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The fantastic world of Lewmar R & D By .., Australia , 11:38 AM Sat 20 Dec 2008
i>Location: a top secret R & D laboratory somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. You are an elite sailor that has been blindfolded and dropped into an unknown foreign country in the dead of night by a Black Hawk chopper. When your blind is removed by the marines that have accompanied you on your parachute drop, you find yourself standing in front of a metal lined door. /i> ...[more]

Seven Sleeps to the Sydney Hobart race By Rob Kothe & the Sail-World Team, 5:03 AM Fri 19 Dec 2008
Just a week to Boxing Day and for the fleet in 64th annual Rolex Sydney Hobart race, Christmas Day is just the day before Hobart. ...[more]

$12,650 handed to charities by 2008 HCW race By Mark Cherrington, 6:41 PM Thu 18 Dec 2008
Cheques totalling nearly $13,000 have been handed over to Hunter region charities through the Heaven Can Wait Yacht Club, following the very successful 2008 Heaven Can Wait 24 hour yacht race, held on the October long weekend. ...[more]

Drama and fun - mixed preparation for Hobart By Rob Kothe & the Sail-World Team, 7:09 PM Mon 8 Dec 2008
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Editorial-Is this the Best IRC fleet in the World? By Rob Kothe, 3:18 PM Sun 16 Nov 2008
This week one of Australia’s best know Regatta organisers Doug Jarvis, who runs the 160+ year old Skandia Geelong Week ventured the opinion that Australia has the best IRC fleets in the World. ...[more]

Sail-World's coverage - 2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart By Rob Kothe & the Sail-World Team, 4:35 PM Sat 1 Nov 2008
The Rolex Sydney to Hobart race is followed around the world and its media coverage is much more intense than with other blue water passage race classics like the Fastnet Race and the Bermuda Race. ...[more]

NOR now available online By ., Geelong , 10:03 AM Wed 29 Oct 2008
The 2009 Skandia Geelong Week Notice of Race is now available online. Visit http://www.geelongweek.com.au/racing/noticeofrace.asp to download your copy. Get ready for an exciting four days of competition during Skandia Geelong Week in January 2009. ...[more]

Seawind Charter Boat Investments By ., Bellambi , 10:59 AM Tue 21 Oct 2008
Seawind Charter Boat Investments. Have you every dreamt of owning your own Seawind to go cruising in exotic locations but you are still working and have a few years to until you can cast off. Perhaps you should consider purchasing a Seawind Charter boat and enjoy a professionally managed and maintained Seawind that becomes an ‘Income Producing Asset’ providing a healthy return. ...[more]

Slingsby, new Hobart boat, new World Rankings By Rob Kothe and the Sail-World Team, 7:40 AM Thu 16 Oct 2008
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Heaven Can Wait Regatta - Full Results Set By Heaven Can Wait Regatta, , 10:43 PM Tue 7 Oct 2008
Here are the full results set for the 3rd annual Heaven Can Wait 24 hour race and the One Lap Dash. ...[more]

A Little Piece of Heaven By Rob Kothe, 11:32 AM Mon 6 Oct 2008
Principal Race Officer Phil Yeomans summed up- '‘Another fun event, this year’s weather provided great challenges from 3 knots to 18 and wind from every point of the compass. Very shifty conditions. ‘Actually this one of the harder races on the East Coast calendar. Consider that the overall 24 hour race winner Two Tribes sailed 155 nautical miles and Wallop, the leading monohull sailed 141 nau ...[more]

Heaven Can Wait Regatta Final Results By HCWYC, , 10:23 AM Mon 6 Oct 2008
The Offical Results for the 2008 Heaven Can Wait 24 hour race and One Lap Dash. ...[more]

US sailor comes 9,000 miles for Heaven Can Wait By Rob Kothe, 11:04 AM Sun 5 Oct 2008
49 year old Blake Middleton has made a 9,000 mile trek to Australia’s Lake Macquarie for the Heaven Can Wait 24 hour race. This is his third year in a row ‘Down Under’. We caught up with Middleton in the final hours of the 24 hour race and asked him to tell us 'the why and how'. ...[more]

Testing time for tired crews – Heaven Can Wait By Rob Kothe, 7:12 AM Sun 5 Oct 2008
The 2008 Heaven Can Wait fleet sailed out of Toronto Bay heading south at 12 noon yesterday. Wind has come from every point of the compass, overnight. As dawn broke this morning another rain squall has crossed the lake, with thunder and lightning. ...[more]

On the nose - One Lap Dash Results By Rob Kothe, 11:32 PM Sat 4 Oct 2008
The Heaven Can Wait One Lap Dash race was shortened this afternoon, when a rain squall swept up Lake Macquarie. On line honours it was a clear victory to the Sydney 41 Wallop, who enjoyed the double work, ahead of Flyblown and Rock n'Roll, the two Melges 32's. Adam Workman's Jeanneau Catspaw was the handicap winner ahead of Mark Skletons Maserati. ...[more]

Putting Clocks forward on Lake Macquarie By Rob Kothe, 2:58 PM Sat 4 Oct 2008
Hundreds of sailors from around Australia will tonight take their clocks forward, for daylight saving on a moonless Lake Macquarie north of Sydney. It’s the annual Heaven Can Wait 24 hour Yacht Race, which started at 12 noon todayand will finish at 1pm tomorrow. Sailors have come from West Australia, Queensland and Victoria for this lake sailing classic. ...[more]

Real-time tracking for Heaven Can Wait 24 hr race By Rob Kothe, 10:08 AM Fri 3 Oct 2008
A unique real-time tracking system for yacht racing will be used during the 2008 Heaven Can Wait 24-hour yacht race, to be held on Lake Macquarie, south of Newcastle, NSW, on October 4-5. ...[more]

Sailing out of the Darkness - Heaven Can Wait By Rob Kothe, 7:08 AM Mon 29 Sep 2008
This coming October Long Weekend is the third annual Heaven Can Wait 24 Hour Yacht Race. For Australia’s own 24 Hour race there will hardly more than a new moon for the large fleet of yachts ghosting around Lake Macquarie, the largest salt-water lake in Australia. ...[more]

Bring on 2012 By Rob Kothe and the Sail-World team, 7:00 AM Thu 25 Sep 2008
The first few months post the Olympic are the most important for a countries success at the following event, as athletes decide their path forward. One of the keys to the success of the British sailing team has been their ability to retain Olympians for another tilt at the podium. ...[more]

News from the Event Coordinator’s desk By ., Geelong , 3:41 PM Tue 16 Sep 2008
An update from Skandia Geelong Week Event Coordinator, Doug Jarvis. ...[more]

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