Safety is a crucial element of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria's doctrine...

Hamilton Island Race Week accommodation at drastically reduced rates. Only 3 weeks to go! Contact us to negotiate a ra...

International Laser Class Association in England has selected the RQYS in Manly, as host for the two events in 2012...

Dunkerbeck may have stolen final race glory, but it was Albeau who claimed his fifth consecutive crown....

The Port Line Cup presents a unique challenge for S.A.'s keelboats that have to compete in close quarters in the river....

RQYS has today announced they will host the World Laser Radial Men and Youths Championships in 2012...

Commodore Taplin, a 35-year member of the Club, succeeds Clive Simpson, who has been Commodore for the past two years...

Ella is quickly making her name as a helmsperson rather than crew, overnight steering her boat back into third place...

Are you sailing with back pain? Does your back get stiff and tired after sailing? Tips from RBYC's personal trainer....

Do you want to sell your quality marine and/or leisure products & services to a very large and vibrant Waikato market?...

Sail-World looks at the state of sailing TV...

Lesley Haslar of Bay of Islands Sailing Week fame says that it's time for skippers and owners to advise crew of the date...

Rob Mundle, has been elected unopposed as Commodore of Southport Yacht Club, on the Gold Coast....

Darren Beazley says, the ship's visit also provides a 'unique corporate offering'....

An important race for competitors, with only one or two points separating the top two boats in each division...

The wind was light, very light for day three and it wasn't until 5pm before the teams could launch their boats....

In an outstanding showdown of the world's fastest, Albeau fails to make the finals....

Vanguard is now seriously on the market and represents a fantastic 'step on and go program'....

Karinne Fauconnier (Eric Bompard Cachemire) takes the early lead in the first day's racing at La Solitaire du Figaro....

Sail the Whitsundays in September for your chance to see the whales during this year's predicted bumper season....

The full and update/revalidation Safety and Sea Survival Courses are essential training for all offshore sailors....

World champion Sydney yachtsman Iain Murray and Brisbane's Mark Bradford will enter into a fiercely competitive match....

RC 44 Valencia Cup - Small jibs and loose boom vangs were the order of the day as the Cup got underway....

45 sailors competing on the 41st edition of event began today...

AIODA sent a team of six Optimist sailors to attend the IODA Asian Championship in Pattaya, Thailand....

Brazil's Paolo dos Reis Wins Course Racing & Aussie Phil McGain Takes Overall At US Windsurfing National Championships...

The Flying 11s have been officially invited to attend next year and it has taken no time for the Association to respond....

Three black flags before racing finally got underway!...

Move-in nearing completion for 2010 Sydney International Boat Show....

Monday evening of the 102nd running of the Chicago Yacht Club's Race to Mackinac, presented by Veuve Clicquot....

Carnac lived up to its reputation and more today. Great wind in the 12 to 17kt range and sunny and hot enough to fry an...

The Notice of Race for the 2010 Rolex Osprey Cup has been posted by organizers St. Petersburg Yacht Club (St. Petersburg...

PWA Sotavento, Fuerteventura Grand Slam 2010 - The third day belonged to Dunkerbeck, but the week is still Albeau's....

Built in Australia, light yet ocean tough, the Sydney GTS43 has been designed with the performance orientated sailor in...

RC 44 2010 Season Championship features 11 crews ready to battle in match and fleet race disciplines....

Australians have claimed the British stance is unreasonable....

Australian's claim that several teams are making the same complaint....

Better conditions for day two than those experienced by teams on day one....

A bang, great wind conditions and a perfect three races....

Seven Australian crews in the top ten of more than 80 boats from around the world, the young sailors have started well...

Rear Admiral Chris Oxenbould AO RAN (Rtd) accepted invitation to join the Yachting Australia National Safety Committee...

Normally the fanatical fisherman would be helming his luxury Riviera to his secret 'Hot Spot'...

Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin have arrived in Germany to compete in the 2010 Hobie 16 European Championships....

Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week and the Whitsunday Sailing Club will jointly celebrate the 21 year milestone....

16-knot breeze, increasing to 18 knots, with gusts between 19-22 knots, made it essential for each team to use small rig...

For the final day of one of the best Governor's Cups ever, it was another cool, overcast day with light, erratic breeze....

Albeau annihilates the world's fastest fleet in Fuerteventura with an awesome display of skill and determination...

32 boats in Gold Fleet did not react to the Tango flag and continued to sail the course leaving them outside the time l...

Australian Laser builder Performance SailCraft Australasia offering $2000 in appearance money for international sailors...

