Audi Etchell Worlds - Images from Race 6
Andrea Francolini was on the water again yesterday at the 2009 Audi Etchells Worlds. Here are a selection of his images....
Reports, Happenings, Events
Andrea Francolini was on the water again yesterday at the 2009 Audi Etchells Worlds. Here are a selection of his images....
Tucked away in a shed in Melbourne's outer South-Eastern suburb of Braeside, is possibly the other side of the coin....
Team Shosholoza scored an impressive 7-0 score in the Round Robin action to lead the pack in Stage One...
Bromby and Liljedahl increase their overall lead to seven points with two races to go in the Star Bacardi Cup...
Raphael Dinelli and Norbert Sedlacek, continue their goof average speeds and they head for the finish...
The double-handed division are spread over 83 miles with the Chilean team in the lead...
John Bertrand and his crew of Ben Ainslie and Andrew Palfrey (AUS) have reclaimed the Audi Etchells Worlds lead today...
In 2006 an Australian sailor tried to auction New Zealand off over the internet, starting at just one Australian cent....
Audi Etchells Worlds 2009 Royal Brighton Yacht Club- Race six news...
Green Dragon's Chris Main explains how life really is extreme, Ian Walker relates seeing ice bergs on last night's watch...
Latest news from onboard Puma, leg 5 Day 26 (bound for Rio) of the Volvo Ocean Race....
IRC Owners Forums with Malcolm Runnalls and Mike Urwin...
Cowes skipper Geoff Gibbons and his three crew are loving the experience of racing in their first Etchells World...
Strong winds have delayed the start of the Marseilles International as racing was postponed....
Day 3 (yesterday) was a better day for the Bandwagon team with an 9th in race four and 31st in race 5....
Western Australia's Geographe Bay Race Week 2009 attracted 103 competitors, an outstanding turnout given current times....
Skipper Magnus Olsson's Ericsson 3 has led the Volvo Ocean Race for the past six days....
Down at 50 degrees south, Green Dragon has seen ice - Three bergs the size of a football pitch...
The 12 teams assembled for this first event of the World Match Racing Tour stayed ashore as conditions were blustery...
Mark Mendelblatt and crew Bruno Prada of Brazil won the third race at Star Bacardi Cup...
Averaging 88.5 mph, the boat caught the side of a wave and catapulted the men through the air in a barrel-roll...
Musandam has entered a new phase of her planetary journey, finally going back up the Indian Ocean towards Muscat....
Andrea Francolini was out on the Audi Etchells World Championship course, capturing the excitement of the day...
A new series leader has emerged at the Audi Etchells Worlds - Jason Muir/Matthew Chew/Paul Wyatt/Bucky Smith (AUS)....
Two clubs shared the honours at the 2009 Riviera NSW Interclub game fishing tournament....
Fresh off the boat from his latest voyage, Pete Goss will host an intimate one-off talk in Melbourne....
The Chilean team of Felipe Cubillos and Jose Munoz had grabbed the lead from Boris Herrmann and Felix Oehme...
water police fined over 1000 boat and jet-ski users in summer for poor safety equipment,and speed or licensing offences...
Jud Smith (USA) has grabbed the lead at the second top mark in race 5 of the 2009 Audi Etchells Worlds this afternoon....
JDs Boatshed at Caringbah is expanding its offering and carving a niche for its impeccable customer service and support....
Yachting Australia Coach Courses coming soon!...
The US Coast Guard spent $1.6 million searching for four men lost in the Gulf of Mexico last month...
There's no substitute for results when it comes to IRC production racing yachts....
Discover Darwin school holiday program... 12-26 April 2009 at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour...
RP66 Black Jack For Sale - Yoti "Sailing as it should be"...
John Bertrand, Ben Ainslie and Andrew Palfrey will hope that they sailed their 2009 Audi Etchells Worlds drop today....
Fiona Kidd of Canada is the Chairman of the ISAF Women's Forum for 2009-2012...
Online marine news have long passed boating magazines as a marine news and information source....
Rod Jones and his talented Alegria crew have a stronger grip on the 2009 Audi Australian IRC Ocean racing championship...
In the US and Australia, internet media is overtaking all forms of traditional media for reader loyalty and time....
India will soon rise to its potential as a marine nation, with plans underway for marinas in key boating locations....
It is starting to feel a bit like Ground Hog day in Melbourne. Every day we wake up to no wind!...
Thousands of tons of shipping containers of ammonium nitrate are floating in Moreton Bay today, following a spill....
What is going through the minds of Bouwe Bekking and his Telefonica Blue team right now?...
Both exports and imports are up in value compared to 2007, with respectively USD 250 million and USD 72 million...
Princess Yachts in the UK starts talks over the lay off of 450 staff and Riviera has laid off staff on the Gold Coast....
The Gulf Superyacht Forum will take place tomorrow (12 March 2009) in Abu Dhabi, sponsored by IGY....
The 2009 Australian University Regatta will take place from the 15th to the 17th of April at WSC in Rose Bay, Sydney....
Rich Wilson completed the 28 590.2, miles Vendee Globe solo non stop round the world race in ninth place...
The Louisiades Yacht Rally will be held again in 2009....
Magnus Olsson/SWE and his team are fully focussed on driving Ericsson 3 hard through the grey/green Southern Ocean...
At 4am Queensland time this morning Cyclone Hamish is about 230 kilometres east of Sandy Cape, near Hervey Bay....
Ian Walker, Skipper of Green Dragon, reports on the power reaching they have experienced...
Lucio Boggi and crew Manuele La Porta led from the start, Peter Bromby and Magnus Liljedhal took second...
Ian Williams and his Bahrain Team Pindar crew today begin the defence of their world title...
The second of two TP52's was launched in Auckland this evening adjacent to the Emirates Team New Zealand base and with t...
U.I.M. F1 World Championship plans Lap of Honor' Award and a Hall of Fame...
Rich Wilson should break the finish line around midday GMT to bring to an end his difficult final, frustrating weeks....
Sailing into his 20th Etchells World Championship on Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne this week, Bermuda skipper Tim Patton...
The Portimao Global Ocean Race fleet has been on a continuous starboard gybe in south-westerly breeze...
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