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After 25 days and approximately 5,000 nautical miles, amazingly there is little separating the top teams in the final stages of the race across the mighty North Pacific Ocean to Seattle. Sanya Serenity Coast and Unicef both emerged from 48…
Malcolm Dickson didn't mind being beaten into second in the Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge, especially as he played such a large role in helping the winner. Dickson finished in Mooloolaba on Queensland's Sunshine Coast about 12 hours after his son,…
With only 11,000 nm of the 45.000 nautical miles to go till the finish in The Hague. Team Brunel is in third place overall and has the second elapsed time sailed in the legs till now. While Vestas 11th Hour racing…
A record-sized fleet of foiling catamarans is set to descend on Lake Garda in northern Italy at the end of next month where crews from across the globe will fight to become the first ever World Champion in the GC32…
Tension is building amongst the leading pack, with five boats now off the radar in Stealth Mode as the Clipper Race fleet begins what should be the final week of the epic 5,600 nautical mile race across the North Pacific…
Award-winning marina precinct, Abell Point Marina, welcomes new General Manager, Kate Purdie, to the team. Ms Purdie replaces Luke McCaul as General Manager of the largest marina on the east coast of Queensland. With 517 wet berths and berthing to…
Marine mobile app NEBO continues to impress skippers the world over with a new feature in its latest update making it even easier to enjoy a safe and carefree boating experience. Nebo’s new “Pre-Start Checklist” feature enables users to create…
The International Laser Class Association (ILCA) announced a new rule, effective January of 2018, which enables Laser race participants to use an electronic digital compass during competition. As a result, Laser competitors worldwide may now take advantage of the valuable…
Racing in today’s Victoria’s prestigious Association Cup interclub yachting teams event has been abandoned after the death of a yachtsman in a MOB (man overboard) incident on Port Phillip this morning. Max Peters went overboard from the Adams 10 class…
That’s all she wrote for Sail Port Stephens 2018. After six days of sublime sunshine and sailing, a wild westerly has put paid to any further racing across all divisions, leaving overnight results standing. The AP flag was hoisted at…
The leading Clipper Race teams have rounded the final waypoint of the 5,600 nautical mile marathon across the North Pacific Ocean, and are now racing directly towards the finish line and Seattle. Or, that's what they are most likely doing,…
The maxi trimaran Banque Populaire IX capsized at around 3am on Saturday April 14 while sailing off the coast of Morocco. The crew of Vende Globe winner Armel Le Cléac'h, Pierre-Emmanuel Hérissé and a cameraman, were able to shelter inside…
If you like your sailing fast and flat, with uninhabited islands and surfing beaches added for good measure, then Super Saturday of Sail Port Stephens 2018 was as good as it gets. Fanned by a warm breeze that built to…
With the Mighty North Pacific Ocean relatively calm to what was experienced by the fleet a few days ago, the leading Clipper Race teams are relishing the return to full race mode as they enter the final stretch of the…
Within hours of the Notice of Race going live, the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s sailing office accepted its first Club Marine Pittwater to Paradise Regatta entry – John Bacon’s Class 40, Nexba Racing. Until Cyclone Iris sent competitors to…
The Super 12 NSW Championship fleet opted for a pair of inshore passage races for their first hit-out at Sail Port Stephens, their numbers swollen to 17 by the late addition of Darryl Hodgkinson’s Carkeek 40, Victoire, and Bob Steel’s…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club invites competitors to participate in their inaugural Women’s Regatta on Sunday 6 May 2018. After a successful initiative introducing a Women’s Twilight Series this year, MHYC continues its commitment to encourage and support women in sailing…
Despite the long commute, a second owner-driver team from ‘down under’ will be joining the GC32 Racing Tour when it gets underway at the end of May on Lake Garda, Italy. New Zealander Simon Hull and his Frank Racing are…
Fittingly for a fleet boasting Wild Oats X for the first time, the NSW IRC Championships at Sail Port Stephens enjoyed champagne sailing conditions on the offshore race course for three windward-leeward races on day 1. In Race 1, there…
The Clipper Race fleet has emerged from some of the toughest conditions faced in the 2017-18 edition of the race to date, and as the teams continue racing across the North Pacific Ocean to Seattle, all are being praised by…
