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Luck of the Irish at Hamilton Island Race Week

19 August 2024
Boats from all eight Australian states and territories, ranging in size from the 100ft Super Maxi ‘Wild Thing 100’ to the smallest yacht, a 20.6ft Sonata 6.3 ‘Norbert G’ skippered by Ghigo Casalini. There is also a boat from Ireland, named Ri-Ra, skippered by brothers Hugh and Patrick Blaney competing in the Non-Spinnaker class. They have quickly become one of the favourites at…
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Hamilton Island Race Week underway for 2024

18 August 2024
Hamilton Island Race Week officially opened with a bang last night, marked with fireworks at the Nautilus Marine Insurance Yacht Owners and Skippers Welcome Cocktail Party. While the welcome went off with plenty of sparks, the breeze this morning for the first day of racing was lack-lustre. The 164 boats split into twelve divisions headed out for the scheduled 1130 start across the Dent…
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Camaraderie, chefs and champagne ahead for Hamilton Island Race Week 2024

16 August 2024
Hamilton Island Race Week 2024 is around the corner and southerners shivering through the winter season, are dreaming of warm days, exquisite chef dinners and joyful reunions, all set against the backdrop of Australia’s most beloved winter sailing competition. For the 39th edition from 18-24 August, 170 boats of all sizes, and close to 2,000 sailors from all walks of life will reunite at…
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Olympics - Paris 2024 - Event Times & How To Watch

22 July 2024
Olympics – Paris 2024 – Event Times & How To Watch: As we close in on the 2024 Paris Olympics we have compiled a handy guide on where to watch all the action from your home country and the corresponding times. Nic will also be on the ground in Marseille for the duration of the sailing events. Where to watch in: World Sailing’s awesome graphic of the…
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The Sailor Girl adds to her team with Highfield

5 July 2024
Sailing since she was 10 months old, Nic Douglass, known as The Sailor Girl, is the ubiquitous force in yachting media – covering sailing all over the world, promoting it and competing when her schedule allows. The proud owner of a 6.51-metreHighfield Patrol 660, fully-equipped with her high-tech AV gear, Nic has been enjoying the boost to her team’s mobility and presence on the…
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Americas Cup

It's that time! Revealing time!

24 April 2024
As the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup nears, the intensity ramps up and with four teams revealing their box-fresh AC75s, it’s abundantly clear that different solutions have been found for very similar questions. The design teams have worked feverishly to deliver their best and latest thinking whilst the electronics and mechatronics engineers have been hard at it to produce the control and…
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Black Foils win at home

24 March 2024
New Zealand’s ‘Black Foils’ – driven by Peter Burling – today claimed victory in front of an adoring hometown crowd at the the second-annual ITM New ZealandSailGrand Prix in Christchurch. After the cancellation of racing yesterday,SailGPimplemented a ‘Super Sunday’ race format, consisting of three fleet races and then a winner-takes-all final podium…
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SailGP New Zealand Preview

23 March 2024
EPIC! 22,000 fans are expected to visit Lyttelton Harbour over the course of this weekend as SailGP returns for its second event in Christchurch. France were a standout in the practice racing yesterday, but with completely different conditions today it is going to come down to who can read the race course best. Teams will be racing with the largest, 24m, wing format and the light-air foil…
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Fairytale in Sydney

26 February 2024
Tom Slingsby and his Australian crew have been crowned champions of the KPMG AustraliaSailGrand Prix I Sydney, flying home in front of an ecstatic and vibrant ‘Genesis Island’ crowd and a jam-packed Sydney Harbour to clinch the sensational win from Denmark and New Zealand in the three-boat final. With the home crowd cheering them on, the Australia team finally secured its first…
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SailGP Season 4 - Sydney Preview

24 February 2024
SailGP Season 4 continues on Sydney Harbour today. After a string of events with light breeze and the F50s struggling to foil consistently, all the talk in the lead up to today’s racing has been the predicted strong breeze and which teams will manage it. Canadian Driver Phil Robertson summed it up as “big boy pants weather” and all the drivers at the opening media conference said…
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