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A rush of late entries for Hamilton Island Race Week, which starts next Saturday, has seen the fleet number surge beyond the magical figure of 200. Early today there were 202 entries, making this year’s fleet the second largest Race…
The weekend of Oct 24/25 sees this year’s Spirit Marine French Yacht Challenge and Queensland Beneteau Cup, hosted by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. Now in its 9th year, the event is organised by the Qld Beneteau Owners Group and…
With snow-capped Mount Wellington as a backdrop, the fleet in the Bellerive Yacht Club/Tilford Auto Group Winter Series today enjoyed the closest racing of the winter, both in boat-for-boat racing and in handicap results. The outcome, with just one race…
(August 9, 2015) – The Safety at Sea Committee of the Cruising Club of America has just published an updated version of its highly regarded Suddenly Alone workbook, now titled Safety for Cruising Couples – Including “Suddenly Alone.” The workbook…
Torquay sailors Brenton and Jen Carnell wasted no time registering for the Festival of Sails 2016 when online entry for the annual Australia Day regatta opened this morning, Monday August 10, 2015. Their current Sydney 38 national champion, Phoenix, is…
On a long and hard light air day for competitors at Airlie Beach Race Week, with a lot of waiting around for breeze, Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban ticked off another win to continue to lead IRC Racing Division 1, while…
A little over a week remains before the eagerly anticipated start of the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race. A veritable international armada will contest the 46th edition of the race, commencing from Cowes on Sunday 16 August. Around 390 yachts from…
From Superyachts to family cruisers, hundreds of boats are expected to come to Bermuda to enjoy the 35th America’s Cup in May/June of 2017. “We expect visiting yachts to make up a significant component of the visitors who will be…
Anna östling lost just one match in her quarterfinal, while all the other semi finalists went with a clean sweep through theirs. The Swedish World #2 will in her semi final face either fellow club member Caroline Sylvan of the…
After a dramatic Friday which saw Quantum Racing as boat of the day posting a second and first, with owner-driver Doug DeVos on the helm, getting their Copa del Rey MAPFRE title defence back on track, Harm Müller-Spreer’s German Platoon…
A golden day at the 34th Copa del Rey MAPFRE for Germany’s Harm Müller-Spreer, two back to back wins on the Bay of Palma during which no boat crossed the bows of the distinictive ‘armour clad’ Vrolijk designed TP52, takes…
World #4 Stephanie Roble of the USA didn’t only win the round-robin stage of the Lysekil Women’s Match, but she and her Epic Racing Team also made it in a very stylish way. 11 wins and no losses is certainly…
Coaches blog #8 by Tony Bull Buongiorno Well what a day! More twists and turns than an Agatha Christie novel. But the simple upshot was a very good day in general for the Aussies. We were the beneficiaries of an…
American Stephanie Roble is on fire at Lysekil Women’s Match, the 2nd stage of the 2015 WIM Series. An intense Wednesday with eight matches and as many victories, puts her at the very top of the leader board. “Including…
Cowes, UK, August 5, 2015 – An action-packed finish in the final race determined the overall result of the Etchells Invitational Regatta for the Gertrude Cup. On the final approach to the pin end of the line, five boats were…
While Vladimir Liubomirov’s Bronenosec ran away with the 30 miles coastal race today, extending their polished record on the coastal tracks of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES to three wins and a second place, fifth place for Azzurra to Quantum…
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has modernised its brand in a bold move designed to give fans more access to the athletes wearing green and gold at the Rio Games. The new brand reflects Australia’s Olympic heritage but is designed…
In Britain more than 500 International Cadet dinghies are raced regularly in fleets around the UK. In Australia the number is probably between 50 and 60; in Hobart the regular racing fleet is around 12-15 boats, all sailing out of…
Coaches blog #7 by Tony Bull. Buongiorno Well lay day here today in the beautiful Riva Del Garda. We have finished 8 out of the 12 scheduled races. It is a time to assess what lies ahead. Whilst we are…
Local hope Caroline Sylvan is undefeated and alone at the top of Lysekil Women’s Match, the second stage of the 2015 WIM Series, after a first day severely shortened when the wind died just before lunch. Although French Anne-Claire Le…
Cowes, UK, August 4, 2015 – The penultimate day of the Etchells Invitational Regatta for the Gertrude Cup dawned bright and sunny, with a brisk south-westerly breeze averaging 18-22 knots, with stronger gusts and a forecast for the wind to…
Azzurra made the best possible start to their 34th Copa del Rey Mapfre with two staright wins on the Bay of Palma capitalising on two strong starts to lead at each and every mark today. The crew which won the…
One that’s always worth watching, especially if you’re stuck in an office when you’d rather be sailing. This is a clever video made by the Volvo Ocean Race team, relating the life of an ocean racer with the everyday grind.
