Oman Air begins her ascent at GC32 Oman Cup
While it may have been their turn to be top scoring boat on day three of the GC32 Oman Cup, the math is not looking great for Oman Air in its fight with Alinghi to become 2019 GC32 Racing Tour…
Racing
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.
Weekend warriors lead Spring Championship
Going into Sunday’s two races of the Australian 18 Footers League’s 2019-2020 Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour, the series is wide open with the consistent Appliancesonline.co.au team of Brett Van Munster, Kurt Fatouris and Phil Marshall leading the 18-boat fleet…
Spain dominates day 2 of the China Cup
Cheche Team from Spain flipped the switch on day two of the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen to dominate racing in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet. Julio Bernardeau Navarro steered his crew to scores of 1,3,1 – by far…
Tom Slingsby helps launch SailGP Inspire Racing in partnership with WASZP
SYDNEY – November 8, 2019 – Olympic gold medalist and SailGP Season 1 champion Tom Slingsby returned to his home sailing club in New South Wales to help launch an innovative new program that aims to create a pathway into…
Alinghi on World Championship winning form at GC32 Oman Cup
With a light forecast, the opening day of the GC32 Oman Cup looked like it might be marginal. However in the end four out of the five scheduled races were sailed just north of the Al Mouj marina with a…
A grand departure for Brest Atlantiques
The four Ultim 32/23 Class trimarans took off on Tuesday 5th November at 11am on the Brest Atlantiques race, a new 14,000 mile double-handed race that will take them non-stop to Rio and then Cape Town, before heading back to…
Kiwi woman rescued off Greek coast used plastic shopping bags and lollies to survive
NZ Herald. By: Nikki Preston “I still have one lolly left mum.” They were the first words Kushila Stein shouted through the phone to her relieved mother Wendy after she was rescued from floating on the Aegean Sea near Greece for…
Statement from the Finn Class following 2019 World Sailing Conference
The International Finn Association delegation to the 2019 World Sailing Annual Conference in Bermuda has returned empty handed. The eight submissions to reinstate the Finn in the slate for the 2024 Olympic Games were rejected by both the committees and…
Craig Greenhill and Michael Chittenden in final 20 of Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2019
November 4, 2019 – No less than 133 professional photographers, representing 29 countries have submitted a picture for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award 2019. The top eighty pictures have been selected last month by the international jury and published…
MC38 Act 6 to Ginger and season pointscore to Lazy Dog
It’s been a while coming and for the closing Act 6 of the MC38 2019 season pointscore, Leslie Green’s Ginger Ninjas worked their way back to familiar territory, at the top of the class scoreboard. Results from seven races in…
SMEG takes out Race 4 of 18 Footers Spring Championship
The Smeg team of Micah Lane, Ricky Bridge and Peter Mackie survived an incredible day of survival racing to take out Race 4 of the Australian 18 Footer League's Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour today. In one of the most dramatic…
Laser Under-21 World Championships awarded
Split, Croatia: Juan Pablo Cardozo of Argentina won the Under-21 Standard Men's Laser World Championship, and also the U-19 award, while Wiktoria Golebiowska of Poland won the U-21 Radial Women's Championship. It was a difficult week, for the sailors and…
World Sailing’s Council conclude session at 2019 Annual Conference
After selecting the iFoil as the Men’s and Women’s Windsurfer for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday, World Sailing’s Council, the main decision making body, concluded their meeting on Saturday 2 November. A number of submissions, proposing change to…
Kiwis bid to regain title at the China Cup
A strong team from Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is among the many international competitors who are coming to the 13th edition of the China Cup International Regatta for five days of racing from 6 to 10 November in Shenzhen….
