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Father may lose custody of runaway 14-year-old sailor

Runaway sailor Laura Dekker has now been returned in custody to the Netherlands after running away to the Caribbean...

Cruising

No turkey Christmas for kidnapped sailors

Kidnapped sailors Paul and Rachel Chandler will be allowed 'chips, pasta, fish or beer' by pirates to celebrate Xmas...

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Follow the action with Bass & Flinders Cruises

On Boxing Day Bass & Flinders vessels Ocean Dreaming I, Ocean Dreaming 2 and Sun Cat will follow the Sydney to Hobart f...

Power Boats

Riviera Set to Make Waves at 2010 Miami Boat Show

Riviera is powering with exciting new models and designs, which are expected to make waves at Miami Boat Show....

Sailing

New ISAF Rules become effective 1 January 2010

New edition of the ISAF Offshore Special Regulations 2010-11 effecting Racing Rules of Sailing & Prohibited Drugs List...

Sailing

NSWIS State High Performance Coach - Sailing

NSWIS State High Performance Coach - Sailing...

Sailing

Landlubbers Ahoy!

A massive fleet of 103 yachts is set to get underway on Boxing Day at 10.30am....

Sailing

Belmont Bethwaite warmup for National B14 Titles

B14s practice run at Belmont in preparation for the National Titles...

Sailing

Great deal on Laser 4.7s for Sabot sailors!

Performance SailCraft Australasia, the powerhouse manufacturer and distributor of Laser in Australia, is offering great...

Cruising

Suez to Oman, not for the romantic or faint-hearted

In early October Stuart Broom and his crew of three on the 92-foot Lisheen Lady left Cyprus heading for Thailand on...

Sailing

RORC announce change to class bands for the 2010 Rolex Commodores' Cup

RORC announces a change to the class rating bands for the 2010 Rolex Commodores' Cup which runs from the 15 to 21st Aug...

Sailing

Midnight manoeuvres for Wild Oats XI to repair keel damage

At midnight last night Wild Oats XI was lifted from the water so repairs could be made to the yacht's keel....

Power Boats

Powerboat P1 SuperSport Class World Champion Tedeschi gets the axe

Powerboat P1 - Angelo Tedeschi will not be racing with the Ukrainian Sprit team in 2010...

Sailing

Sydney Hobart - Supermaxi Etihad Stadium to have mast fitted tonight

Etihad Stadium Supermaxi crew, there's no plum pudding and turkey - just cooking the mast...

Power Boats

The 69th Miami International Boat Show

Miami rates as the #1 show for the US boating industry....

Sailing

Liz Wardley arrives in Portugal

Liz Wardley moored her SolOceans One-design alongside the pontoons of the Marina de Cascais, Lisbon (Portugal)....

Fishing

Pflueger Wanderer Multi-Piece Travel Rods

The ultimate companion for anglers exploring new waters.

Sailing

Tidetech's Bass Strait Package -The tide of information!

Tidetech have just released their Bass Strait tidal package - perfect for the ORCV's Christmas time offshore races...

Sailing

Australia strikes first blow in 2009-2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup

Australian sailors won five gold medals at Sail Melbourne, first event of the 2009-2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup series....

Sailing

Sydney Hobart: Will it be Supermaxi or Sunfish?

Over the years sailors have looked at the half model board of the handicap winners of the Sydney Hobart race....

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart 2009 - Eyes on the Prize

Rolex Sydney Hobart- the strongest ever fleet of super maxis wll be drag racing south looking for Line Honours victory....

Cruising

America's Cup: Challenger initiates Construction Origin issue

The much expected Constructed in Country discussion has kicked off in the ongoing saga of the 33rd America's Cup....

Sailing

Sydney Hobart - Leopard could strike if solid southerlies

Rolex Sydney Hobart 2009 ICAP Leopard, another brilliant McConaghy built supermaxi....

Sailing

Sydney Hobart Line Honour battle drives new sail developments

Just a few days before the 2009 Rolex Sydney to Hobart, 'Cocko' provides this insight into the Supermaxi scene....

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - from 1945 to 2008

Facts from the Sydney Hobart blue water classic...

