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NZ Herald. By Sophie Ryan. A 70-year-old Auckland man participating in a sailing regatta north of Wellington was wearing a lifejacket that wasn't inflated when he died. The man fell from a 6.5m sailboat that he was piloting about 10:30am…
With four months to the start of the 46th La Solitaire du Figaro – Eric Bompard Cachemire, 20 intrepid Figaro skippers have signed up to the 2185 mile, month long solo offshore race. Kicking off on the 31st May from…
Kids events continued, including the hilarious fun 'Quick and Dirty Boat Building Race’, boats were pulling down their flags and heading out for the final sail past, pipers piping, buskers of all varieties busking; all set with a backdrop of…
As they sail the long dive south east which will take them down to around 51 degrees South, Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam are opening distance again on second placed Neutrogena. Since 0300hrs this morning the Swiss-French pair had…
The penultimate day at the Extreme Sailing Series in Singapore saw yet more change at the top of the leaderboard with the day going to the Austrians on Red Bull Sailing Team, who lay down the marker to put them…
Only two yachts have so far finished the Bruny Island Yacht Race in southern Tasmania, with race favourite Alive taking line honours just after midnight and Cougar II crossing line off Hobart’s Battery Point abut two hours later. Overnight, winds…
NZ Herald. By Matthew Theunissen. A $145,000 yacht has vanished and its owners fear it may have been sailed overseas. Retired Whangarei couple Carol and Stephen Holland have owned the 14m cutter Harlech for 13 years and taken it on…
While hundreds of wooden boats were sitting quietly in their berths at Hobart’s Australian Boat Festival at sunrise today, another wooden yacht was adding to Tasmania’s maritime tradition of building fine boats from timber, sailing slowly up the River Derwent…
With the 2015 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship less than one week away, today’s Presidents Trophy race on Sydney Harbour took on added importance as the final lead up to the world’s biggest 18ft skiff championship. A light north east…
It’s going to be a long, tough haul from Sanya to Auckland. But the six boats of the Volvo Ocean Race weren’t reserving an ounce of effort on Sunday as they raced out of the Chinese port in champagne sailing conditions….
Leaders Cheminées Poujoulat have passed the second ‘Great Cape’ in the Barcelona World Race. Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin, around 600 miles south of the tip of south-western Australia, at 1525hrs (UTC), 37 days, 3 hours and 25 minutes after…
SAP Extreme Sailing Team sailed a near faultless day on day two of the Extreme Sailing Series in Singapore, clearly relishing the inner city stadium racecourse, and striding ahead into first place – a day topped off by winning the…
SANYA, China, February 7 – China’s Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) served up another glorious home victory in the Team Vestas Wind In-Port Race in Sanya on Saturday after an absorbing battle in the sun. The team had already made…
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia entrant JustaDash, Philip Dash’s well raced Beneteau 40, took out the IRC and PHS double in winning today’s short ocean race for the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s historic Milson Memorial Cup. JustaDash won a close…
SANYA, China, February 5 – Volvo Ocean Race’s six-strong fleet heads out towards Auckland from Sanya for Leg 4 on Sunday with some big calls to make in the latest instalment of a marathon offshore contest which could hardly be…
To sail 15,000 miles around the Southern Ocean is a marathon achievement, and five weeks after they set off, the seven teams in the Barcelona World Race are acutely aware of the fact that they are not yet halfway. After the…
He said he wanted to win and wouldn’t settle for second this time round. And for Leigh McMillan and the team on The Wave, Muscat their campaign to become 2015 Extreme Sailing Series champions couldn’t have got off to a…
London, UK (5th Feb 2015): Twelve of the world’s top match racing teams are readying themselves for competition in the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia, the season finale of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour. Now in its 10th year, and…
When it comes to regatta headlines, nothing beats having Comanche and Rambler 88, the yachting world's two newest and most sophisticated (a.k.a. mind blowing) racing machines, compete head-to-head for the first time ever. Add to that a slew of famously…
Sandringham Yacht Club (SYC), one of Australia’s most progressive and awarded yacht clubs, is looking for an experienced person to fill the role of Boating Manager. SYC is an outstanding sailing facility in Victoria with 2,600 members, 500 onsite boats…
