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Full-on sprint to Kerguelen Gate for Portimao Global Ocean Race fleet - Sailing News
Sailing

Full-on sprint to Kerguelen Gate for Portimao Global Ocean Race fleet

>It's a full-on sprint to the Kerguelen Gate with a handful of miles separating the leading three boats....

The Quest for the Tattersalls Cup - Sailing News
Sailing

The Quest for the Tattersalls Cup

Now the real fun begins. As we predicted, the easing conditions slowed the leaders in the Rolex Sydney Hobart race....

L2H race leaders break away from the fleet - Sailing News
Sailing

L2H race leaders break away from the fleet

A race record may be off the cards but a game of cat and mouse for line honors glory has heated up in the L2H overnight....

Depression plagues Vendee Globe race leaders - Sailing News
Sailing

Depression plagues Vendee Globe race leaders

Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) is working hard to keep adding miles to his lead over Roland Jourdain (Veolia Environnement)....

Happy Hooking, the Art of Anchoring - Book Review - Sailing News
Sailing

Happy Hooking, the Art of Anchoring - Book Review

If there's one thing that the cruising sailor needs to know well, it's how to anchor! 'Happy Hooking' is just the book!...

Predict Wind Offers 30% Discount - Lifetime! - Sailing News
Sailing

Predict Wind Offers 30% Discount - Lifetime!

Predict Wind, just 6 months old, is offering cruising sailors a 30% lifetime discount if you take up the offer by 15 Jan...

Wild Oats XI heading into the history books - Sailing News
Sailing

Wild Oats XI heading into the history books

The crew on the 30m maxi Wild Oats XI look likely to get their dream finish in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart after all...

Race Favourite Leads Charge to Smashing The Race Record - Sailing News
Sailing

Race Favourite Leads Charge to Smashing The Race Record

Race favourite Crotty Legal and Dental is set to smash the L2H race record as it leads the fleet down the East Coast...

Rolex Sydney Hobart -Wild Oats XI hits shark - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart -Wild Oats XI hits shark

Wild Oats XI has confirmed that it hit a two-metre long shark at 6.40 pm tonight while sailing at about 20 knots....

Skandia continues to spoil Wild Oats XI's party - Sailing News
Sailing

Skandia continues to spoil Wild Oats XI's party

The older Skandia continues to lead her supercharged rival Wild Oats XI at the head of the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet...

Breeze, Bags and Wipeouts for M2H and M2L fleets - Sailing News
Sailing

Breeze, Bags and Wipeouts for M2H and M2L fleets

Breeze, Bags and Wipeouts! - Port Phillip Sea Pilots' Trophy. M2H and M2L...

Skandia in sight of Sydney Hobart Line Honours win - Sailing News
Sailing

Skandia in sight of Sydney Hobart Line Honours win

Grant Wharington's Skandia is causing quite an upset in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008...

Vendee: Desjoyeaux extends lead, BT limping, Wilson gets black eye - Sailing News
Sailing

Vendee: Desjoyeaux extends lead, BT limping, Wilson gets black eye

Seb Josse (BT) is now limping north to see what repairs he can make to the British built IMOCA Open 60...

Shortwave blitzes the Melbourne fleet - Sailing News
Sailing

Shortwave blitzes the Melbourne fleet

Shortwave has stamped herself as line honour favourite, in the Heemskirk Consolidated Melbourne to Hobart west coaster....

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Boat Quotes: Dario Schwoerer - Pachamama - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Boat Quotes: Dario Schwoerer - Pachamama

We saw a satellite image of the frontal system heading to Bass Strait, so on way into Eden to let the front come past...

2008 Tassie Trio - Images from Greg Maunder of start - Sailing News
Sailing

2008 Tassie Trio - Images from Greg Maunder of start

Greg Maunder was amongst the action on the water for the start of the 2008 Tassie Trio at Portsea. Here is a selection o...

Cougar II stalks the ultimate prize - Sailing News
Sailing

Cougar II stalks the ultimate prize

For true believers, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008 is not the heavy weight contest at the front of the fleet....

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Gripping battle in Bass Strait for line honours - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Gripping battle in Bass Strait for line honours

Seemingly impossible happening 90 miles east of Tasman Island. Wild Oats XI, trailing Skandia...

Sydney Hobart Day 2 and Smiles Still Linger for Some - Sailing News
Sailing

Sydney Hobart Day 2 and Smiles Still Linger for Some

There is nothing better than a strong northeasterly forecast to raise smiles across most of the crews heading south...

Sydney Hobart: Now to the tricky part - the Tasmanian coast - Sailing News
Sailing

Sydney Hobart: Now to the tricky part - the Tasmanian coast

While the weather models predicted a fast ride last night for the Rolex Sydney to Hobart fleet, the reality was quite di...

