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Still looking for that last minute gift?

Still looking for that last minute gift?...

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Dutch teen sailor goes missing, found in the Caribbean

14-year-old Laura Dekker, missing since Friday, has been found in the Caribbean...

Sailing

Etihad Stadium mast delayed

The plane carrying the replacement mast for Etihad Stadium has been delayed out of Singapore...

Sailing

Whitsunday Sailing Club trio head to Corsair Nationals

Bruce Carter and Jim Hayes are well prepared to defend their 2008 Corsair Australian Championship Silver Medal...

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Prelude to a Boxing Day Classic

Alan Brierty's Limit and Stephen Ainsworth's Loki, finished first and second, in the Rolex Trophy Rating Series regatta...

Sailing

Z Corp Dash for Cash - 2010 International Moth Australian Championship

Slalom/Sprint series Monday 4 January 3:30-6:00pmSouth of Perth Yacht Club...

Sailing

Burling and Tuke report on Australia and look to the Bahama Worlds

Top 49er crew Peter Burling and Blair Tuke report on Sail Melbourne and Sail Sydney Regattas and look ahead to the World...

Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race - Race coverage goes mobile

Yachting enthusiasts across Australia and New Zealand will this year have instant mobile access...

Sailing

Team Jolly Aussie 2009 Update: Sail Sydney and Sail Melbourne

New 470 Womens crew, Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie reflect on the recently completed Sail Melbourne Open 470 event on Port Ph...

Sailing

IODA Asian Championship

IODA Asian Championship full event reports...

Sailing

Launceston to Hobart - Secret Weapon in duel for line honours

Gary Smith and Geoff White will have a 'secret weapon' aboard their 45-footer, re-named The Fork in the Road...

Power Boats

2009 UIM-WPPA Class 1 World Powerboat Championship final standings

WPPA has issued the final points and classifications for the 2009 UIM-WPPA Class 1 World Powerboat Championship....

Windsurfing

JPNP 4 BVDS - Van Der Steen will be racing on JP and NeilPryde gear in 2010

Van Der Steen will be racing on JP and NeilPryde gear in 2010.

Sailing

Skippers' Briefing and Xmas Gift

The annual Skippers' Briefing for the Heemskirk Consolidated Melbourne to Hobart was held in Melbourne today...

Sailing

Rolex Trophy Rating Series: Limit wins series -Living Doll the race

They judged the Shark Island start perfectly, were the third yacht heading out of Sydney Harbour and then Alan Brierty a...

Sailing

Sydney Hobart Fast Track - an impossible dream for Etihad Stadium?

Rolex Sydney Hobart Race - dismasted nine days ago, on a delivery passage to Sydney. its been a roller coaster ride...

Sailing

In Raptures about Rapture

She's 100 foot long and one of super super maxis heading south to Hobart, but she is not one of those stripped down raci...

Sailing

The Stuff of Dreams

For the last 64 years, the 628 nautical mile Sydney to Hobart ocean race has tended to find if a boat and crew are prope...

Cruising

A sailing destination to pine for - Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Looking for a last minute New Year sailing holiday? You couldn't do better than Tortola in the British Virgin Islands...

Sailing

How to create a great around Australia event? Learn from the best!

Every yacht that is eligible to compete in the Sydney to Hobart is eligible to compete in the Around Australia Race....

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

President Please for Malta P1 Grand Prix

President of Malta Powerboat Federation: 'the most disappointed person on the island' if Powerboat P1 doesn't return in...

Sailing

Two Golds for Canada at World Cup regatta

Classes decided on medal race day at Sail Melbourne...

Sailing

Updating Rolex Sydney Hobart Fleet Notes

Sail-World's Fleet Notes for the 65th annual Rolex Sydney to Hobart race are online already....

Sailing

Rolex Trophy Series images

Rolex Trophy Rating Series pictures from photographer Andrea Francolini....

Sailing

More Louis Vuitton Trophy regattas announced

The World Sailing Teams Association (WSTA) and Louis Vuitton today announced more Louis Vuitton Trophy 2010-11...

Sailing

Sail Melbourne Medal race day - Class winners decided

Classes decided on medal race day at Sail Melbourne...

Sailing

Rolex Trophy Passage Series - Alfa Romeo comes out firing

Neville Crichton and his Alfa Romeo crew made short work of Day 1 of the Rolex Trophy Passage Series....

Sailing

Rolex Trophy Rating Series - Loki throws a spanner in the works

Rolex Trophy Rating Series...

Cruising

Christmas Book Ideas for your favourite sailor

Sail-World has selected a few book suggestions to give to the favourite sailor in your life for Christmas....

Sailing

First boats home in Rolex Trophy Series passage race

Neville Crichton and his Alfa Romeo crew made short work of the Rolex Trophy Rating Series 27 nautical mile Passage Race...

Sailing

Project Start Line for Etihad Stadium Supermaxi crew

Skill sets within the crew are vital: sail-makers, electrical engineers and stainless steel fabricators working overtime...

