Float your boat for new-look regatta
If you only do one boating event this summer, make it the Ports of Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta on 27 January 2014, and be in to win a trip to
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Mini Transat – The Northerners
Giancarlo Pedoti and Benoît Marie, off like a shot The wind comes from the north A ray of hope for the southerly tail of the fleet A nasty headache! The
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WMRT: Canfield’s singin’ in the rain
[Source: World Match Race Tour / Header Image: GAC Pindar and eWork Sailing Team racing on Day 4 of the Monsoon Cup, Malaysia, the final round of the Alpari World
Welcome Aboard: BoatCoat!
LSD would like to welcome BoatCoat to the ever growing fleet of advertisers who have chosen to have our little website represent their brand. “In the last couple of years
WetaFest 2013
From Miranda Powrie Glamour weather just added to the fizz at the NZ Wetafest held at Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club over the weekend. We arrived late Friday afternoon
Sailing World Cup December 1 – 8: Three days to go!
Three days to go! The best of the best arrive in Melbourne for the Sailing World Cup December 1 – 8 World Sailor of the Year, Mathew Belcher to contest
Festival of Sails 50th entry
Royal Geelong Yacht Club Commodore Ian Murray is pleased to announce that Michael Culhane’s Northshore 38, Weekend Option, is the 50th entry for the 2014 Festival of Sails. Culhane’s prize
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Star Sailors League Final team introduction #5: “The Swiss brothers”
Switzerland is prolific with Star sailors, having 177 skippers and crew present in the SSL Ranking List, but there are no doubts that the Helvetic Confederation’s best helmsman over the
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Mini Transat – Douarnenez to Pointe-a-Pitre
The elastic is broken [Source: Mini Trasat / Header Image: Louis Segré (Roll my chicken) – Credit Francois Van Malleghem / Mini Transat 2013] The front of the fleet gets
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WMRT: Williams makes sense of the madness to draw level with Canfield
[Source: World Match Racing Tour / Header Image: AMWRT/onEdition] Kuala Terengganu (27 November 2013): Ian Williams moved level with Taylor Canfield at the top of the leaderboard after making sense of
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Star Sailors League Team introduction #4: “The Commonwealth Team of Maloney/Bjorn (NZL/CAN)”
New Zealand will not miss the first Star Sailors League Final in Nassau (Bahamas) with a promising young Andy Maloney taking part. The 23 year old kiwi became a Youth
America's Cup
Oracle Team USA: How they did it (according to a guy named Jack)
Everyone has their own theory about how Oracle Team (non)USA pulled off the most sensational sporting comeback in history. Kiwi’s are still recovering from the news, with this weekend just
Golden Farr 40 One Design Trophy
This weekend’s Aberdeen Asset Management Farr 40 One Design Trophy will add to the vibrancy of Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s busy Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship when six of the
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Mini Transat – The nerves are raw
The fleet is progressing at slow speed towards the fleet Low speed disrupts the fleet Heading for a fracture in the fleet The next few hours are likely to be
The NEW Beau Geste
This impressive beast is the new 80’er Beau Geste, owned by Karl Kwok. The team were out training in Auckland today and these fantastic shots were captured by LSD’er (and
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WMRT: Morvan and Canfield keep a clean sheet while Kiwis suffer
[Source: World Match Race Tour / Header Image: Vannes Agglo Sailing Team on Day 2 of the Monsoon Cup, Malaysia, the final round of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour.
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WMRT: Monsoon Cup – The Final Act
[Source: WMRT / Header Image: The AWMRT Trophy arrives at the Monsoon Cup Cup, Malaysia, the final round of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour. Photo: AMWRT/onEdition] K. Terengganu, Malaysia
GJ Racing Intro
Check out this awesome vid from LSD’er Josh McCormack. Josh has promised to continue sharing his work with us so keep watching for more cool vids. This one is of
2013 Round White Island Race – A slow success
Prior to the Round White Island Race commencing, 19 boats had officially entered making it the biggest fleet to line up for some time. 17 of those boats made the
Team Beau Geste’s hat trick
Two bullets and a second capped off Team Beau Geste’s Sydney City Marine TP52 Southern Cross Cup round three victory and series hat trick, with one stage remaining. Having experienced
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2013 Laser World Championships: Final results; Maloney 11th, Meech 13 and Saunders 22nd
After an arduous seven day series including twelve races for the gold fleet sailors the 2013 Laser World Championships have come to a close at Musannah Beach, Oman. Just one
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Star Sailors League Final team introduction #3: “Star Spangled American squad”
With the highest number of sailors ranked in the Star Sailors League (551), America will have the largest number of competitors taking part in the inaugural Star Sailors League Final,
Team Vodafone Sailing finishes Round White Island Race
A tired crew on board Team Vodafone Sailing crossed the finish line at Orakei this afternoon at 17:49:17. After crossing the finishing line the crew admitted to being very thirsty
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Kiteboard Worlds
They Kiteboard Worlds are on! Check out this neat video from the practice date. [youtuber vimeo=’http://vimeo.com/79850538′]