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Correctly calling first shift is great. Plenty of sailing races have been won by the person or team who anticipates the first wobble in the breeze and positions correctly to best take advantage of it. But sometimes, it’s the last…
The Smeg team of Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Mike McKensey showed their class in the 17-20-knot North-East wind when they scored a spectacular win in Race 5 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. Smeg held…
The Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary new F50 set sail on Sydney Harbour for the first time on the weekend, as the two-week countdown to SailGP’s inaugural event begins. The practice session was the first opportunity for the Australia SailGP Team,…
Tom and Alan Quick’s Outlaw had a spectacular day on the water scoring 1-2-1-2 holding onto their lead from yesterday to win the 2019 Farr 40 NSW State title. Four races took place today and the course was set from…
49erFX The stage was set for an action packed first race of the day. Alex Maloney with Molly Meech (NZL) had a commanding but catchable lead ahead of two chasers, Martine Grael with Kahena Kunze (BRA) and Charlotte Dobson with…
One of the strongest Fireball fleets in a number of years will do battle this week on Corio Bay, Geelong as racing for the 2019 National Championship kicks off today. Hosted by the Royal Geelong Yacht Club, the 26-boat fleet…
Amanda ‘Marnie’ Irving and her all-female crew on Cavarlo have won the Jennifer Goldsmith Trophy, Race 2 of the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series (PPWCS), hosted by Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) on Port Phillip today. Racing was delayed for…
The 11th edition of the NZ Millennium Cup has ended in the 28-metre ketch, Tawera, winning the world’s most southerly superyacht regatta. “There’s a special feel to this regatta,” race officer of the day, Harold Bennett, said. “The amazing sense…
Medal Races in a trio of classed decided the top three at the World Cup in Miami, as crews stare down the barrel of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games selection. Nacra 17 Gold to Waterhouse/Darmanin (AUS) The Nacra 17 Medal…
The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron is ready to host the annual Hardy Cup Sydney International Match Racing Regatta, the next stop in the established Trans-Tasman youth match racing summertime series which starts in Australia’s west and travels east, all the…
Tasmania will be represented for the first time in the prestigious Hardy Cup Under 23 youth match-racing event on Sydney Harbour next week. Will Sargent will skipper a talented team of five young Hobart sailors eager to capitalise on their…
Geelong, Victoria: Mack One, skippered by Ben Franklin, dominated to win her second Australian Championship with a race to spare at the Festival of Sails this month. With another “Boat of the Day” flag in their grasp, Franklin and his…
Sunday's Race 5 of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour marks the halfway point of the series, but the extreme wind conditions, which have dominated the first two days racing, have left the likely outcome up in the…
Following five regattas in Newcastle, Pittwater and Sydney, crews from the strong Farr 40 Australian fleet are ready to make it count at the NSW Championship to be hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club over two days offshore and inside…
This year’s Superyacht Cup Palma is shaping up as one of the most competitive in recent years, with early interest in June’s celebration of sail already exceeding expectations. With four months to go to the start of Europe’s largest and…
Racing continues on day two at the NZ Millennium Cup regatta with challenging conditions, a time penalty and then victory for one vessel in an unexpected arena. On a day that started with light air and ended with a battle…
The Australia SailGP Team’s revolutionary new F50 set sail on Sydney Harbour for the first time yesterday, as the two-week countdown to SailGP’s inaugural event begins. The session was the first opportunity for the Australia SailGP Team, skippered by Olympic…
Excitement is mounting on Hobart’s picturesque waterfront, as the necessary infrastructure building commences and boats from as far away as the USA begin to arrive for the 2019 MyState Bank Australian Wooden Boat Festival, which opens on Friday 8 February….
