The MELBOURNE OSAKA CUP 2007 Prize Awarding Ceremony was held at ‘Fespa’ located in the Osaka World Trade Center Building at 3pm on 10 May 2007. The ceremony was open to the public with...
Campbell Reynolds/David Best (Esoterica) this afternoon AEST crossed the finish line of the double handed 2007 Melbourne Osaka yacht race, bringing the event to an end. Esoterica...
Only Campbell Reynolds/David Best (Esoterica) remain at sea in the double handed 2007 Melbourne Osaka yacht race and today were expected to face gale force sou-east and sou-westerly winds of 35-40...
Ingenue (Vic) and Wild Boar (JPN) finished the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race in the early hours of this morning, nearly five hours apart, and despite the early hour,...
According to the latest information, the Victorian yacht Ingenue will be the next finisher in the double handed 2007 Melbourne Osaka yacht race; David James and Rosie Colahan are only 61 nautical...
Jim and Joe O’Keeffe from Yamba in NSW have ‘blown in’, the second finisher today and eight on line in the 2007 Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race, finishing at 12 hours 51...
Tom Crabb and Trent Justice sailing their Adams 11.9 metre yacht, Southern Light, the lone South Australian entry in the 2007 Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race, in the early hours of this...
Three yachts are left at sea in the 5,500 nautical mile Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race today and current leaders, and only husband and wife crew, David James and Rosie Colahan (Ingenue),...
The weather battered Japanese crew on the Iain Murray 13.1m Asadori finally reached their Osaka destination in the 2007 Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race this afternoon, one day after the...
Six yachts have finished the 2007 Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race with six remaining at sea and the top three have been hit by gale force winds which are expected to continue through...
The Victorian yacht Dekadence has overcome a race-long challenge from the Japanese rival Tamagomalu to finish fifth over the line in the 2007 Melbourne Osaka yacht race this morning. ...
Japanese entry Tamagomalu this afternoon became the sixth yacht to cross the finish line of the 5,500 nautical mile 2007 Melbourne Osaka yacht race. Makoto Hisamatsu and is Queensland...
Against extraordinary odds, following damage to their keel and a subsequent pitstop to Bundaberg in Queensland for nearly seven days, Queenslanders Murray Bucknall and Jon Sayer have brought RYU-JIN...
COCORIN interland is the second yacht to cross the 2007 Melbourne Osaka yacht race finish line today, following a drawn out battle overnight and this morning with line honours winner, Alex, which...
The 2007 Melbourne Osaka chase for line honours may be over, but the 5,500nm double handed yacht race is just heating up, as three groups of boats chasing class wins have constantly played on the...
Melbourne father and son duo Jock and Hamish MacAdie have sailed their Jones/Hart 14m yacht Alex - Team MacAdie to a line honours win in the 5,500 nautical mile Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht...
At 11.00am AEST, COCORIN interland was 113 nautical miles from the Melbourne Osaka finish line on the final stretch of the race positioned between Muroto and Tanabe at the southern end of Japan, Alex...
The very last part of the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race is proving to be the most difficult as COCORIN interland and Alex battle for line honours supremacy of the 5,500 nautical mile...
Having led the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race since the afternoon of April 2, Japanese entry COCORIN interland lost her lead to both Gusto and Alex yesterday afternoon...
As at the 4.00pm AEST sked, a number of tables have turned in the Melbourne Osaka race over the last eight hours, most significantly, the Japanese 16m schooner COCORIN interland has regained the...
Only 12 nautical miles separates Gusto and the race leader COCORIN interland in the final stages of the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race this morning with Alex knocking on the door a...
The Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race has heated up on all fronts this morning as Gusto and Alex halve the distance between themselves and the race leader COCORIN interland and the...
Those cool Queensland speedsters on RYU-JIN – fgi are at it again – clocking up a massive 244nm in a 24 hour period, yesterday afternoon waving bye bye to the Japanese entry Asadori...
Grant Wharington/Scott Gilbert’s 1995 Melbourne Osaka race record came and went at 09.47.06 hours AEST this morning, and while the Japanese schooner, COCORIN interland continues to hold on at...
Things are heating up at the front end of the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race this morning as Gusto and Alex slowly but surely eat away COCORIN interland’s lead. Sailing...
All 12 yachts remaining in the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race have now crossed the equator, Queensland’s Esoterica and Japan’s Wild Boar crossing last evening and a couple of...
