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London, UK (Sept. 26, 2019) – The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT), sailing’s longest running global professional series, has reached an agreement to take over the management and operations of the Match Race Super League at the end of the…
Porto Cervo, 26 September 2019. No racing took place on the third day of the Audi 52 Super Series due to strong mistral winds. The event is organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) with the support of title…
The Australian 18 Footers League’s 85th season of continuous 18ft Skiff Racing on Sydney Harbour will commence on Sunday, October 13 when 17 of the world’s fastest racing boats will line up to contest Race 1 of the 2019 Spring…
The much-anticipated launch of the first two AC75 foiling monohull yachts from the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand and USA Challenger NYYC American Magic respectively did not disappoint the masses of America’s Cup fans waiting eagerly for their first glimpse…
Porto Cervo, 25 September 2019. Typical Sardinian weather conditions with sunshine and a mistral wind made for a lively first day of the Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week. The event, organised by the YCCS with the support of title…
Porto Cervo, 24 September 2019. An increasingly strong mistral wind blowing at an average of over 25 knots, and gusting at up to 40, meant racing was cancelled for the first day of the Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week,…
Sky Sport will broadcast live all six days of December's 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships in Auckland, New Zealand, which is believed to be a world first for an Olympic class sailing world championships. As many as 400…
MARSEILLE, France – September 22, 2019 – Tom Slingsby today made history, helming the Australia SailGP Team to victory over Nathan Outteridge’s Japan SailGP Team in the SailGP Season 1 Championship Final Race. The global league’s inaugural season culminated with…
Jordan Reece, head coach of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Youth Sailing Academy, today showed that he, personally, has the match racing skills that he has been imparting to Academy students. Returning to the helm for the first time…
Phil Robertson and the China SailGP Team triumphed with a first-ever win on the penultimate day of the Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final, as the battle between Tom Slingsby’s Australian team and Nathan Outteridge’s Japanese team continued to heat…
Following a solid start to the Flinders Islet Race, Chinese Whisper's line honours win came down to 37 seconds over No Limit at the Rushcutters Bay finish line in Sydney Harbour, while Ichi Ban is in the box sea to…
Marseille, France: Tensions heightened in front of the fan-lined sea wall as Tom Slingsby and Nathan Outteridge went head-to-head on the Rade Nord racecourse at the Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final. The two helmsmen traded wins ahead of the…
MARSEILLE, France – September 19, 2019 – The city of Marseille got a glimpse of the world’s fastest sail racing boats today when the six high performance F50s took to the racecourse for the first time in practice. The inaugural…
Malcolm Page OAM, Australia's only double Olympic gold medallist, has resigned from his role as Chief of Olympic Sailing with US Sailing and is returning to Australia. Hopefully Australian Sailing will correct the massive mistake they made when Page finished…
Sailors Mathew Belcher, Will Ryan and Matt Wearn have been announced as the first Australian Olympic Team members selected for Tokyo 2020. Ryan and Belcher, reigning World Champions and Rio 2016 silver medallists in the 470 Class and Wearn, the…
Sanremo, Italy, 18 September 2019 – From 7th to 11th October 2019 160 International Dragon keelboats will gather in San Remo, Italy, to mark the 90th anniversary of this illustrious and extraordinary class. Dragon sailors past and present, friends of…
A Rio Olympian, a dual world championship winning coach and a Tokyo Olympics hopeful will pass on their knowledge and expertise to the next generation of sailors in Geelong this weekend. As many as 150 sailors from around Victoria and…
Sailing is difficult and challenging at times. But how would you go doing it blind? Kylie Forth and her team from WA last week ventured to the 2019 Blind Fleet Racing World Championship at Kingston Yacht Club, Ontario, Canada, bringing…
MARSEILLE, FRANCE -September 17, 2019- Tom Slingsby and the Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary F50, emblazoned with a giant kangaroo, set sail for the first time today in the Mediterranean port of Marseille, ahead of the final event of SailGP Season…
Entries are now open for the 2020 ILCA Laser Masters World Championship in Geelong, Australia. The event, across both Standard and Radial divisions, will be held from March 19 -28. The World Championships will follow immediately after the Oceania and…
