Miami hosts its first YFGC round
The 69F swapped the cool mountain water of Lake Garda for the sultry seas of Miami’s Biscayne Bay with the opening act of the Youth Foiling Gold Cup (YFGC) last week, and by all accounts it was a brilliant success….
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Canada SailGP Team announces CEO and Driver
Canada SailGP Team is pleased to announce two key appointments as the team’s preparations continue in the lead up to the start of Season 3 in Bermuda. Leading Canada SailGP Team will be incoming CEO Jean-Sébastien Chénier Proteau. An accomplished…
Sydney 36 Midnight Rambler dominates Bruny Island Race
Midnight Rambler has once again stamped her dominance on the off-shore sailing scene in Hobart with a win in the IRC and AMS rating divisions of Saturday’s Bruny Island Race. Skipper Ed Psaltis sailed the Sydney 36 to her numbers…
IQFoils take flight at Lanzarote International Regatta
Canary Islands: After two days enjoying the sun and friendly training for iQFoilers, finally the winds of Lanzarote offered perfect conditions to launch the Lanzarote International Regatta. Winds ranged from 10-16 knots, with flat sea with little wave, spectacular for slalom…
Registration now open for the Giraglia’s 69th edition
The Yacht Club Italiano, organiser of the 69th edition of the classic offshore regatta, is pleased to announce the opening of registrations and the publication of the Notice of Race for the Rolex Giraglia. In 2022 the race will return to…
Andoo wins Australian 18ft skiff Championship
The Andoo team of Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton became a deserved winner of the 2021-22 100th Australian 18 Footer Championship which concluded on Sydney Harbour today. With three wins, a second and two thirds from the seven…
Two NSW ORC champions crowned and Pittwater Regatta winners announced
The final races were completed in the inaugural NSW ORC Championship, the Sydney 38 One Design NSW Championship and Pittwater Regatta, with new champions crowned and winners announced at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) early this evening. Gerry…
Ethan Prieto-Low wins 2022 Perth Youth Cup and WA Tour
The Swan River Sailing Team, skippered by Ethan Prieto-Low (RFBYC), won the 2022 Perth Youth Cup over the weekend. Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club (RFBYC) hosted the match racing regatta. Prieto-Low’s team also won the WA Tour title after winning all…
Narrow win for Ceeref at 44Cup Calero Marinas
Going into the final day of the 44Cup Calero Marinas in Lanzarote, Igor Lah’s Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860 held a strong 11-point lead. Normally this would have seen them packing their bags early, having won with a race to spare….
NSW ORC Championship continues as Pittwater Regatta opens
While the NSW ORC Championship continued with an offshore passage race, the Sydney 38 One Design NSW Championship and Pittwater Regatta began their respective competitions in the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) hosted events. It was a big day…
Weather throws a curve ball on Day 1 of NSW ORC Championship
Day 1 of Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) NSW ORC Championship was a testing one for all competitors as torrential rain, squalls, thunder and lightning, combined with some shifty winds made for difficult but exciting racing on Pittwater. The…
Tiny lead for Ceeref at 44Cup Calero Marinas halfway stage
After a zero wind opening day of the 44Cup Calero Marinas in Lanzarote, forecasts indicated day two might repeat this but in fact, after an hour’s delay, an easterly filled in and built to 12-14 knots allowing three good races…
Port Douglas Race Week is on the horizon
Preparation for the annual Port Douglas Race Week is in full swing. North Queensland’s premier sailing event, hosted by Port Douglas Yacht Club (PDYC), is set to hit the waves from May 24 to 28, 2022. Entries are open and…
Columbus Racing leads Perth Youth Cup
Columbus Racing, skippered by Marcello Torre, finished the 2022 Perth Youth Cup’s stage one (round robin) in first place. Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club (RFBYC) is hosting the match racing regatta. Swan River Sailing Team, skippered by Ethan Prieto-Low (RFBYC),…
Slow start to 44Cup Lanzarote
Sadly, no water passed beneath the keels of the 10-strong 44Cup fleet on the opening day of their first regatta of the 2022 season off Porto Calero, Lanzarote. There was a small hope of the wind filling in early afternoon,…
One point decides M32 winner in Miami
In uncharacteristic light winds on Biscayne Bay, Miami, the M32 Winter Series started its 2022 season. With a successful World Championship in November last year, the Winter Series is a more relaxed regatta series. Many teams took the opportunity to…
Australian 18ft skiff Championship up for grabs
After a weekend of five action-packed races, former 18ft skiff Australian Championship-winning skipper Seve Jarvin will be attempting to win his seventh title when he competes for the coveted trophy against a fleet of 23 boats from NSW and Queensland…
New National Integrity Framework for sailing
Australian Sailing is committed to ensuring a level playing field for all those who participate in our sport. There are inherent integrity risks at all levels of sailing, and in recent months Australian Sailing has worked to identify those risks…
World Sailing’s spotlight on Sail Africa
Sport has a major role to play in ensuring a sustainable future for our planet. In 2018, World Sailing and 11th Hour Racing joined forces to create the World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award. The award celebrates the effective execution…
44Cup resumes in Lanzarote
With the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote starting tomorrow, the high performance owner-driver one design class returns to having a double digit-sized fleet for the first time since 2016. Recent additions include the first team with a female owner, in Moscow…
