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Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron’s 2016 Youth Sailor of the Year, Tom Needham, is treating the upcoming Australian Youth Championships at his home club as a chance to add to his rapidly growing sailing knowledge. But, with this being his last…
After a testing first 24 hours beating upwind in Leg 6: the Wondrous Whitsundays Race, the Clipper Race fleet remains close together with just over one nautical mile (nm) being the difference between the first four boats on the leaderboard…
The leaders on Leg 4 are still making good progress, but only have about 200 miles to go until the wind starts to ease significantly on approach to the Solomon Islands. As at 1300 UTC on Saturday, the wind was…
What a difference a day makes – the race committee’s decision to utilise the lay day proved to be a good one with back-to-back races sailed in a good 15 knot nor’/nor’ easter, although a big tide made for choppy…
As a six-year-old, Seisa Mair cruised the Pacific on her parents Duncan and Cheryl’s yacht and today, aged 13, she will be the youngest skipper when the SB20 World Championship starts on Hobart’s River Derwent. In the years between, Seisa…
A light day on Port Philip Bay on the penultimate day or racing at the Flying Fifteen Australian Championship shuffled up the pack a bit with some of the leaders suffering double digit scores, however Matt Owen/Andrew Reed (Canberra YC)…
Four days into Leg 4, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet was starting to compress again – with overall race leaders MAPFRE rapidly rising through the rankings and closing in on leaders. Skipper Xabi Fernandez spoke on Thursday about plenty of…
The Whitsundays leg may only be six hours into its journey but some divisive early navigational choices and tight racing means the leaderboard is already making for gripping viewing. In the past hour, PSP Logistics, which is the current race…
With the OK Dinghy fleet becoming the fasted growing dinghy division at Southport Yacht Club it was a no brainer for SYC member Emma Hutcheson to jump on board. “Only twelve months ago I began my OK Dinghy adventure, the…
The final four races of the qualifying series for the 2018 Zhik 29er World Championship were held today off the Po Toi Islands in Hong Kong, where Australia has made it into the Gold Fleet. With consistent top five finishes,…
French youth sailor and former world champion, Robin Follin, has emerged as hot favourite for the SB20 World championship on Hobart’s River Derwent, starting on Sunday. Helming Give Me 5 – French Youth Team, Follin this afternoon won his third…
Dongfeng Race Team and team AkzoNobel claimed the first bragging rights of Leg 4 three days into the sprint to Hong Kong as their bid to punch further offshore paid dividends. Both teams, plus Turn the Tide on Plastic, opted…
The Canberra YC team of Matt Owen and Andrew Reed have moved into a commanding position with two bullets on race day 3 of the Flying Fifteen Australian Championship held at Mornington YC on Port Philip Bay. Two more races…
The Zhik Hong Kong 29er World Championship got underway two nights ago with the Opening Ceremony at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's main Clubhouse on Kellett Island. A traditional lion dance enthralled the 58 teams from 11 countries including…
Michael Martin’s TP 52, Frantic enjoyed sensational sailing up the NSW north coast to arrive at Southport Yacht Club under the light of a full moon and rising sun at 07:24 AEDT, taking line honours in the 2018 Club Marine…
Strong, gusty and unpredictable north-westerly winds gave international and interstate SB20 sportsboat crews (and the locals) exhilarating and testing sailing on Hobart’s River Derwent yesterday. Fleet positions on day two of the pre-Worlds changed dramatically on the surfing downwind spinnaker…
Less than 48 hours into Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race, tactics are already starting to show among the seven-strong fleet as it does battle along Australia’s eastern coast. A west to east split of 80 miles has…
A fleet of 35 Flying Fifteens have travelled to Mornington Yacht Club on Port Philip Bay in Victoria for the 2018 Flying Fifteen Australian Championship held from January 1st – 6th. Some competitors have made a long journey from Queensland,…
The final race of the 420 Worlds underlined the dominance of Spain’s team in the 420 World Championships at Fremantle, but with some twists and turns. Overnight leaders Carlos Balaguer and Antoni Massanet put themselves under pressure with a 13th…
French youth sailors showed their sportsboat skills on the opening day of the SB20 Pre-Worlds regatta on Hobart’s River Derwent yesterday, with 2015 world champion Robin Follin heading the leader board and Hugo Feydit third in the standings. Between them…
