This Sunday May 29, 21 year old Australian, Xavier Doerr, will commence “The Little Aussie Lap”, a solo non-stop unassisted circumnavigation of Australia in his 21ft Mini Transat yacht, Waterline.
He will attempt to beat the World Speed Sailing and Guinness World Records as the fastest and smallest racing yacht to complete the lap of Australia.
Lisa Blair, who holds the current…
Double-handers make the cut
30 April 2022
Eligible two-handed entrants will be able to competefor the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) most prestigioustrophies. This will include the George Adams Tattersall Cup (awarded to the overall winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race), the John H. Illingworth Challenge Cup (awarded to the Line Honours winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race), the Peter Rysdyk Trophy…
Day One - Mubadala United States SailGP
28 March 2022
Day one of the Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix brought the action on San Francisco Bay. Japan and Australia share the top of the results, with both teams showing they want momentum going into Sunday’s final. Jimmy Spithill and USA SailGP Team played it more conservatively, opting to “protect the asset”. They sit in seventh place overall with a 5, 7, 5 today, and with it…
I prefer to be in the position as favourite because we have proven we can perform under pressure time and time again.
Tom Slingsby, Driver Australia SailGP Team
All eight drivers shared their thoughts on Friday morning ahead of the SailGP Season 2 Grand Final at the Mubadala United States Sail Gran Prix in San Francisco.
Tom Slingsby and the Australian team are being billed as…
HOW TO FOLLOW TOKYO 2020 – FULL RESULTS, SCHEDULE & MORE!
Matt Wearn has wrapped up the gold medal in the Men’s One Person Dinghy – Laser at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition, making him the third consecutive Australian to have achieved the feat.Denmarks’ Anne-Marie Rindom could have done the same in the Women’s One Person Dinghy – Laser Radial, but for a big…
First Tracks storm home to take win
14 June 2021
Peter Merrington and his team of Ian McKillop and Steve “Mothy” Jarvin on First Tracks AUS1485 took the wins in the Etchells Australian Nationals and the Australasian Championships on Sunday 13 June winning the final race of the regatta over Martin Hill’s Lisa Rose AUS1484, and Mark Bradford’s Pie AUS947 which were also the overall regatta placings.
Race 8
The fleet were sent out…
Featured Image by Bob Martin for SailGP
TARANTO – June 5, 2021 – Hundreds of on-water spectators and a packed shoreline witnessed the return of Jimmy Spithill’s United States SailGP Team and Nathan Outteridge’s Japan SailGP Team as they dominated the opening day of the Italy Sail Grand Prix in the vibrant Southern Italy city of Taranto, finishing on even points at the top of…
Sail Port Stephens - Flashback Friday
30 April 2021
Sail Port Stephens wrapped up on Sunday after a week of racing that saw over 180 boats including a fleet of Sabots, through to the “big guns” in the Pantaenius NSW IRC Championships.
Port Stephens as a venue is incredible, and Sail Port Stephens is another level above, and that is in a year when we aren’t returning from a global pandemic and relative drought of the events…
The world would’ve watched in utter amazement today as 130 yachts lined up for the opening spell of a massive weekend of racing at Sail Port Stephens 2021, the Panteanius Port Stephens Trophy end of the regatta.
Spinnakers lined the entire bay, cheek and jowl, in a spectacle that turned the clock back to pre-COVID days, further mirrored by a simple post-race sausage sizzle from title…
The Pantaenius Port Stephens Trophy, the second half of Sail Port Stephens will kick off today with a fleet of 130 boats in a westerly breeze starting at 15 knots, set to ease all day.
The majority of the fleet is heading offshore, with the Flagstaff Performance Cruising and Racing divisions starting off Nelson Bay breakwall at midday for Course 4A and 4B. They’ll swing around the…
