Ceramco Sailing

06/10/2023

Enjoy this classic documentary film "The Greatest Race" from our archives 🎞️ The third edition of the Race took place in 1981-82 with 29 boats started out f...

06/10/2023

Just watched this doco we hadn't seen before.

Enjoy this classic documentary film "The Greatest Race" from our archives 🎞️ The third edition of the Race took place in 1981-82 with 29 boats started out f...

09/12/2021

Still on our Radar ... Sept 2023 is start from likely somewhere in France?

29/12/2020

40 Years Ago Today - CERAMCO NEW ZEALAND won the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race, winning both Line Honors and Handicap, one of only 5 yachts to ever do so in the history of the yacht race. Hope to race her in the 2021 race. This was Peter Blake's "shakedown" prior to the 1981-1982 Whitbred Around the World and famous dual between CERAMCO and FLYER.

09/12/2020

Ceramco and Sir Peter Blake and his team ran a very respectable 1981-82 Whitbred race.

This a day to celebrate the life of one of the titans of The Ocean Race, Sir Peter Blake.

Incredibly, Blake competed in the first five editions of the race, beginning as a wet-behind-the-ears rookie on Burton Cutter in 1973 and completing his obsession with the event with one of the most commanding victories in sport. As skipper of Steinlager 2 in the 1989-90 race, Blake led his team to victory in all six legs of the race, achieving a life-long goal.

From there, he would go on to lead Team New Zealand to an incredible win (1995) and dominant defence (2000) in the America's Cup, before moving on to pursue his own sustainability goals in partnership with the UN. Tragically, he was killed by pirates, on this day in December 2001, during one of his expeditions in South America.

Blake will always be remembered as one of the best to ever compete in our sport and for the leadership he offered and the example he set.

27/12/2019

Been watching the 75th Rolex Sydney-Hobart. 39 Years ago our boat "Ceramco New Zealand" won the Double - both Line Honours and Handicap, one of only a handful of yachts to have ever done so. It's on our radar to do the race 2020 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of this fantastic win in 1980, just prior to Sir Peter Blake & crew setting off to do the 1981-82 RTW Whitbred.

First held in 1945, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is one of the world’s great ocean races. The 628 nautical mile offshore challenge has formed a signifi...

19/11/2019

Sailing between Tahiti and Fiji 2018 on her way home to Bundaberg

17/10/2019

Latest Press Release about the OGR2023 - Ceramco gets a mention. Anyone interested in getting involved in this campaign get in touch.

First entries announced – full fleet expectedFour Alternate Designs approvedNotice of Race amendments agreed with entrants Dateline 17 October 2019, Royal Nomuka YC, Tonga Early response to the 2023 Ocean Globe Race, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread Round the World Race has ...