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The former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of the United Nations Development Program has accepted the offer from Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton to become an ongoing advocate of the team and its objectives towards defending…
From July 30 – August 12, 2018, the Aarhus International Sailing Center will welcome 1,500 sailors from around 100 countries and an estimated 400,000 visitors. The sailors will be fighting for two prizes – medals in Aarhus and qualification for…
Fifty-seven boats contested the Beyond Bank Regatta which was hosted by Batemans Bay Sailing Club over the weekend of April 28th and 29th. Crews came from Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and everywhere in between. Saturday was not the most pleasant day…
1 May 2018 Dear Board, Council and Committee members and MNAs, Over the past month, there has been a major debate surrounding the revision and selection process of our events at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. With the upcoming Board…
Auckland, New Zealand – In just over 10 months’ time the International OK Dinghy fleet will descend on Auckland, New Zealand, to contest the 2019 OK Dinghy World Championship, bringing with them the friendship and competitiveness that make the OKs…
INEOS, one of UK’s and the world’s largest petrochemicals and manufacturing companies, is launching a challenge for the 2021 America’s Cup. INEOS has formed INEOS Team GB to compete for the trophy and is committed to spending £110 million –…
Team New Zealand appears to have confirmed that Peter Burling will skipper their defence of the America's Cup in 2021. During a recent Facebook question and Answer session, Ray Davies was asked the direct question and said, “We have (signed…
3 April, 2018: The Women’s International Match Racing Series today announced the 2018 series schedule with events in Finland, Sweden, Russia and the US Virgin Islands. This year marks the sixth consecutive season of the WIM Series, the world’s first…
The SailingKit.com.au TCAA 2017/18 Nationals Titles held at Mannering Park Amateur Sailing Club in NSW proved to be a huge success, with racing coming down to the final day in all three fleets. Thirty-eight boats made the trek to the…
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Circolo della Vela Sicilia, together with their respective teams Emirates Team New Zealand and the Challenger of Record – Luna Rossa, published the AC75 Class Rule for the 36th America’s Cup today. The…
NEW YORK, March 27, 2018 — The New York Yacht Club and Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association (“BMQRA”), today announced they will compete under the name “New York Yacht Club American Magic” (“American Magic”) in their challenge for the 36th…
Radio NZ The government has announced agreement in principle with the Auckland Council and Emirates Team New Zealand. Taxpayers will contribute $114 million – including a hosting fee of $40m – while the council will stump up $98.5m. Economic Development…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnston. Auckland will host the 2021 America's Cup after an agreement over the structure of the base village was reached by Team NZ, Auckland Council and the Government. It is understood the new village deal comes after…
The Sun. By Hugo Gye. THE GOVERNMENT spent at least £200,000 sponsoring a multi-million-pound private sailing team set up by Olympics star Ben Ainslie, The Sun can reveal. Ministers were accused of wasting public money by shovelling cash towards the lucrative…
Craig Jelfs from Cromer has won his 7th Australian Championship in the Hartley TS16 Division, making him the only skipper to ever attain this feat. The 53rd Hartley TS16 Australian Championship was held at Portarlington Sailing Club Victoria, in December…
Bristol, RI – March 20, 2018. The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America’s Cup Hall of Fame welcomes Ken McAlpine to the America’s Cup Hall of Fame as the sole inductee for the Class of 2018. The America’s Cup Hall of…
Speed & Smarts compiler David Dellenbaugh has released his latest issue of Learn the Racing Rules. This resource is designed to help racing sailors understand and apply all the right-of-way rules in the 2017-2020 rulebook. The program includes lots of live…
As, it seems, like everything the Italian America's Cup syndicate does, they weren't able to keep their biggest signing a secret for long. An Italian newspaper reported that two-time America's Cup winning skipper Jimmy Spithill had been seen in Cagliari…
World ranked Tasmanian sailor Matt Bugg has shown over the weekend he has lost none of his seamanship and tactical skills in the International 2.4mR yacht, the class in which he won a silver medal at the Rio Paralympics. The…
Oracle America's Cup skipper Jimmy Spithill has been linked to Italy's Luna Rossa syndicate according to Stuff.co.nz. The two-time Cup winner is desperate to stay in the game after his demise in Bermuda last year and with it looking increasingly…
