01 May 2013

Wind Gods Movie and Antigua Sailing Week (videos)

The Wind Gods Movie: "The Wind Gods chronicles the quest of an American team seeking to win the most coveted prize in competitive sailing, and the oldest trophy in international sports, The America’s Cup.  Narrated by Jeremy Irons, the film captures the vast scope of the challenge, the passion of the competitors, and the breathtaking beauty of the race."



Antigua Sailing Week 2013 - The Big Boat Class and Race Day 3: Its a full on foam up in today's race day 3 action and we see all the thrills and spills from the decks of Sailing Yacht Bristolian.

Adult's Start Sailing Now
ChicagoNow (blog)
In December 2011, a study on multiple sports in Australia found that, "no other sport is seen as 'exclusive' as sailing, and the biggest difference to the top sports is that [sailing is the least] 'accessible' and 'community involved.'" The research ...

CdM, Newport Harbor sailing teams qualify to compete for Baker Trophy
Daily Pilot
The Corona del Mar High sailing team finished second to qualify to compete for the Baker Trophy. The CdM team features from left: Connor Kelter, Jimmy Madigan, Alex Ivory, Caitlyn Johnson, Chloe Dapp, Ainsley Henderson, Clare Dahl, Jack Thompson, ...

Sailing toward the American dream: Man will leave in June to travel around the ...
Daily Astorian
Rimas Meleshyus, standing aboard his former vessel, the Cesura, is looking for sponsors to help him purchase a new 24-foot San Juan sailing yacht to become the first person to sail around the world in the small craft. Meleshyus estimates he could ...

Dos Pueblo High School Sailing Team Places 5th in State
Santa Barbara Independent
They placed fifth in a field of twenty-two teams competing at the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association's (PCISA) state championship held off Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, California. The hard-fought win qualified the team for the ISSA High ...

Santa Barbara Independent

Severn School sweeps Mid-Atlantic qualifiers for high school sailing
CapitalGazette.com
Skipper Patrick Floyd and crew Evan Morgan captured first place in A Division as Severn won the Mid-Atlantic Sailing Associationqualifier for the Mallory Trophy, held two weekends ago at Christchurch School in Virginia. Skipper Maeve White led the B ...

Primrose remembered by sailing community - Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
The Canberra sailing community gathered to remember one its key members on Wednesday afternoon after former Commodore Neil Primrose of the Canberra Yacht Club died last week, aged 71. Described as an integral part of the club for more than 40 ...

Sailing team riding the waves to national championships
The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth sailing team took top honors last week, with the coed and the women's teams advancing to the championships. Courtesy Of Dartmouth Sports. Print · Report an Error · Share. As the spring season winds down, the Dartmouth sailing team is ...

The Dartmouth

Lake Forest High School Sailing Team Qualifies for Nationals by Winning ...
GazeboNews
Lake Forest High School's Sailing Team took first place in the Midwest Fleet Racing Championship held on April 27-28 in Chicago. Six members of the team competed in the Mallory Trophy Midwest Qualifier for the U.S. Interscholastic Sailing Association ...

Russian sailing team eyes success at 2020 Olympics
Russia Beyond The Headlines
... sport in Russia, the chances for Russian Olympians at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and development of the sport in Eastern countries. “I've been sailing for around 40 years,” says Georgy Shaiduko, senior vice president of the Russian Yachting ...

DutchNews.nl - Hunt for missing Dutch sailing ship moves to Norway
The Norwegian coastguard have taken over the hunt for a missing Dutch sailing ship which has vanished with a crew of three on board.
News from DutchNews.nl

Objective Corp boss supports first Youth America’s Cup: " . . . he is supporting Objective Australia, Australia’s team in the first Red Bull Youth America’s Cup which takes place in San Francisco in September during the 34th America’s Cup racing season. The event is for sailors aged 19 to 25. The Australian team will compete against seven nations on the same high performance AC45 catamarans used in the America’s Cup World Series. . ."

Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ - NYTimes.com: " . . . Sailing was still an apt illustration of the kind of empirically minded problem-solving that Mr. Dennett has long preferred to the abstractions of more traditional philosophy, to the great irritation of some colleagues. “Philosophers can seldom put their knowledge to practical use,” Mr. Dennett said, squinting under the brim of a baseball hat reading “Freedom Evolves,” a play on the title of his 2003 book on free will. “But if you’re a sailor, you can. I just get a kick out of that.”. . ."

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