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Melbourne’s hottest race in the coldest month
“Best day I’ve had sailing” was how Damien King, co-skipper of the Frers 61 ‘MRV’ sailing double handed summed up the day after taking the overall win in a fleet of 47 yachts in Saturday’s Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) Winter Series destination…
Ideal conditions for Australian Yachting Championships Day 1
Main photo: Secret Mens Business on the beat to the finish. Photo Salty Dingo The Australian Sailing’s 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) began in fine style at Hamilton Island Race Week today, brilliant sunshine and ideal winds set the scene for the Rating and…
Hamilton Island Race Week’s Perfect Opener
Perfect trade wind sailing blessed the 200-plus strong fleet on the opening day of Hamilton Island Race Week in the glorious Queensland Whitsunday islands. Close to two thousand sailors from around the country plus internationals put on a brilliant display in the southeast winds…
Concord and Ryde Sailing Club ready for another season
Did you watch Lisa Blair return triumphant from her solo circumnavigation of Antarctica in her yacht Climate Action Now? Have you wondered what it would feel like sailing on the water? Now is the time for you or your kids to come on down…
Final day at Airlie Beach Race Week a glamour
Main photo: Sasha and Your World of Travel – Two of a kind in the F18s. Photo Shirley Wodson, ABRW A magic day on the water for the record fleet of 178 taking part in the final day of racing at…
Airlie Beach Race Week: It’s come down to ‘take no prisoners’
Main photo: Michel Van Der Zwaard’s Angus crew. Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) reached its penultimate day and a lovely 15-20 knot breeze shook up competitors who had been basking in light conditions all week at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s marquee event. Just ask…
Kerrie in F18 ‘Driver’ seat at Airlie Beach Race Week
Kerrie Driver is among the off-the-beach F18 multihull sailors competing at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s 34th Airlie Beach Race Week this week and all of the class knows who the Sydneysider is. Driver, who has raced in the F18 class for eight years now, owns…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Two days left to make a difference
The Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Airlie Beach Race Week (ABRW) continued today, with multiple classes and a record 178 entries where some pointscores are becoming clear and others are so close they are tied on points. Trailable Yachts Graham Turner ‘s Fareast 28R (Qld) with…
Airlie Beach Race Week: Big winds arrive as McVeys vie for Weta supremacy
A super competitive father and son are sailing in the Weta trimaran class at Airlie Beach Race Week in the Whitsundays this week where the results have sea sawed between the pair from Lake Cootharaba Sailing Club in Boreen, Queensland. Ryan McVey, who turned…
The Tall Ships Race 2022
In August the famous Colin Archer ketch Christiania, won both handicap and line honours in the Tall Ships Race, an unprecedented double victory made all the more remarkable by the fact that the 12.10 metre former Norwegian rescue vessel, built in 1895, was also…
Sydney 38 sailors in a class of their own
Main photo: The Sal Balharrie owned and skippered No Man’s Land at the AWKR. Photo Andrea Francolini Sydney 38’s and their sailors really are in a class of their own; the proof is in the pudding with the likes of Thierry Leseigneur’s Eye Candy taking out…
Sailor survives 16 hours in capsized boat in Atlantic
A French sailor, aged 62, has survived 16 hours in an air bubble inside his capsized sailing boat in the Atlantic Ocean in a feat the Spanish coastguard has labelled as ‘verging on impossible’. Salvamento Maritimo, the sea search and rescue agency involved, says…
