420 fleets too tough to call at Youth Worlds
There are two meanings of the word open when it comes to Sailing. You have 'open' which is both male and female in the same fleet racing against each other. Then you have the kind of open that we have…
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Australian female Skipper Wendy Tuck leads Clipper Race fleet as it starts Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Australian skipper Wendy Tuck led the 12-strong Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race fleet in the early stages of the Australian bluewater classic the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race (RSHYR). The first Australian female skipper in the 19-year history of…
Comanche just like sailing a laser says Ken Read
When Comanche arrived in Australia for the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, she was fresh out of the shed and still undergoing work to be able to compete in the race. The team was still building major components to…
Rolex Sydney Hobart through the photographers lens
Andrea Francolini is one of the best yachting photographers and after 15 years of shooting the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, he knows how to get the perfect shot. While everyone is looking at who is going to be the…
Wild Oats XI has retired from Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Record holding eight time Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race line honours victor, Wild Oats XI, has retired from the race after reporting a torn mainsail. Early reports indicate that the sail tore in half when the yacht was hit by…
Safety Beach Sailing Club readies for O'pen Bic Worlds
Most families start winding down for the holiday season but for O'pen Bic families around the world this is just the beginning. 125 competitors from nine nations have already registered for the 2015 O'pen Bic World Championships set to begin…
Christmas Eve – up the mast in the South Atlantic fixing delamination problems
While the rest of the western world celebrates with food and booze, spare a thought for the sailors trying to set a new Jules Verne record. Here is how Antoine spent the lead up to Christmas: Delamination on the mast: “Antoine…
Wild Oats to carry its no-longer 'secret weapons'
Bob & Sandy Oatley’s supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, will go to the start of the 71st Rolex Sydney Hobart race tomorrow with two “special weapons” on board – meat pies and the “voodoo stick”. Both are considered to be a…
If this non-skid surface is good enough for Wild Oats XI it's probably good enough for your boat
After the bow and stern sections were cut off the Sydney Hobart record-holder, she obviously needed new non-slip tapes to ensure crew safety in the tough conditions expected for this year's race. As with everything they put on the boat,…
Keep your head on when sailing at speed with the Vaikobi helmet for just $65
Here's another special offer for Mysailing readers from BoatCrewGear.com. The Performance Water Helmet from local brand Vaikobi is designed for performance adventure paddling, surfboat rowing and high performance sailing and kiteboarding. It’s a lightweight, comfortable and breathable helmet…
Bad weather aside, current sailors are far better prepared than 1998 crews
Just seven days out from the start of this year's Rolex Sydney to Hobart the media relished in reporting weather conditions for the race to be as bad as the horrendous 1998 race. Conditions have tempered since then but at…
Pittwater to Coffs race – north is looking good
There’s plenty of chatter about weather models and the chances of a rough and uncomfortable Rolex Sydney Hobart starting in less than three days’ time, making the choice to head north to Coffs Harbour one week later even more appealing….
IDEC SPORT safely around Cape Horn and heading home
In a light, the like of which you don’t find anywhere else, surrounded by albatrosses, the big, red multihull made her way back into the Atlantic, leaving the desolate Southern Ocean in her wake and in so doing was very…
Build it and they will come – Artemis base in Bermuda underway
Fresh off its victory at the recent Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event in Bermuda, the Artemis Racing sailing team has returned to San Francisco, but work is under way in earnest at Artemis Racing's new home at Morgan's…
If the Sydney Hobart is too tough, try a 600nm race in the Caribbean
The glitterati of the sailing world will be in Antigua to compete in the 2016 RORC Caribbean 600. Well over 100 Olympians, World Champions, America's Cup and Volvo Ocean Race sailors will join hundreds of passionate corinthian sailors for the…
29er fleet separated by gender for the first time at Youth Worlds
The 2015 Youth Sailing World Championships shows off its increase in participation as the 29er class is separated for the first time. In previous editions the fleet has been an open affair but the boost in numbers sees the…
Record numbers in the Laser Radial fleets at Youth Worlds
Langkawi will welcome a record number of male and female Laser Radial sailors for the 2015 Youth Sailing World Championships from 27 December to 3 January. Historically, the Laser Radial is always the largest at the Youth Worlds and that…
The Fork digs in for another Launceston to Hobart win
Hobart yachtsman Gary Smith is quietly confident he can emulate, or at least again achieve his sailing successes of last summer, by taking line honours for the fourth time in Tasmania’s longest offshore race, the Launceston to Hobart. Over the…
From Optimist to Chinese Whisper – has Henry got the goods?
