Newport, RI, hosts New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup

Newport, RI, hosts New York Yacht Club race Wall Street Journal AP NEWPORT, RI — Newport is playing host to sailing teams from around the world as the New York Yacht Club's Invitational Cup gets under way. Some 22 teams from 16 nations are scheduled to participate in the race, set to begin Tuesday. ...

Yachting: Team NZ dominate regatta New Zealand Herald Team New Zealand have won the preliminaries of the America's Cup World Series regatta at Plymouth. Finishing second in yesterday's long-course fleet race, Dean Barker, James Dagg, Winston Macfarlane, Glen Ashby and Ray Davies earned 37 of a possible 40 ...

Freo hoists flag for world sailing party The West Australian In scenes that will be reminiscent of Australia's defence of the America's Cup in 1987, tens of thousands of people are expected to converge on Fremantle in December for a 16-day "party" associated with the world sailing championships. ...

BYM Sailing & Sports News BYM News (press release) I did this position many times in my career on several regatta boats. So here we are. But I have to say that I think that this position completes my coaching job, because having observed the sails during all the season, I can now see them from the ...

International sailing event kicks off in Sheboygan on Tuesday The Sheboygan Press The event includes five days of sailboat racing on Lake Michigan, and city officials are looking to attract big crowds and stoke interest in what remains a niche sport by holding a series of free concerts, a fireworks display, carnival and other ...

Sabang Hopes Regatta Boosts Its Drawing Power Jakarta Globe At least 26 yachts from nine countries are set to participate in the first Sabang International Regatta, which begins on Tuesday and continues until Sept. 25. Contestants will cover more than 500 kilometers, sailing across the Malacca Strait from ...

Brewer marina takes part in Leukemia Cup Regatta Trade Only Today “We had two or three people that were pretty experienced, and two or three people that hadn't had as much experience, but I think by the end of the day everybody was working like a good team, which is the whole purpose of sailing.” The regatta was ...

Esimit Europa 2: Synergy as Recipe for Success MarketWatch (press release) 12, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- This year's edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup offered everything that sailing in high performance could offer. It was a week of competitive racing between 45 yachts, spiced with extremely light and very strong ...

Big Winds Fail To Overshadow Final Summer Regatta Island Pulse We were surprised to get five races in – and it's great to see those boats sailing in those conditions.” J80 class winner Terry Palmer on Just Do It was one competitor who was happy to have been out on The Solent, taking wins in all five races. ...

US SAILING to Build Team of Subject Experts Responsible for Development of ... US SAILING (press release) PORTSMOUTH, RI (September 12, 2011) – The US SAILING Oversight and Management Committees for the Development of National On-Water Instruction Standards for Recreational Boat Operators is establishing a national team of subject matter experts who ...

History of Yachting and the America's Cup Auction DigitalJournal.com (press release) Included will be several lots of furniture and gentleman's antiques such as globes, binoculars and compasses and a special lot of original photographs of JFK sailing with friends that include a younger John Kerry.

Raise the sails for annual regatta in New Castle Foster's Daily Democrat Another new participant was Ali Goodwin of Kittery, Maine, skipper of the Pearson 33 sailboat Lucky Enough. Pearson, with her "first mate" Eric Platt, were very excited to get under full sail with their new crew. Goodwin, currently battling cancer, ...

Gigawave Creates Big Waves At America's Cup With SIS LIVE SatNews Publishers This year the America's Cup is 160 years old and racing yacht technology is being pushed to the limit once again. The first race was on the 22nd August 1851 and the yacht 'America' beat the British fleet in a race around the Isle of Wight to win the ...

Sailing in the Black Sea started centuries earlier than thought Balkan Travellers 12 September 2011 | Bulgarian archeologists discovered ancient anchors near Sozopol in the Black Sea. They dated the findings at XV-XVII BC, proving that ships were operating in this closed sea centuries earlier than it was thought until now. ...

International J/111 One Design Regatta schedule announced BYM News (press release) This point has now been reached: seventy J/111s have been sold and fifty of these are alreadysailing! The J/111 Class has been created as a strict one-design Class where the true test when raced is between crews and not boats and equipment. ...

Testing the waters ESPN Her positive energy is now directed at this fall's challenges: She is the only female sailor participating in the 34th America's Cup race -- considered the most prestigious and glamorous big-boat international sailing competition. ...

