This year the Sydney Hobart Race will be in its 69th year. As the name suggests this yacht race starts in Sydney Australia, on Boxing Day, and finishes some 630 nautical miles later in Hobart Tasmania.
Lovesail member Flushing has been kind enough to let us reproduce his cruising diary from last year, that was first published in East Coast Sailing in October 2012. He was fortunate enough to spend the two weeks around the Bank Holiday cruising the East coast in his deep keeled monohull accompanied by two trimarans. One hull good three hulls better.
The Transat Jacques Vabre race is a transatlantic yacht race that follows the old coffee trading route from France to Brazil.
Here are just some of the latest crewing opportunities that have been listed recently on Lovesail.com in the Crewing Section.
Back in April, I wrote about Ian and Wendy, two Lovesail members that met on the site, fell in love and got married (read their story here). Both very keen sailors they decided the best honeymoon they could have would be to sail around the world. Would this be the longest honeymoon in history? Here is an update of their trip so far…..the longest honeymoon continues…
Here is the list for all the Boat Jumbles around the UK. Unless otherwise stated the jumbles start at 10:00 am and run until around 3:00 pm. The list will continue to be updated as more dates are confirmed.
ARC Race 2013 will see the maximum number of yachts participating some 245. So much was the demand for the ARC Race 2013, all places were filled by January, that the World Cruising Club decided to organise another race called ARC+.
The Middle Sea Race is a yacht race which starts and finishes in Malta. The 606 nautical mile course will start from the Grand Harbour, beneath the saluting Battery. The fleet then heads north along the eastern coasts of Sicily up towards the Straits of Messina.
It’s a well-known fact that Australia is a nation big on sailing. Could it be because the interior of the country is too hot and inhospitable to live so most of the cities and towns sprang up on the coast? Maybe the heat just encourages watery sports!