Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 Competitors to Test the Power of Inmarsat ... MarketWatch (press release) Groupama 4, skippered by French sailing legend Franck Cammas, UAE entry Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing with a core of Volvo Ocean Race veterans led by Ian Walker, and Chinese entry Team Sanya skippered by 2008-09 winner Mike Sanderson, will all be treating the ... | ||
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Public weighs in with America's Cup concerns San Francisco Chronicle The public's first reaction to San Francisco's plan for the 34th America's Cup regatta wasn't really much of a surprise: Most like the idea of the world-renowned race coming to the city, but they have a few quibbles. Among the concerns told to the .. | ||
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Greatest Athlete #6: Sailing life a good one for Shelter Island's Clark Shelter Island Reporter Sailing was a good fit for Clark from the start. Perhaps her future was laid out a few years before she was born when her parents joined the Shelter Island Yacht Club and got a sailboat. The Clarks' two oldest children, Greg and Becky, also went though . | ||
Four Fleets to Race on Narragansett Bay at 2011 US Youth Sailing Championships US SAILING (press release) PORTSMOUTH, RI (August 12, 2011) – Top young sailors from around the country come to Newport, RI next week to compete in US SAILING's prestigious 2011 US Youth Sailing Championships. Two singlehanded fleets in Lasers and Laser Radials and two .. | ||
Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta Preview Patch.com "Hood has won the America's Cup, is an inductee in the America's Cup hall of Fame, designed two 12-meter yachts for competition in the America's Cup: "Nefertiti" and "Independence" and at one time, built the largest sail making company in the world ... | ||
Out on the Rock, Sailing Where Danger and Dreams Begin New York Times By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY The Fastnet Rock, one of sailing's indispensable landmarks, is not an irresistible sight for every mariner. According to an account of the 1955 Fastnet race, a young British sailor, Maldwin Drummond, was off watch and in his bunk ... | ||
Sailing: Cardiff's Hannah Mills taking nothing for granted WalesOnline by Our Correspondent, Western Mail WALES sailor Hannah Mills insists she is taking nothing for granted despite being in pole position for gold at the Weymouth and Portland International Regatta. The 23-year-old from Cardiff, alongside 470 women's ... | ||
RI to host international regatta in 2012 Sacramento Bee AP PROVIDENCE, RI -- Three decades after Newport, RI, lost sailing's most storied race, the city will host an America's Cup World Series regatta next summer. The event will be held June 23 to July 1 and is expected to feature top international sailors ... | ||
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Armenian President to the crew of “Armenia” sailboat: “You gave new meaning to ... Times.am The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias at the port of Limassol attended the official ceremony dedicated to the conclusion by the Armenia sailboat of her around-the-world voyage. ... | ||
34th America's Cup and YouTube announce Media Partnership Sail World 'The new America's Cup is all about transforming the way people see the sport of sailing and with YouTube, we can put the viewer in the driver's seat of their experience, ' said Stan Honey, Director of Technology, America's Cup Event Authority. ... | ||
Best of the Rest: Area waters have produced some great competitors The Suffolk Times It was one of many historic boats that competed in that regatta. “These are boats that are history,” Suter said. “People aren't timeless; boats are timeless. These are boats that won America's Cup.” For all his sailing exploits, though, ... | ||
Newport will host preliminary America's Cup races Providence Journal (blog) Although Newport lost out on its bid to host the 2013 America's Cup race, the City by the Sea has landed one of the key events leading up to the preeminent international sailing competition, state officials announced Friday afternoon. ... | ||
La Solitaire sums up government antipathy Irish Times SAILING: IT'S AUGUST and peak sailing season, so as usual one of France's most popular sporting events is in Irish waters after arriving in Dun Laoghaire for the second time. Few fans of the sport need an introduction to La Solitaire du Figaro as it's ... | ||
77th Monhegan sailboat race kicks off Press Herald By J. Hemmerdinger jhemmerdinger@pressherald.com The 77th annual Monhegan Race kicked off a few minutes after 1 pm today, when 36 sailboats left Hussey Sound off Falmouth and headed into open ocean for an overnight voyage. The larger boats in the first ... | ||
