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Aussies warm up for Mirror Worlds at UK Nationals

6 Australian boats have used the UK Mirrort Nationals as a warm up event for the 2009 Mirror Wolrds in Pwllheli, Wales....

Cruising

Razor Barbed wire found to deter pirates

Danish ships have discovered that coils of razor barbed wire are an effective deterrent agains pirates....

Sailing

2009 OK Dinghy World Championship Day 2

In sunshine and a light breeze race 3 of the OK Dinghy World Championship in Kalmar, Sweden started promptly at 11:05....

Sailing

2009 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam Day 5 - Albeau again

2009 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam - Day 5....

Sailing

ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship - Lysekil Match Race

The ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship in Lysekil is the most prestigious event in women's match racing....

Cruising

Sailor/student-designer of super-green super-yacht needs $65m

Alastair Callender has designed a super-green super-yacht, but no-one's put up the $65 million required to build it....

Sailing

RS Feva European Championship Day 1 - GBR hold top spots

Day one of the Allen RS Feva European championship kicked off in blazing heat on the eastern shores of Lake Garda...

Sailing

2009 Mirror World Championship Day 1

First day of the 2009 Mirror World Championship in Pwllheli, North Wales....

Kitesurfing - VKWC

PKRA - Germany 2009 Day 3

Latest Pro Kiteboard Riders Association news - PKRA - Germany 2009 Day 3

Windsurfing

Fuerteventura Grand Slam - Day 6

Day 6: Estredo and Offringa take the honors as the first day of freestyle action is underway.

Power Boats

Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Series - Lowestoft

The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat race - Lowestoft, report....

Sailing

Images of Alinghi: Light airs on Lake Geneva

Top international sailing photographer, Carlo Borlenghi presents a gallery of images from around le Bouveret...

Sailing

Line honours to Wild Oats X as IRC battle continues

Wild Oats X takes line honours and the battle for IRC Overall continues...

Sailing

Yachting WA Winter Lecture Series features Peter Gilmour tomorrow

The Yachting WA Winter Lecture Series are designed for to get all WA sailors thinking about their upcoming season...

Sailing

Audi Sydney to Gold Coast Race - Chum goes to Hobart

Brett Filby from the Kerr 38 Tow Truck, reports vividly on the race within a race - IRC Division 2....

Sailing

Aussie Laser Radial girls set for 2009 World Championships in Japan

Four of Australia's up and coming female sailors are in Japan preparing to sail in the 2009 Laser Radial Worlds....

Cruising

Cat Capsize, Sailing Incident 4 - 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

Sydney Gold Coast - Wild Oats X heads for finishing line

Bob Oatley's Reichel Pugh 66 Wild Oats X is currently 4 nautical miles SE of Cape Byron and is expected to finish soon....

Cruising

5 Lost at Sea: Jesse Martin's new film

At the Greater Union, Russell Street, at 12.45pm on Sunday will be showing Jesse Martin's new film, 5 Lost at Sea....

Sailing

Big Boat battle set for Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week

2009 Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week will see two rivals again line up...

Sailing

2009 OK Dinghy World Championship Kalmar, Sweden - Day One

Clear start for the first race of the OK World Championships in Kalmar, Sweden....

Sailing

Karpathos prepares for 2009 Speed Windsurfing World Championships

Karpathos prepares for thrilling action as the clock counts down to the 2009 Speed Windsurfing World Championships...

Sailing

2009 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam - Albeau's day

2009 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam Day 4 - a morning of shifting winds gave today's event an electrifying suspense...

Sailing

International fleet gathers for 2009 Mirror World Championship

2009 Mirror World Championship at Pwllheli in North Wales, competitors were able to make their final preparations...

Sailing

Hobie 16 North Americas - Final report

Puerto Rican sailor Enrique Figueroa has won his seventh North American title in the Hobie 16 class...

Sailing

Six Senses Phuket Raceweek is one of 'Asia's Finest'

'Veni, Vidi, Vici' for Evolution Sails at Six Senses Phuket Raceweek...

Kitesurfing - VKWC

PKRA - Germany 2009 Day 2

Latest Pro Kiteboard Riders Association news - PKRA - Germany 2009 Day 2

Kitesurfing - VKWC

PKRA - Germany 2009 Day 1

Latest Pro Kiteboard Riders Association news - PKRA - Germany 2009 Day 1

Kitesurfing - VKWC

PKRA - Register Riders Germany 09

Latest Pro Kiteboard Riders Association news - PKRA - Register Riders Germany 09

Windsurfing

Fuerteventura Grand Slam - Day 5

Day 5: Congratulations to Antoine Albeau, Finian Maynard and Kevin Pritchard, who reap the glory from the 2009 Fuerteventura Grand Slam.

Sailing

Wish You Were Here. Six Senses Phuket Raceweek.

Picture Postcard Perfect in Phuket...

Sailing

Sydney Gold Coast Race images

Photographer Andrea Francolini was at the start of the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race....

Sailing

Images from 'Frisco: Savage Beauty ravaged

The Flying Tiger, 'Savage Beauty' cut it a little fine while racing in San Francisco on Saturday...

Cruising

Sailing with Balvenie - Westwards thru the Corinth Canal and onward

Amanda Church and Mark Farrell continue their tales of sailing in Greece on their 47ft sloop Balvenie...

Sailing

Sydney Southport Fleet spreads south of Coffs Harbour

Light conditions and a strong south flowing current has made conditions tough for the 80 boats in the 2009 Audi Sydney t...

