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Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race : Roger Hickman’s Farr 43 Wild Rose confirmed as the overall corrected time winner
Completing the legendary 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart race course in 3 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes and 43 seconds, Wild Rose arrived in Hobart on Monday evening, finishing with a corrected time that proved insurmountable for the yachts drifting through an abating breeze to (...) -
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Rolex Sydney Hobart : Wild Oats XI’s historic eighth line honours victory
Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats XI has done it again, and in claiming Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race line honours for an eighth time at 15.03.26 hours today, in the time of two days two hours three minutes and 26 seconds, goes down in the race’s 70 year history as the only yacht to ever achieve this amazing (...) -
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Extreme Sailing Series : Alinghi crowned 2014 & Sydney champions
It is mission accomplished for Ernesto Bertarelli’s Swiss team Alinghi, as Morgan Larson and the team grabbed victory with both hands at Act 8 Sydney, and with it the 2014 Extreme Sailing SeriesTM title. -
ISAF Sailing World Cup -Melbourne
Australian Sailing Team Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin were the powerhouse multihull crew
A second and final set of medal winning performances brought the 2014 to a close on Sunday December 14. Some of the day’s highlights on the Stadium course included Tom Burton’s trifecta of gold medal Laser wins at this World Cup event, the Australian identical twins out-sailing the Portuguese brothers in the 470s and the final (...) -
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Harley Ingleby Wins Second ASP World Longboard Title in China
Harley Ingleby (AUS) defeated Phil Rajzman (BRA) to claim his second ASP World Longboard Longboard #Longboard Title at the GoPro World Longboard Longboard #Longboard Championships, China hosted by Wanning (WLC). Pumping typhoon swell in the 3 to 4 foot range groomed by offshore winds set the stage for the world’s best longboarders (...) -
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Chelsea Williams Wins ASP World Longboard Title in China
Chelsea Williams (AUS) has defeated Kelia Moniz (HAW) to claim her maiden ASP Women’s World Longboard Longboard #Longboard Title at the GoPro World Longboard Longboard #Longboard Championships, China hosted by Wanning (WLC). Near perfect 3 to 4 foot surf Surf #Surf provided the perfect canvas for the world’s best (...) -
ASP World Tour
Stephanie Gilmore claims her sixth ASP Women’s World Title
Australian Stephanie Gilmore, 26, has claimed her 6th world surfing crown today, besting an international field of world-class athletes on the 2014 Samsung Galaxy ASP Women’s World Championship Tour. -
ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards
2014 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards are James Spithill (AUS) and Martine Grael & Kahena Kunze (BRA)
Australian James Spithill was nominated for leading ORACLE TEAM USA to one of the greatest comebacks in all sporting history. Trailing Emirates Team New Zealand 8-1 in a first to nine quest for one of yachting’s greatest prizes, the America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup , skipper Spithill inspired a comeback of epic proportion (...) -
Maxi Yacht
Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze Clark’s newly-launched 100 foot Super-maxi ’Comanche’ on a ship bound for Australia
The 70th edition of world-famous Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has attracted a record Record #sailingrecord -equalling five 100 foot super maxis, and the last of the ocean racing machines to hit the water has just left Charleston, USA, bound for the start line in Australia on December 26th. Comanche, built in Maine (USA) and launched only a (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
Chris Nicholson : "It’s an honour to be skipper of Team Vestas Wind"
Vestas, the world’s leading wind energy company, was today announced as the seventh and final boat for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Six-time world champion Chris Nicholson, who will be contesting his fifth race, will skipper the boat and work is already well underway to ready the Danish company’s team for the race start in (...)
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