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Super Saturday sail-ebration was one to remember Tomorrow we honour the Anzac legend and our selfless service men and women. Today, however, was all about remembering the legacy of Roger "Hicko" Hickman, Sail Port Stephens mentor and ambassador, with a Super Saturday 'Sail-ebration' involving around 180 boats, great and small. They were packed five deep off Nelson Bay breakwall, spinnakers radiating in the sunlight if not exactly straining under the late-morning westerly. There were four more starts offshore in the Fingal basin for the NSW IRC Championship and Performance Racing Division 1 th...

Buoyant Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta May Operate Waiting List as 2021 Entry Nears Limit 22nd April 2021 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta has received 94 entries so far for the Open Cruiser Championship (8th – 11th July 2021) on Dublin Bay and will pasue entries on April 30th to take stock of overall numbers Credit: Afloat Entries for Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta (VDLR) are beyond expectations for July's event giving organisers the opportunity to close the entry system at the end of April to review the 320 boats received so far. Ireland's biggest regatta on Dublin Bay is planning to facilitate so...

- 49er Worlds, - Day 5 - Auckland , December 3-8, 2019 © Richard Gladwell / Sail-World.com It's fair to say that the last year has seen a drumbeat of bad news for the sailing world thanks to the still-roiling pandemic, mostly in the form of cancelled regattas. While this less-than-great theme is still unfurling (we'll get to that in a bit), good news arrived last week in the form of a press release from the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 classes, announcing that their 2022 World Championships will be hosted by Sail Nova Scotia, as well as Hubbards Sailing Club, St. Margaret Sailing Cl...

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13th March 2021 George O'Brien Kennedy FRINA, (1912-1998). Known to everyone as Brian, and renowned as a dreamer of dreams, he is seen here in his early days of pioneering the Shannon Hire-Boat industry in the 1960s You know how it is. You're wondering if the slightly odd flavour of the evening cuppa is a hint of the imminence of the C-Monster's indicator of taste-loss. All this, too, just as it's increasingly clear that your already-proposed personal date with the jab before the end of March now seems less and less likely to be on schedule. And then the phone rings, and this guy shoots stra...