South Africa, Tunisia And The Seychelles Take Top Honours As The All African ... International Sailing Federation The latter took the lead early on in the regatta following three race wins, but after two disqualifications Clayton took the lead. Clayton managed to hold on and won gold with a race to spare. In the female Optimist event Maria Mabjaia of the host ...

Oman to host world Laser sailing championships in 2013 Muscat Daily Oman has won the right to host sailing's World Laser Standard Championship and World Laser Masters Championship, in 2013, at Musannah Sports City. It will be the first time that Oman hosts a world-level sporting event. Issa al Ismaily, director of ...

Local Yacht Club Hosts Charity Regatta KEYT In honor of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, local first responders served as celebrity skippers at the race. Sunday's events included sailboat races and spectator boat rides, along with a Yacht Club beach party and live music.

America's Cup: Coutts moves up, second Australian helmsman comes in Sail World 'Whenever Darren is aboard the boat, you can see the difference,' says Coutts, who combines his sailing roles with that of CEO. The move means that Oracle Racing will now have two Australian helmsmen driving their two boats in the America's Cup World...

Lake Dubay hosts butterfly sailing national championships WAOW By Sean Giggy, Sports Multimedia Journalist - bio | email (WAOW) - The weather has been great all week long, but for the butterfly sailing national championships at Lake Dubay this weekend, the wind hasn't cooperated very much. That is, until today. ...

Sandwich man joins crew on Chicago to Mackinac race Valley Free Press What is it about sailing that's so appealing? Chuck has a difficult time putting it into words. “I'm very comfortable doing it. Maybe it's the movement of the boat. Because there's no motor (on a sailboat), it's peaceful.” Even so, Chuck admits it ...

Burgess Places 3rd At Penn Bay Regatta Bernews This past weekend 17-year-old Bermuda sailor Blake Burgess placed third in his division at the Penn Bay Regatta. As a freshman, this is a notable achievement for him and his school – Maine Maritime Academy. Burgess started off his first regatta right ...

Memorial Sailing Race in Honour of Dutch Sailor Pattaya People A memorial sailing race took place at Ocean Marina in Na-Jomtien last Saturday for the late Dick Sanders, a longtime Pattaya resident and sailor who died 2 years ago. For the second year in a row, his friends Andre, Marco, Roland and Mathieu from the ...

RS Tera Inland National Championships at Alton Water SC overall Sail World RS Tera Inland National Championships, sponsored by Optimum Time, were held at Alton Water Sailing Club over the weekend of 10th and 11th September 2011. Wow what a weekend! After watching the weather forecasts during the week it was wondered if we ...

Scoop: Rupert Murdoch Bought 220-Ft. Sailing Superyacht Vertigo ... By Jared Paul Stern In August we reported that Leo DiCaprio was said to be cruising around Australia in Vertigo, the new 220 ft. sailing superyacht from New Zealand... James Spotting

Survive & Thrive Expeditions: Sailing! [a recap] « Wrong Way to Hope By admin I shopped for fresh produce with Jay in Campbell River while the group learned sailing terms, the lay of the boat, and took a (freezing cold!) swim test…everyone passed, but not everyone was happy about the chilly experience. Chalk that one ... Wrong Way to Hope

Cornell Fall Open (September 10-12, 2011) | RPI Sailing By Kevin RPI Sailing Team had its first regatta of the season this weekend (September 10-11th) at Cornell. The wind was light the whole weekend and Cornell postponed Saturday races for 2 hours to wait for the wind to fill. Cornell sent out A fleet in ... RPI Sailing

Big Winds Fail To Overshadow Final Regatta Isle of Wight News ... By Peta Stuart-Hunt A Mayday and the remnants of a hurricane threatened, but failed, to overshadow what proved to be an exhilarating weekend of racing in the September Regatta, the final Royal Southern Summer Series event of the year. IRC 3 winner Jika Jika, right, leads the way at the start ahead of her close rival J97... We were surprised to get five races in – and it's great to see those boats sailing in those conditions.” J80 class winner Terry Palmer on Just Do It was one competitor who was happy ... Isle of Wight News: Island Pulse:

Mirror Northern Traveller at Derwent Reservoir Sailing Club - Yachts ... The UK's top performance sailing magazine, LaserPerformance - 2011 Vapor ... Not the Warsash Spring Series, or the Hamble Winter Series - it is clearly the Burseldon Regatta held this year over the weekend of 3 / 4 September. ... Latest news from Yachts and Yachting...