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The Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show is an annual four-day event staged at Sanctuary Cove on Australia's Gold Coast from the 24th of May untill the 27th of May 2012. The Show displays a wide selection of marine products and services including superyachts, luxury power cruisers, power and sail multihulls, trailerable craft, kayaks, jetskis and watercraft plus engines, electronics, navigational gear and marine services.  You can find more details and source here     ...

USA. Coast Guard Auxiliary to provide free vessel safety checks for recreational boats Thursday, 17 May 2012 VSCs help ensure boater safety on the water The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, working in concert with Coast Guard Sector Detroit, announces Thursday that it will be offering free vessel safety checks throughout eastern Michigan, northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana during the months of May and June, 2012. Some recent safety checks resulted in Coast Guard boarding teams requiring mariners to return to port because of a lack of required safety equipment. The Coast Guard...

Higher Regional Court Defers Judgment to Ministry of Justice – Bogus Extradition Process to Proceed, but Captain Paul Watson Granted Bail In an extraordinary move by the German Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt, the court has granted the general public prosecutor’s request for Captain Paul Watson’s preliminary arrest for extradition to Costa Rica.  However, the court has also granted bail for Captain Paul Watson during the time the court considers whatever documentation Costa Rica is able to provide to substantiate their bogus allegations against Captain Paul...

Today, the fifth-largest megayacht in the world launched at Lürssen. She’s Topaz, and she’s taking yacht spotters and the industry alike by storm. In fact, Topaz has been a topic of conversation for some time, despite (and, in some respects, because of) being a confidential project. It was just over one year ago that we showed you how super-size Topaz was taking shape. At that point, essentially just the bare structure of the steel hull and aluminum superstructure were completed, being transferred from one build shed to another. The photo above, taken today, show just...

Brigitte Bardot, the actress and animal rights campaigner, has offered to take the place of the founder of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group in prison. Paul Watson was detained in Germany last week. On Monday, the 61-year-old was ordered by a German court to remain in custody a day after his arrest on a warrant from Costa Rica where he is accused of endangering a shark-finning ship's crew during a confrontation in 2002. "Being outraged by the fact that he's been put in prison, I offer to take his place because I am his accomplice," Bardot, 77, said in a...

Update on the Arrest of Captain Watson: Day 2 in Custody Captain Watson remains in the custody of German authorities as of Monday, May 14th.  A German judge in the lower courts of Frankfurt has refused to release Captain Watson, instead saying that the German court would like to confirm that Costa Rica wants Captain Watson extradited to their country.  The German legal council representing Captain Watson includes Oliver Wallasch and Alexander Gruner.  Sea Shepherd operatives continue to work around the clock in Europe and Latin America in order to determine the true...

Following their transit through the famous Panama Canal last week, the international Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race fleet is now back at sea, starting Race 11 from Panama to New York at 2330 UTC last night. Ahead lies around 2,100 miles starting with four days of hard upwind sailing before breaking out of the Caribbean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean. Like in previous races, in Race 11 there is a Scoring Gate and the first three teams through gets awarded vital additional points. There is also an Ocean Sprint further on in the Race.    “A textbook Le Mans...

A CITY sailing event which has raised £265,000 for charity over the last ten years will return in August for its eleventh annual fixture. Organisers of the annual Eddystone Charity Sailing Pursuit are calling on sailing enthusiasts to sign up for this year's maritime marathon. As one of the most successful charity fixtures on the South West yachting calendar, the 26-mile sailing marathon is due to take place in August with the aim for participants to round the Hand Deeps Buoy (West of the Eddystone) before finishing back at the start line ahead of an evening of supper,...

Here are the highlights of the sorry story of Lively Lady, the iconic yacht that pioneer sailor Sir Alec Rose, sailed solo around the world back in 1968. The famous yacht has been the subject of a legal dispute since completing a second highly publicised circumnavigation in 2005. Held by Hayling Yacht Company, the yard that carried out restoration work on the yacht prior to her last voyage, in lieu of a £7,000 debt owed by the charity that controls her, Lively Lady is in grave danger of rotting beyond economic repair this summer, unless Portsmouth City Council, the...

Captain Paul Watson was arrested yesterday in Germany for extradition to Costa Rica.  The German police have said that the warrant for Captain Watson’s arrest is in response to an alleged violation of ships traffic in Costa Rica, which occurred during the filming of Sharkwater in 2002.  The specific “violation of ships traffic” incident took place on the high seas in Guatemalan waters, when Sea Shepherd encountered an illegal shark finning operation, run by a Costa Rican ship called the Varadero.  On order of the Guatemalan authorities, Sea Shepherd...

The largest Boat Jumble in Europe during 2012  Boat Jumbles are great places for buying and selling new and used Chandlery, Boats, Fishing Tackle and Watersports equipment.  Source and more info here

Ostend at Anchor Classic Boatshow " Ostend at Anchor " sets sails for Ostend,Belgium. You can admire the classic Boats from From 25 May 2012 until 28 May 2012 Source and more details here ...

‘The buyers are back,’ yacht brokers and dealers report, citing many boats sold and deals written at the 39th annual Southern California in-the-water expo. NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (May 1, 2012) — Results are in for this year’s Newport Boat Show — held April 19-22 at Lido Marina Village — and they indicate a major increase in the number of show-goers at the gate AND buyers on the docks. “The attendance at this year’s show was the highest we’ve seen in nearly five years: up a phenomenal 32 percent over last year,” said Duncan...

The VECTOR, Go-Float's new Flagship model, features twin 15Kw, axial gapped, Neodymium Boron, permanent magnet inboard motors. That sure is a lot of WOW, but that's just the beginning. The VECTOR is designed to attain top speeds approaching 25 MPH powered by either a standard 5 KwH lithium battery pack or an optional 10 KwH pack. With optional battery pack the VECTOR is capable of sustained, planing speeds of up to 80 minutes. Up to 4 hours of intermittent cruising and slower speed riding, typical of most users, is possible under normal conditions. Incorporating an...