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(Medemblik, Netherlands) – Three races were completed today in each fleet, concluding the qualifying series for the 2017 Laser Radial Youth World Championships in Holland. Breeze on the IJsselmeer hovered around 5 knots this morning before steadily building to…
Kialoa II has completed the Rolex Fastnet Race and will soon hoist sails and head to Sydney, Australia, and the second major goal for the owners Patrick and Keith Broughton, the Rolex Sydney Hobart starting from Sydney Harbour on December…
For the first time in class history, New South Wales will host the Couta Boat National Championship as the culminating event of a week-long program of social and racing activities coordinated among three yacht clubs between Sydney Harbour and Pittwater…
As Newsroom.co.nz reports, Team New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yact Squadron have discovered a problem – there is no room to engrave their name as the 2017 winners: By Suzanne McFadden The New Zealand guardians of the America’s…
The Packet by Peter Johnstone Three sailors had to be rescued from the Carrick Roads after their yacht sank during the final day of Falmouth Week racing on Saturday. The trio was sailing in the 18ft dinghy Myrtle, helmed by…
We sailors are superstitious souls and bananas are supposed to be bad luck on boats. We think this stems from the days when the old sailing boats transported bananas from the West Indies to England, and often contained large venomous…
Excitement in the yachting community surrounding the Admiral’s Cup 50th Anniversary Regatta has spread to all corners of the sailing world. News of the event, to be held in Sydney this December, has also inspired some remarkable reunions. Sons of…
World Champion sailors, Rio Olympic silver medalists Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan, will get a precious taste of the 2020 Games environment when they contest the 470 Class Japan Championships at Enoshima, starting on Friday. The duo, who snatched the…
Going into the final day’s racing at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week, local sailmaker Paul Mitchell (Ullman Sails), leads the charge for overall honours in the Multihull Racing division, three points ahead of George Owens’ Fury Road. There…
“Noumea” New Caledonia a long Island kinda lies south-east to north west. 30 N Miles wide and 220 miles long, sort of. Plenty of reef. The fringing reef well out with several well posted passages into the Lagoon. Once inside…
In a clear statement of intent for the remainder of the regatta, Phil Plumtree’s Swuzzlebubble found form on the second day of racing at the Half Ton Classics Cup at Kinsale with two wins and two second places during a…
Helsinki, Finland (August 15, 2017) – The tropical paradise of Hernesaaren Ranta delivered three days of tight racing action, just metres from the shoreline of the race village in Helsinki city centre. Danish team Wallén Racing were the stand out…
All fleets sailed out on the IJsselmeer in about 5 knots of breeze, hopeful for more to fill in. After the initial AP flag was taken down on Alpha Course, the yellow fleet attempted the first race in a bit…
The sun came out in force, but the going was light on Day 4 of Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing hosted by Whitsunday Sailing Club, making it difficult for race officials to get racing away. It wasn’t until…
Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC) is targeting three new World Championship sailing events in the next four years which could bring more than 700 visitors and an estimated economic benefit of almost $3.7million to Geelong. RGYC is currently in the…
Day 5 at Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing hosted by Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) and the forecast was not good for racing – barely a breath of wind on a glassed out Pioneer Bay, forcing PRO, Denis Thompson…
We receive some bizarre stories from our sources all around the world, but this one has us baffled. Why would anyone want to steal the boatbuilder's ID plate from a yacht? Haven Orrechio- Egresitz from the Cape Cod Times tells…
Consistent sailing by Nigel Biggs on his newly-refurbished Checkmate XVIII put the British team at the top of the leaderboard of the Euro Car Parks Half Ton Classics Cup at Kinsale after a rain-soaked opening day. However, just two points…
(Medemblik, Netherlands) – With sunny skies and a consistent 10 knot breeze, all 6 fleets completed two races for the second day of the Laser Radial Youth Worlds. A persistent left shift moved across the IJsselmeer throughout the day, causing…
There were smiles as well as butterflies amongst the skippers and crews of the 2017 ARC Channel Islands rally, as they prepared to set off for the first of two Channel crossings on Saturday 12th August. An early morning departure…
