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Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race - Line honours victory to Wild Oats XI

It's been an eventful race for the winning crew, arriving at Southport this evening minus their bowman Tim Wiseman...

Cruising

Canadian Laser Masters Championships - Final Report

Sailors from coast to coast in Canada and from the U.S. participated in the 2010 Canadian Laser Masters Championships...

Sailing

Melbourne Winter Series - Right and Wrong

Getting the Division One gun today in the Melbourne Winter Series, was the Farr 52, Goldfinger....

Cruising

Topaz Sailing announces 'A Boat in A Box'

Topaz Sailing announces,'A Boat in Box',new packaging to ship boats virtually anywhere faster, easier, safer and cheaper...

Sailing

World University Match Racing Champs report from UNSW's Tara McCall

UNSW's Tara McCall World Uni Match Racing Championship's report...

Sailing

Viking 18ft Skiffs Grand Prix wrap

Viking 18ft Grand Prix at Sonderborg, Denmark. On Day 2, the forecast was SW wind from 16-20 knots and gusting...

Sailing

Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race - Conversations with the fleet

Many in the fleet have been very chatty navigators taking a well earned break from their duties to report their progress...

Sailing

Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race record set in 1999 to remain

The elusive Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race record remains for another year with the 2010 leader well outside record pace....

Sailing

Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Race - Five days to go

Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race (B2K) - 3pm start on Friday 6 August. Five days to go...

Sailing

Sydney to Gold Coast - Injured sailor being treated at Sydney hospital

Sydney to Gold Coast Race 2010 - Wild Oats XI's bowman Tim Wiseman is this morning in Sydney awaiting surgery....

Cruising

Teen sailor Laura Dekker - sailing with Dad to the start line

Fourteen-year-old Dutch sailor Laura Dekker has announced she will sail away from the Netherlands on Wednesday...

Cruising

PWA Sotavento Fuerteventura Grand Slam 2010 Day Eight

Vice world champion, Kiri Thode takes down three times world title holder, Jose 'Gollito' Estredo twice....

Cruising

Inflating for safety - new World Record?

The NSW boating industry on Thursday set a provisional world record of 415 lifejackets inflated at once in the one spot...

Sailing

Extreme Sailing Series at Cowes Week

The opening day of the UK round of the Extreme Sailing Series at Cowes Week opened at full throttle....

Sailing

Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race - Black Jack hangs on

Black Jack, skippered by Mark Bradford, has overnight managed to hold back the rest of the fleet...

Cruising

RC 44 Valencia Cup - Day 5

Chris Bake's Team Aqua stood up to challenging conditions today and find themselves the new leaders of fleet racing....

Sailing

America's Cup teams begin final buildup to 1851 Cup event in Cowes

Both competing teams took USA-87, newly branded as TeamOrigin 'Racing with Jaguar', out for a shakedown sail...

Cruising

The argument for an inner forestay

Many boats have a roller furling genoa as primary headsail, but the addition of an inner forestay is good for cruisers...

Sailing

Audi Sydney to Gold Coast Yacht Race 2010 - Black Jack holds lead

Peter Harburg's Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron pocket-maxi Black Jack had weathered strong wind overnight....

Sailing

SAP 505 World Championships day two - New leaders

Wolfgang Hunger and Julien Kleiner have moved into the lead of the SAP 505 World Championships...

Sailing

Zhik RS Eurocup 2010 grand finals

Zhik RS Eurocup 2010 grand finals took place today at Fraglia Vela Riva....

Windsurfing

Fuerteventura Grand Slam - Day 9

Day 9 - Three times world champion, Jose 'Gollito' Estredo claims the second single elimination in Sotavento with a jaw dropping display of full power freestyle.

Sailing

Sydney Gold Coast Race - Black Jack steaming for home on record pace

Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race - Peter Harburg's Queensland based RP66 Black Jack is this evening's race leader....

Sailing

Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race - Injured bowman taken to Newcastle

Wiseman sustained the injury which was serious enough to warrant him being put off the boat...

Cruising

Scientists test Moreton Bay as coral 'lifeboat'

Scientists have been exploring Moreton Bay, as a possible 'lifeboat' to save corals from the Great Barrier Reef...

Cruising

2010 MacMan International Race Is In the Books

After a start on Mackinac Island, a stop in Gore Bay, Ontario, and a finish in Little Current, the race is completed...

Cruising

La Solitaire du Figaro first leg win to French skipper

Le Cleac'h has sailed the perfect race right from the very start and never been less than top five...

Sailing

Viking 18ft Skiff Grand Prix Denmark - Big rigs, big sailing

Light winds on Day One of Viking 18ft Skiff Grand Prix at Sonderborg, Denmark saw all teams go for their big No. 1 rigs...

Sailing

Sydney to Gold Coast Race 2010 -Round one to the Mexicans

Audi Sydney Hobart Race 2010 Round one of the silver jubilee Sydney to Southport race went to the Victorians, the wily i...

Sailing

International Cadet World Championships - Australians second and third

Australian crews Anton and Julian Sasson and Alec and Samantha Bailey look set to place second and third overall...

Cruising

Jo Royle: the Plastiki experience at Sydney International Boat Show

Plastiki Skipper, Jo Royle says we need to beat waste and change our attitudes to the use of one-life plastic....

Cruising

Sydney International Boat Show - sun brings the quality crowds

Day three of the Sydney boat show and the crowd numbers are up, so are sales and expectations....

Sailing

Audi Sydney to Gold Coast Race - Talkin' about records

Mark Richards typically doesn't like to speculate on breaking records until Wild Oats XI, the 100ft supermaxi he helms,...