Windsurfing

Maynard Moves - 2009 PWA Slalom Vice World Champion

2009 PWA Slalom Vice World Champion, Finian Maynard, signs with Gaastra.

Sailing

Yachting Queensland's High Performance Sailing program pays dividends

Yachting Queensland have continued to invest wisely with the high performance sailing program...

Sailing

Blue Sky tuned up for faster sail in Sargisons Launceston to Hobart

Launceston yachtsman Richard Fisher is looking for a much faster sail down Tasmania's East Coast than a year ago...

Sailing

50 yachts confirmed for the 2010 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Race

The RPAYC announced a fleet of 50 yachts has been confirmed for the start of the 2010 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour race....

Sailing

Race for Rolex Sydney to Hobart Tattersall's Cup is wide open

'Not even Nostradamus could predict the winner of this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart' - Geoff Ross, skipper of Yendys...

Power Boats

Images of the new Pegiva 33 out on Sydney Harbour

Photographer Andrea Francolini took these pictures of the newly imported Pegiva 33 and its little 27ft sister...

Sailing

Santa to deliver another sleigh ride for 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart?

'2004 was the last long slog upwind, which we think is the norm.' CYCA Commodore and skipper of Ichi Ban, Matt Allen...

Cruising

The new-generation soft-mud boat anchor

Here is a specialised soft mud anchor - disassembled it takes little space, and assembles in a matter of minutes.....

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Follow the action with Bass & Flinders Cruises

On Boxing Day Bass & Flinders vessels Ocean Dreaming I, Ocean Dreaming 2 and Sun Cat will follow the Sydney to Hobart f...

Cruising

2009 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers Wraps Up In St. Lucia

Over 200 yachts have arrived at Rodney Bay Marina St Lucia, marking the close of the 2009 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers....

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Can the Race Record be smashed ?

Wind against tide, 30 knots and six metre seas, backless waves or a super fast down hill side with a 38 hour race record...

Sailing

Gold Coast Cat Week returns to Southport Yacht Club

Gold Coast Cat Week returns to Southport Yacht Club to provide great racing for Off-the- Beach Catamarans...

Sailing

Technology takes racing to the world

Twitter, YouTube and multi-platform communications will take the thrill of the racing during the Rolex Sydney to Hobart...

Sailing

Liz Wardley's account and analysis of the SolOceans dismasting

Liz Wardley is aboard the SolOceans One-design under jury rig and 160 nautical miles from Cascais Harbour - Lisbon...

Sailing

Sydney Hobart - Race Record or Boat Breaking southerlies?

Wind against tide, 30 knots and six metre seas, backless waves or a super fast down hill side with a 38 hour race record...

Sailing

Boaters warned to go easy on the drink

The legal blood alcohol limit of 0.05 applies on the waterways just as it does on the roads....

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - The second first across the line

Did you know that in the modern Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race there are in fact two races to be first across the line?...

Power Boats

Powerboat P1 - Pennesi preparing for New Year Honours

Pennesi insists the the Metamarine boatyard 'doesn't have time to mess about' with next season's early start in Croatia...

Sailing

Exercise Transglobe crews prepare for Sydney Hobart race

The British Armed Forces are running Exercise Transglobe. Crews are now preparing for the Sydney Hobart race....

Sailing

Geoff Holt ready to depart the Cape Verde Islands

Since setting sail from Lanzarote on 10th December, Geoff Holt has made slow progress on his Atlantic crossing...

Sailing

America's Cup: Update on Valencia - 22 December 2009

Despite many phone calls over the past two days, Sail-World has been unable to determine that anything other than a mini...

Fishing

An appeal to south-west Victorian ocean users

How to help reduce the risk of abalone disease spreading

Fishing

SA Murray cod closure to continue through 2010

Closure coincides with release of discussion paper

Fishing

Qld Johnstone River barra stocking takes place

Microtagged barramundi released

Fishing

Vic anglers asked to report tagged Murray Cod captures

Help Goulburn and Ovens river research

Sailing

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Cork retires from Race 4

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Cork was retires from Race 4....

Sailing

Tidetech releases Bass Strait Tidal Stream model for Melbourne to Tas.

Tidetech releases a newly developed Bass Strait Tidal Model in time for Melbourne to Tasmanian races....

