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The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Cock of the Bay Yacht Race, or Boxing Day Dash, is living up to its reputation as a hugely popular 21 nautical mile post-Christmas race with over 100 boats entered in this year’s…
International & interstate competitors will return for the 19th Warren Jones International Youth Regatta for the first time since 2020 In it’s 19th year, the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta will again be a Grade-2 Match Racing Event with locals,…
In any other sport, a scoresheet listing nine line honours wins and a combined 238 Rolex Sydney Hobarts among the crew of 21 would suggest that team is the pre-race favourite. The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, however, is a…
If you want to know what it takes to win an Australian 16ft Skiff Championship, why not go to the bloke who’s won more of them than anyone? Lee Knapton lifted the famous old shield eight times, winning his first…
Sydney, Australia (19 December, 2022) – Nick Egnot-Johnson, Sam Barnett, Zak Merton & Bradley McLaughlin, representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have been crowned 2022 Open Match Racing World Champions after an epic five days of racing on Sydney…
Varying conditions and a gusty southerly set down a challenge for athletes on the final day of Sail Sydney, with consistency the key for podium finishes. After delays and cancellations to the racing schedule on day three of the regatta,…
Multiple classes will have to wait until the last day of racing to decide their winners at Sail Sydney, after wet and windy conditions saw racing delayed or cancelled today on Sydney Harbour. One class that did get racing in…
Sydney, Australia (17 December, 2022) – The four semi-finalists were decided today at the World Match Racing Tour finale event on Sydney Harbour, being co-hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. The winner of the event will be crowned…
Sydney, Australia (16 December, 2022) – The southerly breeze increased again today on Sydney’s iconic Harbour for Day 3 of the World Match Racing Tour Final 2022 at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Completing the repechage round, the top…
Australian Sailing Squad athletes in the 49er and 49erFX classes were locked in a battle with one another and the swells of Sydney Harbour on a busy day two of Sail Sydney. The gusty conditions proved tricky again for the…
Sydney, Australia (15 December, 2022) – USA’s Chris Poole/ Riptide Racing and Denmark’s Jeppe Borch / Borch Racing excelled in perfect conditions again on Sydney Harbour today, finishing at the top of the first qualifying stage, advancing both teams directly…
Olympians Matt Wearn, Mara Stransky, Tom Burton, Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin all marked their return to domestic competition with race wins on day one of a windy Sail Sydney. Across the day competitors were met with big breezes across…
13ft Skiff Nationals at home in Manly for the club’s 100th year anniversary 7-14th January Subjected to a range of challenges and coming through the other side to win the NSW 13ft Championships earlier this month has convinced the team…
Legendary 18 footer sailor and former JJ Giltinan world, Australian and NSW champion John ‘Woody’ Winning (Yandoo), along with Fang Warren and Josh Porebski, lowered the colours of the previously unbeaten Andoo, skippered by his son John ‘Herman’ Winning in…
Sydney, Australia (14 December, 2022) – Spectacular conditions today welcomed the ten teams on the opening day of the 2022 World Match Racing Tour Final on Sydney’s iconic harbour. USA’s Chris Poole leads the opening round undefeated with five straight…
The smiles said it all. Minutes after crossing the finish line in the sixth long course heat of the season, the first three females to “trifecta” a club race at Manly 16ft Skiff Club shared a special moment 100 years…
With a fleet of almost 250 boats on the entry list, the 2022 Sail Sydney regatta is set to shape a huge domestic summer season for many of Australia’s top sailors. From Thursday 15th December to Monday 19th December, Woollahra…
11 races were sailed on Biscayne Bay, right in front of Miami, FL, from Friday December 9th to Sunday the 11th for the third event of the 69F US Select Series 2022. The conditions of the Bay were unlikely very…
The Ares Racing Team, skippered by Tasmania’s Will Sargent, won the SB20 Australian sailing championship in Hobart on Monday, with a perfect score of nine points after a one race discard. Sargent, the reigning SB20 youth world champion, who also…
Today’s Trophy: Syd Barnett Jr. Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: Shaw and Partners Financial ServicesSunday, 11 December 2022Sydney Harbour The Yandoo team of John Winning Sr., Fang Warren and Josh Porebski closed the gap to Andoo (John Winning Jr., Matt Stenta and…
