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Newport Rhode Island - Mecca for yachting

If there was one place in the world you could call the Mecca of Yachting, it would have to be Newport Rhode Island...

Sailing

Cowes Week Day 4 - on water action

Here is a selection of Rick Tomlinson's images from Day 4, Cowes Week....

Windsurfing

Four Dimensions - The next big name in windsurf film

The next big name in windsurf film.

Sailing

2009 Flying Dutchman Worlds Day Two

Lighter winds on the second day of the FD Worlds 2009...

Sailing

Laser European Championship Day 1

Australian Tom Slingsby sits at the top of the leaderboard after two races of the Laser European Championship...

Sailing

Tony Bullimore to take on the Fastnet record

Tony Bullimore will be sailing the route of the Fastnet race in the hope of breaking its record....

Cruising

2011-2012 Around Australia Ocean Rally planning well under way

Planning for a big fleet in the 2011-2012 Around Australia Ocean Rally to visit 'outback Australia' is well underway....

Sailing

St. Moritz Match Race preview

The prestigious St. Moritz Match Race - some of the world's best match racers in the Swiss Alps on September 1- 6...

Sailing

Revamped Sports Boat to contest Airlie Beach Race Week championship

Southport Yacht Club's Shane Smith has enetered his Blazer 23 Mullet Gut in Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week...

Power Boats

Spirit of Qatar Team pulls out of Class 1 World Powerboat Championship

Spirit of Qatar Team in the 2009 Class 1 World Powerboat Championship has made the decision to withdraw the team...

Sailing

Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race draws to a close

3rd Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race draws to a close...

Sailing

Chris Cameron at 28 Copa del Rey Audi Mapfre

Top international sailing photographer, Chris Cameron is at the 28 Copa del Rey Audi Mapfre regatta and provided this im...

Sailing

Copa del Rey Audi Mapfre - Mini Maxi Alpha Romeo debuts

The opening day of the 28th Copa del Rey Audi Mapfre....

Sailing

2009 Star World Championship Race 2

2009 Star World Championship. Today's race got under way under a black flag following a long postponement on shore...

Sailing

Images from 28th Copa del Rey

Today, Monday 3rd of August, has been the first day of regatta, and the maxi Alfa Romeo (Neville Crichton / Ben Ainsley...

Sailing

Images from the final day of action at the iShares Cup Cowes Week

Photographer Ingrid Abery was in the thick of the action on the final day of the iShares Cup UK Round at Cowes Week....

Sailing

Images from the final day of action at the iShares Cup Cowes Week

Photographer Ingrid Abery was in the thick of the action on the final day of the iShares Cup UK Round at Cowes Week....

Sailing

Fastnet Navigators testing new Tidal Stream technology

The Fastnet race has often been described as a 'Navigator's race'....

Power Boats

Are Sailor Cheap?

I've been wondering about this since a powerboating friend sort of made an accusation to that effect....

Sailing

Cowes Week Day 3

The 8,500 competitors at this year's Cowes Week enjoyed another day of sun with a southerly wind of 10-15 knots...

Cruising

Beaufort Scale - sea state, not wind speed

Beaufort Scale is NOT a measure of the wind at all. It's a measure of the sea state...

Sailing

Oman Sail Masirah clinch iShares Cup UK Round at Cowes

Oman Sail Masirah clinch UK Round at sensational iShares Cup...

Cruising

Tony Bullimore - trying for another record

Tony Bullimore, who survived 5 days capsized in Antarctica, will try for another sailing record, the Fastnet route...

Sailing

North Atlantic battle belongs to Banque Populaire V

The North-Atlantic in 3 days 15 hours 25 minutes and 48 seconds* for the Maxi-Trimaran Banque Populaire V...

Windsurfing

Addicted To Ride V - The latest action DVD from Fanatic marks the release of the

The latest action DVD from Fanatic marks the release of their 2010 board range.

Sailing

Brisbane to Keppel: Evolution Sails second across the line

Ray Roberts and his Evolution Sails crew have finished the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race...

Sailing

Australian Radial Sailors prepare for Laser Radial Worlds

Australian Radial Sailors Prepare for event...

Sailing

2009 Contender Worlds - Final Wrap Up

The 2009 Contender Worlds, hosted by the Sonderborg Yacht Club, is over, and it was a Worlds that won't be forgotten qui...

Sailing

International 420 World Championship: Final Series races began today.

Riva del Garda...Sunday, August 2, 2009...Intense competition today for both the 420 Class Men's Championship and also t...

Sailing

Hong Kong Hobie Club Hosts Asia's No 1 Hobie Event

Major regional fleet expected at 4th Hobie Asian Champs...

Sailing

Fresh to Frightening! ORCV's Melbourne Winter Series

You know, it may have even been fantastic out there. It all depended on just where you were though!...

Sailing

Vanessa sails from Wheels to Winches for Airlie Beach Race Week

A member of one of Australia's best known yachting families is about to switch corporate wheels for recreational winches...