By Andrw York In 1984 I wrote some articles in Australian Sailing that blew the lid off the misconceptions that were held about sailing in current. Up until that time everything that had been written about how current affected your…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Peter Burling predicts the radical new America's Cup boat will be difficult to sail but he's inspired by the challenge of helping develop the systems to master that. The round the world rookie will use the…
Preparations for Hillarys Yacht Club’s inaugural Sail Easter coaching regatta are well advanced with sponsorship signings, recognition by the Optimist Association of the event as a ranking regatta and discussions now well under way with former Olympic and national dinghy…
Skagerak, a Luders designed 5.5 Metre built by Lars Halvorsen in Sydney in 1974, took out the Int. 5.5m Class Australian Championship 2018, which was hosted by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) in Pittwater from 25-27 February. Skippered…
Inside the Games, By Duncan Mackay. Sir Durward Knowles, who had been the world's oldest living Olympic gold medallist, has died at the age of 100, it has been announced. The Bahamian, a former sailor who won an Olympic gold medal…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Dean Barker has strengthened his links to the New York Yacht Club's America's Cup challenge with confirmation he will be at the helm of their Congressional Cup and TP52 Super Series campaigns this year. Barker will…
Parkdale Yacht Club on Port Phillip Bay hosted the 41st Windsurfer One Design nationals with competition in four disciplines across the Australia Day long weekend. The regatta attracted 49 competitors from New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland taking…
Emirates Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup victory in Bermuda in 2017 was recognised with both the Sports Team of the Year and the Halberg Supreme Award at last nights 55th Halberg Awards, the country's pre-eminent event to honour and celebrate…
Class: Historic 18-foot Skiffs Event: 2018 Australian Championship Venue: Sydney Harbour Organising Authority: Sydney Flying Squadron Class Association: Australian Historic Sailing Skiff Association – AHSSA Top 3 Places + crew names, + pts: YENDYS, Harold Cudmore, Michael Van…
Wangi is a beautiful sleepy hole 1.5 hrs north of Sydney – on a huge tidal Lake Macquarie Wangi RSL Amateur SC stage many national events – and are well experienced. The sail set up area is a huge lawn…
Newsroom. By Tim Murphy. A compromise base for America's Cup teams on the Auckland waterfront is now likely to be readied for planning consent after a standoff between the Government and Auckland Council over where best to invest up to $140…
It's a little over six months since Land Rover BAR made it through to the semi-finals of the 35th America's Cup, where it was knocked out by the eventual winner, Emirates Team New Zealand 5-2, sending the Cup back to…
The 52nd International Mirror Class Australian Championship was held at Kingston Beach Sailing Club in Tasmania from 27-31 December 2017 when two dozen boats from all states except Queensland competed for the title. Ten races were sailed over five days…
Tom Braidwood and the crew of Backchat are the new Adams 10 Australian Champions today, dramatically turning the tables on Powderhulk, the team which has topped the results table for the past two days. Two races were held in 10-12…
Gordon Ingate has won the Prince Philip Cup Australian championship for the Dragon class for the fourth time, at the age of 91. Ingate, from Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, was crewed by Aimee Walsh and David Giles, aboard Whimsical, the…
The temperature hit 35 plus degrees in the sun and that was agony as the crews waited to get a final start for almost three hours. With the breeze literally switching thru 180 degrees of the compass, to their credit…
Today, Sunday 7th January 2018 concludes the 56th International OK Dinghy Australian Championships, a six-day offshore regatta hosted by Southport Yacht Club’s Hollywell Sailing Squadron. With a remarkable 18 point lead, Rob McMillan has been crowned the Australian titles champion….
With adverse weather conditions on the final day of racing at the Flying Fifteen Australian Championships held out of Mornington YC on Port Philip Bay, the penultimate day's results stand handing the title to Matt Owen and Andrew Reed from…
Stuff.co.nz An America's Cup guru is predicting the new monohulls to break the 50-knot barrier for the first time and says they are so radical that teams will struggle to come up with the right training platform. Australian Grant Simmer,…
Stuff.co.nz. By Susan Edmunds A mistake in work done to determine the economic benefit of the America's Cup to New Zealand has been revised – and it shows the country might not break even. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment…
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