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G-44 Quick Fire - Philip Koster gets the quick fire question treatment

Philip Koster gets the quick fire question treatment...

Windsurfing

The Italian Job - Raimondo Gasperini gets awarded the prestigious Waterman of th

Raimondo Gasperini gets awarded the prestigious Waterman of the Year title by the Italian Surf Awards 2010.

Power Boats

UIM F1 H2O World Championship: Champ Shaun Torrente joins Team Sweden!

F1H2O - The most talented driver in North America is to get his first taste of international competition this season...

Power Boats

UIM Powerboat Championship - Optimistic about the future

Nicolo di San Germano is optimistic that the new structures that have been put in place will revitalise the sport....

Cruising

Brian Thompson tells of Banque Populaire V's retirement

Jules Verne Trophy. We have turned our bows away from Cape Horn, and back towards Lorient, the boat's home port....

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - Easy miles for breakfast

Jean Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron are eating up the miles at a steady rate on Virbac Paprec 3....

Sailing

Hardy Cup - Evan Walker to defend title

Hardy Cup defender and Australian open match racing champion Evan Walker is in winning form to success....

Sailing

18ft Skiffs - Commodore Cup

Gusts in excess of 30 knots made conditions far too dangerous and the race officer was forced to abandon....

Sailing

Exciting finale rounds out new era for Sail Auckland 2011 + Video

'The regatta has been a huge success,' commented Jez Fanstone, Olympic Programme Manager for Yachting New Zealand....

Cruising

Velux 5 Oceans - Wet and wild start to sprint three

Velux 5 Oceans third sprint ride solo round had a wild, wet and windy start at the world yacht race today....

Cruising

Sarasota Yacht Club holds its breath for permission to sail to Cuba

American sailors, in the form of the Sarasota Yacht Club, want to sail to Havana, Cuba and 2011 could be the year....

Sailing

2011 Downunder Pro - Formula Windsurfing Championships

Three final races on the last day of the 2011 Downunder Pro - Formula Windsurfing Championships....

Sailing

Gold Coast Cat Week kicks off

One of Gold Coast Cat Week's biggest fleets has assembled at the Southport Yacht Club for the fourth running of the even...

Power Boats

Sizzling hot Powerboat Racing as Gisborne turns up the heat!

With little breeze, temperatures in the high 30s and a flat sea Gisborne was a perfect playground for fast and furious p...

Cruising

America's Cup: Second French Challenger accepted

The Yacht Club de France is the sixth challenger to be accepted as a Competitor...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - Sunday supplements

Barcelona World Race - It was a significant moment for Peyron and Jean-Pierre when they passed through Amsterdam gate...

Cruising

Banque Populaire forced to retire from the Jules Verne Trophy

With a lead of 324 miles over the reference time, the Maxi Banque Populaire V was handicapped for more than 48 hours by...

Cruising

Dolphin-watch boat sinks students in sailing cutter

Outward Bound students in Marlborough Sound in NZ were injured after their cutter was sunk by a dolphin watch boat....

Cruising

Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac 2011 - Entries now open

Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac - Entries in the 2011 CYC Race to Mackinac, Presented by Veuve Clicquot are now open...

Cruising

Maxi Banque Populaire V forced to retire - Newsflash!

It is being reported from aboard the maxi-multihull Banque Populaire V that she has been forced to retire from their fir...

Sailing

Ocean Pointscore Sydney to Newcastle - Provisional winner announced

Noel Cornish and his Sydney 47 St Jude were announced the provisional winners of the CYCA's Sydney to Newcastle Race...

Sailing

Flinders Islet Race - Victoire plays the waiting game

Hodgkinson's Beneteau First 45 finished the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Flinders Islet Race first overall...

Cruising

Velux 5 Oceans Sprint 3 starts on Sunday February 6

Velux 5 Oceans fleet will leave Wellington on Sunday February 6th for the start of Ocean Sprint 3....

Cruising

ISAF Nations Cup 2011 regional finals

ISAF Nations Cup 2011 Notice of Race has been published on the ISAF website....

Sailing

Sail Auckland: Tight racing expected in Medal Races

Just one day of racing remains at Sail Auckland 2011 off Takapuna Boating Club with the podium places set to be decided...

Cruising

Port Hinchinbrook's boats destroyed

Boat owners are scouring debris at Port Hinchinbrook with most of the 70 boats destroyed or seriously damaged....

Cruising

Gusty Wellington day for start of Velux 5 Oceans Ocean Sprint 3

It will be a gusty day for the four Velux 5 Oceans Eco 60 sailing yachts leaving Wellington on the Ocean Sprint 3 to Pun...

Cruising

America's Cup: Team New Zealand Outed

Team New Zealand, who have not publicly announced their entry for the 34th America's Cup were the first team outside Ora...

Sailing

Farr 40s prepare for busy month of racing

Farr 40 Class Australia - February 2011 is unfolding as a very busy month for the Farr 40 teams...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - Back to reality

When the going gets really tough - proper boat breaking conditions - it becomes prudent to back off...

