Plea To Take It Easy As People Head For Sea

BECAUSE Boxing Day is a notoriously busy day for rescues on the water, authorities are warning people planning to go boating or swimming to be careful today.

Operation Nets Soaked Boatie

NEWCASTLE Water Police arrested a skipper who allegedly had a blood-alcohol reading of 0.149 during a boating safety campaign at the weekend.

Storm Buoys

Kirsten Wilkins learns the ropes of boating during a weekend of wild weather and high seas.

Making Waves

IT WAS with great sadness that Tidelines woke to the news of another horrific boating crash on Sydney Harbour last week, with six young lives lost at the black spot created by Bradley's Head jutting out into the main channel. Of course, investigations are continuing and reports from police and the coroner to determine how the aluminium half-cabin boat and trawler collided are pending. Meantime, we urge all to be extra cautious when boating at night: keep windscreens clean of salt spray and never ...

Boaties Set Sail For Nz To Avoid Aussie Customs

Strict boating laws might be costing Queensland a fortune, writes Kate Dennehy.

Call To Return Search, Rescue

DESPITE the Illawarra being in Australia's busiest boating and shipping area, search and rescue aircraft must come from interstate.

Boating With Billions

Boating with billions TO see what a billion dollars worth of boats and boating equipment looks like up close not just in your dreams head to Sydney International Boat Show this weekend.

Boating Thieves Thwarted

QUICK-thinking police who chased a car through East Maitland have been praised for thwarting the theft of more than $30,000 of boating equipment.

Game Fishing

Wollongong Game Fishing Club, in conjunction with the Westpac Life Saver Helicopter Service based at Coniston, will be holding a boating equipment safety check at the Coniston base this Sunday between 10am and 2pm.

Boat Demonstrations

THE latest and greatest in boating equipment will be on show for maritime enthusiasts at this weekend's 2HD Lifestyle Expo 2001.

Dirty Water Rats Plunder Lake Vessels To Tune Of $150,000

LAKE Macquarie's new breed of `water rat' thieves have stolen $150,000 worth of boating equipment this year. But police believe they are a step closer to ending the thefts following the recent recovery of a large amount of property. `This equipment includes small outboard motors, depth-soundi

Harbour Hit By Huge Boating Thefts

UP to $10 million in boats and boating equipment will be stolen in NSW this year. Boats worth $246,000 and $111,000 worth of boating equipment was stolen in Sydney Harbour alone in January, the Water Police report. Two or three boats on trailers, worth on average $10,000, are stole