News
Golden Globe Race: Puffin rolled and dismasted
It was 1740 UTC when Ian Herbert Jones first saw the Taiwanese Fishing Vessel ZI DA WANG arriving from the North. 26 hours before, the Shropshire sailor closing the GGR fleet in the southern Atlantic was unable to make contact by sat phone. He…
Rex sets new record in Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race
Dale Mitchell and his crew on Rex, the ORMA 60 multihull from Queensland, broke the multihull record in the 2023 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race – by 5 seconds – it seemed to suit the occasion – on April Fools’ Day! It suits…
Two-handed Mistral wins Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race
Rupert Henry’s Mistral, co-skippered by Greg O’Shea, has been announced winner of the 2023 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race from another double-handed crew, Jules Hall and Jan ‘Clogs’ Scholten on Disko Trooper Contender Sailcloth. The two boats from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia…
SWAP DAY @ Manly16s – Always the best day of the year
There was one moment that perfectly illustrated the impact Manly 16ft Skiff Club’s swap day can have on the next generation of sailors. Club commodore and Olympic champion Malcolm Page invited his daughter’s friend aboard Australian championship-winning skiff Typhoon for a spin around the…
Don’t rock the boat this Easter
A pre-Easter statewide safety blitz by NSW Maritime has highlighted the risks of wash and waves on our waterways, with a raft of incidents including multiple capsizes responded to across the weekend. NSW Maritime Principal Manager Shane Davey said Operation Don’t Rock the Boat…
The Ocean Race – Top pair engaged in close quarters battle off the coast of Argentina
As the calendar ticks over to the 33rd day of competition on Leg 3 of The Ocean Race, Team Malizia and Team Holcim-PRB are as close as ever. On the 1200 UTC tracker update, the pair were separated by less than 5 nautical miles on the…
Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup – Matador snatches Act 1 victory
David Doherty’s Matador, the reigning TP52 Gold Cup champion, has taken victory on countback in Act 1 of the Pallas Capital TP52 Gold Cup, two further windward/leeward races deciding the winner on the Manly Circle today. The day’s third and second places were enough to…
Easter crackdown on wearing lifejackets
Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) is launching a crackdown on boaties failing to wear lifejackets across the state these Easter holidays. MSQ and the Queensland Police Service (QPS) will be out in force along almost the whole coastline between 1 April and 16 April. The…
Golden Globe Race ‘Code Orange’. Paying the price for a Cape Horn rounding
Ian Herbert-Jones approaches Cape Horn in extreme conditions with a broken windvane, after days of ‘biblical’ conditions. The battle of the doldrums and the GGR crown between Kirsten Neuschäfer (ZAF) Minnehaha and Abhilash Tomy (IND) Bayanat is on! Dateline: Les Sables…
2023 Optimist Dinghy Victorian Championships
MYC’s Savannah Deeth in action Mornington Yacht Club hosted the 2023 Optimist Dinghy Victorian Championships over the Labour Day long weekend. 78 entries were spread across three Optimist fleets with competitors coming from WA, SA, Tasmania, NSW and all over Victoria.
Manly 16s – 100th Year Club Champions Confirmed
Why stop at four? That’s what victorious Moonen Yachts skipper Daniel Turner was asking after he muscled himself into rare company with a fourth straight Manly 16ft club championship on Saturday. Turner draws alongside Escapade’s Russell Slade (1939-43) on the list of skippers to…
2023 Offshore Superboat Championship – After the tempest comes the party
Indeed it did at Geelong. So after the abandonment of racing on the Saturday, it seemed like all the spectators who missed out went home and got reinforcements for the Sunday, so as to literally force the weather gods to let the Geelong Round…
