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Sail Port Stephens 2019 has welcomed aboard Bannisters Port Stephens as a new sponsor for its entrée event, the Commodores Cup, starting April 8. The three passage races that constitute the Commodores Cup take competitors on a scenic loop around…
The America’s Cup Arbitration Panel decision finding all three Late Entry challenges to be valid has been released today. The Challenger of Record and the Defender had already reached a settlement agreement under which the validity of the Challenges was…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is the first club to enter a team for the April National Sailing League Final in Sydney. CYCA Youth Sailing Academy head coach Jordan Reece won’t name his youth team just yet. He still…
The Australian MC38 class will commence its national regatta with weigh ins taking place on Thursday 14th March, to compete across the following three days. Hosted at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, the weekend will see the fleet in…
In 2019 the International Maxi Association (IMA) celebrates the 40th anniversary of its establishment by notable maxi boat owners of the day, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Raul Gardini, John Kilroy and William Whitehouse-Vaux. From its modest, relatively low-key beginnings, today…
Entries are open for Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron’s (RMYS) 29th Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) and Victorian competitors are throwing down the gauntlet; many will come fresh from competing in the 2018/19 Port Phillip Women’s Championship in Melbourne, ending on…
Tom and Alan Quick’s Outlaw sailed in a league of its own at the three-day Farr 40 National Championship: John Calvert-Jones Trophy, eight wins from 10 starts creaming the rest of the fleet and creating an extraordinary 22-point buffer back…
After moderate sea breeze conditions on the first day and even lighter northerly winds on the final day, the SA Youth Champs are now in the books with the champions crowned across the five classes. Competitors from the 420, International…
New Zealand’s Honda Marine 18ft Skiff team of David McDiarmid, Matt Steven and Brad Collins became the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan champions today, when they successfully defended the title they won last year on Sydney Harbour. Honda Marine completed…
Stuff.co.nz. By Harrison Christian and Nicole Lawton. Former America's Cup sailor Simone de Mari has been badly injured in a surfing accident. The incident reportedly happened last Sunday, and the Italian-born athlete was taken to Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. A spokesperson…
Famous former America’s Cup challenger Gretel II showed her evergreen racing ability in yesterday’s final race of the Cygnet Regatta Weekend, winning both the Classics and Division One. The regatta, first held in 1863 and revived by the proactive Port…
Points are starting to spread out at the Farr 40 Australian National Championship: John-Calvert Jones Trophy after three more races on a gloomy day two offshore, but Tom and Alan Quick’s stronghold on the national championship tightened with two further…
The New Zealand champion ASCC team of Josh Porebski/Jack Simpson/Dave Hazard produced a brilliant performance to win Race 8 of the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour. Despite the brilliance of the ASCC victory, the…
In what is possibly a world first, two winning America’s Cup skippers from different eras – John Bertrand and Glenn Ashby – will sail together to compete in the Victorian Etchells Championship from 9 to 11 March at Royal Geelong…
In building nor’easters, Outlaw seized three bullets from four races on Day 1 of the Farr 40 Nationals, only Sam Hill’s Forty able to slow the Quicks’ momentum. “My team was fantastic; it was a pleasure to go sailing today,”…
Southern Tasmania has a unique heritage in yachting that can be traced back to the 1830s: the annual sailing regattas that start at Hobart and on the Huon River in the spring and end up down at Dover on Port…
The New Zealand 18ft Skiff teams ASCC and Honda Marine shared the honours with comfortable wins in Races 6 and 7 on Day 5 of the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan Championship on Sydney Harbour today. ASCC (Josh Porebski, Jack…
TVNZ News Team New Zealand has confirmed to 1 NEWS today that AC75 sailing will come to Auckland earlier than expected with a round of the World Series to be held later next year. The first race in Auckland was…
It seems like a long time, but this is the America’s Cup and time is the biggest issue- you never have enough of it. Every day is important. Is two years long enough? “Not even close, we could use four,”…
South Australia's youth sailors are getting set for their marquee event this weekend, as the 2019 South Australian Youth Championships get underway at Adelaide Sailing Club on Saturday. A solid contingent of entries across Optimists, Lasers, 420s, Open Bics and…
