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Eighty of the world’s top 470 junior talent faced off on day 1 of the 2016 470 Junior World Championship in Kiel, Germany today, Wednesday 22 June. Featuring the best 470 teams aged 23 and under, the starting line-up counts…
LA Times. By Hannah Fry. Three sailors delivering a 45-foot racing yacht from Hawaii to its new owner in Newport Beach had to be rescued 150 miles offshore when the boat began to sink. A 41-year-old man, a 56-year-old man…
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For one tantalising hour this afternoon Britain’s Figaro solo skippers held five places among the top 12 in what is proving to be a painfully slow first stage of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro. As the fleet negotiated Lizard Point…
Hamilton, Bermuda: June 21, 2016 — High Noon has captured ‘traditional’ line honours in the combined St David’s & Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Divisions in the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. This is an amazing accomplishment for the Young American Junior Big…
ALICANTE, Spain, June 21, 2016 – The Volvo Ocean Race has made key changes to its Leadership Team, including the appointment of race management expert Phil Lawrence as new Race Director. The re-shuffle, which follows Mark Turner’s appointment as CEO…
The Atlantic Homecoming Leg is underway and after the first twelve hours, just five nautical miles currently separate the first eleven teams in the Clipper 2015-16 Race’s final ocean crossing. Following last night’s Le Mans start, the fleet is very…
Competitors are gearing up and looking forward to racing in the warm climes at Airlie Beach Race Week where the shore side entertainment is guaranteed to be as action packed as the racing. Boosted numbers across the board will make…
Australian Sailing and the Australian Paralympic Committee have been advised of an incident involving two members of the Australian Paralympic Sailing Team in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday morning (Sunday night AEST). Athlete, Liesl Tesch and team official, Sarah Ross,…
Aussie sailor Patrick Conway, sailing on Mini number 523 Matador, is currently competing in the Mini Fastnet race, from Douarnenez, France, with Italian co-skipper Alessandro Torresani. Pat and Ale are off the coast of England at the moment, coming up…
After a tough, physically and mentally demanding first 24 hours of Stage 1 of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the solo skippers racing to Wolf Rock – to the southwest of Land’s End – will have given themselves a short…
Yet another record has been set in the 2016 Volvo Round Ireland by US Maxi yacht Rambler 88. It took US businessman George David and his 19-strong crew just 50 hours 24 minutes and 09 seconds to complete the 704…
Entries in the Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race have topped 50 and officials from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) remind prospective competitors that entries close in 17 days’ time on Friday 8 July. This year’s fleet…
Newport RI: June 20, 2016— The 50th Thrash to the Onion Patch, the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race, has not been a dash. Following Comanche’s record-breaking run to Bermuda, chopping almost five hours off the 2012 numbers, the fleet stalled against…
Emirates Team New Zealand celebrated a long awaited milestone today at their Beaumont Street base in Auckland by launching their first custom-designed development boat. The 45 foot catamaran has been in the process of being built for the past six…
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race teams have departed New York on the final leg of the circumnavigation, the ‘Atlantic Homecoming’. Following a Departure Ceremony and Parade of Sail in front of the New York skyline and Statue of Liberty,…
Deauville on the French channel coast dealt the 39 solo skippers who set off on the 510-nautical mile first stage of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro a slow, sticky and exacting start this afternoon. Light and streaky breezes made the…
HAMILTON, Bermuda – The International Moth Class Association (IMCA) today announced that Bermuda will be host to the 2018 Moth World Championship slated for May of that year. Following the inaugural MS Amlin International Moth Regatta in December 2015, Bermuda…
An historic new record for the fastest-ever sail around Ireland has been set. The Sultanate of Oman’s flagship trimaran Musandam-Oman Sail has completed the full 704-mile course in just 38 hours, 37 minutes and 7 secondssmashing their own2015 record by…
The world's top ranked sailors have been invited to attend the penultimate and final events of the Sailing World Cup series in Qingdao, China and Melbourne, Australia. The top 30 sailors in World Sailing's Fleet Racing Rankings on Monday 13…
