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For 130 years 18 footer sailors have been regarded as talented larrikins who like to challenge the elements, go fast, win at all costs, have a drink and place a bet on the races. One of the modern-day champions who…
The lure of sailing on the warm waters of the Whitsunday islands in August, not to mention the competition from Australia-wide, has owners and crews once again feeling the pull of Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) and all it offers…
Building consistency is the greatest challenge for the Australian ILCA 7 squad, as they battle it out with the world’s best on Banderas Bay at the 2022 World Championship. Luke Elliott continued to show he knows how to make it…
Galicia, Spain: The Plattner family’s Phoenix team, with man of the moment Tom Slingsby calling tactics, issued a clear statement of intent when they unrolled a truly comprehensive victory in the first race of the 52 Super Series Baiona Sailing…
From October 28 to November 20, 2022, Bahrain will host the Star Sailors League (SSL) Gold Cup 2022 Final Series, sailing’s version of the Football World Cup. The SSL Gold Cup, a World Sailing special event organised every four years…
Emirates Team New Zealand’s land yacht pilot Glenn Ashby reflects on the first week of testing on ‘Horonuku’ ahead of their Wind Powered Land Speed World Record attempt later this year. We have just completed a successful week of testing…
The opening day of the 2022 ILCA 7 Men’s World Championship took place under the hot Mexican sun on Banderas Bay, where 126 sailors began their hard road for the gold. Racing is due to take place every day until…
The Australian Sailing Team came out of the blocks firing on day one of the ILCA 7 World Championships in Mexico, with Western Australian Luke Elliot winning the first race of the 12-race series. Elliot’s early win turned out to…
Spain: The 52 Super Series fleet warmed up for Tuesday’s start of the 2022 season with three good practice races today on the beautiful ría de Vigo off Baiona where the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit is visiting for…
The 2022 ILCA 7 World Championships are set to kick off today in Riviera Nayarit on the west coast of Mexico. Glamourous sailing conditions are expected as the warm weather encourages a moderate thermal breeze. The Championship will be held…
After four days of racing on Lake Geneva in light conditions under sunny skies but with a far from straightforward meteorological picture to contend with, Esteban Garcia’s Realteam, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, has claimed the opening event win of the…
Day four of the Kitefoiling Youth World Championships saw the three divisions competing in 8 to 12 knot winds and another four hard-fought races completed. There were some significant moves on the leaderboard too. Highlights Three wins from four for Max Maeder of Singapore in theboys’ Formula Kite A breathtaking port-tack flyer makes France’s Arthur…
Australian competitors scored some of their best results to move up the leaderboard to end competition in fine fashion on their final day of the iQFOiL European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy. Australian Sailing Futures (ASF) athlete Will McMillan…
Cowes, Isle of Wight: Brilliant sun, big tides and light to moderate winds that built from 6-8 knots in the morning to 10-12 knots during the afternoon, provided glorious conditions for the second day of the RORC Vice Admiral’s Cup….
