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London 14 January 2020: The Royal Ocean Racing Club have announced a new start date for the 7th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race. Traditionally held in November each year from Lanzarote to Grenada, the next edition will start from…
The global sailing race which empowers anyone from teachers to chiropractors, and from teenagers to septuagenarians, to become ocean racers, has just finished its Coast to Coast stage around Australia. And the team with most Aussie’s onboard took the top…
After 19 tough days at sea racing around the coast of Australia the Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam team, skippered by Josh Stickland, has secured line honours in the fifth race of the global circumnavigation, crossing the finish line in…
With around 400 nautical miles to go until the first yacht crosses the line of Race 5: The Heart Of The Whitsundays, it's an intense time for the fleet. The strategies to catch the best winds and avoid catching the…
Skipper Rob Buchanan and his crew of six have been rescued after the Ker 40 Showtime sankoff the east coast of Australia during its delivery back from the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. At around 2.30pm on Sunday January 5,…
For the 12th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, 21 teams – racing yachts of 50ft (15.24m) or over – have already signed up for the 600-mile blast around 11 Caribbean Islands. The competition in all the classes will be…
The Army Sailing Club's Jarkan 30 fooeter Gun Runner was dismasted during her return journey after competing in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart. The boat was hit by an unexpected gust of more than 50 knots and was dismasted last…
The final boat to finish the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, local Tasmanian boat Take Five, has arrived at Constitution Dock. Skipper Ian Gannon said his crew endured storms and almost exhausted supplies but were elated to make it…
The return of the Southern Cross Cup in conjunction with the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has seen victory go to the Australian Yellow team made up of Ichi Ban, Gweilo and St Jude. With Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban winning…
Wayne Jones and his team on Tribal Warrior, the first indigenous team to compete in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, have achieved the dream of a lifetime – to start and finish the race – and they chose the…
After limping along in light airs for over two days, there is finally some good news for the yachts contesting the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race via Tasmania’s west coast. However, there is also some…
The number one racing boat in Australia has been declared the overall winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart for a second time, as this morning Matt Allen was advised his TP52, Ichi Ban, was to yet again have its name…
The crew of Kialoa II may lament having seen their understandable hopes of winning the Grand Veterans class in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race slip through their grasp. But the 73-footer that won Sydney Hobart line honours in…
When Matt Allen’s TP52 Ichi Ban finished the Rolex Sydney Hobart at 7.18 last night, it immediately became the favourite to win the Tattersall Cup, the prized trophy for overall honours. By this morning, that favouritism was almost absolute. Allen…
Andrea Francolini is our favourite sailing photographer. During the days of Australian Sailing magazine, Andrea shot almost every cover picture. His composition and eye for detail is matched by his passion for a different perspective. Click on the dots above…
The 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart has been conducted in benign conditions and has been free of the controversy that has often dogged the race in recent years. It has taken until the third day for the protest to be lodged….
A slow night on the race track in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, some of the bulk of the fleet struggling to get five knots from their boats, but good news is on the way, the Bureau of Meteorology…
Despite some innovative tactics by Scott Robinson, skipper of How Bizarre, Angus Fletcher’s Radford 13.7 Tevake II has won the Rudder Cup, the trophy for overall winner of the ORCV Melbourne to Devonport Race. Tevake II also took line honours,…
The ORCV Melbourne to Hobart Race continues to be a fascinating affair, with the two leaders in sight of each other off the west coast of Tasmania. But it was another frustrating night for all competitors, with light winds making…
Vertigo, from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, has taken the handicap lead in this year’s Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart yacht race. The summit 35, owned by Tim Olding, has taken the lead from the Mumm 36 Heatwave…
Enigma is a Beneteau First 47.7 owned by Jason Bond, the current Commodore of the Manly Yacht Club. This yacht was one of the last Beneteau 47.7s to leave the factory, making her the youngest and heaviest in the class. Formerly…
Australian sailing legend Michael Coxon has long been linked with the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race through his role as the master tactician on many successful super maxi yachts. But his imprint on this year’s 75th running of the Cruising…
Comanche is on track to take line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart. At 5am on Saturday 28th, she had rounded Cape Raoul doing 17 knots, but was expected to slow considerably as she enters the river. At the finish…
Jim Cooney's 100ft supermaxi Comanche has taken line honours in the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The big red boat crossed the finish line off Battery Point at 7.30.24 am after an agonising drift over the final few miles….
Guillaume Leroux’s Class 40 Lord Jiminy led the ORCV Melbourne to Hobart Race fleet out of Port Phillip Bay yesterday but over night she has been challenged by Douglas Lithgow’s Archambault 40 Soiree Bleu. At 9am, the two boats were…
Hobart yachtsman Matthew Keal’s Mumm 36 Heatwave is heating up this year’s Launceston to Hobart yacht race as she chases down the current line honours front runners Gary Smith in Fork in the Road and Robert Green’s 50-footer Dream. Heatwave…
After stalling in a patch of light winds off the north-west coast of Tasmania, the leaders in the ORCV Melbourne to Devonport Race have picked up speed and are aiming for a cold beer at Mersey Yacht Club this evening….
The five supermaxis at the head of the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet were “parked” off the southern NSW coast at 5am this morning (December 27). Jim Cooney’s Comanche still leads the race for line honours but she is just 1.5nm…
The super maxis were still dancing a tango in the battle for line honours leadership in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this afternoon as the fleet sailed on towards night two. As the super maxis were about to begin…
An impressive fleet of 19 yachts has crossed the start at Beauty Point for the 13th year of the Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart yacht race. Weather conditions for the 285 nautical mile race are favourable for both line…
The Mornington Peninsula turned on perfect weather for the two Victorian fleets which are racing to Tasmania this year. Under blue skies and with 15 knots of wind coming from the south-south-west, the combined fleets picked up speed under spinnaker…
The 72-foot URM was barely spoken of when it came to who could figure in the race for line and overall honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race before it began on Thursday afternoon. But as the Cruising Yacht…
An edge-of-the-seat finale in the battle for line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart is a real prospect, with all five super maxis within contention as sunset fell over the fleet tonight. At 1900 hours, the 2017 line honours winner…
Skippers, navigators and crews will all have to be on their game at 1pm today when the gun gets the 157 strong Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet under way. Four start lines, a strong outgoing tide, a massive spectator fleet on…
Comanche, the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours winner and race record holder, fought back brilliantly from a slow start in this year’s 75th running of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s race by taking the lead soon after exiting Sydney…
They have one of the most important jobs of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – without them, the 628-nautical-mile race would not even get under way. It takes a trio of official starters to formally carry out the three-stage…
The sight of award-winning Australian actor Kerry Armstrong on the 62-footer Magic Miles in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart should leave observers thinking they are seeing double. Why? Because double is what they will see. Armstrong will be joined as…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 75th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is pleased to announce that 22 teams will take part in the Southern Cross Cup, which has been reintroduced this year in conjunction with the 2019 Rolex Sydney…
Jeanneau has announced that world-renowned American yachtsman and North Sails President Ken Read will campaign the new Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300 in the double-handed division of the 2020 Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race along with navigator Suzy Leech. The…
The line honours race in the Rolex Sydney Hobart is tipped to match last year’s thriller when the first four boats were within sight of each other going up the Derwent River to the finish. The Cruising Yacht Club of…
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