With 18 months until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic regatta, now is the time for medal hopefuls to do an honest self-assessment and figure out what weaknesses they need to shore up before the big show. For Jason Waterhouse and Lisa…
Eight Farr 40’s headed offshore to the Manly Circle for the first race of the NSW Championship, and with uncomfortably lumpy conditions and only 5 knots, PRO Steve Tucker quickly moved the fleet back inside Sydney Harbour for the next…
Day one of the first superyacht regatta of the year was raced in beautiful conditions andmoderate breeze at the NZ Millennium Cup regatta today. With the first boat away at 11am, the fleet started off Tapeka Point with three minutes…
Today was yet another outstanding afternoon on Perth water with ideal conditions for racing. A 10 – 14 knot seabreeze for the duration of the eight flights created the perfect opportunity for tight match racing. Today saw the majority of…
Today’s second race for the Finn class at the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami was something of a microcosm of the regatta so far. It was all about surviving the storm and limiting the damage. Only this wasn’t the…
The first superyacht regatta of 2019 was declared open today as the sun set over New Zealand’sBay of Islands. Over the next three days from 31 January to 2 February, adventurous yachts which havemade the journey to the Pacific sailing…
The M32 International Class Association has released the dates for a busy 2019 sailing season and the World Championships in Riva, Italy. Schedule:-Pre Worlds 24-25 August-Worlds Measurement 26 August-Worlds Racing 27-30 August Riva del Garda at the northern end of…
The second day of the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta was another day of ideal match racing conditions in the City of Perth. The seabreeze came in right on cue and was a relatively stable 10 – 13 knots all…
It was a rich get richer sort of day at the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami, and during each of the first two races for the Women’s 49erFX fleet, Alex Maloney and Molly Meech (NZL) found themselves in very…
Day two of the 2019 City of Perth Festival of Sail continued with another day of free sailing in Elizabeth Quay. Over 940 people were able to experience sailing in a fun and safe environment over the Australia Day Weekend….
With just three months to go before the 52nd edition of Antigua Sailing Week there is a fantastic line up of yachts entered. Well over one thousand sailors will participate, many flying in from all over the world. Thousands more…
After nearly a month of training and competition on Biscayne Bay, many of the top sailors competing in the 2019 Hempel World Cup Series Miami have seen just about every wind condition Miami has to offer. But that doesn’t make…
On 26th January, 26 boats crossed the line in Hong Kong’s Tai Tam Bay, marking the start of the 2019 Beneteau Four Peaks Race. Compared to the 19 entries for the 2018 edition, the event saw an increase in numbers…
The largest ever OK Dinghy event ever to be held outside Europe begins in just over 10 days in Auckland, New Zealand. The Symonite OK Dinghy World Championship has attracted 110 entries and is being held at Wakatere Boating Club…
Three days of fine-weather sailing and equally busy evenings came to a close on the Monday of the Australia Day long weekend and sailors from eight to eighty are heading home for a rest following another successful staging of the…
Gusts up to 25 knots came through Geelong’s inner Corio Bay on day two of the annual Festival of Sails regatta, skittling the VX One fleet contesting the Gill VX One Australian Championship. ‘Super Sunday’ had every boat in the…
In contrast to the almost non-existent wind, which ruined the first day's racing in the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour last Sunday, a southerly wind of more than 25-knots today provided excellent conditions for some fast, action-packed racing…
The Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race line honours contest finished in spectacularly close fashion; four grand prix boats closing in on the finish line within 200 metres of each other in the Festival of Sails’ opening event. Two start lines…
Australia’s oldest sporting event, the Festival of Sails, put on a spectacular Australia Day party in Geelong today, as the country’s biggest celebration of sailing got off to a flying start. Thousands of visitors, including competitors from around Australia and…
The 2019 World Cup Series Miami, held out of Coconut Grove from 29 to 3 February, will see nine defending champions return to Biscayne Bay determined to defend their titles. 2019 marks the 30th edition of an Olympic sailing regatta…
Wednesday 23th January marks a next major milestone in the foiling fast development of DutchSail, the brand of the movement that Simeon Tienpont (two-time winner with Team Oracle USA, three-time Volvo Ocean Race) has started by challenging Emirates Team New…
The cheer that erupted for Bay of Islands local, Chris Hornell and his crew on the TP52 Kia Kaha at the CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week prizegiving ceremony last night, was perhaps the loudest in the event’s 17 year…
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