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Sailing

June 2024

  • Justina Kitchen kite foiling in France

    Hook knife and a crash helmet: the New Zealand hopeful preparing for kite foiling’s Olympic debut

  • Lady Elliot Island from the air

    One man dead and two rescued after yacht capsizes on Great Barrier Reef

April 2024

  • Cambridge’s winning crews stand by dirty water at the finish of this year’s Boat Race on the Thames.

    UK water sports alliance calls on government to end ‘death-knell’ pollution

  • Jim Lawrence’s first sail loft, a converted fisherman’s store in Brightlingsea

    Jim Lawrence obituary

  • Egyptian Team 02 at the startline of the  Atlantic Challenge in Beyond the Raging Sea.

    Beyond the Raging Sea review – cross-Atlantic rowing race likened to refugees’ ordeal

  • The St Ayles Skiff World Championships in Ullapool, 2013, in which crews of rowers compete in boats made to the St Ayles skiff design by Iain Oughtred.

    Iain Oughtred obituary

February 2024

  • Illustration of a terrified looking couple in a boat – he is at the back leaning back, she is at the front, leaning forwards – as the boat is engulfed by a massive wave. The shadow of a whale is showing on the surface of the water

    Rocking the boat: would your marriage survive being shipwrecked together?

    Imagine you and your partner were cast adrift in the ocean – it sounds romantic but what might happen?
  • Hannah Mills in 2022

    Hannah Mills aims to win first women’s America’s Cup and buoy female sailors

    The double Olympic gold medalist, who will reunite with her former partner Saskia Clark, has said: ‘I believe we can win, absolutely, and it would be mega’
  • Jamie Risner

    Other lives
    Harry Harrison obituary

    Other lives: Social worker who helped numerous children and their families in a 50-year career

January 2024

  • A double-hulled, twin-masted Polynesian sailing canoe about 19 metres long

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Off the charts: how a Polynesian canoe inspired a renaissance in traditional seafaring

    The Hōkūleʻa’s oceanic voyages, navigated by the stars, have led other Indigenous people to revive their own ancient traditions – and serve as a call to action on the climate
  • A Ferrari car rounds a bend at Monaco harbour

    Ferrari taking to the waves in radical plan for ocean racing sailing team

    Ferrari is planning a sporting pivot that will lead to the famous prancing horse marque taking to the waves
  • Composite image on a green and yellow background of photos of Ash Barty, Ian Thorpe, Jess Fox, Hayley Raso and Sam Kerr, Donald Bradman, Cathy Freeman, Douglas Nicholls, Shane Warne, Adam Goodes, Rod Laver and Taylah Harris

    Australia’s greatest sporting moment poll

    After thousands of votes, Cathy Freeman’s 400-metre Olympic gold medal has been voted the winner of Guardian poll

December 2023

  • Tasmanian yacht Alive sailing on the river

    Tasmanian yacht Alive claims overall Sydney to Hobart win

  • LawConnect moves ahead of Andoo Comanche on the River Derwent

    LawConnect wins Sydney to Hobart line honours after tight finish with Andoo Comanche

  • Longread best of 2023 composite

    The long read
    The best of the long read in 2023

  • Andoo Comanche sails through Sydney Harbour during the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht

    Dramatic start to Sydney to Hobart yacht race with close calls and wild weather

  • Sydney to Hobart yacht race: fleet sets off under dark skies after heavy storm threatens start

  • John sailed the Sydney to Hobart yacht race with his father. Now he’s passing on the tradition to his sons

  • Certain favourite but uncertain weather forecast for Sydney to Hobart

  • Australian sailor Matt Wearn puts doubt and stress aside in pursuit of Paris Olympic gold

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