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Yachting NSW’s Sail Sydney organisers staged the biggest day of the series with all 17 classes competing on a busy Sydney Harbour on Saturday December 19, 2015. Full resources were deployed to run three staggered start times for the 359…
She was one of the greatest maxi yachts of her day; winning line honours three times, first as Bumblebee IV in 1979, and then as Ragamuffin in 1988 and 1990 and she last raced to Hobart in 1993. For the…
Any thoughts of a post-Christmas sleigh ride for the supermaxi yachts contesting the Rolex Sydney Hobart race are decreasing as the Boxing Day start time approaches. A preliminary weather prognosis from acclaimed yachting meteorologist, Roger Badham, indicates that while the…
With an international Sail Sydney fleet of more than 400 competitors racing out of Rose Bay there are a multitude of stories worth telling. One of the more high profile is the reunion of 49erFX combination Haylee Outteridge and 2012…
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC UNESCO) and IMOCA Ocean Masters World Championship team up to gather climate change data in the remotest parts of the globe, particularly the Southern Ocean. The IMOCA Ocean Masters skippers, such as defending…
The 2016 Rolex Farr 40 World Championship at The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron will take place from February 16 – 19 and we are pleased to announce that the NOR is available and registration is officially open online. The Sydney Open, February 11 –…
Forward Sailing is a new brand dedicated to Water Impact Protection gear. No matter if you’re sailing, kite speed riding or windsurfing, you will find in their line innovative protective gear that will allow you to sail, ride and fly…
Woollahra Sailing Club has rolled the welcome mat out for more than 400 competitors representing 11 nations at the annual Sail Sydney regatta, Thursday 17to Sunday 20 December, 2015. Australian sailors are competing alongside a raft of internationals from Hong…
Organised by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in association with Antigua Sailing Week, the inaugural Antigua Bermuda Race will commence after the 50th edition of Antigua Sailing Week in early May 2017. The Antigua Bermuda Race is designed to offer…
All’s well that’s ends well were the words for the day. After resolving our pre race management issues, today race, without exaggeration was one of the better Classic Yacht races for some time. Race start With a decent…
Yachting photographer Andrea Francolini has taken two near identical images of Bob and Sandy Oatley’s supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, so the difference between Wild Oats XI pre and post-surgery is apparent. The location of the sailplan, rig, keel, rudder and…
In July this year, the General Assembly of the International 420 Class Association (held in Karatsu, Japan), announced that the Fremantle Sailing Club had won the bid to host the 2017 International 420 Class World, Ladies World and U17 World…
The FAREAST 28R has been picked by the World Match Racing Tour to be used during the last event for the 2015 World Match Racing Tour season, – the Monsoon Cup in Johor, Malaysia. “This is another great recognition for…
It’s not actually that long a story – though it took longer than expected, when last year, Hugh Ellis asked Gary Caulfield if he would like to do the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart on his Beneteau First 44.7 Twitch. Caulfield…
French champion Eric Loizeau and Estonian solo circumnavigator Uka Randmaa are the latest entrants to set their sights on winning the 2018 Golden Globe yacht race. They made their announcements at the first Golden Globe competitor conference, held at the…
Spindrift 2, the world's largest racing trimaran, skippered by Yann Guichard, is currently racing on the Jules Verne Trophy round-the-world crewed record attempt, with a time to beat of 45 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes and 53 seconds. By crossing the…
Thirteen Dragons competed in the 2015 WA Dragon State Championship in Perth under the burgee of the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club over a three day weekend from Friday 11 – Sunday 13 December. The regatta enjoyed an excellent mix…
NEEL Trimarans continues to take the cruising and racing world by storm with the NEEL 45 recently winning the Multihull division of the 2015 ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers). The NEEL 45, La Caravelle, completed the 2,700 nm race from…
“Mate, could you take my camera and film me helming this Extreme 40?” “Sure”. You give a bowman one job!