It has come to light that there is a bit of a return grudge match going on at Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week, with a group of experienced skiffies again taking on a boat load of medical students…
One of Australia’s oldest ocean races, the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s 180 nautical mile Maria Island Race, will celebrate its 70th anniversary when it starts on Friday, 17 November 2017. The Tasports Maria Island Race, around the rugged south-east…
Australian Sailing’s Head Coach and 470 Coach since 1997 Victor Kovalenko has an unparalleled coaching record, his sailors have won ten Olympic medals and 19 world championships. He is widely known as the Medal Maker and his string of coaching…
Desperate times call for desperate measures – so when you haven’t missed Airlie Beach Race Week for 15 years and you don’t want to change the trend you don’t let obstacles stand in your way – just ask Terry Archer,…
(Medemblik, Netherlands) – Two races were completed on Day 1 of the 2017 Laser Radial Youth World Championships. 390 sailors from 46 countries spread across 6 fleets and began racing under sunny skies and light wind on the IJsselmeer, the…
MAPFRE maintained their near-faultless performance in Volvo Ocean Race qualifying – and gave themselves the best possible chance of completing overall victory in the Leg Zero series – as they led the fleet over the finish line on a short…
Team Nika has won the RC44 Marstrand World Championship after a dominant performance across the four days of competition. The final day delivered the strongest wind of the week in Sweden, with the north-westerly breeze blowing at 15 knots and…
Oman Air took its second Act victory in a row in a thrilling Hamburg finale, despite last minute pressure from SAP Extreme Sailing Team. The triumph sees the Omani syndicate move into pole position in the overall rankings. Red Bull…
If test events are all about checking how systems are working, then the Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus Denmark 2018 Test Event has confirmed that the Australians are still a well-oiled machine in the Laser, Aarhus Bay is a great…
Day 3 at Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing hosted by Whitsunday Sailing Club and the breeze from the 11am start was at 13-16 knots, ideal for the 100 plus competitors who are also enjoying the tee-shirt conditions the…
The New Zealand Herald. By Ophelia Buckleton. Team New Zealand's SOS to the Government for $5 million following their America's Cup win included a plea from boss Grant Dalton that “it would be great to tell the team” he could…
When yachtsman Robert Alpe decided to move into bluewater racing with the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club he looked Australia-wide for the right boat and eventually chose a Fremantle based 32-footer he then sailed 2,500 nautical miles home to Pittwater…
The Aberdeen Press and Journal. By Ann Mack An accidental mistake by a passenger caused a 102ft tall ship to be towed by Oban lifeboat yesterday morning. The brigantine square rigger, Lady of Avenel, had difficulties with its engine in…
Not a sailing story, but of interest to those of us who spend a lot of time in, on or near the water… The Guardian. An amateur submarine maker is in custody in Copenhagen as police investigate the disappearance of…
Manly Sailing Club in Auckland has won the bid to host the 2019 O'pen BIC World Championship. Sir Russell Coutts, Manly Yacht Club's newly elected Commodore, led the presentation at the International O'pen BIC Class Association AGM where the vote…
I must be really showing my age; the other day a lovely young lady stood up and offered me her seat on the tram. After I got home a long look in the mirror confirmed the sad fact, time has…
We all want better photographs of our boat and the beautiful places that we visit, but we are normally restricted to sea level unless we can find a convenient hill to climb. Recently, small camera drones have become affordable. They…
Sandy is the fisherperson on our boat. She has always loved fishing and the pile of fishing gear that was on board when we bought the boat is probably her secret reason for wanting this particular vessel. Our steady donations…
We all have a dream. We wanted to circumnavigate the world and part of that dream was to go through the French canals in our own yacht. In 2009 we finally found the yacht we were looking for in New…
These days you will often find published in boat brochures and boat tests, a diagram showing the performance of a particular boat. The diagram is called a polar plot and a typical one is shown in figure 1. Understanding how…
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