Ski racers forced to choose
Two of ski racing's favourite events held on same weekend....

Reports, Happenings, Events
Two of ski racing's favourite events held on same weekend....
Bellerive Yacht Club - The largest fleet of keelboats to race on the River Derwent in many years is expected to line up....
Wellingtonians braved gusty winds and occassional heavy rains to see off the Velux 5 Oceans skippers at Queens Wharf....
The McGrath F11 Upper Harbour Championship and Dash For Cash was held in blow-torch 40C+ with bullets of 30kts...
The 2011 Kitesurfing Nationals took place from Feb 3-7 in Warrnambool,Vic
Barcelona World Race - It is the first time in the Southern Ocean the fleet are all making downwind or reaching miles....
At the age of 27, Francois Gabart is at the helm of a project flying the colours of MACIF for the 2012 Vendee Globe....
In excruciating pain, I hopped up the rocky roadside up to the car to wash the wound and see the damage....
Global Ocean Race has 19 teams who have entered so far in the double-handed and Class40 is one of the most ambitious....
Volvo Ocean Race fleet will arrive in Sanya, China, the third stop on the 2011-12 route around this time next year....
One of Gold Coast Cat Week's biggest fleets has assembled at the Southport Yacht Club for the fourth running of the even...
Three final races on the last day of the 2011 Downunder Pro - Formula Windsurfing Championships....
'The regatta has been a huge success,' commented Jez Fanstone, Olympic Programme Manager for Yachting New Zealand....
Gusts in excess of 30 knots made conditions far too dangerous and the race officer was forced to abandon....
Hardy Cup defender and Australian open match racing champion Evan Walker is in winning form to success....
Nicolo di San Germano is optimistic that the new structures that have been put in place will revitalise the sport....
F1H2O - The most talented driver in North America is to get his first taste of international competition this season...
Outward Bound students in Marlborough Sound in NZ were injured after their cutter was sunk by a dolphin watch boat....
American sailors, in the form of the Sarasota Yacht Club, want to sail to Havana, Cuba and 2011 could be the year....
Jules Verne Trophy. We have turned our bows away from Cape Horn, and back towards Lorient, the boat's home port....
Jean Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron are eating up the miles at a steady rate on Virbac Paprec 3....
Velux 5 Oceans third sprint ride solo round had a wild, wet and windy start at the world yacht race today....
Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac - Entries in the 2011 CYC Race to Mackinac, Presented by Veuve Clicquot are now open...
With a lead of 324 miles over the reference time, the Maxi Banque Populaire V was handicapped for more than 48 hours by...
Barcelona World Race - It was a significant moment for Peyron and Jean-Pierre when they passed through Amsterdam gate...
The Yacht Club de France is the sixth challenger to be accepted as a Competitor...
With little breeze, temperatures in the high 30s and a flat sea Gisborne was a perfect playground for fast and furious p...
ISAF Nations Cup 2011 Notice of Race has been published on the ISAF website....
Velux 5 Oceans fleet will leave Wellington on Sunday February 6th for the start of Ocean Sprint 3....
Kidnapped sailors Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz are no nearer to being freed after this week's news conference...
A great skill to practice is stopping your boat in a specific location, at a mooring, a dock, or for MOB practice....
It is being reported from aboard the maxi-multihull Banque Populaire V that she has been forced to retire from their fir...
When the going gets really tough - proper boat breaking conditions - it becomes prudent to back off...
It will be a gusty day for the four Velux 5 Oceans Eco 60 sailing yachts leaving Wellington on the Ocean Sprint 3 to Pun...
Team New Zealand, who have not publicly announced their entry for the 34th America's Cup were the first team outside Ora...
Heineken Cape to Rio - Despite a diversion in mid-Atlantic to help another yacht, Xtra-Link arrived in Rio on Friday...
Barcelona World Race - There was a certain 'morning after the night before' mood evident among the skippers...
Banque Populaire V have had to head north to reach better sea and wind conditions to lift the daggerboard out...
One of Tasmania's largest multi class sailing regattas begins it's second decade this weekend....
Brian Thompson reports on Banque Populaire V's 'crash' with an unidentified object....
Ben Ainslie reports on his Miami OCR and his training plans for the next few months....
Denmark?s Kenneth Danielsen joins the lineup at F2.
Plenty of hot racing was being held on Boston Bay during the first leg of the 2010-11 SA Laser State Championships...
Antarctica New Zealand, a Kiwi-led group of scientists, have just returned from establishing a camp at Roosevelt Island....
The key to preserving the world's coral reefs lies in a better understanding of newborn coral larvae....
Having battled upwind for the last few days the all female crew of the Barcelona World Race have been given some respite...
The New Zealander, will be the Director of On-Water Operations and Assistant Principal Race Officer....
Banque Populaire V hit an OFNI* at 2 o'clock in the morning (Paris time) at a speed of around 37 knots...
Racing continued today at Sail Auckland 2011 as the ISAF Grade 1 Olympic classes regatta now hits the half way mark with...
The voyage of two men from Plymouth to New Zealand in 1955 is a rare insight into a time when sailors had no mod cons...
Sophistication, Safety and Comfort without the hefty price tag...
According to the forecast 14 yachts will get away in north easterly winds of 15-20 knots on an incoming tide....
Stanmore-Major made a clean sweep of the Velux 5 Oceans sprint two media awards last night...
The 2011 OAMPS Insurance Brokers Australian Youth Sailing Team has been named...
Creativity for your stand up paddle
Australia's Category 5 cyclone Yasi has destroyed most of the yachts in its path, and the marina pontoons that held them...
Heineken Cape to Rio - The crew of City of Cape Town has gone into party mode after their crossing of the South Atlantic...
Barcelona World Race - One theme which has surfaced is that there have been few sustained periods of constant rate...
Day 2 of The Downunder Pro - Formula Windsurfing Oceanic & Australian Championships kept the sailors on the beach for th...
ilson, the infamous mascot of Lu Lu Belle is positively bouncing with excitement to get back to Sail Port Stephens....
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