News & Events

November 7, 2019

Lord Jiminy has taken line honours in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Melbourne to Stanley Race, but the most outstanding result came from the Scott Robinson skippered Seaquest RP36, How Bizarre (pictured above), which pulled off the rare triple of IRC/AMS/PHS overall…

November 7, 2019

Thirty hours into racing and all four of the trimarans competing on the Brest Atlantiques race have already reached the latitudes of Gibraltar, most of them averaging around 30 knots with top speeds of at over 40. Ahead lies one gybe to be taken…

November 6, 2019

Australia’s pioneer of expedition cruising, Coral Expeditions have released three new itineraries as part of the maiden voyage series of the newbuild Coral Geographer during February, March and April 2021. The collection of Indian Ocean expeditions focuses on some of the most remote islands across the…

November 5, 2019

It’s been a while coming and for the closing Act 6 of the MC38 2019 season pointscore, Leslie Green’s Ginger Ninjas worked their way back to familiar territory, at the top of the class scoreboard. Results from seven races in very different conditions on…

November 4, 2019

Training, licensing and Certification in all areas of boating are now available at The Boat Works with the arrival of new partners, Paradigm Training. With boat ownership on the Gold Coast forecast to treble in the next 25 years and an…

November 1, 2019

Central Coast boaters now have safer and easier access to the Hawkesbury River with work complete at the Dark Corner car park at Patonga. The upgrade will improve safety and traffic flow and was delivered under the NSW Government’s $98 million Boating Now program.

November 1, 2019

Entries are now open and the countdown is on until the Keeley Marine Supplies 52nd Marlay Point Overnight Race (MPONR), which will take place on March 7, 2020. This iconic annual event starts at sunset and sees a large fleet of mono and multihull…

November 1, 2019

Sean Langman, one of Australia’s best-known and most versatile sailors, has set himself for another wide-ranging program in the 2019-2020 Australian summer with a season of 18ft Skiff Racing on Sydney Harbour, as skipper on Noakesailing, as well as skippering the 69ft Naval Group in the Rolex Sydney…

October 30, 2019

Tom and Beth with Maritimo’s lead designer Tom Barry-Cotter and Operations Manager Phil Candler Internationally -renowned and award-winning wildlife and underwater cinematographer, Tom Campbell,  and his scientist and filmmaker partner, Beth Davidow,  travel the world capturing  spectacular footage and images for a variety of…

October 30, 2019

Volvo Penta’s Inboard Performance System (IPS) is helping high-end automotive brand Lexus, take to the water. Toyota Motor Corporation – in collaboration with Italian yacht design studio, Nuvolari Lenard, and boatmaker, Marquis Yachts – has developed its first luxury 65-foot yacht,…

October 30, 2019

The Royal Australian Navy’s Admiral’s Barge, built by Norman R. Wright & Sons in Brisbane and commissioned in 1993, was recently refitted and reconditioned by the experts by High Tide at Sydney City Marine, earning glowing praise from the Fleet Commander himself. Sydney City…

October 30, 2019

A new project to help rid the seas of plastic waste has been launched by The Ocean Cleanup, with AkzoNobel providing coatings technology for the garbage-gathering system. The latest venture is focused on the Interceptor™, a floating device which can extract plastic debris from…