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The Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa and her crew have departed New Zealand, on its way to leaving the Pacific Ocean for the first time in her 40-year history. The canoe’s master navigator, Bruce Blankenfeld, will use traditional Polynesian navigation techniques to…
Another grey and wet Sunday on Sydney Harbour failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the fleet contesting the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Land Rover Winter Series. Sam Haynes had a perfect start to his new grand prix campaign with…
Charlie Cumbley (GBR) made the first day of his first ever international OK Dinghy regatta look easy as he took three straight wins on the opening day of the OK Dinghy Spring Cup in Medemblik, in The Netherlands. Sailed in a…
After mother nature forced the cancellation of racing on day one of the Land Rover Extreme Sailing Series Act 3, Qingdao, today the dense fog lifted just enough for Race Director Phil Lawrence to squeeze in nine tight races, in…
The 11th Top of the Gulf Regatta Presented by Ocean Marina kicked off with an official opening ceremony last night presided over by Khun Rattanachai Suthidechanai, Pattaya City Council member, who together with regatta executives welcomed more than 600 sailors…
Navy Times/AP DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Search teams recovered the bodies of two boaters missing since a disastrous sailboat race Thursday as an investigation began into circumstances surrounding the competition, including whether it should have been canceled because of the…
The America’s Cup is teaming up with some of the biggest names in the marine industry to launch an ambitious Community Sailing Project, with a focus on leaving a sporting legacy in Bermuda. “This is an exciting project that builds…
ALICANTE, Spain, April 30 – Most of Team Vestas Wind crew members have been reunited in Bergamo, Italy, at the Persico shipyard where the rebuilt process progresses swiftly and on a very tight schedule to make it possible for the…
Stars & Stripes via AP DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — As the search for three missing boaters neared an end on the Alabama coast Thursday, authorities said they were launching an investigation into a sailboat race that ended in disaster when…
The call has gone out for entrants to join in the newly introduced Classic Yacht Class for the 9th annual SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week. Yachts with time on their side and built for racing in an earlier era…
North Sails Australia will show case their newly designed TKR mainsail at this year’s Marinepool Etchells Australasian Winter Championship which is being conducted by Mooloolaba Yacht Club from June 4 to 7. It’s taken two years of research and…
ALICANTE, Spain, May 1 – Tactical decisions, exhaustion – and seaweed – were the main preoccupations of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet midway through Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Friday as the teams hurtled towards a point…
The World Cruising Club, organisers of the annual Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), have announced that they will be taking over the events and activities of Sailing Rallies Ltd, including delivery of this summer's Baltic 4 Nations Rally. World Cruising…
ALICANTE, Spain, April 29 – Overall leaders Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker/GBR) positioned themselves ominously at the head of the fleet midway through Leg 6 on Wednesday as the six boats continued to jostle for position. At the beginning…
London, UK (29th April, 2015): Next week the Long Beach Yacht Club in California will play host to the two opening events of the 2015/16 World Match Racing Tour season, The Ficker Cup and Congressional Cup. Under the World Tour’s…
In all of the changes that have been wrought on the America's Cup by the introduction of the new, foiling multihull boats, one of the biggest is the physical contest, the man-to-man battle. There are no longer any pauses, there's…
It will be a World Championships of records when the Bay of Aarhus forms the backdrop for the World Championships in 2018 for all Olympic boat classes. In terms of both the number of sailors and the number of participating…
ITV News The loss of four UK sailors in the Atlantic was “a tragic accident”, the head of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said. But the disaster identified important safety issues that should reduce the chances of anything similar…
The Henri Lloyd Winter Warehouse Sale is on again in a pop-up venue in Crows Nest, Sydney.The pop up sale starts this Thursday 30th April and runs until Sunday 10th May. There is a huge range of samples and discontinued…
GME has announced a new VHF marine radio which is now available in stores. GME says the GX700 VHF Marine Radio is “a compact communication and safety device with innovative installation options” and is waterproof to IPX7. GME says the compact…
