The International 505 Class has announced that the 2020 Australian Championship will be held as part of the annual Sail Melbourne Regatta. In what is the first of many international 5O5 open events around the world in the coming year, the 2020 505 Australian Open Championship will take place January 16-21, 2020. Melbourne is known for its great restaurants and ...

Entries from 13 countries in the Ocean Globe Race are going strong, just six months after announcing the inaugural race starting in May 2023 The 10 entries in Adventure Class (47-56 feet production yachts) have now been filled and a waiting list has been established Eight entrants are now confirmed in the Sayula Class (56.1 to 66 feet production yachts), ...

The Royal Ocean Racing Club have announced a new start date for the seventh edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race. Traditionally held in November each year from Lanzarote to Grenada, the next edition will start from Calero Marinas Puerto Calero on the 9th January 2021 and once again finish at Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina in Grenada. This date ...

But first of all there was another Parade of Sail, which provided a pleasant and colourful sight as the combined Macao Cup and GBA Cup fleets cruised along the waterfront to the Macao Tower and back again before heading out to sea and round to the racing area. “An opportunity to bring understanding and appreciation of yacht racing to the ...

The Hempel World Cup Series rolls into Miami, in the sunshine state of Florida, USA from 19 – 25 January 2020 for the second instalment of the 2020 Series. 205 sailors from 50 nations will race across seven fleets in Miami and the stakes are high for North American competitors. The event is the final opportunity for nations to qualify ...

CrewWatcher (Patent Pending) is an app-based crew overboard alarm system that is the fastest way to rescue a person who is overboard. The system works like a virtual lifeline and is made up of two components: a smartphone application and a small beacon that can be comfortably worn by each crew. The beacon does not require complex manual activation. The ...

Two races in good wind with improving skies closed out the 2020 Etchells Australian Championship from the Royal Brighton Yacht Club. Certainly the shifts were there for the astute crews to use, and a sailing lesson was certainly delivered by the great John Bertrand, with Noel Drennan and Jake Lilley as crew, when on the last work to windward of ...

The 2020 Australian Contender Championships, hosted by Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron during the second week in January have been won by Queensland’s Geoff Fisher representing Darling Point Sailing Squadron. A small but quality fleet from Western Australia, Victoria, NSW, ACT, far north Queensland and south Queensland came together for the 10 race championship and enjoyed champagne sailing conditions with warm ...

With numerous improvements prompted by user input and internal research over the past year, the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) is pleased to announce its new 2020 VPP and 2020 Rules books are available now for download from the ORC’s website. The VPP and the new 2020 version of the ORC Manager software has been distributed to the 35 Rating Offices that ...

Artemis XIV (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Anders Pedersen) has extended their lead to nine points with just two races to sail at the 2020 5.5 Metre World Championship, at the Royal Prince Alfred YC, in Newport, Australia. New Moon II (BAH 24, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) is up to second while Girls on Film (GBR 40, ...