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Electric Clipper Ships
April 12, 2023
Fuelled by a relentless search for a better way to live, new societal thoughtforms are replacing selfish own goals with sustainable co-operation. In business, established tenets of greed are challenged by the concepts of participatory socialism espoused by influential economists like Thomas…
Victorian School Team Sailing State Championships
April 12, 2023
Mornington Yacht Club hosted its 3rd regatta in just 7 weeks, this time the Victorian School Team Sailing State Championships. 18 Pacer yachts, 24 teams, over 170 kids, almost 200 races, hundreds more hamburgers and a thousand more smiles. Schools came from Geelong and…
Double Handed Joker on Tourer wins Port Fairy Ocean Race in tough, gruelling conditions
April 12, 2023
Main photo: Joker on Tourer winner of the tough ORCV Port Fairy Race. Photo Steb Fisher Grant Chipperfield and Martin Vaughan double handed duo on Joker on Tourer Double-handed Joker on Tourer, Grant Chipperfield’s Elliott 1250 Tourer, has won the Ocean Racing Club of…
Classic yachts finish top of the table in brutal 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race
April 12, 2023
The classic pint-sized yachts have proven their might weathering this year’s brutal and long 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which set sail on Good Friday (7 April) with the oldest yacht in the race fleet winning overall on corrected time and other classics also taking the…
Murder on Sydney Harbour: 200 Years of Blood in the Water
April 12, 2023
Discover the historical murders and mysteries on Sydney Harbour over the last 200 years while enjoying a glass of wine in the stunning art deco Woollahra Hotel. Today, Sydney Harbour is mostly a recreational harbour full of yachtsmen, swimmers and tourists. However, for most…
Golden Globe Race: Puffin rolled and dismasted
April 12, 2023
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
April 6, 2023
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
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…
SWAP DAY @ Manly16s – Always the best day of the year
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…
Don’t rock the boat this Easter
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…
Northstar of the show
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…
The Ocean Race – Top pair engaged in close quarters battle off the coast of Argentina
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…
