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Bavaria 50 Cruiser enters 2008 Sydney to Hobart - Sailing News
Sailing

Bavaria 50 Cruiser enters 2008 Sydney to Hobart

This year's Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race will see Bavaria 50 Cruiser Time Lord flying the flag for Bavaria Yachts....

Aust oldest yacht race - Something old and new - Sailing News
Sailing

Aust oldest yacht race - Something old and new

Australia's oldest yacht race will begin as usual on December 27, 2008. It's name? The Melbourne to Launceston....

Phoenicia Departs Port Sudan for the 'Pirate Zone' - Sailing News
Sailing

Phoenicia Departs Port Sudan for the 'Pirate Zone'

The Phoenicia Expedition will circumnavigate Africa to prove the Phoenicians were the first people to conquer the feat....

Fast ride for Sydney Hobart spectators - Sailing News
Sailing

Fast ride for Sydney Hobart spectators

Rolex Sydney to Hobart spectators can stay with the fleet for a long time offshore as they head south....

Calling all Young Yacht Designers - Sailing News
Sailing

Calling all Young Yacht Designers

If you are a young yacht designer, think about entering the 'Young Designer of the Year Award Competition, 2009...

Volvo Teams pass scoring gate, Ericsson Team leads - Sailing News
Sailing

Volvo Teams pass scoring gate, Ericsson Team leads

Volvo Ericsson 4 claimed four points for being first boat past the Leg 3 scoring gate north of the island Pulau We...

Desjoyeaux cranks up the pace in Vendee Globe - Sailing News
Sailing

Desjoyeaux cranks up the pace in Vendee Globe

Michel Desjoyeaux has cranked up the pace again on Foncia, he was just 50 miles from the Pacific highway this evening....

CruiseCraft Launch Fraser Island Pak - Sailing News
Sailing

CruiseCraft Launch Fraser Island Pak

CruiseCraft has put together a battle-ready kit of boating accessories for the serious bluewater angler looking to custo...

Portimao: British Team Mowgli charge towards top - Sailing News
Sailing

Portimao: British Team Mowgli charge towards top

The British team of Jeremy Salvesen and David Thomson are on a rip for the top spot - Portimao Global Ocean Race...

M30 Class announces New Name - Sailing News
Sailing

M30 Class announces New Name

M30 Class Announces New Name - Farr 30 International One Design Class...

Berlin to Hobart - part of an indefinite vacation - Sailing News
Sailing

Berlin to Hobart - part of an indefinite vacation

Walross 4 has partied in Mexico, sunbaked in the Canaries and cheered at the Olympic Games in China....

Volvo - Ericsson 4  rolls Telefonica Blue to lead - Sailing News
Sailing

Volvo - Ericsson 4 rolls Telefonica Blue to lead

Ericsson 4 has rolled over the top of Telefonica Blue and has a slim lead of 8 nm...

Australian Frigate heads for injured Vendee sailor - Sailing News
Sailing

Australian Frigate heads for injured Vendee sailor

Australian Royal Navy Frigate ETA with injured Vendee sailor Yann Elies is now 14:00hrs GMT Saturday...

'Names' line up for Audi Etchells Worlds 2009 - Sailing News
Sailing

'Names' line up for Audi Etchells Worlds 2009

The who's who of sailing is set to line up for the 2009 Audi Etchells Worlds....

Sail Melbourne Day 4 - Page and Belcher dominate - Sailing News
Sailing

Sail Melbourne Day 4 - Page and Belcher dominate

Olympic Gold Medallist Page and his new skipper Belcher have not taken long to find their sea legs....

Vendee: Yann Elies awaits Australian Navy rescue - Sailing News
Sailing

Vendee: Yann Elies awaits Australian Navy rescue

Marc Guillemot arrived on station close to injured Yann Elies last night as they await Australian Navy...

Ragamuffin holds Rolex Trophy lead after Day 2 - Sailing News
Sailing

Ragamuffin holds Rolex Trophy lead after Day 2

The sou'east breeze built to a brisk 20 knots offshore for today's second race of the Rolex Trophy, which was described...

Matthew Hayden urges boaters keep proper Look-Out - Sailing News
Sailing

Matthew Hayden urges boaters keep proper Look-Out

Australian Test cricketer Matthew Hayden reckons that keeping a proper look-out should be the "first rule of the water'...

61 starters for the Pittwater to Coffs Ocean Race - Sailing News
Sailing

61 starters for the Pittwater to Coffs Ocean Race

A fleet of 61 to start in the 2009 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Offshore race on the 2nd January....

