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Australian sailor Jimmy Spithill explains how his United States SailGP Team just came short of winning the SailGP Season 2 Grand Final on San Francisco Bay last weekend. The final day of SailGP Season 2 pretty much summed up our…
When the Smeg team with Charmaine Hill on board won last Sunday-week’s Queen of the Harbour race on Sydney Harbour, it brought a very successful Australian 18 Footers League 2021-22 racing season to an end. Despite the delayed start last…
Emirates Team New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron are pleased to announce Barcelona, in the region of Catalonia as the host venue for the 37th America’s Cup to be held in September and October of 2024. A…
Newport-based MCM is celebrating after no fewer than eight sailing yachts in its fleet crossed the finish line at the legendary St. Barths Bucket Regatta, held from 17-20 March in the Caribbean. It was a bumper entry list for the company, which runs new…
At the end of a thrilling, incident-packed season, Jimmy Spithill’s United States SailGP Team almost completed the perfect comeback, but came up just short at the final hurdle. Red Bull break down all you need to know: On Sunday, March…
Manly Yacht Club’s Helly Hansen Women’s Challenge on Sunday March 27 had it all, from rain squalls to light winds, spinnaker troubles and of course – a lot of fun. The Challenge was the last instalment of the second edition…
San Francisco: The Australia Team are the SailGP Season 2 champions. Tom Slingsby led the Australia SailGP Team to a stunning victory and secured a place in history, after beating Japan and USA in the final drama fuelled race. The…
San Francisco: Congratulations to Hattie Rogers from Great Britain and Sean Herbert from New Zealand who claimed the male and female championships at the SailGP – Waszp Inspire Racing Grand Final. In a drama-packed final day, Herbert took the win…
IRC honours for a hard-fought City of Newcastle TP52 Gold Cup were decided in the protest room tonight, with Ichi Ban being disqualified from the fourth and deciding race for a pre-start rule breach. Three protests were lodged by Matador,…
Australian high performance athletes are encouraged to manage education and career pathways with their sporting ambitions as the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) today opens a new round of applications for the AIS Education Scholarship Program. Now in its second…
Tom Slingsby had a fiery first day of sailing at the Mubadala United States Sail grand Prix, unleashing his infamous alter ego ‘the red mist’ onto the San Francisco Bay. The Australia SailGP Team refused to back down during racing,…
A good story is supposed to have what English teachers call a sizzling start, but the wind gods had other ideas today for Race 1 of the Sailfest Newcastle Regatta Offshore Series, supported by City of Newcastle and Transport for…
Teams are pushing themselves to the limit ahead of the Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix in San Francisco, with two of the three grand finalists capsizing on San Francisco Bay during training. Overall leader and reigning champion, Tom Slingsby’s…
The so-called Steel City becomes Keel City this weekend as the annual SailFest Newcastle Regatta brings a smorgasbord of world-class sailing to NSW’s Hunter Region. Few cities in Australia, let alone the world, allow spectators to stroll the waterfront and…
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania (RYCT) will be looking to continue its form from last year and to be crowned the Sailing Champions League winners for the second year running. RYCT will be up against some tough competition with…
The Australian SailGP Team capsized on San Francisco Bay during a training session for this weekend’s SailGP season final, the upcoming Mubadala United Sail Grand Prix, March 26-27. The capsize occurred towards the end of the team’s routine training from…
Redcliffe Peninsular, Queensland: Humpybong Yacht Club’s (HYC) inaugural Women and Girls’ Sailing Regatta held last weekend (March 19-20) attracted an enthusiastic group of sailors for a hotly contested race series. HYC spokeswoman Kate Slade said they were pleased with the…
A message from Jean-Luc Michon, EurILCA Chairman: The Executive Committee of EurILCA (European Region of ILCA) has launched a crowdfunding page to support the 18 ILCA sailors from the ILCA Ukrainian team and their coaches. Those 18 Ukrainian sailors were…
SailGP, one of the world’s fastest growing sports properties and NEAR, a leading carbon-neutral, community-driven blockchain development platform, today announced a multi-year groundbreaking partnership. As part of the partnership, SailGP will explore the sale of a new team to a…
Sir Ben Ainslie, Hannah Mills OBE and the Great Britain SailGP Team have declared their ambition to help over 1 million young people take action to protect nature, people and the planet as the new Protect Our Future climate education…