Perfect conditions made for a perfect regatta for Opti, 420, Radial, and Laser sailors from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia...

Team Artemis skipper Paul Cayard reflects on the final day of racing at the Audi MedCup. Images by Sander van der Borch...

London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) Open Weekend took place today, July 25....

Artemis led the TP52 section of the regatta, by a single point, going into the one and only race of the final day....

Chicago Yacht Club's 102nd Race to Mackinac, presented by Veuve Clicquot, got off to a start of smooth sailing Saturday....

Today's closing ladies day race of the Audi Winter Series, were greeted with a sun drenched Sydney Harbour, warm winter...

The J24 class in South Australia form second fleet based at the Port Adelaide Sailing Club...

New changes for next season help reduce costs without reducing speed and attract new interest to the class...

Paul Cayard and the crew of Torbjorn Tornqvist's Swedish flagged Artemis have bounced right back...

Governor's Cup 2010...

Brief postponement on shore by the New York Yacht Club Race Week Race Committee while the wind filled in on day 3...

SAP 505 World Championships - 120 teams from 11 nations....

For races 10, 11 and 12 of the Volvo Laser SB3 World Championships the Gold Fleet moved to the winder Bravo Course...

Three more races were sailed today in the third round of the Audi Med Cup being sailed in Barcelona, Spain....

The Australian team at the International Cadet world championships at Puck in Poland have completed four intensive days...

Lisa Darmanin and her skipper cousin Jason Waterhouse have raced to success on Lake Como in Italy...

CAMPER, and Emirates Team New Zealand have made some key announcements in their project for the Volvo Ocean Race...

Australia's Tessa Parkinson and Belinda Stowell to share know how in Monsoon Sailing School...

You can still be part of what is Australia's biggest and best keelboat regatta simply by chartering a yacht....

Yachting Australia has been seeking clarification of the laws regarding trailers and towing in the different jurisdictio...

Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel - Social Networking...

Audi Melges 20 Gold Cup. The strong Garda winds left two teams with damaged bowsprits after the second race...

Laser Radial World Youth Championships...

Australian Sailing Team sailors star in their own video biography on the official Australian Sailing Team website...

First Masters Nationals in Australia for more than 25 years are being held at Port Stephens next February...

Day two of racing included completion of the first round robin....

A perfect day for NYYC's Race Committee to send the fleet, all sailing under the IRC handicap rating, on a distance race...

For the first time in nearly 25 years, competitive Finns are now available in South Africa...

This year all the boats participating in the Mac are equipped with tracking devices....

Laser Radial Youth World Championships wind arrived on the Clyde a little later than predicted today...

Report from the F16 Euro Challenge - Day 4 - AVAL-CDV Centro Vela Alto Lario - Gravedona, Lake Como, Italy...

This year's Fuerteventura Grand Slam will run from the 23rd of July through to the second of August,...

Volvo Laser SB3 World Championships 2010 * Monday 19th July - Friday 23rd July 2010...

Just two points separate the top five teams after the first day of racing at the Camper Regatta on what proved an especi...

Entries for the fourth Brisbane to Keppel Yacht Race officially close on Friday 23 July 2010...

On the first day of racing at the Governor's Cup, the international field of racers and umpires gathered early...

World record holder Ian Thomson, will enter SOS Ocean Racing in his home regatte, the tropical shirts ABRW....

Australia's largest Laser dealership NB Laser Sales has been acquired by another passionate dinghy sailor....

The second half of New York Yacht Club (NYYC) Race Week began as many New England summer days do with fog .....

A South African yacht was damaged dismasted this week by a whale who breached virtually on top of it....

America's Cup television evaluation kicks off tomorrow with a small army on hand to carry out a water-borne experiment....

F16 Euro Challenge 2010 - Race Update Day 3...

Albany has had a strong maritime history and sailing continues as a major past time....

We all acknowledge that without umpires in our sport we'd be quite literally 'up the creek without a paddle'!...

Perth 2011 would like to invite you, your families and friends to volunteer for the Perth 2011...

Rain and mill pond conditions on the Clyde this morning, gave way to bright sunshine and a 5-6kts south westerly breeze...

A very eager group of young racers arrived at Balboa Yacht Club, ready to compete for the prestigious Governor's Cup....

The Olympic Solidarity Department of the IOC has recently agreed to collaborate with the International Sailing Federatio...

Pure Michigan Bayview Mackinac Race -all sailboats have now finished....

A formula that works - the Beneteau First family of...

Rolex SA will extend its naming rights sponsorship of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and its associated regattas...

