RSHYR: It’s crowded in here
Comfy she is not – in her 40 foot hull Imalizard boasts no floor, no shower, no windows, no table other than a small chart table and even that, in these days of electronic charts, is barely used, while sails…
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Wild Oats XI crew is almost “over the moon” when it comes to the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
When the knife-like bow of the supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, carves across the start line in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day the 20-man crew will have an astonishing 301 starts in the classic to their credit….
Stealthy Dongfeng trying to catch a break
Dongfeng Race Team opted to try one last trick in an eleventh-hour bid to overhaul Leg 3 leaders MAPFRE on Friday as they went into stealth mode. The decision by skipper Charles Caudrelier and navigator Pascal Bidégorry means Dongfeng will…
Spanish Armada looking strong at 420 Nationals
After two days of racing, the 420 Nationals are dominated by Spanish competitors, who currently hold down the top three places on the leader board, followed by two French crews and one from New Zealand. The top Australian crew is…
MAPFRE extends lead in VOR race to Melbourne
MAPFRE extended their lead over rivals Dongfeng Race Team on Thursday as Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race entered its closing stages. While the finish line isn't quite in sight, the most physical element of the battle is in…
Jon Sanders completes tenth circumnavigation of the world
Fremantle, NSW, 21 December 2017 – Jon Sanders AO OBE CitWA left Rottnest Island on the last leg of his mostly single-handed circumnavigation last week. The passage was approximately 500nm. He arrived in Carnarvon, WA aboard s/v Perie Banou II,…
Pantaenius Newport to Coffs Race – not everyone beats south at Christmas
The Pantaenius Newport to Coffs Coast Yacht Race has returned to its traditional start date of December 27 – the day after the ‘big’ race, the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, gets underway and boats beat south to Hobart….
Big summer of sailing with City of Perth Festival of Sail
The 2018 City of Perth Festival of Sail returns to the CBD with a busy program of activities taking place from Saturday, 27th January to Friday, 2nd February 2018. The 16th Annual Warren Jones International Youth Regatta is open to…
European crews dominate Australian 420 Nationals
On a day where the forecast sea breeze at Fremantle struggled to reach 15 knots in the gusts, European crews adapted to the conditions better than local crews to head the points score in both the yellow and blue fleets….
Whoops! The America's Cup was touted as a boon for NZ, but MBIE mucked up the figures
Stuff.co.nz. By Susan Edmunds A mistake in work done to determine the economic benefit of the America's Cup to New Zealand has been revised – and it shows the country might not break even. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment…
Youth Worlds medallists split for Australian Youth Championships
The partnership between Youth World Championship silver medallists Shannon and Jayden Dalton will be put on ice for the foreseeable future as Shannon prepares to sail with a new crew at the upcoming Australian Youth Championship, which starts on January…
New leader for VOR as MAPFRE jumps in front
Spanish crew MAPFRE broke the Leg 3 deadlock on Wednesday after 10 days at sea, snatching the lead from Dongfeng Race Team with just 1,500 nautical miles left to Melbourne. Xabi Fernández's team overhauled long-time leg leaders Dongfeng shortly before…
Internationals feeling the heat in lead up to Sydney Hobart
With just a week to go to the start of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart, the pressure is building on everyone to get their boats fully prepared, the crew working as a team and every last wrinkle ironed out, especially…
South Australians head east and call on other states to return the favour
The South Australian co-owner of Concubine, which will compete at the upcoming Australian Yachting Championships off Melbourne, has called for more Victorian and NSW boats to return the favour and head west in February to sail in the Adelaide to…
Dongfeng and Mapfre swap the Volvo lead in fast conditions
A little over 2,000 miles now stand between the Volvo Ocean Race pace setters and the Leg 3 finish line in Melbourne – and with just eight miles splitting the first two teams on Tuesday it couldn't be tighter at…
Two Rolex watches are good – three would be better
Pay attention – it all gets a bit complicated – Bob Steel won the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart in 2008 on his TP52 Quest, and he had already won the race once before, in 2002, on…
François Gabart: “We can still raise the level of the game and go much faster”
46 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds is the new single-handed round the world record, held by François Gabart as of Sunday 17 December, 02:45 (UTC+1). The skipper of the MACIF trimaran was welcomed triumphantly in Brest this…
Volvo Ocean Race: Close running in the Southern Ocean
Current Leg 3 frontrunners Dongfeng Race Team and MAPFRE have been racing practically neck and neck on Monday as the Southern Ocean continued to test the Volvo Ocean Race fleet. After eight extraordinary days at sea less than three nautical…
High hopes for competitive racing among 40 footers at BOI Race Week
Amid fears that windward leeward racing may be on its last legs, the growing entry list for B Division at CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week 2018 shows there’s renewed interest in high performance, competitive racing outside of the TP52…
Wild Oats XI struck by lightning
The Oatley family’s champion Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, is at the centre of a frenetic repair schedule after it was struck by lightning at the weekend. It is uncertain at this stage if the…
