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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
(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 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…
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, 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…
(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…
(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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
(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 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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Noakesailing 18ft Skiff team of Sean Langman, Ed Powys and Nathan Edwards produced another brilliant exhibition to score their second consecutive win in Race 2 of the Australian 18 Footers League's Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour today. In similar…
The sixth edition of the Venice Hospitality Challenge took place today, endorsed by the International Maxi Association. In this Gašper Vinčec and the maxi Way of Life enjoyed their second consecutive victorious Saturday, following on from their having led the…
With just one point separating the top four boats, Farr 40 sailing has never been closer, but it is Tom Quick’s Outlaw that is regatta leader at the end of day one of the first point score regatta of the…
Two 470 pairings have dominated the top honours at this year’s Australian Sailing Awards, held at a gala dinner at Sydney’s Sofitel Hotel tonight. Male Sailor of the Year went to Australian Sailing Team veterans Mat Belcher and Will Ryan,…
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