Sailing center in Annapolis to induct first honorees on Oct. 23 Baltimore Sun--A media mogul, a surfboard industry pioneer, a coach of disabled athletes and the first man to sail solo around the world are among the inaugural inductees to the National Sailing Hall of Fame, a Maryland institution working to build a permanent home on the Annapolis waterfront. . . . | ||
Volvo Ocean Race : Spanish Team Telefonica presents its sailing crew in Madrid BYM News (press release) In this new edition of the regatta there are 9 legs, with 10 coastal or inshore races and 10 ProAm races. The Volvo Ocean Race kicks off in Alicante, Spain on the 29th of October, with the first inshore race. A week later, on November 5th, the starting ... | ||
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Volvo Ocean Race Legends Regatta - Alain Gabbay latest Ambassador Sail World Volvo Ocean Race Legends Regatta and Reunion takes place in Alicante, Spain during 1st to 5th November. The latest Ambassador is three-time Whitbread Round the World Race skipper Alain Gabbay. During the event, Frenchman Gabbay will be reunited with ... | ||
Volvo Ocean Race - Puma Ocean Racing new MCM Amory Ross Sail World (press release) 'Ever since the Volvo Ocean Race added the onboard media crew member position I knew it's what I wanted to do, where I wanted to be. Everything I have been practicing the last few years, the video and the big boat sailing, it has been done to make sure ... | ||
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World-class sailing event returns to Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans AHN | All Headline News Twenty years after hosting the first J/22 worlds, Southern Yacht Club, in New Orleans, welcomes back the world-class sailing event which kicks off Wednesday on Lake Pontchartrain. It marks the return of the J/22 worlds to the United States after being ... | ||
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SAILING: Martindale wins Open event This is Wiltshire.co.uk HENRY Martindale won Bowmoor Sailing Club's recent Open Meeting attended by 34 sailors from 15 different clubs. The officer of the day managed to get four races completed in the afternoon in perfect sailing conditions. After a recall, Emma Phillips of ... | ||
Sailing: Mike Wood switches class and targets Olympics Leicester Mercury While next year's London Olympics is too early for Wood, he is looking at Rio and will concentrate solely on sailing after completing a course in exercise & sports science at Exeter University. "The key will be training while I'm at university for the ... | ||
Junior sailors dominate STT regatta BVI Beacon The Virgin Islands junior sailors dominated the 2011 annual Columbus Day Regatta hosted by the St. Thomas Yacht Club last weekend. Top honors in the Optimist fleet, the largest racing class in the regatta, was won by 12-year-old Sam Morrell. ... | ||
Port Aransas destination for 25th annual Harvest Moon Regatta Corpus Christi Caller Times This year's marks the regatta's 25th anniversary and includes many racers who never missed a competition year. The race is a Category 3 open regatta for all racing, cruising, spinnaker and non-spinnaker sailing yachts. The yachts must be at least 27 ... | ||
Penarth Yacht Club Regatta a great success Penarth Times The best element of the regatta was the improving sailing, resulting in some quite strong tussles at times with many changes of place. Despite all the efforts of the adults sailing in Mirrors, Alex Whitfield and Andrew te Water Naude won both days' ... | ||
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A Big Bang Port Macquarie News IT wasn't quite the return to sailing that the Port Macquarie Sailing Club had hoped for last weekend but we they made the most of it with competition being tough throughout the field in all classes. Sailors were getting a little rusty after missing ... | ||
2011 Waterways Ireland ISA Sailing Champion is George Kenefick Sail World (press release) George Kenefick of Royal Cork Yacht Club is the 2011 Waterways Ireland ISA Sailing Champion. Fellow Corkonian Mark Mansfield finished in second place and ISA Olympic Squad member Ryan Seaton took the bronze in what was an incredibly close competition. ... | ||
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International Recognition For Langkawi Regatta Bernama LANGKAWI, Oct 13 (Bernama) -- The Royal Langkawi International Regatta has been accorded recognition as a Grade 3 championship by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). Malaysian Yachting Association (MYA) general manager Mohd Afendy Abdullah ... | ||
Jubilee event for sailing club Clacton and Frinton Gazette Clacton Sailing Club is celebrating its diamond jubilee on Saturday at the Great Clacton Community Centre in Valley Road. Members past and present, as well as those who might like to join in the future, are invited to the dance marking the 60 year ... | ||