First entrant fired up for Airlie Beach Race Week
Mako, the much travelled Sydney 40 owned by a Newcastle, NSW syndicate is officially the first entry received for Airlie Beach Race Week 2022, which will be held in the Whitsunday Islands from 11 to 18 August. Entered by Newcastle…
Pittwater Regatta 2022 welcomes inaugural NSW ORC Championship
An eclectic mix of yachts is ready to line-up for the inaugural ORC Championship, which will kick-start the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) Pittwater Regatta, to be held from 11-13 February. The Championship, supported by Sydney Marine Brokerage and to be…
Fancy footwork from Footloose in Hobart’s Combined Clubs Harbour Series
Hobart: Match racing from the Melges and some fancy footwork from Footloose were the highlights of racing in the Combined Clubs Harbour Series on Saturday. The series, run by Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Derwent Sailing Squadron Inc and Bellerive Yacht Club,…
Paralympian joins mission to help clean up sailing
An organisation set up to find, develop and promote more sustainable practices in sailing and the marine industry has strengthened its team with recent news that four-time Paralympian and world champion sailor (GBR), Hannah Stodel, is to become their latest…
Sydney 38 class steps up to support women in sailing
The Sydney 38 Association has gone all out, chartering a Sydney 38 for an all-female crew to race at the 2022 Sydney 38 One-Design NSW Championship, to be held in conjunction with the Pittwater Regatta in NSW this weekend. “We’ve…
18ft skiff Australian Championship: Andoo extends lead
The Andoo team of Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton continued the outstanding form it has shown over the first two days racing with another impressive display in today’s Races 4 and 5 of the Australian 18 footer Championship…
Registration open for Musto Skiff Worlds
The International Musto Skiff Class Association is pleased to confirm an invitation to host their ACO 11th Musto Skiff World Championships 2022 event as part of Kiel Week 2022, with registration for entry now open. This year’s Musto Skiff Worlds…
NSW Cherub Championship: Squally conditions for round two
Challenging south-east winds ranging spectacularly from 12-25 knots made for a captivating show over the weekend (February 5-6), with round two of the NSW Cherub Championship held on Sydney’s western harbour. Gusts above 25 knots came off the back of…
Lazy Dog catches MC38 trophy on Pittwater
The Lazy Dog team, owned by Shaun Lane and Quentin Stewart, opened the MC38 class 2022 season soundly with a four-point win on Pittwater on February 5-6 in gusty sou’east winds and dark cloud banks that dumped rain squalls, creating…
18ft skiff Australian Championship: Andoo breaks away
Gusty 18-23 knots south-south-easterly winds produced spectacular, action-packed 18ft skiff racing for the large spectator fleet on day two of the 100th Australian 18 footer Championship on Sydney Harbour today. After going down to the current world champion Smeg team in…
Andoo impresses in Race 1 of 18’s Australian Championship
The Andoo team of Seve Jarvin, Matt Stenta and Sam Newton gave an outstanding display in the 12-23 knot south/south-easterly breeze to score a convincing victory in Race 1 of the 100th Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour on…
Inaugural Women and Girls’ Sailing Regatta for Redcliffe Peninsular
The inaugural Women and Girls’ sailing regatta will be held from 19-20 March at Humpybong Yacht Club (HYC), Woody Point in Queensland. This is a two day event and participants can register for one or both days of sailing. Regatta…
Wangi Wangi to host 58th Australian National Cherub Championship
The Cherub National Council of Australia is proud to announce that an Inter-Dominion Championship Division will be contestable at this year’s Nationals to be held at Wangi Wangi RSL Amateur Sailing Club in NSW. Over the past two years, we…
Plenty of fun had at Seawind and Corsair Pittwater Regatta
On January 29-30, a 17 strong fleet of Seawind catamarans and Corsair trimarans flocked to the picturesque waters of Broken Bay and Pittwater for an epic weekend of sailing and racing in perfect conditions. Boats travelled from as far north…
Competition heats up in Hobart’s Combined Clubs Harbour Series
Hobart’s Combined Clubs fleet will take to the water on Saturday February 5 for the second last day of the Harbour Series. The leading teams will be fighting it out to consolidate their spots in the point score. The predicted…
5.5 Metre Technical Committee brings mix of experience and knowledge
The International 5.5 Metre Class Association has appointed a new Technical Committee from 2022 consisting of some new and old names to the class. The prime roles of the technical committee are to monitor the existing rules as well as…
44Cup back to full strength for 2022
For its 15th season, the 44Cup will see 10 teams on the start line for the first event of 2022 in Lanzarote, hosted by Calero Marinas in Puerto Calero over February 9-13. Alongside the long-term regulars within the fleet, new additions have…
2022 Historical 18 footer Australian Championship at SFS
The 2022 Historic 18 Footer Australian Championship for the Galloping Ghost Trophy was conducted by the Sydney Flying Squadron (SFS) in conjunction with the Australian Historical Sailing Skiff Association (AHSSA), on Sydney Harbour over 3 races on 15, 22 and…
New Zealand Olympian returns to top-level sailing
Jo Aleh always insisted she hadn’t retired as a high-performance sailor and will now make a tilt for a third Olympic medal, this time teaming up with Molly Meech in the 49erFX. The 35-year-old, who won Olympic Gold (2012) and…
Fresh faces in revitalised Australian Sailing Team coaching line-up
The Australian Sailing Team have settled their coaching appointments for the Paris 2024 campaign, and the world is on notice. There are new faces, the return of an old one and new roles for others in the team assembled under…
