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.
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. One of the most enduring and respected figures in the America’s Cup has hit back at critics of the current boats, insisting foiling is the future and there must be no return to the sluggish monohulls…
7th January 2021 After over three years of waiting, the wins, the loses and the points will really start to count. The PRADA Cup is set to start on January 15 with the three Challengers competing to qualify to race against the America’s…
Stuff.co.nz. A pioneer of Italy’s venture into the America’s Cup has backed the vision of the New York Yacht Club to move away from foiling and return the competition to traditional boots. New York, who are backing American Magic’s promising challenge…
The 12th Bartercard Sail Paradise Regatta got underway today with a record fleet of fifty-six yachts ranging in size from 70ft to 12ft today with a steady 10 knots North East breeze fanning across the course. The Race Officer, Southport…
Australian Sailing in conjunction with the Royal Brighton Yacht Club (RBYC) regretfully announces that the 2021 Sail Melbourne Nex Gen and Sail Melbourne International regatta has been cancelled. RBYC has been confirmed as a COVID-19 public exposure site, with known…
Stuff.co.nz. Italian challenger Luna Rossa believe the team is already closing the gap on the advantage America’s Cup holder Team New Zealand has over them in high winds. Luna Rossa skipper Max Sirena readily acknowledged the Kiwi speed advantage in…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand appears to be guardian of the America’s Cup foiling generation. The ability of sport’s oldest trophy to fly with the fast-paced action that has brought in so many new fans and influenced current…
Stuff Sports Queenstown ratepayers have coughed up more than $23,000 to pay for storage and legal fees for an Auckland millionaire’s abandoned yacht. The Queenstown-Lakes District Council is trying to sell ex-America’s Cup yacht NZL-14, which is moored in Queenstown…
Stuff NZ Italy's Quantum Sails President Vittorio d’Albertas and his colleague Pietro Pinucci have spotted a setup problem on INEOS Team UK which is slowing the boat, preventing it from foiling. British website Sailweb reported the theory is that the problem in…
Under clear blue skies and with Melbourne’s Port Phillip bathed in sunshine, a record fleet of 112 yachts, carrying 618 crew, set sail on Boxing Day in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s annual Cock of the Bay race. Paul…
Media release issued by MBIE on December 22, 2020: New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE),the Defender of the America's Cup Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) and America's Cup Event Limited (ACE), the body set up by ETNZ…
No winner in Auckland today for the PRADA Christmas Race as the breeze dropped away after the start of race 1 and there was not enough to complete the 4 races scheduled for the day. Race 1 between Emirates Team…
Inside the Games. By Michael Houston. A third of Japanese residents want Tokyo 2020 to be cancelled due to fears that incoming foreign travellers could cause another spike of COVID-19 cases, a new survey has revealed. The poll conducted by…
LONDON – December 18, 2020 – SailGP today announced two new venues that will be added to the European leg of the global championship’s second season in 2021. In two firsts for the league, SailGP will visit Saint-Tropez on the…
As if written into the script, the final race was the one that mattered when it came to who would take the PRADA America’s Cup World Series Auckland trophy. With Emirates Team New Zealand and American Magic on even points,…
Yesterday, on the opening day of racing among the four America's Cup syndicates, the British Team INEOS failed to finish both races, citing problems with the foil arm mechanism on their boat. The mechanism is “supplied equipment”, meaning all boats…
Four match races have been held on the second day of the PRADA ACWS Auckland on race course C, the preferred playing field as it brings the racing right into the heart of the Waitematā Harbour, with a shifty and…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. British skipper Sir Ben Ainslie has opened up on his team’s America’s Cup struggles, insisting they are surmountable. INEOS Team UK had a disastrous official practice period, plagued by breakdowns that saw them have just one…
The first racing day of the PRADA ACWS Auckland has just concluded and New York Yacht Club American Magic is leading the provisional ranking after winning both the matches they raced today. In second position comes Emirates Team New Zealand…
Kiwi skipper Dean Barker had a big day on the water on Tuesday, getting past the British America’s Cup challenger before taking on Team New Zealand and beating them in practice racing. All eyes were on the Brits early as…
Sail Sydney rounded out with a bang today, with friendly fire forcing an early end to the regatta for Australian Sailing Team (AST) pair Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin. It was their Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) teammate Lucy Copeland and…
