News & Events

September 25, 2019

Main photo: RSYS scored a major interclub win at the Sailing Champions League Final at St Moritz, Switzerland. Photo SCL-Sailing Energy. Across multiple classes at major northern hemisphere events over the winter months, Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron members staged a world-beating charge to claim…

September 23, 2019

NSW Maritime Executive Director Mark Hutchings with Rabbitohs Nathan Merrit and Yileen Gordon Jessica Slow from Stroud and Ethan King from Holsworthy are about to start their first full week as the new recruits of NSW Maritime’s Aboriginal Maritime Services traineeship program. Jessica, 33,…

September 23, 2019

Main photo: Ichi Ban tackling the lumpy conditions leaving Sydney Harbour.  Photo Hamish Hardy, CYCA Media. Matt Allen and his crew on the grand-prix racing TP52 Ichi Ban have claimed the overall win for the 2019 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore Flinders Islet Race. After…

September 23, 2019

Main photo: Australia SailGP Team skippered by Tom Slingsby racing across the Rade de Marseille. Race Day 1. The final SailGP event of Season 1 in Marseille, France. 20 September 2019. Photo Ricardo Pinto for SailGP Tom Slingsby victorious over longtime rival…

September 20, 2019

Main photo: Reigning Men’s 470 World Champions Mat Belcher and Will Ryan Reigning Men’s 470 World Champions Mat Belcher and Will Ryan and back-to-back Laser European Champion Matt Wearn have today been announced as the first athletes selected to the Tokyo 2020 Australian Olympic…

September 19, 2019

The VHF marine radio network used by boaters along the NSW coastline is being extended, with work under way to upgrade coverage on the South Coast. The network, owned and operated by Marine Rescue NSW, covers the state’s coastline with the South Coast work…

September 18, 2019

The Notice of Race has been posted and entries are open for the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s inaugural ‘Ladies of the Sea’ coaching regatta. The two day event on Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6 is open to keelboats, and one design Elliott…

September 17, 2019

Main photo: SV Monsoon in the 1974 Westcoaster off South Cape. Photo courtesy ORCV The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, and will be marked in a variety of ways, including a gathering of past commodores, members,…

September 12, 2019

The most delicate part of the marine salvage operation which has been unfolding at Pittwater in the past 23 days has been completed without a hitch. Transport for NSW Acting Director NSW Maritime Mark Hutchings said the sewage truck filled with around 10,000 litres…

September 12, 2019

Ten volunteers from Marine Rescue NSW have won a prestigious international rescue award for saving the lives of three seriously injured men on board a sinking boat in the dark off the NSW Mid North Coast. The crew members from Marine Rescue Port Macquarie…

September 12, 2019

To start on Sydney Harbour at 1pm on 30 January 2021, the inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race 2021, organised by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) in NSW in association with the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS), is already gaining momentum with…

September 10, 2019

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the National Search and Rescue Council’s (NATSAR) Australian Search and Rescue Awards. The awards are presented on behalf of the NATSAR Council in recognition of outstanding contribution to search and…