Since the first regatta in 1938, the quality of competition at the J.J. Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship has been so strong that there have been only eleven multiple championship-winning skippers in the event’s 75 year history. Only three of those…
While one low pressure leaves the track, another makes its presence felt. After an intense two days in the face of a south-moving depression formed from two tropical cyclones, the leading boats in the Barcelona World Race were today regrouping…
The defending America's Cup champion, Oracle Team USA, is scheduled to be training on its new AC45 foiling catamaran this month in San Francisco. “It will be great to commission the new boat,” said tactician and sailing team manager Tom…
The Elan E5 looks the epitome of the modern sports cruiser, due to its chines, T-keel, twin rudders and keel stepped performance rig. This mid-sized model is priced to be competitive in the popular 40 foot IRC cruiser-racer category. The…
The service takes advantage of the IsatPhone 2s one-press assistance button, located at the top of the handset. GEOS service allows customers to contact the GEOS International Emergency Response Coordination Center (IERCC), simply by pressing the assistance button. Pressing the…
Just a couple of metres in the fifth and final race today decided the 2015 winner of the prestigious Hardy Cup on Sydney Harbour, a cross-nation duel between two of Australia’s outstanding young match racing skippers and their crews. Victory…
ABC News is reporting a new grave has been discovered on Western Australia's Abrolhos Islands, almost four centuries after the Batavia was wrecked on Morning Ree. The wreck of the Batavia in 1629 led to one of the most horrific…
The ISAF World Sailing Rankings for 2 February 2015 have been released with Australian Sailing securing two World #1 rankings with Mat Belcher (QLD) and Will Ryan (QLD) in the Men’s 470 as well as Tom Burton (NSW) in the…
Perth yachtsman Sam Gilmour heads the leader board after day two of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Hardy Cup with 12 wins out of 13 races in the ISAF Grade 3 Under 25 match racing regatta on Sydney Harbour. However,…
Together with Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam on Cheminées Poujoulat, Altadill and Jose Munoz were today battling the most testing conditions the Barcelona World Race fleet has yet faced, with 40-45 knots of wind and severe sea states of…
The 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was one to remember. The race for line honours was captivating and the battle for the Tattersall's Cup was down to the wire. We have a full recap of the Wild race in…
James “Hot Rod” Lane's Pacific island dream for the notorious “Flyin' Hawaiian” catamaran he built in Marin ended somewhere off Monterey. The Coast Guard rescued five people from the sinking 65-foot catamaran built amid controversy in San Rafael, hoisting them…
The Great Race, is one of the longest Off the Beach Catamaran and Dinghy races in Australia. A challenging marathon race, full of entertainment and endurance. Scheduled for Saturday 7th February, the race starts from Southport Yacht Club’s Sailing Academy…
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron race officers today had to use a countback of wins to decide the order going into tomorrow’s finals of the Hardy Cup match racing regatta after three skippers and their crews ended with 15 wins each…
A new sailing regatta called the APC “King of the Gulf” will be held on the flat racing waters off Port Vincent in the Gulf of St Vincent in South Australia. This new regatta for both monohulls and multihulls involves…
Guillermo 'Willy' Altadill, son of one of the biggest names in Spanish offshore sailing, has the chance to make his own reputation in the Volvo Ocean Race after being called up for the fourth leg by MAPFRE (Xabi Fernández/ESP). The…
New Zealand sailor Chris Steele today made an impressive start to the Hardy Cup ISAF Under 25, Grade 3 match-racing regatta on Sydney Harbour following his close victory last week in the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta in Perth, Western…
Wow! Yachting Western Australia and Yachting Victoria now use the same accounting packages! If, like me, you are initially under-whelmed by that piece of news, please read on. There's something in it for you. The revelation above came out of…
The Caribbean Safety and Security Net (CSSN) has published its 2014 report on crime against yachts in the region. This year there were 69 incidents reported, the top two being theft and burglary and the top three areas were:St Lucia,…
Multihull Solutions is hosting a fun and informative free open day at its upgraded Gold Coast Sales Centre on Saturday 28 February. Set in the marine precinct of The Boat Works in Coomera, the Multihull Solutions Gold Coast sales centre…
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