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Giles Scott wrapped up a great week’s sailing with two more race wins to take the overall victory at the Ronstan Australian Finn Championship in some spectacular Black Rock conditions, where Nicholas Heiner secured second place and Jake Lilley took…
The Australian 18 Footers League fleet is back on Sydney Harbour this Sunday when the 18-boat fleet will contest the final two races of the 2018-2019 NSW 18ft Skiff Championship. After three races so far in the Championship, going into…
Coaching programs to develop the racing skills of each club’s up-and-coming young sailors have played a key in the final results of the 2019 International Optimist Australian Championships. Daniel Links from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club on Pittwater, NSW,…
Andy Beadsworth, Ali Tezdiker and Simon Fry crossed the finish line in first place to win the final race of the 2019 Dragon World Championship and seal their second consecutive world title in style. The Turkish team were the first…
Rio gold medallist Tom Burton (NSW) has outsailed defending Australian Laser Standard Rig champion Matthew Wearn (WA) in a hard-fought Oceania and Australian championship. On the final day of competition Burton clinched victory in race 11, taking top honours while…
Sydney sailors Will Cooley and Bec Hancock will go into this week’s Australian Sailing Youth Championships 2019 as strong favourites for the Nacra 15 title, and an overseas trip. Cooley, from Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron and his new crew, Hancock,…
First and second places in the final race on the River Derwent yesterday decided the winners of the Australian championship for the 420 double-handed youth dinghy class, with a New Zealand crew the victors. , a combined Woollahra Sailing…
New South Wales, Sail Sydney and Sail Melbourne champions in the 29er skiffs, Archie Cropley and Max Paul, yesterday stormed home on an 18-20 knot Derwent River seabreeze to snatch victory in the 2019 Australia championship. Cropley and Paul came…
Thirteen international Finn sailors have joined 27 Australian Finn sailors for the Ronstan 2019 Australian Finn National Championship, which begins at Black Rock Yacht Club, in Melbourne, on Tuesday. The fleet includes 2018 European Champion, Ed Wright, 2016 Olympic champion,…
By the end of the fourth day of the 2019 Dragon World Championship at Fremantle, Western Australia, the top of the leaderboard is log jammed with only three races to go. Despite an early strong wind warning, today’s two races…
The supercharged F50 catamarans hit Sydney Harbour next month. Over two thrilling days of inshore racing, six national teams will be battling for supremacy at speeds over 50 knots (60mph/100kph). We’ve got early bird tickets on sale for just one…
With two weeks to go until New Zealand’s biggest and best-loved multi-day sailing regatta, CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week, organisers are again predicting a record breaking year in terms of entry numbers. The entry list for the event, which…
Hobart’s River Derwent swarmed with almost 450 young sailors yesterday as the huge fleet of 240 Optimist dinghies began their Australian championship, joining various youth classes already well into their nationals. The single-handed Optimists, along with double-handed crews in 29ers,…
The results are as shifty as the conditions that the 23 catamarans racing in the 2019 Tornado World Championships are receiving on the race course. RACE 3 Race 3 saw a mix of conditions with Brett Burvill (AUS) saying he…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand will build a test boat as well as launch their first racing yacht and sign up the rest of their crew in what will be a hugely influential year towards defending the America's…
New York, N.Y. – Australian company Advanced Wing Systems (AWS) and New York Yacht Club American Magic, U.S. Challenger for the 36th America’s Cup, today announced that AWS, a leader in sail design and engineering, has been named as an…
Over 40 vessels competed along the beautiful Gold Coast shoreline today for the 2019 Bartercard Sail Paradise regatta, hosted by Southport Yacht Club. With the 2019 Queensland Yachting Championships up for grabs, ITALIAN JOB, skippered by Michael Johnston from Sunshine…
The 2019 Dragon World Championship has reached the half-way stage already after five races have been completed. Day three was another hot day on land with an air temperature in the high 30’s. On the water the race committee had…
The description of conditions, from sailors and officials today was ‘champagne sailing’, with a Queensland sailor heard to remark ‘this is the Mooloolaba of Tasmania’. Such was the bountiful weather for another day of competition at the International Laser…
Fremantle was back to its very best for day two of the 2019 Dragon World Championship, and after a few hours waiting ashore, the regular sea breeze gathered for two fabulous races under cloudless blue skies and aqua marine waters….
