Racing cancelled at KiteFoil World Series
On Day 3 of the 2021 KiteFoil World Series Gran Canaria the breeze gusted too strongly for riders to get out through the shore break at Playa de las Burras. Once again, so once again, no racing to be done…
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Tom Slingsby named male Rolex World Sailor of the Year
Australia’s Tom Slingsby has won the male 2021 Rolex World Sailor of the Year. The award celebrates his achievements in three competitive classes over the past two years. It was announced on Thursday 2 December in a virtual ceremony streamed…
Huge turnout for Brisbane Seawind and Corsair rally
To cap off a huge year for Seawind Catamarans and sister company, Corsair Marine trimarans, a 24 strong fleet of Seawinds and Corsairs sailed together in perfect conditions on Brisbane’s Moreton Bay in a rally run by distributors, Multihull Central….
Entry period open for 37th America’s Cup
As of 12am December 1 2021, Challengers can now officially enter the next edition of the oldest trophy in international sport. Kevin Shoebridge, COO of Emirates Team New Zealand said, “The Defender, RNZYS & Emirates Team New Zealand, have had…
Alinghi enters America’s Cup after 11-year absence
Team New Zealand’s nemesis Alinghi is back in the America’s Cup after an 11-year absence. Owned by Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli, Alinghi famously won the Cup for the first time in 2003, sweeping defender Team NZ 5-0 in the Cup…
Swan River Sailing takes home two Australian Sailing Awards
The Australian Sailing Awards were announced last Thursday during a one-hour online special on the Australian Sailing Facebook page and website with the virtual event hosted by Gordon Bray AM. Western Australia’s Swan River Sailing had a fantastic night; taking home both…
Oman Sail kicks off ILCA 6 Radial Worlds
Oman Sail will welcome ILCA Radial sailors from around the world this week for the 2021 ILCA 6 World Championship. Commencing on 29 November through to 6 December 2021 at the Barceló Mussanah Resort, racing will take place every day for the male and female fleets before medallists are decided. Both fleets will…
Sailing Arabia: Team France in good form
The second leg of this year’s Sailing Arabia – The Tour ended with Team France still in the lead as the gap to DB Schenker in second grew to four points. Team Oman Sail remain in third with Team Oman Investment Authority in fourth, Barceló Mussanah Resort fifth and Nastro Rosa of Italy in sixth. Racing…
Sydney 38 crew celebrates first regatta win at SSORC
Paul Jenkins and his Sydney 38 crew on board Mille Sabords won their first ever regatta on a wild and wet Sydney weekend, racing for the host club in the annual Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship. The event attracted 55…
18ft skiff NSW Championship: Comeback performance for Tech2
The defending champion Tech2 team was back to its best form on Sydney Harbour on Sunday when the crew of Jack Macartney, Lewis Brake and Luke Parkinson produced a come-from-behind performance to take an exciting victory in Race 2 of…
Young guns surprise at Fuerteventura IKA KiteFoil World Series
Big offshore gusts and sunny skies delivered an eventful conclusion to the 2021 KiteFoil World Series Fuerteventura. Max Maeder of Singapore came out on top in a thrilling duel with Axel Mazella from France. Poema Newland of France dominated the women’s division, winning the trophy…
Langford takes SailGP Championship trophy tour to hometown
Ahead of the upcoming Australia Sail Grand Prix taking place on Sydney Harbour on 17 and 18 December, defending SailGP champion, Kyle Langford and helmsman for the Japan SailGP Team, Nathan Outteridge, surprised the Lake Macquarie community by visiting with…
Bushranger holds up to brutal SSORC
Big seas and strong winds offshore for the Premier Divisions contesting Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s annual Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship put the stress test on crews over the 24 nautical mile course, described as “brutal” by Division 1 winning…
Fuerteventura IKA KiteFoil World Series – Day 3 abandoned
Rain clouds played havoc with Day 3 of 2021 KiteFoil World Series Fuerteventura, the wind never settling down sufficiently for any racing. Earlier in the morning, when the postponement flag came down and the horn sounded for the riders to…
Olympians make history at Australian Sailing Awards
Olympic champions Mat Belcher and Will Ryan along with Nacra 17 star Lisa Darmanin created history at Thursday night’s Australian Sailing Awards, taking out Male Sailor of the Year and Female Sailor of the Year awards for the fifth and…
KiteFoil World Series: Fifteen-year-old takes early lead
Fifteen-years-old but strong as on old ox, Singapore’s Max Maeder was fast out of the blocks at the 2021 KiteFoil World Series Fuerteventura. Three back-to-back bullets in the pre-lunch session of double-lap races launched Maeder into an early and decisive lead. In the post-lunch session Maeder…
SailGP’s Adopt-a-Club program launches in Sydney
SailGP Inspire’s Adopt-a-Club community outreach program makes its debut in Sydney at the Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG, taking place December 17-18. Initiating partnerships through local sailing clubs and organisations, the program is designed to expand opportunities in…
NSW Cherub Championship: Belmont sailors dominate on home turf
Undeterred by wet weather, last weekend Cherub sailors assembled at Lake Macquarie for the first of four rounds of the NSW State Championship. Hosted by Belmont 16ft Skiff Club, four other Clubs were represented at the event – Drummoyne Sailing…
Wet and challenging conditions for Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series
Race two of the Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series, hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club, was held on Sunday in a fresh, damp and cool southerly. After a beat from The Sound to Rose Bay and a run down to…
Convexity defends M32 World Championship title
