3 rescued from sinking sailboat off Long Island
Wall Street Journal
AP RIVERHEAD, NY — Three men are recovering from hypothermia after they were rescued from a sinking sailboat in the Long Island Sound. Suffolk County police marine officers responded to a mayday call at 7:20 pm Thursday from a 30-foot sailboat about ...
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US sailing boats in top five as America's Cup World Series continues
AHN | All Headline News
Oracle Racing Team's Spithall has eight points followed by Coutts with seven points in the World Series Championships table Two US boats fielded in the America's Cup World Series have landed in top five in the standings of the week-long regatta in ...
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Executive named for America's Cup RI regatta
BusinessWeek
A longtime boater and marine industry expert has been chosen to head planning efforts for anAmerica's Cup regatta being held in Rhode Island next summer. Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Keith Stokes named Paul Harden of Newport as ...
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Niklas Zennström fights back in Audi MedCup
The Independent
The other sub-plot is that Bribón was the only boat which could challenge the American yacht Quantum as overall champion for the five-regatta 2011 series and Quantum's skipper Ed Baird is using all his guile to make sure that does not happen. ...
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Tables Turn In Trapani For Extreme Sailing Series Act 6
International Sailing Federation
The Wave, Muscat put in a first-class performance on the first day of stadium racing winning five out of the six races, claiming pole position going into the penultimate day at the Extreme Sailing Series Act 6 in Trapani. Leigh McMillan and his team ...
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UK. PSP unveiled as consultant behind 34th America's Cup
BYM News (press release)
In May 2011 PSP joined forced with Pindar and GAC to take on the market leaders and become the world's biggest provider for race teams and individuals competing in sailing events globally. Flexible and fast-moving, PSP is continually expanding and is ...
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Mecox Sailing Association One Step Closer To Deal
The Sag Harbor Express
The proposed Mecox Sailing Association—which aims to set-up shop on Mecox Bay in Water Mill—has finally overcome environmental hurdles and now only faces backlash from a group of Water Mill residents as its application with the town remains on the ...
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An Essayist in Love with Seattle, Sailing and the Open Road
New York Times
Raban slips Joshua Slocum's “Sailing Alone Around the World” brilliantly into context, taking both its author's pulse and that of his age, making the case that this 1900 memoir amounts to Mark Twain's “Walden.” These subjects Raban circumnavigates with ...
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Sailing the seas with Weezer … and Tupelo Honey?
Edmonton Journal (blog)
“When you're on a golden sea / You don't need no memory / Just a place to call your own / As we drift into the zone/ On an island in the sun / We'll be playing and having fun / And it makes me feel so fine I can't control my brain / We'll run away ...
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Volvo Ocean Race : Groupama's band of brothers
BYM News (press release)
Groupama sailing team are planning to conquer the Volvo Ocean Race with a brotherhood of strong men who are being whipped in to shape by physiotherapist Santi Casanova. Casanova reckons that creating a bond between the 11 crewmen on board the Volvo ...
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Weekend Regatta Fights Cancer
WLKY Louisville
The Louisville Limestone Bay Boat Club is hosting a regatta on the Ohio River this weekend to raise money to fight leukemia. On Saturday afternoon, boats will be racing on the Ohio for the second annual Fleur de Lis Regatta. The goal isn't just to win ...
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Sailing book deserves a place in households
Shetland Times Online
This invaluable book, which started life as a series of articles in The Shetland Times, is a résumé of Shetland's seafaring placed in a wider historical context, meticulously researched and full of fascinating details. Simpson starts with the earliest ...
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Inaugural Sabang International Regatta 2011
BYM News (press release)
The Royal Langkawi Yacht Club have coordinated proceedings along with the Ministry of Culture & Tourism of Indonesia with technical assistance from the Indonesia Sailing Federation (PORLASI). The regatta is aimed to promote Sabang and the Aceh Province ...
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Sailing, satellites and sadness
Greenpeace UK (blog)
As those brave founders sailed out to the unknown to take action to stop US nuclear testing, the Arctic Sunrise and its crew have been sailing out to the Arctic pack ice to study the relatively unknown dynamics of sea ice thickness. ...
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Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy wins PBO Green Award
Sail World (press release)
The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA), has won an acclaimed Environmental Award from Britain's best-selling yachting magazine. The Practical Boat Owner Green Awards announced the WPNSA as winner of the 'Marine Service and Support' ...
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Sailing starts season strong
The MIT Tech
By Mindy Brauer The MIT sailing team kicked off its season by competing in three events this past weekend. The Engineers captured fifth place out of 20 teams at the Harry Anderson Trophy, finished ninth at the Toni Deutsch Trophy, and took third and ...
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Around the sailing clubs, Friday, September 16, 2011
Isle of Wight County Press
The club's regatta for its 50 years at Fishbourne, was held last weekend in far nicer conditions than the stormy weather which caused its postponement in July. Despite clashing with a club cruiser rally to Lymington, there was still a good turnout. ...
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Perth Sailing Club Millhurst Race
Perthshire Advertiser
EIGHT boats ventured out onto the blustery Tay to take part in this year's Millhurst Trophy Race on Sunday. This race is one of the downriver races and competitors also have to sail back upriver to complete the course. Shortly after 3pm the race ...
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Sailing club welcomes donation for disability access dinghy
The Advertiser Series
MEMBERS of a sailing club have thanked local fundraisers after receiving a donation for a dinghy that will allow young people with disabilities to access the water. Scaling Dam Sailing Club, based on Scaling Dam reservoir, on the A171, was presented ...
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Running a business is not plain sailing
Aberdeen Press and Journal
BUSINESSMAN Stewart Graham is currently sailing his Discovery 67 monohull yacht, the Rhiann Marieboat, from South Africa to the UK – the last leg of an ambitious round the world trip that's seen him have more than his fair share of adventure. ...
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Erie owner restores 1938 sailboat
GoErie.com
By Rob Engelhardt, Erie Times-News The sailboat, according to Arlet, was originally built in Erie in 1938 by Herman Lund. The boat passed through several owners, all members of the Erie Yacht Club, and had remained out of commission about seven years ...
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Bowdoin Brief: Sailing has strong opening weekend at four regattas
Bowdoin Orient
Peter Edmunds '14 and Mae Speight '13 won the two-day regatta's B division with a strong series of races on Saturday. Captain Jeff Goodrich '12 and Clare Henry '12 sailed A division, placing third and qualifying for an important intersectional event, ...
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Awesome Sailing Maneuver (Video)
By Dave
David Parrott, the captain of Alden 58 Aratinga sailing boat puts 80 foot of mast under a bridge on the Intracoastal Waterway. Quite an accomplishment, given that the fixed bridge heights on the ICW are all around 65 feet.
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NYC men saved from sinking sailboat in L.I. Sound | North Shore Sun
By Times Review
Three New York City men were rescued from a sinking sailboat Thursday night during gale-force winds and unusual 5- to 6- foot waves in the Long Island Sound off Wading River, Suffolk Police said. Wading River firefighters attempted to ...
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Guest Post: Sailing the Atlantic | Iridium 360
By Iridium
Out boat, sv Losloper, a 43-foot LOA Shearwater 39 monohull sailboat, first took us from St. Lucia up to Martinique, all the way down to Grenada and thereafter to the Venezuelan islands – Blanquilla, Los Rocques and the Las Aves island ...
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RS Sailing at the PSP Southampton Boat Show - Yachts and ...
Are you coming to the Show this year? If so, don't forget to visit the RS Stand, find out about our fantastic show offers on new boats and take a look at the brand new RS Venture. We're on the same stand as last year.
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