Patrick Conway has returned to the French short-handed sailing scene, this time on a smaller budget and therefore a smaller yacht. Pat is participating in this Sunday’s Mini Fastnet race out of Douarnenez, Brittany The Mini 6.50 class is extremely…
Ian Williams and his team GAC Pindar managed to bring out their best game in the deciding races of M32 Series Scandinavia in Gothenburg. They ended the action filled final day with a win that put them on top of…
The Volvo Round Island Race started in 10 to 11 knots of southerly wind and a fair tide. The first fleet away were the 55 monohulls consisting of a vast mixture of boats and crews. From one of the fastest…
Less than 24 hours into the race, Comanche is already through the Gulf Steam and pressing to break Rambler’s elapsed time record from 2012. “We’re in Champagne conditions, making 20-25 knots,” said skipper Kenny Read. At press time 7:00PM in…
Light northerly winds dribbled down Pittwater, part of Sydney’s northern beaches, just long enough for the MC38 fleet contesting their end of season Winter Regatta to bank three of four planned races. Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s principal race officer…
The competitors in the Coutts Quarter Ton Cup 2016 found themselves sitting right in the centre of a very slow moving low on their final day of racing off Cowes and were forced to watch as the wind went frustratingly…
Hamilton, Bermuda: June 19, 2016— Comanche has set a Newport Bermuda Race record celebrating her line honours victory in the 50th Thrash to the Onion Patch, Newport Bermuda 2016. Jim and Kristy Hinze Clark’s 100 foot screamer, skippered by Ken…
Will Dargaville (AUS) is the new World Champion at Youth Match Racing. The crew from Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club sailed their last “duel in paradise” against their fellow countrymen from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. “It is a…
Race 7 of the of the Land Rover Winter Series on Sydney Harbour was always going to be a wet one – all day – but it did not dampen the enthusiasm of competitors, instead the reverse was true, on…
In their own wet weather bubble the MC38 fleet followed the breeze around an otherwise barren Pittwater and managed to complete the scheduled final four races of the season ending MC38 Winter Series, victory going to Leslie Green’s Ginger. For…
I was told once that when two yachts are sailing in the same direction, then you have a race. Based on that solid theory, WE HAVE A RACE. Not long after posting the announcement that an Around Australia Yacht Race…
Rome 1960 was the first time ever the Olympic Games was televised around the world, arguably the first step on the road to becoming the global mega event we will see in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in just 50 days…
HAMILTON, Bermuda – The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club announced today that the Argo Group Gold Cup will not be held this year. The decision comes after weeks of discussions between the management of the World Match Racing Tour, the RBYC,…
Lindsay Owen-Jones 100-ft Maxi Magic Carpet Cubed (GBR) has claimed line honours at the 2016 Giraglia Rolex Cup. Crossing the finish line in Genoa at 15:02:56 CEST today (Thursday), Magic Carpet Cubed completed the offshore race from Saint-Tropez, France in 26 hours, 48…
British sailors have made consistent, notable inroads into the highly charged world of La Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the solo multi stage offshore race, in recent years not least establishing a solid record in the challenge to be top ‘bizuth’…
Dateline Newport RI: June 16, 2016 — As nearly 1,700 sailors who will soon race to Bermuda make their preparations, loading food and gear into their boats and lining up to pre-clear Bermuda customs and immigration, all of them have…
16 June 2016 – Cowes, UK – After the opening day's blustery conditions, day two of the Coutts Quarter Ton Cup produced a distinct change of pace. Racing was initially postponed for two hours to allow the breeze to fill in…
ABC News An old pearling lugger that featured in the movie Australia has sunk overnight in Darwin. Duty Superintendent Brendan Muldoon said the boat, Anniki, was moored at the Duck Pond in Frances Bay when it sank. “At about one…
The offshore race of the 64th Giraglia Rolex Cup got underway today at midday, with 268 yachts departing from Saint-Tropez for Genoa, via the Giraglia rock. Following three days of blissful warmth and generally clear skies, the Cote d’Azur went…
It’s 2014. It’s the hostile environment of the Maracanã soccer stadium. A despondent Argentinian team trudge off the field following a 1-0 defeat to Germany. They had lost the FIFA World Cup Final. Fast forward a year and another Argentinian…
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