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Yacht devastation in the Brisbane River

Dozens of boats have been swept down Queensland's raging Brisbane River towards its outlet into the sea, Moreton Bay...

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Cruising

Luna Rossa gear up for Extreme 40 circuit

Team Luna Rossa has annnounced that they have started to prepare for the 2011 'Extreme Sailing Series', the championshi...

Power Boats

P1 Superstock to unveil new race boat and engine partner

Powerboat P1 Management (P1) is heading to Birmingham to launch its new race boat....

Sailing

PWA calendar 2011 released

PWA World Tour 2011 calendar is unveiled boasting 14 events, and three confirmed new destinations....

Sailing

Bunbury and Return Ocean Race - Cyclone adds spice to race

Anticipated strong southerly conditions for this weekend's Bunbury Race have been thrown into doubt by Cyclone Vince....

Sailing

Optimist Nationals 2011 Day Two - Nia Jerwood remains on top

Defending National Champion Nia Jerwood 'Bucca Nia' from Fremantle YC showed the fleet why she is No.1 with 2 wins today...

Sailing

Royal Langkawi International Regatta 2011: Hurry up and wait...

At the time of writing only provisional results for Race 1 in the racing class were available...

Windsurfing

Transfer Season

Dany Bruch announces he?ll be joining the ranks of Starboard?s Dream Team for the 2011 PWA season

Windsurfing

Fernandez Nominated - The Laureus World Sports Awards name Victory Fernandez as

The Laureus World Sports Awards name Victory Fernandez as one of their nominees.

Sailing

The 2011 MacMan Race

The Little Current Yacht Club and Mackinac Island Yacht Club are proud to announce the 2011 edition of Island Racing....

Cruising

2011 Van Isle 360 Yacht Race - Clear ahead!

It's back! The 2011 Van Isle 360 International Yacht Race is back and set to kick off again this June....

Sailing

33rd Sabre National Championships

A total of 73 boats competed in the 33rd Sabre National Championships at Brighton Seacliff Yacht Club in Adelaide....

Sailing

J24 National Championship 2011 Day One and Two

Day two started with similar wind conditions to day one - flukey 15 knots easterlies tending north for the third race....

Sailing

Velux 5 Oceans - Fleet splits as tactics come in to play

Brad and Derek go west, Gutek goes east - who will win?...

Sailing

SLAM 12ft Skiff Interdominion cockatoo carnage captured by cats

SLAM 12ft Skiff Interdominion was a day of carnage as a big gusty east-nor-easter picked off one boat after another....

Cruising

Quad sailor Geoff Holt beats racers to UK's Yachtsman of the Year

Quadriplegic Geoff Holt has become the UK's YJA Pantaenius Yachtsman of the Year by sailing solo across the Atlantic....

Sailing

Safety tested at Broo Premium Lager Musto Performance Skiff Worlds

Only one race was sailed in the Broo Premium Lager sponsored Musto Performance Skiff World championship at Black Rock Ya...

Sailing

Antigua Sailing Week has opportunity knocking

Antigua Sailing Week has less then four months until the start, and entries are coming in fast....

Cruising

Barcelona World Race: The fifth degree

Barcelona World Race fleet looms respite from full-throttle sailing....

Sailing

Zhik Moth Worlds day 4: Exhilaration turned to 'crash and burn'

Zhik Moth Worlds extreme conditions left their marks on me and the boat today....

Cruising

Luna Rossa participates in the Extreme Sailing Series 2011

Luna Rossa has started to prepare for the 2011 'Extreme Sailing Series' today....

Sailing

Rex Gorell Prestige Etchells Australian Championship day 2 underway

Just as the started race 1 of the day, a 20 degree wind shift occurred causing PRO Greg Sinclair to pull the pin...

Sailing

Two new Melges 24's delivered for NSW States

Over the next two days Melges 24's will be racing on Sydney Harbour in the 2011 NSW State Championships. This is the fir...

Cruising

Barcelona World Race has short stops, grand prix stops and full stop

Barcelona World Race skippers Dick and Peyron may be contemplating passing into the southern hemisphere....

Power Boats

Bass Strait Rally entries closing soon

The Bass Strait Rally is asking you to join the elite band....

Sailing

Rolex Farr 40 World Championship fleet heads down under

Rolex Farr 40 World Championship next month is gathering a Farr 40 fleetin Australia to contest....

Sailing

Australian Finn Championship - Wright wins title

Light SE'ly winds greeted competitors on the final day of racing at the FINNPORTS 2011 Australian Finn Championships....

Sailing

St. Maarten Heineken Regatta - The fifth anniversary for Orange Grove

St. Maarten Heineken Regatta - Since releasing their latest album, all sails have been hoisted on the Orange Grove ship...

Sailing

Sydney to Hobart - Report from the Beneteau fleet

The 2010 Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race proved the most testing in recent years....

Cruising

Barcelona World Race - GAES Centros Auditivos race update

Barcelona World Race - Dee Caffari and Anna Corbella head past the Cape Verde islands today...

