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Australian 18ft Skiff Championship images

Images from yesterday's Race 3 of the SP HighModulus Australian 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour....

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Day 3 for the Over the Moon Australian Spiral Championships

Murray Gordon still leads the Over the Moon Australian Spiral Championships over local sailor Chris Eddes....

Cruising

OceansWatch needs a Skipper for the 2010 season in the SW Pacific

OceansWatch www.oceanswatch.org is looking for an experienced skipper to run their flagship, Magic Roundabout....

Cruising

Planning and organising - one of the vital keys to good seamanship

When you sail - or plan to sail- on an overnight voyage, planning and organising are key skills...

Cruising

Medical Management for Mariners - a vital course for a longer voyage

CYCA and St Vincents Hospital are offering a course for sailors, Medical Management for Mariners...

Cruising

Rolex Miami OCR 2010: 630 of the world's best sailors get ready

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere 630 of the world's best sailors prepare for tomorrow's opening day...

Sailing

Chilli top scores in the Multihull Series

The Geelong Taxi Network Multihull Series, part of Audi Victoria Week, was decided yesterday afternoon...

Sailing

Australia Day Regatta - Thousands to celebrate afloat

Thousands of Australians will celebrate Australia Day afloat tomorrow...

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Single-handed Mooloolaba lady sailor ready for Solo Trans Tasman

Single-handed sailor Jenny Fitzgibbon leaves from Mooloolaba Yacht Club next week to start her trek to New Zealand in...

Power Boats

UIM-WPPA Class 1 World Powerboat Championship - Rio first up

Rio de Janeiro is the spectacular setting for the first Grand Prix of the 2010 UIM-WPPA Class 1 World Powerboats...

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PKRA - PKRA Comes To Thailand

Latest Pro Kiteboard Riders Association news - PKRA - PKRA Comes To Thailand

Windsurfing

The Twins Turn Starboard - Daida and Iballa Moreno have joined Starboard's inter

Daida and Iballa Moreno have joined Starboard's international dream team.

Sailing

Don't Miss The Boat! - Enter BoatGearDirect NOW!!

With hundreds of entries into our T-Shirt slogan competition from not just Australia, but from around the globe....

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Moth Victorian Championship - Mach 2 Moths vying for the lead

Mach 2 Moth designer Andrew McDougall has climbed to the top of the leaderboard in Moth Victorian Championship...

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SB3 Victorian Championships - Three bullets to Shelley

Three wins from three races - Jono Shelley to the top of the leaderboard in SB3 Victorian Championships...

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Canute and Surprise fire off two wins each to lead Audi IRC Series

Canute's owner Peter Horn had a pair of Division 2 wins in the Audi IRC Series today....

Sailing

Audi Victoria Week - Cruising division pile up

Sunsail Cruising with Spinnaker fleet contesting Audi Victoria Week today sailed a 12 nautical mile Corio Bay course...

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Anthony Beck's Escape leads S80 Series at Audi Victoria Week

Anthony Beck's Escape from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, had a narrow one today at Audi Victoria Week on Corio Bay...

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Lowana Five continues good form at Audi Victoria Week

Simon Vaughan's RL24 Lowana Five continued its winning form in the BIA Trailerable Yacht Series...

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National Sports Boat Series - Roger That

Melges 24 Roger That holds a seven-point lead in the Bundaberg Rum National Sports Boat Series at Audi Victoria Week...

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Audi Victoria Week images from Andrea Francolini

Audi Victoria Week images from photographer Andrea Francolini...

Cruising

Loggerhead Turtles return to Queensland in record numbers

Loggerhead turtles are returning to Queensland beaches in record numbers...

Sailing

Formula 18 Australian Championships - Brewin and Benson extend

Steve Brewin and Jack Benson dominated second day of racing in Club Marine Formula 18 Australian Championships...

Sailing

America's Cup: USA-17 hits the fast lane in Valencia

With the wind hitting 22 knots, it was a day to see what the USA, and it's wing sail, could do....

Sailing

Audi Victoria Week - Young guns leading Sydney 38 Series

Audi Victoria Week - The Sydney 38 division of 10 boats completed their first windward/leeward race on the outer harbour...

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Audi Victoria Week - Secret Mens Business 3.5 ramps it up

Geoff Boettcher and his Secret Mens Business 3.5 crew from South Australia meant business in races 2 and 3...

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Bay of Islands Sailing Week 2010 has perfect conditions

Bay of Islands Sailing Week 2010 experienced saw pretty much perfect weather throughout the Regatta with 10 - 25 knots d...

Power Boats

Angelo Tedeschi receives his country's highest sporting accolade

SuperSport Class World Champion, Angelo Tedeschi, has received his country's highest sporting accolade...

Cruising

Playmates for Sydney's resident wobbegong sharks

Another ten wobbegong shark pups were released in Sydney waters on Friday 22nd January....

Sailing

Australian 18ft Skiff Championship - Race 3 Surprise winner

Grant Rollerson caused a major shock when in Race 3 of the SP HighModulus Australian 18ft Skiff Championship...

Sailing

SB3 Victorian Championships - Great start for Queensland teams

Kai Timm, Owen Muyt and Fred Blenke sailing Club Marine White got off to a great start in the SB3 William Angliss Victor...

