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....
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>It's a full-on sprint to the Kerguelen Gate with a handful of miles separating the leading three boats....
Now the real fun begins. As we predicted, the easing conditions slowed the leaders in the Rolex Sydney Hobart race....
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....
Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) is working hard to keep adding miles to his lead over Roland Jourdain (Veolia Environnement)....
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, just 6 months old, is offering cruising sailors a 30% lifetime discount if you take up the offer by 15 Jan...
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 Crotty Legal and Dental is set to smash the L2H race record as it leads the fleet down the East Coast...
Wild Oats XI has confirmed that it hit a two-metre long shark at 6.40 pm tonight while sailing at about 20 knots....
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! - Port Phillip Sea Pilots' Trophy. M2H and M2L...
Grant Wharington's Skandia is causing quite an upset in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008...
Seb Josse (BT) is now limping north to see what repairs he can make to the British built IMOCA Open 60...
Shortwave has stamped herself as line honour favourite, in the Heemskirk Consolidated Melbourne to Hobart west coaster....
We saw a satellite image of the frontal system heading to Bass Strait, so on way into Eden to let the front come past...
Greg Maunder was amongst the action on the water for the start of the 2008 Tassie Trio at Portsea. Here is a selection o...
For true believers, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008 is not the heavy weight contest at the front of the fleet....
Seemingly impossible happening 90 miles east of Tasman Island. Wild Oats XI, trailing Skandia...
There is nothing better than a strong northeasterly forecast to raise smiles across most of the crews heading south...
While the weather models predicted a fast ride last night for the Rolex Sydney to Hobart fleet, the reality was quite di...
From the seamark yesterday after Skandia rounded 70 seconds behind Wild Oats XI, it was expected to see the gap widen...
Three Chinese warships departed for the Gulf of Aden to join international efforts to fight Somali pirate attacks....
Experts from the global marine industry are lending their support to nurture the fledgling boating sector in Sri Lanka....
Papua New Guinea is home to some of the best marine environments in the world....
Ian Kiernan's stunning Tasman Seabird Sanyo Maris retired from the Sydney to Hobart race....
CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship team has discovered hundreds of new marine species and dozens of undersea mountains....
help to reduce the risk of spreading the abalone disease in Victoria....
Blistering race times are tipped as the Clive Peeters' Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race which kicks off today....
Teams now have their sights to the first gate of the course, the Kerguelen Gate now less than 400 miles to their east....
Sebastien Josse today at 11:47 GMT, reported having been knocked down by the raging seas generated by the storm...
The French skipper Seb Josse on BT was knocked down with the mast in the water for several minutes, the yacht is damaged...
...what I learned in 42,000 miles....
For 25 years Larry Beane dreamed of sailing around the world but instead the boat is lost and the dream has gone with it...
For most of yesterday the top boats in Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race chewed up the miles, the 30ms maxis peaking at 20...
Skandia was leading Wild Oats XI by 2.8nm as the two leaders passed Gabo Island...
Light winds in the Bass Strait area seem likely to preclude any chance of the race record being broken...
Louis Vuitton Pacific Series will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 1-14 February 2009...
Drama this evening in the 64th Rolex Sydney to Hobart race, when Victorian yacht Georgia, issued a MayDay at 21:25....
Caffari and Aviva recorded the fastest 24 hour run in the Vendee fleet - over 389 miles...
Greg Maunder was amongst the action for the 2008 Rolex Sydney- Hobart Yacht Race start. Here are some of his images....
The inaugural Volvo Ocean Race leg from Cochin to Singapore proved to be a great test of skill and patience....
The Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet are enjoying a quick ride down the coast this evening....
Here is the recording of the first Radio sked in the 2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart race, which began at 2005...
The 2009 Zhik International Moth Australian Championship is shaping up to be a hotly contested series...
Dee Caffari, GBR (Aviva) has been quickest in the fleet, covering 389 miles over the last 24 hours...
A line honours win today has emphasized Shortwave's favouritism for line and IRC handicap honours in the West Coaster...
Sydney Harbour was showcased in all its splendour for the start of the 64th Rolex Sydney Hobart this afternoon...
Andrea Francolini was in the air and captured the boats in action at the start of the 2008 Rolex Sydney to Hobart...
Four hours after the start of 64th annual Rolex Sydney to Hobart race and so far the conditions are exactly as expected....
One hundred boats set off from two start lines north of Shark Island on a perfect Sydney summer afternoon...
As predicted, the Reichel Pugh 36 'Smooth Criminal' took early honours in the 2008 Cock of the Bay....
From Sydney Harbour, the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart....
Rolex Sydney Hobart weather - race start in strengthening northerlies and a big westerly in Bass Strait on Sunday night....
It's the homeward stretch for Earthrace, says skipper Pete Bethune, who has been on the 'road' for two and a half years....
Some of the boats racing the Portimao Global Ocean Race have decided to forego Christmas today .......
As the leaders climb to pass the New Zealand gate leader Michel Desjoyeaux has slowed in recent hours....
2 sailors escaped their 44 foot sailing boat by jumping into the surf as it was pounded ashore on a beach near San Diego...
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...
A NZ yachtie sailing from Fiji clambered ashore, injured but alive, after his yacht struck Nepean Island near Norfolk Is...
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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