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Meet CYA'S New Executive Director, Paddy Boyd

In September, the Canadian Yachting Association announced the appointment of Paddy Boyd as Executive Director....

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Images from Nice: Louis Vuitton Trophy Days 1 and 2

Paul Todd, Bob Greiser and Chris Cameron present a selection of images from the first of the Louis Vuitton Trophy regatt...

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America's Cup where? Wings on Godzilla

An offer of an eastern Australian venue was made by Societe Nautique de Geneve, with Geelong, Southport and Hamilton Isl...

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CST Composites i14 World Championship coming to Sydney in December

The CST Composites International 14 World Championship has entries from Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan and Australia...

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Mirsky Racing Team Australia Cup Floating Bar

Mirsky Racing Team Australia Cup Floating Bar...

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NewsFlash: First pictures of wingmast for America's Cup Challenger

BMW Oracle Racing have just released the first pictures of the wingmast to be fitted to their America's Cup challenger i...

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Flying 11s 2009 Upper Harbour Champs - Fired Up New Champions

The Flying 11s were all 'Fired Up' this weekend for the 2009 F11 McGrath Upper Harbour Championship and Dash For Cash....

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Australian's Mini Transat Leg 2 - Definitely the most 'solo' of solo

First it was the sweet smell of coconut and the jungle. Moments later some lights popped up over the horizon. Land....

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Clipper 09-10 Round the World Race - Final push to Cape Town

Clipper 09-10 Round the World Race. The teams are preparing for the final push to Cape Town and the completion of race...

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Bundy Thunder Powerboat Classic - Bailey hospitalised

Bundy Thunder Powerboat Classic, Bundaberg, Australia. Bailey taken to hospital after Race 3 accident....

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Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 manages 708 miles in 24 hours

Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 has sailed 708 miles in the last 24 hours....

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Three teams undefeated at Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Cote d'Azur

By virtue of its second win in as many races Emirates Team New Zealand today grabbed the early lead at the Louis Vuitton...

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Transat Jacques Vabre - 20 crews start race to Costa Rica

Transat Jacques Vabre - 20 crews set off on the ninth edition of the two handed Transat Jacques Vabre...

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Location, Location, Location - This week the world's hottest wave sailors tell t

This week the world's hottest wave sailors tell tales of their favourite places to sail.

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Pulau Duyong busy as Asian Match Racing Championships draw closer

Pulau Duyong gets busier as Asian Match Racing Championships draw closer...

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Louis Vuitton Trophy - Day 1 Videos

Video from Day 1 of the Louis Vuitton Trophy...

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BMW Oracle Racing - new dismasting and damage images

Sail-World was kindly supplied with these images from a reader in San Diego of the broken mast of BOR90...

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18ft Skiffs NSW Championship Race 1

18ft Skiffs - NSW Championship Race 1 report. Very difficult conditions for Race 1 of the NSW Championship today....

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Lipton Cup Regatta, 2009, Port Phillip, Melbourne

The Lipton Cup Regatta will be held this coming weekend, 14-15 November on Port Phillip....

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Bagan, another North West Passage survivor, arrives Seattle

Along with the sailing boats that did the North West Passage this year was Bagan, sailed by filmmaker Sprague Theobald...

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SIBEX - China (Shenzhen) International Boat Show

12-15 November 2009 - the reference show for China and South East Asia - showcasing international brands...

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New Ocean to split Ethiopa

Scientists have witnessed the birth of a new ocean in the north east of Ethiopia,but it won't be sail-able any time soon...

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Cabbage Tree Island race: Quest's win spoils Loki's trifecta

Bob Steel's Quest arrived at the Sydney Harbour finish line in time to take overall honours in the race...

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Somali pirates threaten 'torture' of British sailors

Somali pirates are threatening to torture cruising sailors Paul and Rachel Chandler if 7 captured pirates are harmed...

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Indian sailor Ajay Rau to Sail Rolex Sydney Hobart 2009

Ajay has the distinction of being the first Indian sailor to participate in this race....

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Emirates Team NZ and TeamOrigin gain first wins at Louis Vuitton

Emirates Team New Zealand and TeamOrigin gain first wins at Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Cote d'Azur...

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Clipper 09-10 - MOB today's hot topic

Clipper 09-10 Round the World Race - 'It was a sobering wake up call to us all. It's tough sailing at the moment.'...

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MOB! - the Hull and Humber incident

Follow the process used by the Hull and Humber crew to successfully retrieve their MOB crew member in the Southern Ocean...

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Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama picking up speed and due to gybe

Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 has been able to lengthen her stride since the latitude of Porto...

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Powerboat P1 - RG87 in SuperSport line-up for the 2010 season

Powerboat P1 - Antonio Schiano and his RG87 team have announced that they will be among the SuperSport 2010 line-up...