Sailing

Brisbane to Keppel: 24 yachts now finished

The 3rd Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel race has 24 yachts finished with the crews enjoying a hearty feast at KBM....

Sailing

Strong finish for Australian girls at Laser Radial Worlds

Gabrielle King was the top placed Australian in 15th and Ashley Stoddart winning the silver fleet at Laser Radial Worlds...

Sailing

Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's Winter Series

Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's Winter Series - the three division winners excelled in the light breeze with good sailing...

Sailing

420 World Championships concluded

The 420 World Championships have concluded in Italy....

Sailing

Star World Championship Day One

Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki (POL) started off the 2009 Star Worlds the same way they began the 2008 Worlds...

Sailing

Maritime online alert service launched

An on-line alert system to help boat owners and rock fishermen prepare and plan a day out on or near the water....

Sailing

Images from the UK round of the iShares Cup - Cowes

Photographer Ingrid Abery took these great images of the Extreme 40s battling it out in the UK Round of the iShares Cup...

Cruising

Sold the Yacht, kept the Sub

Tom Perkins has sold the Maltese Falcon for $60 million, but kept the submarine that it carried on board....

Sailing

La Solitaire du Figaro 2009 First Leg victory for Elies

Elies Celebrates First Leg Victory in Coruna - La Solitaire du Figaro 2009...

Sailing

Only one winner in Transatlantic Battle of the Trimarans

Congratulations from Franck Cammas Groupama 3 to Pascal Bidegorry Banque Populaire V the new Transatlantic record holder...

Cruising

Ice choked North West Passage stops sailors

News is not good for yachts that are trying to transit the North West Passage this year, as the ice is not clearing....

Cruising

Oil-free food by sailboat - a tiny reality

In Puget Sound Dave Reid has a weekly food order - to be delivered by sailing boat and without using a drop of oil...

Sailing

iShares Cup at Cowes Week Day Two

Spectators lined the Cowes shoreline to watch the Extreme 40 fleet racing on day two of the iShares Cup at Cowes Week....

Sailing

Cowes Week Day Two

Cowes Week - Shortly after 10am the Laser SB3s started, heading east with the 60-strong fleet making a spectacular sight...

Sailing

Last Day of 2009 Sydney International Boat Show

The 2009 Sydney Boat Show is an absolute must on your boating agenda, and today is the last chance to go....

Sailing

Brisbane to Keppel: Race record broken

Brisbane to Keppel: Race record broken!...

Sailing

Groupama 3 due to finish Transatlantic crossing

Groupama 3 is set to cross the finish line of her transatlantic record attempt at around 1400 UT this Sunday...

Sailing

Groupama likely to break Trans-Atlantic record

Report as of 1855hrs on 01 August 2009:...

Sailing

Two serious weekend emergencies show vital importance of lifejackets

Two separate marine emergencies on the weekend involved men overboard in extremely cold water and highlighted the critic...

Sailing

Buried treasure trove uncovered for trailer sailers

John Crawford Marine has created a trailer sailer reference library based on information gathered over 45 years....

Sailing

Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week fleet likely to break record

Tropical T shirt Regatta is just a few weeks away - 21st Airlie Beach Race Week Enter Now www.airliebeachraceweek.com.au...

Sailing

A Smashing Time to trade in your LASER!!!

Now is absolutely the best time to trade in your late model Laser for a new boat, with dealers across Australia...

Sailing

World Youth Champion joins 18 footers

17-year-old Jason Waterhouse, who won the Hobie 16 ISAF Youth Sailing Worldswill sail an 18ft Skiff in 2009-2010 season....

Sailing

Hobie Multi Europeans Day 1

Hobie Multi Europeans day one report....

Sailing

Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Race record under threat

The race record of 33 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds is under serious threat to fall...

Cruising

Incident 5:-A bitter 'taste of sailing'- Can you identify the lessons?

Judgment is for God, but the best mistakes to learn by are other people's, and so it is also with sailing....

Sailing

420 World Championships, Lake Garda - Day 2 GBR and NZL lead

Phil Sparks and Ben Gratton (GBR) lead the Open fleet....

Sailing

Marten Masterpiece

The wait is over. Marten Yachts has launched one of the world's most anticipated performance cruisers....

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14°

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22°

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SA Algal Bloom: A Decade to Recover

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Maila: Landfall Monday, Final Warning

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Maila Targets Cape York: FNQ on Watch

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

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Ningaloo Shut: Reef in Double Trouble

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

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Narelle Hits: Exmouth Airport Gone

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SE Australia's coldest April in decades

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How to take fishing photo's - part 2

Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

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Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

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Australian Kitesurfing Shops & Schools

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How to start Kiteboarding

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How to tune your kite line lengths

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How to take photos of your fish catch

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Travelling to Bali - some Trip Tips

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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A New Star for Starboard

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Intermediate wing foiler here who is foil brained, but I continue to find foiling a real challenge,...

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