With such a star-studded top end for this year's race to Hobart, it is easy to overlook some boats. But one yacht popped up on everyone's radar at the recent Big Boat Series – Chinese Whisper. Owner Rupert Henry has…
Latest Sydney Hobart forecast – hang on for a wild ride
Michael Logan, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s NSW Weather Resources manager, delivered the early race forecast to all the competing skippers this morning at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, and the overriding message is that this 2015 Rolex Sydney…
Save over $100 on a set of Gill Coast gear from BoatCrewGear.com
Save over $100 on a set of Gill Coast gear. For a limited time BoatCrewGear.com and MySailing.com.au are offering a you a set of Gill Coast gear with a saving of over $100* The Coast Jacket is an…
Spindrift 2 half a day ahead of the Jules Verne record as she passes Cape Horn
Spindrift 2 passed close to the legendary Cape Horn on Monday morning at 8:09 am UTC before heading up the Atlantic, passing through the Le Maire Strait during the middle of the afternoon. With 18h 11mn up on the split…
Toulon to host America’s Cup World Series in September
France will host the fifth Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event of 2016 in September when racing comes to the Mediterranean city of Toulon. Located between Marseille and St Tropez, Toulon will host the best sailors in the world,…
Mount Gay Round Barbados Series anniversary 2016 regatta countdown
Bridgetown, Barbados (22 December, 2015): As preparations to mark the 80th anniversary of the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series (16-24 January 2016), and to commemorate 50 years of independence for Barbados continue, islanders have welcomed the first overseas race…
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Enter the dragon
They are certainly quick around the buoys; a highly popular one-design choice for the well-heeled racing enthusiast, as often as not crewed by Olympic and America’s Cup professionals in glamorous global regattas stretching from Rhode Island to Mallorca. But that…
The race for the Tattersall's Cup is on in earnest
For a few sailors the Rolex Sydney Hobart is all about getting there first, but for the bulk of the fleet only one thing will really make it a Christmas to remember – a vaguely baroque silver chalice, bedecked with…
SB20 World Championship for Hobart in 2018
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and Derwent Sailing Squadron will conduct the biggest and most exciting world championship for one-design yachts ever seen on Hobart’s River Derwent when they jointly host the SB20 World Championships in January 2015. Between…
How to navigate two boats in the Rolex Sydney Hobart
It is no secret that Matt Allen has entered both his Carkeek 60 and TP52 in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. With the days till the Boxing Day start slowing ticking by, Matt's decision on which boat to…
Uncomfortable first night expected for Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet
Michael Logan from the Bureau of Meteorology explained this morning that the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet is in for a tough first night as a Southerly front is expected to hit the fleet. The fleet will start in a strengthening…
Maserati completes training with biggest ever crew ahead of Sydney Hobart
Italian yacht racer Giovanni Soldini will field his largest ever crew on board ‘Maserati’ when it starts this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day and the team are spending the final week before the race testing both…
Royal Australian Navy signs up for Bay of Islands Race Week
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) is preparing its sailors, as overseas navy forces are invited to take part in the annual Bay of Islands Sailing Week regatta, early next year. Two units of 12 navy personnel – one from…
Tony Cable lines up for his 50th Sydney Hobart
On Boxing Day a bloke by the name of Tony Cable will start his 50th Hobart – nobody has ever done that before. It is a landmark for the Rolex Sydney Hobart; another colour to add to the tapestry of…
Boatie stopped from attempting to cross Cook Strait without engine, radio or navigation equipment
Stuff.co.nz by Michael Forbes and Tom Hunt A boatie who bought a $500 yacht with no engine, radio, navigation equipment or life jackets had to be stopped from sailing it from Wellington to Westport. Maritime New Zealand said the Wellington yachtie…
Fantastic finale for highly successful Sail Sydney
Sail Sydney’s fourth and final day of racing came with the same side order of blue skies and wind, a result of the high pressure system sitting over the Tasman and associated trough pushing cooling sea breezes onto the New…
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race: A truly global experience
This year will see more international boats and crew than ever before. A record 27 foreign entries will cross the Sydney Harbour start line of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day. The bar at the Cruising Yacht…
Wild Oats is “locked, loaded and ready to go” in the Rolex Sydney-Hobart race
Supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI, owned by Bob Oatley AO and his son Sandy, is “locked, loaded and ready to go” in the Rolex Sydney Hobart race according to skipper, Mark Richards, following the big boat’s final training session off…
Spindrift 2 rushes east more than 100nm ahead of the Jules Verne record
Air and water temperature: four degrees Celsius. 33-knot south-westerlies blowing directly off Antarctica. The Southern Ocean atmosphere is back! In just 36 hours since Saturday morning, Spindrift 2 has closed her 473-mile deficit on the world record pace (her largest…
IDEC Sport back at record pace, chasing Spindrift and the record
In less than 24 hours, Francis Joyon and his crew of five turned things around again in terms of the Jules Verne Trophy record time. They have just achieved another success following the one they had off the coast…
Good hit-out in Brazil for Australian Olympic hopefuls
Competing in conditions that should be replicated at the Olympic Games in August 2016, Australian Sailing Team members enjoyed a good regatta at the Copa Brazil in Rio de Janeiro from December 15 to 20. The best performance was recorded…
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race: Will he or won’t he – that’s the TP52 question
Will Matt Allen race his new TP52 Ichi Ban to Hobart or will he opt to stick with his sleek black hulled Carkeek 60 of the same name? The skippers of nine other TP52s entered in the Rolex Sydney Hobart…
