In this week's WoW we look at "What Went Wrong" in the 34th Americas Cup, Alex Thomson gears up for another Vendee Globe but will he make it, the Warren Jones int Regatta in Perth, the Millennium Cup in the Bay of Islands in NZ and Sebastien Destmemau ente...
Race 5 kept the umpiring team of David Tallis and Richard Slater busy blowing whistles and pointing flags at the infringers. A dramatic top gate hook up between Hooligan’s protruding bowsprit and Ginger’s stern looked worse than it was with only some p...
Transfusion wins record sixth Farr 40 national title.
Guido Belgiorno-Nettis’ Transfusion overpowered the local contenders for a record sixth time at the Farr 40 National Championship: John Calvert-Jones Trophy.
Master international tactician John Koste...
‘Woody’ wins third successive Historical 18s Australian Championship title
Aberdare, with John ‘Woody’ Winning at the helm, won their third Historical 18 Foot Skiff 2016 Australian Championship in as many years on Sydney Harbour late today, des...
In this week's WoW we see the new AC "Rocket" from ETNZ on the water testing in New Zealand (see how smooth it rides over the water unlike some others who buck and dip), the "Lord of the Wind" Kite-surfing in Baja California in Mexico, Australian Youth Cha...
In this week's WoW the Oracle Team USA move in to their headquarters in Bermuda, the ISAF Youth Championships in Malaysia, Spindrift 2 returns to France without the Jules Verne Trophy, the 2016 Australian Moth Championships Day 3 in Perth, the Clipper flee...
www (What Went Wrong) in the "Hobart". Geoff Waller of www.boatson.tv talks exclusively to North Sails' Michael Coxon on what happened in the recent disastrous 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race when 31 yachts retired. Cocko talks sails, sail handling, as...
In this week's WoW we show the exciting start to the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day on Sydney Harbour, we get the weather forecast and Ken Read the skipper of the giant US Super-Maxi Comanche gives us the changes made to the yacht since ...
Ark 323, the Chinese TP52, was in a collision with another TP52, Ragamuffin 52. Jeremy Pilkington’s RP78, Lupa of London, and Anthony Lyall’s TP52, Cougar II from Tasmania. M3, Peter Hickson’s TP52, is also out of the race, suffering a shattered fore...
2014 RSHYR Handicap Winner Roger Hickman "Wild Rose" talks to boatsontv about his chances for 2015's race. Can he do it again? Well he's done it before....
Keep watching www.boatson.tv and the "World on Water" Sailing News TV.
Yacht owners are a unusual bunch. Eric has another boat to his 13m racing yacht. It's a 90 foot maxi which he uses as his "holiday" yacht. Two years ago he embarked with a mate to have the first sailing regatta in Antarctica. This is the story of this gres...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race contenders talk of their chances. Anthony Bell Perpetual LOYAL, Jim Clark Comanche, Mark Richards Wild Oats XI and David Witt Ragamuffin 100 at this morning's press conference.
Firstly Michael Logan from the weather Bureau gives their long range forecast for the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race then Ken Read the skipper of the huge super maxu Comanche talks of their boat and chances.
In the WoW this week Wild Oats XI wins the SOLAS Big Boat Challenge on Sydney Harbour, IDEC Sport and Spindrift 2 pass in the Southern Ocean below New Zealand in their attempt to beat the Jules Verne Record, the Extreme Sailing Series ends 2015 in Sydney, ...
www.boatson.tv has access to North Sails loft during their build of Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours contender Wild Oats XI's new Cuben Fibre A2 1000 sq ft sail. We use a drone to show how big this sail really is.
In this week's show we look at the top three contenders of the Rolex Sydney Hobart at rest, the Sir Peter Blake regatta where "red socks" are the normal, IDEC Sport are powering through the Southern Ocean in the Jules Verne, we go one-on-one with Leigh McM...
The World on Water spy is out and about hiding in the jumgle waiting for the Big Boats to arrive and get their bits installed so that they can go sailing. Rambler 88 is here and ready to take on his ex Rambler 100 ex Speedboat now Perpetual LOYAL. George D...
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is only three weeks away and Rolex has released a preview, in the new Sport of "Synchronised Sanding" we show a local three-man team training on the new sections of Wild Oats XI, Oracle Team USA the Americas Cup defenders...
In this week's WoW TWO over 100 Foot Trimarans start our racing around the world non-stop for the Jules Verne trophy (IDEC Sport & Spindrift 2), the "prototype" division on the Mini 6.5 meter Transat is decided, the MC 38's have their final regatta on ...
In this week's WoW Oracle Team USA's wing is explained, the 18 Footers battle it out on a dull Sydney Harbour, the crew of Spindrift 2 the world's largest racing trimaran get ready for the Jules Verne record attempt, IMOCA 60 Vento di Sardegna is built at ...
Brand new, multi-million Euro IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss dis-masted and the hull leaking flounders in the Atlantic just off Spain. The crew are heli lifted from the boat. We list Alex Thomson's sailing travails, the Clipper boats arrive in Cape Town, the fast wind...
40 knots of wind and 6-7 metre waves play havoc with the fleet in the 2015 Transat Jacques Vabre. Five of the "top contenders' had to retire from the race after either capsizing or experiencing damage in the wild conditions. They were Edmond de Rothschild,...
In this week's WoW the riskiest job in Bermuda is a LVACWS Judge as one is run-down by Aussie Nathan Outteridge in Artemis, the Rolex Middle Sea Race was held in Malta, the Transat Jacques Vabre starts today in Le Havre, race day for AC leader ETNZ, weeks ...
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