Persistent heavy fog forced the cancellation of racing on day one at the Land Rover Extreme Sailing Series Act 3, Qingdao. It is only fourth time in the nine-year history of the Series that mother nature has forced the organisers…
SoftBank Corporation and the Kansai Yacht Club announced they have come to an agreement to challenge for the 2017 America’s Cup. As SoftBank Team Japan, the team will compete in the 2015 America’s Cup World Series events, and challenge for…
Yacht Racing photographers from all over the world are once again invited to attend the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award in 2015. The standard has been set with the amazing 2014 competition results and now is time to start selecting,…
The Volvo Ocean Race finally headed for the ‘homeward’ stretch after crossing the Equator for the fourth and final time on Tuesday – but there was no room to celebrate with a major decision facing all the boats in the…
It’s not too late to enter the annual Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club Four Points Race on Port Phillip, this Saturday 02 May. This race is also the final heat of this season’s Victorian Trailable Yacht Travellers’ Series. Commodore Dean…
It is with great sadness we advise the death of Patricia Warn, a 59-year member of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, who passed away on Monday, 27 April aged 85. With her fraternal twin, Joyce, Pat was a guiding…
29th April 2015 – Seve Jarvin and his GAC Pindar crew are heading to Qingdao, China with high expectations for Act 3 of the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series (30 April – 03 May). Seve will be the Skipper alongside an all-Aussie…
Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA), fully recovered from the trauma of breaking their mast on the last leg, narrowly led the chase to Newport, Rhode Island, USA, on Monday. There was no room for the slightest complacency on the Chinese…
Thunderstorms and high waves complicated Monday's search for four missing boaters in Mobile Bay, Alabama, who have been missing since powerful storms capsized their sailboats during an annual race Saturday. At least two other boaters have been confirmed dead from…
May Cruising Helmsman visits the deep south, going to Hobart and the land of the long white cloud. Three stories give the reader plenty of ideas for destinations in New Zealand this month. One couple travel halfway around the world…
Australian Sailing Team’s World #1 Laser sailor Tom Burton won the gold medal at the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères in France over night (Sunday 25 April). Olympic gold medallists Nathan Outteridge (NSW) and Iain Jensen (NSW) added a…
The Thomson 7 sportsboat Temptation notched up a victory for Australia’s southernmost yacht club, the Port Esperance Sailing Club, in today’s Derwent Sailing Squadron’s Quantum Autumn Shorthanded Series on the Derwent. Skippered by sportsboat racing stalwart Steve Harrison, Temptation finished…
The 2015 Beyond Bank Regatta went off well despite a dismal forecast. This and the ANZAC centenary commemorations deterred a few potential competitors. There were still 70 boats entered with strong fleets in the Lightweight Sharpie, B14 and Hobie 16…
Trade Only Today. By Richard Armstrong. An unusual scene near the corner of Indiana Avenue and Lake Michigan Drive in Grand Rapids, Mich., has police asking the public to help them figure out what happened. A Grand Rapids police officer…
The Australian Sailing Team won two silver medals in the Sonar and the 2.4mR on the final day of Paralympic racing at the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Hyères, France on Saturday, 25 April. The Sonar competition stirred up several…
Hundreds of amateur sailors assembled in Portsmouth Guildhall today to discover which team and professional skipper they will be sailing with later this year in the world’s longest ocean race. They will be competing in the tenth edition of the…
It was the penultimate day of Olympic class competition at the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères with sailors battling it out for a spot in the Medal Race that will be broadcast live online on Sunday 26 April from 11…
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ” The world governing body of sailing threatened Friday to move all of its events for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics out of the city's Guanabara Bay if action isn't taken quickly to clean the…
Here's a great idea that could never work in Australia because of Federalism. A cruising route with secure moorings and marinas at regular intervals (perhaps in co-operation with New Zealand, New Caledonia and Norfolk Island) would encourage international and local…
Nearly 100 diehard owners and their crews ignored the unfriendly conditions in the first pointscore race of the Land Rover Winter Series sailed on Sydney Harbour today; a cold, slow water torture is the best way to describe the gusty…
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