24 February 2014

Extreme Sailing Series™ Act 1 Singapore Video Highlights


Extreme Sailing Series™ Act 1 Singapore Video Highlights above - The bustling and vibrant Asian garden city of Singapore was the Host Venue for the opening Act of the 2014 Extreme Sailing Series™, providing the ultimate venue for Stadium Racing, with the support of Host Venue Partner, Aberdeen Asset Management. 12 elite level teams with 60 of the world's best sailors battled it out on Marina Bay, and the event more than lived up to all the pre-season hype and expectation. The Singapore wind played its tricks with the teams, with huge gusts blowing across the bay like a bullet, delivering one of the most action-packed Acts in the eight-year history of the elite level Stadium Racing circuit. Extreme Sailing Series results and standings here.

Resounding victory for Alinghi after an action-packed week on the Singapore Stadium Racecourse » Extreme Sailing Series: "Down to the wire for second and third place – with a penalty in the final race for Emirates Team New Zealand throwing away their chances of a podium finish. - Three returning teams from 2013 take race honours – Alinghi, The Wave, Muscat and Realstone – despite Realstone missing the penultimate days racing."

Sailing: Team Alinghi wins S'pore leg of Extreme Sailing Series
Channel News Asia
Team Alinghi of Switzerland emerged victorious in the Singapore leg of the ExtremeSailing Series at Marina Bay on Sunday, beating the defending champions, The Wave, Muscat, by 24 points. PHOTOS. Team Alinghi (in white) with The Wave, Muscat at the ...

Aussies with work to do after last place finish at Extreme Series
My Sailing
The opening Act of the Extreme Sailing Series more than lived up to all the pre-season hype and expectation, where the new teams got stuck in on the Singapore stadium racecourse – but couldn't quite topple the old order – with three returning teams ...

Prizes handed out after exciting Crown Series on the Derwent
My Sailing
Nick Rogers has been a champion helmsman in many one-design sailing classes, from Mirror dinghies to International Dragon keelboats. Today he won another championship, the State title in the SB20 sports boat class, on Hobart's River Derwent.

Extreme Sailing Series: Alinghi skipper Morgan Larson tops Singapore standings
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
(February 23, 2014) – The opening Act of the Extreme Sailing Series™ more than lived up to all the pre-season hype and expectation, where the new teams got stuck in on the Singapore stadium racecourse – but couldn't quite topple the old order – with ...

Extreme Sailing: Serious collision on day three
New Zealand Herald
Day 3 of the Extreme Sailing Series saw more intense action as the breeze across the race course fluctuated from a gentle five knots to sudden gusts of 25. Six races weresailed on the tight Singapore course. The day was marked by a serious collision ...

Music and sailing - British musician embarks on Folkboat Venture
Sail World
Sailing being a kind of music in itself, sailing and music seem to go together as smoothly as Harley and Davidson. It's not a rare thing to find that many of your fellow boats in an anchorage have some kind of musical instrument. So British musician ...

Inter-Collegiate Sailing Worlds- J/80s France!
J/Sailing News (blog)
As the U.S. collegiate racing season approaches its spring national championships this year, two of its prominent schools - Tufts and Georgetown - will be sending teams to the 2014 EDHEC Sailing Cup on April 25 to May 3 in Les Sables d'Olonne, France.

UK Dinghy Sailing Show - What's in store from the RYA
Sail World
UK Dinghy Sailing Show - Alongside the hundreds of exhibitors, boats, kit, talks and presentations taking place at this year's RYA Suzuki Dinghy Show, in association with Yachts and Yachting, the RYA has a whole host of events taking place throughout ...

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