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The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club are delighted to announce that the Notice of Race and Entry Form are now available for the Hong Kong to Vietnam Race, a 656 mile biennial “downhill” fast passage to Nha Trang, on the south east coast of Vietnam.

24 hours after the start of the San Fernando Race, Antipodes is holding on to the lead on the water, having covered over 200nm averaging just over 9kts...

The first Pursuit Race of the 2012-2013 season took place in Victoria Harbour today in an average 8 to 10kts of easterly breeze.

The Tommy Bahama Around The Island Race is organised by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and sponsored, for the first time, by the American leisure wear brand which will open its first flagship store in Hong Kong in December.

The Lipton Trophy presented by INFINITI will launch the 2012-2013 Top Dog Trophy Series.

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club today announced that Tommy Bahama, the popular United States lifestyle brand, will be the Title Sponsor of the 2012 Around The Island Race.

A Hung Hom start was in order for Race 2 of RHKYC’s Spring Regatta with Race Officer Simon Boyde recording only 4 to 6 knots on his early morning recce around Victoria Harbour, however by the time the first race got underway...

Darling, a Hanse 400, is named after Grace Darling, an English Victorian heroine who assisted her lighthouse-keeper father in saving 13 ship wrecked people in a rowing boat on the evening of 7 September 1838...

Defending Champion Neil Pryde has competed in so many Rolex China Sea Races that he’s lost count. In fact, Pryde has an outstanding China Sea Race history; he first participated in 1968 and has only missed two or three Races in the meantime.

The 28 competitors on the entry list for the 2012 edition of Asia’s oldest Category 1 Offshore race, comprise an intriguing combination of Maxis, as well as 50 and 40 footers that form the backbone of Asia’s racing scene.

Genuine Risk, a Dubois 90 maxi owned by Geoff Hill is expected to compete in the Rolex China Sea Race which starts on Wednesday 4 April...

With a strong emphasis on fun and participation the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s Nations’ Cup is looking to better last year’s impressive entry list of 58 boats from 19 nations and are already welcoming 2 ‘new’ nations to the the line up...

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club are delighted to announce that the Notice of Race and Entry Form are now available for the Hong Kong to Vietnam Race, a 656 mile biennial “downhill” fast passage to Nha Trang, on the south east coast of Vietnam.

The resurgent match racing scene in Hong Kong goes from strength to strength with this year’s 1O1O 4G Match Racing International Regatta, organised by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) attracting a clutch of top match racers from around the world.

24 hours after the start of the San Fernando Race, Antipodes is holding on to the lead on the water, having covered over 200nm averaging just over 9kts...

At the pre-race skippers’ briefing, Hong Kong Observatory offered much in the way of cloud, rain and squally thunderstorms for the start of the 19th San Fernando Race, however Race Officer Simon Boyde cheated the wind gods yet again...

It was the proverbial ‘game of two halves’ for the sailors today, as 235 boats of all shapes and sizes gathered in Victoria Harbour for the start of this year’s Tommy Bahama Around The Island Race.

The first Pursuit Race of the 2012-2013 season took place in Victoria Harbour today in an average 8 to 10kts of easterly breeze.

The Tommy Bahama Around The Island Race is organised by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and sponsored, for the first time, by the American leisure wear brand which will open its first flagship store in Hong Kong in December.

The Lipton Trophy presented by INFINITI will launch the 2012-2013 Top Dog Trophy Series.

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club today announced that Tommy Bahama, the popular United States lifestyle brand, will be the Title Sponsor of the 2012 Around The Island Race.

Day 2 of the St. Regis China Coast Regatta dawned with glassy waters and limp flags, leading to the AP being displayed at 0825hrs while Race Officer Charlie Manzoni took to the water in a bid to find some wind and get some racing in for the fleet.

Entries to Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s flagship Big Boat regatta closed last night, with 36 competitors looking forward to 3 days of racing in 15 to 20 knots of breeze in the waters off the south of Hong Kong Island starting this Friday 12 October

1O1O, Hong Kong’s premium mobile communications brand, has been named the title sponsor of the Match Racing Series at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) for the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons.

Despite an inauspicious start to the day, the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) ended up with a win on Day 1.

All 11 crew from the sailing yacht Tipsy Frenz which sank in the early hours of 3 June whilst racing to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, arrived back in Hong Kong yesterday from Manila where they were taken after being rescued by a cargo vessel.

Just under 57 hours after they set off from Hong Kong, Orient Express crossed the line at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, at the end of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s Taiwan Strait Race, a 350nm Category One Offshore Race across the South China Sea.

Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club will host seven international Match Racing teams at this weekend’s BNP Paribas Match Racing International Regatta, an ISAF Grade 3 event.

A Hung Hom start was in order for Race 2 of RHKYC’s Spring Regatta with Race Officer Simon Boyde recording only 4 to 6 knots on his early morning recce around Victoria Harbour, however by the time the first race got underway...

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) and Royal Skandia, a leading offshore life assurance provider, has announced the continuation of its 5-year sponsorship agreement.