America's Cup 2013: Environmentalists Protest Planning Of Events By The Huffington Post News Editors SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Conservation groups on Thursday called on city leaders to improve plans for reducing the environmental impact of events related to the America's Cup in 2013, when the world's fastest yachts will race on San ... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | ||
RI to host international regatta in 2012 | The Associated Press ... By The Associated Press Three decades after Newport, R.I., lost sailing's most storied race, the city will host an America's Cup World Series regatta next summer. Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced Friday that the event will be held June 23 to July 1 and is ... Examiner AP RSS | ||
Zen 24 electric sailboat demonstrations with Yoh Aoki - American ... By ASA Zen 24 electric sailboat demonstrations with Yoh Aoki The Zen 24, a new electric auxiliary inboardsailboat designed in Japan by legendary circumnavigator Yoh Aoki, will be on display and available for demonstration cruises. ... Voyaging with Velella: Sailing Fresh Waters Continuing the Voyaging with Velella series by ASA writer-at-large Meghan Harvey. Meghan and her husband Prescott have been cruising aboard their boat Velella for the past. ... American Sailing Association | ||
Weymouth and Portland International Regatta - Day 10 - Yachts and ... Mills and Clark set an early marker in the Women's 470 at the Weymouth and Portland InternationalRegatta after double bullets on the opening day and they held the lead throughout the week. But the Japanese pair slowly chipped away at their ... Leboucher and Garos led the Men's 470 from start to finish with a consistent display of sailing and with six top three finishes in 11 races the French pair walk away deserved winners. ISAF Sailing World Cup Men's 470 title holders ... Latest news from Yachts and Yachting... | ||
August 12, London 2012 Olympic Test Event | Olympic and Paralympic ... By US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics Railey and Star duo Mendelblatt and Fatih advance to their respective medal races on Saturday, which is the last day of competition in the 2011 Weymouth and Portland International Regatta. ...AlphaGraphics is managed by the United States Sailing Association (US SAILING), the national governing body for the sport of sailing and sailboat racing. The top athletes in each Olympic and Paralympic class are selected annually to be members of the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics. ... Olympic and Paralympic Teams | ||
Good Summer Sailing Reading If you're not too busy sailing to pick up a good sailing book this summer, here are some classic suggestions. My own latest discovery is Patricia Vellinger's "Sailing There," a personal narrative of a couple's two-year adventure on ... About.com Sailing | ||
Cyprus President welcomes Armenia Sailboat | Press Releases @ Your ... By Cyprus Expat Cyprus Expat Press Release 11 August 2011 President of the Republic of Cyprus, Demetris Christofias, welcomed the Armenian sailboat. Your-Story.org | ||
Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 Competitors to Test the Power of Inmarsat ... Groupama 4, skippered by French sailing legend Franck Cammas, UAE entry Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing with a core of Volvo Ocean Race veterans led by Ian Walker, ... www.prnewswire.com/.../volvo-ocean-race-2011-12-competit... | ||
America's Cup Uncovered Episode 2 - YouTube Then it's to Artemis CEO Paul Cayard, who has won everything there is to win in sailing, except anAmerica's Cup. We go home with him to San Francisco to ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0LQh3tAUpo | ||
Sail-World.com : Weymouth and Portland International Regatta ... 2013 America's Cup ... The Weymouth and Portland International Regatta, an Olympic Test Event, is currently underway in the UK. On the first day of 470 sailing, Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark (GBR) set an early marker for the women after ... www.sail-world.com/USA/Weymouth-and...set/86863
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‘Boat ownership is a wildly impractical love affair, and gets complicated
when you’re smitten’ – Nikki Henderson
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*Boat love is like any love: expensive, time consuming, and utterly
hypnotic. And I have a problem. I have fallen in love with a boat.*
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