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Diego Botin’s Spain gets one step closer to the $2 million Season 4 Grand Final after securing a win in Bermuda
The young Spanish team takes on two of the league’s titans – New Zealand and Australia – to secure second event win of Season 4
Game on for Aussies at ILCA 7 & 6 Worlds in Qingdao, China
The stage is set in Qingdao, China, as 237 of the world’s best sailors from 40 nations prepare to battle it out over six intense days of racing at the 2025 ILCA6 and ILCA7 World Championships.
18′ Skiffs – The Golden Era
The 1970s is often referred to as the ‘Golden Era of 18ft Skiff Racing’ as it produced large, competitive fleets at both the Australian 18 Footers League and Sydney Flying…
Fired up and ready to race at Festival of Sails
A variety of entries for Royal Geelong Yacht Club’s (RGYC) 2023 Festival of Sails include newly minted Australian Yachting Championship winners, who look forward to racing at the annual…
ORC Ratings Gain Further Momentum At RPAYC
With one of the largest ORC fleets at any one club in Australia, the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) situated on Pittwater in Sydney, is seeing an ever-growing…
18 Footer championship season ‘hots up’
…Sunday’s final race of the championship still holds tremendous importance for all the leading teams as they prepare for the upcoming Australian and JJ Giltinan Championship on Sydney Harbour.
Two more finish as Lucky declared overall winner of Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race
Frantic and Antipodes have finished the Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race (S2A), as Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) declared Bryon Ehrhart’s Lucky the overall winner of the 1250 nautical mile race, adding to her line honours and race record victories – a triple crown for the US entry.
Finport Finance, a ‘New Team’, Experienced 18 Footer Crew
Keagan York’s Finport Finance will feature a brand new team when it lines up against 17 other top performers at the Australian 18 Footers League for the club’s…
ILCA Announcement // Protecting the One-Design Integrity of the Class
ILCA’s mission is to protect the integrity of strict one-design sailing—the principle that ensures every sailor competes on equal terms. This principle, enshrined in the ILCA Fundamental Rule, has been the foundation of our class’s success, making ILCA the world’s largest and most enduring youth and adult dinghy class.
It came down to the wire despite the ‘heat’ – Peroni 16 and 13′ Skiff Australian Titles
It came down to the wire despite the ‘heat’ The temperature hit 35 plus degrees in the sun and that was agony as the crews waited to get a final
Surprises and Standouts at Hamilton Island Race Week
…courses around Lindeman Island, the traditional landmark of the closing passage race which sorted the finish order in multiple divisions of the Hamilton Island and the Australian Yachting Championship pointscores.
Australia’s most successful sport in 2012 announces team for 2013
Australia’s sailors have begun their Rio 2016 Olympic Games campaign with the naming of the 2013 Australian Sailing Team and Australian Sailing Squad. Last year’s London 2012 Olympic…
Charmaine Hill is the 18 Foot Skiff 2022 Queen of the Harbour
Charmaine Hill is the 2022 Queen of the Harbour after teaming with Michael Coxon, Ricky Bridge and Zac Barnabas in Smeg to win the Australian 18 Footers League’s annual…
Andoo Comanche takes Line Honours in 2022 Cabbage Tree Island Race
Andoo Comanche set a new record time to take Line Honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2022 Cabbage Tree Island Race. The 100-foot maxi, skippered by…
Line honours to Koa in Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race
Koa, the TP52 owned by Andy Kearnan and co-skippered by he and Mark Griffith, has taken line honours in the 2025 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race that started off Barrenjoey Headland on Friday at 1pm.
Australian Farr 40 Renaissance
There’s a distinctive swagger amid the Australian Farr 40 class. Four top ten finishes at the recent international title, a new batch of super keen owners for the 2014…
Australia Burning
Records are falling in Australia today as the country braces for an intense day of heat with low humidity, the perfect formula for bush fires. Australia is renowned for its
Confidence high for Aussies going into iQFOiL European Championships
With just fourteen months until the start of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, European regattas are filling the calendar, and following rapidly on from key events in Palma and Hyeres, the iQFOiL Europeans will take place in Patras, Greece, with racing from the 9th-14th May.
Kiwis finish third at SailGP Sydney
New Zealand finished third on Sydney Harbour this weekend while Australia sailed away with the win – their first of the season – after going neck and neck with Denmark for most…
