After a flurry of front runners and TP52s made their way through the start line last night and early this morning, the stream of competitors slowed over lunch as the westerly breeze died and slowed progress for the remaining fleet. In the early afternoon however the south easterly filled in once again and is now…
On day three of the ocean passage that began in Sydney Harbour on Saturday July 27, light south-westerlies have slowed progress for the 55 yachts yet to finish, while those crews already entrenched at Southport Yacht Club who have one hand on a handicap victory quietly celebrate their good fortune. Barry Cuneo’s TP52 Envy Scooters…
Late on Sunday July 28, 2019, Wild Oats X, the Oatley family’s Reichel Pugh 66 skippered by Mark Richards, took line honours in the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race for the third time – and on ‘Ricko’s’ birthday. Wild Oats X’s official finish time for the 384-nautical-mile season-opener was 10:28:27 pm, giving them an elapsed…
The biggest fleet in more than a decade, 11 TP52s and a very different upfront tussle for line honours among the 60-footers are just some of the anticipated highlights of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race starting at 1pm on Saturday July 27, 2019 from Sydney Harbour. With Australian-registered supermaxis away contesting the Transpac…
One of Australia’s most successful maxi yachts, the vintage Bumblebee IV, will celebrate its 40th birthday at Hamilton Island Race Week next month. Now owned by well-known offshore sailor Graham ‘Scooter’ Eaton and based on the Gold Coast, the sleek 73-footer, which contested the inaugural Race Week in 1984, will be back this year for…
Entries are now open for the Gold Coast’s 2020 premier sailing event the Bartercard Sail Paradise, Australia’s east coast sailing scene will become even more exciting next summer with the staging of the 11th Bartercard Sail Paradise series on the beautiful Gold Coast. The last few years we’ve had amazing feedback on what a great…
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is pleased to announce another offshore race has been added to its 2021 150th celebration calendar – the 2021 Auckland to Gold Coast Ocean Race . The proposed start date is Sunday 30th May 2021* from the RNZYS in Auckland New Zealand, and finishing 1,270nm away at the Southport…
Cats and tris will be flying hulls in close encounters at Australia’s premier offshore regatta, Hamilton Island Race Week, which will be staged from August 17-24. And while those remarkable multihulls do their aerobatics, they will be surrounded by 200 or more monohull sailboats, ranging from Grand Prix level offshore racers to production yachts, classic…
Media Release – 13 June 2019 Event: Inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race organised by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron starts August 2, 2019 from Moreton Bay, race distance 530nm The fleet for the inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race is taking shape with the…
MEDIA RELEASE May 30, 2019 by Rob Mundle Chinese Whisper, the yacht that claimed every possible prize in last year’s 5500-nautical-mile Melbourne to Osaka two-handed race, is among the latest in a record run of entries for this year’s Hamilton Island Race Week. The 18.9m sloop was raced to Osaka by…