805 nautical mile non-stop…
August 24, 2018 – Newport Rhode Island – The inaugural Narragansett Bay Classic Yacht Rendezvous and the 39th Annual Panerai Newport Classic Yacht Regatta finished today in perfect conditions following the well attended Classic Yacht Parade and spectacular day of racing on…
Fancy yourself as a bit of a painter but would like to learn from an artist whose latest works incorporate shipwreck dramatisations? If you are in the vicinity of Devonport, Tasmania, then this workshop is for you. To be held…
Simon Harwood's Prima 38 Talisman, sailed by a student crew from Oxford University Yacht Club finished the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race on Saturday 25th August at 13:34 BST, completing the race in an elapsed time of 13 days…
The Bellerive Yacht Club/Hobart Jaguar Land Rover Winter Series ended today in its freshest breeze of the winter, and overall pennant wins for Tas Paints, Trouble and Moonshadow. The 15-20 knot NNW breeze, with the occasional gust to 28 knots….
Cardiff Bay was alive with action today, as two boats capsized within moments of each other on the Extreme Sailing Series racecourse. Charging downwind on the third race of the day (race 19), the Omani boat and Team Wales were…
Saturday, 25 August 2018 was a significant day for prominent Hobart yachtsmen Stephen ‘Rowdy’ McCullum and Stewart Gray, and for worldwide sail makers, North Sails. McCullum has joined Gray as principals of 42ºSouth Marine which operates the Hobart loft of…
A team of five boys and two girls represented Australia in the massive line of teenage sailors who contested the 2018 Laser Radial World Youth Championships at Kiel, Germany last week – 269 boys and 96 girls. The young Australians…
A New Zealand crew won the JJ Giltinans this year for the first time in 44 years, considered the world championships of 18-foot skiff racing, when the Honda Marine team of Dave McDiarmid, Matt Steven and Brad Collins finished only…
MIAMI — The Coast Guard, along with the Royal Bahamas Defense Force rescued two overdue boaters approximately 22 miles north of Freeport, Bahamas Thursday. Rescued were Sasha McPhee, 37, and Jerome Burrows, 37, both from the Bahamas. At approximately 8…
Fifteen divisions, 233 boats and close to 2,000 sailors from Australia, New Zealand and around the world spent Hamilton Island Race Week in the Whitsundays dashing around tropical islands with only saltwater hitting the decks, until the final afternoon rainstorm…
Four titles were won at the Laser Radial Youth World Championships in Kiel, Germany, and pointedly, three of them went to Italy, with one to Britain, sailors spoilt with all types of conditions from strong to light, shifting winds. “Therefore,…
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