Sailing

Gladwell's Line: Swiss fail to back latest America's Cup moves

It seems that the deal to change the dates on the America's Cup and run with an extended regatta are no more,...

Sailing

UK maxi ICAP Leopard ready for ashes style battle with aussie defender

UK maxi ICAP Leopard will arrive in Sydney on Saturday 19 December ready to race...

Sailing

Melbourne to Hobart -The Power of One

In 1999, just the one yacht finished the testing Melbourne to Hobart....

Cruising

A big event development year behind us - An even bigger year ahead!

Bob Williams, CEO, Ocean Events, the Western Australian company behind the Around Australia Ocean Race and Rally events...

Sailing

Iconic maxi Lion New Zealand returns to Rolex Sydney Hobart

Twenty-five years on from its line honours victory Kiwi Whitbread maxi Lion New Zealand has returned to Sydney Hobart...

Sailing

Thank You, Roy - Lynn Fitzpatrick reflects

I was driving down the Long Beach Freeway when I heard the news that one of the greatest benefactors to sailing was gone...

Sailing

Cape Breton Island Crew Diary - Adrian Healy

Wind lines, the sirens of the sea. Always there but always just out of reach...

Sailing

Close racing sets the stage for final day of Sail Melbourne

Sail Melbourne. The Paralympic classes, along with the invited classes, got racing underway at 12pm in light breeze.......

Sailing

Limit Match Races Loki for Rolex Trophy Rating Series Lead

Day 2 of the Rolex Trophy Series finally started with breeze just before 1.00pm on the Macquarie Circle off Sydney Heads...

Cruising

What sailors want for Christmas...

5.5% of BoatU.S. members want new front teeth for Christmas - the others, a GPS, a new boat or wet weather gear....

Cruising

Jessica Watson - 60 days, 7000 miles and UP THE MAST

Jessica Watson's climbed the mast this week to check the rigging, 60 days and 7000 miles from home....

Cruising

Basic seamanship recommendations after Flinders Islet sailing incident

Recommendations after the tragic incident during the Flinders Islet race are amazing for their implications....

Power Boats

Sunreef appoints Alan Pickering as Far East dealer

Alan Pickering appointed exclusive dealer of Sunreef Yachts for Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia....

Sailing

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

'When the whale season finishes in early December, Bass & Flinders turn their attention to boat watching.'...

Sailing

Boat builder wins Excalibur Manslaughter Appeal

A boatbuilder has won his appeal against a manslaughter conviction over deaths of four people when yacht lost keel...

Sailing

Kiwi Skud 18 Team report on Day Four from Sail Melbourne

Kiwi Skud 18 Team Tim Dempsey and Pauline Eitjes report from Sail Melbourne....

Sailing

Sally Rattle sole woman owner/skipper in Sydney Hobart race

Sally Rattle will be the sole woman owner/skipper in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, sailing her Archambault 35 Archie...

Sailing

Southport Yacht Club's Coffs to Paradise & Sail Paradise cash draw

Southport Yacht Club has announced a cash prize draw totalling $10,000...

Sailing

The Real Race - for overall handicap honours

With the 2009 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Line Honours fleet locked in a speed battle, 70 footers are big boats in Tattersall...

Sailing

Etihad Stadium Supermaxi skipper gets some sleep at last

The owner and skipper of the Etihad Stadium Supermaxi got to bed before 3am for the first time in a week last night...

Power Boats

Editorial, December 18, '09.

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Sailing

Australian Youth Championships 6th - 10th January

The Largs Bay Sailing Club in South Australia will host YA's Australian Youth Championships from 6th - 10th January 2010...

Sailing

52nd Cockburn Sound Regatta starts Boxing Day

Cockburn Sound Regatta runs from 26th to 28th December 2009 commencing with a race from Fremantle to Rockingham...

Sailing

2009 Musto Skiff Survey

2009 Musto Skiff Survey, 7th Year Running - by Ovington Boats....

Kitesurfing

Sunshine Coast kitesurfer on top

Sunshine Coast Kitesurfer excels at Merimbula and wins the Emerging Talen Award

Power Boats

Advice for the novice boat buyer

Buying a boat for the first time need not be a difficult task with some simplre homework and tips from the experts....

Sailing

Louis Vuitton Trophy series to include Middle East venue

ValenciaSailing.com reports that the WSTA and Louis Vuitton have announced more Louis Vuitton Trophy regattas for 2010 a...

Power Boats

Sea Ray - a message from the Ray family that tugs the heartstrings

C.N.Ray, legendary founder of Sea Ray BOats, was indeed a modest and unassuming man....

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How to take fishing photo's - part 2

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How to start Kiteboarding

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Australian Kitesurfing Shops & Schools

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A New Star for Starboard

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WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

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Travelling to Bali - some Trip Tips

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Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

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How to tune your kite line lengths

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How to take photos of your fish catch

Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

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Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

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

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

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