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AUCKLAND, New Zealand, February 26 – Birthday boys Charles Caudrelier and Ian Walker were planning to dampen each other’s celebrations as Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race continued to go down to the wire on Friday. Abu Dhabi Ocean…
Day 2 of Sail Auckland started with the postponement flag hanging from the official regatta flagpole but at 1100 hours it was lowered, as there was a faint breath of air filling in on the Oceanbridge Sail Auckland race courses. A…
With Cheminées Poujoulat making good progress up the Atlantic, making close to 18kts, 120 miles SW of the Falklands, Cape Horn marks the frontier between the two different worlds inhabited by skippers on the Barcelona World Race. All but two…
Lloyd Thornburg's MOD 70, Phaedo3 crossed the finish line of the 7th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 at 20:35:30 AST on 24th February 2015 in an elapsed time of 1 day, 9 hours, 35 minutes and 30 seconds. …
A week before the launch of its new monohull, Safran is unveiling the colours of its latest generation IMOCA. The grey and turquoise Safran will be launched on March 4 and christened on Saturday, March 7 in Lorient. The new…
Doyle Sails is pleased to announce that effective immediately, Peter Boyd will be acting as their representative in the Bay of Islands. The Bay of Islands is a key location for Doyle, particularly with a high percentage of Doyle’s cruising…
Stage two of the Australian Farr 40 2014/15 season is set to play out this weekend on Sydney Harbour, Saturday February 28 to Sunday March 1. In lieu of the cancelled Tasmanian state title, a One Design Trophy regatta has…
The Royal Gazette. By Jonathan Bell. Special America’s Cup provisions allowing open-air drinking on Front Street will not limit festivities to that area alone, according to Junior National Security Minister Jeff Baron. Senator Baron faced some Opposition queries earlier today,…
Emirates Team New Zealand announced today that the Halsey Street, Auckland, base will be fully operational from Monday, March 2. Work will start immediately on modifying an AC45 catamaran to foil. With the first America’s Cup World Series regatta scheduled…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, February 26 – Victory in the fourth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race was so close that Dongfeng Race Team skipper Charles Caudrelier (FRA) could almost taste it on Thursday, but with just over 500 nautical miles…
Day one of Oceanbridge Sail Auckland got off to a slow start due to a lack of wind – with all fleets forced to wait two hours with the postponement flag hoisted up the official flagpole. Hosted by Royal Akarana…
Instead of celebrating a major milestone in his sailing career, ETNZ’s newly-appointed co-helmsman Peter Burling was left to answer awkward questions about the way the team’s management had handled the sacking of Dean Barker. Burling did well in a very…
Mythical, revered, renowned, legendary…..but above all Cape Horn is a time for extra care and caution. While observers and race fans may be poised to share and enjoy the passage of the Barcelona World Race leaders Cheminées Poujoulat this Tuesday…
66 yachts started the 7th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, with hundreds of race fans watching the impressive fleet from Fort Charlotte and Shirley Heights. Thousands more are now glued to the tracker and social media feeds. After a…
With the majority of OK Dinghy World Championship winners over the past two decades being production GRP boats, you could be forgiven for thinking that the home building roots of the class have long been forgotten. However this couldn’t be…
The roof of a Norris Lake marina in Campbell County, Tenn., collapses after being covered with ice and snow. Damage is estimated to be near $800,000.