Rolex Sydney Hobart -Skandia continues to surprise - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart -Skandia continues to surprise

From the seamark yesterday after Skandia rounded 70 seconds behind Wild Oats XI, it was expected to see the gap widen...

China dispatches war ships to counter piracy - Sailing News
Sailing

China dispatches war ships to counter piracy

Three Chinese warships departed for the Gulf of Aden to join international efforts to fight Somali pirate attacks....

Marine industry contributes to Tsunami recovery - Sailing News
Sailing

Marine industry contributes to Tsunami recovery

Experts from the global marine industry are lending their support to nurture the fledgling boating sector in Sri Lanka....

Papuan Paradise - Sailing News
Sailing

Papuan Paradise

Papua New Guinea is home to some of the best marine environments in the world....

Sanyo Maris retires from Sydney Hobart, latest Georgia update - Sailing News
Sailing

Sanyo Maris retires from Sydney Hobart, latest Georgia update

Ian Kiernan's stunning Tasman Seabird Sanyo Maris retired from the Sydney to Hobart race....

Teeming biodiversity discovered in extinct volcanoes off Tasmania - Sailing News
Sailing

Teeming biodiversity discovered in extinct volcanoes off Tasmania

CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship team has discovered hundreds of new marine species and dozens of undersea mountains....

Wash, remove and dispose to help protect abalone this summer - Sailing News
Sailing

Wash, remove and dispose to help protect abalone this summer

help to reduce the risk of spreading the abalone disease in Victoria....

Launceston to Hobart kicks off today with Race Records set to topple - Sailing News
Sailing

Launceston to Hobart kicks off today with Race Records set to topple

Blistering race times are tipped as the Clive Peeters' Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race which kicks off today....

Heading to the Gate - leg 2 Portimao Global Ocean Race - Sailing News
Sailing

Heading to the Gate - leg 2 Portimao Global Ocean Race

Teams now have their sights to the first gate of the course, the Kerguelen Gate now less than 400 miles to their east....

Down but not out - Boxing Day drama for Josse and BT in Vendee Globe - Sailing News
Sailing

Down but not out - Boxing Day drama for Josse and BT in Vendee Globe

Sebastien Josse today at 11:47 GMT, reported having been knocked down by the raging seas generated by the storm...

Vendee Globe: BT suffers damage after knockdown - Sailing News
Sailing

Vendee Globe: BT suffers damage after knockdown

The French skipper Seb Josse on BT was knocked down with the mast in the water for several minutes, the yacht is damaged...

New Year Thoughts to Sail-World from an Anonymous Sailor, or.. - Sailing News
Sailing

New Year Thoughts to Sail-World from an Anonymous Sailor, or..

...what I learned in 42,000 miles....

Lost: One Round World Sailing Dream - Sailing News
Sailing

Lost: One Round World Sailing Dream

For 25 years Larry Beane dreamed of sailing around the world but instead the boat is lost and the dream has gone with it...

Race leaders enter Bass Strait - Sailing News
Sailing

Race leaders enter Bass Strait

For most of yesterday the top boats in Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race chewed up the miles, the 30ms maxis peaking at 20...

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Skandia leads Wild Oats X1 entering Bass Strait - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Skandia leads Wild Oats X1 entering Bass Strait

Skandia was leading Wild Oats XI by 2.8nm as the two leaders passed Gabo Island...

PredictWind: Light winds likely to stall Sydney Hobart record - Sailing News
Sailing

PredictWind: Light winds likely to stall Sydney Hobart record

Light winds in the Bass Strait area seem likely to preclude any chance of the race record being broken...

Sebastien Col leads K-Challenge crew for Louis Vuitton Pacific Series - Sailing News
Sailing

Sebastien Col leads K-Challenge crew for Louis Vuitton Pacific Series

Louis Vuitton Pacific Series will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 1-14 February 2009...

Sydney Hobart : Georgia sinking - all crew rescued - Sailing News
Sailing

Sydney Hobart : Georgia sinking - all crew rescued

Drama this evening in the 64th Rolex Sydney to Hobart race, when Victorian yacht Georgia, issued a MayDay at 21:25....

Caffari and Aviva break into Vendee Globe top ten - Sailing News
Sailing

Caffari and Aviva break into Vendee Globe top ten

Caffari and Aviva recorded the fastest 24 hour run in the Vendee fleet - over 389 miles...

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Images from Greg Maunder of start - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart - Images from Greg Maunder of start

Greg Maunder was amongst the action for the 2008 Rolex Sydney- Hobart Yacht Race start. Here are some of his images....

