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1 day ago · The most exciting racing on water returns today after a wet and wild day of practice on Sydney Harbour. SailGP celebrates the return of France, who re-joins the Rolex SailGP Championship after missing the first two stops of the season. This weekend, the Rolex SailGP Championship makes its record ...

18ft Skiffs – 90th Anniversary of the League. When the Sydney Flying Squadron had a dispute with boat owners in its 18 footer fleet during the early 1930s, Mr. James J. Giltinan guided the owners into the formation of a new 18 footer club in Sydney to cater…

Jan 19, 2025 · Tom Slingby’s Flying Roo has sailed to victory in SailGP’s Auckland debut. Championship Sunday rounds out a wet and wild weekend in the City of Sails – with eight races staged on the shortest course of the 2025 Season. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND January 19, 2025 NZT The ITM New Zealand Sail Grand ...

Nov 13, 2024 · Tom Slingsby’s Australia SailGP Team Gears up for 2025 with Fresh Talent. SYDNEY, Australia – 13 NOVEMBER 2024 – Olympic Gold Medalist and three-time SailGP Champion Tom Slingsby has announced his Australia SailGP Team lineup for the 2025 Season, marking the team’s first major crew change since Season 2.

In today’s first race Arunga XII(Mark Tolhurst, Stephen Mc Conaghy and Thomas Spithill) stunned the fleet with a port tack start from the pin end of the line.Tolhurst says, “we always wanted to get a port end start at the leeward end of the line, and there was a bit of a wind shift right probably 20 seconds before the start, so we just went for the pin as hard as we could, tacked on to ...

Australian custom-superyacht builder commences construction of World’s largest sailing catamaran. ASC57: 57m Adventure Sailing Catamaran Australia’s custom superyacht builder Echo Yachts has commenced construction of their latest creation, the ASC57, at their superyacht building facility in the Australian Marine Complex, Western Australia.

NEW YORK, USA – 24 June 2024 – Tom Slingsby insists Australia has been given the confidence boost it needs after securing a pivotal race win at the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix that strengthens the team’s path to the Season 4 Grand Final in San Francisco in July.. As SailGP returned to the iconic Hudson River in front of thousands of fans, the Australians faced another set of ...