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Wild Oats XI and Perpetual Loyal will lead a fleet of 48 yachts, most of them entries in the upcoming Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, when the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Cabbage Tree Island Race starts on Sydney Harbour…
Andersen has extended its offering of electric winches to include a line of self-tailing winches designed for almost any size boat. Ideal for the family, sailing couple or singlehand sailor, the new E1 electric winches feature push button sheet and…
Anyone who followed the build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games will remember that the biggest hurdle to Ben Ainslie’s historic fourth gold medal was another Brit by the name of Giles Scott. Their rivalry was one of the most compelling…
The next 24 hours could well be the longest of Ian Walker’s 44-year-old life. The British skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing and his crew have led for the majority of the 6,847 nautical mile (nm) first leg from Alicante…
A helicopter rescue after a boat was struck by lightning is added to the toll of damage on La Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe this Tuesday afternoon, but in general the 3,542 mile race to Guadeloupe has settled in to a…
Australian James Spithill was nominated for leading ORACLE TEAM USA to one of the greatest comebacks in all sporting history. Trailing Emirates Team New Zealand 8-1 in a first to nine quest for one of yachting's greatest prizes, the America's…
ALICANTE, Spain – Dongfeng Race Team has suffered significant damage after part of the control lines for the masthead gennaker sail broke, but the Chinese boat continues to challenge for Leg 1 victory in the Volvo Ocean Race after pulling…
Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze Clark's newly-launched 100 foot Super-maxi 'Comanche' has left Charleston, USA, on a ship bound for Australia to take on the blue water classic Down Under. The 70th edition of world-famous Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race…
Twenty-four hours into the 10th Route du Rhum and strong words are being used to describe the race so far: vicious, violent, stormy, raging. The fleet battled through extreme conditions during the first night, with the wind continually changing in…
This November, over 240 boats and 1200 people, including 34 children aged under 16, will take part in the 29th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, which sets sail from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, heading 2700NM across the Atlantic to Saint…
The RS Aero, a revolutionary new single-handed boat from RS Sailing, will arrive in Australia at the end of November 2014. Four demonstration boats are being shipped to Sailing Raceboats which is based in Sandringham, Victoria. The RS Aero was…
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Australia’s most well-travelled multihull, Shaun Carroll’s black beauty called Morticia, is one of the starters for January’s Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race. Off the back of a busy 18 month Australian circuit the trimaran has just completed New…
As the tenth edition of the legendary Route du Rhum solo Transatlantic race to Guadeloupe started off Saint Malo, France this Sunday afternoon under grey skies and a moderate SSW’ly breeze. The perennial question of just how hard to push…
Perth’s biggest mixed fleet regatta, the 57th Cockburn Sound Regatta is set to be not just the biggest, but the best yet. Sponsored by the Kwinana Industries Council and the City of Rockingham, the regatta also enjoys solid support from…
On Friday November 21, 2014, Beneteau owners on both sides of Sydney Harbour Bridge, from Woolwich and Gladesville across to Middle Harbour and then up to Pittwater on the northern beaches will gather for another Beneteau Cup. For the past…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is pleased to announce that 119 entries have been received for the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht race and the 70th edition is bringing new, old, large and small together for the start on…
“We made a really good play, worked hard to get a good lead, and then to realise that’s just going to disappear is quite hard to take,” admits Ian Walker. The Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing skipper is sheltering in the…
Ill fortune was in no way selective as it struck a wide cross section of the La Route du Rhum-Destination fleet over the first 24 hours of the 3,542 miles Transatlantic race which started from Saint-Malo, France on Sunday afternoon,…
Since 2010, the 49er class has been investigating, testing and exploring exciting ways to conclude regattas. The Theatre Style concept is now up for a final vote this week at the ISAF Annual Conference on inclusion at the 2016 Rio…