Fifty-five Sabres swarmed the Swan as the 40th Sabre Nationals got underway on 30th December and run through to the 4th January 2018 at Perth Dinghy Sailing Club on Matilda Bay. After 4 races WA sailor David Meehan from Safety…
From a day of towing competitors to the start of the race course in light breezes, to 25.5knot records on Race QS. Day two of the 56th OK Dinghy National Championships made for a day of interesting racing. Currently holding…
Day 2 of the Peroni 16 and 13 foot Australian Championships was a different game to the initial opener. The fleet was greeted with an immediate dilemma as the breeze teetered between a big or small rig. Crews lamented ……
From January 11th to 14th at Woollahra Sailing Club in Rose Bay, Sydney, a new year of foiling will be celebrated by the first Foiling Week of the 2018. It is the first down-under Foiling Week, in the homeland of…
Overall Volvo Ocean Race leader MAPFRE was at the head of the fleet off the starting line as the boats raced up Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay immediately after the start for Leg 4 to Hong Kong. But it was a…
World and National champions, present and past, from many different international sailing classes, will be lining up on Hobart’s River Derwent tomorrow for the start of SB20 World Championship regatta for 2018. Run jointly by the Derwent Sailing Squadron and…
Much lighter conditions in this afternoon’s 420 World Championship at Fremantle might have produced some different results, but those who expected a break in the Spanish dominance of the event so far would have been disappointed when Spanish boats finished…
The Cockburn Sound Regatta is a four day event held between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve on the beautiful and protected waters of Mangles Bay off Rockingham. The Kwinana Industries Council Race to Rockingham is the feeder race for…
Tuesday 2nd January, Southport Yacht Club hosts the 56th OK Dinghy National Championships. contested offshore the Gold Coast beaches from 2nd to 7th January. With 8 to 10 knots of breeze at the start of race one, a perfectly clear…
For 40 years, Hobartians have enjoyed one of the great sailing spectacles on the River Derwent – the King of the Derwent. The Derwent Sailing Squadron introduced the KOD (as it known among yachties) to give locals an opportunity to…
Just as the first race of the Formula One Season generates – powerful machines being launched onto the track, horse power ready to explode. A lot of chest beating amongst the gladiators. Now move it forward to the first heat…
PATTAYA, Thailand – The Notice of Race has been published for the 14th Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina and entries are now being taken. Scheduled for 27th April to 1st May, 2018 at Ocean Marina Yacht…
The leaders of the Volvo Ocean Race, MAPFRE, will make no changes to the crew that won Leg 3, as they prepare to race from Melbourne to Hong Kong when Leg 4 starts on Tuesday January 2. It’s a much…
When David Gotze/Michael Cranitch’s Triton docked in Hobart on finishing the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart, Tony ‘Ace’ or ‘Grumpy’ Ellis became only the second person to sail 50 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s race – only Tony Cable…
A sensational start to proceedings on day 4 of the 420 World Championships at Fremantle Sailing Club when Open division leader Chris Charlwood found that his headsail halyard turning block was damaged. When it became clear that the damage could…
HOBART, AUSTRALIA (January 1, 2018) — The 86-year-old Sparkman & Stephens classic yacht Dorade finished second place in two divisions (IRC Division 4/ORCi Div 4), in the formidable Rolex Sydney Hobart Race last week. The 628-mile race, which started December…
A new year begins, and with it a new leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18. On Tuesday 2nd January 2018, the seven boats of the fleet will line up on the start line in Melbourne (Australia) for Leg four…
Stuff.co.nz An America's Cup guru is predicting the new monohulls to break the 50-knot barrier for the first time and says they are so radical that teams will struggle to come up with the right training platform. Australian Grant Simmer,…
The Telegraph (UK). By Henry Bodkin. The memory of thousands of Cornish people who were kidnapped and sold into slavery has been “culturally erased”, campaigners have said. Academics are trying to revive knowledge about pirates from the Barbary coast in…
Matt Allen’s new TP52 Ichi Ban has been declared the overall winner of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2017 – and Allen, the president of Australian Sailing, can hardly believe it. “It hasn’t sunk…
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