Sailing

Sydney Hobart 2009 - Etihad Stadium - a epic battle

Now the spare four spreader mast from Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo has arrived in Sydney and the work really begins on...

Windsurfing

Skye-Alonso Clinics - Learn to ride with the PWA's celebrity windsurfing couple

Learn to ride with the PWA's celebrity windsurfing couple.

Sailing

44 Metres and 1000 kg (2240 lbs) of Early Christmas Present

Just after 9pm last night, an early Christmas present arrived for Grant Wharington and the Etihad Stadium Supermaxi cr...

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race live stream

Live 90 minute webcast of the start of the 65th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race...

Sailing

Etihad Stadium Supermaxi saga continues, mast wont touchdown until 9pm

Delays on the Qantas flight leaving Singapore carrying the replacement mast til about 9pm tonight...

Cruising

Let's go sail on the moon - no, not our moon, Saturn's

a scientist is suggesting that the way to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is to go sailing on one of her lakes...

Sailing

The McConaghy Cup

Jono Morris and Mark Evans, the co-owners of McConaghy have announced the first annual McConaghy Cup...

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Follow the action with Bass & Flinders Cruises

On Boxing Day Bass & Flinders vessels Ocean Dreaming I, Ocean Dreaming 2 and Sun Cat will follow the Sydney to Hobart f...

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Mount Wellington, TAS

31 kn

WNW

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Perth (Coastal), WA

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13°

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Articles/Articles

Stand Up Paddle

A New Star for Starboard

Kitesurfing

How to tune your kite line lengths

Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

Fishing

Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

Fishing

How to take photos of your fish catch

Kitesurfing

How to start Kiteboarding

Fishing

How to take fishing photo's - part 2

Kitesurfing

Australian Kitesurfing Shops & Schools

Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

Kitesurfing

Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

Kitesurfing

Travelling to Bali - some Trip Tips

WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

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WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

Buy & Sell/Classifieds

2021 JP Australia Gt Allwater Biax - 12' 6", 28.5 inches

Stand Up Paddle - Wave & Cruising Boards

2021 JP Australia Gt Allwater Biax

12' 6" x 28.5 inches

$1,100

Kitesurfing - Twintips

Foiling - Components (Wings,Masts,etc)

2025 F-One Sk8 V2

1150 cm

$1,200

2025 Blue Planet Surf 2025 Small Fish - 8' 9", 31 inches

Stand Up Paddle - Wave & Cruising Boards

2025 Blue Planet Surf 2025 Small Fish

8' 9" x 31 inches

$1,500

Foiling - Windsurfing Foilboards

2019 Naish Hover

228 cm

$800

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Ningaloo Shut: Reef in Double Trouble

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Maila Targets Cape York: FNQ on Watch

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Tropical Low Threatens Daintree Coast

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SE Australia's coldest April in decades

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Narelle Hits: Exmouth Airport Gone

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SA Algal Bloom: A Decade to Recover

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Maila: Landfall Monday, Final Warning

Cyclone Narelle: Cat 4 threat to Cape York

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Cyclone Narelle: Cat 4 threat to Cape York

Narelle Closes In: WA Coast on High Alert

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Narelle Closes In: WA Coast on High Alert

SE Cold Front: Alpine Snow, 100 km/h Gusts

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SE Cold Front: Alpine Snow, 100 km/h Gusts

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Wing Foiling

Email from Greg at BRM: Aloha! Hope your 2026 season has been going great!

By: foilthegreats, 21m ago

Wing Foiling

Hello all. Windsurfer for over 20 years and am toying with learning to wingfoil.

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When I was a kid it was a big deal, then it went off for a while, then it became a big deal again...

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Stand Up Paddle

Hi, there is a JP surf 8"10 available on FB market place for ?100 in Wadebridge, Cornwall UK.

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Windsurfing

Board Crazy Burrum Windfest 27th April- 3rd May

By: WindWanderers, 5h ago

Wing Foiling

Very interested to know what caused your long swim: A mast failure [:(!

By: WindmanV, 6h ago

Windsurfing

Very interested to know what caused your long swim: A mast failure [:(!

By: WindmanV, 8h ago