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2025 Australian Youth & Open Match Racing Championships to be held together in Tasmania

The 2025 Australian Youth and Open Match Racing Championships will once again be run as a combined event, hosted by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania from 22nd to 26th October.

National Events TAS

Thu 12 Jun 2025

Vintage Yacht Regatta Celebrates Fifty Years of Timber Yachts and Tradition

The Queensland Cruising Yacht Club will host the 50th Vintage Yacht Regatta from 18 to 20 July 2025 at Shorncliffe, celebrating five decades of timber yachts, traditional seamanship and spirited racing on Moreton Bay.

Events QLD

Wed 11 Jun 2025

Final day decider at Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta

The final day at the 2025 Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) promised and gave it all – light wind – rain – cold – after Race Officer, Lou Hutton, delved into Melbourne’s weather cauldron and shared her findings with competitors at Royal Melbourne Yacht (RMYS) this morning, and afterwards the day delivered the overall winners and other special trophy recipients.

Events VIC

Tue 10 Jun 2025

Final opportunity to enter Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta

This is a final call to female sailors who would like to race Australia’s premier all-female regatta, the 2025 Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR)!

Events NSW TAS VIC QLD SA WA

Wed 04 Jun 2025

New look Wild Thing eyeing Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race record

Grant Wharington is getting Wild Thing 100 revved up to have a crack at the record in the Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race (S2A).

NSW Events

Wed 04 Jun 2025

First Kiwi entry as new sponsor announced for Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race

Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) takes pleasure in announcing Harken Australia and New Zealand as naming rights sponsor for the Sydney to Auckland Yacht Race (S2A) and that the first New Zealand entry has been accepted for the challenging 1250 nautical mile race across the Tasman Sean

NSW Events

Thu 29 May 2025

CYCA team to take best shot at Admiral’s Cup

The Australian flag will fly proud on Zen and Back 2 Black during the Admiral’s Cup to be held in Cowes from the Isle of Wight from 17 July – 1 August.

NSW Events

Thu 29 May 2025

Australian Sailing Encourages Registrations for 3 Match Racing Championships on the 2025 Calendar

Australian Sailing is preparing for three major Match Racing Championships on the 2025 calendar.

National Events WA TAS NSW

Wed 28 May 2025

Entries surpass 100 for 74 Islands Distillery Airlie Beach Race Week

As entries breach the century mark, Whitsunday Sailing Club is pleased to announce that 74 Islands Distillery has signed up as Naming Rights Sponsor for 2025 Airlie Beach Race Week, adding to excitement following the recent announcement of the Whitsundays and Townsville being selected as venues for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games Sailing Competition.

QLD Events

Thu 15 May 2025

More join party for Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta

Eighteen entries representing Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia, NSW and Victoria have so far been received for the 2025 Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR).

Events VIC NSW ACT QLD NT WA SA TAS

Wed 14 May 2025

The first mother-daughter team make history as equals

Spending 35 days at sea with your daughter might not appeal to everyone, but for Annette Hesselmans and Sophie Snijders — the first mother-daughter team in the race and both accomplished sailors- the experience aboard Fika, their Najad 490, was one so natural and easy as they sailed from Melbourne to Osaka.

VIC Events

Tue 13 May 2025

Team Hobie Cat’s Recap of the 2025 Australian Secondary Schools Sailing Championships

There was no racing on Day One, with the AP over A hoisted around 1430hrs. But that didn’t stop the Hobie Groms from making the most of the conditions, getting some valuable time on the water as a tidy 8–10 knot south-easterly blew across the lake.

NSW Events

Thu 08 May 2025

Attracting New 13ft and 16ft Skiff Sailors

Each Spring and Summer, many sailors of all ages and particularly the “yachties” enjoy watching high performance Skiffs racing on Sydney Harbour and other waterways around Australia and wonder if it is something that they could also do.

NSW Events

Tue 06 May 2025

2025 d’Albora Batemans Bay Marina Regatta report

April 26/27 was a great weekend for sailing when Batemans Bay Sailing Club hosted the 2025 d’Albora Batemans Bay Marina Regatta. This is BBSC’s big event of the year. Sailors came from Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and all over south east NSW to get some real ocean sailing in at this traditional season concluding event.

NSW Events

Tue 06 May 2025

2025 Jervis Bay Classic – The Match Report

The 2024–25 sailing season in New South Wales and at the Vincentia Sailing Club came to an epic conclusion over the ANZAC long weekend with the running of the Jervis Bay Classic.

NSW Events

Tue 06 May 2025

Alive Make Clean Sweep in the 2025 Melbourne to Osaka Cup

he Reichel/Pugh 66 Alive, skippered by Duncan Hine and co-skipper Glenn Myler, has made a clean sweep of Line Honours, AMS, PHS and ORCi in the 2025 Melbourne to Osaka Cup.

VIC Events

Mon 05 May 2025

Life-Changing Ocean Racing Experience

A resounding yes, they’d do it again for such an amazing life-changing experience, is how Cyrus Allen, skipper of the Beneteau 50, White Spirit, summed up the 2025 Melbourne to Osaka race, which he completed with co-skipper Lillian Stewart.

VIC Events

Fri 02 May 2025

Joker X2’s Long Game

After thirty-six days and 5,500 nautical miles, the double-handed crew of Joker X2 crossed the Osaka finish line with a quiet sense of achievement.

VIC Events

Thu 01 May 2025