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America's Cup: BMW Oracle Media Conference and Reflections + Video

BMW Oracle held a media conference the day after winning the America's Cup...

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18ft Skiffs Club Championship Race 13 - Winner masters conditions

2009 Giltinan Championship winning crew masters the dreadful conditions on Sydney Harbour...

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Intrigue and Invincible one-all in Crown Series Bellerive Regatta

Crown Series Bellerive Regatta - The cross-river Division 1 ratings clash finished...

Sailing

Veteran Wynyard boat wins trailable yacht division on Derwent

Crown Series Bellerive Regatta - Sportsboats and trailables State title in Hobart....

Sailing

Images from Day 3 of the 2010 BMW Auckland Regatta - Gallery 2

More images from Day 3 of the BMW Auckland Regatta...

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Images from Day 3 of the 2010 BMW Auckland Regatta - Gallery 1

Images from Day 3 of the BMW Auckland Regatta...

Cruising

BMW Oracle Racing's design team explain USA-17's winning Technology

Several members of the Design and Technology team from BMW Oracle Racing give the low-down on the technology behind BMW...

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Tsunami doesn't deter sailors in final of 2010 BMW Auckland Regatta

The final day of the BMW Auckland Regatta saw some tight battles around a picturesque Hauraki Gulf...

Sailing

Large fleet for Audi Sydney Harbour regatta

Sydney Harbour will become the playground for an incredibly diverse fleet of keelboats for this year's Audi Sydney Harbo...

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2010 Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta: SMB 3.5 rushes from South Australia

Within two hours of winning the Lincoln Week Regatta Secret Men's Business 3.5 had left for Sydney...

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2010 BMW Auckland Regatta: Tactics take over from Tempest

the second day was more about tactics than survival as the wind softened to near drifting strength at times and seldom...

Cruising

Tsunami Event - February 27, 2010 Chile - the Tsunami forecast model

The Chile tsunami was generated by a Mw 8.8 earthquake at 06:34 UTC, 115 km (60 miles) NNE of Concepcion, Chile (accordi...

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Whitworth and Crozier on Berrimilla about to make landfall.

Alex Whitworth and Peter Crozier on Berrimilla are about to arrive in Tasmania...

Cruising

Family of kidnapped sailors refuse politician offer to pay ransom

Relatives of Paul and Rachel Chandler refuse a politician's offer to pay the ransom, imploring instead, 'Wait and pray.'...

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Pacific waits for Tsunami waves

Tsunami warnings have been posted around the Pacific, for Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Japan and Russia....

Cruising

Jules Verne Trophy - Conditions about to get tougher for Groupama 3

Jules Verne Trophy update. The sailing conditions will become harder this Saturday evening with the arrival of a cold fr...

Cruising

RC44 Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy: Team Aqua wins a tough battle

Team Aqua wins a tough battle against Artemis...

Sailing

Marinassess Women's Match Racing - Perfect score to Lucinda Whitty

With perfect weather conditions for match racing on Sydney Harbour today, Lucinda Whitty (RSYS)...

Sailing

Crown Series 2010: Intrigue and Invincible duel for IRC, AMS honours

Cross river rivals Invincible (Harold Clark) and Intrigue (Don Calvert) are again duelling for top rating honours...

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Crown Series Bellerive Regatta Tamar sports boats star on the Derwent

Tamar River sports boats today dominated results on the first day racing for their Tasmanian State championship...

Sailing

2010 Etchells NSW Championship - Hickman out to an early lead

Sun Tzu leading after day one of the 2010 Etchells NSW Championship...

Cruising

RC44s Team Sea Dubai: helmsman straight in at the deep end.

It's been a tough start for Raimondo Tonelli on the helm on Sea Dubai...

Sailing

Steven wins CentrePort International Youth Match Regatta 2010

Wellington turned on a cracker for the finals of the CentrePort Regatta 2010 resulting in a fantastic day for RPNYC...

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Crown Series Bellerive Regatta - Two Farr 40s disqualified from race 1

2 Farr 40s including the provisional race winner War Games have been disqualified for breaking the rules of yacht racing...

Sailing

Changes to Division 1 results in Crown Series

Officials announced revised results for last evenings twilight race for Division 1 of the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta...

Sailing

Geographe Bay Race Week Wrap

Great Breeze Completes Geographe Bay Race Week...

Cruising

Giant Floating Garbage Patch - confirmed in the Atlantic too.

Polystyrene, thongs, bottle tops, and shotgun caps: Scientists tell of a garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean...

Sailing

Images from Day1 of the 2010 BMW Auckland Regatta: Action stations!

It was Action Stations for all crews on the opening day of the BMW Auckland Regatta, top photographer, Ivor Wilkins pres...

Cruising

RC 44 Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy - Artemis chasing victory

Chris Bake and his Team Aqua still lead the fleet race ranking of the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy RC 44...

Cruising

Solo Circumnavigators and the trouble they get into - Natasza Caban

A series of stories about the current crop of solo world circumnavigators: this week Natasza Caban...

Cruising

RORC Caribbean 600 - Hat Trick for Beau Geste

Karl Kwok's Farr 80, Beau Geste, will be awarded the RORC Caribbean 600 trophy for best yacht overall under IRC....

