Boats

Gold Coast sailing Race Month: January 2016

The Gold Coast is the place to be for yacht racing this January. With the Coffs to Paradise Race on 7 January, followed by Sail

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Buy and Sail – The 101 of buying a sailboat

Sailing is a pastime and a sport you can participate in from five years old to 85 years old. Not many other sports allow this

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Sailing into the Digital Age

I was seventeen when I started sailing. It was in the Jubilee, a tubby centreboard craft, eighteen feet (about 5.5m) long, with a crew of

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10 tips on how to enjoy SUP

Stand-up paddle boarding, or more casually called SUP, a fast-growing popular activity on the Gold Coast, is a very pleasant and addictive form of water

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Sail Paradise 2016: A high summer regatta

Sail Paradise, Southport Yacht Club’s (SYC) spectacular high summer regatta, will be staged on the waters off the Gold Coast’s golden beaches, on January 13-17,

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The boats of the surf lifesavers

When it is a matter of life or death, every second counts. For Surf Life Saving Queensland’s volunteer surf lifesavers, who return to Gold Coast

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Is your boat disaster-ready? Equipment that can save lives

For those enjoying the vast expanses of incredible waterways in this beautiful part of the world, our over-eagerness can sometimes lead to carelessness on the

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Of spanners and mud: DIY crabbing basics

The Gold Coast has countless mangrove islands and mud banks with clean waterways with abundant food source making prime real estate for many crab varieties.

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In or out? The engine choice

When deciding on your boat, you will also need to consider whether you would want an inboard or an outboard engine, or an inboard/outboard. In

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Notorious: A noble story

Is it the Black Pearl? Is it a ghost ship? It is neither. It is Notorious, a recreation of a 1480’s caravel, researched, designed and

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