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Storm Tracking
Storm conditions approaching from onboard view. Credit: Kevin Green This feature article originally appeared in AFLOAT Magazine and is…
Foul Bottoms with John Quirk: A Tale of Two Shipwrecks
Shipwreck survivors endured extreme hardship on Auckland Island after the wrecks of Grafton and Invercauld. Credit: John Quirk This feature…
Sailor Woman: Boats And Brains
Arriving on the Gold Coast with my new boat. How shallow can she go!? Credit: Jeni Tidmarsh This feature article…
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Wearn and Morris Strike Gold as Harding and Wilmot Claim Silver in Hyères
April 30, 2026
Matt Wearn on his way to ILCA7 gold at French Olympic Week in Hyères, continuing his dominant return to international…
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Marine Rescue NSW Volunteers Complete Demanding Boating Season
April 30, 2026
Marine Rescue NSW volunteers prepare to assist a boater off Bundeena, Botany Port Hacking. Credit: Marine Rescue NSW The following…
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Record Fleet and Global Reach Mark International Multihull Show 2026
April 29, 2026
Visitors explore the marina at the International Multihull Show 2026 in La Grande Motte. The following media release has been…
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Cats, Cruisers, Dinghy Classes Next Up for Sail Port Stephens
April 29, 2026
Image: Wild Oats X leads the blue-ribbon fleet for the Sail Port Stephens Super Series. Credit: Promocean Media The following…
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Sailing in Maine – a cruiser’s paradise
Main photo: Wooden Boat School campus setting at Brooklyn with myriad of islands on this Atlantic seaboard in the far north-east of the United States of America. Few places in…
Chartering a Catamaran in Croatia
Chartering a catamaran in Croatia is the holiday of a lifetime … but when your own boat is a 26ft monohull and the charter yacht is 45ft…
Adrift in Caledonia
Northerly winds dictated the route of our week’s cruise around the Inner Hebrides, so with full sail up on our Contessa 32 we headed south along the rock strewn coasts…
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December issue of Afloat is out now! 🎄⚓️
Set off with Kevin Green in Adrift in the Coral Sea. Meanwhile, Daniel Houden shares what it’s like to own a Fleming in Owner’s Angle Fleming 55 and Bruce Stannard recounts The Luck of the Lioness. Next up, Malcolm Riley discuses Remote Forecasts, Jill Knight explores what lures people to natural bodies of water in Blue Mind, and Quirky takes us through Mers-El-Kebir and much more! 🌊⛵️🛥
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AFLOAT November 2025 out now! ⚓️
Cruise with Stephen Reed from St Helens to Flinders Island in Sailing Northeast Tassie. Meanwhile, David Salter recounts a time when Australia was the centre of the yachting world in Freo ‘87 and Allan Porter recalls the life of an intrepid Dutch sailor in From Boat Arrival to Hall of Fame. Next up, Malcolm Riley discuses Sudden Stratospheric Warming, Jill Knight investigates stereotypes in It’s Five O’clock Somehwere, and Quirky takes us Around Africa on the Wet Bits and much more! 🌊⛵️🛥
To read the November issue go to www.afloat.com.au
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