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The "breakaways": The first five home to Bermuda

19 June 2018
The adventures continue for the Sailor Girl in Bermuda for the finish of the 51st edition of the Newport Bermuda Race. Leaving most of the fleet far behind in light winds, George David’s Rambler 88 crossed the finish line off St. David’s Lighthouse at 5:51:51 Eastern daylighttime on Sunday evening. The first pack consisting of five boats including Rambler 88 managed to get through the…
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Newport Bermuda Race - The Adventure Begins...

17 June 2018
The 51st edition of the Newport Bermuda Race is underway and we have been in the midst of the action from Newport and now from in Bermuda. Check out some of the videos and images below from registration and interviews with competitors, right through to our live coverage of the start, which went for all two hours and fifty minutes to cover every single sequence for the seventeen classes. LIVE! The…
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The PONANT Sydney Noumea Yacht Race start

4 June 2018
The start of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 1064 nautical mile PONANT Sydney Noumea Race kicked off at 1000 AEST on 3 June 2018. I caught up with three skippers, Tony Kirby (Patrice, current line honours and IRC leaders), Seb Bohm (Smuggler), Shane Kearns (Komatsu Azzurro) and the RO Denis Thomson before they departed the CYCA, and then was live for the start itself. It was wet, windy…
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Newport RI; "small town - big heart"

20 May 2018
It was pretty surreal to return to Newport three years on for the return of the Volvo Ocean Race. This time around, my adventures were thanks to Argo Group, one of the sponsors for the local heroes of Vestas 11th Hour Racing, headed by Charlie Enright and Mark Towill, with another local, Nick Dana on board. Nick perfectly describes Newport RI as “small town – big heart”. Hope you…
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Volvo Clean Up: Lovers of sailing show their love for the ocean

11 March 2018
I was at Takapuna Beach this morning with a number of people who love sailing, but most importantly – love our oceans and our planet. Sailors and shore crew from Turn the Tide on Plastic, Vestas 11th Hour Racing, Team AkzoNobel and Brunel Sailing were amongst the crowd, as well as notables from Yachting New Zealand and Australian Sailing. “There is definitely an agenda to have a…
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Reminders of mortality

14 January 2018
From reports direct from Hollywood Boulevard that they had abandoned ship in Bass Strait and were helicoptered to safety, to a man overboard and retrieval on Scallywag while leading the Volvo Ocean Race – today was definitely an interesting day in sailing – and high on the stress radars for a few of us. The low down on Hollywood Boulevard A crew member believes that a yacht sank in…
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Rolex Sydney Hobart start!

27 December 2017
Wow…… that was definitely the slowest start I have seen for the Rolex Sydney Hobart, and consequently the start with the most mix ups in the pecking order to what was expected. The fleet are now headed down the East Coast of Australia in a gradient nor’Easter which is set to build and give the sailors some more “send it” conditions that are generally expected for the…
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