January
Tom Slingsby sets his sights on home victory at Sydney SailGP
The 2024-25 season will be a gruelling test for the 12 national teams competing, up from 10 in Sydney last year, and the 450 people who circle the globe with them.
- Tony Davis
December 2024
LawConnect wins line honours in tragic Sydney to Hobart
The supermaxi was first across the River Derwent finish line on Saturday in a race marred by the death of two sailors.
- Ethan James
Two deaths and a remarkable survival in Sydney to Hobart yacht race
Two men died in similar circumstances while another was forced to unclip himself from a safety line and drifted more than a kilometre in cold water.
- James Hall
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- Tragedy
Two dead as wild weather hits Sydney to Hobart yacht race
One sailor each on Flying Fish Arctos and Bowline were killed after being struck by the boom, a large horizontal pole at the bottom of the sail.
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- Jasper Bruce
Reigning overall winner Alive retires from Sydney to Hobart
The 66-footer retired off Wollongong with engine issues around 4pm on the first day of racing, with Master Lock Comanche in a comfortable lead.
- Jasper Bruce
‘Worst forecast ever’: Sydney-Hobart set for broken boats, fast time
Reigning line honours skipper Christian Beck says “the odds of boat damage are very high” in this year’s blue water classic.
- Jasper Bruce
Legends line up to be the ‘real’ winner of the Sydney to Hobart
Can Love & War, a classic yacht being skippered by the grandson of its original owner, win the Tattersall Cup for the fourth time?
- Steve Meacham
October 2024
This Aussie banker jacked it in for an Arctic journey like no other
Keith Tuffley, a former Goldman Sachs Australia boss, gave up an exec role at Citi in London to sail his schooner on a four-month voyage in the Arctic. But his adventure had a purpose, too.
- Hans van Leeuwen
August 2024
‘In a class of its own’: a radical new racing yacht sets sail
Two driving forces of Australian sailing have come up with an ingenious new type of craft, with a specially designed keel.
- Stephen Todd and Nicole Shrimpton
Superyacht sinks in Italy, tech tycoon, several others missing
Mike Lynch had just been acquitted of a billion-dollar fraud. Now he’s missing, and one person is dead after his luxury yacht was struck by a tornado.
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- Robert Mendick, Connor Stringer and James Titcomb
May 2024
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- Tourism
On Hamilton, a family dynasty bets there’s more money in islands
After showing potential buyers around last year, Sandy Oatley and his family are instead developing a new resort as they double down on the island.
- Primrose Riordan
April 2024
Cruising Yacht Club feud explodes in shower of abuse accusations
The Darling Point institution, home of the Sydney to Hobart, said one member had falsely alleged another sailor had slurred him after their boats collided.
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- Zoe Samios
February 2024
Yachting yields healthy returns for marina fund
A relative lack of supply of boating berths along the east coast is blowing in favour of marina landlords such as MA Financial, which is expanding its boatyards fund.
- Nick Lenaghan
December 2023
Alive primed to claim Sydney to Hobart overall win
Tasmanian yacht Alive is in the box seat to take out Sydney to Hobart overall honours.
- Ethan James
Two more boats pull out of Sydney to Hobart as storms hit
The Sydney to Hobart fleet has been reduced to 98 boats after Maritimo 52 pulled out of the competition on a stormy first night of racing.
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- Jasper Bruce
Scallywag retires after supermaxis nearly collide
The supermaxi yacht is out of the Sydney to Hobart race with a broken bow sprit after a dramatic start that triggered a formal protest from rival Comanche.
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- Jasper Bruce
Rivals predict Wild Oats XI will be back
Wild Oats XI’s would-be rivals for Sydney to Hobart line honours have backed the champion yacht to return to the fleet in 2024.
- Jasper Bruce
How size doesn’t count in the Sydney to Hobart race
One crews on a maxi, the other skippers a 36-footer, but Sven Runow and Ed Psaltis share the same mad passion for Australia’s most notorious yachting challenge.
- Philippa Coates
October 2023
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- Commercial real estate
Let us help you park that yacht: fund invests in two marinas
Although yachting may seem a luxury for some, marinas stack as a defensive asset class becase the supply of berths is significantly outstripped by demand.
- Nick Lenaghan
September 2023
- Opinion
- Opinion
The day young blokes from Down Under curdled the mood of America
How the America’s Cup race spectacularly sailed into Australia’s national psyche – and my life – 40 years ago.
- Jennifer Hewett