With a lack of wind at the scheduled race start time, and the prediction of more wind due later in the afternoon, race officials decided to hold the teams on shore until a firm decision could be made about the…
The Maritime Executive Researchers have proposed a new idea that may explain why some Antarctic icebergs are tinged emerald green rather than the normal blue, potentially solving a decades-long scientific mystery. Pure ice is blue because ice absorbs more red…
Antigua Sailing Week (ASW) Race Manager Lorna Saunders runs through the key changes to racing at the 2019 edition of ASW, including two new classes, four new racing marks, plus information about ASW Minimum Safety Rules. The new classes will…
The America's Cup has received a setback with the opening round of the world series schedule for Italy in October now postponed until early next year, Duncan Johnston reports on New Zealand website Stuff.co.nz. Matteo Plazzi, technical director for Luna…
Australia’s Smeg team of Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Mike McKensey starred on Day 3 of the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan Championship with a win and third placing in the two races today, to move into clear second placing…
The Australian Farr 40 class will cap off its 20th successful season at the annual pinnacle event, traditionally held at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron to the north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Tom and Alan Quick’s Cruising Yacht Club…
In times of adversity you find out who your real friends are, and so it is with Townsville Yacht Club’s SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, with fervent supporter Andrew Pearson not only entering a crew, but encouraging others from his…
The Maritime Executive The Solomon Islands government has asked Australia's assistance in response to the escalating ecological damage caused by the oil spilling from the grounded bauxite bulk carrier MV Solomon Trader. The vessel ran aground on February 5. Fuel…
The JJ Giltinans will feel a bit different this year, with a New Zealand team going in as defending champions for the first time in nearly 50 years, and there's hope another victory will see the regatta come to these…
The plans for the 36th America's Cup presented by Prada are progressing, with clearer guidelines now set for the future. Following on from meetings held in Auckland last week between the Defender and Challenger of Record, an agreement has been…
Entries have opened for Airlie Beach Race Week Festival of Sailing 2019, and Ray ‘Hollywood’ Roberts was the first to take advantage, putting his name to paper for the Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) hosted Festival of Sailing to be held…
Defending champion Honda Marine won its second race of the Winning Group 2019 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship today, after another eventful day of racing on Sydney Harbour. After trailing Winning Group (John Winning Jr.) for half the NE course,…
By popular demand, the Australian Sports Boat Association (ASBA) is returning to Sail Port Stephens for an unprecedented third consecutive year to stage its 2019 national titles. And joining them for the first time is the VX One class for…
The defending champion Honda Marine team of Dave McDiarmid/Matt Steven/Brad Collins showed that they will be hard to beat again this year when they scored an impressive win in Race 1 of the Winning Group JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship…
Races 3 and 4 of the Port Phillip Women’s Championship Series, hosted by the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria were held on Port Phillip today and the women sailed two long courses in oscillating winds at both ends of the…
Winners were crowned on the final day of the Sydney Harbour Regatta, conducted by Middle Harbour Yacht (MHYC), over three days for the Sydney 38s and the weekend for all other classes. This is the 14th running of the regatta…
Alan and Tom Quick have added the Yoti Sydney 38 Australian Championship to their trophy cabinet at Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Harbour Regatta, which finished late this afternoon. The Quicks (CYCA), who were crowned Farr 40 NSW champions in…
For the 13th consecutive year, the JJ Giltinan Championship has been sponsored by the Winning Group brands, but there is so much more to their participation at all levels of the sport. The Winning Group is also one of the…
The Notice of Race for the Copa del Rey MAPFRE was published on the event’s official web site on Friday, and includes changes to the 2019 edition. The new classification, which will keep expectations running high up until the very…
From the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, all the way down to the Sound at Manly – boats, boats and more boats, as Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s well-named key event, the Sydney Harbour Regatta, did as its name implies…
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