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SYDNEY – Tom Slingsby – Olympic gold medalist, America’s Cup winner, eight-time world champion and member of the Order of Australia – was today tabbed to lead the Australia SailGP Team in the global racing league’s inaugural season. The full…
On the penultimate day of the GC32 TPM Med Cup, Franck Cammas’ Norauto powered by Team France fought back to second place overall after a disappointing Friday when the crew was crippled by a broken foil. Today was supposed to…
After an epic final battle, the Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship came down to one race – a rematch of the Finals from 2017, with James Hodgson/Harry Hall/Ryan Wilmot/John Cooley/Charlie Gundy looking for revenge 12 months later. After taking…
Jordan Girdis and Lachlan Doyle, two of last year’s Spring 18ft Skiff Championship-winning team, return today to defend their title when the Australian 18 Footers League conducts Race 1 of the 2018-2019 Championship on Sydney Harbour. Girdis (skipper) and Doyle…
There were a few challenging moments in the early stages of the first day at this year's Sail Sandy Regatta, but it was the Port Phillip Bay sea breeze that saved the day in the end. Sail Sandy, the Sandringham…
Cagliari, Italy: All it took was one last, wild ride on Saturday, the final day of competition at the 2018 Melges 20 World Championship hosted by Yacht Club Cagliari, to give class its second-ever, double, back-to-back world champion – Drew…
Ahead of Friday’s Medal Race, the battle to claim a spot on the podium amplified in the Windsurfing class at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition at Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Shifting winds on the coldest day of…
When Yvette Heritage, Richard Heritage and Daniel McLachlan line up for Race 1 of the Australian 18 Footers League’s Spring Championship next Sunday (14 October), Yvette and Richard Heritage will create history in the 125-year-old 18ft skiff racing class. It…
Cagliari, Italy: After yesterday's opening race day postponement, the weather cooperated on Day 2, officially getting the 2018 Melges 20 World Championship underway. It was obvious that crews were feeling the pressure to do well. The high and choppy waves…
Winds had abated after yesterday’s storm off the Cote d’Azur, but sadly the sea state on the Rade de Toulon was considered too large for the nimble flying catamarans to race safely on day one of the GC32 TPM Med…
Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex: The effect of Storm Callum currently sweeping across England has done little to affect proceedings at the opening day of the Endeavour Trophy weekend, from 12-14 October. Although gusts reached well over 25 knots, the on-water session of…
After the storms, torrential rain and general greyness of the last days, the Rade de Toulon was in an entirely different mood for day two of the GC32 TPM Med Cup, the final event of the GC32 Racing Tour, held…
Cagliari, Italy: Three additional races were completed at the 2018 Melges 20 World Championship, hosted by Yacht Club Cagliari, bringing the number of completed races to six, which also prompts a discard of each team's worst score. With the results…
Alexandros Kalpogiannakis (GRE) and Giorgia Speciale (ITA) became the first sailors to take the titles of 2018 Youth Olympic Champions at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition, held at Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first Medal Races were…
Twenty-nine yachts are set to line up for the start of the Blue Water Pointscore Newcastle Bass Island Race this weekend, representing the greatest number of competitors in the event’s short but successful five-year history. The 215-nautical-mile challenge marks Race…
A dazzling display on the water from Alina Kornelli (GER) ensured she remains top of the Girl’s Kiteboarding fleet at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition at Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. With lighter windspeeds than the previous day,…
More than 250 sailors are set to descend on Sandringham Yacht Club this weekend as the two-day Sail Sandy Regatta gets underway on Saturday. Entries have already surpassed last year's numbers of 160 boats with more than 170 entries…
2017 Australian Youth Match Racing Champion, Tom Grimes, representing the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has made an impressive finish to his double round robin stage, taking out the top spot with a 17-1 (win-loss) scorecard, to go through Round…
Two teams have been confirmed for the semi-finals of the 2018 Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship with last year’s two finalists, defending champion, Tom Grimes (CYCA) and current regatta leader James Hodgson (CYCA), both securing enough points for the…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) have dominated the opening day of competition at the 2018 Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship with James Hodgson & Finn Tapper both remaining undefeated after the first seven flights in the Championship….
