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France claims first ever 49er world title and Dutch reclaim FX crown

Australia’s Laura Harding and Annie Wilmot have finished 5th in the 49erFX. Erwan Fischer and Clement Pequin (FRA) won France’s first ever 49er world title on the final day of the 49er and 49erFX World Championships in Lanzarote. Odile van…

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Olympic hopefuls set for World Championship gain in Spain

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Australian Sailing select Wearn and Morris for Paris Olympics

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Australian ILCA 7 squad ready and set for home World Champs

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49er and Women’s iQFOiL Paris Olympic quotas secured on final day of Sail Sydney

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Bags of medals for super sailors at Pacific Games

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Matt Wearn Wins AIS Male Athlete of the Year Award

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Pacific Games – Sailors seal first week of Pacific Games

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2023 Euros – Day 4 highlights

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2023 European Championship  – Day 1 and How to follow the race

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Australian sailing is helping young sailors cross the bridge between competitive club sailing and international events such as the olympics through their performance pathway..

11 July 2022

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Launched in 2021, The Australian Sailing Performance Pathway represents the progression from competitive club sailing to the Australian Sailing Team for Olympic and Olympic pathway classes.

A crucial step of the Performance Pathway is the Australian Sailing Futures (ASF) Program, which provides opportunities for emerging athletes to experience what it means and what it takes to be a high-performance athlete.

The Futures Program brings together emerging athletes and key coaches from across Australia for high quality training, racing and development opportunities It is a crucial link between State Performance Programs and the Australian Sailing Squad.

Currently, 48 up-and-coming athletes across the Olympic classes make up the ASF roster, and with international borders opening back up, many are getting their first taste of international competition.

Currently competing in the Mixed 470 class, Alex Higgins is one such athlete, having recently finished 30th at the Kiel Week regatta with Skipper Sophie Jackson.

“Futures has been great for me, as after sailing in the 420 class I felt a little lost with where to go in the sport and ended up not sailing very much at all for a few years,” Higgins said.

“With the futures program I have been able to re-engage with sailing and my love of the sport and found myself back on track to achieve my sailing goal of being a world champion and competing at the Olympics, things that I’d all but given up on.”

Performance Pathways link in with Australian Sailing High Performance Strategy, which focuses on the retention of developing sailors in the sport for longer through best practice development opportunities to support long term development and success in the sport.

These include promoting a squad approach as the cultural norm, ensuring access to bigger fleets and developing brilliant racers with enhanced regatta coaching solutions and a more progressive approach to competition exposure, particularly in Europe, and being more deliberate in the use of youth events to support the development of athletes and coaches.

National Performance Pathway Manager for Australian Sailing, Ken Lynch says that the ASF program was put in place to support top-level state athletes bridge up into senior international level competitions, and that the results and feedback suggests they’re on the right track.

“The performances we’ve observed by ASF sailors over recent months suggests that we are on the right track with the level and type of support we have put in place,” said Lynch.

“Transitioning to the top tier of world sailing takes sustained commitment and time. This crop of ASF sailors is progressing well and have demonstrated the type of performances that suggest they are tracking well.”

Furthermore, Lynch stated that the alignment of certain factors has contributed largely to the success of the program.

“Of particular value to date has been the integration of coaches and programs from state through to the Australian Sailing Team level,” said Lynch.

“We look forward to the continued evolution of this program and seeing further progression of athletes involved in performance pathway.”

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ISSUE 10 of Superyacht Australia magazine covers the stunning islands of the Southern Great Barrier Reef combined with onshore activities in coastal towns; the rugged wilderness of the Sapphire Coast in southern New South Wales; plus a visit to the picturesque islands of Vanuatu in the South Pacific where diving and cultural experiences abound. 

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Australian Sailing magazine

Australian Sailing magazine (ASL) was published by Yaffa Publishing Group , an independent publisher headquartered in Surry Hills (NSW). Founded in 1976, it was Australia's only dedicated yacht racing magazine. [1]

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The readership included owners and crew of the 100   ft maxis , keelboat racers, dinghy and sailboard racers.

Australian Sailing was founded by Bob Ross [2] and Ken McLachlan in September 1976. Ross came from a newspaper background and entered boating journalism via Modern Boating magazine. McLachlan was an advertising salesman.

A New Zealander by birth, Ross spent his early years in the Finn dinghy , in which he competed for Olympic selection in 1964 and 1968. He also raced competitively in J24s and offshore events including the Sydney-Hobart , winning the 1986 Sydney-Mooloolaba race as co-helmsman aboard Nuzulu.

