The best yacht, keelboat & dinghy racing news, race results and personal insights, with racing series and regatta reports and lots of beautiful high resolution sailing photographs. Including daily news coverage from major races and circuits Olympic Sailing, America’s Cup, Sydney Hobart, SailGP, 44Cup, The Ocean Race and more.
Conditions offshore on day one of Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s annual Sydney Harbour Regatta had stomachs churning, while a Sydney 38 bowman was saved from a Man Overboard incident by the lifelines on Conspiracy, which was leading the division at…
We were hoping that we could all go sailing but unfortunately the covid virus and the protocols have made this impossible. The Chairman of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, Carlo Falcone and the committee have decided to cancel the 2021 ACYR and hope that everything…
In a thrilling finish, Tatiana Cardoso became the 18ft Skiff Queen of the Harbour when The Kitchen Maker-Caesarstone team of Jordan Girdis, Lachlan Doyle and Cameron McDonald came back strongly over the final lap of the course to take out…
The New York Yacht Club is keen to continue in the America’s Cup but has slammed the concept of a deed of gift challenge between Team New Zealand and Team UK. The famous club which backed American Magic’s brave challenge…
Since winning the last season’s Australian 18ft Skiff Championship in the then new tech2 skiff, Jack Macartney and his crew’s 2020-21 season has gone to another level of performance and consistency, the trio taking all three major championships held so…
The Melges 24 Organising Committee announces the cancellation of the 2021 Melges 24 World Championship, expected to be held in Charleston, SC, USA on April 9-17. With the increased restrictions being put in place to manage the further spread of…
The highly anticipated Race 1 of the 36th America’s Cup Match will start shortly after 4 pm (NZT) on Wednesday 10th March after the Government announced a reduction in alert levels today.Under COVID-19 Alert Level 2 or 1, the race schedule will remain…
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, USA (March 4, 2021) – The 12 Metre Yacht Club (12MYC) is excited to announce the release of 12mR: An Enduring Legacy. Filmed during the 2019 12mR World Championship in Newport R.I., highlights include racing footage and…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand’s event arm has banned the New Zealand Herald from the America’s Cup media centre after a disagreement over the use of copyright race video. The ban is thought to be the first of a media company at a…
Team New Zealand has developed their dual-helming capabilities beyond the starting zone as they maximise the bonus training time handed to them by the delayed start to the America’s Cup match. Team New Zealand takes on Luna Rossa in a…
Entry to Airlie Beach Race Week 2021 is open and organisers at Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) are confident of large numbers following the success of last year’s event, one of the rare major sporting events to go ahead in Australia…
A gale warning along the New South Wales coast kept disappointed crews ashore on day one of the Sailing Champions League (SCL) Asia Pacific Northern Qualifier out of Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club. A high-pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea…
Due to the current coronavirus pandemic, Kieler Woche cannot take place at the end of June this year as is usual, so has been postponed to September 5-13, 2021. “We as a city have decided this step together with the…
A new superyacht, a super maxi, a TP52 that is the benchmark in yachting and a multihull that will be difficult to beat, along with their equally high-profile owners, are among the classy field taking part in the Royal Prince…
Emirates Team New Zealand is pleased to confirm that the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has accepted a Notice of Challenge for the 37th America’s Cup (AC37) from the Royal Yacht Squadron Racing, represented by INEOS TEAM UK, which will act…
Team UK are the next challenger of record for the America’s Cup, working alongside defender Team New Zealand. Sir Ben Ainslie’s syndicate, backed by British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, will replace Italian outfit Luna Rossa for the next cycle of…
It’s always said that the faster boat wins the America’s Cup. And so it proved today when Emirates Team New Zealand powered away from Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli in perfect conditions on the Hauraki Gulf to close out their defence…
The annual Queen of the Harbour (originally known as the ‘Queen of the Waves’) is one of the most important events to the Australian 18 Footers League and has a history almost as long as the League itself. Next Sunday’s…
On what could have been the final day of the 36th America’s Cup, the defenders Emirates Team New Zealand won an exciting first race that featured a number of lead changes. It wasn’t until they sailed into a big right-hander…
Several past 18ft Skiff champions returned to the class on Friday when they skippered boats from the Australian 18 Footers League's 2020-2021 Season fleet in the annual 'Supercup' series on Sydney Harbour. A 12-16 knot south-east breeze allowed each team…