Cruising

Around the Americas: Now the documentary

Seattle's KOMO_News have produced a video on the Around the Americas project, sailed by expedition yacht Ocean Watch....

Cruising

Hobart to host Wooden Boat Festival

Celebrating our nation's rich maritime heritage, the Australian Wooden Boat Festival will be held in Hobart 11-14 Feb....

Power Boats

ZAPCAT 2011 Championship structure - Size does matter!

ZAPCAT 2011 Championship structure -The Z-10 hull will be allowed to race together in this One manufacturer championship...

Windsurfing

2011 PWA Calendar Released - Boasting 14 events

Boasting 14 events, and three confirmed new destinations, the 2011 PWA World Tour calendar is unveiled.

Cruising

Ukraine dominates 2011 Dragon Worlds in rainy Melbourne

The Ukrainians are dominating the top three spots on the leaderboard at the 2011 Int Dragon Worlds being sailed on Port...

Sailing

Brits lead Broo Premium Lager Musto Performance Skiff Worlds - Day 1

After a postponement for the wind to settle, racing got underway at 15:55 at Black Rock Yacht Club on Port Phillip Bay....

Sailing

Pacer Nationals 2010 report from Robe, South Australia

Robe Yacht Club, South Australia hosted the Pacer Australian Chapionships Dec 28 to Jan 2....

Sailing

VS Skiff National Championship final day and wrap up

Saturday conditions after a change overnight saw S breeze up to 18 knots on the course...

Cruising

International Dragon World Championship - Waiting, waiting, waiting

At 3.27pm the course boat, Tarni, indicated they were on station...

Cruising

Barcelona World race - Damage to Foncia

Foncia skipper said that they had suffered damage to the crash box on the bow of their IMOCA Open 60....

Sailing

12ft Skiff Interdominion - Father and son battle

Two races, sailed in a tricky breeze that clocked between east-nor-east and nor-east, anywhere between 10 and 20 knots...

Cruising

Zhik Moth Worlds 2011 Final Series - Crashes and Comebacks

Rarely dropping below a healthy 18 knot East by Northeasterly, sailors across the fleet had their share of stacks....

Sailing

International Optimist Australian Championships 2011 day one

Nia Jerwood from the Fremantle YC leads after Day One of 2011 Optimist Australian Championship hosted by RPAYC....

Sailing

Shaw wins 2011 New Zealand Paper Tiger Nationals

The 2011 New Zealand Paper Tiger National Championships finished on Saturday...

Sailing

Tasar Nationals - Fifth title to Rob and Nicole Douglass

Rob and Nicole Douglass successfully gained their fifth Tasar Nationals on the weekend at the Woollahra Sailing Club....

Sailing

Sail Paradise 2011 abandoned

Sail Paradise 2011 has been abandoned due to the flood tragedy in Queensland's south east and persistent weather....

Sailing

Etchells Australian Championship Day One - Right was so Right

Rex Gorell Prestige Etchells Australian Championship - Geelong Victoria, day one. Sailing teaches you patience....

Cruising

'Hot-Bunking' bacterium recycles iron to boost ocean metabolism

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found that in the vast ocean where iron is scarce, a marine bacterium recycles it....

Sailing

Velux 5 Oceans - Cape Town to Wellington victory up for grabs

Sprint 2 of the Velux 5 Oceans, Cape Town to Wellington, is up for grabs as finish line approaches...

Cruising

Musto launches new Evolution Collection

Musto is set to dramatically broaden its reach following the release of its eagerly anticipated 2011 collection in Feb....

Cruising

Ice sailing - for those who can't fly to the Caribbean

In New Jersey this week the word is out, that there's sailable ice on the Navesink River in New Jersey...

Cruising

Musto presents new Lifestyle Collection

Musto has forged a new direction with the launch of its Lifestyle autumn/winter 2011 collection next month....

Sailing

America's Cup: AC45 in final construction and assembly at Warkworth

The platform and wingsail for the prototype for the new AC45 is proceeding well at Core Composites - Oracle Racing's bui...

Sailing

Barcelona World Race - President loses mast

President has lost its mast and is heading to Cape Verde....

Cruising

Barz Optics launches new Maui model - ideal for all water activity

Barz Optics has just this week launched its new MAUI model, fitted with polarised photochromic acetate lenses....

Cruising

Key West Race Week - World class talent heading to race

Olympic medalists, world champions and America's Cup veterans will be on the starting line at the race....

Sailing

Marinonics Sail Paradise day 2 - Yachties rally for flood victims

The race committee is keeping all divisions ashore on day two on Queensland's Gold Coast....

Sailing

AP is up - not flying!

At around 9.45AM the Race Management team decided to hoist the Answering Pennant and keep the crews ashore...

Cruising

Green Marine Wildlife Guide - a way for sailors to help our sealife

The Green Marine Wildlife Guide is to be launched at London's Tullett Prebon International Boat Show this month....

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