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@dventures of Captain Liz – Becoming A Yacht Captain
Captain Liz aboard a racing catamaran in Thailand. Photo: Cape Panwa Race Week/Guy Nowell This feature article originally appeared in…
Fast and Bonnie
Credit: Richard Mille Fife Regatta This feature article originally appeared in AFLOAT Magazine and forms part of our latest…
Sailing’s Greatest Mistake – the Etchells Story
Credit: Australian Etchells Association This feature article originally appeared in AFLOAT Magazine and forms part of our latest edition…
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Marine Rescue Jervis Bay Skipper Answers Wife’s Call to Rescue Boater Near Rocks
August 27, 2026
Marine Rescue NSW vessel Jervis Bay. Credit: MRNSW A boater had a fortunate escape after his five-metre runabout suffered engine…
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Bonds Flying Roos Stretch Championship Lead With Fifth Win of 2026 Season
August 27, 2026
Tom Slingsby’s Bonds Flying Roos ended a two-event wait for a Final with a flawless win on the Baltic…
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Champions Crowned at 41st Hamilton Island Race Week
August 27, 2026
The Gun Boat Hamilton Island Race Week Credit: Salty Dingo 2026 The champions of Hamilton Island Race Week presented by…
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Wearn Sets Sights on Third ILCA7 World Title
August 27, 2026
Matt Wearn Credit: Beau Outteridge Nine Australian athletes are set to take on the 2026 Men’s ILCA7 World Championships in…
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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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So awesome to see some of the nicest local sailors you could meet, making the cover! Yay for the good guys!
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