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Brian Palfreeman Obituary

The Flag Officers and Members of the Pointe-Claire Yacht Club bid a sad farewell to Brian Palfreeman...

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BVI Spring Regatta announces new trophy on offer, the IYCC

New for 2010, the inaugural International Yacht Club Challenge - BVI Spring Regatta April 2 - April 4....

Power Boats

Evolution Class champion OSG recruits Fendi for 2010 season

Evolution Class champions Giancarlo Cangiano and Giovanni Carpitella have scored a massive coup ......

Power Boats

Powerboat P1 SuperStock Championship - Round three to Galway

Powerboat P1 Management Ltd announced plans for round three of its 2010 series to take place in Galway...

Sailing

World Match Racing Tour announce new event - Vietnam Match Cup

World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) awarded Rainbow International Co. Ltd the rights to organise the Vietnam Match Cup....

Sailing

Club Marine Series - testing times on Port Phillip

Yachting Victoria's Club Marine Series for Day Four, was always set to have a good breeze...

Sailing

Sydney Newcastle Race double to Cawse

Dick Cawse and his Lyons/Cawse 60, Vanguard, have provisionally wrapped up the 2009/2010 Ocean Pointscore series...

Sailing

Mr Kite and The Fork in the Road in Bruny Island Race duel

Tasmanian ocean racing rival yachts Mr Kite and The Fork in the Road tonight are tonight locked in a duel for line honou...

Sailing

OK World Championships Day 1 - Wellington NZ

12-15 knot breezes on the first day of the 2010 OK Dinghy championships on Wellington Harbour, New Zealand....

Sailing

Flinders Islet race: Loki wins the double - Ragamuffin leads BW PS

'The Blue Water Pointscore is well named - it was a real blue water race - we saw 35 knots at one stage.' - Geoff Ross...

Sailing

Club Marine Series - Morning of the TPs

It may well have been mild and nice earlier on this morning, but by the time the gun went, there was a genuine 15 knots....

Sailing

Grant Dalton sees light in AC gloom and pulls out of Volvo Ocean Race

Emirates Team New Zealand will not compete in the next Volvo Ocean Race, scuppering any chance of an Auckland stopover....

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Plastiki setting sail for Sydney

The Plastiki made from recycled PET bottles is due to sail from San Francisco to Sydney within weeks....

Sailing

Bruny Island fleet slow down after fast start

The fleet in the Veolia Environmental Services 84th Bruny Island Race has slowed down in the d'Entrecasteaux Channel...

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Lifeboat crew honoured - full story of dramatic rescue off Scotland

Members of a lifeboat crew will be honoured for their actions in the rescue of the crew of a yacht in October last year...

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No, MINE's bigger - Emocean

Roman Abramovich's oceanic supremacy with Eclipse may be over once the 656ft gigayacht by Emocean Yacht Design launches...

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Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Hull & Humber in the lead

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Hull & Humber in the lead as fleet clears final Indonesian island....

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Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta 2011 to be sailed on Hong Kong Harbour

The 14-day long Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta 2011, will take place on Hong Kong Harbour....

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America's Cup - Alinghi 5 practicing ahead of Monday's Race 1

Winter Sunshine in Valencia and the the Swiss syndicate's Alinghi 5 multihull on the water. Here are some of the latest...

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Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 leads but now for the Doldrums

Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 already has more than a day's lead over the reference time......

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Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship 2010 welcomed

Thursday night saw the city of Istanbul officially welcome the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship 2010...

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Extreme Sailing Series Asia - Oman Sail Masirah on top

Oman Sail Masirah is crowned champion of the Extreme Sailing Series Asia....

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America's Cup: 'May the best team win on the water' Ernesto Bertarelli

The 33rd America's Cup has been a long time coming, but after two years of litigation....

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America's Cup 2010 - USA-17 more images from Valencia

America's Cup 2010 - USA 17 images from Valencia from Gilles Martin Raget from BMW Oracle Racing...

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America's Cup - Umpiring fast multihulls at the 33rd America's Cup

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Americas Cup: Team BMW Oracle Racing's 'wind mapping' technology

Imagine somebody hands you a device that can quite literally map out the wind activity up to a kilometer in front of you...

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Whitsunday warning as disaster hits six yachts

After 6 yachts were lost, Whitsunday Sailing Club Commodore says owners should move boats to Shute Harbour in storms...

Sailing

OK Dinghy World Championships Invitation Race

Wellington turned on more champagne sailing today for the Invitation Race of the OK Dinghy World Championships....

Sailing

Changeable weather will keep Flinders Islet competitors on the go

A lot is riding on this evening's Flinders Islet Race, the race of the CYCA prestigious Series....

Sailing

Welcome to this regular non America's Cup version sailing newsletter

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Sailing

King Island - Gastronomic delights signal the return to ocean racing

Notice of Race now available for Melbourne to King Island...