LONDON, UK (15th December 2015) The World Match Racing Tour today announced the remaining four ‘Tour Card’ skippers that will join the 2016 World Championship. Yann Guichard (FRA), Mattias Rahm (SWE), Nicolai Sehested (DEN), and the first ever all-female Tour…
The mystery of the Queensland sailor who has been missing since leaving Hervey Bay in late November has deepend after his boat was spotted 177 nautical miles east of Coffs Harbour this morning. Eero Tiitinen spoke to his family on…
Stuff.co.nz. By Laura Walters. Police have criticised a man for going out on his yacht with no lifejacket after drinking alcohol, sparking an almost five-hour search in Northland. Coastguard duty officer Mark Lever said the 63-year-old was transferring his 29-foot…
ANT-ARCTIC-LAB stands for the first attempt to sail nonstop, singlehanded and without assistance from Europe to the Arctic, through the Northwest Passage, down the Pacific Ocean and passing through the most dangerous cape in the world Cape Horn to circumnavigate…
Sailors got their first taste of Sydney Harbour’s fury as they prepared for Sail Sydney today. Woollahra Sailing Club is set to host over 300 boats, for the Annual event, running from Thursday 17th December to Sunday 20TH December 2015….
The support crew for the Jules Verne attempt by Spindrift 2 received the following message from Dona Bertarelli, illustrating one of the lesser-known irritations of a high-speed race around the world: “Don’t ask me what time it is….
Champion Hobart yachtsman Nick Rogers has made a striking return to racing in the classic International Dragon class, winning the Tasmanian championship sailed on the River Derwent over the weekend. Steering Karabos IX, Rogers won six of the eight races, and…
The Sun Odyssey range from Jeanneau has been one of the most successful in terms of sales and customer satisfaction. Already the recently released Sun Odyssey 349 is an Australian bestseller with more than twenty yachts on the water…
Last day of sailing and Phillip Ross, editor of Cruising Helmsman and part of the Yaffa Sailing Team, was given the opportunity to experience the VIP treatment at the last ‘Act’ of the Extreme Series in Sydney. In the end,…
Today is the first time that Rambler 88 will go up against the 100ft super-maxis Wild Oats XI, Ragamuffin and Perpetual LOYAL, along with other big boats who will be handicap contenders in the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart such as…
The new Wild Oats XI is fast. Very fast. Rambler 88 is genuine threat for handicap honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart, but apart from that, there is nothing from today's SOLAS Big Boat Challenge to help predict Hobart form….
British multihull racer Leigh McMillan was officially crowned the most successful skipper in the nine-year history of the Extreme Sailing Series in Sydney today when he clinched an unprecedented third championship title. McMillan and and his crew on The Wave,…
The nine invited classes that made up this year’s Sailing World Cup enjoyed excellent racing across the eight courses laid off the St Kilda sailing precinct on Port Phillip, Melbourne. Over four days the sailors encountered a range of conditions…
St Kilda’s usual foreshore and beach buzz on a warm summer Sunday grew louder when the Sailing World Cup Melbourne reached its peak. Eight Olympic classes peeled off their Medal Race one by one straight off the main beach, St…
Matt Allen (Ichi Ban) and Howard Piggott (Flying Cloud) came into the final day of the CYCA Trophy–Passage Series as the leaders of Division 1 and 2 respectively, following their wins yesterday, and repeated their performances in Race 2 to…
The Appliancesonline.com.au 18ft Skiff crew gave an outstanding performance in the 20-knot North East wind to score an all the way win in the Syd. Barnett Jr. Memorial Trophy race on Sydney Harbour today. David Witt (skipper), Tom Clout (sheet)…
After 2,088 nautical miles from Albany to Sydney, and long periods of slamming seas due to strong Southern Ocean headwinds, line honours in Race 4: The Elliot Brown Timekeeper Cup went to LMAX Exchange. GREAT Britain took second place and…
When the initial version of the SailTimer Wind Instrument was announced a year ago, it was the first masthead anemometer with a digital compass in the wind direction arrow. It is wireless and solar-powered, with the electronics encapsulated in the…
Having been in existence for over five years, we thought it was time to take the next step, and what a step it is going to be. Never before have we been able to focus our entire lives to the…
Last year the Australians had their first taste of watching Wild Oats XI, Perpetual Loyal and new American yacht Comanche go head-to-head in the SOLAS Big Challenge – and the 22nd edition tomorrow will be just as suspenseful when George…
The dramatically modified supermaxi yacht, Wild Oats XI, was a “totally different animal” according to skipper, Mark Richards, after the yacht had completed the 24-hour qualifying run for this month’s Rolex Sydney Hobart race. “She just lifts her bow and…
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