News & Events

January 1, 2024

Alien wins record-breaking fourth Heemskerk Perpetual Trophy and Peccadillo smashes multihull record in 2023 Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race After a gruelling last 24 hours of sailing in winds gusting greater than 40 knots and battling 4 to 5 metre seas along the South…

January 1, 2024

Main photo: Relentless waves and squalls at the Organ Pipes. Photo ROLEX/Kurt Arrigo Chris O’Neill’s harrowing account of his last night at sea in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was one that many sailors in the event…

January 1, 2024

Main photo: The “Organ Pipes” of Tasmania’s Cape Raoul are a welcome sight for fatigued crews approaching the final stretch in the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Photo by Kurt Arrigo. The 78th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will go down in history…

January 1, 2024

Main photo: Vanessa Dudley celebrating her 25th Rolex Sydney Hobart at the 2023 Prizegiving Ceremony with her medallion. Photo: CYCA/Ashley Dart When the modified Joubert 42, Tilting at Windmills, docked in Hobart this afternoon, crew member Vanessa Dudley became just the third woman to…

December 27, 2023

Main photo: Veloce 4 taking out the 2023 Cock of the Bay Line Honours. Photo Michael Currie The weather gods have been causing havoc across Australia this week but there was nothing they could do to dampen the spirits of the 2023 Ronstan Cock…

December 19, 2023

Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC) will be pulling out all the stops to ensure its 2023-24 Clipper Round the World stopover will be memorable for crews, supporters and spectators alike when the fleet arrives in early January. Australia gets three bites…

December 18, 2023

Representing the Gold Coast and Queensland in the iconic 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, sailing yachts Maritimo Racing has entered two of its yachts, Maritimo 52 (A TP 52) and Maritimo 54 (A Schumacher 54). Maritimo is the…

December 18, 2023

Main photo: Yandoo, 2023-24 NSW 18ft Skiff champion. Photo by SailMedia Andoo and Finport Finance shared the race honours, but it was the Yandoo team of John ‘Woody’ Winning, Fang Warren and Lewis Brake who became the 2023-24 NSW 18ft Skiff champions at the…

December 16, 2023

Having outgrown its single Race Week formula and transformed into a three-pronged Regatta Series embracing a broad cross-section of classes, the 17th annual Sail Port Stephens in April-May 2024 promises to bring tighter and more targeted racing for competitors. Competitors and spectators alike now…

December 16, 2023

Main photo: Jim Colley and Shaun Connor (AUS) sailing the Men’s 49er at 2023 Sail Sydney (11-17 December 2022). Photo by Beau Outteridge Australia added two more Paris 2024 Olympic nation quotas on the final day of Sail Sydney, with the 49er and Women’s…

December 9, 2023

Congratulations to Zac West with his team Jameson Prescott, James Hayhoe, Emily Keg, Brooke Wilson, (RSYS), 29th Champion of the HARKEN International Youth Match Racing Championship 2023. In a thrilling final between Ben Tylecote from GBR representing Rutland Sailing Club and Zac West from…

December 7, 2023

Port of Yamba Yacht Club will proudly host the RL24 National Championships 8th– 12th January 2024 this will be the 51st time the championships have been contested. Even though the Clarence River has long been a playground for a number of RL24’s this will…