In 1996 he won the Robert Greaves Achievement Award which recognises outstanding contributions to the boating industry. He wasn't able to attend the award ceremony because he was covering yachting at the Olympic Games at the time. He has covered every major world yachting event, including every America's Cup since 1962, Admirals Cups and Olympic sailing.

In 1986 Ross and McLachlan sold the magazine to Yaffa Publishing, a privately held company which publishes business-to-business and specialist consumer magazines from its Surry Hills ( NSW ) base.

Ross remained editor of Sailing until December 2003, when he handed over to Vanessa Dudley. One of the first women to compete against the men in 18   ft skiffs, as skipper of Nutrimetics, Dudley also had credentials in dinghy and offshore racing. She has completed 15 Sydney to Hobart races. Dudley was editor of Australian Sailing until June 2009. [3]

In 2009, during the height of the Global Financial Crisis, the frequency was reduced from monthly to eight issues a year. During the winter months the publication came out every second month.

Roger McMillan was editor from July 2009 until November 2013. McMillan began his journalism career and his interest in sailing in New Zealand , where he cruised a small Spencer-designed keelboat offshore from Auckland . Moving to Australia in 1986 he built a 37   ft Van de Stadt and sailed it short-handed and solo from Western Australia to Sydney via Cape Leeuwin , the Great Australian Bight and the Bass Strait .

In November 2013 Roger McMillan was replaced by Kimberley Wilmot as editor of the magazine and the frequency of the magazine reduced to six issues per year.

David Dellenbaugh was tactician aboard the 1992 America's Cup winning boat America Cubed and publishes a bi-monthly newsletter specialising in yacht racing tactics.

Tony Bull is a sailmaker and offshore racing consultant who provides a monthly column on faster sailing.

Andrew Verdon is the strength and conditioning coach for the Australian Sailing Team. His column offers advice on preparation for race days.

Will Oxley is a racing navigator who has completed more than 200,000   nm of ocean miles including three round the world races and 11 Sydney to Hobart races. Most recently he provided navigation and weather support for Puma in the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race .

Bob Ross is the founding editor of Australian Sailing and contributed a monthly article on a variety of subjects from practical issues such as hull preparation and sailcloth to profiles of sailors.

Vanessa Dudley is also a former editor of the magazine and is a World Masters Laser Radial Gold Medallist. She has helmed 18   ft skiffs, completed 15 Sydney to Hobart races and written about all major yacht races including the Olympic Games . Dudley contributes a monthly Masterclass, concentrating on preparation and racing in off-the-beach classes.

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Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls:

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The Portsmouth Yardstick (PY) or Portsmouth handicap scheme is a term used for a number of related systems of empirical handicapping used primarily in small sailboat racing.

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The 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was the 54th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. It was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales. It was the most disastrous in the race's history, with the loss of six lives and five yachts. 55 sailors were rescued in the largest peacetime search and rescue effort ever seen in Australia.

Bruce Robert William Kirby , was a Canadian-born sailboat designer, dinghy and offshore racer and journalist. His designs spanned in size from the single-handed Laser dinghy to the 12-meter class Louis Vuitton Cup yacht, Canada One . He continued his design work in his American company, Bruce Kirby Marine.

Balmain Sailing Club is a sailing club in Municipality of Leichhardt in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Sail Canada is Canada's governing body for the sport of sailing. Sail Canada is a "Member National Authority" of World Sailing. Organization of sailing in Canada is divided into four groups: yacht clubs, Provincial Sailing Associations, class associations, and Sail Canada itself.

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The RS700 is a single-handed racing dinghy built by RS Sailing and designed in 2000 by Nick Peters and Alex Southon as part of the RS series and built in 2001. It is raced in many sailing clubs around Britain, with a PY number of 850 and a D-PN of 73.3.

The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps.

The RS100 , first launched in 2009 by RS Sailing, is a singlehanded skiff. Possessing an asymmetric spinnaker the boat has two PY numbers of 981 for the 10.2 rig and 1004 for the 8.4 rig. The RS100 has a racing event circuit in the United Kingdom and in Europe, with the Eurotour beginning in 2011.

The International Cadet Australian Championship is an annual series of championship races held in Australia as the top racing event for the Cadet class sailing dinghy in the country. Generally held as a qualifier for the world cup, the championship will reach its 50th event in 2011 when it will be held at Lake Macquarie in New South Wales from 27 December 2011 to 4 January 2012.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sailing:

Sailing is a popular sport and recreational activity in Australia with its varied coastline and often warm climate.

Glyn Charles was a British sailor. He competed in the Star event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was one of six sailors to die during a storm in the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

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