The Australian crew of Brett Burvill and Matt Putman won both races to take an early lead from Rex and Brett Sellers (NZL). in the 2019 Tornado World Championship, being sailed from Takapuna Beach, New Zealand, The World's kicked off…
Brett Hobson/Jeremy Jones (Geotherm) were lucky to take Race 2 from Nick Press/Andrew Hay (Sydney Sailmakers) at the Your Move Conveyancing 12ft Skiff Interdominion hosted by the Sydney Flying Squadron this afternoon, while the latter pair repaid the favour by…
Grant Gordon and his team of Ruairidh Scott, Sophie Weguelin and James Williamson showed the rest of the Dragon fleet the way to go on day one of the 2019 Dragon World Championship, held on the aquamarine waters off Fremantle…
Sandy Bay Sailing Club’s young crew of Hugo Allison and James Gough are the new national champions in the International Cadet class, winning a closely fought series on Hobart’s River Derwent. Allison (13) and James (12), sailing Shmoken, won the…
A south-westerly front roaring up Hobart’s River Derwent and gusting to 40 knots hit the fleet before racing started on day two of the Australian championships for 49er, 49erFX and 29er skiffs, 420 dinghies and Nacra 15 catamarans. Fortunately, only…
After waiting on shore for the wind to fill in, the 148 Laser sailors contesting the Oceania and Australian Championships in Bass Strait, off Devonport, were rewarded with good racing conditions late yesterday afternoon. Sailors headed out of the Derwent…
Day 1 of the Your Move Convenyancing 12ft Skiff Interdominion provided both thrills and spills in a stiff southerly that kicked in just before the 3pm start on Sydney Harbour today, with Brett Hobson/Jeremy Jones crewed Geotherm winning a battle…
The 57th Australian OK Dinghy National Championship ended with two really tricky light wind races that left the regatta leaders struggling and picking up high scores. However Roger Blasse, from the host club, Black Rock YC, survived to take his…
The 2019 Dragon World Championship takes place from Friday 4th to Wednesday 9th January inclusive. The championship is organised by host club the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and sailed out of Fremantle Sailing Club on the pristine waters of…
The Cockburn Sound Regatta is a four day event held between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve on the beautiful and protected waters of Mangles Bay off Rockingham, Western Australia. The Kwinana Industries Council Race from Fremantle to Rockingham is…
Young Hobart sailors William Wallis and Fynn Sprott have made a brilliant start to the Australian championship for the 29er skiffs on the River Derwent, with a 1-1-2 scorecard on day one. The 29ers, 49ers and the 49FX women’s skiff…
Another two races have been completed on day two of the Flying Fifteen Australian National Championships at the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron at Adelaide, South Australia. Race 3 was a windward / leeward course of two laps with a…
For only the second time in 41 editions of the iconic King of the Derwent yacht race, a northern Tasmanian boat has won Hobart’s iconic yachting event. Lawless, skippered by prominent Port Dalrymple Yacht Club member Stephen McElwee, today placed…
After two more race wins in some spectacular Black Rock sea breeze conditions, Roger Blasse is now just one race away from a record 11th Australian OK Dinghy National Championship title. Mark Jackson is 10 points back in second after…
It was quite a hard slog for the Turkish flagged team with the current world champion crew of Andy Beadsworth, Ali Tezdiker and Simon Fry to grind out victory to win their first Prince Philip Cup in Fremantle, Western Australia. …
The Flying 15 Nationals are now underway at the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron. 28 boats are competing in the championships with boats from Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland. Weather predictions for Gulf St Vincent were for warm…
Black Rock finally turned it on for Day 3 of the OK Dinghy Australian National Championship, with brilliant sunshine and a building sea breeze producing great conditions for the 40-boat fleet. After two more races, Roger Blasse takes an eight-point…
For the third day in a row Western Australia delivered the finest sailing conditions money can’t buy. Bright blue skies, good solid breezes and some great surfing waves. Although racing was brought forward again to an earlier start time of…
Wow! What a start to the Australasian Dragon Championship for the Prince Philip Cup held off Fremantle. The regatta which also acts as the pre-Worlds, enjoyed a sensational first day of racing in Hendricks ‘Gin & Tonic’ conditions with bright…
Roger Blasse extended his lead at the 2019 OK Dinghy Australian National Championship at Black Rock YC after two more race wins on Sunday. Mark Jackson remains in second with Brent Williams having a great day to move up to…
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