2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge
2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge: prize-giving at Southport
Fifteen boats started. Eleven finished. Four retired, and nearly every one of th...
Malcolm Dickson: Solo Trans-Tasman’s oldest finisher bookends career with handicap win at 79
At 79, Malcolm Dickson bookends a Solo Trans-Tasman career with a second handica...
Kevin Le Poidevin’s Solo Trans-Tasman: The $150 mistake and everything that followed
Doug Esterman in his Cavalier 39 Fair Winds crossed the finish line at Southport...
Doug Esterman and Fair Seasons: Last to finish the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman — and first in heart
On the evening of 31 May, less than 48 hours into the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yac...
From customs officers to Southport, Peter Nobbs and Smoko finish the Solo Trans-Tasman Challenge
The customs officers were waiting for Peter Nobbs fifty miles outside New Zealan...
Peter Bourke and Diablo: the little kauri boat has finished the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challen...
This morning at 07:00am NZST (10 June 2026), Peter Bourke crossed the finish lin...
Terry Dunn sailed a borrowed boat 1,362 miles across the Tasman. His 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht ch...
After over nine days at sea, Terry Dunn crossed the finish line at Southport in ...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: Catnip 90 minutes from the finish line
Six boats are home. Four have retired. Five are still sailing. And as I write, G...
The Tasman dream is real, Ben Ball and Camellia cross the finish line
Ben Ball has been waiting since he was 14 for this moment. On 08 June 2026 at 14...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: Camellia climbs the handicap table and Terry Dunn calls in from the Tasman
Five boats are home. Four have retired. Six are still racing across the Tasman, ...
Doug Esterman and Fair Seasons, still out there, still loving it
Doug Esterman called from somewhere in the Tasman, with Norfolk Island about 250...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: Six still sailing — Camellia surfing five-metre waves toward the finish
Five boats are home. Four have retired. Six are still out on the Tasman.
Cond...
Sarau and Pacman cross the line — in the dark, 31 minutes apart
Malcolm Dickson's 55-foot Sarau crossed the finish line at Southport at 06:38 NZ...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: Electron nearly finished, one mile between Pacman and Sarau
Two boats have now finished the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge. Guy Ches...
James Foster is nearly home: Seven days, 10 hours and one hell of a Tasman
The voice on the WhatsApp call belonged to the same James Foster we had intervie...
Sharon Ferris-Choat: 1,400 miles alone — first woman to finish the Solo Trans-Tasman in 12 years
At 12:15pm NZST on Saturday 6 June 2026, Sharon Ferris-Choat crossed the finish ...
Kevin Le Poidevin: The man who bought a racing legend on the internet
Kevin Le Poidevin is not your typical Trans-Tasman competitor. The Australian sa...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: Chester finished, Roaring Forty retired, Vixen Racing is 40 miles out
Guy Chester docked at Southport on Friday evening at 19:34 NZST, crossing the fi...
Guy Chester takes line honours in the Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge 2026
Guy Chester crossed the finish line at Gold Coast Seaway aboard the trimaran Oce...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: Chester on the dock tonight as the fleet fights to the finish
At 20:00 NZST tonight, if the projection holds, Guy Chester will dock his Crowth...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: Ocean’s Tribute finishes tonight, Camellia’s handicap charge and...
Guy Chester checked in from his Crowther Design 93 trimaran Oceans Tribute just ...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: The solo handicap battle just got tighter
Guy Chester is 248 nautical miles from Southport and talking like a man who can ...
James Foster: The man who built his own catamaran and raced it across the Tasman
James Foster is 49 years old. He is the youngest competitor in the 2026 Solo Tra...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: 47 Knots in the night and Southport finally in sight
The 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge got a moment on national television l...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: Bill Kidman is home, Chester closes in, and Camellia bails out
Four days and ten hours in, and the fleet is heading into its fifth night on the...
Solo Trans-Tasman fleet batten down as 37-knot blasts return and leaders stretch away
The conditions came back overnight, and came back hard. Sharon Ferris-Choat chec...
Glen Jeffery and Wave retire from the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge
Glen Jeffery has made the decision to retire from the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yac...
Solo Trans-Tasman: Southport is closing in
It's dark over the Tasman Sea. Winter hours have brought earlier sunsets. Out th...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: A Milo at midnight, a stunning sunrise, and Camellia on the prowl
This race has hit a milestone. Guy Chester on his Crowther trimaran Oceans Tribu...
Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge competitor survives night in leaking boat battered by swells
A competitor in the trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge is back on dry land in New Zeal...
When it mattered: The safety of Graeme Francis and Robbery
When Graeme Francis activated his EPIRB north of the Three Kings Islands in the ...
Peter Elkington: the nostalgic purchase that became a Tasman racer
Peter Elkington had a Young 11 as a kid. His family sailed one for 15 years. Whe...
EPIRB activated: rescue operation underway for Graeme Francis on Robbery in the Solo Trans-Tasman
Graeme Francis, the New Plymouth sailor who has spent 40 years returning to the ...
Graeme Francis: Three Solo Trans-Tasmanians and counting
Graeme Francis has a longer relationship with the Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challe...
Off Opua, the Insight Media team catch the action at the start line of the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman
Off Opua, the fabulous team from Insight Media team catch the action at the star...
Solo Trans-Tasman underway! Monohulls away at 12:06, Malcolm Dickson first over the line at 79
Thirteen monohulls crossed the start line at 12:06, one minute after the schedul...
Solo Trans-Tasman 2026: fleet away on schedule, Guy Chester first over the line
The 16th Solo Trans-Tasman Challenge is underway. At noon Saturday, the multihul...
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Guy Chester: the boat has her own ideas about this race
Boating New Zealand first crossed paths with Guy Chester during the 2025 PIC Coa...
The Tasman in three acts: meteorologist gives the weather picture facing today’s Solo Trans-Ta...
At noon today, 17 solo sailors leave Opua for Southport on the Gold Coast of Aus...