Asadori and RYU-Jin – fgi are the latest boats to cross the equator in the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race and Ingenue is due to cross this afternoon some time. ...
Another hot day in the tropics and 9 knot south-easterly breezes forecast for the Melbourne Osaka race today as Japan’s COCORIN interland leads Victorian yacht Alex by approximately 52...
The prevailing winds of the tropics, the east-sou-easterly trades, have materialised and the top four line honours contenders in the Melbourne-Osaka double handed yacht race have put in some big...
The Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race has taken an extraordinary twist with Brian Pattinson (pictured) informing the Race Committee yesterday that whilst Gusto was in Honiara, Patrick Giudice,...
The Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race is well and truly on this morning as the top five yachts leave the Doldrums behind them and the next group not too far from doing the same. ...
Conditions most sailors dread has hit the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race fleet and only Rosie Colahan on Ingenue has made mention of those two words ‘The Doldrums’ publicly when...
In a sked update with Race Director Kevin Wilson a short time ago, Gusto (pictured), co-skippered by Victorians Patrick Giudice and Brian Pattinson have taken the lead in the Melbourne Osaka double...
Some changes on the Melbourne Osaka double handed race track in the past 24 hours as Gusto’s unusual move to sail to the east side of the Solomon’s has paid big dividends, Patrick...
No let up for the 12 remaining yachts in the 5,500 nautical mile Melbourne Osaka race today, as meteorologist Roger Badham says to expect gale and near gale conditions, and more strong...
Grant Wharington and Scott Gilbert’s Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race record of just over 26 days looks impossible to beat, as the front runners faced another 24 hours of slow going;...
Four days of light breezes in the Solomon Islands and fresh south-easterlies further down the track has turned the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race into a game of frustration for the front...
In the midst of a Tsunami warning and damage occurring to some competitors, James Ryssenbeek and Andrew McCole reported what was initially thought to be a damaged keel on Melbourne Osaka yacht race...
Just when life was settling down to a pleasant pattern in the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race, meteorologist Roger Badham has told the fleet that a small area of gales may develop on Sunday...
The Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race has heated up in the last 24 hours, as the fleet closes in on race leader COCORIN interland due to different weather patterns as was predicted...
Sailing off the Deboyne Islands to the east of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Sea, the Japanese 16m Schooner, COCORIN interland Itaru Matsunaga/John Bankart is still in the lead of the 5,500 nautical...
Pippin is the latest casualty of the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race, owner/skipper Roger Sayers reporting to Race Director Kevin Wilson of his and Anthony Bown’s official retirement...
Sadly, the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race dream has come to an end for Melbourne’s James Ryssenbeek and Andrew McCole, who have advised race officials they are officially retiring...
Japanese sailor Itaru Matsunaga and his Queensland co-skipper John Bankart have kept COCORIN interland in the lead of the Melbourne Osaka double-handed yacht race overnight with Victorians...
No changes in the 5,500 nautical mile Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race this afternoon, Itaru Matsunaga and John Bankart (COCORIN interland) continue their charge to be first to Osaka,...
At 3.31am Diane Sayer received a call from her husband Jon to advise that RYU-JIN –fgi, the race leader in the Melbourne Osaka had incurred rudder damage, possibly hitting something, as the...
A Tsunami Warning issued to all competitors in the Melbourne-Osaka double handed yacht race this morning have received an updated report that the Willis Island Meteorological station reported NO...
Roger Badham, meteorologist for the 5,500 nautical mile Melbourne Osaka double-handed yacht race informed race officials: “Based on sea level gauge data and other reports there is no longer...
Fourteen boats remain sailing in the Melbourne Osaka race following withdrawal of the two Mooloolaba entries, Wasabi and Cadi. A week into the 5,500 nautical mile race come 1.00pm...
Following an unscheduled trip into Sydney to make repairs to their spinnaker pole yesterday afternoon, James Ryssenbeek reported from the Melbourne yacht Runaway this morning they are back sailing the...
Now five days into the 5,500nm double-handed Melbourne Osaka race, the morning sked shows RYU-JIN – fgi (Qld) leading the race, positioned north of Newcastle, but Gusto (Vic) is on her...
Currently off Jervis Bay on the NSW South Coast, Ken Down and Shane Gaddes (Wasabi) are wending their way up the NSW Coast this morning, heading for Sydney with rudder damage in the 5,500 nautical...
