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ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2010 - The sailors honoured

ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2010 - Blanca Manchon and Tom Slingsby were named female and male recipients....

Windsurfing

PWA Cabo Verde World Cup - Event Preview

Event Preview - Prepare for an emotional rollercoaster as adrenalin pumped wavesailors battle with their nerves when they boost huge aerials off bone-crushing lips just yards from the shore in the ultimate Men's wavesailing finale!

Cruising

Velux 5 Oceans - Chistophe Bullens diverts to the Cape Verde Islands

Belgian ocean racer to receive medical advice as he suffers from a fever...

Sailing

America's Cup: Construction of first AC45 well advanced at Warkworth

Construction of the first of the AC45 catamarans continues apace at the Core Composites building facility in Warkworth,...

Cruising

Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai - Artemis names crew

Artemis Racing presented its crew today for the fourth and final Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta coming up in Dubai....

Sailing

Skiffs Parramatta River Championship - Gemmell Sails survives carnage

Murray Press and Ben Gemmell managed to avoid some early carnage on the first down wind leg...

Sailing

Meridien Marinas ASBA Queensland Sports Boat Titles

20-21 November 2010 - Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron...

Cruising

Slingsby - the Man on a Mission

Tom Slingsby was a gold medal favourite going into the 2008 Olympic regatta. But he came away shattered...

Cruising

America's Cup: San Francisco makes big move to secure the Venue

San Francisco has taken a big step towards securing selection as venue for the 34th America's Cup...

Sailing

The Rise of Ronstan - It started with a broach

Ron had used his good mate Stan's garage to build a 20-foot clinker style fishing vessel for Ron's father....

Power Boats

Barrie Beehag Ski Race Classic postponed till the 11th December

Barrie Beehag Ski Race Classic 2010 has been postponed from the 13th November until the 11th December 2010....

Sailing

ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award winners are announced

Manchon was nominated for the third time tonight and her family and friends with her at the Awards ceremony in Athens....

Sailing

The Beneteau & Lagoon Cup Friday 19th November

The Beneteau & Lagoon Cup, Vicsail's annual regatta is scheduled for Friday the 19th of November....

Cruising

Young sailor killed driving tender into anchored yacht

A young sailor has lost his life by colliding with an anchored yacht in the Port of Monaco while driving a tender...

Sailing

Tom Slingsby - a well deserved World Sailor of the Year

Sail-World talked to World Sailor of the year last month....

Sailing

Tom Slingsby - a well deserved World Sailor of the Year

A little while ago, we saw how Tom Slingsby had no sooner won his third Laser World Championship and was in the air....

Sailing

STOP PRESS: Tom Slingsby wins 2010 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of Year

Australian Tom Slingsby has been named the 2010 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year, becoming the first Australian to wi...

Sailing

Velux 5 Oceans - Gutek's challenge for first almost ended in disaster

olish skipper powerless as sprint win possibility slips away...

Sailing

Route du Rhum - Cammas and Groupama take transatlantic solo victory

Franck Cammas' achievement is a sizeable one on a trimaran spanning 31.5 metres in length and 22.5 metres wide!...

Cruising

Somali hijack update and background

More details of Somali kidnapping. South Africans Bruno Pelizzari and his girlfriend Deborah are in the hands of pirates...

Sailing

IRC Congress and IRC 2011

IRC 2011 - The annual IRC Congress was held in Istanbul, Turkey over the weekend of 16 - 17 October....

Kitesurfing

Kite instructors wanted!

Zephyr Kite Tours are looking for instructors

Sailing

Club Marine Series - New French design cleans up in first race

Club Marine Series race - David Ellis' hot new Penfold Audi opened its major events campaign with a nail biting victory....

Windsurfing

CABO VERDE LIVE STREAM - Don't miss out on a single moment of the most talked ab

Don't miss out on a single moment of the most talked about wave contest of the year - simply tune into PWA Live TV to watch the action in real-time!

Cruising

Velux 5 Oceans - Brad Van Liew in front again

American Brad Van Liew is out in front again after exciting weekend in the Velux 5 Oceans...

Cruising

Velux 5 Oceans - Hatfield in search of stronger, more consistent winds

Canadian Derek Hatfield is in search of stronger, more consistent winds in the Velux 5 Oceans...

Sailing

Queendland Cherub State Championships go off with a Big Bang

Local crew of Tim Robba and James Chilman sailing Big Bang took out the 2010-11 Queensland Cherub State Championships...

Sailing

Lipton Cup Regatta 20-21 November 2010, Melbourne

Details of the Lipton Cup Regatta 2010, Melbourne...

Sailing

Zhik conquers global markets with hands-on hard work

Brian Connolly, CEO of Zhik was proud to accept the NSW Premier's Export Award in the Small Business category....

Cruising

Family adrift six days in skiff found by U.S. and New Zealand rescuers

A family that set out for a 6 mile cruise in a 13ft skiff and were lost for 6 days in the Pacific have been rescued...

