Category Archives: Yachting

35th America’s Cup Conclusion

The 35th America’s Cup was recently concluded and there are assessments being commissioned to check the economic impact of the same on Bermuda.


One of the consultancies hired for the work is Pricewaterhouse Coopers. They are conducting a survey independently, which is targeted to be completed by the month of October as per the ministry of economic development.

The victors of this year’s legendary America’s Cup were the Emirates team New Zealand. As the Minister of Economic Development, Grant Gibbons was giving away the victory trophies he stated that, a sailing event of this magnitude has not been hosted by Bermuda before. The success of the event has put the economy of the region in a position to host international sailing events of such magnitude in the future as well. He also acknowledged the fact that the forthcoming version of the America’s Cup, 36th edition scheduled in 2021, would be held in New Zealand. The teams that participated in AC35 such as the Land Rover BAR, Team France and Emirates team New Zealand would be leaving Bermuda as July comes to an end. Continue reading →

Extreme Sailing Series Final Act At Sydney

The final act of the very popular Extreme Sailing series will be held in Sydney from 8th to the 11th of December 2016.This news was confirmed by the organizer and Extreme Sailing Series owner OC sport. The final act will be held in association with the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron in December in Sydney.

The organizers of the Extreme Sailing Series look to have a liking on Sydney as this is the third consecutive year that Sydney will be hosting the final act of the eight Act global tours. The locals visiting the event will get to catch a glimpse of the GC32 hydro foiling catamarans for the first time this year.

The race director Phil Lawrence said that the event will be taking place in a new location in Sydney. He said that he was very happy that the event is heading to Sydney for its culmination this year, with the guys at Yacht Charter in Kastela helping to show them how it should be done. This is a very great venue to host the event and everyone knows that Sydney is a great sailing city. The organizers have decided to carry out a small change in the format of the race with the first race day course to be of longer length. Continue reading →

Alinghi And Red Bull Upset

When the collision between Alinghi and Red Bull team occurred, Alinghi’s GC32 was towed back to the dock where their shore crew began work repairing it, but they face a race against time to get it ready for the Act 6 finale tomorrow.


Alinghi was awarded redress for the incident, which sees them retain the overall lead ahead of Oman Air, Red Bull Sailing Team and SAP Extreme Sailing Team. The Red Bull Sailing team was judged by the umpires to have been at fault for the incident. They have been given a penalty of fifteen seconds before they start their fourth race. However, even then they managed to retain third place between Oman Air and SAP Extreme sailing team.

On the other hand Morgan Larson of Oman Air and the SAP Extreme Sailing team made the most of the misfortune that Alinghi suffered. Each team got two wins as a result. Continue reading →

Timeline For World Championship

If you are thinking about competing in a regatta for the World Championship, there are certain challenges that one need to be prepared to take and that would need certain practice and preparation.

It is best to seek the advice from experts and hence there has been a recent forum of 24 experts whose views have been put together in order to help teams know the essentials on how to prepare for a regatta at world level. Continue reading →

Burton chosen for Rio Games

Tom Burton, 4 years ago, was training along with Tom Slingsby, making sure to save Australia’s one Laser London 2012 Games position, just to drop out as Tom went onto win the Olympic gold medal. Now, the twenty-five year old sailor would get his scope for the Olympic glory after he was today chosen on to the Australian Olympic Team for Rio 2016.

The Sydneysider joins 6 sailors on the squad: Will Ryan, Mathew Belcher, Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen, Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin. The present world No 1 Laser sailor, Tom Burton is rapturous to get Olympic selection. Continue reading →

Resolute Cup: All yacht clubs interested

More than twenty yacht clubs from across the United States have asked for an invitation to the Resolute Cup 2016, a Corinthian Championship for United States Yacht Clubs. The regatta, an evolution of the United States Qualifying Series for Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, would take place from 12th September to 17th September, 2016, out of New York Yacht Club Harbor Court, in Newport, R.I.

Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup
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Clipper yacht race

Yesterday, the start of the 3rd leg of Clipper Round the World Yacht Race from Cape Town (South Africa) to Albany (Western Australia) saw tough south-east winds of twenty knots and gusts of thirty-five knots on the start line, before some of the fleet contended with lighter, shifting winds in the shadow of Table Bay.

Still, the firmest weather was felt overnight with gusting wind overnight of forty-five knots as well as waves of three to four meters in places. The fleet is baffling upwind with few teams suggesting wind of up to fifty knots and big swells as a low moves quickly along the coast. The teams have taken different courses to ride out the storm; with few vessels heaving to while others were looking for shelter in False Bay. Continue reading →