News & Events
New Dufour 37 Announced
July 11, 2022
Dufour Yachts has announced the release of its latest model, the Dufour 37, which will be unveiled at the 2022 Cannes Yachting Festival from 6-11 September. The Dufour 37 surpasses all others in her class with the remarkable range of living…
Patriot the clear winner in a race of snakes and ladders in ORCV Winter Series
July 11, 2022
Main photo: Blue skies and good winds with the fleet start. Photo ORCV Media Local knowledge as the winds softened gave Jason Close, skipper of the J133 Patriot the advantage to win overall in a fleet of 34 yachts in Saturday’s ORCV Winter Series…
Tom’s Pacific Journey
July 8, 2022
By the time you read this I’ll be making my way west towards the setting sun, while watching the South American continent slowly sink behind Maiwar’s stern. My time in Peru has been an adventure in itself, I will be sad to leave my…
Incat partners with Australian Wooden Boat Festival to create floating Stage
July 7, 2022
Destination Southern Tasmania invites the media to celebrate a new partnership between the Australian Wooden Boat Festival and Incat Tasmania to build much needed new infrastructure for the iconic festival, including a new floating stage. Incat Tasmania will commence construction of two significant infrastructure…
Aussies off to a flying start at 2022 European Championships
July 6, 2022
Main photo: Australian Sailing Team & Squad competing at 2022 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 European Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo by Beau Outteridge / Australian Sailing Team A wide range of conditions in Aarhus, Denmark tested all on the opening day of the…
Full Steam Ahead for Lady Hopetoun
July 4, 2022
April 2022 saw the culmination of Sydney Heritage Fleet’s SWAP program This saw the successful re-float of 1927 steamship John Oxley from atop its work barge, and replacement with the 1912 Sydney Harbour ferry Kanangra. This was a huge job that has involved an…
Norwegian Sun cruise ship collides with iceberg near Alaska
June 30, 2022
The Norwegian Sun cruise ship has cancelled its nine-night trip through Alaska, after the vessel crashed into an iceberg off the Alaskan coast. Incredible footage has emerged of the incident, which shows the Norwegian Sun smashing into a ‘growler’ near the…
Highfield Boats triples factory space as RIB and tender production continues to grow
June 30, 2022
Main photo: The vast new 26,000 sq m factory space at Highfield Boats. 26,000 sq metres of new state-of-the-art facility Leading aluminium RIB supplier Highfield Boats has released the first images of its brand new production space which…
Race yachts prepare at Rivergate
June 30, 2022
Rivergate Marina & Shipyard is the Race preparation destination for contenders in the 2022 Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race. Some of the most high-profile racing yachts will set forth from the start line just east of Green Island on Brisbane’s…
Team Australia wins Sail GP event at Chicago’s Navy Pier
June 23, 2022
“Never count us out,” a smiling Team Australia skipper Tom Slingsby told AFLOAT Magazine last week in Chicago, Illinois. The Australian team had just mounted an improbable comeback by stealing upstart Canada’s thunder with an impressive win in the Chicago Finals in the high-powered…
52nd Newport Bermuda Race
June 23, 2022
HAMILTON, Bermuda (June 22, 2022)—Overnight, the great majority of the 186-boat fleet arrived in Bermuda and yesterday’s provisional divisional leaders have all been confirmed as the winners in the 52nd running of the Newport Bermuda Race. (See full results.) Winning…
The Vendée Arctique – to Iceland and Return
June 23, 2022
The second edition of what was originally a 3,500-nautical mile trip around Iceland and back to Les Sables d’Olonne, saw the course being shortened by race director Francis Le Goff because of a dangerous depression in the North Atlantic. It was then “neutralised”…
