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Gladwell's Line: America's Cup - Battle by Affidavit

Another couple of Affidavits hit desk of Justice Shirley Kornreich, in the New York Supreme Court, last week....

Powerboat P1 - Nigel hooked on Sicily

Hook's SV-43 Outerlimits hull barrel-rolled in a 100mph-plus accident in Gothenburg at the start of August...

Tasmanian Sailing Academy Sailors ready for NSW Youth Championships

The Tasmanian Sailing Academy has eight members taking part in the NSW Youth Championships...

Original Boxing Kangaroo flag heads home

The original boxing kangaroo flag flown on Australia II when it won the America's Cup in 1983 is on its way home to Aust...

Bird Island Race - Maxi takes line honours

Lahana takes line honours in the Bird Island Race, Syd Fischer's TP52 Ragamuffin wins IRC Division...

2001 Around Australian Ocean Race - a short explanation of the concept

For The Race we have nominated seven ports around Australia from which Race participants can elect to start and finish;...

Saling with Balvenie - Split and Hvar, Croatia

Amanda Church and Mark Farrell continue their tales of sailing in the Mediterranean on their 47 ft yacht Balvenie - this...

Interview with Tudur Owen from Mirsky Racing Team

Interview with Tudur Owen, Mirsky Racing Team...

Heaven Can Wait -Charity donations leaderboard-heading towards $15k!!

Last year the Heaven Can Wait 24 hour race raised early $13,000 for charity and this year the Heaven Can Wait Yacht Club...

PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt Day 2 - Another day spent onshore

PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt Day 2 - The slalom sailors were tantalizingly close to starting their first heats today...

BYM News back on the market

The European Marine News Site BYM News is back on the market.Earlier this year the Gibralter based Marine News site...

iShares Cup Amsterdam - Seven different race winners

iShares Cup Amsterdam - There were seven different race winners in this penultimate event....

Jessica blames instruments

Jessica Watson has responded to the MSQ's damning assessment of her collision with a bulk carrier recently....

12 Metre World Championships - Not quite but nearly

12 Metre Worlds - Two races were sailed in all four divisions - Grand Prix, Modern, Traditional and Vintage...

Colgate World Cup Sylt - Day 3

Day 3 - It's a one, two, three for the boys from Bonaire, with Taty Frans taking the lead after a full round of furious freestyle on Sylt's Westerland beach.

Melges 32 World Championship images - New World Champion

Pieter Taselaar has been crowned the Audi Melges 32 World Champion...

Clipper 09-10 Race 2: Day 6 - The lead changes again

Clipper 09-10 Race 2: Day 6 report....

Melges 32 World Championship images

Audi Melges 32 World Championship images presented by Stefano Gattini/JOE FLY and Guido Trombetta/B-Plan....

Mideast host seeks to calm jitters on America's Cup venue

To reach the site picked for the next America's Cup, swing past the camel racetrack near the airport....

Vestas Sailrocket record attempt - highlights

Vestas Sailrocket has returned to Walvis Bay to attempt to break the sailing speed record now held by L'Hydroptere....

Torvar Mirsky interview - video highlight

Australia's Torvar Mirsky, from the Mirsky Racing Team (MRT) is the current leader of the World Match Race Tour standing...

Fazza's Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi Class 3 World Champions

Fazza's Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi win the 2009 UIM Class 3, 6 litre World Championship...

Powerboat P1 - No Whinning from Cranfields Boss

Siegfried Greve has admitted that his Searex Racing Team has plenty to work on in the close season...

Vestas Sailrocket arrives back in Walvis Bay for record attempt

Greetings everyone, once more from the Vestas Sailrocket operations base in Walvis Bay, Namibia...

Performance Sailcraft & Sail-World.com competition: Who Won the Laser?

PSA launched the Win a Laser competition on www.Sail-World.com, the competition closed at midnight 25th Sept....

PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt Day 1 - Onshore

The 2009 PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt - Day 1 report. Light winds, no competition...

Fishermen save cruising sailor from yacht fire

the retired doctor sailing in Fijian waters last week may owe his life to four good hearted Fijian fishermen....

Audi Melges 32 World Championship - Bliksem leads

Audi Melges 32 World Championship report - Porto Cervo produced another fantastic day of racing...

iShares Cup Amsterdam Day Two - A game of Chess

iShares Cup Amsterdam Day Two - Gitana Extreme Excel in the light airs...