The final day of the Farr 40 social regatta commenced with an abandoned race offshore before moving inside the harbour where Rob Reynolds’ Exile led their way to victory. It was a tough day at the office for PRO Phil…
Tentative winds out of the East, but racing still happened. The Standard fleets sailed out earlier than usual for a 1000h first signal. They completed both of the scheduled two races in 5-7 knots. The G-flag for the Radials dropped…
Eighteen months after the 36th America’s Cup Class Rule was published, NYYC American Magic becomes the first team to foil their AC75 across the waters of Narragansett Bay near Newport, Rhode Island (US). After an estimated 76,000 combined hours of…
While Alinghi has led at the end of every day of racing at the 2019 GC32 Riva Cup, the Swiss team was on the ropes this afternoon when their arch-rivals Oman Air, in seemingly unbeatable form, scored three back-to-back wins…
MARSEILLE, France – September 15, 2019 – With five days until six national teams go head to head at the Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final, the home team – headed by Frenchman Billy Besson – hit the water for…
Steve Harrison and his crew are members of Australia’s southernmost sailing club, Port Esperence Sailing Club at Dover in southern Tasmania and for five weekends during Tasmania’s chilly winter they have driven from Dover to Hobart to sail Temptation in…
Champion Hobart sailor Brett Cooper and his crew of Darren ‘Twirler’ Jones and Jock Calvert are leading the SB20 French Nationals after day one of racing off Hyeres, near Marseille, scoring two wins and a second overnight. Sailing Cooper’s brand…
Filipe Silva, from Portugal has won the second Finn European Masters after a frustrating final day in Schwerin, Germany where Bas de Waal (NED) secured second overall, while winner of the only race, André Budzien, picked up third place. After…
Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi started the day four points ahead of Oman Air and – after six races on two different courses, during which they lost the lead, then fought back hard to recover it – ended the day four points…
On Day 1 of the Farr 40 social regatta and season opener, the eight-boat fleet joined the CYCA Short Ocean Pointscore and co-owners Rob Davis and Andy Baker’s Nutcracker won the first race of the weekend. The Melbourne based Nutcracker…
Lago di Garda was not making it easy for race officials on day two of the GC32 Riva Cup, the penultimate event of the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour, as the afternoon southerly Ora wind was late in materialising, requiring three…
Felipe Silva from Portugal has retaken the lead at the Finn European Masters at Schwerin, Germany, after two more races on Friday, while Bas de Waal (Ned) drops to second, and André Budizen, from the home club, moves up to…
Bas de Waal, from the Netherlands has taken the lead at the Finn Europeans Masters after two more races were completed in Schwerin, Germany. Felipe Silva, from Portugal, dropped to second with Gerko Visser, also from The Netherlands up to…
Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team showed some of their GC32 World Championship-winning form when they came out on top after the first of four days of racing at the GC32 Riva Cup, being held out of the Fraglia Vela Riva at…
Filipe Silva, from Portugal, leads the Finn European Masters in Schwerin, Germany after two races on the opening day, Wednesday. Bas de Waal, from The Netherlands is second with Volodymyr Stasyuk from Ukraine in third. The race wins eventually went…
SYDNEY – September 12, 2019 – Sydney was today announced as the season opener for SailGP in 2020. Following a hugely successful event earlier this year – when Sydney kicked-off the global league’s inaugural season – SailGP will return to…
Excitement is building amongst Farr 40 members with the World Championships coming to Sydney in 2020 and teams have eagerly commenced their preparations. The season kicks off this weekend with a social regatta racing offshore and inside the harbour followed…
September 10, 2019 – Just ten days out from the first of three nail-biting race days in Marseille for the inaugural SailGP final – where all six foiling wingsailed catamarans will battle it out with a winner-takes-all match race on the…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) India Howard, Jess Grimes, Emma Byrne, Jess Tavener and Ange Kear have won the 2019 John Messenger Women’s Match Racing Regatta which has been run annually since 1996, defeating Royal Prince Alfred Yacht…
Bellerive Yacht Club member Jeff Cordell, one of southern Tasmania’s great supporters of yacht racing as a strong competitor and honorary administrators for the past 30 years, yesterday scored a well-deserved double victory in his club’s Winter Series with his…
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