Nine-time Laser Masters world champion and Olympic sailing coach Brett Beyer was named Masters Athlete of the Year at the 2014 NSW Sports Awards in a ceremony recognising elite sports stars at Curzon House in Marsfield. Last July, the NSW…
Garmin’s new GPSMAP 7400xsv series of premium multi-function displays (MFD) combines powerful performance with an interface to deliver a range of features in a fully-networkable, simple-to-use package. Comprising a vibrant widescreen display with full pinch-to-zoom touchscreen capabilities, the GPSMAP 7400xsv…
Oceanbridge Sail Auckland registration for sailors and coaches has begun at Royal Akarana Yacht ahead of the four-day regatta. 194 boats across 17 classes will race on the Waitemata Harbour spread among four courses, making this event one of the…
Cheminées Poujoulat, which has lead the two handed round the world race for 39 days, has passed Cape Horn (67°15 11 W) at 01:00 UTC (02:00 Barcelona time, 22:00 Chilean time). In so doing Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam complete their passage through…
The Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation is a foundation whose ideals and research the Sydney Sailboat Expo Team strongly believe in. We are pleased to be able to support the Foundation in Australia and look forward to their involvement in the…
Australia’s historical ocean race, the QantasLink Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race will set sail for the 67th time on Good Friday. An icon of Queensland, the offshore race is the biggest sporting event in Queensland to be staged annually over…
Within hours of each other Spirit of Hungary were finally forced to bow to the inescapable truth that they have to pitstop into Invercargill, South Island NZ and Renault Captur have left Wellington NZ after completing their own pit-stop. The…
Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR) found wind pressure on Monday while the rest of the fleet were parked up in the Pacific Ocean to make inroads into their deficit on Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race – but their happiness…
Entries are rolling in and d’Albora Marina is near to being fully occupied in terms of temporary berthing for this year’s Sail Port Stephens, April 13 –19, 2015. Event manager Dom Grundy says “a lot of familiar names and faces…
SAN DIEGO — A large, military transport plane will join the search Monday for a 76-year-old sailor who went missing after taking his boat out from Shelter Island about a week ago, a Coast Guard official said. Richard Byhre left…
The new 2015 Australian Sailing Team additions Matthew Wearn (WA), David Gilmour (WA), Rhys Mara (VIC) and Joel Turner (QLD) were officially welcomed on to the Australian Sailing Team at a team dinner at Middle Harbour Yacht Club last night. …
Several members of the Mordialloc Sailing club (MSC) have been planning for several months to sail around the bay commencing on 28th February through to Friday 6th March 2015. To replicate the Sail Around The Bay (Port Phillip Bay) by…
Warwick Sherman is a fighter. He’s also an experienced sailor. Combine the two and you get a pretty formidable force that recently tried to win another Division gong in the 2014 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Rewind to 2012…
Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean. There was no chance the 200 or so Sydney 38 and 36 sailors contesting the Performance Boating Sydney Yachts Regatta were…
Legend has it that over 31 days during 1788 the HMS Bounty of Captain Bligh made just 85 miles while attempting fruitlessly to round Cape Horn. If they round Cape Horn as expected on Tuesday 24th February, Barcelona World Race…
'The Optimist Dinghy' is the 130-page history, fully illustrated, of how an 'orange crate' from Florida became the junior boat in over 120 countries. It includes an 18-page supplement by Clifford McKay Jr., the first boy to sail the Optimist,…
The Buizen company was established 35 years ago in Sydney and in that time the Buizen name has earned great respect in Australian yachting circles for its philosophy and quality. Not a manufacturer of mass-produced production boats a Buizen Yacht…
Herald on Sunday. By Dana Johanssen: A furious Dean Barker has called in the lawyers as the bitter battle over his future with Team New Zealand intensifies. Barker was left shell-shocked at leaks to media this week that he was…
Twenty years after a bunch of friends decided to celebrate wooden boat building the My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival now ranks as one of Tasmania's top tourist drawcards. Over 200,000 visitors to this February's edition of the festival means…
A new yacht race, planned for 2017, will take competitors through the North West Passage from New York to Victoria, British Columbia. The race website claims: Starting in Summer of 2017, STAR teams will sail six race legs with stopovers…
Renault Captur were approaching Wellington NZ this Saturday afternoon ready to set in motion their plan to repair their damaged starboard rudder blade. With 60 miles to go, sailing upwind in a short, choppy sea at the eastern entrance to…
This summer of yacht racing marks the 30th season in which veteran Hobart yachtsman Don Calvert has raced his equally veteran Castro 40, Intrigue, on the River Derwent – and it could well be another winning season. Since leading Australia’s…
For those awake around midnight last night, a 20 knot ENE gust through Sydney’s northern suburbs raised hopes for day two of the Performance Boating Sydney Yachts Pittwater Regatta. The reality was… well like night and day; another heavy cloud…
Paul Clitheroe’s Balance came within five minutes of being the only finisher in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Ocean Point Score’s (OPS) from Sydney to Newcastle late Saturday evening in one of the most frustrating races in recent memory….
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