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Yachting Australia congratulates Australian of the Year Simon McKeon

Congratulations to Australian Sailing Team Patron Simon McKeon on being named the 2011 Australian of the Year....

Sailing

Audi Victoria Week - Hooligan six from eight in Audi IRC Series

Melbourne yachtsman Michael Hiatt sailed a good last race, finishing second to Hooligan....

Sailing

Aussie crews push forward on day two at Sailing World Cup in Miami

Australian sailors have made good progress on day two of the Rolex Miami OCR...

Sailing

THAT Australian flag - flies at Australia's largest regatta

When John Bertrand and his Australia II crew won the America's Cup in Newport, two flags flew into history....

Cruising

Miami OCR - Flawless Scott extends

It was another flawless performance from Skandia Team GBR's Giles Scott on day two of the Rolex Miami OCR...

Sailing

Audi Victoria Week -Ikon, Executive Decision win in Audi IRC Series

Audi Victoria Week 2011 - Ikon and Executive Decision win Divisions B and C of the Audi IRC Series today....

Cruising

Australian and Young Australian of the Year both high performing sailo

Not only Young Australian of the Year Jessica Watson is a high performing sailor - so is the Australian of the Year, too...

Cruising

America's Cup: Tom Blackaller on Cats in the America's Cup

Tom Blackaller on the America's Cup, San Francisco and catamarans...

Sailing

Downunder Pro - Formula Windsurfing Championships Preview

The Downunder Pro, Formula Windsurfing Oceanic & Australian Championships is not only attracting the best of the best wi...

Power Boats

UIM F1H2O World Championship added new venue to 2011 calendar

UIM F1H2O World Championship has added a brand new venue in its 2011 calendar....

Sailing

NZ Laser Nationals decided on a countback

2008 Olympic representative, Andrew Murdoch has won the 2011 New Zealand National Laser Championships, sailed at Torbay....

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - Technical stop for Lechera Asturiana

Barcelona World Race - Merediz and Palacio on Central Lechera Asturiana will make a technical stop in Cape Town...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - Leader's luxury

Barcelona World Race - There is a certain temporary stability visited on the positions of the leading trio...

Cruising

European Yachts of the Year announced for 2011

European Yachts of the Year: won in their category by Elan 350, Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409, Xc 38 and the Saffier 23...

Cruising

America's Cup - USA 17 headed to San Francisco

The giant trimaran that won the 33rd America's Cup for Larry Ellison's team is heading home to San Francisco....

Cruising

Rolex Baltic Week - King Harald V of Norway at the starting line

Rolex Baltic Week - The Metre yachts and Flensburg Fjord have always had a very special relationship...

Windsurfing

X-Fire Ltd V3 - RRD unleash their latest drag racing machines for 2011

RRD unleash their latest drag racing machines for 2011.

Cruising

Round Barbados Race: Hasley C. Herreshoff races onboard yacht Elena

The sponsors of the Mount Gay Rum Round Barbados Race were delighted to welcome Hasley C. Herreshoff to Barbados...

Cruising

RORC Caribbean 600 count-down

With one month to go, the third edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 is turning into a truly international affair....

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - Virbac-Paprec resist the attack of Foncia

Virbac-Paprec 3 and Foncia are riding the leading edge of the low pressure's front and should manage to stay with it-...

Sailing

America's Cup legends get together for Australia Day on River Derwent

Gretel II and her 1977 skipper Gordon Ingate, will compete in the RYCT's Australia Day Green Island Race...

Sailing

Australia Day boating advice for Sydney Harbour

Plans and preparations are in place to manage an estimated 2000 spectator boats on Sydney Harbour for Australia Day....

Sailing

UAE hopefuls vie for spot in Abu Dhabi VOR crew

One is a former Olympian. Another is descended from pearl divers. And the third candidate has sailing in his blood....

Sailing

Miami OCR 2011 day one - Double win for Giles Scott

Sailed under warm cloudy skies and in a shifty but useful 10-15 knot breeze, Giles Scott took the first race...

Sailing

Sailing World Cup Miami - Good days for Aussies

Australian crews have had a solid opening day of the second round of the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Miami...

Sailing

Ready for the Australia Day Regatta? Howard Wright images from 2010

Howard Wright presents a gallery of images captured at the 174th Australia Day Regatta 2010....

Cruising

Lost and found American sailors chided for no EPIRBs or HF

5 Americans on a cat have been chided by the U.S. Coast Guard for causing an unnecessary search due to no HF/EPIRB...

Sailing

Audi MedCup 2011 - All4One new TP52 to be built by McConaghy, Sydney

Audi MedCup Circuit Franco-German team, managed by Jochen Schumann, becomes 'Audi Sailing Team powered by All4One'...

Cruising

'Plastic Bag man' gathers crew for Australian circumnavigation

Save Our Seas Ocean Racing are setting up for another world record circumnavigation of Australia....

Sailing

Extreme Sailing Series - Team Extreme latest entry

Extreme Sailing Series welcomes the latest team to join the 2011 global circuit, 'Team Extreme'....

