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Skipper Jimmy Spithill (AUS) will lead his team into the first event of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Portsmouth later this month. Sailing team manager Tom Slingsby (AUS/USA) will serve as tactician with Kyle Langford (AUS) trimming…
The bid by Australian supermaxi yacht Wild Oats XI to establish a race record time for the 2225 nautical mile Transpac race from Los Angeles to Hawaii is back on course after a new navigator was signed on today. New…
At the OSAF Congress held in Port Moresby last week, Yachting Australia Board member, competitive sailor and Olympian Karyn Gojnich was elected one of four Vice-Presidents of the Oceania Sailing Federation (OSAF). Members of OSAF, the federation of National Sailing Organisations responsible for…
San Pedro, CA – Under clear skies and in a light westerly breeze that is promising to build through the evening, the first 22 entries in Divisions 7 and 8 have started their 2225-mile race today in the 48th edition…
Women skippers winners Colleen Darcy and Alice Grubb each notched up a win in the SB20 class in today’s Derwent Sailing Squadron/Cascade Winter Series on the River Derwent, outsailing their male opposition in the light breeze. In fact, the women…
Throughout the Land Rover Winter Series participants have been waiting for a good blow, but the wind Gods left the best until last, throwing 18-20 knot gusty westerly winds at the entrants in the final Ladies Day Race of the…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club hosted the Mid Winter One Design Regatta for the second year over the weekend of the 11-12 July. The Melges 24 fleet was the largest of the five classes with three competitors travelling from…
(Sunday, July 12, 2015) – German boats were fourth and fifth home on the water in the Transatlantic Race. Tilmar Hansen’s Outsider crossed the finish line off the Lizard at the southernmost tip of Cornwall, at 13:55:27 UTC (09:55:27 EDT) on…
The Danish dynamite exploded completely when the 2015 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the first event on the 2015 WIM Series, concluded Sunday in Middelfart. The all-Danish final, comprising Lotte Meldgaard and Camilla Ulrikkeholm, went to five stunning matches,…
Pete Burling and Blair Tuke have won the 49er European Championships, after dominating the final day of competition on the huge Atlantic swell off the coast of Portugal. The Kiwis went into the day in 3rd overall, after coming off…
The first time Donna Lange sailed around the world by herself it was hardly an easy journey. Over 290 days at sea in her 28-foot sailboat, Inspired Insanity, she battled through 60-foot waves and 55-knot winds. She hit tropical storms…
Stan Honey, the man intended to navigate record breaking Australian supermaxi yacht, Wild Oats XI, in the Transpac race from Los Angeles to Hawaii, has been injured at sea during another event and is in doubt for the start of…
PACIFIC GAMES: Australia has come away with four medals after a magnificent week of sailing at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. In the men’s laser event West Australian Mark Spearman scored gold with 10 points…
We are sitting at anchor in the south arm of Port Clinton Queensland, which is not a port at all in the usual sense. Not a building, road, wharf or beacon anywhere. The wind has been howling through at 25…
On a recent cruise to the remote and picturesque Louisiade Archipelago in eastern Papua New Guinea an interesting discovery lay tucked away in a clearing above the mangrove lined shore. At the time, little was thought of it as the…
John Kanafoski was rescued by the US Coast Guard off Florida after his small yacht caught fire and he abandoned it to save his dog. The coastguard reported that Kanafoski was found 69 miles west of Hudson, Florida. The man…
The vessel in question is a De Haviland Norseman 14 foot aluminium dinghy that I suspect was made around 1972. It has three thwarts and currently pushed by a 11 kilowatt Mercury two stroke. Running properly it will do 20…
We stood transfixed under Dingo's spray hood and, wine glasses in hand, watched in horror as 70-knot winds wrought havoc on the boats to leeward. Our friends’ 40-foot Dufour was sheering wildly, the anchor was dragging and their inflatable, tied…
52 Cruising boats of all shapes and sizes from all over the world, came together for the start of the Multihull Solutions 2015 Sail 2 Indonesia Rally run by the Island Cruising Association. The official muster was held at the…
There’s one day to go in the men’s 49er event, and Pete Burling and Blair Tuke have been knocked off the top of the leaderboard after a protest by their arch rivals Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen. The finishing order at…
