Route du Rhum start video; Coast Guard Sailboat Rescue video

Le départ de la Route du Rhum - Destination... by routedurhum
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Scuttlebutt Sailing News
Legendary Route du Rhum solo transatlantic race now underway
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
(November 2, 2014) – As the tenth edition of the legendary Route du Rhum solo Transatlantic race to Guadeloupe started off Saint Malo, France this ...
Route du Rhum: Setting sail for Pointe-à-Pitre - euronews
Tough start but then fast conditions forecast for Route du Rhum - My Sailing
Route du Rhum: A great start in Saint-Malo for Guillemot on Safran - Sail World

91 boats set off in Route du Rhum race
Yahoo News
SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Ninety-one boats set off Sunday in the Route du Rhum trans-Atlantic race, a 3,542-nautical mile (6,560-kilometer) ...

 

Scuttlebutt Sailing News Legendary Route du Rhum solo transatlantic race now underway Scuttlebutt Sailing News ... in Class 40 on Tales 2, Britain's Conrad Humphreys 20th on Cat Phones Built For It and Miranda Merron sailing Campagne de France in 22nd.

Times of Oman
Route du Rhum sails off with Oman's participation
Times of Oman
Saint Malo (France): The tenth edition of the legendary Route du Rhum sailing race got under way in Saint Malo, France, on Sunday with the ...
Gavignet flies flag of Oman with pride at start of the Route du Rhum - Sail World


ITV News
Veteran sailor sets off on Route du Rhum race
ITV News
The veteran sailor is competing in the Route du Rhum race from St Malo in France - forty-five years after he became the first man to sail alone non-stop ...
Route du Rhum - Sir Robin Knox-Johnston starts solo Transatlantic race - Sail World

Two people rescued from sailboat by Coast Guard off NC: "A man and a woman were hoisted off of their sailboat in heavy seas by the Coast Guard Saturday evening. According to a news release, watchstanders at the Coast Guard 5th District received an emergency alert from a electronic positioning indicator radio beacon (EPIRB) at about 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon. An EPIRB emits a signal which provides location information to those who receive it...."

Volvo Ocean Race:

Stuff.co.nz
Abu Dhabi team clings on to Volvo Ocean Race lead
Yahoo News
ALICANTE, Spain (AP) — Boats in the seven-strong Volvo Ocean Race fleet were skirting a group of South Atlantic icebergs on Sunday with at least ...
2014 - 15 Volvo Ocean Race - The magic number - Sail World
Volvo Ocean Race: Leaders line up for Cape Town finish - Sail World
Volvo Ocean Race: It's down to who wants it more - Scuttlebutt Sailing News

Volvo Ocean Race updates: 

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Volvo Ocean Race official website 

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Scuttlebutt Sailing News Buddy Melges: My Ultimate Sailing moment Scuttlebutt Sailing News Photographer Sharon Green, in her newly released coffee table book 30 Years of UltimateSailing, sought out the leaders in the sport to share their ... 

Washington College Sailing 10th at War Memorial WashingtonCollegeSports.com THROGGS NECK, N.Y. -- The Washington College sailing team finished 10th of 18 teams at the War Memorial, the MAISA Fall Co-Ed Dinghy ...

 

Scuttlebutt Sailing News Matt Burge and Toby Lewis represent Osprey, win Endeavour Championship Scuttlebutt Sailing News Charlie Roome and Jeremy Stephens (Lark) sailed well and managed win from Tom Gillard and Sam Brearey (Streaker) by just one second on the ... 

Lotto grant to make big splash at sailing club Slough and Windsor Observer A sailing club that has challenged water sports lovers since 1976 has been awarded a whopping grant by the National Lottery – its second in three ...

 

My Sailing Sailors compete despite wind, hail and snow in Hobart My Sailing Despite these wintery conditions, more than 100 of Tasmania's off-the-beach sailorstoday contested day two of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's ... 

Globe North calendar The Boston Globe UNFURLING THE SAILS The end of the sailing season is being marked Sunday in Salem, with the conclusion of Downrigging Weekend. 

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