Fisher's View: On the Lay Day prowl - and more of the AC World Series
Bob Fisher looks at possible AC45 ride options and Emirates TNZ's website ruckus...

Reports, Happenings, Events
Bob Fisher looks at possible AC45 ride options and Emirates TNZ's website ruckus...
John Carbonell said SBI would welcome all teams and would create the conditions of maximum assistance....
RYA British JT250 Sprint Championship - It was championship title number three for powerboat racing youngster Ben Jelf...
October's Ensign Yachts Beneteau Cup is on the radar for several new Beneteau yachts recently landed into Australia....
With such a large size fleet and many divisions, the Race Chairman and his committee set up two launching stations...
Twelve athletes for the seventh Perth 2011 Emerging Nations Programme have been confirmed to take part in the final camp...
America's Cup World Series day 2 images by Sander van der Borch...
One of the things that many racing crew love about sailing is that we rarely run out of new experiences...
Special arrangements will ensure visiting sailors are counted at the national Census...
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - The good news is that Russell Sandbach has been discharged from hospital...
La Solitaire du Figaro 2011 - There has been plenty of action in the first 24 hours of racing on the second leg...
Video of the cartwheel from Aberdeen Asset Management sailing in the sixth race of the Extreme 40's...
Naish have totally revamped their product line for 2012...
The world renowned legend of SUP kicks back with a fun little session
Where did we finish? Who won? Don't know, and frankly, don't care. I was in Nirvana as the sixth man aboard Artemis. I...
This dramatic sequence of a collision between a tanker and a yacht was captured by Herbert Westervelt during Cowes Week...
August 5th was the sixth Annual It's Not Easy Being Green Optimist Regatta held at Port Credit Yacht Club...
Amanda Church and Mark Farrell continue to cruise in their 47ft yacht Balvenie, this time to 'Andalusia's Gem', Ronda...
ACWS day 1 and the wing-sailed AC45 catamarans proved competitive racing was possible in winds as light as three knots...
Gilles Martin-Raget, was on the water for the first day of racing in the America's Cup World Series in Cascais...
A highlight of this year's race was with Wild Oats XI setting a new race record of 24 hours, 20 minutes and 22 seconds...
The Great Lakes event is the only freshwater race in the Super Boat International National Series....
bulk of the fleet racing in the annual Southport race are sitting off Coffs Harbour in 'parking lot',...
Photographer Howard Wright was out on beautiful Sydney Harbour for the start of the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race...
The social interaction of the crews on this boating experience was a delight....
International Cadet World Championships - There are now three Australian crews in the top six...
Full replay coverage is now available of the first day of racing is now available on the YouTube America's Cup channel....
Emirates TNZ's dispute over restrictions on the team's freedom to host its own AC web site goes to arbitration tomorrow...
Emirates Team New Zealand were double winners on the day, claiming top spot in the AC Cascais Preliminaries...
Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race - Stephen Ainsworth and his Loki crew became the third finishers this afternoon...
Brothers Peter and Phillip Jenkins left from Sydney yesterday to begin their 9500km coastal journey in a 'rubber ducky'...
Laser Radial Youth World Championships are over for the 370 competitors from 44 countries...
F4-s Championship - Heading into the weekend Palfreyman sat third in the championship...
UIM Ocean Grand Prix Endurance Championship organisers have had a rough introduction to international powerboat racing....
Australian Northshore Championships, organised by Royal Motor Yacht Club, Toronto is being held from 20th to 21st Augus...
Copa Del Rey Audi Mapfre's first day of action witnessed TP52 Container and Swan 45 Earlybird each sign two bullets....
Multihull Race Week - With less than four weeks to go multihull skippers are showing a keen interest in the race series...
Ladies Laser Training Day on Lake Macquarie in Sunshine, 17-18 Sept....
Airlie Beach Race Week-By this time next week the fleet will be secured to their moorings at Meridien Able Point Marina...
The Weymouth and Portland International Regatta - Ingrid Abery images....
Photographer Ingrid Abery captured the action taking place out on the water at Weymouth....
Extreme Sailing Series Act 5 is prepared to deliver and will welcome the top pro sailing talent from 15 nations....
The Weymouth and Portland International Regatta's first day of 470 sailing has now been completed....
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race crew Geraldton Western Australia is diverting to Vigo in northern Spain....
Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Race. Bob Oatley's Reichel Pugh 100 Wild Oats XI has smashed Lahana's 2010 record...
Volvo Ocean Race - Team Sanya, the Chinese entry in the race, showed off their new look race boat to the world today....
America's Cup WS - Amid conditions normally considered too light for racing, the versatile AC45s enjoyed good racing....
Peter Sorensen has put in a bid to win the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week grand prix class trophy....
Sail-World's Ben Gladwell provided this gallery of images from the Extreme 40 racing at Cowes...
Full replay coverage is now available of the second day of racing is now available on the YouTube America's Cup channel....
America's Cup World Series Cascais - ETNZ bowman Winston MacFarlane pitched into the water when a winch handle broke...
Weymouth and Portland International Regatta day six welcomed the sailors with blustery winds ranging from 19-24 knots....
La Solitaire du Figaro's second leg officially began on Sunday 7th of August in the Sein Bay, opposite Ouistreham....
Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2011 will host exciting, spectacular one design Melges 32 racing in the first Melges 32 A...
The America's Cup World Series has witnessed victories for Oracle Racing in the preliminary round in Cascais, Portugal....
>Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week competitors were blessed with an abundance of bright sun and strong winds....
Pieter Jan Postma (NED) dominated the Finn class on the second day of the Weymouth and Portland International Regatta...
Extreme Sailing Series Act 5 has completed its second day of racing at Cowes with a big crash and thrilling action....
At the Weymouth and Portland International Regatta, Australian sailors have reveled in strong winds....
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race offshore racing teams have at one time or another faced a dilemma....
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