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Farr 40 European Championship day 3 leader board tightens up

Day three of the UNO Farr 40 European Championship provided everything that a great day's racing should...

Power Boats

Class 1 Powerboat Italian Grand Prix - Victory takes pole position

Class 1 Powerboat Italian Grand Prix - Victory's Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir bin Hendi will start race one in pole position...

Sailing

Asian Match Racing Championship - Tiller qualifies for the Monsoon Cup

Asian Match Racing Championship has been won by William Tiller (Full Metal Jacket Racing)....

Sailing

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Teams avoid icebergs

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Some of the yachts having to take evasive action to avoid icebergs...

Sailing

Club Marine Series Round 1 on Port Phillip - Fresh to frightening

Racing in Melbourne got underway in fresh to frightening conditions.......

Sailing

'About Time' first IRC entry for Pittwater & Coffs Harbour Regatta

Defending IRC race and regatta champion, Cookson 12 'About Time' was the first IRC boat to enter....

Sailing

Asian Match Racing Championship Qualifier for Monsoon Cup - Results

Asian Match Racing Championship decided in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia....

Sailing

Combined Clubs Harbour Series - Big turn out for first day

Combined Clubs Harbour Series - Hobart yachtsman got a first-up taste of tough sailing conditions on the Derwent today...

Sailing

Vestas Sailrocket 2 joins the 50 knot club + Video

We just got back in from a great session and I'm happy to say that Vestas Sailrocket 2 is now in the 50 knot club....

Cruising

Country kid numbers surge in WA sailing development camps

Annual Yachting WA Development Camps this year attracted a notable increase in participation by country sailors...

Cruising

Sharks make their presence felt in south east Queensland

Sharks are out in force in Queensland, feeding on bait balls close to popular beaches, causing DEEDI to take action....

Cruising

Student takes family yacht for a spin, jailed for 8 months

A British uni student who took the family yacht without permission was jailed because his mother reported him to police...

Sailing

In too deep - Behind the Race to Mackinac tragedy

Chicago-Mackinac 2011 - a behind the scenes report...

Sailing

Extreme Sailing Series Act 8 Day 3 - Team GAC Pindar on form + Video

Ian Williams helmed Team GAC Pindar to the top of the leaderboard of the Extreme 40 Sailing Series Act 8....

Cruising

EUROSAF High Performance Grand Prix day 2 excellent racing

The second day of the of the EUROSAF High Performance Grand Prix provided weather that allowed for a full day of racing....

Sailing

Global Ocean Race leaders Mabire and Merron through scoring gate

Global Ocean Race leaders have sailed into the Southern Hemisphere and through the Fastnet Marine Scoring Gate...

Sailing

Farr 40 European Championship day 2 - Enfant Terrible extends

Farr 40 Europeans - Consistently good performances enabled Alberto Rossi's Enfant Terrible to consolidate their lead...

Power Boats

Class 1 Powerboat Italian Grand Prix practice race - Victory on top

Italian Grand Prix - Defending World Champions Zafeen and Hendi were the class act in today's official practice...

Sailing

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Calmer conditions

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race teams are enjoying a welcome respite from the ferocious weather of the past few days...

Cruising

Pesky Caribbean rock 'n roll monster!

Friends of mine returned from a two-week sailing charter in the crystal-blue waters of the Lesser Antilles...

Cruising

Eurosaf High Performance Grand Prix day 1 - Light conditions

Eurosaf High Performance Grand Prix - It's like being back in summer here in Murcia, as racing gets underway...

Sailing

Asian Match Racing Championship - Thumbs up from Datuk Peter Gilmour

Asian Match Racing Championship - Datuk Peter Gilmour is happy to be back in Kuala Terengganu, home of the Monsoon Cup....

Sailing

Gilmour versus Gilmour on the World Match Racing Tour?

Might history be unfolding as 20 year old West Australian match racer David Gilmour edges closer to the WMRT?...

Cruising

Name Australia's new baby whale and win a sailing holiday

Following the sighting of a white baby whale in the Whitsundays 2 weeks ago, name the baby to win a sailing holiday...

Power Boats

Why Andrew Short was impossible to replace

They don't come more charismatic than Andrew Short; a better salesman and sailor you'd be hard stretched to find....

Cruising

Cruising Croatia: Lightning strikes twice

Jean de Keyser, who led the ASA's 2011 Croatia flotillas recounts the story of the ASA's second 2011 Croatia Flotilla...

Sailing

Team Telefonica announced for Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12

Team Telefonica officially unveiled their crew for the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12...

Stand Up Paddle

Stand up paddling the Murray - 25 days into the journey

Paul Langbein is 25 days into his epic quest to become the first man to stand up paddle the entire length of the Murray river.

Sailing

Australian Match Racing Championships - Hansen wins in all SYC final

Australian Women's Match Racing - SYCs Hansen, Turner, Jackson and Cronin have won on home waters in the all SYC final...

Kitesurfing

WAKSA Event Update, including course racing series

WAKSA - the WA Kitesurfing association just released news on planned events for the upcoming summer season.

