The Volvo Sailing Speed Challenge featuring 'fantastic four' challengers; 2008 Olympic Laser gold medallist, Paul Goodison - testing his speed onboard a foiling Moth, double Olympic windsurfing medallist, Nick Dempsey, Alex Thomson, who in January became only the third Briton to achieve a podium finish at round-the-world yacht race, the 'Vendee Globe'and extreme kitesurfer, Sam Lutman-Pauc, who broke the world record kitesurfing across the English Channel last October, will each be vying to cross the Royal Yacht Squadron finish line first, to claim £1,000 in prize money for a charity of their choice.
Cowes Week Replay - August 3rd finishes
Cowes Week Replay - August 3rd starts
How Sailing Can Win You Business
Tapping a hobby such as sailing can be a fun and rewarding way for advisers to build their business. Adviser David Edwards explains.
Sailing - Clark to relinquish world title as she and Mills build to Rio
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
The British pair upgraded the 470 silver they claimed at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Perth at the end of 2011 to gold in Barcelona in May last year before placing second at the Olympics. However, given their break after the Games and a lack...
Sailing into the Sunset
Vancouver Sun
"To go from running an office and teaching school in alberta to sailing the high seas takes courage," Mr. Moran says. "the plan dave and Maureen have outlined can work, but there is a lot more they have to do to build the security that they have now ...
Park City Sailing Association adds to fleet
Park Record
When Ken Block and the Park City Sailing Association discovered they'd been awarded eight brand-new Elliot boats from a group in Wisconsin, they were stunned. The organization had applied for the donation as soon as it found out the Sailing Education ...
NZL Sailing Team: Aleh and Powrie prepare for 470 Worlds in France
Sail World
For Aleh and Powrie, Willcox and Snow-Hansen and the other New Zealand sailors the celebrations will be put aside once racing gets underway and for six days they will turn their focus to sailing well and returning the best result possible at this ...
Breymaier returns home for 40th Governor's Cup sailing event
Baltimore Sun
And recently, aboard the VOR70 "Maserati," he and eight other crewmembers smashed the New York to San Francisco sailing record by rounding Cape Horn and arriving in San Francisco on Feb. 16, 2013, just 47 days, 42 minutes and 29 seconds after its ...
Perth Sailing Club
Perthshire Advertiser
Four boats took to the water for the first race on a lovely summer's evening. Wind conditions were light NW force 2-3. It was a good clean start, John Ferguson in the Wanderer experiencing a slow start, but Eric Taylor away fast. Andrew Porteous in his ...
Fairfield Sailfish: Sailing into Divisionals
Fairfield Sun Times
When the Sailfish headed to Fort Benton July 13th and 14th, the team had no idea that Jaxon Gronning was going to lead the charge in a personal best marathon. Jaxon took off a total of 5 seconds in his 100 free, 11 seconds in his I.M. and 6 seconds in ...
Sailing the Arabella in the British Virgin Islands
About - News & Issues
The Arabella sails the Caribbean in the winter and spring and in the Chesapeake Bay and New England in the summer and fall. Since guests can swim, kayak, snorkel, and hike from the Arabella, it's a great choice for both those who are seeking a more ...
Bursary win is plain sailing for Rawtenstall teenager
This Is Lancashire
A TEENAGER is aiming to set sail on a dream career after winning a £17,000 yachting cadetship bursary. Alex Liddell, from Rawtenstall, will be learning the ropes and pullies after landing one of six places on the course, which teaches how to navigate 3 ...
Tall ship U.S. Coast Guard Eagle sailing into Portsmouth today
Seacoastonline.com
PORTSMOUTH — U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte will join and other top officials and crew members aboard U.S. Coast Guard Eagle for today's Parade of Sail, organizers announced Thursday. Ayotte, R-N.H., will also welcome the Eagle into port and to New ...
Cowes Week 2013: Absence of multihulls reassures many sailing the solent in ...
Telegraph.co.uk
“Cowes Week is a busy sailing regatta with hundreds of boats, and the multihulls are fast so here they would be dangerous and a bit hairy. What makes this regatta is a big fleet and the multihulls would need to go somewhere in The Solent where there is ...
J/Teams Sailing Copa del Rey
J/Sailing News (blog)
J/80 sailing Copa del Rey in Palma Mallorca, Spain (Palma Mallorca, Spain)- The Copa Del Rey Audi Mapfre is one of the premiere European regattas held every summer in Spain's most famous sailing venue- that glorious mountain island of the international ...