The 2020-2021 NSW Championship continued to produce some of the best 18ft Skiff action seen on Sydney Harbour for several seasons when the defending champion Winning Group team of John Winning Jr., Seve Jarvin and Sam Newton hung on grimly to…
Stuff.co.nz Sir Ben Ainslie’s new America’s Cup boat has been labelled “the lamest of ducks” in a damning summation on the eve of proper racing. British pundit Magnus Wheatley has delivered a brutal blog on Ainslie’s chances as the INEOS Team UK…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand again looked impressive as the British and American challengers were absent when the second round of official America’s Cup practice was held in Auckland on Thursday. Emirates Team New Zealand put on a…
The Australian Sailing Team is going to have to wait another day for a return to competitive action, as Day One of Sail Sydney was called off after a southerly buster hit Sydney Harbour shortly before racing was scheduled to…
NEW YORK – December 8, 2020 – SailGP today announced champion sailor Jimmy Spithill has signed on to become CEO and helm of the United States SailGP Team. Spithill will lead the U.S. team as it fights to claim the…
InfoTrack owner Christian Beck and his crew continue to firm as the ones to beat for line honours in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race after they produced a near-perfect performance to win the 2020 Grinders Coffee SOLAS Big Boat…
In contrast to the 40-knot winds that battered Sydney Harbour last Sunday and forced the Australian 18 Footers League to abandon Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship, today's 20-knot westerly wind produced one of the most spectacular 18ft Skiff…
ABC North Qld. By Nathalie Fernbach A book by America's Cup winning skipper John Bertrand borrowed from a Townsville library in 1987 has been returned after sailing around the world for 33 years. The book, Born to Win, was…
Inside the Games. By Nancy Gillen. Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics reportedly estimate the postponement of the Games is set to cost an additional $1.9 billion (£1.4 billion/€1.6 billion). Tokyo 2020, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japanese Government…
Another row has erupted between America's Cup defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, and Challenger-of-Record Prada. According to Duncan Johnstone, writing on the Kiwi website Stuff, Prada said Team New Zealand had wanted to exclude specific journalists from the media centre…
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, USA (December 2, 2020) – Following the resounding success of the 2019 12mR World Championship held in Newport, R.I., the International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA) has again selected America’s City by the Sea as the venue for…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone Defenders Team New Zealand and the three challengers have been granted five days of official practice, including some racing, ahead of the world series regatta in Auckland in December. The world series regatta, featuring 12 round-robin…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) coincided with Sydney’s record-breaking hot weather weekend, 28 crews enduring 40 knot gusts for race two and brutal temperatures in the low 40s both days of the longstanding annual series….
Fresh North West winds over 20-knots, with gusts up to 40-knots prior to race time, cast doubt over the Australian 18 Footers League being able to stage Race 2 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today, and finally…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Lazy Dog team closed out the 2020 MC38 calendar with a third series triumph, giving Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart’s crew the overall season trophy from six acts. Act 6 pointscore results Tilly Lock video of…
Inside the Games. By Nancy Gillen Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has revealed her hopes of holding the Olympic and Paralympic Games next year with “full spectators present”. Koike discussed her best-case scenario for Tokyo 2020, which has been postponed to 2021…
Only three of five foreign journalists who have so far applied to come to New Zealand for the 36th America's Cup have been approved entry, according to Tracy Neal on the Radio New Zealand website. TVNZ has secured the New…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone America’s Cup teams have been warned they face “substantial penalties” for coordinated practice after a concerned Team New Zealand took the issue to the arbitration panel. With all four teams now fine-tuning their second generation boats…
131 professional photographers took part in the special edition of the “Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image of the Century” photo competition, designed to celebrate the best sailing images taken since 1 January 2000. Gilles Martin-Raget (FRA) won the main prize, while…
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