Sailing

Ben Ainslie - Important time on the water

Ben Ainslie reports on his Miami OCR and his training plans for the next few months....

Sailing

Banque Populaire V hits unidentified object - Brian Thompson reports

Brian Thompson reports on Banque Populaire V's 'crash' with an unidentified object....

Sailing

James Boag Blockbuster Weekend heads into its second decade

One of Tasmania's largest multi class sailing regattas begins it's second decade this weekend....

Cruising

Jules Verne Trophy - Banque Populaire V attempting repairs

Banque Populaire V have had to head north to reach better sea and wind conditions to lift the daggerboard out...

Cruising

Sailing up to a mooring - practising for MOB

A great skill to practice is stopping your boat in a specific location, at a mooring, a dock, or for MOB practice....

Sailing

Heineken Cape to Rio 2011 - Latest from Race HQ

Heineken Cape to Rio - Despite a diversion in mid-Atlantic to help another yacht, Xtra-Link arrived in Rio on Friday...

Sailing

Barcelona World Race - Back to reality, back to life for skippers

Barcelona World Race - There was a certain 'morning after the night before' mood evident among the skippers...

Cruising

Kidnapped cruising sailors' families hold news conference

Kidnapped sailors Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz are no nearer to being freed after this week's news conference...

Sailing

SA Laser State Championships - Magnificent sailing in Pt Lincoln

Plenty of hot racing was being held on Boston Bay during the first leg of the 2010-11 SA Laser State Championships...

Cruising

An evening with Tom Slingsby and Nathan Outteridge Part III

In Part III, the Question and Answer session, we will discover why Nathan's nick name is George and why Tom is so fast a...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - Caffari and Corbella escape upwind conditions

Having battled upwind for the last few days the all female crew of the Barcelona World Race have been given some respite...

Sailing

America's Cup: Mr Integrity appointed to America's Cup Race Management

The New Zealander, will be the Director of On-Water Operations and Assistant Principal Race Officer....

Sailing

Maxi Banque Populaire V damaged in crash with unidentified object

Banque Populaire V hit an OFNI* at 2 o'clock in the morning (Paris time) at a speed of around 37 knots...

Sailing

Sail Auckland: Tight battles fought at the top on Day 2

Racing continued today at Sail Auckland 2011 as the ISAF Grade 1 Olympic classes regatta now hits the half way mark with...

Cruising

Book of the Week: 'Just Sea and Sky' by Ben Pester

The voyage of two men from Plymouth to New Zealand in 1955 is a rare insight into a time when sailors had no mod cons...

Sailing

The New Burke Marine PFD Range

Sophistication, Safety and Comfort without the hefty price tag...

Sailing

Fleet to have a crack at Loki in Flinders Islet Race

According to the forecast 14 yachts will get away in north easterly winds of 15-20 knots on an incoming tide....

Cruising

Velux 5 Oceans - CSM scoops the media pool

Stanmore-Major made a clean sweep of the Velux 5 Oceans sprint two media awards last night...

Sailing

OAMPS Insurance Brokers Australian Youth Sailing Team named

The 2011 OAMPS Insurance Brokers Australian Youth Sailing Team has been named...

Cruising

Australia's Category 5 cyclone Yasi a yachting catastrophe

Australia's Category 5 cyclone Yasi has destroyed most of the yachts in its path, and the marina pontoons that held them...

Sailing

Van Diemens Land Circumnavigation Cruise 2011 - 44 boats entered

2011 Van Diemens Land Circumnavigation Cruise will start from Hobart on Wednesday week, 16 February...

Cruising

Roosevelt Island climate evolution project

Antarctica New Zealand, a Kiwi-led group of scientists, have just returned from establishing a camp at Roosevelt Island....

Cruising

Migration helps corals survive climate change

The key to preserving the world's coral reefs lies in a better understanding of newborn coral larvae....

Sailing

Wilson ready to return to Sail Port Stephens

ilson, the infamous mascot of Lu Lu Belle is positively bouncing with excitement to get back to Sail Port Stephens....

Sailing

Barcelona World Race sailor Ryan Breymaier in unexpected elements

Barcelona World Race sole U.S. participant, Ryan Breymaier, has found the weather conditions to be tamer than expected....

Sailing

Farr 40 Class Association International Calendar of racing released

Farr 40 Class Association international calendar of racing for the upcoming year has been released....

Sailing

2011 Downunder Pro - Formula Windsurfing Championships Day 2

Day 2 of The Downunder Pro - Formula Windsurfing Oceanic & Australian Championships kept the sailors on the beach for th...

Sailing

Barcelona World Race - Ever changing rhythm

Barcelona World Race - One theme which has surfaced is that there have been few sustained periods of constant rate...

Sailing

Heineken Cape to Rio - Tussle for podium places

Heineken Cape to Rio - The crew of City of Cape Town has gone into party mode after their crossing of the South Atlantic...

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