Laser Under-21 World Championships: The trend continues
Split, Croatia: Much like yesterday, everyone was up bright and early, sailors were rigging boats before 0700, and race committee left the harbor by 0730 for the 0900 first signal, with the Golf flag was lowered at 0750 and sailors…
National Sailing League Oceania joins Festival of Sails
The first event of the National Sailing League Oceania’s 2019-2020 season will partner with the Festival of Sails, hosted by Royal Geelong Yacht Club, bringing even more action to Corio Bay over the 2020 Australia Day long weekend. The Southern…
Sean Langman’s wide world of sailing
Sean Langman, one of Australia’s most versatile sailors, has set himself another wide-ranging program in the 2019-2020 Australian summer, with a season of 18ft skiff racing on Sydney Harbour, skippering Noakesailing, as well as skippering the 69ft Naval Group in…
Victoria's Etchells sailors get set for 2019 Lipton Cup Regatta
The various Etchells fleets in Port Phillip will take part in the 2019 Lipton Cup Regatta this year as part of its 2019/20 program, with a strong fleet getting ready to descend on the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria for…
Another day of light winds at Under 21 Laser Championships
(Split, Croatia) A promising start to a short lived morning of racing. Golf flag was lowered at 0750 and sailors began launching for a 0900 start time. The Women’s fleet, which hasn’t yet completed a race, started cleanly on the…
Entries open for the 52nd Marlay Point Overnight Race
Entries are now open and the countdown is on until the Keeley Marine Supplies 52nd Marlay Point Overnight Race (MPONR), which will take place on March 7, 2020. This iconic annual event starts at sunset and sees a large fleet…
Only one boy's race completed at Laser Under 21 Worlds
(Split, Croatia) Finally! Some racing! But just some. The fleets left the harbor at 0830 as the northeasterly breeze was beginning to build. By 1000, the scheduled start time for today, the wind was six to eight knots on course…
Still no racing at Under 21 Laser Worlds
(Split, Croatia) Race committee left the harbor at 1030, on schedule, and spent the day watching and waiting. The light easterly breeze in the morning faded, as forecast, but the haze never burned off and the westerly thermal never filled…
SailGP to return to San Francisco, New York in Season 2
NEW YORK – October 28, 2019 – SailGP will return to two iconic U.S. shorelines in 2020, with Season 2 grand prix events set for San Francisco and New York. The U.S. leg of the global championship’s sophomore season will…
Laser Under-21 World Championships – the waiting game
(Split, Croatia) The forecast held true – sunny and warm and very little wind. No gradiant, but hope for a thermal fill from the West in the afternoon. To be able to best advantage if the wind did build, the fleets were…
Clean wakes a priority at CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week
CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week is on track to achieve Clean Regatta certification in 2020, as organisers strive to leave a clean wake by reducing the event’s environmental impact. “We’ve joined up with Sailors for the Sea to become a certified…
Finport Finance wins first heat of 18 Footers Club Championship
Race 1 of the Australian 18 Footers Club Championship, sailed in a 12-14-knot ENE wind on Sydney Harbour today, produced one of the closest and best 18ft Skiff races seen for a few years, and gave the Finport Finance team victory…
Four Australians set to challenge at ILCA Laser Under 21 World Championships
(Split, Croatia) The 2019 Laser Under-21 World Championships begin here tomorrow in this beautiful city on the Adriatic Sea. The host, Sailing Club Mornar, has put everything in place for a great event, and the weather has been sunny and warm for…
SailGP Sydney VIP tickets now on sale
SailGP returns to Sydney to kick off Season 2 on February 28 and 29, 2020. Australia’s Tom Slingsby will be hungry to defend his championship title, looking to put early points on the leaderboard in front of a home crowd….
170 yachts to start historic 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart
Entry for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has closed and organisers at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) are thrilled to announce 170 yachts from Australia and overseas will take part in their 75th race, making it the largest…
47th RL24 Nationals 2020 introduces a new trophy
The 47th RL24 National Championship will be held at Illawarra Yacht Club in Warrawong, NSW from 5-9 January 2020, when excellence at the top end of the fleet, boat development, crew work and family fun on and off the water…
America’s Cup: No wrong answers?
With four AC75s now successfully launched and actively foiling, what have we learned about the outcomes of the various design strategies chosen by each of the teams for their first-generation boats? One thing seems clear – that there is more…
New format announced for 2019 Lipton Cup Regatta
The historic Lipton Cup trophy will be contested in teams for the first time, after a new format was decided by the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV) this week. Taking place on 16-17 November this year, the Lipton Cup…
Sprague making his mark in 18 footers
Jack Sprague was a Laser class sailor, who had a stint on a 16ft skiff out of Manly, but once he had tasted sailing a skiff, all he wanted to do was to sail an ‘18’ on Sydney Harbour. In…
Ben Ainslie: I was a laughing stock… now I'm aiming to make America's Cup history
Evening Standard. By Matt Majendie. The America’s Cup has cost Ben Ainslie good friends and left him, in his own words, a laughing stock. It was on the paradise islands of Bermuda that the most celebrated sailor in Olympic history…
#SaveTheFinn – an opportunity to rebalance the slate and create more legends
Huge numbers of words have been written about the arguments for putting the Finn back into the Olympic Games. Next week, the Finn class will be making its case once again at the 2019 World Sailing Conference in Bermuda to…
All Blacks v England: Deja vu as Eddie Jones channels Jimmy Spithill to taunt Kiwis
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. OPINION: Strap on your headgear folks, this could be a long week where you are threatened by verbal concussion. It's shaping to be a bit like New Zealand's longest sporting week of all, back in San Francisco…
Men's Laser Radial sailors to test themselves against the world's best
Entries are flowing in for the ILCA Laser Radial Men's World Championship to be conducted out of Sandringham Yacht Club from February 21 to 28, 2020. Already sailors from nine countries have committed to the Worlds, which are part of…
Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2019 – the top 80 selected
The best yacht racing photos taken this year are now available online. The public is invited to vote for their favourite image. Click here to discover our international jurys’ selection. The winning images, as well as the best yacht racing…
Entries open Friday for 2020 ORC/IRC World Championship
The conventional wisdom says the sailing season in the Northeastern United States ends with the Labor Day holiday, celebrated the first Monday in September. But the locals will tell you that September and October are the best months of the…
Double Black wins first Farr 40 pointscore regatta of season
The final four races of the One Design Trophy were held between Obelisk and Watsons Bay on a sensational day on Sydney Harbour where Rob Pitts and the Double Black crew won their first Farr 40 regatta. Today was a…
