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The north-north westerlies picked up even more strength this morning to the east of Madagascar, enabling Spindrift 2 to reach average speeds of around 30 knots once again. The area of the Indian Ocean where the trimaran has been sailing…
In the lead up to this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race there is one famous previous winner which is preparing for something quite different. The famous yacht Solo has stood abandoned on the hardstand of a Brisbane shipyard now…
In this issue we look at all things Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, from who to watch, routing to what changes could be made in the future. Wild Oats XI has won the race eight times and has had some…
In the closest of shaves, the Geotherm crew of Brett Hobson and Billy Lusty have been crowned new NSW 12ft skiff champions following six races held over two full weekends on either side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Geotherm’s crew…
The Bureau of Meteorology will support the second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) which launched in Goa, India, last Friday (4 December) in the 50th anniversary year of the first expedition. The IIOE-2 is an interdisciplinary oceanographic research effort over…
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Over 900 competitors are starting to hit the St Kilda foreshore in preparation for one of Victoria’s top sporting events, the ISAF Sailing World Cup. 12 noon on Wednesday 9th December sees the first warning signal officially kicking off…
Tactics and endurance were the main winners in today’s Red Bull Lighthouse to Leighton kiteboard race, one of the most challenging for competitors in its six-year history. Local amateur kiter Peter McKewen, 32, won the 19km race from Rottnest Island…
Rupert Henry’s Chinese Whisper has taken the double of line and overall honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Bird Island Race and in the process has also taken charge of the Club’s prestigious Blue Water Pointscore. Chinese Whisper…
Wallabies and NSW Waratahs full-back Kurtley Beale will join Anthony Bell’s Perpetual LOYAL in the boat’s last Rolex Sydney Hobart Campaign. Beale, who recently returned to Australia after the Wallabies 2015 Rugby World Cup campaign has set his sights on…
Jeff Cordell’s smart-performing Mumm 36 B&G Advantage yesterday showed she will again be a strong contender for top honours in the 2015 National Pies Launceston to Hobart at the end of December, possibly repeating her handicap victory in the inaugural…
A near faultless performance by the De’Longhi 18ft Skiff crew in the 12-15knot North East wind gave the team a narrow win in the 3-Buoys Yandoo Trophy race on Sydney Harbour today. Simon Nearn, Grant Rollerson and Kieran Cowan started…
No need for pistols at dawn as Lloyd Thornburg's mighty green MOD70, Phaedo3 crossed the finish line off Quarantine Point, Grenada this morning, completing the RORC Transatlantic Race at UTC 10:56:03 in 5 days 22 hrs 46mins 03 secs. Waging…
The trimaran skippered by Yann Guichard crossed the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope, the first of the three great capes of this round-the-world voyage, last night at 02:06 GMT and Cape Agulhas, the symbolic entry into the Indian…
A strong fleet of 32 yachts, all aiming at Rolex Sydney Hobart glory, will be on the start line of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 85 nautical mile Bird Island Race, due to start on Sydney Harbour at 10am…
Nine months out from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Australian Sailing Team’s sailors are looking strong after securing three medals at the 2015 Para World Sailing Championships on Port Phillip, Melbourne (28 November – 3 December 2015) and winning the…
HAMILTON, Bermuda — It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So say Moth sailors after hydrofoiling around Bermuda’s sun splashed Great Sound in anticipation of the Amlin International Moth Regatta. “I’ve been out practicing for two days and this…
Day six of the RORC Transatlantic Race, and Phaedo3 and Concise 10/Ms Barbados are expected to finish the race tomorrow. Nomad IV leads the charge of the Maxis. Tales II makes up for lost time and Zed 6 finally heads…
For a limited time, BoatCrewGear.com has the world's smallest Personal Locator Beacon available with a 20% discount. If you're going cruising with your family or racing offshore over Christmas, now is a great time to buy this life-saving device….
