Yesterday
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
This Month
‘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
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
‘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.
- Updated
- Robert Mendick, Connor Stringer and James Titcomb
May
- Exclusive
- 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
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.
- Updated
- Zoe Samios
February
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.
- Updated
- 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.
- Updated
- 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
- Exclusive
- 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
One America’s Cup was enough for John Bertrand
As the 40th anniversary of Australia II’s victory approaches, strangers still tell the boat’s skipper where they were when he crossed the finish line.
- Daryl Karp
February 2023
A wild ride on the $6m Aussie SailGP race catamaran
The defending champions of the Formula 1 of sailing literally sprint, bounce and land in their positions as if they were jumping into foxholes under enemy fire.
- Tony Davis