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Maria Island Race - Good race for Sydney Hobart entrants

Tasmanian entrants for the 2009 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race filled top handicap places in the Tasports Maria Island Race...

Sailing

Team Whistler conquer sea and mountain in unique weekend effort

The crew of the Hobart yacht Whistler turned in a unique performance over the weekend...

Sailing

2009 Harken Final Day - Tiller wins a thriller in an all RNZYS Final!

RNZYS's William Tiller has won the 2009 Harken International Youth Match Racing Championship on Pittwater today....

Sailing

Around the Island Race - BT snatches line honours

BT snatched victory by just 14 seconds in the annual Around the Island Race in Hong Kong....

Sailing

18ft Skiffs NSW Championship Race 2 - Three wins in a row

18ft Skiffs NSW Championship - Race 2 raced on Sydney Harbour, Sunday, 22nd November 2009...

Sailing

Sea Dubai RC44 Gold Cup - A new challenge

Sea Dubai RC44 Gold Cup - For seven competing teams it will be a totally new platform and challenge....

Sailing

Searches continue for overdue Canadian sailor

The United States and Canadian Rescue Coordination Centers continue to facilitate searches for a sailor who is overdue....

Sailing

World Match Racing Tour leaders to clash at Sunseeker Australia Cup

The final and most crucial round of the 2009 World Match Racing Tour, the Monsoon Cup is being sailed in Malaysia....

Cruising

Modern Sea Mysteries: Solving the mystery of Jure Sterk

'I went out on deck and there she was, just drifting along.' What happened to Jure Sterk?...

Sailing

211 Entrants and growing - offshore yachting event organisers dream

It's not often that a yachting event organiser is dealing with a potential fleet in the several hundreds rather than ten...

Sailing

The most colourFULL man in Australian yachting lives on

A very special prize was awarded last night. The inaugural Geoff 'Megga' Bascombe Novice Skipper Award....

Power Boats

2010 World Grand Prix Hydroplane Championship on Lake Mulwala VIC

2010 World Grand Prix Hydroplane Championship host was announced and the Lake Mulwala Power festival was chosen...

Sailing

It's good work - 2009 Melbourne Latitude Series

When you can get it, that is. 'No Fearr' were the first to cross the finish line of the 2009 Melbourne Latitude Series....

Power Boats

Class 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: World Class 1 title for Victory Team

Fazza's Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi completed the hat-trick by winning race 2 of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix...

Cruising

Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica

A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher...

Sailing

Transat Jacques Vabre - Leading trio gain speed in Caribbean

Transat Jacques Vabre - All three leading boats are pretty much lined up nose to tail on the same gybe....

Sailing

Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice - Emirates Team New Zealand to meet Azzurra

Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Cote d'Azur - Petite Final wraps with Synergy overcoming TeamOrigin...

Sailing

Louis Vuitton Trophy - Azzurra into final after defeating TeamOrigin

Louis Vuitton Trophy - Azzurra took victory over Team Origin by 29 seconds to claim their place in the final of the fin...

Sailing

CYA Appoints Curtis Florence CYA's Rolex Sailor of the Year Award

CYA Appoints Curtis Florence CYA's Rolex Sailor of the Year Award...

Fishing

Tripping your anchor

How not to loose your anchor.

Sailing

Extreme Sailing Series Asia - BT leads after Day 2

Extreme Sailing Series Asia racing on day two in Victoria Harbour for saw the six Extreme 40s challenged in a shifty win...

Sailing

Maria Island Yacht Race line honours to Mr Kite

Mr Kite this evening took line honours in the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's Maria Island Race after a boat-for-boat due...

Sailing

2009 Harken - New Zealand teams dominate leader board on day three

After 20 flights it's RNZYS Harry Thurston on top of the leader board from RPNYC Matt Steven and RNZYS William Tiller....