Australian Navy for Southern Ocean Rescue - Again - Sailing News
Sailing

Australian Navy for Southern Ocean Rescue - Again

The Australian Navy is to come to the aid of a sailor in the Southern Ocean, redolent of the rescue of Tony Bullimore...

Marten 49 Summer Celebration - Sailing News
Sailing

Marten 49 Summer Celebration

4 boats from around Australian and 1 New Zealand crew flew in for a different regatta...

Letter from the Indies: St Barts and St Martins - Sailing News
Sailing

Letter from the Indies: St Barts and St Martins

Andrea and Ian Treleaven, on their yacht Cape Finisterre, continue their tales of sailing in the Caribbean....

N.Y. court should deny America's Cup challenge - Sailing News
Sailing

N.Y. court should deny America's Cup challenge

Longtime yachting commentator, Eric Sharp writes in the Detroit Free Press on the upcoming America's Cup Hearing...

ONE News: Olympic Matchracer designer interviewed - Sailing News
Sailing

ONE News: Olympic Matchracer designer interviewed

ONE News' sailing reporter Martin Tasker reports on the new Elliott 6 metre...

Fitzroy Yachts back Solo Tasman Yacht Race - Sailing News
Sailing

Fitzroy Yachts back Solo Tasman Yacht Race

There'll be more than just wind behind sailors competing in the 2010 Solo Tasman Yacht Race...

Dismasted Cruising Sailor: 'I only need diesel.' - Sailing News
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Dismasted Cruising Sailor: 'I only need diesel.'

European sailor on yacht Guardian, between Tonga and Bay of Islands in NZ, has been dismasted, but just needs fuel...

19 teams entered for 33rd America's Cup - Sailing News
Sailing

19 teams entered for 33rd America's Cup

AC Management today announced the entry list for the 33rd America's Cup that includes 19 teams,...

Volvo News: Slogging upwind, halyard breadown - Sailing News
Sailing

Volvo News: Slogging upwind, halyard breadown

On Day 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race, the boats are heading to Singapore in hot,humid and squally conditions. Boat news....

Vendee : Golding OK, Sam Davies takes a tumble - Sailing News
Sailing

Vendee : Golding OK, Sam Davies takes a tumble

Latest news from Vendee Globe competitors....

Volvo Leg 3 - Delta LLoyd suffers keel fracture - Sailing News
Sailing

Volvo Leg 3 - Delta LLoyd suffers keel fracture

Team Delta Lloyd (Roberto Bermudez/ESP) has suffered damage to the port side carbon structure around the keel ram....

Another Vendee Globe victim: Elies breaks femur - Sailing News
Sailing

Another Vendee Globe victim: Elies breaks femur

While Yann Elies was changing sails aboard Generali, a huge wave came crashing through and halted the boat...

Knowledge base for future world match champion - Sailing News
Sailing

Knowledge base for future world match champion

A third place in the Monsoon Cup and a lot of hard sailing during the year looks set to deliver a World Match Racing Tou...

WYRF message - look after your sponsors! - Sailing News
Sailing

WYRF message - look after your sponsors!

For those who missed the comments that came out of the recent Monaco Yacht Racing Forum, here is a sort of 'digest...

French sailors dominate World Match Race Rankings - Sailing News
Sailing

French sailors dominate World Match Race Rankings

Sebastien COL hit the top in the Open Rankings as France maintains its domination of the ISAF World Match Race Rankings...

Ragamuffin's challenge for Hobart supremacy - Sailing News
Sailing

Ragamuffin's challenge for Hobart supremacy

Day one of the Rolex Trophy and eighty-one year old Syd Fischer and his crew on board Ragamuffin threw down a challenge...

ISAF Sailing World Cup - Sail Melbourne Day 3 - Sailing News
Sailing

ISAF Sailing World Cup - Sail Melbourne Day 3

Olympic Gold Medallist Malcolm Page and skipper Mat Belcher continue to dominate proceedings....

Seb Josse gains on Vendee Globe leaders - Sailing News
Sailing

Seb Josse gains on Vendee Globe leaders

Seb Josse back in third, gaining 10 miles since yesterday afternoon....

$12,650 handed to charities by 2008 HCW race - Sailing News
Sailing

$12,650 handed to charities by 2008 HCW race

Cheques totalling nearly $13,000 have been handed over to Hunter region charities through the Heaven Can Wait Yacht Club...

Hobart: Breakthrough ocean current information - Sailing News
Sailing

Hobart: Breakthrough ocean current information

Revolutionary new ocean current charts will give participants in Rolex Sydney Hobart edge of between five and 20 hours...

A reminder Switch to safer boating: Switch to 406 - Sailing News
Sailing

A reminder Switch to safer boating: Switch to 406

New digital emergency radio beacons (EPIRBs) take over from the old analogue system early next year...