In a phone call through his son Lucas a short time ago, Wasabi’s owner/skipper Ken Down has advised the Melbourne Osaka Race Director Kevin Wilson that Wasabi is officially retiring from the...
At the latest Melbourne Osaka sked, Wasabi was abeam of Wollongong on the NSW South Coast, 48 nautical miles from her Sydney destination where co-skippers Ken Down and Shane Gaddes will be able to...
Ken Down and Shane Gaddes (Wasabi) have reclaimed the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race lead nearly three days into the race, but only two nautical miles separates the Sayer 12 from sistership...
Ken Down reported to Kevin Wilson, Race Director of the Melbourne Osaka tonight, that due to rudder damage to their new Sayer 12m Wasabi, he and Shane Gaddes would be retiring to Sydney and are...
Nearly two days after leaving port, the Melbourne Osaka double-handed race is really on with two Queensland entries RYU-JIN - fgi and Wasabi continuing their battle for supremacy at the front...
The two Queensland Sayer designs, RYU-JIN – fgi and Wasabi continue their battle in the Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race this afternoon, but the Open 60 Gusto has come to challenge and...
The four yearly Melbourne Osaka double handed yacht race got away on time at 1.00pm today on Port Phillip of Station Pier in beautiful Melbourne autumn conditions. City of Melbourne...
Following the start of the double-handed 5,500 nautical mile Melbourne Osaka race on Port Phillip yesterday at 1.pm, Esoterica’s crew, Campbell Reynolds and David Best (Qld) reported to...
Newcomers to the Melbourne Osaka race, Tom Crabb and Trent Justice, will sail the loan South Australian entry in the 5,500 nautical mile race, an Adams 11.9 called Southern Light, and says...
The 16 crews taking part in the Melbourne Osaka 2007 double handed yacht race which starts this Sunday at l.00pm have put a lot of time, money and effort into their campaigns and all are now finishing...
Family, friends and the general public will be able to follow the 5.500 nautical mile Melbourne Osaka on the official race site via Argos, a global tracking and data collection system that has been...
In less than 24 hours the 32 sailors aboard16 yachts in the Melbourne Osaka 2007 double handed yacht race will cast off from Waterfront City at Docklands and head to the Port Phillip start line of...
All but three of 16 yachts have assembled at Waterfront City, at Melbourne’s Docklands, in readiness for the Melbourne Osaka double-handed yacht race which starts off Station Pier on Sunday...
A reduced fleet of 16 yachts will face the starter’s gun when the Melbourne Osaka double handed non-stop 5,500 nautical mile yacht race gets underway at 1.00pm on March 25 of Station Pier in...
Our namesake warship the HMAS Melbourne will be the ‘flag ship’ for the 2007 Melbourne Osaka Race start on Sunday 25 March, the Lord Mayor John So announced today. The guided...
James Ryssenbeek and Andrew McCole have been friends since meeting through sailing dinghies in Melbourne as 13 years olds, but neither dreamed that 17 years later they would be embarking on the...
A number of entrants in the 2007 Melbourne Osaka double-handed yacht race got in some early practice during major events over the Christmas period, with Melbourne’s Matt Hannaford the most...
New entries for Melbourne Osaka ...
Jon Sayers latest 12m race yacht designed and built specifically for the Melbourne Osaka Race was launched at Lawries Marina at Mooloolaba at about 11.30am on Saturday 29th July. TV & print...
The new Melbourne Osaka Cup website was launched on Monday 31st July 2006. More details on the competitors will be on the web soon. The Melbourne Osaka Boat Week will include...
MMSI Application It is a requirement for all ISAF Category “0” races for competitors to ensure there EPIRBS are registered with the appropriate authority. The appropriate...
Competitors in the Melbourne-Osaka Yacht Race 2007 as @ May 9th 2006 ...
Boating enthusiasts of all kinds won’t want to miss Boat Week Events at Melbourne Docklands in Victoria from 16-25th March, with the major highlight the Melbourne Osaka Cup...
The race is almost two years away and already a barrage of serious enquiries from prospective competitors of the 2007 Melbourne-Osaka Race have been received at Sandringham Yacht Club, the...
Welcome to the Osaka Cup Yacht Race website. The Osaka Cup 2007 Melbourne to Osaka Double Handed Yacht Race is a 5000nm epic journey that runs every four years , pitting man and boat against the...