Sailing

Extreme Sailing Series Act 8 day 2 a mixed affair + Video

Extreme Sailing Series Act 8 has now wrapped up the second day of competition in Almeria....

Sailing

Melges Fleets East Coast Championships - Pittwater Festival of Sail

This will be the second event for the Melges 32 2011 - 2012 Australasian Cup Series...

Sailing

La Charente-Maritime Bahia Transat 6.50 Leg 2 underway

La Charente-Maritime Bahia Transat 6.50 Leg 2 is now underway. The seventy-seven strong fleet set sail at 1:30 p.m...

Cruising

Maritime NZ Public Update and Advisory - Rena Disaster - 14 October

Maritime NZ, on Friday 14 October, issued a media release/public notice in regard to the Rena Disaster...

Sailing

Global Ocean Race - Doldrums lottery

The Global Ocean Race's first leg was undoubtedly changed by the Doldrums...

Sailing

Farr 40 European Championship day 1 - Enfant Terrible into lead

Farr 40 European Championship - Alberto Rossi's Enfant Terrible (ITA) leads the overall classification after three races...

Windsurfing

Catch up with Van Der Steen - The guys from Loft TV have tracked down team rider

The guys from Loft TV have tracked down team rider Ben Van Der Steen to talk about his incredible year on tour.

Sailing

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race teams face extreme conditions

The Clipper teams have been experiencing the full force of a ferocious weather system...

Cruising

Island Yacht Club Raises More than Half Million $ for Renewal

The Island Yacht Club announced that the Club has raised more than $525,000 for renewal of its facilities....

Sailing

Port Dalrymple Yacht Club's Distance Race 1

Sunday saw the first race in the Port Dalrymple Yacht Club's Allans Log cabin Distance race series....

Sailing

Young Guns fire Classic salvo

Team Young Gun is by far the youngest team in the history of event, and is quietly favoured in the standings...

Sailing

Monsoon Cup Qualifier- Asian Match Racing Championship day 2

The 2011 Asian Match Racing Championship is well way with today's matches being both entertaining and exciting....

Sailing

True Blue Racing reports on World Match Racing Tour debut

True Blue Racing were invited to the Argo Group Gold Cup after a win in the team's second ever Grade 2 match race event...

Cruising

Australian companies stand tall at international trade shows

Australian companies will be at the 2011 International Boatbuilders' Exhibition and Conference (IBEX)....

Cruising

Australian marine industry to showcase at Fort Lauderdale

The presence of the Australian marine industry will be prominent at this year's Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show....

Sailing

La Charente-Maritime Bahia Transat 6.50 Leg 2 - Stage is set

13th of October at 1:30 p.m local time the start of the second stage of La Charente-Maritime Bahia Transat 6.50 begins...

Cruising

Alison Quinn to move on from Sanctuary Cove

Alison Quinn, Executive General Manager Mulpha Sanctuary Cove (Developments), has resigned from the top job....

Power Boats

Boaters take care on Wyangala Dam this weekend

NSW Maritime has issued an exclusive use aquatic licence for Wyangala Dam in NSW's central west this weekend...

Cruising

Melbourne Leisurefest shines through the gloom

Melbourne Leisurefest attracted a 30,000+ crowd to its display of caravans, RVs, four-wheel-drives and boats this year....

Sailing

Australian Match Racing Championships day 2 - Intense battles

Australian Match Racing Championships day two was 21 races of intense battle in the light to moderate breezes...

Sailing

Extreme Sailing Series Act 8 day 1 - Tricky and challenging conditions

Act 8 of the 2011 Extreme Sailing Series is now underway in Almeria and the public literally arrived in the thousands...

Sailing

Global Ocean Race leaders nearing the equator

The Global Ocean Race leaders are digging into the South-East Trades whilst the two mid-fleet boats are getting snared...

Cruising

Disaster clean up begins in earnest around Rena wreck

New Zealand authorities are focusing their efforts on the clean up operation as 350 tonnes of oil and 70 containers make...

Sailing

BMW Berlin Match Race preview

The BMW Berlin Match Race is set to take place from second to 6th November 2011....

Kitesurfing

Australian stop of the world kiteboarding tour CANCELLED.

The PKRA has decided to pull the final two events from the competition, scratching both the Australian and New Caledonian PKRA events.

Windsurfing

UMI Bonaire editing comp

Always wanted to be a filmmaker? Want to work with the world's best riders? Here's your chance!

Sailing

Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Major repairs at sea

Clipper Round the World Race - Visit Finland and Derry-Londonderry mull repairs to damaged mainsails...

Sailing

Asian Match Racing Championship - Nicholas and Tiller lead the pack

Asian Match Racing Championship commenced today as 7 sailing teams from around Asia congregrated in Kuala Terengganu...

Sailing

ISAF Women's Match Racing 2012 Worlds Venue announced as Gothenburg

ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship 14th edition will be hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden from 25 to 30 June 2012....

Sailing

Mini Transat First leg: The Fleet battles with upwind and squalls

Scott Cavanough from Australia is almost ready for the second leg of the La Charente-Maritime to Bahia Transat 650....

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