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IRC is rule of choice for CYCA’s blue water programme
…establish the boat race positions and overall winners; including the Rolex Fastnet Race, Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Rolex Middle Sea Race, Aramex Dubai to Muscat Offshore Race, Aegean 600…
Extasea @ Sea: We are finally done!!!
It has been a long and frustrating Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Race! It’s funny, I’ve done Hobart races that were shorter than that! It certainly had everything…
Aussie 16′ & 13′ Skiff Champs start New Years Day!
The Peroni Australia 16ft & 13ft Skiff Championships kicks off tomorrow! While Christmas celebrations have come and gone and the Sydney to Hobart was one of the most exciting in
Wild Oats X’s triumph a triple treat on Ricko’s birthday
Late on Sunday July 28, 2019, Wild Oats X, the Oatley family’s Reichel Pugh 66 skippered by Mark Richards, took line honours in the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht…
RSHYR: Will Giacomo be back for more?
The New Zealand Volvo 70 Giacomo limped into Kings Street Pier in Hobart at midday today, minus her towering rig, her crew dejected but determined to come back and do
RSHYR: Start Commentary
Adventures of a Sailor Girl commentary from approximately 20 minutes to go before the start through until the boats were all out of the heads for the 70th Rolex Sydney
Gary Ticehurst – Forever an eye in the sky
A moment away from all the hype of the Hobart race to remember a true professional and gentleman in the industry. Gary Ticehurst was probably one of the best helicopter
SOLAS Big Boat Challenge: The Video
On a summer’s day when Sydney Harbour showed off its emerald waters at their sparkling best, a small but competitive fleet of four yachts engaged in an intense arm…
Adventures of a Sailor Girl, December 21
A wrap of 2014, and a preview for the Rolex Sydney Hobart broadcast on 26 December 0800 AEST. Adventures of a Sailor Girl 35 on 21 December 2014 by Sunset
Quikpoint Azzurro: “Found the crew at a funeral”
[Source: Sydney Morning Herald] Quikpoint Azzurro has been rebuilt from the smouldering embers of club racer Shenandoah II by owner and skipper Shane Kearns in an attempt to clinch division
M3 & Frantic (AND VICTOIRE & THE GOAT) want more
They may have bailed out of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race but that doesn’t mean it’s over for M3 and Frantic AND VICTORIA AND THE GOAT (which…
Battle for the Tattersall Cup
As the big boats have all crossed the finish line, the real race begins. After the glitz and glam of the flashy Maxis dies away, we all remember that the
Comanche at Sunrise
We absolutely LOVE these shots of Comanche taken by our favourite photographer, Andrea Francolini, at sunrise this morning! Comanche narrowly missed out on second place after Black Jack took advantage
Team Australia’s new world record ratified by WSSRC
This week the World Sailing Speed Record Council sanctioned Team Australia’s passage record from Sydney to Hobart set over 22-23rd February, 2013. The ORMA 60 with its six…
Beau Geste – The boat that (almost) everyone is talking about
So Beau Geste has arrived in Sydney and now is in the gaping arms of media and photographers, all wanting to get that first shot of the boat in action.
Cougar II breaks own record in Maria Island Yacht Race
Tony Lyall’s powerful yacht Cougar II today underlined her competitiveness for this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race with a record-breaking line honours win in the 67th…
Struck by lightning
The heavens opened up and cast a shadow upon Wild Oats XI. Then mother nature, the fiery beast she can be, struck Wild Oats XI with a bolt of lightning,
Down below on board tour of Comanche
Check out this “down below” tour of the 100 footer super-maxi Comanche thanks to Mike “Moose” Sanderson who is the tactician on board the boat for the 75th edition of
Comanche
Jim Clarke’s “Comanche” has hit the water again and is ready for a massive few weeks of racing. Photographer on location Andrea Francolini said “It looks big, looks mean and
A broken leg
We are receiving unconfirmed reports that Peter Harburg, owner of the VOR70 Black Jack, has broken his leg. That’s gotta hurt… Give that man some morphine stat! No doubt he
