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Barcelona World Race highlights - Winners press conference

Did Virbac-Paprec 3 win the Barcelona World Race in the Saint Helena High by going west?...

Windsurfing

Feeling Chile? - JP's Robby Swift returns to Chile to soak up the South West Pac

JP's Robby Swift returns to Chile to soak up the South West Pacific's sun, wind and waves...

Cruising

Velux 5 Oceans 72 hours of drama

Over the last 72 hours each of the four solo skippers have had to contend with an array of problems on their Eco 60s...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race second edition winners Virbac-Paprec 3

The Barcelona World Race second edition winners Jean-Pierre and Loick broke the finish line this morning at 10:20:36...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race leaders due to finish

Barcelona World Race leaders Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron are making their final miles north towards glory....

Cruising

Central Lechera Asturiana damaged and heading for Auckland

Central Lechera Asturiana has damage to a structural ring frame around the engine box...

Sailing

Cranbrook wins NSW Secondary School Teams Racing Championship

NSW Secondary Schools Teams Racing Championship was held from Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd April...

Sailing

Tasmanian Sailing Academy Winter Training begins

The TSA sailors are now gearing up for a heavy schedule of sailing and fitness training over the next 4-5 months....

Sailing

Sail Port Stephens - all in a name - a Tale with a Twist

Sail Port Stephens 2011 -Performance Racing and Cruising divisions will compete for Port Stephens Trophy at this regatta...

Cruising

40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta: And the winner is - Everyone

BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival - What defines a magnificent regatta?...

Sailing

Whitsunday Sailing Club - Running the rhumblines

Whitsunday Sailing Club President Ian Davey experienced a special sense of pride and achievement....

Sailing

Sail Port Stephens 2011 - record fleet -entry deadline extended

Regatta Director Denis Thompson this morning announced an extension of entry cut off until 5pm on Wednesday afternoon...

Sailing

RSYS Main Series sees narrow victories

RSYS Main Series - Wins on Saturday gave narrow overall Main Series victories to Ellipse, Tingari and Kirsten II....

Cruising

The PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) that saved their lives

a McMurdo PLB that saved the lives of the four yachtsmen, who were successfully rescued this week when they activated th...

Sailing

Star South American Championship - Brazil dominates

Star South American Championship sees Brazil dominate by claiming all three of the podium places at Mar del Plata....

Windsurfing

Closure of Road Access to Booti Point (NSW)

Help Sought for Booti National Parks Windsurfing Access Submission.

Sailing

42nd Trofeo Princesa Sofia starts in Palma 4th April

The 42nd Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mapfre regatta is set to get underway tomorrow, Monday 4th April, in Palma....

Cruising

Product of the Week: New 'tight-space' automatic bilge pump

You don't want to find out that your boat is sinking when you put your feet out of the bunk into water in the morning...

Stand Up Paddle

Coreban SUP River Race wrap up

Cronulla Sutherland SUP club put together a Stand Up Paddle river race

Cruising

Barcelona World Race leaders almost touching victory

Barcelona World Race leaders Jean-Pierre and Loick are expected in Barcelona tomorrow morning at around 09:00 hours...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race finish line in sight for Virbac-Paprec 3

Barcelona World Race leaders Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron are preparing to spend their last night at sea together...

Windsurfing

Malina Mondays - Czech rider Tom Malina kicks off the new week with a video summ

Czech rider Tom Malina kicks off the new week with a video summary of his last few months...

Sailing

Australian sailors prepare for next round of ISAF Sailing World Cup

Australian Sailing Team is preparing to take on the world's top sailors at the ISAF Sailing World Cup...

Cruising

Snipe Pan American Game Trials 2011 day 2 - Another beautiful day

Though lighter than on day one, the winds proved to be less shifty, with velocities ranging between 6 and 12 knots....

Cruising

BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival getting serious

A single day of racing remains at the 40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival (March 28-April 3, 2011),...

Sailing

Farr 30 Australian Championship day two on hold

Farr 30 Australian Championship. Day two racing is currently on standby...

Cruising

Mooloolaba-based boatbuilder to go for solo record round Australia

In June, Queenslander Bruce Arms will sail a multihull solo nonstop and unassisted around Australia in 35 days, a record...

Cruising

Star South American Championship stars shine

Lars Grael and Ronald Seifert (BRA) lead the 2011 Star South American Championship by five points ahead of the final day...

Cruising

Highly awarded Californian hero sailors now win New Zealand award

Californians Maurice and Sophie Conti are honoured by New Zealand for rescuing 3 sailors, including a Kiwi, near Fiji...

Cruising

Jessica Watson to front Queensland's Season of Sailing

Jessica Watson has lent her now famous face to assist Queensland in its $100,000 2011 Season of Sailing Campaign....

Cruising

Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Cup 2011

Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Cup - The International Maxi Association (IMA) is pleased to announce some news....

Cruising

Barcelona World Race slow progress for Virbac-Paprec 3

Barcelona World Race skippers aboard Virbac-Paprec 3 were becalmed off Cartagena this afternoon...

Sailing

Derwent River Summer Pennant final day

Sydney Hobart racing yacht Dump Truck made no mistake in winning her first Derwent River Division 1 summer pennant...