Cruising

How to give yourself the best chance of avoiding whales

The American Sailing Association has come up with some good advice about encounters with whales...

Cruising

RC44 Valencia Cup 2010 - Fleet racing

Anders Myralf of Denmark guided James Spithill and the 17 crew to three first place finishes today....

Cruising

Sir John Franklin search sailing vessel found

A sailing ship lost while searching for Sir John Franklin in the Arctic 150 years ago has been found by archaeologists...

Power Boats

US Sailing receives grant from U.S. Coast Guard in support

US Sailing and the U.S. Coast Guard have strengthened their partnership with the Small Powerboat Handling program....

Cruising

PWA Sotavento, Fuerteventura Grand Slam 2010 - Day Seven

Jose 'Gollito' Estredo, reigning world champion, claims single elimination victory in a powerful freestyle frenzy...

Cruising

Global Ocean Race new home confirmed - Viva Mallorca!

Global Ocean Race organisers have announced a contract with Mallorca to host the start and end of the circumnavigation....

Cruising

La Solitaire du Figaro - Leaders in tomorrow, suspense running high

Another nail-biting 24 hours for the skippers...

Windsurfing

Fuerteventura Grand Slam - Day 8

Day 8 - Vice world champion, Kiri Thode takes down three times world title holder, Jose 'Gollito' Estredo twice to win the first double elimination in spectacular style.

Cruising

La Solitaire du Figaro - Armel the Jackal keeps alert

Armel Le Cleac'h (Brit Air) holds 0.6 lead over Yann Elies (Gererali Europ Assistance)...

Sailing

Melbourne Winter Series - Perfect really -Cold, blustery and wet

Race Four of the Melbourne Winter Series is on this Sunday, August 1st....

Sailing

International Cadet Worlds - Five Australians in top eight in Poland

The Sasson brothers are amongst the young Aussie's doing a fantastic job in Poland....

Sailing

Alegria IV steps into IRC offshore bullring next weekend

Queensland's newest racing machine, Rod Jones's GP42 Alegria IV, has been going through last minute preparations before...

Sailing

TeamOrigin takes issue with role of America's Cup Challenger

Increasing disquiet in the established America's Cup community over the 34th America's Cup surfaced in an interview with...

Sailing

Burke SP7 Quick Dri Polo

The latest addition to the technical clothing range of Burke Marine is their Short Sleeve UPF50 + polo....

Sailing

Marion Cooper first woman Life Member of Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania

Marion Cooper, the first woman to be elected Commodore of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania....

Cruising

Rough seas slow rally yachts

Yachts heading from Darwin to the Indonesian Banda Neira have been delayed through unusually rough seas....

Sailing

Sydney International Boat Show - Its here!

2010 Sydney International Boat Show is underway...

Sailing

SAP 505 World Championships preview

Having just won the 505 Pre-Worlds Regatta in Aarhus, Denmark, Jorgen and Jacob Bojsen-Moller are looking to continue....

Cruising

Great American Raft-up - what a great idea

South Shore Yacht Club at Newport Beach has 'Great American Raft-up' every summer - a great idea for encouraging newbies...

Sailing

PWA Sotavento, Fuerteventura Grand Slam - Fistful of tricks

Freestyle's freshest flip the vibe with a fistful of tricks in Furteventura....

Sailing

Techno 293 OD World Championships - A record fleet

Techno 293 OD World Championships will be taking place at Martigues in the Rhone delta, France....

Cruising

RC 44 Valencia Cup fleet poised for fleet racing

Up to four races a day are planned Friday through Sunday...

Sailing

Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup - Big guns at the ready

2010 marks the 21st edition of this annual autumn gathering...

Sailing

OK Dinghy Europeans - Double win for Goodbody, but Rakocy still leads

OK Dinghy European championships final day will be a fight between youth and experience....

Cruising

Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac - Winners of the 102nd edition

Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac winners, presented by Veuve Clicquot...

Windsurfing

Fuerteventura Grand Slam - Day 7

Day 7 - Reigning world champion, Estredo claims single elimination victory in a powerful freestyle frenzy.

Sailing

Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race - Race record could tumble

Race briefing was conducted this evening from 1800 hours with over 160 people in attendance....

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Mount Wellington, TAS

38 kn

6°

Most Windless in Australia:

Safety Bay, WA

0 kn

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Articles/Articles

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Kitesurfing

Travelling to Bali - some Trip Tips

Kitesurfing

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Kitesurfing

Australian Kitesurfing Shops & Schools

Kitesurfing

How to start Kiteboarding

Fishing

How to take fishing photo's - part 2

Stand Up Paddle

The right food for Stand Up Paddling...

How to stick a surfpad on your kiteboard (surfboard)

Kitesurfing

How to stick a surfpad on your kiteboard (surfboard)

Fishing

How to take photos of your fish catch

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Kitesurfing

Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

Windsurfing Forum Comments/forums

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Anyone here who moved to WA from elsewhere (interstate or abroad)?

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Windsurfing

This might be a bit of a confession "but forgive me I have sinned. maybe"

By: Henners, 58m ago

Windsurfing

I've had other issues with it so I think it's on the way out but yesterday it only recorded part of...

By: sboardcrazy, 1h ago

Windsurfing

I have a question for the wind foiling professionals.

By: MichiG, 2h ago

Windsurfing

Lots of threads about sails not working with masts both now and historically so I did an ai deep...

By: Gestalt, 5h ago

Windsurfing

Hi there, the online windsurfing forums here in Canada aren't what they used to be lately so I...

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Windsurfing

Am trying an 86L/56 wide Isonic and whilst its super once on the plane over 30 knots I am finding...

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