François Gabart smashes the single-handed round the world record
François Gabart, who left Ouessant on 4 November 10:05 (UTC+1), crossed the finishing line of his solo round the world, located between Lizard Point and Ouessant, at 02:45 (French time, UTC+1) this 17 December. On his first attempt, the MACIF…
Relentless work by leaders in Volvo Ocean Race
The leading crews in the Volvo Ocean Race are currently in the middle of the most physically demanding hours of the race to date. Dongfeng Race Team and MAPFRE are gybing back and forth as they zig-zag in an east-southeasterly…
Winners of invited classes decided as Sail Sydney ends on a high
There will be plenty of sailors sleeping soundly after a busy but thoroughly enjoyable Sail Sydney 2017 regatta wound up at Woollahra Sailing Club on Sunday. Following a highly competitive Olympic Classes section, which ended on Thursday, nearly 400 intrepid…
Courtois wins the WIM Series and the Bédanne Cup
An incredible final day at the Base de loisirs de Bédanne, as the sun came out and the crowds followed to see the final day of racing at the 2017 International Bédanne’s Cup and see the champions decided for the…
You can win the Rolex Sydney Hobart at both ends of the fleet
“Line Honours is all that matters,” so declared the man who will steer one of the very last boats to cross the finish line in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this year, as he…
Rolex Sydney Hobart: There are a lot of ways to get to Hobart
Yes, I know you can fly there for starters, but in the last week of the year for a surprising number of people, the only way to get to the Apple Isle of Tasmania is by racing boat, but even…
A race of second chances for Warwick Sherman
In 2012, at the age of 58, well known Cruising Yacht Club of Australia offshore racer Warwick Sherman contested his first Sydney Hobart – it was on his bucket list after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin mantle cell lymphoma in June…
America's Cup venue gets thumbs up from Team NZ
Radio New Zealand The choice of venue for the next America's Cup regatta in Auckland has been endorsed by Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton. Auckland Council voted on Thursday to extend and develop three areas around the Wynyard Basin…
Solo sailors can enter the Rolex Sydney Hobart
When the start cannon fires on Boxing Day, Queensland entries headed south will number 11 in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, but one is a little more unusual than the rest – a…
Gybing duel as Southern Ocean storm approaches Volvo fleet
Charles Caudrelier's Franco-Chinese crew Dongfeng Race Team continued to lead the way east, managing to stay just ahead of a huge depression catapulting the fleet towards Australia. However they have been under constant attack from Leg 2 winners MAPFRE, just…
Six teams still racing after Wendy Tuck pulled off hometown win in Clipper Race
With almost half the Clipper Race fleet now in Sydney, the thirteenth day of racing is proving pretty unlucky for the six teams still racing as un-forecasted windholes provide frustration in the final 100 nautical miles of this race. Sydney…
Gold, silver and bronze for Australia at Youth Worlds
Australia is celebrating new world champion sailors after Otto Henry and Rome Featherstone came from behind to claim the gold medal in the 420 Boys class at the Youth Sailing World Championships in China today. The pair’s rousing win was…
Golden Globe Race officials meet French Federation de Voile to discuss Race Rules and Safety issues
Dateline Paris 14th December 2017: The organisers of the 2018 Golden Globe Race (GGR) today met with the full board of the French Federation de Voile (FFV) to discuss all aspects of the organisation, operation and safety/security considerations for the…
Quarter-finalists decided at WIM Series in Bédanne
The order of the day on Thursday at the International Bédanne’s Cup was to complete the double round robin. This would set the stage for the quarter-finals and see who would win the right to skip the quarter-finals and go…
Volvo boats surfing mountainous waves in winds gusting to 50 knots
The deep low-pressure system that has been forming for the past few days has now engulfed the seven crews, forcing them to switch from all-out racing to a more conservative mode. Nevertheless, boat speeds rocketed to an incredible 38 knots…
Clipper boats neck-and-neck and due to reach Sydney today
After twelve intense days and almost 2,500 nautical miles of racing, just half a nautical mile now separates frontrunner Sanya Serenity Coast, from second placed Visit Seattle, both led by the Clipper Race’s two female Skippers, as the teams cross…
Jeff Cordell lining up for decade of L2Hs
This year’s Launceston to Hobart yacht race will be the 11th edition, but for prominent Bellerive Yacht Club member Jeff Cordell and two of his crew of B&G Advantage this will be the their 10th. It’s a significant year for…
Italians clinch first Sanya Youth Worlds gold
Italy's Margherita Porro and Sofia Leoni claimed the first title at the 2017 Youth Sailing World Championships in Sanya, China, sealing gold in the Girl's 29er with two races to spare. The Italians carried a 26-point advantage into Thursday's action…
Dramatic video of AkzoNobel breaking their mast track in the Southern Ocean
[Thursday, December 14, 2017]: Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 challenger team AkzoNobel, currently racing through the Southern Ocean from Cape Town to Melbourne on Leg 3 of the round the world race has suffered damage to the yacht's mast and mainsail when…
WIM Series: Courtois maintains control at Bedanne’s Cup
The conditions turned blustery on small Lake Bedanne in Normandy for the second day of racing at the International Bedanne’s Cup – the final event of the 2017 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series). But change of conditions did…