Volvo Ocean Race: Leg 3 a test of skill and patience - Sailing News
Sailing

Volvo Ocean Race: Leg 3 a test of skill and patience

The inaugural Volvo Ocean Race leg from Cochin to Singapore proved to be a great test of skill and patience....

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Lead yachts setting breakneck pace - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart: Lead yachts setting breakneck pace

The Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet are enjoying a quick ride down the coast this evening....

2008 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Radio Sked 1 - Sailing News
Sailing

2008 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Radio Sked 1

Here is the recording of the first Radio sked in the 2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart race, which began at 2005...

Moth sailors descend on Geelong - Sailing News
Sailing

Moth sailors descend on Geelong

The 2009 Zhik International Moth Australian Championship is shaping up to be a hotly contested series...

Vendee Globe: Desjoyeaux extends at New Zealand Gate, Caffari flying - Sailing News
Sailing

Vendee Globe: Desjoyeaux extends at New Zealand Gate, Caffari flying

Dee Caffari, GBR (Aviva) has been quickest in the fleet, covering 389 miles over the last 24 hours...

Shortwave tunes in for family tradition in the West Coaster - Sailing News
Sailing

Shortwave tunes in for family tradition in the West Coaster

A line honours win today has emphasized Shortwave's favouritism for line and IRC handicap honours in the West Coaster...

Wild Oats and Skandia lead fleet after perfect start - Sailing News
Sailing

Wild Oats and Skandia lead fleet after perfect start

Sydney Harbour was showcased in all its splendour for the start of the 64th Rolex Sydney Hobart this afternoon...

2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart - Images by Andrea Francolini of the start - Sailing News
Sailing

2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart - Images by Andrea Francolini of the start

Andrea Francolini was in the air and captured the boats in action at the start of the 2008 Rolex Sydney to Hobart...

Rolex Sydney Hobart -Just like the brochure - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart -Just like the brochure

Four hours after the start of 64th annual Rolex Sydney to Hobart race and so far the conditions are exactly as expected....

Sydney Hobart  - Wild Oats and Skandia lead fleet after classic start - Sailing News
Sailing

Sydney Hobart - Wild Oats and Skandia lead fleet after classic start

One hundred boats set off from two start lines north of Shark Island on a perfect Sydney summer afternoon...

Cock of the Bay Start: No Breeze - No Problem! - Sailing News
Sailing

Cock of the Bay Start: No Breeze - No Problem!

As predicted, the Reichel Pugh 36 'Smooth Criminal' took early honours in the 2008 Cock of the Bay....

Rolex Sydney Hobart start - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney Hobart start

From Sydney Harbour, the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart....

For Rolex Sydney Hobart tacticians their are tough decisions ahead - Sailing News
Sailing

For Rolex Sydney Hobart tacticians their are tough decisions ahead

Rolex Sydney Hobart weather - race start in strengthening northerlies and a big westerly in Bass Strait on Sunday night....

Earthrace on target to promote environmental virtue - Sailing News
Sailing

Earthrace on target to promote environmental virtue

It's the homeward stretch for Earthrace, says skipper Pete Bethune, who has been on the 'road' for two and a half years....

Portimao Global Ocean Race: Yet another low pressure system forecast - Sailing News
Sailing

Portimao Global Ocean Race: Yet another low pressure system forecast

Some of the boats racing the Portimao Global Ocean Race have decided to forego Christmas today .......

Vendee Globe: Tough, unrelenting conditions hit back of the fleet - Sailing News
Sailing

Vendee Globe: Tough, unrelenting conditions hit back of the fleet

As the leaders climb to pass the New Zealand gate leader Michel Desjoyeaux has slowed in recent hours....

Sailors Leap for their Lives from Doomed Yacht - Sailing News
Sailing

Sailors Leap for their Lives from Doomed Yacht

2 sailors escaped their 44 foot sailing boat by jumping into the surf as it was pounded ashore on a beach near San Diego...

Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race record looking more likely - Sailing News
Sailing

Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race record looking more likely

Sail-World has run a Volvo 70 down the Rolex Sydney to Hobart race track, and a race record would seem to be looking mor...

Miracle Survival - Shipwrecked Yachtie Found - Sailing News
Sailing

Miracle Survival - Shipwrecked Yachtie Found

A NZ yachtie sailing from Fiji clambered ashore, injured but alive, after his yacht struck Nepean Island near Norfolk Is...

Sydney Hobart: oldest and smallest boat a good handicap chance - Sailing News
Sailing

Sydney Hobart: oldest and smallest boat a good handicap chance

Built in 1932 of Huon pine from Tasmania, the gaff-rigged Maluka of Kermandie has been lovingly rebuilt by Sean Langman...

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