Beacon Sloop Club Pumpkin Festival also offers Hudson sail Poughkeepsie Journal BEACON — Sailing the Hudson River is one of those romantic notions that carry with it the long nautical history of the area, while at the same time bringing to mind its unique beauty. Attendees of Beacon Sloop Club's 39th Annual Pumpkin Festival, ... | ||
Sailing cargo ship heads for Brixham South Devon Herald Express TRANSITION Town pioneer Rob Hopkins will be among the guests invited on board when an unusual sailing ship arrives in Brixham tomorrow. The Tres Hombres is a cargo ship, moving goods across the oceans with an 'exemplary' carbon footprint. ... | ||
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New Round Rockall Race Date to Clash with Round Ireland Afloat Galway Bay Sailing Club has announced details of a new Irish offshore yacht race, the Round Rockall Race 2012 that will start on the same day as Wicklow's biennial Round Ireland race and a week before the Volvo Ocean Race calls to Galway Port on July 5 ... | ||
Yacht club lands a big one Huntersville Herald The club even loaned its Ultimate 20's for the event, while the Flying Scot boat builder supplied 10 new boats to the regatta for the events, boosting the fleet to more than 50 boats. Competitors came in from as far away as Hawaii, while six teams ... | ||
ON THE WATER: Big Boats Home At LBYC Gazette Newspapers Long Beach Yacht Club is indisputably the big-boat sailboat-racing club in our area. If there is to be a big-boat event, that's likely where it'll be. Not only are many big-boat events hosted by LBYC, big-boat owners belong there, too. ... | ||
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America's Cup Finals in San Francisco – September 2013 | USA ... By Steven The 34th America's Cup promises to bring one of the world's oldest competitions sailing into the digital age with cutting-edge, innovative boats, advanced racing formats and coverage on television and the web utilizing state-of-the-art ... USA Travel Guide | ||
First X-Yachts Sailing Clinic in the Solent - Yachts and Yachting Online Saturday 8 October saw the first of the X-Yachts Sailing Clinics which was organised by Guy Jackson who is the X-Yachts in house race specialist and Jeremy Smart from North Sails. Latest news from Yachts and Yachting... | ||
Big Fun at the Extreme Sailing Series | Multihulls Quarterly • The ... By val ... fun in Australia? Check out the Lock Crowther Memorial Regatta! ... The public arrived in the thousands on the opening day of the Extreme Sailing Series Act 8 in Almeria, making the most of Spain's national Bank Holiday. Crowds soaked up ... Multihulls Quarterly • The... | ||
ArmedForces.com | Blog | Offshore Sailing. Navy Offshore Sailing ... By clevine The Navy Offshore Sailing team had two crews competing in the Storm Trysail Club Intercollegiate Invitational Regatta in Larchmont, N.Y., this past weekend, Intercollegiate Sailing's largest regatta in the country. Continue Reading » ... ArmedForces.com | ||
General Mills glides into the America's Cup « A Taste of General Mills By Suzy Goodsell The America's Cup is the oldest and most celebrated international yachting trophy in the world. In September 1958, the sloop “Columbia” won the America's Cup off Newport, R.I., with a little help from General Mills. The “Columbia” is a 72-foot, ... A Taste of General Mills | ||
Royal Clipper Sailing the Amalfi Coast | Star Clippers Blog By Nicole Royal Clipper Sailing the Amalfi Coast · Nicole | October 13, 2011. After a brief flirt with November temperatures, it's back to October sunshine and beautiful weather on the Amalfi Coast! Early this morning I watched the Royal Clipper from Star ... Star Clippers Blog | ||
Maserati and Soldini set to break Atlantic sailing records - By George Maserati has teamed up with world-renowned sailor Giovanni Soldini in an attempt to break three important and historic North Atlantic sailing. | ||
Yacht club lands a big one | Huntersville Herald By CW Web Admin Regatta results for Men's. and Women's Teams were as follows: First place went to David M. Hyer, David A. Hyer and Gregory Schneller sailing out of Babylon Yacht Club (N.Y.); Second place to Pat Toole, Dale Turley and George Witter sailing ... Huntersville Herald | ||
[EN] Act 8, Almeria Kicks Off Tomorrow » Extreme Sailing Series Under the protection of Almeria's famous landmark, the Alcazaba fortress that nestles above the bustling Spanish city, the 11 Extreme 40 racing machines are ... www.extremesailingseries.com/.../act-8-almeria-kicks-off-tom... | ||
Smoother sailing This year's crop of sailboats aims to provide relief from all of the real world's nagging worries. www.soundingsonline.com/component/content/article/.../2869... |
Twin forestays: Making the most of them
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My Albin Vega (27ft) has hank on sails and twin forestays. This does allow
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