Sailing

Laser Radial Womens Worlds 2009- Karatsu, Japan- Entry List

Here is the entry list for the Laser Radial Womens Worlds 2009- Karatsu, Japan, which runs from July 25 to August 2....

Sailing

2009 OK Dinghy Worlds - 2008 Champion wins Practice Race

It is common for the leader not to finish the Practice race on the suspicion it will mar his performance later in the we...

Sailing

Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam Day 3 - All change at the top

2009 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam - Day 3: It's all change at the top....

Sailing

Images of Cagliari: Juerg Kaufmann shoots the MedCup Final Day

Juerg Kaufmann presents a superb gallery of images taken during the Final day of the Audi Med Cup in Cagliari, Satdinia...

Sailing

2009 SAP 5O5 World and North American Championships

The 2009 SAP 5O5 World Championships and North American Championships are coming to the St. Francis Yacht Club...

Sailing

Forza Kiwi - Mistral arrives for the Final Day of Audi MedCup

Emirates Team New Zealand add the Region of Sardinia Trophy to the Marseille Trophy after a composed final day of racing...

Sailing

2009 29er World Champions - Steve Thomas (AUS) and Blair Tuke (NZ)

2009 29er World Championship: 9:57 AM - Steven Thomas and Blair Tuke (AUS 1) are 2009's World Champions!...

Sailing

'Travel brochure' images from Six Senses Phuket Raceweek

You could make a calendar out of this stuff. (Hey! that's an idea...)...

Sailing

You can't have too much of a good thing: Six Senses Phuket Raceweek

Putting away the camera and going sailing seemed like a great idea. But that would have made this report a little tricky...

Windsurfing

Fuerteventura Grand Slam - Day 4

Day 4: Albeau's outstanding victory is worth the wait.

Sailing

Sydney to Gold Coast Race - Loki and Wild Oats duelling for the lead

Stephen Ainsworth's Loki is in a battle with Mark Richards skippered Wild Oats X....

Power Boats

Yellow card and Long Lap penalty for Fazza after Norwegian Grand Prix

Fazza's Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi have been issued with a yellow card for an infringement...

Cruising

Great Barrier Reef among finalists for New 7 Wonders of Nature listing

Great Barrier Reef is among the finalists for the title of 'New 7 Wonders of Nature'....

Sailing

SpliceRight at Sydney Boat Show

DeckHardware in conjunction with SpliceRight will be displaying their new Splicing Kit at the 2009 Sydney Boatshow....

Sailing

More Images from Audi Gold Coast Race Start

Tony Donellan and his team aboard the Reichel Pugh 47 Shamrock proved that you don't need to have Volvo Round the World...

Sailing

Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron 87-year-old notches up another victory

Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron member John Goldie has been racing aboard his yacht Kerstin II almost every week without fai...

Sailing

Audi Sydney Gold Coast fleet tip-toeing north

The 80 boats in the 24th annual Sydney to Gold Coast race present no danger to the 1999 Race record still held by George...

Sailing

Images from the 2009 Audi Sydney to Gold Coast start

A selection of Andrea Francolin's images from the 2009 Audi Sydney to Gold Coast start...

Sailing

Fleet away in 24th Sydney to Gold Coast Race

Brilliant sunshine and a light westerly, around five knots for the start of the 384 nautical mile race from Sydney to So...

Cruising

Unusual Yacht Clubs of the World - Aspen Yacht Club

Aspen is known for its skiing. It's definitely not known for its sailing. However, the Aspen Yacht Club is not a joke....

Sailing

Sydney Gold Coast Race - headache for tacticians

The Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race fleet will exit Sydney Harbour in light conditions after its 1300 start today...

Sailing

Spithill and Souter prepare for Lysekil Women's Match Race

AST Squad's Women Match Racers are in preparation for ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship in Lysekil, Sweden...

Sailing

UK Mirror Nationals Day 1

Day 1 of the Mirror Nationals kicked off with a brisk breeze and big seas that had being building over the last few days...

Sailing

Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam Day 2

2009 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam - Day 2. A battering 40-knot wind churned the water white this morning....

Sailing

Virtual Eye: Nigamost 7 amazing recovery in race 8 of Audi MedCup

Bigamist 7 made an amazing recovery in Race 8 of the Audi MedCup being staged in Sar...

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Windiest in Australia:

Scotts Peak Dam, TAS

30 kn

10°

Most Windless in Australia:

Esperance (Coastal), WA

0 kn

15°

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WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

Weather

WA's Seasonal Shift: Seabreeze to Frontal

Fishing

How to take fishing photo's - part 2

Kitesurfing

Australian Kitesurfing Shops & Schools

Kitesurfing

How to tune your kite line lengths

Kitesurfing

Travelling to Bali - some Trip Tips

Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

Fishing

Australian Salmon: Surf, Rock and Timing

Kitesurfing

How to start Kiteboarding

Stand Up Paddle

A New Star for Starboard

Fishing

How to take photos of your fish catch

Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

Kitesurfing

Loosen up those ankles before kiteboarding...

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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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SE Australia: 10 Marine Warnings Active

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Maila: Landfall Monday, Final Warning

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Narelle Hits: Exmouth Airport Gone

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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

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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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SA Algal Bloom: A Decade to Recover

Narelle Closes In: WA Coast on High Alert

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Narelle Closes In: WA Coast on High Alert

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Wing Foiling

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

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Wing Foiling

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

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I am wondering if any of you can shed some light on a problem I am having,

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Anyone got any info on the new Armstrong ML board.

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Am trying an 86L/56 wide Isonic and whilst its super once on the plane over 30 knots I am finding...

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