Fraglia Vela Malcesine, Italy: Pieter-Jan Postma from The Netherlands made history today by winning the 2022 Finn Gold Cup, the first Dutch winner of this massively prestigious trophy in its 66-year history. Oskari Muhonen, from Finland, took silver, while Hungary’s…
Lake Geneva presented a challenging third day of racing for the TF35s, but the light-to-no wind forecast eventually rewarded the patience of the teams and perseverance of the race committee, who were able to hold one successful race. In this,…
Maya Ashkenazi, Singapore’s Max Maeder and Poland’s Jan Koszowski excelled on Day 3 of the Kitefoiling Youth World Championships in Sardinia, each scoring three wins from four races. The day brought a strong but unpredictable breeze that made it hard…
Australians Will McMillan and Grae Morris produced their best on Day 4 of the iQFOiL European Championships overnight, as Lake Garda, Italy continued to offer up conditions to appeal to the masses. Four Course races were held in a wide…
Pieter-Jan Postma found second gear today to dominate the 110-boat fleet from 17 nations on the fourth day of the Finn Gold Cup at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy. The Netherlands sailor took two decisive race wins for…
After finishing at the bottom of the raking on day one, Frédéric Jousset’s golden hulled TF35, Team Sailfeaver, helmed by Frenchman Loïck Peyron, turned their fortunes around on the second day of the Realstone Cup for Léman hope taking place…
Day two of the Kiteboarding Youth World Championships in Torregrande, Italy produced a change of leader in two of the three divisions, with all four races completed in winds of 8 to 16 knots that gradually moved around from the…
There were just five points separating first place from fourth and only two points from Championship winners, Sled, from third placed Platoon at the end of the 2021 52 Super Series season last November in Palma, leaving the gate wide…
On Day 3 at the iQFOiL European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy, Australian Sailing Futures program (ASF) athletes Natasha Bryant and Will McMillan made it into their respective Gold fleets for the Final Series. The qualifying series came to…
After three very different races, Finland’s Oskari Muhonen has taken the lead at the 2022 Finn Gold Cup at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy. He won two more races to take a three-point lead from Pieter-Jan Postma, from…
Italy: Racing in light conditions can often be boring and frustrating but for the penultimate day of the first ever IMA Maxi European Championship it was anything but – for spectators at least – with significant shifts, occasional shut-downs on a…
Italy: Scheduled for day two of the IMA Maxi Europeans’ inshore/coastal racing were two windward-leewards. After a delay out on the Bay of Naples, the wind finally built to 8-12 knots from the west. After one aborted start due to…
Pieter-Jan Postma, from the Netherlands, is the early leader of the thrilling 2022 Finn Gold Cup at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy, after three finntastic races in a 10-14 knot southerly on Wednesday. Finland’s Oskari Muhonen is second…
A young team representing the Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) and Australian Sailing Futures program (ASF) in a new Olympic class learned the cost of mistakes on Day 2 of the iQFOiL European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy, but there…
Sydney, Australia: The 2022 Beneteau Pittwater Cup was a real celebration for all. One set of problems around the world have been replaced by another, and so the enthusiasm stemming from the chance to relax and simply go for a…
It was a difficult opening day at the iQFOiL European Championships on Lake Garda in Italy, with those representing the Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) and Australian Sailing Futures (ASF) were not immune, as a lengthy wait for the breeze to…
The World Match Racing Tour is pleased to announce the launch of the first Women’s World Match Racing Tour, a global professional series designed to promote and grow female participation in sailing and match racing around the world. The inaugural…
Italy: Following on from the Regata dei Tre Golfi offshore race, the International Maxi Association’s Maxi European Championship entered a new phase with the first of four days of inshore/coastal racing at the Maxi Yacht Sorrento Trophy, part of Tre…
The famous Garda wind machine broke down today and the 111 Finn sailors at the Finn Gold Cup at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy, will have to wait for another day to begin this long-heralded restart of elite…
One hundred and nine Finns from 19 nations have gathered at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda, Italy for the 2022 Finn Gold Cup. Ten races are scheduled over the next five days to determine the 2022 Finn World Champion. …
The TF35 Trophy 2022 season gets underway next week, racing out of Nyon, Switzerland, over 19-22 May, for the Realstone Cup for Léman hope. Seven teams will contest the TF35’s second season, and making their debut on the cutting-edge hydro-foiling…
Emirates Team New Zealand and Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei today christened the land yacht to be used in their Wind Powered Land Speed World Record attempt as ‘Horonuku’ in front of team members and land speed suppliers and supporters at their…
Tom Slingsby delivered a masterclass against Great Britain driver Ben Ainslie, known as the sailing ‘GOAT’ (greatest of all time) and most successful sailor in Olympic history, and Phil Robertson’s Canada Team, to win the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix. The…
After building nicely this season and knocking on the door of a series win, Leslie Green’s MC38 team on Ginger wrapped up a shortened Act 3 with plenty to spare. A 5-12 knot autumn nor’easter meant Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s…
The Tasar class, a hugely popular and highly competitive class, will be taking to the waters of Port Phillip from 28 to 31 December 2023 for the Australian National Championship and will follow this up with the main event –…
The passing of Jim ‘Ace’ Mowtell, long-time Australian 18 Footers League member and director of the Australian 18 Footers League since 1993, will be celebrated at the Club at 2pm on Tuesday, 2 August. ‘Ace’ was a true character in…
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