The Telegraph. By Gregory Walton. A renowned yachtsman and British sailing champion has died after being found in distress off the Cornwall coast when his ‘back to basics’ bid to cross the Atlantic in a boat designed in 1908 ran into…
According to a report on Britain's ITV News, almost a quarter of a million people watched the first America's Cup World Series event in Portsmouth last month. It was half the expected number but obviously affected by the cancellation of…
The Race Management Committee of the Royal Geelong Yacht Club has issued the Notice of Race for the Festival of Sails Regatta presented by Rex Gorell Land Rover which will be staged over five days across the Australia Day long weekend….
SEA-TV Productions has just made THE AMERICA’S CUP 1983 film available online for digital download and digital rental. “Previously available only on DVD, THE AMERICA’S CUP 1983 will now be made instantly accessible worldwide at a very reasonable price,” says SEA-TV…
Cowes, UK, August 3, 2015 – The second day of the Etchells Invitational Regatta for the Gertrude Cup saw more intense competition, including an incredibly tight finish in the second race that saw the four leading boats cross the line…
When they won the Official Practice Race on the Bay of Palma today Quantum Racing confirmed that they have their machine – boat and crew – in full winning order as they prepare to start their defence of the Copa…
World #1 Camilla Ulrikkeholm Klinkby has four consecutive victories in Lysekil Women’s Match, now aiming for a fifth triumph. But with seven of the eight top skippers on the ISAF world ranking present at the event, her mission for the…
The 2015 Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe will be no different to previous editions in being a true laboratory for the latest developments in yacht design whose adoption will depend on how well they work and how practical they are….
It all began in 1966 with a Sparkman & Stephens-designed 36-footer commissioned by local builder Pekka Koskenkylä. Pekka had the intuition and the ability to convince Sparkman & Stephens – New York, one of the most acclaimed yacht designers at…
Some of the best IRC boats in the world are heading to Hamilton Island this month for the IRC Australian Championship, reason enough for leading Hong Kong businessman Karl Kwok to launch a brand new TP52 in Auckland and debut…
For Peter Harrison, last year’s Airlie Beach Race Week was memorable for all the wrong reasons, because his yacht, Rumgutz, capsized on the first race day – but as the old saying goes, ‘You can’t keep a good man down’….
Yachting Australia, with the unanimous support of State and Territory Associations, are a step closer to securing a stronger national governance, management and organisational structure creating closer relationships with clubs and classes and delivering increased participation in sailing. Yachting Australia…
Three straight wins by a British crew on day two of the International Cadet World championships on Italy’s Lake Garda have forced the Tasmanian crew of Sam Abel and Hugo Allison down from first to second overall after six races….
The recent Transpac Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu was the last for record-breaking Australian supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, as we know her. She will never look the same again. The 30.5 metre long sloop, recognised as the most successful…
Cowes, UK, August 2, 2015 – The Solent delivered a bright and sunny day of spectacular sailing conditions for the opening day of the 2015 Etchells Invitational regatta for the Gertrude Cup in Cowes, UK. In a day in which…
Alinghi has won the Bullitt GC32 Sailing Cup Kiel after a light-airs finish to the regatta in northern Germany. Morgan Larson and the Swiss team were always going to be hard to beat after a freaky Friday when they took…
There’s been a lot to like about this year’s Valmadre Series and Pantaenius Western Australian State IRC Championships, sailed in a variety of conditions on the waters off Fremantle which concluded on Saturday with two keenly-contested windward/leeward races for Divisions…
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