Cruising

Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 extends her lead

Sixty miles better in 24 hours: Groupama 3 is continuing to extend her lead in relation to Orange 2's course in 2005....

Sailing

2010 BMW Auckland Regatta: Frantic Drift flips

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PKRA - Susi Mai attends the Hua Hin Kiteboard World Cup Press Conference

Latest Pro Kiteboard Riders Association news - PKRA - Susi Mai attends the Hua Hin Kiteboard World Cup Press Conference

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Bumpy start for Farr 40s in Crown Series opener

The Farr 40 and Division 1 fleet got away to a bumpy and rowdy start to the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta...

Sailing

Crowning a Tasmanian cruise in a trailable yacht

Bosun is the only interstate entrant in a fleet of more than 20 boats entered for the Trailable Yacht and Sports Boat di...

Sailing

CentrePort Youth Match Racing 2010 -A Trans-Tasman Clash

Light southerlies on day 3 meant racing took place in Evan's Bay. A fantastic day and perfect conditions for racing!...

Sailing

Geographe Bay Race Week Day 5 - Delayed Action

It was a tough day for the race committee today, with a postponement and late start for all fleets....

Cruising

Sailing with the Treleavens - Isla Mujeres, Mexico and Havana, Cuba

Ian and Andrea Treleaven continue with their new tales of cruising the Caribbean in Mexico and Cuba...

Sailing

First entries received for Audi Sydney Offshore Newcastle Yacht Race

Syd Fischer, owner of Ragamuffin, was the first to submit an entry for the Audi Sydney Offshore Newcastle Yacht Race...

Sailing

RC44 Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy - Team Aqua back on top

Chris Bake and his Team Aqua dominated the first day of the fleet regatta with two victories and two second places....

Sailing

ISAF Sailing World Cup, Kieler Woche, Germany: Online entry opens

Online entry is now open for the 2010 edition of Kieler Woche the penultimate stop of 2009-2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup...

Sailing

Louis Vuitton series expected to be scene-setter for America's Cup

Details of the upcoming Louis Vuitton Trophy were announced in a media conference this morning at the Royal New Zealand...

Sailing

Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 ahead of reference time

At 52" S and 172" E, Groupama 3 is positioned at a point which is practically antipodal to the finish point off Ushant!...

Power Boats

It's an Outrage! Boston Whaler goes 'king size'

Largest Boston Whaler yet built attracts plenty of interest at the Miami International Boat Show....

Cruising

Phoenicia braves the Cape of Good Hope

Phoenicia is not to attempt to navigate a stretch of the worlds most dangerous coast line, the Cape of Good Hope....

Sailing

RORC Caribbean 600 - Beau Geste takes monohull line honours

Beau Geste takes monohull line honours finishing the RORC Caribbean 600 on the 25th February 00 01 13...

Sailing

Gladwell's Line: How long will the America's Cup 'Love-In' last?

Will the 34th America's Cup be the 'Flower-Power' Cup?...

Windsurfing

KP's Video Vault - Kevin Pritchard keeps us up to date via his blog

Kevin Pritchard keeps us up to date via his blog.

Cruising

'True to the Sea' A Marine Photographic Exhibition

'True to the Sea' is a nautical inspired photographic exhibition featuring Australia's leading marine photographer Andr...

Sailing

Lexus Lincoln Week Regatta - Secret Men's Business 3.5 takes IRC overa

Adelaide yacht Secret Men's Business 3.5 won the 'grand prix' IRC division of the Lexus Lincoln Week regatta....

Sailing

Olympians coach at Mandurah Easter Regatta

Olympians coach at Mandurah Easter Regatta 2010 in Western Australia...

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Crown Series Bellerive Regatta - Melges 32 Tasmanian racing debut

The Melges 32, will make its Tasmanian racing debut in this weekend's Crown Series Bellerive Regatta...

Cruising

Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 - Cape Town selected as first port of call

Cape Town's selection as the first port for the 2011-12 race is a result of a lot of hard work...

Sailing

RORC Caribbean 600 sunset and sunrise pictures from Carlo Borlenghi

Carlo Borlenghi presents this gallery of images of sunset and sunrise in from the RORC Caribbean 600....

Sailing

RC44s in Dubai: Ambitious Sea Dubai turn their fortunes around

Sea Dubai scooped the top match-racing prize today for the first time in their third season of racing in the class....

Cruising

Adventurer set to re-create Captain Bligh's 4,000nm Bounty Boat voyage

Don McIntyrer is set to re-create the greatest voyage of all time - Captain Bligh's Mutiny on the Bounty Boat...

Sailing

CentrePort Youth Match Racing - Day 2, Round Robin 1 complete

Racing resumed this morning outside the club and Round robin 1 was was completed just before lunch today....

Cruising

Twenty years since the discovery of the Ozone Hole

It's over twenty years since the discovery of the ozone hole...

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Powerboat P1 Team 26 support BladeRun-Western Europe

Team 26, a Sterling-powered Donzi 38ZRC, won six-out-of-ten races during its 2009 SuperSport Class campaign...

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