Racing
A third place in Saturday night’s Westcoaster Ocean Race was just sufficient for Todd Giraudo’s Hillarys-based Kraken to win IRC Division Two of this season’s Evolution Sails Blue Water Series.
Experienced sailing meteorologist Kenn Batt from the Bureau of Meteorology explains how cold fronts form in SE Australia.
We have more time to get fit as we get older, but Andrew Verdon warns that balance is the key.
It was all Jeanneau in the Boat Sales Tasmania pre-Christmas twilight race held at the Derwent Sailing Squadron last Thursday evening.
Drawing on the latest technological advances in naval architecture and design, the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 509 embodies all the aspects that have made the new Sun Odyssey series an international success.
Todd Giraudo and David “Dubbo” White, sailing the double-handed Jeanneau Sunfast 3200 Kraken against fully-crewed boats, produced an outstanding performance to finish fifth on IRC.
The 26th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) set sail today from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, bound for Saint Lucia. A brisk northerly wind and blue sky provided perfect conditions for a downwind start and a swift departure for the first part of the passage across the Atlantic. 217 boats and 1,188 people, including 26 aged under 18, are sailing in this year's edition of the world's most popular transocean rally.
A Sun Fast 3200 has dominated the IRC4 class and won overall in IRC at the Tour de Corse in tough conditions.
Saturday's race to Pittwater saw 14 yachts line up under grey skies, including solo around the World yachtswoman Jessica Watson and her young crew of 10 others on Ella Bache Another Challenge.
The outstanding performances of Gary McNally’s GP42 Black Betty, Alan Brierty’s awesome R/P62 Limit and Todd Giraudo & David 'Dubbo' White’s double-handed Jeanneau Sunfast 3200 Kraken in the last weekend’s Redink Homes Geraldton Ocean Classic will be a distant memory when the return race starts at 9.30am this Friday.
38 South Boatsales have been busy in recent weeks commissioning new vessels and assisting in annual maintenance programmes on a myriad of boats.
Get in quick, the limited edition 'Commodore' Sun Odyssey 30i and 33i's are only available for a short time.
Leading sailors tell how they have picked up on the Cancer Council's familiar message, by Bob Ross.
Cruising divisions 1 and 3 at this year’s Hamilton Race Week were dominated by Jeanneau’s.
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