The World Match Racing Tour has announced its schedule of events for 2009, the total prize purse for the 2009 Tour season now stands at over $1.5 million, the largest in the sport.
The overall winner of the Tour will be crowned 2009 ISAF Match Racing World Champion.

The World Championship will again receive worldwide television coverage with 10 shows broadcast to over 15 international networks reaching over 600 million homes in 90 countries.
“2009 will be a very exciting series for the World Championship”, commented Tour Director, Craig MITCHELL “We are truly …

Wild Oats XI overcame an encounter with a 2-metre shark to win the Sydney to Hobart yacht race for a record fourth consecutive time on Sunday.
Wild Oats XI skipper Mark Richards steered the maxi yacht across the finish line at Constitution Dock on the island state of Tasmania one day 20 hours 34 minutes 14 seconds after leaving Sydney Harbour on Friday.

The time was about two hours slower that the record it set in 2005 for the 628-nautical mile (1,163-kilometre) race.
Another maxi, 2003 winner Skandia, skippered by Grant Wharington, led …

The gates opened and they came in the thousands. Some two hours later the queues to get into the race village are still snaking for hundreds of metres down the road.
When the time came for the sailors to be paraded through the crowds and down to the pontoons, it made for one of the most spectacular departure ceremonies this event has ever seen.

The Indian people, while unfamiliar with this race and its history, have shown incredible enthusiasm on this first visit to Asia. They pressed deep into the passage walked …

The VOR (Volvo ocean race) 2008/2009 has arrived into India. The much awaited international race has accomplished its 2nd leg successfully along with some hiccups during the voyage. The sailing yachts have reached Kochi (India) and the ones out of the 8 teams that made it 1st from the port of South Africa is the “Ericsson 4″ team which is led by Brazilian Olympic gold medalist skipper Torben Grael. The other team to have made it to the Kochi port is the Telefonica Blue team who will soon be accompanied …

Sailors circumnavigating the globe has been done before,  it is not to often that one hears of a woman sailor navigating the earth and when you do you know that they are in it for real. British origin Dee Caffari a veteran woman sailor who holds a world record for sailing the globe single handedly, non stop on her 60ft yacht around the world the ‘wrong way’in May 2006  will this time look to brake a world record by circumnavigating the world twice that too both ways.
Ok now for those …