Argentinean athletes are coming to the forefront on their home waters as the breeze came to town on the third day of competition at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition. Held out of Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, the…
The 5500 nautical mile Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race and return journey left Annette Hesselmans still champing at the bit, so she solved the problem by forming a short-handed female crew to take part in the Melbourne to…
Titouan Petard and Kenza Coutard (FRA) struck the first win in the solitary Mixed Multihull (Nacra 15) race at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition at Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A frustrating day epitomised by light winds meant…
Four huge Laser regattas are coming to Sandringham in the summer of 2020. The Laser Class, representing the world’s largest one design Olympic boat the Laser single hander, has awarded Sandringham Yacht Club hosting rights for three ILCA Laser World…
CHICAGO, IL (October 8, 2018): Competitors at the Farr 40 World Championship have emphasized that consistency is key and that is what Alex Roeper's Plenty had going for them today. Day Three's racing has both Plenty and Wolfgang Schaefer's Struntje…
Whistler, one of Tasmania’s most prolific long race winners, today began another season on a winning note, taking IRC and AMS handicap honours in the Channel Race, the first event of the summer season. Traditionally run by the Royal Yacht…
CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2018): Patience paid off for Day 1 of the Farr 40 World Championship Day 1 in Chicago, Illinois. After a brief shoreside postponement, the fleet headed out for steep waves and winds of 15-20knots. The northeast…
Lisbon, Portugal (7th October, 2018) – “A full on day” quoted Race Officer Mattias Dahlström, reflecting on day four of the Regata de Portugal, hosted on the capital’s shoreline. The Quarter Final Stage concluded today, and defending Match Racing World…
In light winds, Italian and Greek windsurfers took an early advantage on the first day of racing at the Youth Olympic Sailing Competition being held out of Club Nautico San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Girl’s and Boy’s Windsurfing fleets…
Lisbon, Portugal (7th October, 2018) – Nicklas Dackhammar and his all-Swedish Essiq Racing Team wrote their name in the history books today as they became the first name to be scratched on to the WMRT Regata de Portugal Trophy, a…
This weekend, for the first time, the Australian Schools Match Racing Championship was held on Sydney Harbour. An inconsistent storming southerly breeze ranging from 8-28 knots made for some fast paced sailing for the eight schools competing at the Cruising…
CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2018): The point spread grew at the top of the Farr 40 World Championship leaderboard on Day Two with Enfant Terrible finishing at the front of the fleet while Plenty fell to third. Three races were…
The third Youth Olympic Games, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 6-18 October 2018, will welcome 100 sailors from 44 different nations. Five sailing events will take place at Club Náutico San Isidro in the Argentine capital, including…
Chicago, USA: Alex Roepers is extremely proud of each and every one of the three world championships he's captured as an owner-driver within the prestigious Farr 40 Class Association and he is hoping to make it four at these Worlds….
The best young sailors in the country will converge on the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) next week 8-12 October for the annual Sharp Australian Youth Match Racing Championship (Sharp AYMRC). The Championship, which began in 2001 with the…
New teams, existing teams, and a return of some of the world’s best 18ft skiff sailors of the past decade, will highlight the Australian 18 Footers League’s exciting 2018-2019 Season, which begins on Sydney Harbour, on Sunday, 14 October. The…
Famous America’s Cup challenger Gretel II, now based in Hobart, will return to racing on Sunday in the Channel Race, a 30 nautical mile day race from Hobart down the River Derwent to Bligh Point in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and…
Hobart’s Friends School has been beaten by just two points in the Interdominion Schools Team Sailing Championships in New Zealand, losing to fellow Australian school, Westminister from Adelaide. The winner of the open division was decided on the final race…
CHICAGO – Alex Roepers is extremely proud of each and every one of the three world championships he's captured as an owner-driver within the prestigious Farr 40 Class Association. If Roepers and his top-notch team aboard Plenty can secure another…
The Kiwi Flying Phantom team, Hamilton Huas, helmed by Isaac McHardie and crewed by Tokyo 2020 hopeful Micah Wilkinson, will go down in history as the winner of the first ever Flying Phantom event in China and the Far East….
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