Wot Rocket's chance to fly blown away with a gale
Wot Rocket set to fly, however, 30 knot nor'westerly gusts hurtling across Botany Bay ... well no chance...

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Wot Rocket set to fly, however, 30 knot nor'westerly gusts hurtling across Botany Bay ... well no chance...
The 2008 European International Championship for 18ft skiffs got underway in the South of France....
The NSW Government has secured $1.8 million in reimbursement for responding to the grounded Pasha Bulker...
The Russian Grand Prix marks the Class 1 return to racing on Russian waters for the first time in ten years...
Checking your own mast before setting out on a sea voyage is like checking your own parachute before you jump....
China has wanted to have a green Olympics, emphasising its efforts to improve the environment....
Demand is driving a 1/2 billion expansion of Meridien Marinas Horizon Shores....
The Rayglass facility in Pakuranga was destroyed by fire Friday 20 June, 6km from the company's head office....
'SPEEDBOAT' has pulled the pin on their attempt to break the transatlantic record....
239 sailors from 39 countries are entered for the IODA Europeans in Riva del Garda, Italy...
Customers who purchase any new Honda outboard engine will receive two FREE Honda-branded Stormy PFDs (conditions apply)...
18-19th century boating fun these holidays at the National Maritime...
The 2008 Australian Offshore Challenge is shaping up to be a real contest, not just for the adventure of taking part....
Surefoot won the Cumberland Charter Yacht series on the Whitsunday Sailing Club course last week....
Three straight wins for Jenny Axhede at the first day of racing on the Women's Match Cup Sweden....
48 th annual BIA Melbourne Boat Show runs from Thursday July 3 to Monday 7th July at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre...
Peter Gilmour, strengthens his team with the Swede Jonnie Berntsson as tactician in Match Cup Sweden....
Sly Yachts is running a competition aimed at singling out the best ideas and most innovative designers...
Andrew Palfrey reports on the Aussie Star team's Olympic preparation....
Torvar Mirsky has been training with WRMT leader Ian Williams in preparation for Match Cup Sweden....
Magnitude 80 is out of the Doldrums and leads the Transpacific Yacht Club's 13th Tahiti Race....
Jose Estredo and Sarah-Quita Offringa emerged as the dominant forces - 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup...
Cagliari edition of the Melges 32 Audi Circuit 2008 - Claudio Recchi on 'Uka Uka Racing' wins in a three-way battle....
France Blue has pulled into the lead overall, half a point ahead of Ireland Greenafter day 1 at Rolex Commodores' Cup...
Sunseeker boats to feature in a James Bond film for the fourth consecutive time....
Platoon was handed the lead in today's practice race when Bribon retired with a small, temporary problem....
The winner of the 2007 Tour de France Sailing Race, Toulon Provence Mediterranee - COYCHyeres (Fabien Henry).....
The 2008 Round Britain Offshore Powerboat Race Blue FPT was third at Portsmouth after averaging 67.94 mph....
Ingrid Abery has supplied these images from the recently completed JPMorgan Asset Mangement Round The Island Race....
Telefonica Blue is carefully moved from King Marine shipyard in Alignet, before being loaded onto a lorry...
Franck Proffit joins Alinghi, to assist towards a possible multi-hull Deed of Gift Match...
A vision first held by 80s tycoon, Christopher Skase is finally being realised that will put Airlie on the map....
Marine Queensland has appointed Charles Dickson to the position of Manager, Marine Gold Coast effective from July 1....
Keep your sailing diary free late April 2009and make a family holiday of it Sail Port Stephens -it ticks all the boxes!...
Riviera, has launched its new flagship 70 Flybridge for a world release at the Sydney International Boat Show in July...
Overnight leader Uka Uka Racing at Melges 32 Audi Sailing Series Cagliari edition...
Digital system to replace analogue for radio beacon distress signals....
A Hong Kong headquartered company established more than 100-years ago to represent Maritimo in Asia...
Melbourne manufacturer upgrades popular model to appeal to serious anglers and weekend boaters....
Images from the American Sailing League's inaugural event held at Pier 39 in San Francisco, by Erik Simonson...
A solo sailor whose yacht suffered severe damage in a storm off the coast of Perth has refused to abandon his yacht...
An American yacht, owned by an expatriate Australian, has become the 150th entry for 25th Audi Hamilton Island Race Week...
Last few members of the crew arrive to sail the big longship reconstruction, the Sea Stallion, out into the Irish Sea...
Sailors on a grounded yacht on a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands were saved by Vladimir Gusinksy's "Blue Star"....
The ten teams are now preparing for the final sprint of the 35,000-mile circumnavigation from Cork to Liverpool...
Excellent wind conditions, plenty of races, Match Racing for Women in the city, Olympic candidates especially in 470M, L...
Marine Queensland plans to implement an accreditation program for the Retailers Division of Marine Queensland....
Marine Qld is addressing the industry skills shortage, promoting careers in the marine industry at BIBS....
Hard for a navigator in the toughest part of the 3,571 nautical miles of the Transpacific Yacht Club's 13th Tahiti Race...
Tom Slingsby has won gold in his class at the Kiel Week Regatta in Germany with a massive 38 point lead...
Mascalzone Latino has won the Audi Coppa Europa Smeralda 888....
The 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup - Event Summary
Blue FPT is leading the Round Britain when there are only two stages left to the end of the competition...
The first ISAF Sailing World Cup is set to launch at the end of 2008 bringing a new annual series of sailing to the inte...
Barring unforeseen problems starting, Slingsby leads by enough points to confirm a gold medal...
'One of the Greatest Safety Devices ever invented' is up for Sale!...
Clipper New York has scored the fifth victory to consolidate their overall lead in the competition....
Bill Hardesty, Erik Shampain, Steve Hunt, and Jennifer Wilson of San Diego take their first Etchells World Championship...
The upcoming weather conditions have convinced Thomas Coville (trimaran Sodeb'O) to fly off to New York....
Jose Estredo and Sarah-Quita Offringa are crowned the event winners - 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup...
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