In the 2015 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the first event on the 2015 WIM Series, the semi finalists were decided in Saturday’s quarterfinals. The toughest races were sailed between World # 1 and reigning World Champion Anna östling…
Australian champion Glenn Bourke and the crew of Red, Victorian owner Rob Jeffreys and Jake Lilley, have finished third overall in the SB20 world championship on Italy’s spectacular sailing venue, Lake Garda. Tasmanian Michael Cooper, a relative newcomer to the…
In stark contrast to the two days they spent wallowing in no wind last week, a corridor of strong southwesterly winds straddling the breadth of the North Atlantic for the last 48 hours has provided last Sunday’s starters with conditions…
As the official builder for the 18ft Skiff Class, Brett Van Munster, of Van Munster Boats, is one of the world’s best exponents of high-technology hull construction of performance racing boats, but Brett and his team are also very experienced…
Jason Waterhouse (NSW) and Lisa Darmanin (NSW) have won the Silver Medal at the 2015 Nacra17 World Championship in Aarhus, Denmark overnight (Friday, 10 July). This is one place up for the two cousins after last year’s bronze medal at…
Three ‘epic’ races with 30-knot gusts made for spectacular competition on day 4 of the SB20 World Championships on Italy’s Lake Garda, with Australian champion Glenn Bourke moving up from 10th to fourth overall in the Gold Fleet. Tasmanian entrant Michael…
Late afternoon, British time, Bryon Ehrhart’s Lucky was the first boat in the Transatlantic Race 2015 to cross the finish line at The Lizard, ending a brutal 8 days 22 hours 5 minutes and 3 seconds at sea on a 2,800-mile eastbound…
The round-robin stage of the 2015 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the first event on the 2015 WIM Series, concluded Friday evening. French Anne-Claire Le Berre mastered the continuing heavy conditions impressively, finishing the stage on 13 wins and…
Giulia Conti and Francesca Clapcich have moved into pole position in the FX women’s fleet with one day day to go in Porto at the 49er European Championships. Meanwhile, with two days to go, Pete Burling and Blair Tuke have…
Next week the TP52 fleet return to Puerto Portals, Mallorca for the first time since 2008 when a twelve boat fleet line up to fight for the TP52 World Championship title at the third regatta of the season long 2015…
They are still the Tour’s leader, but today they gave the way to others teams. Groupama did not snatch any race victory and finished third after five races. They had consistent result and end the day on equal points with…
Very light airs made for a tricky fourth day at the 49er and 49er FX European Championships in Porto. After a long wait ashore for the breeze to fill in, the 49erFX sailors were sent home without any gold fleet…
The second day of the 2015 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the first event on the 2015 WIM Series, offered the sailors more waiting than sailing. A low-pressure front passing the event area caused steady wind speeds up to…
(Thursday, July 9, 2015) – With a day and a half to go, the three-way battle to be first home in the Transatlantic Race 2015 has changed complexion, with Bryon Ehrhart’s Lucky (former Sydney-Hobart winner Loki) taking the lead on the…
A buzz hit the boat park as the race committee announced their intentions to protest two contenders for the title here in Porto, Portugal. Vicky Jurczok with Anika Llorenz (GER) in the 49erFX and Erik Heil with Thomas Ploessel (GER)…
Local hope Lotte Meldgaard and French Anne-Claire Le Berre are the only undefeated skippers after the opening day of the 2015 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship, the first event on the 2015 Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series),…
Bigger breeze and two-metre Atlantic swell delivered some challenging conditions for day 3 of the 49er and 49er FX European Championships in Porto. Boats were leaping off waves with clear daylight showing between hull and water. Avoiding the dreaded pitchpole…
Final Day of the 2015 Kingston Laser Standard World Championship. Three races were completed today in winds of 6-10 knots from the North East, for a total of six races in the final series. Nick Thompson representing Great Britain, went…
(Wednesday, July 8, 2015) – Severe conditions in the mid-north Atlantic have continued to punish the bulk of the fleet in the Transatlantic Race 2015. Yesterday Daniel and Gretchen Biemesderfer made the decision to retire from the race after their…
Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin have moved into 2nd at the Nacra 17 Worlds on the first day of gold fleet racing after scoring 6,3,8 for the day. They are just four points behind the class pace-setters Billy Besson and Marie…
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