News, results, pix - Chicago Etchells Worlds Day 3
Race 4 of the 2008 Chicago Etchells World championships brought tricky conditions and a tough day for many....
Reports, Happenings, Events
Race 4 of the 2008 Chicago Etchells World championships brought tricky conditions and a tough day for many....
Jose Estredo delivers a fatal blow to Marcilio and Sarah-Quita Offringa tenaciously dispatches her rivals...
Haines Hunter has unveiled its revolutionary new game fishing boat, the 760 Patriot, at its new Melbourne factory...
Changes to the Maritime Safety Act will not result in commercial tankers crashing into harbours, says Joe Tripodi....
After 59 days, Pete Bethune and his crew aboard the 78 foot Earthrace is 1000 nautical miles, from finish line in Spain....
Victory for Groupama 2 in the Trophy SNSM over rival Banque Populaire....
The latest weather chart for the Transpacific Yacht Club's 13th race to Tahiti suggests that it would be a great year......
In the 49er it was Iker Martinez and Xabier Fernandez of Spain who lead at Kiel...
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Andy Richards, Andrew Fairley and Dave Richards on Pindar, won the first round of the European 18ft skiff Grand Prix...
Having just broken the BMW Round Ireland Yacht Race record, Leopard is heading to the start of the Round the Island Race...
9th biennial Rolex Commodores' Cup 2008 begins on Sunday 29th June....
The 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup - Day Four
The lives of three fishermen have been saved thanks to the RNLI's new and unique MOB Guardian alert system...
Qingdao, New York and Hull & Humber battled overnight in lighter winds and once again Qingdao came out on top....
GB's Ian WILLIAMS takes over at the top of the Mens Rankings, Claire LEROY of France remains well clear in Womens...
Mike Slade's ICAP Leopard devoured 10 hours, 35 minutes and 10 Seconds off the BMW Round Ireland Yacht Race record...
Alegria lines up Yendys and Living Doll (Michael Hiatt) for the Trans Tasman clash at Hamilton Island....
Rowing's top athletes will be wearing Line 7 kit for the next three years at least thanks to a new supply partnership...
Mount Gay Rum signs for a further three years until the end of 2010/2011 CYCA's Monday Twilight Series...
240 boatss try and remove sea-weed from the Qingdao Olympic course area...
AST & YA would like to send an open invitation to an information night about Women's Match Racing towards the 2012 Londo...
Two final races on the eight courses were sailed in each class today at Kieler Woche...
New laws come into effect on July 1 that require all vessels eight metres or longer to be fitted with a new 406MHz EPIRB...
53 Pignolo 53 team owner and throttleman Massimiliano Ferrari has said his outfit is already targeting victories ......
Hardesty, Shampain, Hunt and Wilson dominate the day with bullets in both of today's races at the Etchells Worlds....
Lake Macquarie sailor Prudence Harper, was last week awarded the 2008 TAFE NSW - Hunter Institute Maritime Award...
Brisbane is off Cunard's schedule for 2009 after passengers were forced to wade through water at temporary facilities....
Many European seafaring nations built their empires and place in the world power stakes by controlling the sea...
Whittley is set to stun boat lovers when its new Cruiser 2600 breaks cover at the BIA Melbourne Boat Show 3 - 7 July...
Warnemunde was a particularly popular choice as the venue for the 46th OK Dinghy World Championships...
Scientists are poised to solve a major underwater crime mystery and pinpoint the guilty suspects .......
Dramatic evidence that protected fish populations can bounce back rapidly from the impact of years of heavy fishing...
Ken Gourlay is the first Tasmanian and the fastest Australian to sail alone, non-stop and unassisted, around the world....
Magnitude 80 and Medicine Man made their first tactical moves in the Transpacific Yacht Club's 13th Tahiti Race...
Provisionally, the Puma branded Volvo 70 yacht Il Mostro, sits on top the Open Division's leaderboard on corrected time...
World's 350 top windsurfers and kiteboarders are coming to Fuerteventura for 23rd Windsurfing & Kiteboarding World Cup...
Next week the Audi MedCup Circuit moves to Italy for the first time since May 2006 with the Region of Sardinia Trophy...
Marcilio Browne and Sarah-Quita Offringa stand their ground in the double elimination to claim the early event lead...
Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo dominates the Performance Division Claudio de Eccher's Southern Star the Cruising Division...
Langfords of Crystal Blues are anchored on the Tulai River, near Bintangor in Sarawak, a community of five long houses...
Reigning World Champions Matt Mee and Richard Wagstaff win Brightlingsea Fireball Open...
The 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup - Day Three
The 78 foot (24 metre) bio-diesel fuelled wave piercing trimaran Earthrace is currently towards Spain....
Durban 2010 and Beyond has succumbed to light winds, much as westernaustralia2011.com and Nova Scotia did....
James Spithill and his BMW ORACLE Racing crew took home the Jaeger-Lecoultre Just the Best Trophy....
After setting out from Saint Nazaire on Sunday at 1735 UT, the fleet of Imoca 60 footers made it back into the Loire Est...
Brisbane yachting school Southern Cross Yachting entered into a joint venture to open a training centre in South Korea...
Pirates have kidnapped four European sailors who were sailing off the coast of Somalia's northern region of Puntland...
Banque Populaire have managed to give their friends on Groupama 2 the slip....
Norman Ambrose leaves nothing out as he outlines the problems facing the boat brokerage industry....
Life is idyllic for the Hendriksen family who have managed to balance work, leisure and the most luxurious life afloat....
Vessel protection specialist Marine Solutions has opened a new retail outlet in the centre of Melbourne's burgeoning boa...
Italian Fabio Buzzi aboard Red FPT retires, Blue FPT driven by Vassilis Pateras and Panos Tsikopoulos was leading...
Doug Baker's Andrews 80 maxi sled from Long Beach had traveled 234 of the 3,571 nautical miles in the Tahiti race....
Plans have been approved for a marina that will be home to the Abu Dhabi Show exhibits and dredging is underway....
China is unlikely to mature for more than a decade, but boats are inching their way on to the wish list of the affluent....
Simpson Marine, Thailand is awarded dealership of Maxum's sports boats, sport yachts and sport cruisers in Thailand....
Browne and Offringa set standard, securing first elimination victories at the 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup Day One....
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