Cruising

Bullies evict Little Fish as the Reef warms

Small fish are at risk of being bullied to death by big ones as coral reef resources are hit by climate change...

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'Cawse' for celebration as Vanguard scores Botany Bay Race double

Botany Bay Race report - The Botany Bay Race was the second race of the CYCA's Ocean Pointscore Series (OPS)....

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Public comment sought on new NSW lifejacket laws

The reforms are aimed at recreational boaters in situations of heightened risk, especially children & boaters in tinnies...

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Zhik Australian 49er National Championships 2009-10

Spectacular racing is expected at the Zhik Australian 49er National Championships on Lake Macquarie from November 28th....

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Cabbage Tree Island Race record smashed

Stephen Ainsworth and his Loki crew smashed the Cabbage Tree Island Race record today...

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Formula Four races into Powerboat P1

Powerboat P1 will take over the running of the British-based Formula Four Stroke Association (F4SA)....

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You just never know who'll you'll meet at Sandown!

This is Bob Fraser, today at Melbourne's Sandown Motor Raceway for the Victorian Historic Race Register meeting....

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Christmas Gift for the Sailor who has everything

We just may have the most extravagantly suitable gift you ever could never have thought of...a three-dimensional chart...

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Jules Verne Trophy: Groupama accelerating - plus start video

Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 had reached Cape Finisterre this Friday lunchtime....

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Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Cote d'Azur - Four matches to begin series

Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Cote d'Azur, is scheduled to begin tomorrow...

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America's Cup in suspense as parties meet over weekend

Both the warring parties will hold meetings over the weekend to discuss venues for the 33rd America's Cup...

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Australia puts out the Welcome mat for the America's Cup

Swiss America's Cup defender Alinghi has proposed an Australian solution as a southern hemisphere venue to US team BMW O...

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Clipper 2009-2010 Hull & Humber - Man Overboard

Clipper Race Hull & Humber - man overboard in the South Atlantic, 1,400 miles from the team's destination of Cape Town,...

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Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht race - Cork steals the lead

Clipper 09-10 - Having crept closer and closer to Hull & Humber throughout the last two days, at midnight Cork stole the...

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Regional News from Sail-World on Twitter

Sail-World.com, the largest online marine news network in the world is now delivering regional news on Twitter....

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40th Contender World Championships - a landmark for Class and Club

An Australian dinghy from the sketch pad of a young designer Ben Lexcen, is celebrating its 40th World Championship....

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King's Cup Japanese friends to defend Bareboat division title

Age has not wearied the band of Japanese warriors, led by Toru Inoue, who will return to Phuket next month to defend the...

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NSW Maritime alert: Dangerous conditions on waters on the North Coast

NSW Maritime is alerting boat owners to dangerous conditions on waters on the North Coast....

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BMW Oracle racing gears up for Louis Vuitton Trophy in Nice

Louis Vuitton Trophy - BMW Oracle Racing will be represented in Nice by an all star line-up...

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Optimist Sailors Out in force at Ronstan Indian Ocean Classic

Fifty-one Optimists entered the Ronstan Indian Ocean Classic last weekend at Fremantle Sailing Club...

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Clipper 09-10: Rio De Janeiro - Cape Town Day10, High speeds end

'It's some of the most exciting sailing I have done, these last 24 hours' says Brendan Hall skipper Spirit of Australia...

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Sailing with Balvenie - a kick from Italy's boot

Amanda Church and Mark Farrell continue their tales of sailing their 47ft yacht Balvenie through the Mediterranean:...

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Cabbage Tree Island Race: Thirty four to line-up

A fleet of 34 yachts set for 180 nm Cabbage Tree Island Race tonight, a qualifier for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race...

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2.4 mR World Championship - Ruf clinches title

John Ruf (Pewaukee, Wis.) clinched the 2.4 mR World Championship a day early today, with one race to spare....

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Club Marine Sail Boat Show at Sandringham Yacht Club Nov 14-15

Sandringham Yacht Club 2009 Club Marine Sail Boat Show, to be held on the weekend of 14-15 Nov...

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2009 AUS University Teams Racing Regatta Report

From October 2-4, eleven teams from seven universities competed in the Australian University Teams Racing Regatta...

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Asian Qualifiers key to World Match Racing Tour Door

World Match Racing Tour leader, Minoprio believes 'the Asian Qualifiers were our key to the door.'...

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Caribbean 1500 Rally attracts an international fleet

58 yachts which departed on Monday in the 20th Annual Caribbean 1500 fleet will arrive Nanny Cay in the next few days....

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Exercise Transglobe heads for Perth, Western Australia

The three yachts on Exercise Transglobe are now only a few days away from their fourth leg destination Perth, WA....

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Go on - cut yourself some Latitude!

Wanting to go stick your nose in it? Bass Strait and all the blue water beyond it, that is......

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