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Day Two on Sydney Harbour was a historic day for the championship when the German team of Black Knight (Heinrich Von Bayern, Tom Martin and Andy Martin) became the first international team to win a heat of the title in its 114-year-old history.

For nearly 50 years, every FIRST has been created with a singular ambition: to offer a place where the sailor’s own heartbeat falls into the rhythm of the wind and the waves.

A lovely 15 knot easterly, blue skies and a nice rolling swell with choppy waves, all combined to provide interesting beats and excellent surfing downwind. The open ocean conditions and excellent courses made for top quality racing

A very light and shifting SE breeze greeted a superb turnout of 23 crews for 2 races. As the drizzle fizzled in and out, so did the breeze, but the RO managed to set a great course.

With the lake deemed fit to race, competitors having to relocate to the main clubhouse slipway to launch, with the amazing shore team working with jugs of boiling water frantically de-icing frozen sheets, blocks, centreboards, it was game on!

Long time Finn sailor and 2012 Olympian, Piotr Kula, is running two webinars for the Finn Class in January and March.

The Chemical Riders Haifa delivered a breakthrough moment for Eastern Mediterranean windsurfing, unfolding in what riders and officials described as the best competition conditions ever recorded in the region

The Black Foils have been ruled out of tomorrow’s racing at the Oracle Perth Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG due to damage sustained in an incident with Switzerland during today’s opening race.

The new Consort Round the World Race Jacket is a contemporary re-engineering of one of Henri-Lloyd’s most iconic jackets, famously worn by Sir Francis Chichester during his solo circumnavigation of the globe in 1966-67.

The first race of the Oracle Perth Sail Grand Prix sailed off Fremantle, literally started with a bang, when New Zealand’s Black Foils had a collision with the Swiss team as the boats crossed tacks downwind.