San Francisco residents are being asked to tackle pollution by ditching plastic during the SailGP race weekend. The Japan SailGP Team is calling on San Francisco residents to take the ‘plastic promise’ in a bid to combat plastic pollution during…
More than 100 entries across a variety of classes have so far been received for the 34th running of Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW), to be hosted by Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) in the Whitsunday Islands from 11 to 18 August, 2022. …
The NSW Sabot Championship concluded over the weekend (March 19-20) with Round 2 being hosted on Lake Macquarie by Teralba Amateur Sailing Club. The event was sailed over a variety of conditions across both rounds, giving the 43 competing boats…
Congratulations to the Fremantle Sailing Club RAMP Team who won the 2022 Women’s State Keelboat Championship on Saturday March 19, hosted by Royal Perth Yacht Club. The FSC RAMP Team, skippered by Jess Lundh, won four out of the seven…
The United States SailGP Team capsized on San Francisco Bay during a training session for this weekend’s SailGP Grand Final. All athletes were safe and accounted for following the incident, with the team’s F50 catamaran sustaining minimal damage. For the full…
Maxi yacht racing re-ignites in Italy in one month’s time with the Regate di Primavera held out of one of the nation’s most idyllic hamlets, Portofino. Organised by the Yacht Club Italiano, in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, Portofino…
With exactly one week to go until the SailGP Season 2 Champion is crowned, teams took to the iconic San Francisco Bay for the first time in preparation for the Grand Final, March 26-27. First to hit the bay was…
Charmaine Hill is the 2022 Queen of the Harbour after teaming with Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Zac Barnabas in Smeg to win the Australian 18 Footers League’s annual 18ft skiff race on Sydney Harbour today. The Smeg team led…
St. Barths, Caribbean: A vastly experienced crew who gelled together perfectly at their first ever J Class regatta proved a winning combination as Ranger clinched the Saint Barth’s Bucket J Class title today after the round the island contest was…
J Class debutant, team Ranger. won their first race together at the Saint Barth’s Bucket – the Caribbean superyacht regatta which has long been a favourite with the historic class, the reasons for which were highlighted today. On the 25-nautical…
Racing in perfect 16-22 knot trade winds, the J Class teams enjoyed a sharp reminder of how tough and physically close fleet racing is aboard these historic, beautiful yachts after a two-year layoff. While it was a massively enjoyable day…
Australian Sailing is seeking expressions of interest from affiliated clubs to host the Australian Yachting Championships for each of the next three years 2023, 2024 and 2025.Clubs interested in hosting the Yachting Championships should apply for the regatta by completing…
Moving from Laser sailing to foiling on a Waszp is a considerable leap, more so if you transition from one to the other after two days of training. That’s what happened to Laser Radial sailor Brooke Wilson. In December, the…
Seven Victorian crews were joined by Australia’s number one and two ranked teams from New South Wales to contest the first ever J/70 Victorian Championship at Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron (BYS) over the Victorian Labour Day long weekend March 12-14, 2022….
The Australian 18 Footers League’s 2021-22 season comes to a close on Sunday when the club will conduct the time-honoured Queen of the Harbour race on Sydney Harbour, when each of the 21-boat fleet will include a female crew member…
As the perennially popular Saint Barth’s Bucket superyacht regatta returns from the 18-20 March, bringing 30 boats to the tiny French island in the Caribbean, the J Class fleet resumes for the first time since 2019, naturally taking centre stage with two…
SailGP’s Season 3 calendar has expanded into 2023 with the announcement of two further events including fan favourite destination San Francisco and a debut trip to Christchurch for the purpose-led, global championship. The 10 teams competing in Season 3 –…
Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club (QCYC), Victoria is gearing up for their annual Queenscliff Cup regatta over Easter 2022, with the inclusion of an exciting new two-race female helm series, the inaugural Queenscliff Commodore’s Trophy. QCYC Commodore Lee Renfree, as first…
The Rex Gorell Ford Victorian Etchells Championship concluded with two final races yesterday, the last of the series raced in a beautiful sea breeze just off the outer wall of the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. Shoulda Gone Left AUS1395 skippered…
The 2022 Wooden Boat Festival of Geelong showcased the best of Corio Bay over the weekend, with 89 classic and wooden boats attracting record numbers to the festival and the Geelong waterfront. The Royal Geelong Yacht Club hosted the biennial…
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