Team Ineos fourth AC75 to launch
Just 48 hours after the Italian’s boat launch, the British team, headed by Ben Ainslie, took its turn to revealthe nation’s first AC75 in Old Portsmouth. A launch of a new boat is always a key moment in a team’s…
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Team Aqua shows her golden form at 44Cup
The second day of racing for the high performance one design RC44 monohulls, hosted by the Clube Naval de Cascais, was held in slightly more wind than yesterday, 10-16 knots, building slowly in the final race, but remaining more firmly…
Photo finish win for Olympian at Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy
Olympian, the William Gardner's gaff cutter from 1913, and skippered by Guillaume Fetas, has won the 9th edition of the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy in a nail-biting photo-finish with Viola. On Thursday, the day traditionally dedicated to the Défis…
Lucky Rolex Fastnet Race inspires Geelong 49er sailor for dual worlds campaign
Across February and March 2020, Royal Geelong Yacht Club will host five major championships, including world titles for four Olympic classes, luring the sport’s best to shine bright on Corio Bay five months out from the Tokyo 2020 games. In…
The 2019 Beneteau Cup – Enter Now
Enter The Beneteau Cup Today Friday October 25 CYCA Rushcutters Bay Registrations open at 10 AM ENTER HERE First timers and seasoned racers welcome! The Beneteau Cup is a great day out on the water for Beneteau owners, family and friends. Join us for a fantastic…
Second Women’s Laser Regatta a success
Held over two days on the weekend of 28-29 September, the Women’s Laser Regatta, hosted by Double Bay Sailing Club, was an unmitigated success, attended and coached by some of Australia’s highest profile sailors, mixed in with keen young sailors…
Second Women’s Laser Regatta an unmitigated success
Held over two days on the weekend of 28-29 September, the Women’s Laser Regatta, hosted by Double Bay Sailing Club, was an unmitigated success, attended and coached by some of Australia’s highest profile sailors, mixed in with keen young sailors…
Hodgson in charge on Day 1 of Australian Youth Match Racing Championship
James Hodgson has seamlessly stepped back into the helming role, remaining undefeated on 7-0, on Day 1 of the Australian Youth Match Racing Championship after a five month break, where he crewed and became World Champion in youth match racing….
Sled triumphs in Porto – Azzurra crowned 52 Super Series champion
Porto Cervo, Italy: The final day of the Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS, was a thrilling one, which in the end was won by the US entry, Sled. Nine windward-leeward races…
Sled makes best of Porto Cervo conditions in 52 Super Series
Porto Cervo, Italy: Today's penultimate day of racing was an exciting one for the 10 teams in the 52 Super Series Sailing Week organised by the YCCS, which will round off the final leg of the circuit tomorrow. With six…
Mistral reigns supreme at 52 Super Series Sailing Week
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…
18ft Skiffs: 2019-2020 season preview
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…
America's Cup 36: One design rule, two very different hulls
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…
World Match Racing Tour acquires Match Race Super League
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…
Perfect conditions for first day of Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week
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…
Strong Mistral wind cancels racing on day one of Audi 52 Super Series Sailing Week
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,…
NZ's Sky Sport to broadcast 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 worlds
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…
Tom Slingsby wins historic first SailGP Championship for Australia
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 wins 2019 Australian Open Match Racing Championship
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…
Robertson overcomes adversity to score China’s first SailGP win
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…
Chinese Whisper takes Flinders Islet line honours by a whisker
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…
Outteridge and Slingsby one step closer to SailGP Championship
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…
SailGP – Marseille set for spectacular showdown
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 to leave US Sailing Olympic role
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 Belcher, Ryan and Wearn announced as first members of Tokyo 2020 Australian Olympic Team
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…
International Dragons to celebrate 90th anniversary with 160 boat Gala Regatta
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…
Young sailors to learn the ropes from world-class coaches at Geelong’s Springsail Regatta
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…
Lost at See wins silver at Blind Sailing World Championships
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…
NOR released for Laser Masters World Championship, the final event in a huge summer of Laser sailing
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…
Tom Slingsby launches the flying roo on French waters
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…
American Magic launches AC75 and goes foiling
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…
Alinghi claims GC32 Riva Cup by a whisker
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…
Billy Besson first to launch on home waters ahead of Marseille SailGP Season 1 Grand Final
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…
Derwent Winter Series: Temptation best from the far south
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…
Exile wins first regatta of Farr 40 season
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…
Kerry Waraker and Jeff Loosemore win World Laser Masters titles
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…
Tasmanian crew leads French SB20 Nationals
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 wins Finn European Masters Championship
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…
Alinghi clings to narrow lead going into GC32 Riva Cup finale
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…
Nutcracker victory in season opener
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…