NZ Herald – From Bernie Wilson, AP San Diego: SAN DIEGO (AP) ” The International Sailing Federation announced Wednesday that CEO Peter Sowrey has resigned after just five months on the job. ISAF, tasked with staging an Olympic regatta in…
At the London 2012 Olympic Games the Sailing Section was the shining light of the Australian Olympic Team, winning three gold and one silver medal. With medallists from 2012 continuing and new crews making podiums around the world, expectations are…
Visit Seattle, in a southerly position, has taken the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race lead for the first time in its overall campaign this morning, and is now 4.3 nautical miles ahead of yesterday’s leader Mission Performance which is…
Hull Daily Mail. By Tareq Haddad. A “wonderful and warm” mother died during a yacht race when she fell overboard and her lifejacket did not inflate. Maxine Wood, 55, was taking part in a yacht race with her husband off the…
The highlight of today's racing at the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria in Williamstown, Australia, was the performance of Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch in the SKUD18 fleet. At the Para World Sailing Championships the pair racked up another two…
Western Australia’s Rockingham Race Weekend was held on 28 and 29 November. Power and sail took part in the event and enjoyed the activities on the water and on-shore. Racing for the yachts forms part of the Farrawa Cup Series…
Mark ‘Richo’ Richards and Sandy Oatley have unveiled Wild Oats XI’s newest modifications at Woolwich Dock. The supermaxi has just undergone major reconstructive surgery after chopping 35 feet from the bow and 7 from the stern to create a longer…
Day Four of the RORC Transatlantic Race and the MOD 70s are heading west at alarming speed. Zed 6 is about to have it all on to the north and the IRC fleet is experiencing light winds in the high…
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race fleet has started Race 4, the Elliot Brown Timekeeper Cup to Sydney, departing Official Host Port, City of Albany, Western Australia. The start of the 2,088 nautical mile race followed a Parade…
VO65 Team Brunel has broken the ARC Course Record sailing from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia in an elapse time of 8d 7h 39m 30s. This is the third consecutive year that the Course Record…
The international Jury and the public have made their choice! The top 20 pictures will be printed and exhibited during the Yacht Racing Forum, in Geneva. The winners will be celebrated on December 8. More than 1,4 million pages have…
If you wanted a poster child for the potential glamour of a modern engineering career, you’d be hard pushed to come up with a better candidate than Richard Hopkirk. A graduate of Cambridge with a first class MEng degree, he…
If yacht design is the art and science of teasing out performance through testing and refinement, then Wild Oats XI (WOXI) is a great study in how the starting point inevitably affects the direction of development. In 2005 when Reichel/Pugh…
This is an edited version of an opinion piece in the December-January issue of Australian Sailing magazine. For the full article and responses from the CYCA and leading Sydney-Hobart sailors, buy an electronic copy of the magazine (see below) or…
We all know that instrument calibration is important for quality data on board. Many times however this task falls by the way side, in favour of rig tuning, crew mechanics training and boat maintenance. In this two-part guide we will…
Ross Wilson and his younger brother (by two hours) Kevin Wilson grew up in Mildura, it was here that these young twin boys learnt to sail on Lake Cullulleraine. From here their love of sailing and dedication to the sport…
The road-blocks to greater participation in club racing include the purchase price of the boat, the lack of availability (and annual cost) of a marina berth and the need for a large crew of dependable mates. The Far East 28R…
After over a decade of making top end dinghy gear, Australian brand Zhik has entered the offshore and street wear markets. Australian Sailing visited Zhik’s head office in Sydney where testing, design, R&D, photography and more is done. We had…
In summer, Perth people only need a 24 hour radar loop to assure them that there will be no rain. But we're sure it will be handy in winter – here's the BOM media release: The Bureau of Meteorology’s Perth…
After a favourable North Atlantic, the Southern Hemisphere is proving to be more complicated. That is however what Francis Joyon and his crew of five were expecting when they set out from Brest on this attempt to grab the outright…
Sydney, Australia, 30th November – Australian Seve Jarvin and Kiwi Adam Minoprio will be GAC Pindar’s co-skippers in the final leg of the Extreme Sailing Series in Sydney next month. They will be joined by James Wierzbowski (AUS), Tyson Lamond…
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