Gothenburg – 12 April 2018: Neptune, a 59’ sloop who first raced in the WRTWR 1977-78, will compete in the Legends Race this summer, along other historic boats such as Flyer from 1981-82 and Copernicus from the first race in…
Very few professional sailors can say they have sailed in hurricane force winds and a phenomenal sea state with waves greater than 14 metres, but at 1800 yesterday this was the official situation facing the Clipper Race fleet in the…
Some 120 yachts are tugging at their mooring lines like thoroughbreds, and a race track commonly described as Australia’s best is perfectly groomed just in time for tomorrow’s start of Sail Port Stephens Part 2. With the cruisy Commodores Cup…
Olympic representative Carrie Smith has been appointed as Head of State Coaching in Victoria, Australian Sailing Performance Director Iain Murray announced last night. Smith, who competed in the 470 class at the Rio Games in 2016, retired from competition early…
The Whitsunday Times. By Peter Carruthers. ONE year ago last week a frail and confused tabby was found at Shute Harbour after its floating home slipped its moorings and was forced ashore by the cyclonic winds of Cyclone Debbie. A…
While not strictly a yacht cruising story, we thought this piece from the Maritime Professional would be of interest to our readers: A surge in armed attacks against ships around West Africa is pushing up global levels of piracy and…
On the third day, the wind gods summoned a cracking breeze for the Sail Port Stephens fleet contesting the Commodores Cup – a 6-knot northerly at the start, building to around 18 knots mid-race as a remnant and reminder of…
Sailing’s World Cup Series, the annual circuit for Olympic sailing and Para World Sailing, will touch down in Genoa, Italy in 2019 and 2020 for the European stopover. Organised by World Sailing in collaboration with the Federazione Italiana Vela and…
The forecast big weather arrived right on schedule with the Clipper Race fleet hit by powerful winds and waves on Day 19 of the race across the Mighty Pacific Ocean to Seattle. Whilst the south-easterly low-pressure system moved through the…
The Clipper Race fleet ticked off another significant race milestone during Day 18 when it crossed the International Date Line, teams are now sailing west of the prime meridian and crew had the rare opportunity to live the same day…
It was island time for day two of the Commodores Cup, as a 10-knot sou-easter allowed crews to get a taste of the blue waters and surfing beaches off Port Stephens. Starting off Nelson Bay breakwall, the popular Three Islands…
Gothenburg – 10 April 2018: Polish yacht Copernicus, the smallest yacht to complete the very first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74, will compete in the Legends Race starting on 21 June from Gothenburg and finishing in The Hague….
The Clipper Race fleet has reached the approximate halfway point of the 5,600 nautical mile race across the North Pacific Ocean to Seattle, and in a sign of how competitive things are, the gap between the top ranked teams continues…
Belying a tropical 30-degree heatwave, Sail Port Stephens 2018 got off to a chilled start today in light and fickle westerly winds that preceded a late afternoon glass-out. A record 78 boats – spread across three divisions for the first…
In an increasing world of same-same, every now and then something pops up that takes the best of yesteryear and enhances it with modern technology. The trailer sailer Cygnet 20, from Bluewater Cruising Yachts, is one neat package. First glance…
The Spanish team MAPFRE crossed the finish line for Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race in Itajaí, Brazil on Sunday morning, securing a fifth place finish and collecting six points. The result hands the overall lead in the race…
Port Stephens wore its Sunday-best weather today, with summer-like temperatures and gentle autumn breezes, however it made for some leisurely progress in the annual Sail Port Stephens feeder race from Newcastle. The Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club sent its largest ever…
After the forecast textbook North Pacific weather delivered some of Race 9's fastest, most furious and thrilling conditions, with reports of gusts heading well into the 50 knot range overnight, the sun has come out and the Clipper Race fleet…
Dee Caffari’s Turn the Tide on Plastic ghosted across the finish line for Leg 7 at Itajaí, Brazil in light winds taking fourth place, collecting 8 points. It was the hardest leg of the race, and Turn the Tide on…
For most competitors in the Clipper Race fleet, it's the relative calm before the storm, with teams bracing themselves for a period of text-book North Pacific Ocean weather on day 15 of the 5,600 nautical mile race to Seattle. In…
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