Darling, a Hanse 400, is named after Grace Darling, an English Victorian heroine who assisted her lighthouse-keeper father in saving 13 ship wrecked people in a rowing boat on the evening of 7 September 1838...

Defending Champion Neil Pryde has competed in so many Rolex China Sea Races that he’s lost count. In fact, Pryde has an outstanding China Sea Race history; he first participated in 1968 and has only missed two or three Races in the meantime.

The 28 competitors on the entry list for the 2012 edition of Asia’s oldest Category 1 Offshore race, comprise an intriguing combination of Maxis, as well as 50 and 40 footers that form the backbone of Asia’s racing scene.

Genuine Risk, a Dubois 90 maxi owned by Geoff Hill is expected to compete in the Rolex China Sea Race which starts on Wednesday 4 April...

With a strong emphasis on fun and participation the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s Nations’ Cup is looking to better last year’s impressive entry list of 58 boats from 19 nations and are already welcoming 2 ‘new’ nations to the the line up...

Over 130 boats have entered the series overall and with just one race to go; the current leader with 14.35 points is Anthony Root on Red Kite II who will be looking defend his hold on first place.

The 2012 Interschool Sailing Festival attracted 150 sailors across 20 teams. As in past years teams were split into two divisions sailing a round-robin format to decide who would qualify for the 3rd and 4th match and the finals...

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Lars Schkade (age 18) will be tackling this challenge solo. “It is the course that makes the race so special. And I usually don't sail through the harbour with a dinghy, which is a fantastic, but difficult experience” he says.

220 boats are expected to converge on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour on Sunday 20 November for Hong Kong’s biggest annual celebration of sail and paddle, with a record 18 outrigger canoes and six coastal rowing boats on the entry list.

With FreeFire limping in to Vietnam with rudder and bowsprit damage, the IRC Racing Division 0 prizes were all settled before midnight on day 3, however the IRC Division 1 battle was just hotting up.....

Second on the water, but certain to take IRC Overall as well as defend her 2008 IRC Racing Division 0 title, Hi Fi crossed the finish line just after 1500hrs Hong Kong time today....

Skandia Wild Thing's 2004 record still stands having narrowly been missed by a mere 58 minutes 43 seconds.

With the NE Monsoon re-established over the Northern South China Sea, the lead boats in the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s 2011 VinaCapital Hong Kong to Vietnam race are setting a cracking pace.

Organised by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and postponed from 2010 due to the track of super typhoon Megi, the VinaCapital Hong Kong to Vietnam Race finally got underway at 1355hrs today, off the south east of Lamma Island

Offering 656nm of sheer exhilaration, this Category 1 Offshore race has become a biennial calendar fixture since 2004 and is currently recognized as a qualifying race for the CYCA’s Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race.

“She is very fast and competitive” says Nick Burns who is looking forward to “great racing and great competition at one of the best regattas in Asia”.

‘Ambush’ co-owner, Joachim Isler, isn’t one to beat around the bush when it comes to the China Coast Regatta kicking off this Friday... “It is one of the best regattas I have sailed in and, without question, the best one in the region.”

Sam Chan's revamped TP52, Freefire has been singled out as Neil’s biggest challenge in this event. “They are a tough competitor with a very fast boat. However, we have a strong crew and HI FI is a proven boat..."

The Audi ultra is set to impress at the RHKYC China Coast Race Week in the waters of Hong Kong starting this week.

Awarded Asian Regatta of the year 2011 (Asian Marine and Boating Awards), China Coast Regatta 2011 takes place this week in Hong Kong.

At 68 feet (20.72m), the cutter-rigged ketch El Oro is the second largest yacht entered into the 656 mile Offshore Category One race, a biennial ‘downhill' fast passage to Nha Trang, Vietnam titled Asia’s longest blue water race.

There were 101 keelboats on the water under blue skies, brilliant sunshine and in 13kts of swinging easterly breeze...

Tough competition will greet five young Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) Youth Squad sailors at the RS Feva World Championship being held in the Netherlands this July.

Organised by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club under the auspices of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, 20 boats including Olympic and Volvo Ocean Race crew are preparing for the 464nm offshore race that starts in just under a week...

“It was like the Rugby Sevens on the water!” was the comment heard from more than one sailor after the inaugural Nations’ Cup organised by RHKYC. “ This new event on the sailing calendar caught the imagination of 58 teams from 19 nations...

Organised by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, and sponsored for the second successive year by National Australia Bank, the 2010-2011 Top Dog Trophy series culminated with ...

Over 100 sailors will take part in this weekends 11th Middle Island Regatta hosted by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) . This event is a Hong Kong Optimist Dinghy Association (HKODA) Ranking Regatta......

RHKYC's Gill Tri-Club Regatta sponsored by Storm Force Marine will take place in the waters off Port Shelter... last year's events saw winds gusting up to force 6! What will this weekend bring for the 60+ youth sailors?

RHKYC Inter-School Sailing Festival - 98 races, 148 sailors, 20 teams - an exciting weekend with challenging conditions and smiles all round!