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2023 Hyeres Regatta: Silver and bronze medals for Australia
Main photo: Friends Mara Stransky (left) and Casey Imeneo celebrate their Medal Race results. Photo by Beau Outteridge Australia has come away from the 2023 Hyeres Regatta in France with a silver medal in the 49er and Bronze in the ILCA 6 from the…
Visitors take the spoils at Sail Port Stephens
The Sail Port Stephens Passage Series came to an early conclusion on Saturday with the fleet poised to start Race 5 until racing was abandoned due to a lack of consistent breeze. It was a stark contrast to the previous four days which featured…
Ginan wins all in 3rd West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint
Nigel Jones and Cam McKenzies J111, Ginan has taken Line Honours and won AMS, ORC and PHS divisions of the 3rd and final West Offshore Product Coastal Sprint race of the season in fickle light winds. With a shortened course the fleet started outside…
Batemans Bay Marina Regatta 2023
It was a great weekend for sailing at the Batemans Bay Marina Regatta held on April 22nd and 23rd. Batemans Bay Sailing Club has been running this event for over 40 years, the largest annual sailing regatta on the NSW South…
Sail Port Stephens is a sailor’s delight
An enticing combination of sunshine, steady breeze and some fast sailing between Port Stephens’s magnificent offshore islands made for a banner Day 3 of the Sail Port Stephens Passage Series. The wind gods bestowed their fickle favours upon the race fleet comprising 107 boats…
Hyeres Regatta: Aussies tackle light and shifty conditions
Day 4, the first two days of Final’s racing at the 2023 Hyeres Regatta in France, was a test of light and shifty breeze skills and make or break time in a lot of respects, as Australian athletes worked hard to avoid big scores…
Golden Globe Race: Kirsten Neuschäfer makes history as the first woman to win a solo round-the-world race
By crossing the finish line of the ancestor of the Vendée Globe in Les Sables d’Olonne this Thursday at 21:43:47 CET, the South African sailor has achieved one of the greatest accomplishments in ocean racing. Winner of the Golden Globe race, without assistance or…
The Ocean Race Team Holcim-PRB work on plan after dismasting
Kevin Escoffier’s team is down but not out after dismasting while leading Leg 4 Near 0500 UTC, while the boat was racing east in moderate northerly winds and sea state, the mast on Team Holcim-PRB came crashing down. Skipper Kevin Escoffier had a…
Matador puts win in windward-leeward at SailFest Newcastle
“We shall fight off the beaches … and we shall never surrender” may well have been the catchcry of David Doherty’s TP52 Matador as it charged like a bull towards its second consecutive Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup victory at SailFest Newcastle Regatta. Racing in Stockton…
Victorian School Team Sailing State Championships
Mornington Yacht Club hosted its 3rd regatta in just 7 weeks, this time the Victorian School Team Sailing State Championships. 18 Pacer yachts, 24 teams, over 170 kids, almost 200 races, hundreds more hamburgers and a thousand more smiles. Schools came from Geelong and…
Double Handed Joker on Tourer wins Port Fairy Ocean Race in tough, gruelling conditions
Main photo: Joker on Tourer winner of the tough ORCV Port Fairy Race. Photo Steb Fisher Grant Chipperfield and Martin Vaughan double handed duo on Joker on Tourer Double-handed Joker on Tourer, Grant Chipperfield’s Elliott 1250 Tourer, has won the Ocean Racing Club of…
Classic yachts finish top of the table in brutal 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race
The classic pint-sized yachts have proven their might weathering this year’s brutal and long 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which set sail on Good Friday (7 April) with the oldest yacht in the race fleet winning overall on corrected time and other classics also taking the…