Burke Marine has been developing their One Design range over the past few years and is pleased to release the newest add...

Seven Network has been granted an extension of the exclusive rights to broadcast the start of Sydney Hobart Race to 201...

The Directors and Shareholders of Nordic Mast and Southern Spars are pleased to announce the merger of Nordic Mast and S...

Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Bay race starts on August 6th...

Some are busy planning their strategy for the second 'half' of the regatta....

Members of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia elected well known yachtsman and marine industry identity Garry Linacre...

F16 Euro Challenge - Race Update Day 2...

Silver medalists at the recent 2010 Womens World 470 Championship Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie give Sail-World readers and...

Volvo Laser SB3 World Championship, with freshly split fleets, took to the water at lunchtime for races 4, 5 and 6....

34th America's Cup Video Competition early entry has closed with three winning videos selected from 10 finalists....

Poland, Israel and Scotland is the place to be for the young Tasmanians...

Go sailing - any weather, anywhere in Victoria...

'Pretty Woman', a Farr 45 is the first entry received for the 30th anniversary Pittwater to Coffs Harbour yacht race whi...

America's Cup could increase Bay Area's economy by $1.4 billion!...

We wanted to say a special thanks to you all for your support and guidance, your comments and wishes....

Lasers- the 2010 South Pacific Masters titles were sailed from Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron 16-19th July...

2.4 Meter, Open Canadian Championships were held this past weekend in Toronto at National Yacht club....

Sail West, which was conducted at the Wabamun Sailing Club in Alberta, has come to an end for 2010...

The outcome of the Western Australian Valmadre Cup winter offshore series is delicately poised....

Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week 2010 will have an element of pride when Don Algie steers Storm 2 on Pioneer Bay....

Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac has sailors from 15 different U.S. states, Ontario and Hong Kong, preparing....

Race Update - F16 Euro Challenge 2010...

NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Project has updated 'movies' allowing on-line viewing....

International 14 Prince of Wales Series - The series races for the International 14's were reduced to three short races....

Pure Michigan Bayview Mackinac Race - 136 sailboats have now finished...

Volvo SB3 World Championships 2010 racing went underway today at Torbole on Lake Garda, Italy....

The Plastiki has safely made Australian waters after her historic 7,500 nautical mile voyage to beat waste....

Belcher and Page headed into the medal race with unbeatable 20 point lead but didn't take their foot off the accelerator...

European 18ft Skiff Association will stage regattas in Travemuende (Germany) and Sonderborg (Denmark)...

'Challenge ? Adventure ? Teamwork!' is the Vic-Maui motto....

Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS) won the 2010 Delta Lloyd 470 World Championship....

Airlie Beach local Allan Sneddon is the 100th boat entered in Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week...

There is another northern adventure option - Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week....

Sail West racing began with winds close to 15knots and by mid afternoon at our peak we had a sustained 23knots...

Pacific Cup - Limit has finished and moved to the island's other side, where her length and draft can be accommodated....

Winners in each class of the Bayview Mackinac Race will be invited to an invitational regatta in Detroit in September....

Extreme 40 fleets were pushed to their limits in an exhilarating finale to the first ever World Championship....

Delta Lloyd 470 World Championships top 470 sailors from Britain remained in positive moods at the close of the Worlds....

Delta Lloyd 470 World Championship - Mother nature played ball for the last day of the Championship....

Global Ocean Race 2011-12 organisers announce a partnership with, Sirius Evenements, and Class40 Normandy Channel Race....

2B Sailing - Carolijn Brouwer and Liz Wardley are hoping Girl Power will sweep them to their second major win....

The host country, Netherlands won the Delta Lloyd Womens World 470 championship sailed off The Hague, Netherlands, today...

Like winter racing anywhere in Australia, the winds cometh and goeth!...

Australian Sailing Team's Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page have one hand on the trophy...

Audi Winter Series final pointscore race on Sydney Harbour....

On 18/07/2010 at 12:10:49 AEST, Slinky Malinky finished the 2010 M2V....

Extreme 40 World Championship continues....

As long as they sail a clean race in tomorrow's Medal Race they will be crowned 2010 World Champions in the Men's 470 Cl...

Top international photographer, Ian Roman, presents a gallery of images from the Prince of Wales Cup sailed at Hayling I...

SB3 World Championships begins on Monday 19th July and runs until Friday 23rd July...

Leaving them now 20 points ahead of second place, they have already secured the 2010 470 Men's World Championship...

It used to be that the way to get fit for sailing involved going for a run, doing a few press-ups and if you got really...