Cruising

Product of the Week: The wooden plug upgrade

Wooden plugs that serve to stem emergency leaks have done an excellent job, but now there's the TruPlug...

Cruising

Kidnapped Chandlers plea for help: 'They will kill us in a week or so'

Cruising sailors Paul and Rachel Chandler, hostages since the 22nd October, make a plea for help on Britain's Channel 4...

Sailing

Solidaire du Chocolat - Eleven more boats finish in Mexico

Solidaire du Chocolat update. 11 boats came into Progreso this morning...

Sailing

Melbourne Latitude Series - Slugs in the Channel

At 04:15 there was renewed optimism aboard 'Ocean Racing Club of Victoria Mobile', as the wind built outside......

Power Boats

World Super Boat Offshore Champions crowned at Key West

Super Boat International World Champions - Spirit of Qatar 96 wins Superboat 850 Extreme World Title....

Cruising

Politicians urged to save the Great Barrier Reef

Carbon emissions in industrialised countries need to be cut by 25% below their year 2000 levels by 2020....

Power Boats

Class 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Fazza tops World Championship rankings

Fazza's Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi completed the double by claiming their sixth win of the season in race 1...

Sailing

Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Cote d'Azur - Synergy loses protest

Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Cote d'Azur - International jury finds against Synergy in protest hearing....

Sailing

Louis Vuitton Trophy - Top teams face sudden death semifinals

TeamOrigin and Azzurra are tied 1-1 while Emirates Team New Zealand and Synergy are locked on 0-0 after the decision of...

Power Boats

Jet Skis - the knives have been blunted

Queensland Government pours cold water on plans to ban jet skis and PWCs from boat ramp....

Sailing

Maria Island Yacht Race - Leaders rounding tip of Maria Island

Maria Island Yacht Race - 24 yachts are still competing in the 190 nautical mile ocean race...

Sailing

Transat Jacques Vabre - The dash across the Caribbean

The Transat Jacques Vabre fleet should have the final weather hurdle behind them....

Sailing

Search continues for missing Canadian sailor

An extensive aerial search over the last three days is continued for a 67-year- old Canadian sailor Hubert Marcoux...

Sailing

'Stewart 34 Yachting, the First 50 Years' book + DVD now available.

'Stewart 34 Yachting, the First 50 Years' book + DVD now available....

Sailing

Transat Jacques Vabre - Severe power shortage forces Aviva pit-stop

Transat Jacques Vabre - Caffari and Thompson discovered a problem with the generator on Aviva over a week ago...

Sailing

Extreme Sailing Series Asia spectacular opener in Hong Kong

There were six races this afternoon in 12-15 knots that gusted up to 18, keeping the skippers challenged...

Sailing

Canada's Entry in the Clipper Around The World Race in Cape Town

Sail-World Canada is catching up with the Canadian entry in the Clipper Around the World Yacht Race...

Power Boats

UIM WPPA Class 1 Grand Prix Abu Dhabi - Fazza takes pole

Fazza will start the Abu Dhabi UIM WPPA Class 1 Grand Prix, race 1, on pole....

Sailing

Cutting themselves some Latitude

You may remember the call to go and cut yourself some Latitude, right here on Sail-World on 6/11/09....

Sailing

Harken Youth - Lightning strikes for Thurston after a perfect day

Day Two racing in 2009 Harken Youth with 8 flights completed, RNZYS Thurston unbeaten and moves to top of leader board....

Sailing

Maria Island Race - Southerly winds batter the fleet

Southerly winds batter fleet as catamaran skipper forecasts Maria Island Race record...

Cruising

Australia announces $439,928 funding for Historic Shipwreck protection

Federal Heritage Minister Peter Garrett today announced funding of $439,928 for projects that will protect the nation's...

Sailing

Hon. Paul McLeay, MP appointed as Minister for NSW Ports and Waterways

NSW Maritime has a new Minister for Ports and Waterways, the Hon. Paul McLeay, MP....