Power Boats

NSW Maritime Operation 'Blue Water' targets coastal boating safety

Operation 'Blue Water' aimed at improving awareness of the safety requirements for boats on coastal waters...

Sailing

Indian Ocean Five Capes Race: Majan about to set off on a trace route

On Sat, Feb 6, Oman Sail's A100 'Majan' alongside their 75-ft multihull 'Musandam' will embark on tracing out the route...

Sailing

SB3 class: Overview of the upcoming international regatta events

SB3 World Council sets Calendar of World and European Championships Events for the next three years...

Sailing

Glowfast Marine - official supporter of the Sydney 38 Nationals

Glowfast is proud to announce that it is an Official Supporter of the 2010 Sydney 38 National Championship Regatta....

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Plastiki: David Rothschild's dream becoming a reality - slowly

Plastiki, made of 12,000 plastic bottles, was to cross the Pacific a year ago but now March is the planned departure...

Sailing

Warren Jones International Youth Regatta win to Tiller

William Tiller from Auckland's Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, won the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta...

Sailing

Extreme Sailing Series Asia lives up to its name

Extreme Sailing Series Asia - Thousands gathered on the beach on the first public day of the Muscat event...

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New theory could help save biodiversity

Australian scientists have announced a major new finding that helps explain how natural systems like coral reefs .......

Sailing

Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 ahead of reference time

Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 is ahead of the reference time....

Power Boats

World's Fastest Diesel Teams up with Power Equipment

The JCB DieselMax is the world's fastest diesel engine having set the world land speed record for diesel engines recently at a speed of 563.418 km/h (350.092 mph).

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Clipper Round the World race - Cape Breton Island enjoys close racing

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Some close match racing has taken place in Race 6 to Qingdao over the past 24 hrs...

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Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Close racing to Qingdao

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Some close match racing has taken place in Race 6 to Qingdao over the past 24 hrs...

Power Boats

Major development program ahead for Maritimo Offshore team

New hull design boasts enormous potential, but needs further development....

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Cape Breton Island begins Race 6 to Qingdao, China, after festive fare

Cape Breton Island, winner of Race 5 set sail from Marina at Keppel Bay, Singapore...

Windsurfing

Caught On Camera - Watch the stars of the PWA perform in paradise

Watch the stars of the PWA perform in paradise.

Power Boats

Gold Coast GFC's light tackle tournament a winner

No shortage of Black marlin for the Gold Coast Game Fishing Club tournament....

Cruising

OK Dinghy World Championships 2010 about to start

Purdie certainly looks to be in good form going into the OK Dinghy World Championships , Wellington, New Zealand this w...

Sailing

Historic times for The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania

The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, is currently in an historic mode...

Power Boats

Across the blue Pacific, Miami in my sights

The Miami International Boat Show remains a vital cog in the marketing of the United States boating industry....

Sailing

Special Olympics (AUS) 2010 National Games - Less than 3 months away

In an exciting 'first' sailors with an intellectual disability can now demonstrate their skill and talent...

Sailing

Warren Jones Int'l Youth Regatta 2010 - Kiwis versus Aussies in semis

William Tiller of Auckland's Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, heads the leaderboard...

Sailing

RS Tera World Championship 2010 Notice of Race

The second RS Tera World Championship will take place this summer 24th-31st July at Carnac YC in South Brittany, France....

Sailing

Geographe Bay Race Week - Last chance to enter

The State's best yachts will contest the Geographe Bay Race Week starting in Busselton on 20th February....

Sailing

29erXX Seiko Superbowl Regatta 2010: Nattrass and Biehl take title

Regatta winners Hannah Nattrass (AUS) and Graham Biehl (USA) continued their winning ways....

Sailing

Brisbane to Gladstone crews monitor the weather

Brisbane Gladstone Ocean racing crews will continue to monitor the active monsoon season...

Sailing

ISAF Sailing World Cup series - Bumper medal haul to USA in Miami

The US team collected a bumper haul of 10 medals as the 2009-2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup series...

Sailing

Jules Verne Trophy -

Jules Verne Trophy - A last gybe is scheduled this Wednesday evening to take the crew around the outside of Cape Verde...

Sailing

Clipper 09-10: Canada's Breton Island aims for back to back wins

Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race - Teams regain their sea legs following a fantastic Singapore stopover...

Sailing

The Club Marine Series is back on Watch

The Club Marine Series returns to Melbourne's Port Phillip, this Saturday....

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Hey guys, any wingfoiling spots in or near the city? any wind over tide DW spots as well?

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This year I will be turning 40. I've...

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Hi All , Currently using a 107 69w 2014 Isonic with a 7m cheetah as my light wind big kit (I'm...

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I love the North stuff even though the supply has always been challenging here in the uk.

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I am looking for recommendations for a PFD, mainly for parawing use.

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I currently have a 100L Cabrinha Swift ML board (I weight 80 kg).

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