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You know you've got a serious boat, when fixing the internals of your mast requires a guy to get inside it.
There is just one day left for skippers to enter their boat in the record-breaking Vision Surveys 25th Airlie Beach Race Week being held from 8th to 15th August 2014.
Denis Thompson is the ring master of Australia's east coast winter keelboat and multihull racing circuit that started on the weekend with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race.
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Kite Townsville's International Kiteboarding Championship will provide a dramatic back-drop to the annual SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week with both events being held from 28th August to 2nd September 2014.
It's cold, the weather is gorgeous on the east coast of Australia for sailing, but don't get sucked in by the natural beauty of whales migrating north for the winter.
The New Zealand boat Bullrush is the 100th entry in this year's Vision Surveys 25th Airlie Beach Race Week being held from 8th to 15th August 2014.
Starting this weekend, Australia's best young sailors are engaging in tactical warfare of the maritime variety, off Tavira, Portugal in the ISAF Youth Sailing Worlds.
It's just one month to the start gun for the Vision Surveys 25th Airlie Beach Race Week being held from the 8th to 15th August.
Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC) has announced Wednesday 25th March 2015 as the date for the start of next year’s Sydney to Mooloolaba Yacht Race.
Smaller than most children's trainer dinghys, the Yrvind TEN is one of the most unique boats you'll ever see.
Bundaberg Sailing Clubs class winners 2013-2014 season.
A fun retrospective look at Weta 1 to 1000.
While it's still more than 3 years away, work is already underway for the next Americas Cup Event. With new rules released this week, the 2017 event is set to be beyond expectations yet again after making a dramatic comeback last year.
With winter fast approaching, gone are the days of tropical afternoons on the water and sailing in board shorts. Ahead you're looking forward to wetsuits and thermal underwear, cold water and frigid winds.
This 75 year old from Sweden is like no other. He's going to sail around the world in a boat he's built by himself, the smallest every to make such a journey. It's only 10 foot long.
Size really doesn't matter at the Airlie Beach Race Week when you have as much fun as the Royal Brighton Yacht Club's Where's Wal? crew. They have been towing their little Thompson 870 up the highway from Melbourne to Airlie Beach...
A compilation of sending it clips on the Weta
Townsville's Guilty Pleasures team are more than delighted that last year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Race handicap winner, Victoire, will be competing in the IRC Division in this year's SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week.
Antill Marine's Jason Antill, is a willing helper in introducing cruising boat owners to the experience of racing in fun regattas such as the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, being held from 28th August to 2nd September 2014.
Missing out on this year's Vision Surveys Airlie Beach Week and 25th birthday party is not an option. There are lots of choices for how you can join in the fun at this year's regatta being held from 8th to 15th August 2014.
Drag out the sunnies and dust off the boardies, it's time to head north to Mooloolaba for the Etchells Australasian Winter Championship. Brisbane's Mark Bradford is calling the Etchells Winters a "perfectly timed event" for him ...
If you love sailing, Sail Mooloolaba 2014 has something to share with everyone
When the big boss at Oracle says he's wants a water feature in his man made lake, you give him a water feature in his man made lake. But when that water feature happens to be USA-17, the very same trimaran that won the Americas cup in 2010, things might n
The SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week event organisers are offering a very special incentive for boat owners that enter Race Week sooner rather than later.
There is going to be Cookson conflict on the IRC race course in the Vision Surveys Airlie Beach Race Week, being held from 8th to 15th August 2014.
The Extreme Sailing Series is being talked about all over the world this week, after two of the massive Extreme 40 catamarans were involved in what can only be described as a "T-Bone".
Sydney yacht Never a Dull Moment has been absent from the SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week start line for the past two years, but now find themselves happily drawn back to north Queensland and the 2014 Race Week being held 28th August to 5th September.
Results from the Learmonths FoodWorks regatta held at the Bundaberg Sailing Club on the 5th and 6th of April.
You'll be amazed at how long some stuff lasts when you throw it overboard. That age old question of 'how long does a can last when you throw it overboard' is answered by a simple "Longer than you think!"
One of the legends of sailing, surfing and glider flying, Hobart Alter has left us this week, at the ripe old age of 80.
The word is out. The 25th Airlie Beach Race Week is going to be huge.
Gill Australia - Getting wet for a living...
Rolex Sydney Hobart - Ragamuffin crew over the moon with forecast...
Rolex Sydney Hobart start photos from Andrea Francolini...
Rolex Sydney Hobart 2013 - Now to Real Race -Handicap wide open...
Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race 2013 - there are changes in the wind...
The Sabre Sailing National Championship sets sail in Perth for the inaugural time
Find out the in's and out of Private Mooring within NSW
A series of how to videos on the Weta Trimaran
We had a great time in Tauranga, New Zealand at WetaFest
Over 80 Sabres will compete in the upcoming Nationals Regatta 29th December - 4th January at PDSC. This will be the first time the National Regatta will be held in WA.
The 31-boat fleet are working through their way last minute key jobs before racing in the Etchells National Championship, being hosted by Southport Yacht Cub on the Gold Coast, starts tomorrow.
It's hard to pick who is likely to be in the top five at this year's Etchells National Championship being held at Southport Yacht Club from 11th to 16th November 2013.
Bertrand is one of the busiest people around, with commitments now extending beyond his sailing world and into the presidency of Swimming Australia. Yet, without hesitation, he will make the time to compete at next month's Etchells National Championship.
Check out the video of the Jervis Bay Regatta
Jervis Bay Yacht Club in New South Wales really delivered over the weekend with an awesome regatta, even dolphins turned up!
The Weta West Coast Champs, held on the 21st and 22nd of September out of Richmond Yacht Club was good fun, with great race management by the women's Byte fleet (and some good AC related banter!) on a tricky tidal and shifty race course and with a great a
The October long-weekend inaugural Audi Centre Sunshine Coast Mooloolaba 200 regatta has cash prizes up for grabs for each of the division winners.
The inaugural Audi Centre Sunshine Coast Mooloolaba 200 Offshore Classic will go ahead on the weekend of 5th and 6th October.
The course was tricky and breeze fickle as nine teams contested the Queensland Match Racing Championship in the Open, Youth and Women's categories on the river at Mooloolaba.
While the big boats are Match Racing in the America's Cup in San Francisco, the Sunshine Coast is turning on its own little America's Cup in the form of the Queensland Match Racing Championships.
After being damaged in the January flood and after spending almost seven months on a trailer at the Bundaberg Sailing Club undergoing repairs ''Matilda'' sits at the top of the boat ramp waiting for the tide and her long awaited relaunch.
Queensland big-boat skipper Rod Jones, will use Mooloolaba's newest sailing event, the Mooloolaba 200, as his qualifying race for this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
This year's Queensland Match Racing Championships have attracted entries from Victoria and New South Wales to compliment the entries from within Queensland.
For the first time in several months Ichi Ban's Matt Allen will stay in one place for more than a few days as he settles in at one of his favourite sailing locations.
The 24th Abell Point Marina Airlie Beach Race Week starts tomorrow with stunning weather forecast for the six-race day event.
The Fantasia family have travelled an exceptional 4,500 nautical miles just to compete in the 2013 Multihull Australian Championship.
It's a little unconventional, but if all goes to plan, Darryl Hodgkinson's Victoire crew should have a memorable time competing in next month's Abell Point Marina Airlie Beach Race Week. It’s a little unconventional, but if all go
There is only one week left before entries close for this year's Abell Point Marina Airlie Beach Race Week being held from 9th to 16th August.
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