The M32 World Championships came to an exciting close on Sunday. Eleven teams came from all over the world for 18 races in conditions ranging from six to 22 knots on the warm waters of Miami, Florida. When the dust settled Convexity, with Don Wilson…
Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship stokes turf tussle
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s annual Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship reignites the good-natured rivalry between Sydney and Pittwater sailing crews – each believing they have the better pedigree, particularly within the Premier Divisions. These turf battles play out a few…
Non-stop action at 18ft skiff NSW Championship
The Noakesailing team of Sean Langman, Ed Powys and Josh Porebski had to battle hard against some strong challenges before taking out Race 1 of the 2021-22 NSW 18ft skiff Championship on a bleak Sydney Harbour today. In an 18…
British and Dutch teams win at Nacra and Skiff Worlds
Mussana, Oman – Odile van Aanholt and Elise de Ruyter (NED) won the 49erFX world title, while countrymen Bart Lambriex and Floris van der Werken took matching gold in the 49er fleet. Both teams are new pairings this summer, both…
Team Aqua claims 2021 44Cup
Over four of the most difficult days of racing in 44Cup history, an impressive seven races were still held at the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote frequently in 5-6 knots wind, conditions, frankly, in which most other yachts would have been…
44Cup: Charisma shines on difficult day
With a light-to-no wind forecast for the penultimate day of the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote, the weather gods did tentatively oblige, and after more than an hour’s wait ashore, a race did get going but was abandoned when the wind…
British and Dutch in front at Nacra and Skiff Worlds
Mussana, Oman – John Gimson and Anna Burnet foiled into the lead of the Nacra 17 World Championship with an impressively composed display of high-speed tactics and strategy at the Nacra Worlds today. Scores of 5,1,2 could so easily have…
M32 Worlds: Wet and wild day
Day two of the M32 World Championships in Biscayne Bay, Florida began with calm winds, bright skies and temperatures in the mid 70s, so the Race committee attempted an on time start, but squalls forced the fleet back to shore…
GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle World Cup Brazil finals
Congratulations to Charles Brodel from France for taking the event win and becoming the Men’s Hydrofoil Freestyle World Champion and Maike Elisa Mueller from Germany for taking the event win. It was another perfect day for the GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle…
44Cup: Hero to zero and back in Lanzarote
Conditions off Lanzarote’s moon scape south coast took on a different character for day two of the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote, with much improved sailing conditions albeit with the 8-12 knot wind blowing either along or off the shore. To…
M32 World Championship: Five races four winners in opener
Biscayne Bay showed a steady 10-15 knots of breeze blowing down from Bear Cut Bridge in the east and a few glimmers of sun poked through the high cloud cover at the start of the M32 World Championship Nineteen races…
Iain Brambell set to lead sailing’s path to Paris
Highly regarded international sports administrator and Olympian Iain Brambell has been charged with leading Australian Sailing’s High Performance program after being announced as its new High Performance Director. “We are delighted to have secured Iain’s services as our new High…
Vee Jay celebrates 90th birthday at Vaucluse Yacht Club
Many will agree that widespread dinghy racing was born in Australia due to an 11ft 6” two-handed skiff, conceived by Sylvester ‘Sil’ Rohu and designed by Charles Sparrow in 1931. Named the Vaucluse Junior or affectionately the Vee-Jay (VJ), the…
44Cup Lanzarote: Light and tricky winds
The 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote, the final and deciding event of the 2021 44Cup, got off to a difficult start. Only five to six knots of wind is needed to race the nimble RC44s. On several occasions the race committee…
Voting open for World Sailing Awards 2021
The World Sailing Awards 2021, celebrating the outstanding achievements and exceptional contributions to sailing, is now open for online voting. A record number of athletes and projects have been nominated in this remarkable period for global sailing. This year’s winners…
Leaderboard shuffles at Nacra 17, 49erFX and 49er Worlds
Musab Al Hadi with Waleed Al Kindi (OMA) moved into 25th place and qualified for gold fleet in a first for Oman at a 49er World Championship. The pair have been sailing 49er for almost a decade, and became quite…
Anyone’s game at 18 foot skiff NSW Championship
Many of the Australian 18 Footers League’s new team combinations will go into next Sunday’s Race 1 of the NSW 18 Footers Championship on Sydney Harbour practically untested due to mostly poor conditions since the 2021-2022 season began on October 24. …
New kids on the block at Nacra 17, 49erFX and 49er Worlds
The 49er fleet saw teams go from hero to zero on some of the beats today at the 2021 Nacra 17, 49erFX and 49er World Championships at Mussana, Oman. In the 49er fleet, Korean and Indian teams felt the pain…
AC37 Protocol and Class Rule announcement
The Protocol of the 37th America’s Cup was released today by the Defender, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand and the Challenger of Record – Royal Yacht Squadron Ltd and their representative team INEOS Britannia,…
Belmont’s 16 foot skiff season off to a flying start
They’ve been champing at the bit like Melbourne Cup favourites, and finally a 25-strong fleet of 16-Foot skiffs has been unleashed in spectacular style at Belmont 16s on Lake Macquarie, NSW. The previous season was a stellar one, crowned by…
Wild weather for inaugural Battle of the Sound regatta
During Covid-19 restrictions, Laser sailors from sailing clubs at the northern end of Sydney Harbour came up with the idea for a Battle of the Sound regatta. The Sound is that part of Sydney Harbour where Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour…