Sailing

IRC opens the door to composite rigging and more fun!

IRC - At the May 2010 meeting of the IRC Technical committee, the 'technology of composite standing rigging' was noted....

Sailing

ISAF Conference: Kiteboarding with Kristin Boese + Videos

Here's one of the gems of sailing and a great piece of video from the Women's Forum at the Conference being held in Athe...

Sailing

Channel 7 Sports Star of the Year Award and South Aus. Sports Awards

Channel 7 Sports Star of the Year Award and SA Sports Awards - Andrew Saies and Bob Schahinger are finalists....

Sailing

Route du Rhum - A winner in waiting?

Route du Rhum - Franck Cammas is in the throes of what should logically be his final tacks on Groupama 3 this evening....

Sailing

Route du Rhum - Prudence is key for Groupama 3

Route du Rhum - With less than 200 miles to the finish, Groupama 3 is focusing more on prudence in the squally weather....

Sailing

Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai - Mascalzone Latino Audi Team get ready

Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai - Mascalzone Latino Audi Team are getting ready for the 2010 season closing event in Dubai....

Cruising

SY Coizil, one escaped, two captive, one dead - Somali pirate update

Helicopters, commandos, captive woman and boy, skipper escaped into the ocean, mysterious dead body, but what happened?...

Cruising

America's Cup: Team New Zealand signs BMW Oracle coach

Australian newspaper, the Bendigo Advertiser reports that Glenn Ashby, America's Cup coach and seven times World A-class...

Kitesurfing

Roar Industries and Roar Watermans searching for a team

Roar industries and Roar watermans are now looking for team members.

Stand Up Paddle

JM Surf & Roar Industries/Waterman's

Biggest School & biggest shops combine!!!!

Cruising

America's Cup: Sweden's Artemis Racing confirmed as a Challenger

Artemis Racing confirmed today the team's entry as a Challenger for the 34th America's Cup,...

Power Boats

UIM Class One fleet heading to UAE

UIM Class One's fleet is on the high seas heading east where the remaining three trophies of the season will be decided....

Windsurfing

Made In Ocean

The Russians prepare to take on the world. the world of film that is!

Sailing

BMW Berlin Match Race - Hansen takes title

BMW Berlin Match Race has been won by Bjorn Hansen (Sweden), who defeated Markus Wieser (Germany) 2-0 in the Final...

Sailing

Yngling NSW championship - On a countback

The new champion is Karma, steered by Gary Wogas with his crew of Sandy Fesq and Ruth McCann...

Sailing

China Cup Int Regatta 2010: not as good as it thinks it is

China's premier keelboat regatta 'fails to delight' for many...

Sailing

Route du Rhum - Actual suffers damage to cross beam

At 0100hrs (CET) Monday Yves le Blevec said his trimaran sustained damage to the forward starboard cross beam....

Sailing

16ft Skiffs - Fluid back on top with a bit of luck

16ft Skiffs - The harder you work, the luckier you get....

Sailing

Qantas gives Perth 2011 the Spirit of Australia

Qantas today were announced as the Official Airline Partner for the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships/...

Sailing

Dragon NSW Championship - Andrew York's Wizzardry wins

Andrew York, skippering Wizzardry, has been awarded the International Dragon NSW championship on a countback....

Cruising

Smart One joins with Club Marine

Club Marine and Smart1Marine.com.au are working together to help owners protect their berthed or moored boats....

Sailing

Seawind buys Corsair and bolsters global network

Seawind Catamarans has bought Corsair Marine, forging a multihull behemoth that will cover all continents and raise the...

Sailing

ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year - Australian sailors go to Athens

Two Australian Sailing Team crews have their sights set on ending the country's drought when the winners are announced....

Cruising

Boat Sharing goes 'Do it Yourself' with generic software

Software designer for such boat sharing companies as SailTime and Beneteau has now designed generic software...

Power Boats

Coniston Speed Week 2010 - images by Malcolm Casson

Coniston Speed Week ran from the first to 5th November 2010....

Sailing

Route du Rhum - Who's that coming round the corner... is it a monster?

Route du Rhum - The ultimate honours in the historic clash of the monster multis will go down to the final 400 miles....

Sailing

Global Ocean Race - Irish team is 17th entry

The entry list for the double-handed, Class40, round the world Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) is rapidly filling....

Cruising

Route du Rhum - Nothing is guaranteed

Route du Rhum - You cannot count on anything in the Route du Rhum....

Cruising

Sailor refuses to disembark from yacht, shot dead by Somali pirates

Reports are emerging from Somalia about the hijacking of another yacht and death of one of the sailors...

Sailing

Route du Rhum - La Banque Postale: Class40 week 1 report

Route du Rhum - On Sunday, the 85 multi- and monhulls crossed the startline just north Pointe du Grouin off Saint-Malo....

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