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FMJ Boys get Extreme – Again

[youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BKUUhmnRrc’] FMJ Racing (GAC Pindar) settling into life in Singapore for Act 2 of the Extreme Sailing Series! Good luck boys!!!

Dust off the Hawaiian Shirts and Boardies!

Entries are now open for the Airlie Beach Race Week 2013 While for the southern parts of Australia spring has definitely sprung, don’t pack away the summer clothes too deeply

The Ocean Race

Volvo Route Confirmed

With the announcement of Lorient, France as the penultimate stopover in the 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race comes the final piece in the jigsaw puzzle for a complete route. Covering just

America's Cup

ETNZ on the move!

From Emirates Team New Zealand’s Facebook Page: The pack up of Emirates Team New Zealand’s Auckland base is in full swing. 31 containers carting everything from office furniture and tent

Gold, Silver, Bronze for Kiwi’s in Palma

(Yachting New Zealand Media Release) New Zealand has won three medals at ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma – the first of the major European World Cup Regattas. Gold to Andy

America's Cup

The Definitive America’s Cup

On an otherwise quite Friday morning, a production crew with Rod Davis in tow, visited a yacht club on Auckland’s harbour for what was the final interview for a new

Olympics

New Scoring System?

Although we haven’t been reporting on it, there is a bit of a high profile regatta going on in Palma (something to do with ISAF and a World Cup?) Anyway,

2013 New Zealand Optimist Nationals

The New Zealand 2013 Optimist Nationals were held over the long Easter weekend hosted by the Timaru Yacht and Power Boat Club. Reports to come out of the event were

Sun, Sand & Chocolate

Maryborough Sailing Club’s Easter Regatta On the Easter long-weekend Maryborough Sailing Club hosted their annual Easter Regatta. It was open to all off-the-beach dinghies and also incorporated the Weta State

NYA Laser & P Class Championship

This weekend is the Daniel Mann Construction Club Champs being held at Onerahi Yacht Club, this also includes NYA (Northland Yachting Association) Laser & P Class champs and Sunday is

The words live on. Vale Stripey Grant

Much loved sailing journo Ian “Stripey” Grant passed away on Good Friday just after the start of his beloved race, the Brisbane to Gladstone. Stripey was the main reporter for

Attempt to break the absolute sailing record

Check out these great photos from one of our favourite photographers Christophe Launay. A Nacra F20 Carbon (20′ beach cat) is attempting to break the absolute sailing record of the

No Easter regattas? We don’t think so.

Another event was held over the easter weekend, The NZ Trailer Yacht Nationals, but you would hardly know it. What is wrong with promotion of events? There was plenty of

Easter Racing. Surely you did something?

The 2013 Easter break has been and gone. All done. No more Easter eggs, now more scary Facebook updates from people who all of a sudden celebrate Easter (for the

12′ Skiff Aussie Champs

Lincoln Crowne, sailed by Jonathon Temple and Richard Jones have wrapped up the 2013 Australian Championships yesterday with another win and a 3rd place. The win capped off another great

Friday Fun

What can I say? I just liked the photo! Interesting little link on Wikipedia about land yachting – Blokart gets a mention! Article: HERE

America's Cup

Spithill Aims at Dalton

After Oracle CEO Sir Russell Coutts said in February it would not be Emirates Team New Zealand in the finals of the Americas Cup, Jimmy Spithill has had a go.