Live Video of LOUIS VUITTON CUP Sunday Race

LOUIS VUITTON CUP - RR3 - RACE 3 - Live video from San Francisco - Scheduled for July 21, 2013, Emirates Team New Zealand vs Luna Rossa Challenge 3 pm ET (US) - 7 pm (1900) UTC/GMT

Week 2 at the America's Cup - YouTube: "A look back at week two at the America's Cup in San Francisco."

Transpac: "At 18:17:26 today local Hawaii time, Syd Fischer’s Elliott 100 Ragamuffin 100 crossed the finish line at Diamond Head to be the fastest monohull to complete the 2225-mile course in the 2013 Transpac. For this feat Ragamuffin and its crew of 20 will be awarded the Merlin Trophy, dedicated in 2009 by Trisha Steele and named for the Bill Lee-designed and built boat that in 1977 set a new course record that stood for 20 years and ushered in a new age of high speed offshore race boat design."
2013 Transpac Honolulu Race on Yacht Scoring 

Lending Club takes line honours in Transpac Race
My Sailing
The modified ORMA 73 trimaran was sailed by a crew of nine and was just a few hours from breaking the fully-crewed multihull course record of 5 days 9 hours 18 minutes 26 seconds set in 1997 by the 86-foot catamaran Explorer, due in part to damage ...

ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship: "Puerto Rico, French And Brazilian Sailors Take Final Sail First ISAF Youth Worlds Golden Honours - Juan Perdomo (PUR), Lucas Rual and Emile Amoros (FRA) and Brazil's Tiago Brito and Andrei Kneipp added their names to the Sail First ISAF Youth World Championship gold medallists as racing concluded in Limassol, Cyprus."

Auckland to Bluff Ocean Race: A family affair
Sail World
The Auckland to Bluff Ocean Race is New Zealand's new blue-water sailing event and is attracting a range of yachts and crews for its inaugural race which sets sail from Auckland's Waitemata Harbour on Sunday, 9th February 2014. One of the interesting ...

Wilson And Star Studded Team Win CMRC A
International Sailing Federation
In the midst of hot, wild and windy conditions along the Belmont Harbor lakefront, Chicago Match Race Center's own Don Wilson won the CMRC Grade 3 Summer Invitational A regatta, the first of an ISAF Grade 3 match racing double-header.

Come sail away
Marquette Mining Journal
The Peacemaker is docked at Mattson Lower Harbor Friday evening for the Tall Ships 2013 event. Three sailing ships will be in Marquette this weekend offering tours and sailing excursions. The Peacemaker is being joined by the S/V Denis Sullivan, ...

AfloatMagazine: Defending Champions Take Charge at Skerries SC Fireball…
Afloat
Two Olympics and two Windward-Leewards were sailed and defending champions Noel Butler & Stephen (15061) pulled the irons out of the fire to go top of the leader board with. a 3pt margin on Kenny Rumball & David Moran (15058) who in turn has 3pts ...

A kite surfer has flown into the record books sailing from France to Ireland.
Belfast Telegraph
Bruno Sroka took off from the Penn Enez beach at l'Aber Wrac'h in Brittany at 6.25am on Friday morning and hit land in Co Cork later that night. The 240 nautical mile (444km) kite surf challenge saw him reach Crosshaven at 10.02pm on Friday. Sroka is ...

Flying Fifteen Title Goes to Goacher & Evans
Afloat
They only joined the class last year, and were sailing in their just launched, brand new, boat. Graham, 73, had won a Merlin Championship here 15 years ago, and seemed to remember his way round the course! Under much pressure, they defended their ...

Sailing: Forecasted wind could be good for Cove Island racers
Port Huron Times Herald
“That would be wonderful for us,” said Warner, owner and skipper of Cheeky, which issailing out of the Port Huron Yacht Club. “That would be very good. Then, coming up north, we'll have to see how we play it and stay out of the rough seas, because it ...

Sailing gives disabled man wonderful feeling of freedom
The Guardian Charlottetown
This week if you traveled just outside of the Charlottetown harbour you would see many yachts racing in Hillsborough Bay. On Saturday, directly in the Charlottetown Harbor, the sight was much of the same with only one difference. Members sailing the ...