Venezuela steps up surveillance, but no boat tax for visiting yachts

Causing the concern among yachts in Venezuela was the new boat tax of 1% of the boat's value for a six month period....

Colgate World Cup Sylt - Day 2

Day 2 - The slalom sailors were tantalisingly close to starting their first heats today, but with variable winds plaguing the event site, they have been forced to wait for another day.

Clipper 09-10 Race 2 Day 5 - Spirit of Australia in pole

Clipper 09-10 Race 2: La Rochelle - Rio de Janeiro Day 5....

12 Metre Worlds Penultimate Day - Brisk northerly just too brisk

12 Metre Worlds Penultimate Day - The brisk northerly kept the 'AP' or 'postpone' flag flying prominently...

Myuna Bay Australian OK Sprint Series Day 1

Myuna Bay Australian OK Sprint Series Day 1...

Melges 32 World Championship images

Melges 32 World Championship...

Fleet gets home for AFL grand final

An early finish to Friday night's race in Combined Club's Offshore Series so crews could watch AFL grand final....

Marine Safety Queensland reports Jessica was probably asleep

The mystery of why Jessica Watson hit bulk carrier Silver Yang is solved - she was probably asleep....

PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt - Registration Day

PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt - Registration Day...

Schuyler's America's Cup letter still relevant after 122years

Schuyler's ruling in the Thistle Measurement dispute still relevant 122years on...

Clipper 09-10 - Day 4 Spinnaker wraps take their toll

Clipper 09-10 - Spinnaker wraps and wind holes for the fleet...

iShares Cup Amsterdam: Another bang, crash collision and Leader holed

iShares Cup Amsterdam - The trickiest racecourse on the European circuit proved testing for the nine Extreme 40s....

Now the judging - Win a Laser sailing boat - AUD$9,200 - NZ$11,495

The 2009 Win A Laser competition closed last night, 10pm in Auckland, Midnight in Sydney, 2am in Hong Kong . Now the jud...

Colgate World Cup Sylt - Day 1

Day 1 - Light winds prevent any competition from taking place on day one, but everyone remains hopeful due to the current forecast.

Next phase in marine planning commences in Northern Australian waters

Environment Minister Peter Garrett said the areas under assessment are not proposed boundaries...

Rolex Sydney Hobart 2009 - First International entrant arrives

Spanish yacht Charisma, an S & S 57 has arrived in Sydney three months prior to the start of Sydney Hobart Yacht Race...

Australian marine electronics company GME celebrates 50 years

Australian electronics company GME celebrates 50 years of designing and supplying world class communcation equpment...

F1 H2O to be centerpiece of Int'l Aquatic Carnival in China

The World's most talented drivers are getting geared up to be the featured act for the much talked about International A...

12 Metre World Championship - No surprises

12 Metre World Championship report - a day of no surprises....

2009 Rolex Middle Sea Race - 73 yachts have entered so far

Middle Sea Race 2 weeks to go to close of entries 73 yachts have entered so far, five short of last year's record number...

Colgate World Cup Sylt Event preview

PWA World Tour pressure rises amongst the sailors, and Sylt's iconic Westerland beach gears up for a dramatic conclusion...

Power gives way to sail? - Not with a fishing boat

In open water, Rule 18 applies- a sailing vessel shall keep out of the way of a vessel engaged in fishing...

Transat Jacques Vabre - Thomson announces co-skipper

Alex Thomson has announced his co skipper for the TJV on the 8 November will be his long time boat captain Ross Daniel....

Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 - Italian campaign confirmed

Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 - An Italian campaign led by Giovanni Soldini has been officially confirmed for the race....

What would we do without the volunteer rescuers? - Latest news

Rescue of lone sailor John Orme-Dawson whose boat hit rocks in thick fog was the most hazardous by rescuers this summer...

iShares Cup Amsterdam - Crash, bang and first collision of the round

iShares Cup Amsterdam collision report....

Gear of the Year - Cobra's compact hand-held VHF radio

Cobra Marine's 'MR HH325 V EU', submersible hand-held radio was awarded 'Gear of the Year for 2009' by Practical Sailor...

iShares Cup - Set for the Penultimate Round

The penultimate round of the iShares Cup starts tomorrow (Friday, 25th September) in Amsterdam, Holland....

Colgate World Cup Sylt - Registration Day

Registration Day - The World's most talented windsurfers descended on Sylt's golden sands to sign up for 9 solid days of Super Grand Slam action in the final event of this year's World Tour.