The latest news from the world of yachting and sailing including yacht & dinghy reviews, cruising and destination information plus the latest boating gear as well as inshore and offshore racing updates and regatta schedules. All things Sailing, Sail Racing, Sailboats and more.
All of Sydney is invited to welcome Lisa Blair back in through the Sydney Heads this Saturday (26 August) on board her yacht Climate Action Now. Lisa Blair recently sailed into Albany Harbour, Western Australia, after becoming the first woman…
Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC) has won its bid to host a major international sailing event in 2022 – the annual Fireball World Titles. The two person ‘off the beach’ racing series has only been held in Australia six times…
Stuff.co.nz. By Shani Williams. A historic Auckland racing yacht is being restored to her former glory after years of being left to rot in the Hauraki Gulf. The 113-year-old Ariki, known for being the fastest yacht in Auckland from 1904 to…
And they’re off! The biggest ever edition of the Clipper Race – one of the world’s toughest endurance challenges – got underway today on the River Mersey, in Liverpool, in front of thousands of supporters. The day started with departure…
Racing began on day one of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2017 in idyllic conditions, excited and some nervous crews facing the prospect of a 25-30 knot sou’easters and strong tide making for a wild downwind run from the narrow…
Chicago, IL — In a David-and-Goliath-style Finals series, Will Holz, who is ranked #406 in the world, took down the formidable, #6-ranked Australian Harry Price, and the Down Under Racing Team. Price and his crew, Murray Jones and Cameron Seagreen,…
Chicago: This weekend Chicago Yacht Club and Chicago Match Race Center are co-hosting the first stop of the three-event, US Grand Slam Series. The field of competitors includes twelve teams from five countries, seven of which are currently ranked in…
What a week it was for sailors at their recent 21st Tasar World Championship, held in Gamagori, 3 hours south of Tokyo Japan. More often than not, there was a call by the helm for `more vang, more cunningham, more…
Medemblik, Netherlands: All six fleets completed two races at the Laser Radial Youth World Championships today in the Final Series, which concludes the 2017 Laser Radial Youth World Championships in Holland. The wind was up from yesterday at a steady…
ith the overall regatta decided on the penultimate day, the Euro Car Parks Half Ton Classics Cup was presented to Phil Plumtree and the crew of Swuzzlebubble at Kinsale Yacht Club, Ireland on Friday night. A single ‘round the cans’…
Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sails was a light weather regatta – race officials were even forced to abandon all attempts at racing yesterday – and for a short time it looked likely to happen again today, but just…
(Medemblik, Netherlands) – Today brought the first round of the Final Series at the Laser Radial Youth World Championships. The fleets were divided into Gold and Silver fleets, with additional Bronze and Emerald fleets for the boys. Under gray skies…
With an enviable scoresheet of mostly first and second places for the series, Phil Plumtree’s Swuzzlebubble won the Euro Car Parks Half Ton Classics Cup at Kinsale, Ireland with just Friday’s eleventh race remaining. A breezy penultimate day ended with…
Dateline 22nd August 2017, Plymouth. UK. The story of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s battle to stay ahead of French yachtsman Bernard Moitessier in the 1968/9 Sunday Times Golden Globe solo round the world Race is one of legend. The 2018 Golden…
Greg Wilcox has returned to the top of the OK Dinghy World Ranking list for the third time since the World Ranking was created 12 years ago. He has spent more time at the top spot than any other sailor…
Spanish team MAPFRE completed overall Leg Zero victory in the early hours of Wednesday (16 August) and struck the first psychological blow in the build-up to the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18. But what the Leg Zero series of qualifiers confirmed…
(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,…
Read all of the latest sailing news
View more
Dinghy and Yacht Racing News
View more
News from the offshore world
View more
Cruising Stories from around the world
View more
The latest boats and yachting gear
View more
Watch everything sailing and boating
View more