5 Weekend Musts: Sailing Open House + More
GoLocal Worcester
Saturday Spend an afternoon testing the waters at Regatta Point Community Sailing for this unique opportunity to get free boat rides and sailing lessons! Kids will appreciate the games being offered during the day as well, but this event is perfect for ...

Montrose Sailing Club
Montrose Review
Six dinghies set sail and the handicap races were sailed as planned. The glorious sunshine and high temperatures resulted in the more brave individuals taking to the water in short wetsuits so it seems the summer has finally arrived! The lighter airs ...

Becalmed youth sailing crew needs new rigging
This is Somerset
Morvargh Sailing Project, based at Sutton Harbour in Plymouth, uses all aspects of life on board ship to inspire and change lives by providing voyages for young people aged 14 to 25. Using a Class D tall ship, its mission is to help participants ...

ISAF Youth Sailing Worlds - Henson and Greber claim bronze
Sail World
At the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships, James Henson admitted to going through almost every emotion on the final day in Cyprus – but the overriding one was elation as he and Oli Greber clinched bronze. Helm Henson and his crew Greber took to ...

For New Zealand, San Francisco America's Cup looks make or break
Reuters
With competitive sailing in the 34th America's Cup getting under way on San Francisco Bay, New Zealand already stands out as the most polished of the three teams that hope to pry the trophy away from software mogul Larry Ellison's Oracle Team USA.

Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for 20 July 2013
Afloat
#dbsc – BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Legally Blonde (C.Drohan/P.Egan), 2. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty), 3. Levante (M.Leahy/J.Power). BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Levante (M.Leahy/J.Power), 2. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 3. Prima Nocte (Patrick Burke ...

Five rough weather sailing tips for balance and control
Sail World
Learn to sail with ease by maintaining just the right amount of weather helm on your boat. Too much and you will fight the helm with 'white fisted' effort that will wear you down and slow the boat. Too little weather helm makes the boat feel lifeless ...

Palmeter, Ruitenberg start strong at sailing nationals
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Local sailors Alex Palmeter and Luke Ruitenberg both enjoyed strong performances on the opening day of the 420 North American and Laser Canadians at the St. Margaret Sailing Club on Friday. Palmeter, who sails out of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht ...

John Tipp and his boat have unrivaled history in Port Huron to Mackinac
Detroit Free Press
Balcirak and Tipp are youngsters compared to 91-year-old Lee Smith of St. Clair Shores, who will be sailing his 60th Mackinac. He'll join the crew of Mostly Harmless, owned by Warwick Smith of Grosse Pointe Woods. Tipp, 74, competed in his first ...

Yachting: Kiwis collect gold and bronze at sailing champs
New Zealand Herald
This country's sailing future looks bright after New Zealand crews won gold and bronze at the youth sailing world championships in Cyprus this week. All five Kiwi crews finished in the top six, helping New Zealand to third in the Nations Trophy behind ...

Richmond Hill's Rohde wins sailing championship
Savannah Morning News
MARION, Mass. — Dana Rohde of Richmond Hill led from start to finish and won her first Nancy Leiter Clagett Memorial Trophy at the 2013 U.S. Junior Women's Singlehanded Championship (USJWSC) on Friday. The 42-boat Laser Radial fleet completed ...

Oman Sail's women team set for France event
Oman Tribune
FRANCE Oman Sail's inspirational women's crew on Al Thuraya Bank Muscat Team are relishing the prospect of being part of a vast and competitive fleet at the J80 World Championships in Marseilles despite being relative newcomers to the race track.

Lead the way, Captain Selo! Cruising the Mediterranean on a glorious gulet ...
Daily Mail
We are here for a week's sailing along the Turkish coastline, touring the glittering Aegean on a traditional gulet – a sailing yacht – that will go wherever the wind takes it. Our first day aboard is spent getting to know our fellow passengers. It's an ...

Lonely Planet travel expert's tips on island-hopping sailing trips around Croatia
TNT Magazine
It offers a five-day sailing trip on board a skippered yacht stopping at Brac, Hvar and Vis. It then continues to Biševo, where you can visit the famous Blue Cave, a grotto with turquoise waters providing a surreal indoor swimming experience. It ...

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