On the concluding day of the 2022 44Cup’s final event, the 44Cup Oman, PRO Maria Torrijo defied the odds and was able to stage three races. As is usual with this fleet of high performance owner-driver one designs, the results…
The forecast for the penultimate day of the 44Cup Oman was for either a moderate north-easterly or for a light north-westerly. In fact the near non-existent gradient breeze and the similarly soft sea breeze made it a tricky day for…
The 2023 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series season is about to kick off and the first stop of the year for this largest regatta series in the US takes place in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida from 17-19 February. Don’t…
A NSW 16ft Skiff champion one day, back to the school the next.That was the whirlwind 24 hours for Red Pumps Red skipper Tyler Dransfield after he combined with Chris Williams and Jackson Cranfield to claim a maiden state title…
Next summer in Newport, Rhode Island a schedule of racing will be punctuated by the 2023 12 Metre World Championship, an International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA) event, organised by the 12 Metre Yacht Club Newport Station (official home of ITMA’s…
After a light start, conditions were optimum off Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina for day two of the 44Cup Oman, the fifth and concluding event of the 2022 44Cup. Three races were held, but today the northerly wind peaked at 15…
Heavy waves on Kata Beach hampered crews’ ability to reach their boats today, so the Phuket King’s Cup race committee delayed racing for just over an hour, as the wind gods didn’t want to come out to play today. After…
After a light World Championship back in October in Portorož, Slovenia the nine teams competing today off Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina at the 44Cup Oman, were well dialled in for the opening day of the 2022 44Cup’s grand finale. However,…
Bruce Taylor is what one would describe as one of the backbones of the Festival of Sails, having competed in every single one since 1979 – and he will be there again when the start gun fires on Port Phillip…
7 December 2022, Phuket – The wind gods have been kind to sailors at the 34th Phuket King’s Cup as another full day of racing was completed today off of Naiharn Beach on the southern end of Phuket. It was…
The line-up for the World Match Racing Tour Final 2022 has been confirmed, with 10 teams invited for the inaugural Tour event to be sailed on Sydney Harbour. In just under a week, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, home…
6 December 2022, Phuket – Blue skies, warm water and nice breeze greeted sailors today as they gathered off of Cape Promthep to compete in the second day of sailing at the 34th Phuket King’s Cup Regatta. While the International…
The ‘club versus club’ sailing competition – the VIC Sailing League – will be returning to the 2023 Festival of Sails as local teams battle it out for a shot at the Asia Pacific finals of the SAILING Champions League…
The John Winning Jr-skippered maxi yacht, Andoo Comanche, produced a masterclass of high-speed sailing to win Line Honours in the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge on Sydney Harbour today. Meanwhile, the Jim Cooney-skippered and owned Volvo 70 Willow was declared the…
The latest episode of the World Sailing show goes behind the scenes to look at the first weeks of testing ahead of the 2024 America’s Cup in Barcelona. Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli’s LEQ12 test boat is currently in Cagliari as…
From 2023, Kiel Week will be part of the group of four international top events that make up the World Cup in Olympic sailing. In future, the regatta organisers and World Sailing want to coordinate dates and general conditions such…
The 2022 Australian Maxi Championship will be decided by the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge after an enthralling day of racing in Sydney. Following the Championship-opening Cabbage Tree Island Race over the weekend, the 10 boats (four in the Maxi Division…
Today’s Trophy: Alice Burton Memorial TrophyRace Sponsor: SmegSunday, 4 December 2022Sydney Harbour The Andoo team of John Winning Jr., Seve Jarvin and Sam Newton extended its lead in the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship with another top class exhibition in the…
Ask those at Manly Skiffs the original motivation behind seeking an amalgamation with the famous old St George Sailing Club and money and profit is never at the forefront of discussion. Invariably, the talk turns to the propagation of 16ft…
In 1949 The Edinburgh Cup was gifted to the British Dragon Association (BDA) by the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) after the members of the Island Sailing Club presented the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip with a Dragon named…
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