Sailing

2010 Rolex Commodores' Cup NOR

The Royal Ocean Racing Club together with Rolex announces details for the 2010 Rolex Commodores' Cup...

Cruising

Atlantic Rally for Cruisers - the parties have begun

Atlantic Rally for Cruisers is in its final preparations for a November 22 start to its annual crossing of the Atlantic...

Cruising

Australia's plea to Britain: Spare historic sailing ship

Prominent Australians have written an open letter to Britain to prevent the demolition of clipper City of Adelaide....

Sailing

Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race - California receives award

Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race crews gathered at the Royal Cape Yacht Club for the prize giving ceremony....

Sailing

Solidaire du Chocolat - Groupe Picoty crosses finish line

Solidaire du Chocolat - Jacques Fournier and Jean-Edouard Criquioche, Groupe Picoty, crossed the Progreso finishing line...

Sailing

Tasports Maria Island Yacht Race accepts first catamaran

The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania has accepted the entry of the catamaran Slingshot for the Tasports Maria Island Yacht R...

Kitesurfing

Seabreeze becomes official PKRA Partner...

Seabreeze official partner with PKRA

Sailing

Sail Sydney 2009 entries close today

Entries for Sail Sydney 2009, the former SIRs, close today, Friday 20th November 2009, so get your entry in now!...

Sailing

Transat Jacques Vabre - Hard Miles, Easy Miles

Transat Jacques Vabre - small miles lost are quickly magnified and, conversely, small gains can grow with equal ease...

Power Boats

Class 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix practice session

Class 1 took to the waters for the first time in today's first official practice session for this weekend's Abu Dhabi Gr...

Power Boats

Sydney's Hawkesbury River ready to rumble

The 48th staging of the famous Bridge to Bridge water ski race set for this weekend....

Sailing

Transat Jacques Vabre - Hugo Boss arrives safely in The Azores

Transat Jacques Vabre It has been a race of highs and lows for Alex and Ross onboard Hugo Boss....

Sailing

New York Court rules in favour of America's Cup Challenger

Justice Shirley Kornreich has issued a decision on the matters of the Rules for the 34th America's Cup....

Sailing

Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice - Azzura opens with win against TeamOrigin

Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Cote d'Azur - Light winds frustrate competitors, organisers and postpone schedule...

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Weather Forecasts & Live Reports

Windiest in Australia:

Double Is Pt, QLD

27 kn

22°

Most Windless in Australia:

Broome (Coastal), WA

0 kn

24°

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Maila: Landfall Monday, Final Warning

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SE Australia's coldest April in decades

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Maila Targets Cape York: FNQ on Watch

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Narelle Hits: Exmouth Airport Gone

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Tropical Low Threatens Daintree Coast

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Ningaloo Shut: Reef in Double Trouble

Narelle Closes In: WA Coast on High Alert

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Narelle Closes In: WA Coast on High Alert

Cyclone Narelle: Cat 4 threat to Cape York

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Cyclone Narelle: Cat 4 threat to Cape York

Weather

SA Algal Bloom: A Decade to Recover

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

Weather

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

Articles/Articles

WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

Weather

WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

Fishing

How to take photos of your fish catch

Kitesurfing

How to tune your kite line lengths

Kitesurfing

Travelling to Bali - some Trip Tips

Kitesurfing

How to start Kiteboarding

Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

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Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

Stand Up Paddle

A New Star for Starboard

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Australian Kitesurfing Shops & Schools

Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

Kitesurfing

Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

Fishing

How to take fishing photo's - part 2

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2023 Tribal Libero With A New 36.5 Cm G10 Fin - 108 litres

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2023 Tribal Libero With A New 36.5 Cm G10 Fin

108 litres

$1,150

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Amos Shapes Tomahawk

5' 2" x 90 Litres

$1,500

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2020 Slingshot Ufo V1.1

9 metre

$550

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