26 August 2012

America's Cup World Series Match and Fleet Race Finals Sunday


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Fleet Racing Points after Saturday's Races
















America's Cup World Series from San Francisco - Fleet Race Finals and Match Race Finals on Sunday August 26, 2012 (NBC broadcast in U.S. - For users in the United States only, Sunday's racing is being broadcast coast to coast on NBC, from 11:00am to 1:30pm PDT. It will NOT be shown live on YouTube for those in the U.S. Viewers elsewhere in the world are unaffected. Replays, highlights and news packages will be available on YouTube for viewers in the USA after racing, as usual.) - Match Race Finals will be Oracle Team USA (Coutts) v. Oracle Team USA (Spithill)



News August 25 - ACWS San Francisco - ORACLE TEAM USA's Jimmy Spithill had a great day on the racecourse at the America's Cup World Series on Saturday. Spithill started his afternoon with a win over his arch-rival, Dean Barker's Emirates Team New Zealand, to advance to the Match Racing Final. He followed it up with two strong fleet racing performances and leads the field heading into Sunday's grand finale.

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Burnham Week regatta to celebrate 80 years of sailing vessels
This is Total Essex
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Sailing family pay tribute to Olympic sailor Lee
Royal Gazette
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Ahoy, me hearties -- it's all smooth sailing down on docks of the bay
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Polegate Scout receives sailing honour
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Summer Program Takes Inner-City Youth Sailing
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A group of 22 kids from the Anybody Can (ABC) Youth Foundation went on a thrilling yacht ride around the San Diego Bay and Embarcadero on the famous Stars & Stripes boat Friday. It's the second time the ABC Foundation has offered this field trip to the ...

Cruising Guide of Tasmania, free and online
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America's Cup World Series - Another new experience for Ainslie
Sail World
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Sail World

18ft Skiff International Regatta all set
Sail World
Even the celebrated sailors from Ben Ainslie to Dean Barker to Russell Coutts, et al, who raced their AC45 trimarans in last week's opening event of the latest America's Cup World Series admitted they were on a steep learning curve. Ainslie is now a ...

Sail World

Travis Rice goes sailing with Oracle Team USA
Transworld Snowboarding
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Annalise Marks Move to Big Rig with Race Wins at Irish Laser Nationals
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Sail World
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Sail World

Weiss Lake Regatta Saturday, Sunday
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