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for 3 AUGUST 2013
Afloat
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for 3 AUGUST 2013. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Email More... Hundreds more Irish boats for sale... click here. Related Stories. Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for 1 August 2013 · Fireball ...
Regina teen sailing on 'journey of a lifetime'
Regina Leader-Post
This school year, Quinton Lucyk is hoping for high grades and a pair of sea legs. Lucyk, 16, along with about 45 other Canadian and international students, is scheduled to setsail on the Sorlandet, a Norwegian tall ship built in 1927, on Aug. 22 as ...
Santa Cruz County land sailors head to SF to compete alongside America's Cup ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz's Dennis Bassano and the North American Land Sailing Association will show off their land yachts this weekend as part of the AC Open, which is running parallel to the America's Cup, in San Francisco. Bassano, who is president of NALSA, and ...
Harbor Happenings: Juniors Set Sail in Soda Can Races
Dana Point Times
On each Tuesday evening for the rest of the summer, junior sailors will embark on “soda can” races at the OC Dana Point Harbor. These exciting, just for fun races begin at 6 p.m. and can be seen from the walkway around the Dana Point Yacht Club or the ...
Clark to relinquish world title as she and Mills build to Rio
Eurosport.com ASIA
The British pair upgraded the 470 silver they claimed at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Perth at the end of 2011 to gold in Barcelona in May last year before placing second at the Olympics. However, given their break after the Games and a lack...
Cornwall sailors impress at World Mirror Championships
This is Cornwall
Four Cornish boats and their crews, as part of Team GBR, acquitted themselves well in the Mirror World Sailing Championships, held at Lake Derg in the Republic of Ireland. Some 200 competitors and nearly 100 boats from seven nations, including entrants ...
With few practices, Artemis to start racing
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Artemis has had only six days of sailing its new boat, and skipper Iain Percy said Friday that it hoped to get in another two before the competition. He and the crew have been trying to make up for a lot of lost time. The biggest challenges were ...
Dempsey to Battle Kiter and Sailors to be Crowned Fastest at Cowes ...
By Surfing Links
Dempsey to take on kiter, moth and open 60 in the ultimate battle of speed! Can Dempsey win the crown for windsurfing? On Monday 5th August, three of.
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Chicago's Very Own: Don and Jennifer Wilson | WGN-TV
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“This is just the coolest type of sailing there is because you can do a whole race in 10minutes and then go back and do another one,” Don said. The Wilsons compete and win on waterways across the country. Sometimes together and ...
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Dana Point Times
On each Tuesday evening for the rest of the summer, junior sailors will embark on “soda can” races at the OC Dana Point Harbor. These exciting, just for fun races begin at 6 p.m. and can be seen from the walkway around the Dana Point Yacht Club or the ...
Clark to relinquish world title as she and Mills build to Rio
Eurosport.com ASIA
The British pair upgraded the 470 silver they claimed at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Perth at the end of 2011 to gold in Barcelona in May last year before placing second at the Olympics. However, given their break after the Games and a lack...
Cornwall sailors impress at World Mirror Championships
This is Cornwall
Four Cornish boats and their crews, as part of Team GBR, acquitted themselves well in the Mirror World Sailing Championships, held at Lake Derg in the Republic of Ireland. Some 200 competitors and nearly 100 boats from seven nations, including entrants ...
With few practices, Artemis to start racing
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Artemis has had only six days of sailing its new boat, and skipper Iain Percy said Friday that it hoped to get in another two before the competition. He and the crew have been trying to make up for a lot of lost time. The biggest challenges were ...
Dempsey to Battle Kiter and Sailors to be Crowned Fastest at Cowes ...
By Surfing Links
Dempsey to take on kiter, moth and open 60 in the ultimate battle of speed! Can Dempsey win the crown for windsurfing? On Monday 5th August, three of.
Comments for Boards Windsurfing
Chicago's Very Own: Don and Jennifer Wilson | WGN-TV
By elyserussowgntv
“This is just the coolest type of sailing there is because you can do a whole race in 10minutes and then go back and do another one,” Don said. The Wilsons compete and win on waterways across the country. Sometimes together and ...
WGN-TV
more sailing news below
Follow @johnthecrowd
