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KTA Turkey First Tour Round Report

Following the success of the first season the KTA was back in action again kicking off with a great opening round in Cesme Turkey.

Sailing

Magic Marine D-One Gold Cup - And the winner is...

A thrilling race in Valencia for the final day of the first Magic Marine BetPro D-Ones Gold Cup...

Cruising

Cap Istanbul Leg 3 Athens-Didim - A win by 26 seconds

Athens-Didim leg is likely to be a fast leg of the Cap Istabul race....

Sailing

2010 LCMR Regatta: Dogwatch, Scud and APC Max take out the prizes

Lake Macquarie catamaran Dogwatch (Ken Davies) takes out the 2010 LCMR performance handicap prize....

Sailing

Barker and Bundock team up for Extreme 40's

Emirates Team New Zealand will enter an Extreme 40 in the final round of the 2010 circuit...

Cruising

Cutting, sewing, stitching: Ocean racers get hands on medical training

It is not every day you are asked to cut open a pig's trotter with a sharp knife then stitch it back together again....

Sailing

Interdominion Schools Team Racing Championship - Tasmanians start well

Young sailors in Hobart's Guildford Young/St Virgils Colleges team are leading an Australian bid to beat New Zealand...

Sailing

Sail Auckland 2011 moves to Takapuna - NOR now on-line and entry open

Sail Auckland 2011, New Zealand's ISAF Grade 1 Olympic and Invited Classes Regatta, will be sailed from Auckland's North...

Sailing

Sail-World Mailbag: The Week that Was - More on the Olympic Decision

Sail-World readers comment on the Olympic decisions for November...

Sailing

Heaven Can Wait Year Five - changes and challenges

The fifth annual HCW race proved once again that some things about this event evolve, while other realities never change...

Cruising

Loss of VHF aerial with mast meant rescue was 'lucky'

With a VHF aerial attached to the mast and without an emergency VHF aerial a sailor was 'lucky' to be rescued this week...

Cruising

Argo Group Gold Cup - Groups announced

Match is on as the top three sailors on the WMRT head up the three groups for the qualifying 'round robin' competition...

Cruising

Catamaran to circle the globe on solar power alone

Last week solar solar-powered yacht Planet Solar left Monaco to be the first to circumnavigate the globe on solar power....

Cruising

Powerful Simrad NSO Offshore navigation system

Simrad's new large display NSO Offshore navigation system delivers overall best-in-class performance....

Power Boats

Maritime Alert - North Coast NSW

NSW Maritime has today issued an alert to skippers from Coffs Harbour to Tweed Heads due to heavy rain....

Sailing

18ft Skiffs Back in Western Australia

For the first time in more than 20 years, a fleet of 18ft Skiffs will be racing on the Swan River, Perth, WA....

Cruising

ANDRILL team to conduct Antarctic survey project in 2010-11 season

ANDRILL, the Antarctic Geologic Drilling program, is set to begin an ambitious survey project in the new field season....

Cruising

Annapolis puts the finishing touches on preparing for Twin Shows

Doors open Thursday for the four-day US Sailboat Show in Annapolis following storms that battered the city last week....

Fishing

NSW trout season opens

Trout fishing fun commences from October 2

Kitesurfing

WAKSA Charity Downwinder 2010

Join the kitesurfing downwinder, have a great day, and help raise money for charity

Kitesurfing

New rules for Mullaloo kitesurfers

12 months in the process, the Mullaloo council recently passed regulations on kitesurfing at Mullaloo beach

Kitesurfing

Ryland Blakeney signs with Ben Wilson Surf

New kitesurfing brand BWS signs star WA rider Ryland Blakeney to the team.

Sailing

NZ 18ft season opens in great sailing conditions

The 2010/2011 NZ 18ft Skiff Season opened on the weekend at Murrays Bay in great sailing conditions....

Cruising

Summer's on the way and the Festival of Sails begin - Mackay

In Mackay they celebrate the beginning of the sail season with a Sail and Paddle Family Fun Day by the Mackay Yacht Club...

Cruising

PWA Colgate World Cup 2010 Sylt, Germany final day - Winners

Colgate World Cup 2010 Sylt - Dunkerbeck claims the final event crown but it's Albeau who walks with the 2010 title....

Power Boats

Class 1 Powerboat Italian Grand Prix - Fazza in race 2 thriller

Italian Grand Prix 2010 - Fazza's Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi became the 2010 UIM Class 1 European Champions....

Power Boats

F1 H20 14th Grand Prix of China - Carella leads Mad Croc

14th Grand Prix of China - Twenty-four year old Alex Carella lead the Mad Croc Team to their second straight 1-2 finish....

Sailing

Farr 40 European Championship 2010 - Nerone burns the competition

Farr 40 European Championship 2010 - The Italian crew added the Farr 40 European to their long list of achievements....

Power Boats

F1 H2O China Grand Prix - Rookie leads Team to second straight 1-2

'We were able to drive the boat wherever we wanted and at the same time had great speed'...

Cruising

Les Voiles de Saint Tropez - Fantastic week of racing finishes

Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez 2010 edition concluded today with the prize-giving at La Citadelle...