Sailing

Velux 5 Oceans: Chris Stanmore-Major arrives in Wellington

CSM, is the fourth and final skipper to complete the leg from Cape Town in South Africa to Wellington....

Cruising

Brickbats to the rude crew of a Beneteau 37 in Pittwater

Brickbats to 8 crew on the Beneteau 37 which raced away without a thank you after they were rescued from hard aground...

Sailing

Audi MedCup 2011 gets All4One sponsorship deal and new boat build

Audi MedCup Circuit Franco-German team, managed by Jochen Schumann, becomes 'Audi Sailing Team powered by All4One'...

Sailing

64th Newport to Ensenada: Cabrillo never knew how much fun it would be

64th Newport to Ensenada is a tradition Don Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo could never have imagined....

Sailing

Heineken Cape to Rio 2011: City of Cape Town clocks 213 nm in 24 hrs

Gerry Hegie's City of Cape Town still leads the race on handicap and clocked 213nm yesterday...

Cruising

Opti sailors set World Record at Weymouth

Guinness World RecordTM for the 'Largest Parade of Boats' with the International Optimist Class Association....

Power Boats

Rosehill Gardens set to assume a nautical mode

The bargain hunter's paradise at the Rosehill Gardens Event Centre and it's all free....

Cruising

'Racing Around the World Alone' premiering on CBC Documentary Jan 31st

Racing Around the World Alone' is the story of the 2008/2009 Vendee Globe race....

Windsurfing

Pritchard Talks - We catch up with KP to get the low down on his decision to put

We catch up with KP to get the low down on his decision to put racing on hold & his plans for the future...

Cruising

Miami OCR - Preparing for the big day

The day before a big game is always important, and for 716 there was plenty to accomplish today at the Rolex Miami OCR...

Cruising

ISAF 2011 WMRT - Exciting mix of tour card holders unveiled

The line up of Tour Card Holders for the 2011 ISAF World Match Racing Tour has been unveiled....

Sailing

175th Australia Day Regatta: Huge fleet of classic yachts turning out

More than 50 classic wooden yachts will grace the waters of Sydney Harbour to commemorate the Australia Day Regatta...

Sailing

An evening with Tom Slingsby and Nathan Outteridge Part II

Audi Victoria Week 2011 -An unbelieveably talented duo continue their good work down in Geelong,...

Cruising

Sir Chay Blyth Supports Volvo Ocean Race Legends Regatta

Sir Chay Blyth, CBE, BEM, takes his place as Ambassador to the Volvo Ocean Race Legends Regatta next to Lady Pippa Blake...

Sailing

New Kiteboarding Competition Rules finalised

A new version of the Kiteboarding Competition Rules has been finalized by the ISAF Racing Rules Working Party....

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - First to forty

The first boat in the Barcelona World Race to approach the 'Roaring Forties' is Virbac Paprec 3....

Cruising

Sunsail Whitsundays has increased its Sailing School Rallies to four

Sunsail Sailing School's unique rallies around the Whitsundays have one new route and two new departure dates added....

Sailing

Late dash and two days to spare to make Audi Victoria Week cut-off

A French wharfies' strike almost cost Donald Fraser his chance to compete with his new Beneteau First 40, Dry White....

Sailing

Audi Victoria Week - Outteridge out in front - again

Outteridge put on another jaw-dropping display of raw talent and now with six straight wins from six....

Sailing

Audi Victoria Race high winds wreak havoc on Portarlington Race fleet

Audi Victoria Race Week Portarlington Race was cold, colourful and extremely windy, causing mayhem and damage....

Sailing

velux 5 Oceans - What a difference a day makes

The latest news from Chris Stanmore-Major, who is 40nm from the finish of leg 2 of the Velux 5 Oceans...

Cruising

CSIRO finds CO2-chomping microbes battling for ocean iron

CSIRO scientists have expanded our understanding of the way phyoplankton take up scarce iron in the ocean....

Power Boats

Super Boats get set for Key West

Exciting season planned to culminate at Key West....

Cruising

Get involved: 60 Minutes filming Marine Park Forum Tweed Heads 5 Feb

Anglers are invited to Bay St park Tweed Heads 5 Feb 8am/9am for a 60 Minutes Forum to debate Marine Parks....

Cruising

Rockstock - the paper that sailors will love to use?

Rockstock made from waste stone from the building industry is ground down to Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) used also in toot...

Kitesurfing

The Airush 2011 Lab Rat Survey

Kiteboarding survey for Airush customers...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race games of cunning and speed

Barcelona World Race lead was reclaimed by Virbac Paprec 3 this morning....

Sailing

Australian Laser Masters Nationals entries closing Feb 1st

First Masters Nationals in Australia for more than 25 years are being held at Port Stephens in just a few weeks....

Cruising

German tall ship mutiny after cadet's death fall

After a female recruit died falling 100 feet from the foremast of tall ship Gorch Fock, the rest of the cadets mutinied...

Sailing

82nd Stonehaven Cup for 12 Foot Cadet dinghy at King Island

The 12 Foot Cadet Dinghy 82nd Stonehaven Cup regatta was sailed on Grassy Harbour in King Island from January 3rd to 10...

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