News & Events

April 6, 2023

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…

April 6, 2023

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…

April 6, 2023

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…

March 31, 2023

Sirocco Marine will exhibit the latest Northstar Orion 8 – the luxury sportscar of the RIB world – at this year’s Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show, 25 to 28 May. Designed by the famous British racing boat designer, Adam Younger, and…

March 31, 2023

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…

March 27, 2023

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…

March 27, 2023

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…

March 24, 2023

Main photo: REO Speedwagon noses in front of the big boats in the mass start race. Photo by Andrea Francolini, ABRW Berthing for yachts and big multihulls for the 35th edition of Airlie Beach Race Week has been exhausted, as entries reach 100 early on,…

March 24, 2023

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…

March 22, 2023

The 9th Melbourne Osaka Cup, the longest longitudinal short-handed crewed race in the world, is open for entry. With 152 expressions of interest from around 11 countries, the 5500 nautical miles which traverses the Pacific from South to North is expected…

March 22, 2023

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.

March 21, 2023

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…