B14 World Championship going to defending champion Guy Bancroft with new crew David Grace from McCrae YC in Aust...

The Australian Sailing Team's Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page have extended their lead at the 2010 470 World Championshi...

Australia's Lurati and Darmanin has won Gold at the 2010 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships....

Cork Week 2010 - Another Australian report - Day 5 and we're done....

Belcher and Page extended their lead in the Gold Fleet of the Final Series of the Delta Lloyd 470 World Championship....

Belcher and Page extended their lead in the Gold Fleet of the Final Series of the Delta Lloyd 470 World Championship....

Delta Lloyd 470 World Championships - the organisers were able to hold three races back to back, and on time....

St. Moritz is preparing to spend a week as the Match Racing capital of the world...

Melbourne to Vanuatu race certainly has had more twists and turns than board riders at a surf carnival....

Weather off the Hague continues to wreak havoc with the Delta Lloyd 470 World Championships...

Two OAMPS Insurance Brokers Australian Youth Sailing Team crews have moved into medal positions....

Unstable conditions have again been the big talking point of the 2010 470 World Championships...

Yachts competing in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race have begun the last stage of the 35,000-mile challenge...

Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS) will wear the gold dot on their sails as the Men's 470 fleet starts the Final Series...

Competitors treated to two coastal races with the stunning coastline of Slovenia showcased on day two....

There were a few place changes down the run but it was the second beat where the wind shifted to the right...

Matthew Bugg has finished 16th overall in a fleet of 55 boats in his first 2.4mR disabled sailing world championship...

The Showdown 2010 on the Derwent - RYCTis expecting huge fleets of off-the-beach dinghy and multihull classes and keelbo...

Final whistle for World Cup fans' football pitch begins work on boat show harbour...

Mind-boggling action on day three of racing....

Canute, has chosen the SCM Winter Series to train for its quest to take the Audi IRC Australian Championship...

RYA has added the RS Tera dinghy to it's growing number of Recognised Junior classes...

Melbourne to Vanuatu Race update - Tirbo has crossed the finish line in Port Villa....

Light winds have again had a major impact on racing on day four of the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship...

Saturday's SCM winter fleet was adorned with slightly warmer sunny conditions but there was little wind....

Australian Sailing Team Belcher and Page continue to lead the 470 World Championship 2010 after day three....

Another day, another .....day...

Are you still looking for accommodation for Audi Hamilton Island Race Week? We have some fantastic options available!...

Australian Sailing Team Skud 18 crew of Fitzgibbon and Cox has won the Bronze at IFDS World Championship 2010....

Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship in Istanbul - everyone waited for a sea breeze to blow....

470 Word Championship. Belcher/Page posted a 5, 15 today before the fleet was sent home ahead of a torrential downpour...

Delta Lloyd 470 World Championships 2010 - Wind conditions at sea allowed racing to get away on time for some....

Laser Radial World Championships - Sari Multala and Marcin Rudawski were piped up on the podium as the 2010 champions....

International 470 Class Association has introduced some new measures for the present Delta Lloyd World Championship....

ISAF Olympic Commission report the number of nations taking part was identified as being one of the shortcomings....

Extreme 40 World Championship competitors, the Hagara brothers, demonstrated their sibling rivalry in the first day....

Vic-Maui Yacht Race - I still took us another day and a half to sail out of the rough conditions....

International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has appointed Sunset+Vine|APP as the Host Broadcaster for the Perth 2011...

Two of the world's finest women's match racing skippers will grace the island's surf during October's Argo Group Gold Cu...

Melbourne to Vanuatu 2010 has ended and Tevake II from HBYC has won the, 1885nm epic race....

Boats, Beers, Guinness, Wilson and more- The good crew of Lulu Belle Uncorked arrived in Crosshaven on Sunday evening;...

Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race - Out Front...

First we had a tired Secretary, now comes confirmation of what we suspected. It's actually a limping Secretary....

The Showdown 2010 has been perfectly timed for those classes gearing up towards Australian championships...

AST Skud 18 crew of Daniel Fitzgibbon and Rachael Cox has consolidated their third position on day five of IFDS Worlds...

The wind faded and the postponement flag went back up to delay the racing....

Australian Olympic champions will march in a spectacular Opening Ceremony at the Float Marina in Singapore...

Racing between Black Jack and with their almost identical 20 m NSW rival Wild Oats X promises a showdown...

At around midday, today, Wednesday July 14, TevakeII will cross the line of the 1885nm Melbourne to Vanuatu epic....

A perfect start for Belcher and Page at the 470 World Championship....

