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The HARKEN International Youth Match Racing Championship is the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) most prestigious youth sailing event, which brings together talented youth sailors from around the world, for 4 days of hotly contested Match Racing.

Main photo: Start line of the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge 2023 – Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Photo Andrea Francolini LawConnect first home in SOLAS Big Boat Challenge and URM Group continues its dominance  Nine of the best performing maxi racing yachts in Australia competed…

Main photo: the winning sailors, Shaun Connor, Simon Hoffman and Daniel Turner – Moonen Yachts. Photo Belmont 16s It was a victory 15 years in the making – celebrated with a spicy rum and ginger ale after attending to parenthood duties. Manly’s Daniel “Ruffy” Turner is…

They’re the heartbeat and the backbone of almost every event and today, on International Volunteer’s Day, the Royal Geelong Yacht Club has put out the call for their crucial volunteers to sign up for the 2024 Festival of Sails, coming up…

WHALES OF THE WHITSUNDAYS – marina supports the region’s bid for Whale Heritage Site certification. The World Cetacean Alliance has developed a program to formally recognize and accredit destinations across the globe to become Whale Heritage Sites. The initiative certifies destinations…

Main photo: Fluid Building – Dave O’Connor, Fang Warren, Phil Harmer Dave O’Connor admits he’s still not completely over the national title he “lost” in extraordinary circumstances almost a year ago. In fact, he reckons there’s a chance he’ll never fully recover.  “I probably…

Main photo: Optimist racing at 2024 Sail Melbourne (30 Nov – 3 Dec 2023) hosted by Royal Brighton Yacht Club. Photo by Beau Outteridge Yesterday’s clouds and rain made way for sun and steady winds as Australia’s Olympic sailing stars emerged on the final day…

65 boats started the penultimate fixture in the six-race 2023/24 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore at 1900hrs on Friday evening. The 172 nautical mile 2023 Cabbage Tree Island Race proved extremely challenging for skippers and tacticians this year as light variable breeze, numerous…

The second West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint race sailed in light, and tricky conditions in Bass Strait saw Nigel Jones GINAN lead the way and come away the victor. Jones commented, “conditions were variable; we were preparing for storms yet applying sunscreen”.  Skippers and crews were up at sunrise in…

Main photo: Bob Cox’s Nine Dragons. Photo by Andrea Francolini The 2023 Nautilus Marine Insurance Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) was decided over two offshore windward/leeward courses today and Bob Cox’s Nine Dragons along with Jack Stening and Colin Gunn’s Stormaway,…

The best is yet to come Sailing chose Teira Jansen rather than the other way around. Married to accomplished sailor Pete Jansen and mother to young sailors Chloe, Alana and Lachlan, Teira has become immersed in the sport at grass roots level.  So that puts her in a…

Townsville’s Breiana Whitehead has made history, becoming the first Kitefoil sailor to be selected for an Australian Olympic Team. Kitefoil racing will make its debut at Paris 2024, with the discipline set to excite when competition commences on the waters of Marseille in July…