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18ft Skiffs
Australian Championship, Races 1 & 2
Sunday, 19 January, 2020
Sydney Harbour








The Finport Finance team of Keagan York, Matt Stenta and David Ewings totally dominated the racing in a 8-12 knots SSE wind to lead the fleet after the two-race opening day of the Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. York and his team won the start with a risky port hand start at the pin end of the line in Race 1 and were rarely challenged as they led at every mark of the three-lap windward-return course set in Rose Bay. Finport Finance increased her led at every mark before crossing the finish line 2m27s ahead of Tech2 (Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt, Trent Barnabas), with Shaw & Partners Financial Services (James Dorron, Harry Bethwaite, Tim Westwood) a further 25s back in third place. Brett Van Munster's appliancesonline.com.au was near the leaders throughout the race to finish ...

The all-consuming battle between Love Water and Maserati looks set to deliver its grand finale in the next 24 hours. It’s not over yet… and there are likely to be a few twists and turns yet, with notorious wind holes and tides on the final approach to Rio.

It’s hard to pick a line honours winner, and it’s going to be a real scrap to the end, with neither boat giving a inch in their unwavering efforts to claim the race line honours record, which is looking to get about 2 days leaner!


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With wind limits on the edge, conditions on day one of Sail Melbourne International 2020 provided many competitors with a wild, windy and
challenging day on Port Phillip Bay. Racing started out in around 20-22 knots but with wind gusting into the high twenties as the afternoon progressed, racing was cut short after several classes reached their wind limits. All ...

The STORM

"Update from Leah: These pictures were sent to me today by some amazing people in Port Stanley. Bert is in full weather gear and battling the storm. He is tired from lack of sleep, hungry from the inability to get below deck for nourishment and cold, so very cold. When it settles ...

Preparations step up another level for the first America's Cup World Series (ACWS) event in Cagliari from April 23 to April 26, 2020.

The start of the new year has brought the start of INEOS TEAM UK's winter training camp in Cagliari, Sardinia as preparations stepped ...

MIAMI, Fla. (Jan. 15, 2020) – US Sailing’s Olympic Development Program hasn’t been a stranger to the success of young sailors since the organization first began creating a clear path from youth sailing to the Olympic Games. Thanks to support from the AmericaOne Foundation, US Sailing founded the first formalized Olympic sailing development initiative, called Project Pipeline, in 2015.

Five years later, the efforts of US Sailing’s Olympic Development ...

FLASH NEWS - January 15th, 2020


Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70 leading the fleet of the Cape2Rio after four days of racing

Maserati Multi 70, four days after the start of the race, is in the lead of the fleet of the twenty-two entrants of the Cape2Rio 2020: today, Wednesday January 15th ...

International 14 Worlds
Report from USA 1200
Perth, Western Australia



The party is over. Boats are packed back into containers or road trailers and the sailors have cleaned the beaches and yards surrounding the Perth Dinghy Sailing Club. 67 International 14s were registered for the 2020 Worlds all anticipating ...

Artemis XIV secures 5.5 world title after exciting final day in Pittwater
Artemis XIV(NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Anders Pedersen) have won the 2020 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Prince Alfred YC, in Newport, Australia, after a thrilling final day of racing. New Moon II(BAH 24, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) ends up second on equal points with Ali Baba(BAH 23, Craig Symonette, Flavio Marrazi, Will Alloway).

On a day in which everyone had their chances, and the left ...