Cruising

Jessica Watson's damaging storm - EPIRB set off

Four knock-downs and a 70+ knot gale have damaged Ella's Pink Lady, and set off the EPIRB...

Sailing

Secret Mens Business overall winner of Passage Race

Geoff Boettcher and his Secret Mens Business 3.5 crew were declared winners of the Passage Race at Audi Victoria Week...

Sailing

Over the Moon Australian Spiral Championship underway

Murray Gordon leads over 65 boat fleet after a 1, 1, 3 in a gusty westerly yesterday. 3 more races scheduled for today....

Cruising

Gold Coast families lead boating boom

Sales of family boats over the past 12 months demonstrates Queensland families' love of boating is greater than the GFC....

Power Boats

Cyclone Olga tracks towards Cooktown

Cyclone Olga tracks towards North Queensland Coast....

Sailing

Clipper 09-10: Prizegiving in Singapore

Cape Breton Island, winner of Race 5 of Clipper 09-10 made a dramatic entrance to Marina at Keppel Bay, Singapore...

Cruising

Jessica Watson pounded by 70knots, Abby Sunderland sets off

Abby Sunderland has departed California trying to be the youngest sailor to circle the world non-stop and unassisted...

Cruising

BMW Oracle USA 17 vs Alinghi 5 - Comparison Chart

We should now get out the tape measures and look at the stats of the two most advanced sailing yachts ever built....

Cruising

Victorious Cape Breton Island arrives in Singapore

Cape Breton Island, winner of Race 5 of Clipper 09-10 made a dramatic entrance to Marina at Keppel Bay, Singapore...

Cruising

Cruising Club of America Award to cruising heroes

Cruising Club of America announced that Maurice and Sophie Conti win the 2009 Rod Stephens Trophy for a heroic rescue....

Sailing

Just a Minor Hickup for Audi Victoria Week Passage Race winner

Peter Coleman's Hick 39 Just a Minor Hickup took out the Audi Victoria Week Passage Race honours in IRC Division 2...

Cruising

Interview Transcript: Russell Coutts meets the Media

CEO and Skipper, Russell Coutts held a relatively impromptu Media session in the BMW Oracle Racing base last Wednesday....

Sailing

Formula 18 Australian Championship - Successful first day for new cat

A new boat finished its first day of racing as the overall leader of the Club Marine Formula 18 Australian Championship...

Sailing

Audi Victoria Week Passage Race Sydney 38 win to Cinquante

Being a one-design boat there is very little separating the 10 Sydney 38s contesting Audi Victoria Week...

Sailing

Record cruising fleet adds plenty of weight to Audi Victoria Week

The record cruising fleet contesting Audi Victoria Week added plenty of colour and numbers to today's starting list of 3...

Sailing

International Moth Victorian Championships - First race confusion

International Moth Victorian Championships at Audi Victoria Week - strong winds and confusion reduced starters...

Sailing

The West's Next Hobie Youth Champion

W Australian sailors are rallying around Alex Landwehr, a contender for the '09/'10 Australian Hobie Youth Championship....

Sailing

First points to Lowana Five in Audi Victoria Week's Trailerable series

Lowana Five braved today's winds on Corio Bay to claim a win in the opening race of the BIA Trailerable Yacht Series...

Sailing

Audi Victoria Week Passage Race multihull win to Cascade

The 46 foot catamaran Cascade proved that age is no barrier winning in today's Audi Victoria Week Passage Race...

Sailing

National Sports Boat Championship - Baptism of Fire

22-boat sports boat fleet in today's opening race of Bundaberg Rum National Sports Boat Championship at Audi Vic Week...

Sailing

Nothing 'secret' about Boettcher's provisional Passage Race win

South Australian Geoff Boettcher and his Secret Mens Business 3.5 crew are provisional winner of Division 1 overall win...

Sailing

More images from Audi Victoria Week day one from Teri Dodds

Teri Dodds was on the water during the Passage race. Here is a selection of her images....

Sailing

Living Doll claims line honours in Audi Victoria Week Passage Race

Michael Hiatt and his Farr 55 Living Doll getting away quickly from mid line, leaving the rest of the monohull fleet beh...

Cruising

Haiti: Sailing boats join the rescue - and you can help too!

OceansWatch and the Seven Seas Cruising Association join together to help the aid work in Haiti - you can help too!...

Sailing

Audi Victoria Week collision - Ten Too sinks in Passage Race

Greg Cooper and Peter Southwell's Adams 10 'Ten Too' from Victoria sank approximately 10 nautical miles after the start...

Cruising

50 days around Australia to Save Our Seas

The campaign is to raise awareness for the damage that plastic bags are doing to our environment....

Sailing

335 Boat start at Australia's Audi Victoria Week

335 boats started this morning in the 34 nautical mile Williamstown to Geelong race....

Sailing

Charity Mach 2 Moth on eBay $17,100 so far

A high tech Mach 2 Moth is being auctioned on eBay to raise money for international children's charity, Variety....

Cruising

America's Cup Challenger responds to Swiss assertions, Match on hold?

Golden Gate Yacht Club has, not unexpectedly, refuted the claims made by the Defender of the Americas Cup, Societe Nauti...

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Mount Wellington, TAS

33 kn

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10°

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Broome (Coastal), WA

0 kn

25°

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WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

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WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

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Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

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How to take photos of your fish catch

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