With an encouraging level of interest from owners and skippers, organisers are optimistic the 25th anniversary of Europe’s longest-running superyacht regatta will attract a competitive range of entries. Organisers have put the focus firmly on the racing in the Bay…
Australian Sailing has confirmed that the Australian Yachting Championships will be returning to Hamilton Island for the next two years. The 2021 and 2022 editions of the event will be hosted by Hamilton Island Yacht Club (HIYC) as a part…
Nearly every Vendée Globe, including this ninth edition, has delivered a sting in the tail of one sort or another to unfortunate solo skippers. While the most damaging this time was Boris Herrmann’s collision with a Spanish fishing boat just…
In an expectant hope that Sir Ben Ainslie could inflict the same pain on James Spithill that Spithill inflicted on Dean Barker way back in 2013, it turns out Britannia sadly lacked the speeds in the light airs plus the Ineos…
The Prada Cup Final is not done and dusted yet, and with INEOS TEAM UK marking its first point on the scoreboard, there may still a long way to go. In the first race of the day, Luna Rossa Prada…
Victoria’s most talented youth sailors will descend on the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria in April for the return of the Victorian Youth Championships and Coaching Clinic. Running from 15-18 April, the event will be made up of a two-day…
Prada Cup final will resume on Saturday 20th of February NZT. Race 5 will see Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli facing Ineos Team UK Britannia, the race will start from 4:00PM local time weather permitting, 2:00pm Sydney time. Race 5 and…
After a week of tight racing, Finn Tapper of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia prevailed to win the 2021 Hardy Cup, held at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Teams gathered at the Squadron to celebrate the week’s racing and…
Following the press release yesterday from America’s Cup Event Ltd (ACE) that Prada Cup racing would continue to be postponed until the New Zealand government announced Covid-19 alert levels are at level one, the responses from the two competitor teams caused a…
In a 500 word press release online, the America's Cup Event (ACE) people have managed to give no clear indication of what is going to happen. What appears to have been written by lawyers and public relations people the press release uses…
With four wins on the scoreboard Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli comes away of the first Prada Cup Final weekend having stamped their authority and with the first to seven going to the Match, Ineos Team UKs Britannia's, path gets steeper and…
In January the International 5.5 Metre Class Association announced the intention to publish a definitive history of the class. It is being researched and written by Mikkel Thommessen and Matti Muoniovaara. It will be the first definitive history of the…
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and INEOS TEAM UK squared off today to determine the winner of the PRADA Cup Challenger Selection Series and the right to face the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand. First day of the PRADA Cup Final…
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli will battle Ineos Team UK on the Waitemata Harbour to become the challenger of the 36th America's Cup presented by Prada. The final is determined by a best of 13 races, so the first to win…
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania (RYCT) has emerged victorious at the first event of the 2021 Sailing Champions League – Asia Pacific season with an exciting win in the SCL – AP: Southern Qualifier hosted by the Mornington Yacht…
London, UK: The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) today announced its 2021 world championship season with a 17-event schedule across 11 countries, including the inaugural WMRT Final in Shenzhen, China from 15-19 December. The 2021 season announcement has been made…
Remember the yacht Showtime capsizing during its return journey from competing in the 2019 Sydney Hobart? It lost its keel in Bass Strait and, although all the crew were able to clamber out and hold onto the hull, the conditions…
The Swan River Sailing Championship Weekend is back for 2021, with another triple-banger of three regattas to be held over one weekend in March 2021 at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. After a false start in 2020, Friday 19th March…
Australian Sailing has announced Ronstan will be continuing their partnership with Australian Sailing and the Australian Sailing Team. The sailboat hardware manufacturer has been in partnership with Australian Sailing and the Australian Sailing Team (AST) for over fifty years and…
The New Zealand 18ft Skiff fleet may not be coming to contest the 2021 JJ Giltinan world 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour in March, but there is one Kiwi sailor who will be at the JJs, and who has…
Read all of the latest sailing news
View more
Dinghy and Yacht Racing News
View more
News from the offshore world
View more
Cruising Stories from around the world
View more
The latest boats and yachting gear
View more
Watch everything sailing and boating
View more