Author: admin

After some very windy weather over Christmas and the wrong tides over New Year, it was champagne (albeit cold champagne) conditions over the weekend for the oldest Illusion trophy in the programme – the Ice Breaker!

The 2026 Bough Beech Icicle Series got off to a cracking start on 4 January. As with much of the country, temperatures barely rose above freezing all day, and a fickle Force 2 westerly added to the chill factor.

The 2025/26 B14 Australian National Titles delivered five days of varied and demanding racing at Midway Point Yacht Club, showcasing the full breadth of conditions the B14 class thrives in.

Hungary’s Maria Erdi has taken the lead in the qualifying series of the ILCA 6 Class of the 2026 Oceania and Australian Open and Youth Championships in Hobart, Tasmania.

Friendly, competitive and truly global – the RS Aero class has it all. With an incredible range of events on offer in 2026, spanning continents and conditions, the challenge isn’t finding somewhere to race, but choosing where to go.

Champagne sailing conditions greeted the 31 starters of 40+ entries for the invitation race, with Port Phillip Bay turning on the kind of weather sailors dream about and talk about for years afterwards.

The last time Etchells did Cork Week was in 1990 – the year the QE2 first visited Cork. The QE2 retired in 2008 but the Etchells class continues to prosper in the UK, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada and New Zealand.

Over 70 members of Overy Staithe Sailing Club joined together to celebrate the 2025 season and present trophies and commemorative glasses to the very many competitors who have raced at the club during the season.

After a superb stopover in Sydney, the Class40s of the 2nd edition of the GLOBE40 set sail again on Thursday, January 1st at 3:00 PM local time (4:00 AM UTC) for the 4th leg, which will take them, after a transpacific crossing, to Valparaiso, Chile.

Despite the forecast of 30mph gusts and sub-zero wind chill there was a good turnout for the Ripon SC Whisky Stakes on New Year’s Day.