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Australia's Tom Slingsby has been rewarded for another dominant period by being crowned as world sailor of the year for a second time.

Australia's Tom Slingsby has been crowned world sailor of the year for a second time.

The 37-year-old from Gosford says he's honoured to again win his sport's most prestigious individual award, which he also took out in 2010.

"I remember when I was 15-years-old I wrote down my career goals and it was to win the Olympic Gold medal, win the America's Cup and win world sailor of the year," he said.

"I am very fortunate ... I am so lucky to be in the position I am and to get these amazing opportunities."

Slingsby is among the most successful sailors in the world, winning Olympic gold in 2012 in the laser class and being the strategist for the America's Cup winners Team Oracle USA in 2013.

He also skippered supermaxi Perpetual Loyal to line honours in the 2016 Sydney to Hobart race and is a nine-time world champion in various classes.

Slingsby in the past two years - the sailor of the year award covered a period from September 2019 to August this year - defended his Moth world championship by winning 13 of the 14 races, securing back-to-back 2019 and 2021 title wins after last year was wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic.

Slingsby is chief executive and skipper of the Australia SailGP team which currently sits atop the series leaderboard and was part of the Comanche crew who won the prestigious Rolex Middle Sea race this year.