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Articles in April-May, 2008 issue of Offshore Yachting

• Audi winter series: a number of changes to the 2008 series will mean a tough 14-race pointscore competition
  by Lisa Ratcliff
• At the helm: from Syd Fischer in the Blue Water Pointscore series to the YSA team in the Hardy Cup. CYCA members are scoring plenty of wins. A book about the history of the club will soon be published and we are about to embark on another winter series
  by Matt Allen
• Clear skies ahead
  by Anthony Twibill
• 2008 Ad
• 2008 Ad
• New Australian distributor for Marlow Ropes
• Sunsail adds six new yachts to fleet
• Aussie Boat Sales scores Buizen
• International Paint continue CYCA sponsorship
• CYCA Winter Ball
• GME to relinquish Garmin distribution for Australia
• 2008 Sydney Harbour Week Award winners
• New owner for Oyster
• Sunbeam 34 European Yacht of the Year 2008
• ISAF launches Introductory Rules for Racing
• New speed record for sailing craft
• BMW Oracle announces core sailing team
• Fedor Konyukhov plays Russian roulette at Cape Horn
• New Hunter at Sanctuary Cove Boat Show
• Eagle 340 RIB designed for local conditions
• Aquatx launches new jet-powered RIB at Auckland International Boat Show
• X-Yachts' Xc 45 first in new series
• Impressive VPP and TCCs on Elan's new 380 Crossover
• Emirates Team New Zealand jumps into AC ring, sues Alinghi
• Leroy aims for hat trick after winning Harken Women's International: the world's number one woman match racer, Claire Leroy from France, became the first overseas competitor to win the Harken Women's International Match Racing Regatta when she narrowly be
  by Lisa Ratcliff
• Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta: skippers and crew went into overdrive as they vied to win their divisions—and an Audi A4 car—at the record-breaking 2008 Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta
  by Peter Campbell
• Fleet decimated in Adelaide to Port Lincoln race
  by Peter Campbell
• Lang Walker takes Farr 40 double back to back
  by Sam Crichton
• Ransa win their Admiral's Trophy
  by Peter Campbell
• Walk on the Wild Side to Bunbury and return
  by John Roberson
• Stening clinches M30 Australian championship
  by Sam Crichton
• Etchells NSW title to veteran skipper
  by Peter Campbell
• Ragamuffin wins BWPS battle of the TP titans
  by Lisa Ratcliff
• Persistence, patience and sailing smart pay off for YSA sailors at 2008 Hardy Cup
  by Peter Campbell
• Thai Airways Elliott sponsorship launched
  by Lisa Ratcliff
• 2008 Ad
  by Peter Campbell
• Ocean crusader: Naomi James was the first woman to sail alone around the world via the three Great Capes: Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and the Feared Cape Horn, and that with only a few months of sailing experience. though the New Zealander will foreve
  by Andrea Kollmann
• Claire Leroy: Claire Leroy and her mermaidsailing team have dominated the women's match racing circuit for the last two years. Offshore Yachting caught up with the French champion in Auckland in March 2008. It was her birthday, and she had just won the Ne
  by Alexander Gilly
• Multihulls revisited: when Offshore Yachting investigated the latest advances in cruising multihulls. We found that most of the prejudices that yachtsmen hold against the keel-less boats no longer hold water
  by Rob Mundle
• Cruising NSW: the coastline of New South Wales stretches 1,160 kilometres from Queensland to Victoria. It is home to many interesting, picturesque and protected boating destinations that offer year round cruising for all types and sizes of vessels
  by Richard Morris
• Fast French flair: Beneteau put a lot of effort into getting racing performance out of its new cruiser/racer, the first 45. they have succeeded: the boat is fast, particularly when carrying the optional carbon rig. Yet it's also comfortable, good-looking
  by Barry Tranter
• Perini Navi's Blue Goddess: Italian superyacht builder Perini Navi's latest build, the 56-metre, aluminium-hulled ketch Selene, is as beautiful as the moon goddess she's named after
  by Guy Waddilove
• Down the Rhumbline: South Pacific Cup welcome news for yachting: the South Pacific Cup to be launched at this year's Audi Hamilton Island Race Week should stimulate international team racing
  by Peter Campbell
• Lowrance's marine radio line-up expands
• A traditional looking winch using the latest technology
• Safety campaign generates shift to quality PFD yokes
• Riggtech distribute Reckmann yacht furling system
• New wireless Autoanchor-AA710
• New heat sensor helps stop onboard fires
• Henri Lloyd leads the way in fabric technology
• Offshore racing calendar