Three races for the Men and two for the Women could be held off the Hague today at the Delta Lloyd 470 Worlds...

Laser Radial World Championships - Frustration as the wind fails to show...

B14 World Championships day 2 report...

Volvo Youth Worlds 2010 -The OAMPS Insurance Brokers Australian Youth Sailing Team has enjoyed a lay day at the 2010 Vol...

Extreme 40 World Championship - With the sun blazing down, the stage has been set for the inaugural Championship....

Vic-Maui Yacht Race - It's an odd feeling sailing in water warmer than the air temperature outside....

A little over 30 years have gone by since the launch of the First 30....

Pacific Cup 2010 As the sun rose on the fleet this Bastille Day, Pocket Rocket, the tiny Mini Transat design, was the c...

Did you notice that there was another Belcher in the 470 line-up?...

Chase Lurati and Paul Darmanin has surged into the lead in the multihull class at the Youth Worlds...

Prominent sailmaker Mark Rimington has joined Sam Haines' fast-growing Ullman Sails team in Melbourne, Australia....

470 World Championship opening day has been cancelled by extreme weather conditions in the Netherlands....

The brighter, the more outrageous, the better when it comes to team colours for Meridien Marinas' Airlie Beach Race Week...

2010 Laser Radial World Championship - The first day of finals racing in Scotland has been a tough one for Australia....

At 4:30 in the afternoon racing was cancelled for the day and the armada hastened to shore to beat out an afternoon stor...

Volvo 60 Nikon Spirit of The Maid will be on the pace when they compete for the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week....

Laser Radial World Championships - Finland's defending champion stepped further clear of the chasing pack today....

Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship Youth sailors were introduced to the WADA Play True Presentation last night....

J24 celebrates a true World Championship...

All divisions have started and off to Hawaii, in the biannual 2070nm San Francisco to Oahu race....

Brisbane-based sailor makes a mark on the 27th staging of the great regatta by being the 150th entry...

Victorian Danielle Pascoe has recently become Australia's second ever female National Judge...

Western Australia's Christchurch Grammar has won the 2010 Australian Schools Team Racing Championship...

Burke Marine has now been employing a team of people for nearly 40 years and are proud to say that many staff have been...

The final day of qualifying races has been completed at the Laser Radial World Championship....

Race leader, TevakeII have now covered 1363nm, so that's 522nm to go....

Australian Women's Match Racing Team crew of Katie Spithill, Jessica Eastwell and Angela Farrell has finished fourth...

Australian Sailing Development Squad crew of Steven Thomas and Nick Brownie has finished an impressive 10th in Poland....

Australia's four Paralympic crews have all had positive results on a shortened day three of the 2010 IFDS World Champion...

The 2010 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship is underway in Istanbul, Turkey....

Abby Sunderland's father and the US Coast Guard have retracted statements that a boat was lost in the 2010 Bermuda Race....

Whitsunday Sailing Club gains tourism awareness for Airlie Beach. Hosting the 2010 Ice Berg Australian Tasar titles...

Just four weeks out from the 2010 Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week....

2010 Hobie Multi Europeans will be hosted by the Luebecker Yachtclub, located in Luebeck Bay. More than 230 teams have s...

The final day's racing in the Westward Cup Regatta took place in the Solent yesterday...

Ben Ainslie (GBR) TeamOrigin defeated Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team going through to the final...

It's the eve of this years 470 World Championships (sailing that is, not football). Our preparation has been going very...

Today's mild northerly breeze provided a pleasant change for the Audi Winter Series fleet of 131 temperature wise...

The Northshore 38 Moonshine today notched up her second Division 1 win of the RYCT's Winter Pennant series...

Draper and Greenhalgh seal European title; bronze for Morrison and Rhodes....

The Race Committee was able to get in three races today. The first two races were in 6 to 7 knot winds and were again ha...

When we were doing the Cape to Rio race, we used to amuse ourselves with how many Hobarts were left to go....

The OAMPS Insurance Brokers Australian Youth Sailing Team members have had their first taste of the sailing conditions i...

The final day of the B14 European championships took place in Carnac on Saturday 10th July in 8 to 10 knots of wind and...

Australia's Skud 18 crews have led the way in Holland sitting sixth and seventh respectively after two days of racing...

The 2010 Melbourne to Vanuatu race has certainly had its fair share of twists and turns....

Today the Asian Championship went back to the scheduled fleet racing after the two days of team racing. ....

This was my favourite comment from Scarlet Runner's skipper, Rob Date, during a chat we had earlier this morning....