Cruising

Sailing South - the First Timer's Guide to the ICW

Sailing south to the islands, the dream of every sailor. But how to do it, that's the question....

Cruising

Sydney's bull shark heads north for the winter

A 2.5 metre bull shark tagged by Industry & Investment researchers NSW has travelled over 5000 kilometres...

Cruising

Tanzacat 2011, Hobie 16 Asian Championships - Hobie Class event dates

Tanzacat 2011 dates have been announced 2-11 September....

Sailing

Farr 30 Australian Championship with Captains Bligh, Watson and Swan

Farr 30 Australian Championship 2011 Day One. Leon Thomas and his Guilty Pleasures III crew brought rain and wind...

Cruising

2011 Snipe Pan American Game Trials - A beautiful day of sailing

2011 Snipe Pan American Game Trials kicked off on the waters off Dania Beach, Florida....

Cruising

BVI Spring Regatta - Facing the starters gun

40th Anniversary BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival and fifteen to twenty knots and small seas greeted sailors....

Cruising

Yacht Studio Blokart Racing wins North American blokart Sailing Champs

Yacht Studio Blokart Racing Team wins the North American blokart Sailing Championships 2011, Performance Middle Weight D...

Sailing

NSW Secondary Schools Teams Racing Championship - Scots lead

Day 1 of the NSW Secondary Schools Teams Racing Championship - ten teams from nine schools....

Cruising

Wildwind Holidays - Vassiliki Watersports Festival- Wind and Bikinis!!

Vassiliki Watersports Festival - Fast track to the front of the fleet?...

Cruising

Canadian Sailing Team members set to compete in Palma, Mallorca

Canadian Sailing Team members are set to compete in Trofeo S.A.R. Princesa Sofia MAPFRE regatta in Palma, Mallorca...

Cruising

Yacht Feature: Saffier Se 23, European Yacht of the Year

What made 10 journalists from European magazines choose the Saffier 23 for as a European Yacht of the Year for 2011?...

Cruising

Inmarsat satellite tracker led to yacht's rescue

A stranded yacht and crew successfully rescued, not because of a distress beacon, but because of a satellite tracker...

Cruising

Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofia Mapfre - Women's Match Racing preview

Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofia Mapfre - Women's Match Racing title brings 24 teams from 18 countries to Palma de Mallorca....

Cruising

America's Cup accepts Venezia Challenge

America's Cup - The Golden Gate Yacht Club has officially accepted the Venezia Challenge into the 34th America's Cup....

Cruising

Barcelona World Race leaders battle forty knots

Barcelona World Race - Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron were not offered an easy passage this time either....

Stand Up Paddle

The River Race 2011 - Stand Up Paddling on the Woronora.

A first for south Sydney, the Coreban river race is on this weekend!

Kitesurfing - VKWC

PKRA - Zoon and Kajiya take freestyle event titles in Morocco

Latest Pro Kiteboard Riders Association news - PKRA - Zoon and Kajiya take freestyle event titles in Morocco

Cruising

Velux 5 Oceans anything but easy

The Velux 5 Oceans skippers Brad Van Liew and Le Pingouin are finding times are tough....

Power Boats

Class 1 Grand Prix to stay in Arendal, Norway

14th Class 1 Grand Prix - For at least the next three years, the Norwegian Grand Prix will stay in picturesque Arendal....

Cruising

America's Cup entries soar, World Series venues announced + Audio

With the passing of the entry deadline for the 31st America's Cup passing on the 31st March 2011, event organisers have...

Cruising

SAP 505 World Championship 2011 win to defending World Champions

Wolfgang Hunger and Julien Kleiner (GER), the reigning champions take out the 2011 SAP 505 World Championship....

Sailing

NSW Maritime - Safety alert: Buoys and bales

NSW Maritime has warned boaters of the need for continued caution on flood-affected South Coast waters....

Sailing

ISAF International Measurer Seminar to be held at Royal Freshwater Bay

ISAF International Measurer Seminar - ISAF are hosting a International Measurer Seminar in May....

Sailing

Record 95 boats hit water for Sabre Class Victorian State Championship

The Sabre class show their strength with the Victorian State titles attracting a record fleet of 95 boats....

Sailing

NSW Maritime Advisory - Scuttling of Ex-HMAS Adelaide

Strict boating safety controls will apply for April 13 scuttling of the Ex-HMAS Adelaide off Avoca Beach, Central Coast...

Cruising

BVI Spring Regatta - Match Racing win to Holmberg

As the match racers were dialing-up, sailors competing in the 21-mile Nanny Cay Cup were easing their sheets...

Sailing

SAP 505 World Championship race 7 postponed

SAP 505 World Championship race 7 postponed...

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Has Queensland got a race board class or any events like Nsw.

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Hi all , I bought a new quiver of ezzy waves just under 2 years ago ,I also have the ezzy masts to...

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I've been using the standard Redwing package 1400/350 on an Alien 125 with 5.0-7.

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Question .why is there a shortage of race sails to buy ,? nothing in the shops .

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Been looking at upgrading my Fanatic Blast 115 which I’ve had since 2022 to something abit racier.

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Question for y'all. Has anyone played with bottom handle placement for windfoil?

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