My mother always said, “If you haven't got aything good to say, don't say anything.” I wish the America's Cup organisers would listen to that advice, as they have come out with another “non-announcement” – stuff we already knew. The…
1 November 2014 – No less than one-hundred-and-twenty of the world’s best yacht racing photographers, representing twenty-five nations, submitted their best picture in a competition that will be voted on by the public. The international jury then selected the top…
Cougar II, Tony Lyall’s entry for this year’s 70th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, gave a glimpse of her sail power in today’s Combined Club’s Long Race, covering the 30 nautical mile course in just less than two hours and…
North-west to westerly winds, gusting sharply up to 40 knots at times, forced the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania to bring sailors ashore after less than an hour and a half of racing on the opening day of the Audi…
Rod Pearse’s Dehler 41 cruiser/racer Ultreya upset the regular offshore racing fleet today in winning the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s historic Gascoigne Cup sailed in strong north-westerly winds between Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay. However, Ultreya’s victory is provisional as…
The weather forecast for the first few days of La Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe seems to suggest that the 3,542 miles from Saint-Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre will be quick. But first up there will be an active frontal system to cross…
After a wild storm with winds gusting to 106 klms per hour hit Sydney Harbour yesterday, conditions on the harbour returned to a brilliant 12-15 knot South-East wind for today’s Mick Scully Memorial Trophy race. Rig choice was split between…
Heavy snow on Mount Wellington, stinging hail as the temperature dropped degrees mid-morning, and south-westerly winds gusting between 30 and 40 knots on the River Derwent. Despite these wintery conditions, more than 100 of Tasmania’s off-the-beach sailors today contested day…
The tenth edition of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe starts on Sunday 2nd November 2014 at 1400hrs CET (1300hrs UTC) off the Pointe Grouin. There are 91 solo skippers racing in five classes. There are 24 trimarans, 1 catamaran and…
They lurk in the dark, depths of the ocean, sometimes revealed only by a sharp apex standing proud above the surface. No, not sharks – but they’re just as scary, and they can be just as deadly. “You know they’re…
Final day report from IODA: After the storm of yesterday, today there was sunshine but little wind. The fleet waited ashore all morning and finally their patience was rewarded with 7-8 knots of wind and one race was completed. Going…
The New Zealand Herald. By Steve Deane: The Government will not say how much taxpayer cash Team New Zealand have requested to help bankroll their next tilt at the America's Cup. Documents about public funding of the yachting syndicate sought…
Many of Tasmania’s most talented sailors in junior, youth and adult classes will provide a colourful racing spectacle in the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania’s 2014 Audi Showdown one-design regatta on Hobart’s River Derwent this weekend. More than 120 entries…
The winner of Saturday’s Gascoigne Cup will have its name engraved on the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s historic yachting trophy but it’s doubtful if it will receive the same accolade as the first winner of the Cup, Magic. Launched in…
Line honours will go to one of the eight giant Ultimes but there are also victories to be gained in each of the four other classes. Here is a quick evaluation of the favourites at three days before La Route…
Anthony Leighs named his year-old canting Elliott 35 ‘Crusader’ because he wanted to set off on a crusade of fast offshore racing – and the dream came true in the New Caledonia Groupama Race, when he smashed the record, beating…
A search has been launched in the Caribbean for a couple who went missing on their yacht on Saturday. Their daughter Tao Alleyne, from Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said Arthur Alleyne and Sharon Went-Alleyne, who is originally from Telford, Shropshire,…
It’s been 19 days and well over 3,500 nautical miles (nm) since the Volvo Ocean Race fleet set sail for Cape Town from Alicante, but the three leading boats are still within sight of each other with the fourth chasing…
For the yachts travelling round the world, and heading from east to west to catch the Caribbean season, one of the biggest hurdles is choosing a safe route to get across the Atlantic. Sailing alone, and with the worries of…
Sailing legend Sir Robin Knox-Johnston hopes to inspire greater French participation in ocean racing through his entry in the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe. Speaking at a press briefing on his Open 60 yacht Grey Power today, ahead of this weekend’s…
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