Tuross Lake boaters reminded keep clear - dolphins - Sailing News
Sailing

Tuross Lake boaters reminded keep clear - dolphins

Boaters are being reminded of their responsibilities in keeping a safe distance from dolphins and other marine mammals,...

Ambitious project classifies new sharks and rays - Sailing News
Sailing

Ambitious project classifies new sharks and rays

Australian scientists completed an ambitious 18-month project to name more than 100 new species of sharks and rays...

Hobart - Flight of the butterflies and 60 knots - Sailing News
Sailing

Hobart - Flight of the butterflies and 60 knots

The flight of the butterflies and 60 knots (or what its like to get set for the gun for the Sydney-Hobart on Boxing Day)...

Drag Racing Volvo style for Green Dragon - Sailing News
Sailing

Drag Racing Volvo style for Green Dragon

It has been a day of snakes and ladders for the Volvo Ocean Race fleet as they continue to move north....

Australian Fishing Champion Demands Yamaha - Sailing News
Sailing

Australian Fishing Champion Demands Yamaha

When people ask Dave Silva for fishing and boating advice, they do so for a very good reason....

Superior and Al Masaood win $5m Abu Dhabi Marina - Sailing News
Sailing

Superior and Al Masaood win $5m Abu Dhabi Marina

Superior Jetties and Al Masaood Secure $5 Million Contract For Abu Dhabi Yacht Show Marina....

Great Barrier Reef healthier than most - Sailing News
Sailing

Great Barrier Reef healthier than most

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the best managed and healthiest coral reefs in the world according to a recent report...

No anchoring areas established in Keppel Bay - Sailing News
Sailing

No anchoring areas established in Keppel Bay

Four no anchoring areas have been established in Keppel Bay to minimise anchor damage to corals...

Peyron pushes on, Wavre in more trouble - Vendee - Sailing News
Sailing

Peyron pushes on, Wavre in more trouble - Vendee

It's been a week since Peyron's (Gitana Eighty) Vendee Globe dreams were stopped off the Kerguelen Islands....

The S2H countdown has started for Southern Spars - Sailing News
Sailing

The S2H countdown has started for Southern Spars

Wil Oats XI carries a Southern Spars ultra-high modulus hybrid mast that shed 80kg off her previous rig and a full set o...

Record breaking Launceston to Hobart tipped - Sailing News
Sailing

Record breaking Launceston to Hobart tipped

A Record breaking 2008 Clive Peeters Launceston to Hobart is tipped as a long range forecast suggests favorable conditio...

Honeysuckle rides again: Vicsail - Sailing News
Sailing

Honeysuckle rides again: Vicsail

When you're onto a good thing, stick to it, or so says Ray Harris the proud owner of five Beneteaus in a row....

Oldeast boat in Rolex Sydney Hobart comes to town - Sailing News
Sailing

Oldeast boat in Rolex Sydney Hobart comes to town

Maluka of Kermandie, at 9.1m overall length (30ft), is the smallest yacht entered in the 100-plus Sydney Hobart fleet....

Oman Sail's new 100' flagship multihull - Sailing News
Sailing

Oman Sail's new 100' flagship multihull

Oman Sail's new andArabian 100' trimaran will become part of a select group of the longest sailing trimarans ever built...

Breaking News: Yacht hijacked in Gulf of Aden - Sailing News
Sailing

Breaking News: Yacht hijacked in Gulf of Aden

Pirates have just hijacked a yacht in the Gulf of Aden, but there is information about its nationality....

Volvo Race: Telefonica Blue leads to the South - Sailing News
Sailing

Volvo Race: Telefonica Blue leads to the South

Telefonica Blue, having invested heavily in southern-most route on the race track, continues to head Volvo leaderboard...

Sailing takes Best TV Coverage Award - Beijing - Sailing News
Sailing

Sailing takes Best TV Coverage Award - Beijing

Sailing scored major coup as its television coverage of Beijing Olympics was recognized as 'The Best Sports Coverage'...

Vendee Globe: Rich getting Richer - Sailing News
Sailing

Vendee Globe: Rich getting Richer

Gains steady for Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) who has 36 miles lead over Roland Jourdain (Veolia Environnement)...

Preparation is everything - Ocean Racing tips - Sailing News
Sailing

Preparation is everything - Ocean Racing tips

80% of an Ocean Race result, will probably be decided long before a boat sails to the startline....

Volvo Ocean Race: The north-south divide - Sailing News
Sailing

Volvo Ocean Race: The north-south divide

Almost 100 miles in the ultimate north-south divide between the Volvo leader, Telefonica Blue, and the chasing pack....

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