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Airlie Beach Race Week debut for Black Diamond
August 12, 2020
It’s Day 5, the penultimate day of racing at the Whitsunday Sailing Club’s (WSC) 2020 Airlie Beach Race Week Whitsundays Festival of Sailing, and among the entries is a newcomer, Glenn Burrell’s Black Diamond (pictured above). Yesterday Black Diamond finished second to Team Hollywood,…
Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup to relaunch big boat racing in the Med
August 11, 2020
While the 2020 season of maxi yacht racing has been largely wiped out thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first steps back to normality are soon to be taken with the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup set to go ahead in Porto Cervo over 30…
Airlie Beach Race Week: When the chips are down humour is precious
August 10, 2020
Leon Weaver left the race course yesterday thinking he had won the Trailable Yachts Race 3 to claim the overall division lead at Airlie Beach Race Week Whitsundays Festival of Sailing, however, in the blink of an eye things changed, and Weaver’s humour had…
Vendée-Arctique-Les Sables d’Olonne
August 5, 2020
An unprecedented race, extreme conditions, a fierce battle: relive the prelude of the Vendée Globe from the inside. The Vendée-Arctique-Les Sables d’Olonne is a ‘warm-up’ race for the Vendée Globe …
The world’s largest newly-built wooden cargo ship
August 5, 2020
Punta Morales, Costa Rica: After two years of shipyard construction at SAILCARGO INC., including a year of structural framing, the 3-masted, 45m wooden cargo schooner known as Ceiba is about to enter a new phase of construction. The next stage will be to install…
SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week 2020 cancelled
August 5, 2020
The SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week (SMIRW) 2020 committee has made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s regatta, which was to be held from 27 August to 2 September. Whilst the COVID19 situation is worsening in eastern states, Event Chairman, Mike Steel, said the decision to…
Australian Superyacht Rendezvous postponed
July 29, 2020
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, organisers of the fourth annual Australian Superyacht Rendezvous – have postponed the event that was to be staged in the Whitsundays by Coral Sea Marina Resort from 15th to 18th October 2020. New dates will be announced in…
Raymarine Helps Weather a Storm
July 28, 2020
Read Sailor Barry Stedman’s incredible account of how his Raymarine autopilot saved the day in challenging conditions while sailing from the Bahamas to South Carolina. I was sailing offshore from Great Sale Cay in the Bahamas to Beaufort, South Carolina. This…
Airlie Beach Race Week ready to roll – on and off the water
July 28, 2020
Whitsunday Sailing Club (WSC) officials are pleased to announce that a healthy fleet of 70 boats will take part in the 32nd running of Airlie Beach Race Week Whitsundays Festival of Sailing, where a week-long sailing program and a fabulous social calendar awaits all.
First MC38 regatta win for Swish
July 27, 2020
Close to two years of shooting for a MC38 one design class top result finally yielded Steve Proud’s Swish team the main prize, on dreary Pittwater in the shortened five-race Act 4 winter pointscore. “We’ve had a couple of thirds before but this is…
Fare Thee Well Clive Gregory
July 24, 2020
CLIVE STUART GREGORY. It is with regret that we report the passing of Clive Gregory, owner and Skipper of Fare Thee Well on the 12th June 2020. Clive was born in Bristol, UK in February 1949. He spent seven years in Germany during his…
PWA Windsurfing World Tour 2020
July 23, 2020
Check out the awesome final day of racing highlights from the @PWA_World_Tour_Windsurfing event in Croatia and follow their page to stay up-to-date: PWA Windsurfing World Tour 2020…