Power Boats

F1 H2O China Grand Prix - Mad Crocs dominate

An estimated crowd of 70,000 witnessed an exciting duel between the two Mad Croc drivers Alex Carella and Sami Selio...

Sailing

Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's Channel Race - Small boats favoured

Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's opening race of Hobart's summer yachting season took place today...

Kitesurfing - VKWC

PKRA - PKRA Argentina 2010 Preview

Latest Pro Kiteboard Riders Association news - PKRA - PKRA Argentina 2010 Preview

Sailing

Volvo Ocean Race: Simon Gundry on the Mast falling down parties

'It seems like a lifetime ago', says Ceramco New Zealand's crewmember Simon Gundry...

Sailing

Heaven Can Wait - Doing it tough

A torturous and challenging night for the 24 hour Heaven Can Wait race fleet....

Cruising

Hobie Tiger wins Canadian F18 Nationals

After two races the breeze got so wild that the race officer decided to do no more races....

Power Boats

Powerboat P1 SuperStock Champions crowned at Lymington

Heights of Abraham and Grandstand Motor Sports became the inaugural Powerboat P1 SuperStock Champions...

Cruising

Sydney Harbour attracts most fishers - but can they eat their catch?

A Dept of Primary Industries report shows Sydney Harbour has the most recreational fishers per sqkm of any NSW waterway....

Sailing

Queensland Beneteau Cup - Entry closing date looming

Less than two weeks are left to enter the Ensign Yachts Beneteau Cup and French Yacht Challenge the regatta....

Power Boats

Class 1 Powerboat Italian Grand Prix - Winner Welmax disqualified

Class 1 Powerboat World Championship Italian Grand Prix race 1 sensation as winner disqualified....

Sailing

J24 NSW State Championship at Gosford - Day 1

Day 1 of the J24 NSW State Championship 2010, Saturday second and Sunday October 3rd 2010 at the Gosford Sailing Club...

Sailing

D-One Gold Cup, Valencia - new leader

Second day at the Magic Marine BetPro D-One Gold Cup with another two great races on the board in Valencia....

Cruising

Sailing the Med with Eye Candy - cruising the Sicilian coastline

Andrew and Clare Payne are cruising the Mediterannean in their yacht Eye Candy, and this week are exploring Sicily,...

Cruising

Farr 40 European Championship - Nerone holds firm

Nerone (ITA) retains the top spot in the overall classification at the Farr 40 European Championship...

Cruising

PWA Colgate World Cup Sylt, Germany - Day 8 spectacle

Finian Maynard and Antoine Albeau stole a bullet a piece on the racecourse today...

Cruising

Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez - A fitting finale

Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez and a fitting finale for the last day of racing as the wind gods delivered 15 knots of breeze...

Cruising

Ice and wood pulp boat goes down with all hands

An attempt to test a boat made from ice and wood pulp hardly left the marina before the boat sank with all on board...

Cruising

America's Cup: Sir Keith Mills reflects on the TeamOrigin withdrawal

British America's Cup team principal, Sir Keith Mills had given an extensive interview with Yachting World's Matthew She...

Sailing

Lock Crowther Memorial Regatta inshore races: A wet day for Multihulls

Heavy rain squalls in between calm patches dictated the racing on the first of the LCMR inshore races....

Power Boats

UIM F1 H2O World Championship - Rookie Alex Carella dazzles in Linyi

Holds off Jay Price in final two laps to take first pole!...

Power Boats

Class 1 Italian Grand Prix - Welmax grab pole position hat-trick

Jorn Tandberg and Kolbjorn Selmer produced a blistering series of laps in qualifying to put Welmax on Pole Position...

Sailing

South African Hobie Tiger National Championships at Mossel Bay

Mike Goodyear had a stressful start to the event...

Windsurfing

Colgate World Cup Sylt - Day 9

Day 9 - Thirty-Five times world champion, Bjorn Dunkerbeck claims the final event crown, but it's Antoine Albeau who walks away with the last race of the season and the 2010 title!

Cruising

130th Opening Day on the River Derwent

Hobart turned on perfect spring weather today for the start of the yachting season...

Sailing

Heaven Can Wait - but dinner shouldn't

Sailors involved in this years Heaven Can Wait 24 Hour Marathon on Lake Macquarie will be making do with what is onboard...

Sailing

Heaven Can Wait - Moth flies as Champion smashes Lake Macquarie record

Lake Macquarie sailor, Nathan Outteridge smashed the Heaven Can Wait race record, for the 29 nautical mile race...

Sailing

Young Tasmanian sailors heading for New Zealand

Tasmania will again be represented in the Interdominion schools teams racing championship....

Cruising

The latest J Boat, reviewed

Recently Charles 'Butch' Ulmer set out to test sail the latest J Boat, the 36ft J-111. Here's his experience:...

Cruising

Farr 40 European Championship - Leader change

Three-time Farr 40 World Champion Jim Richardson has slipped from the top spot...

Cruising

London warns against sailing in the Seychelles

British Government announces 'Sailing vessels are vulnerable to attacks by pirates in the waters around the Seychelles.'...

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Hogan Island, VIC

47 kn

13°

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Emerald, QLD

0 kn

32°

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