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[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Fresh from a highly creditable fourth place in the Fastnet Race, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Stephen Ainsworth took his ever improving Reichel/Pugh 60, Loki, to the [...]

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The 24th running of Hamilton Island Race Week was another truly international affair, bringing a record fleet of 217 from as far afield as the USA, Hong Kong [...]

For the majority of the fleet, 62nd edition of the Rolex Sydney Hobart race was rough and tough--a torrid upwind test for almost every one of the 628 nautical miles. [...]

The Straits of Bonifacio and the neighbouring waters of Sardinia and Corsica are regarded as one of the jewels of the Mediterranean by yachting enthusiasts familiar with the area. What [...]

Rshyr ABN AMRO I SAIL NO: NED1 LOA: 21.5m CLASS: IRC DESIGNER: Juan K Yacht Design (Spain) YEAR BUILT: 2005 TYPE: Volvo 70 NO. OF HOBARTS: 0 OWNER/SKIPPER: Mike Sanderson [...]

Many of today's new production yachts are being bought by first or second-time owners who have different values from what used to be the traditional owner, the person who brought [...]

AN ELEGANT GAFF-RIGGED CUTTER on which champagne corks are frequently heard to pop; a battered, steel-hulled cutter which has sailed among the icebergs of Antarctica; a stoutly-built, double-ended cutter now [...]

Number of yachts to have competed: 4,505 (3,690 completing the race, 815 retiring). Estimated total crew to have competed: 35,950. Average size of fleets: 80.44 boats per race. Largest fleet: [...]

LAST YEAR TASMANIAN YACHTSMAN John 'The Fish' Bennetto logged his 40th race, equalling the record set by Sydney navigator Richard 'Sightie' Hammond two years previously. While it is unlikely that [...]

The 57th sydney to hobart yacht race will be one of the most internationally representative fleets in the history of the bluewater classic, with volvo ocean race contenders joining in [...]

Techniques are presented for improving a boat racing team, such as working out the goals of the team, ensuring the boat is performing in the optimum way, ensuring the best crew has been selected, ensuring boat skills have been practiced and ensuring the race is planned.

The team of catamarans entering the Race, the non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, will encounter their toughest challenges in the Southern Ocean. Survival is dependent on good planning and deciding when it is appropriate to slow speed.

A personal account of taking part in the Newport-Bermuda Yacht Race is presented. The high points and difficulties of the race are recalled and the features of the winning boat, Restless, an old Pearson-built Rhodes 41, are described.

Ellen MacArthur, 23 year-old British yachtswoman, won the Singlehanded Transatlantic Race from Plymouth, England to Newport, Rhode Island in 2000, beating the next competitor by 100 miles.

Naval architect Bill Langan was asked to design a new maxi sailboat suitable for flat-out course racing. The specifications of the sailboat and its performance in the water are discussed. The boat was built by New England Boatworks.

An analysis of the teams participating in the 2000 America's Cup is presented. There will be 13 teams challenging the New Zealand defenders, including 5 teams from the US. Getting the cup away from the defenders will be challenging, and some American boats may not hold up under the Auckland turbulence.

A description is presented of the yacht racing techniques which have been used effectively by Olympic gold medalist and professional sailor Robbie Haines. The importance of starting on the front-row consistently is discussed.

An unexpected visit from a meteorological adversary makes a cruising rally run for cover. Two fleets heading for the Caribbean encounter the remains of Hurricane Mitch. One fares better than […]

Competition was tougher than ever at GMC Yukon/YACHTING Key West Race Week. It took more skill than ever to find the winning edge GMC Yukon/YACHTING Key West Race Week has […]

When Peter the Great of Russia was a boy, he had two regiments of other lads his age - real lads in real regiments, that is, in full uniform and […]

Some 40 yachts cruise from Florida to Harbour Island for the best Allied Blast yet. For most of us, a cruise to the Bahamas holds out the promise of beautiful […]

whitbread 1997-98 gets under way Never before have so many watched so few sail so far Yacht racing in America is still struggling to break into the mainstream, but in […]

The Marion-Bermuda Race promises to be a moderately challenging boat race. The 1997 race provided a 3 point bonus for using sextants instead of GPS technology.

The Bertram/Hatteras Shootout brought some of the finest fishing boats in the world to Boat Harbour in the Bahamas. When David Zsak asked to be excused from school to go […]

Sailor and entrepreneur Chay Blyth became known as 'Wrong Way' after he sailed around the world upwind against prevailing winds and currents in 1971. He has also organized a similar trip around the world for amateur sailors called the BT Global Challenge., After decades of bucking the establishment - and Mother Nature - British adventure sailor-turned-entrepreneur Chay Blyth is king of the weirdest, wildest round-the-world yacht race ever conceived...and it's coming to [...]

Lying at Latitude 24, Key West lays legitimate claim to being the southernmost city in the continental United States (Honolulu if actually closer to the equator at about Latitude 21). […]

The Aussie's boat sinks like a rock, and the women's team drafts a man. Two startling developments rocked the America's Cup - and the rest of the yachting world - […]

The America's Cup is a prestigious yachting competition that has been dominated by men ever since its inception in 1851. However, this trend may soon end as the first all-women team attempts to try out its luck in the gruelling event. The training regimen of the women athletes is presented.

America's Cup '95 sports one of the strongest challenger fields in the history of the event. Many veteran Cup watchers believe several of these teams have a legitimate shot at […]

The Tahiti Assn will inaugurate two races to the island in 1995 - one from San Francisco, the other from Honolulu. Both are directed at family cruisers, although the 1925 San Francisco-Papeete speed record is expected to fall. Sailing strategies are described., Cruisers have joined ranks to venture across oceans and around the world. A Tahiti rally shows the way to anyone voyaging to French Polynesia The great success of West Marine's [...]

The boats first came in 1542, majestic sailing ships bearing brave men of vision seeking their fame and fortune in what is now San Diego. Led by explorer Juan Rodriguez [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cruising Yacht Club of Australia members were well represented in this year's Rolex Fastnet Race, England's 608 nautical mile ocean classic. There were Neville Crichton with his super [...]

The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's seventh annual Boag's Sailing South Race Week sailed on Hobart's River Derwent and the open waters of Frederick Henry Bay produced outstanding IRC and [...]

The features of advanced racing yachts participated in Key West championships are discussed.

JOHN KOSTECKI'S ILLBRUCK CHALLENGE from Germany has strengthened her grip on the Volvo Ocean Race with a win in the 6,700-nautical mile fourth leg from Auckland to Rio de Janeiro. [...]

IF THE ENTHUSIASM OF THOSE WHO SAILED IN, AND WATCHED the inaugural Sailing South Race Week is any guide, then the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania has come up with [...]

Kenn Batt of the Sydney Bureau of Meteorology and Alasdair Hainsworth of the Hobart Bureau of Meteorology discuss weather patterns and pitfalls for the final leg of the Sydney to [...]

The 2001-2002 Volvo Ocean Race has started from Southampton, England. Ahead of the eight boat fleet are 32,700 nautical miles of sailing around the world. Australians are among the crews. [...]

A description is presented of the experiences of a man who took part in a skipjack race on the 'Nellie L. Byrd'. The lack of engines on a skipjack, the use of a pushboat and the handling of a skipjack are discussed.

The America's Cup yacht race was born here almost 150 years ago, watched by Queen Victoria, and every summer sailors come in vast numbers to sail its challenging waters in [...]