12 September 2012

ORACLE TEAM USA's first AC72 sail (video)


ORACLE TEAM USA's first AC72 sail (video)
ORACLE TEAM USA's first AC72, 17, sailed for the first time last month. The initial commissioning and testing process was started with the boat displaying an early demonstration of its performance potential. After two hours, the session was stopped due to a daggerboard failure in the starboard hull. Boat and crew returned safely to the team's Pier 80 base. The team is now assessing its options to resume testing as soon as possible. About the Americas Cup: The America's Cup is without a doubt the most difficult trophy in sport to win. In the more than 150 years since that first race off England, only four nations have won what is often called the "oldest trophy in international sport." For some perspective, consider that there had been nine contests for the America's Cup before the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896.

Sailing sees success at weekend regattas
The Dartmouth
Dartmouth's sailing team, ranked third nationally among women's teams and 10th nationally among coed teams by Sailing World's preseason poll, sent small contingents to five regattas spanning the Eastern seaboard over the weekend. The regattas proved ...

The Dartmouth

Free Sailing Programs Offered to Framingham Residents Who Qualify
Patch.com
Framingham residents, ages 10 to 21, who are on an Indvidual Education Plan (IEP) or have a documnted medical disability may participate in a free sailing program in Boston, beginning this Saturday and running for 5 weeks. There is also an adult ...

Hilton Head rowing, sailing center plans speed forward
Hilton Head Island Packet
Construction probably will begin sooner than originally planned on a rowing and sailing center along Skull Creek on Hilton Head Island. Town officials said Monday they plan to start work early next year building a pier with a floating dock, fenced boat ...

MMA Sailing Season Gets Under Way Saturday
Fenceviewer
CASTINE — The fall racing season gets under way this weekend when the Maine Maritime Academy offshore sailing team heads for Annapolis for the Shields Regatta at the U.S. Naval Academy. The regatta brings together service and maritime academy ...

Sailing and boat-jumping in Croatia
Stuff.co.nz (blog)
For the past four years, my Facebook news feed has been full of "Sailing Croatia 2010", "Cruising in Croatia", "Island hopping in Croatia" albums. Photos of your friends drinking and tanning on boats with sunny sea views behind them bring out a bit of ...

Stuff.co.nz (blog)

Marina grad coaches Swedish gold-medal winners
OCRegister
Ivey signed up for the summer sailing program at the Huntington Harbour Yacht Club, climbed aboard a sabot, and hit the water. "It felt really good to be charting my ... Now, as a full-time coach and consultant based in Sausalito, he has the ...

Hero's welcome in Hampshire hometown for Olympic sailing hero Ben Ainslie
Daily Echo
The two mile route snaked through the sailing mecca, past the postbox painted gold in his honour and finished at the bottom of the High Street. The 35 year old, who has four gold medals and one silver following his triumph in the Finn class at Weymouth ...

Shaw considers switch to a boat
Eurosport.com AU
Out goes match racing and the Star and in come the women's 49er FX and mixed multihull with Shaw admitting she's open to the notion of skippering a partner in either of the two. "Obviously at the moment windsurfing is out of the next Games and I'm ...

Eurosport.com AU

Freshman Coeds Finish Second
Harvard Crimson
A freshmen crew from the coed sailing team finished second in the Tufts Central Series 1 regatta, while other coed racers ended up in the eighth spot at Yale's Harry Anderson Trophy. Over at MIT, the women's sailing team took the eighth position at the ...

Chance to try out sailing
This is Plymouth
WOULD-BE sailors are invited to try out watersports as part of the Marine City Festival. A 'TrySailing' event takes place from the Barbican Landing Stage, at Commercial Wharf, on Sunday. Several city sailing clubs and training centres will be offering ...

Sailing: Genoa Boat Show berths in Dubai
ANSAmed
(by Alessandra Antonelli) (ANSAmed) - DUBAI -The organisers of the Genoa Boat Show have been in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to present the historic Italian nautical event and explore further opportunities for cooperation and investment in the Middle ...

PARALYMPICS 'SNUB' ROW: TV coverage was 'disappointing'
Dorset Echo
Commodore of the Royal Dorset Yacht Club Graham Castell said he felt that the sailing had been 'ignored'. He added he would have liked to see the beach live site maintained and possibly ... But he admitted that the spectator experience had been ...

UMD: Sailing hangs in against tough competition
SouthCoastToday.com
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's sailing team turned in a consistent performance on the second and final day of their season-opening meet at Roger Williams Sunday. "In a strong field of U.S. and Canadian collegiate teams, UMass-Dartmouth ...

Injured Smith slides as Mueller takes the lead
Irish Times
SAILING STANDINGS in the Brewin Dolphin Dragon Gold Cup were turned upside down yesterday as the second of six races was completed off the Old Head of Kinsale with a new overall leader and improved hopes for a strong Irish result by Friday's finish...

Irish Times

Selection for All Ireland Sailing Competition Leaves 20 Classes Fighting for 3 ...
Afloat
Having looked at the selection of participants from different classes for the All Ireland Sailingcompetiton (formerly theHelmsman's Championships), I wonder if the ISA, the organiser of the event, is concerned at the consequences of the changes they ...

IMRA Offers Chance to Challenge the Match Racing Champion
Afloat
#matchracing – Both the Leinsters and National Championships Irish Match Racing events didn't happen this year as the Irish Match Racing Association (IMRA) fell a couple of teams short of the number needed for a viable event each time. Here the IMRA's ...

The art of sailing
Yachting Monthly
Event organiser Michael Ross, of CNM Estates, said: "This is the start of a grand adventure as the Fine Art Sails now travel to the America's Cup and will sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco". Team GB yachtsman Iain Percy says: "This ...

Full Metal Jacket takes back to back wins in Grand Slam Series + Video
Sail World
The New Zealand match racing team, Full Metal Jacket Racing, have taken out the Oakcliff Invitational in Oyster Bay to win the last two events on the Grand Slam Series. Following on from the Knickerbocker Cup, two bays over in Oyster Bay, Oakcliff ...

Sail World

Star studded Régates Royales de Cannes
Boxscore
11, 2012) - From Tuesday 25th September some the most glamourous classic yachts will get together once again on the French Riviera to guarantee sailors and spectators alike a unique show of beauty and sailing. For a whole week the magic will be back in...

Boxscore

J80 National Championship at Royal Southern YC overall
Sail World
The J/80 National Championship 2012, sponsored by MIQ Logistics, Slam clothing and Coast Graphics and hosted by Hamble's Royal Southern Yacht Club, was held on the weekend of 8th September. The fleet of 27 boats was just one less than the previous ...

Sail World
Roger Williams Athletics - Sailing begins Fall with win at Mt. Hope ...
BRISTOL, R.I. – The Roger Williams University Sailing team kicked off the Fall 2012 season by hitting the water at four separate regattas, including hosting the Mt. Hope Bay Invitational where the Hawks won and placed in four of the top five ...
Roger Williams University Athletics
MotArt: Thames Sailing Barge
By Motart
Thames Sailing Barge . The Thames sailing barge is a type of commercial boat used in the 19th century to transport goods in and around the Thames estuary. Their flat bottom and simple rigging made them easy ships to pilot (only requiring a ...
MotArt

The EYC Needs a New Trophy - Ephraim Yacht Club
By Ephraim Yacht Club
But at the EYC, sailing is a family sport and we don't have an Ephraim Regatta trophy which recognizes sailing families. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could give an award for the top boat at the Ephraim Regatta sailed by family members?
Ephraim Yacht Club

Crewsaver now in stock at LDC Sailing - Yachts and Yachting Online
"It is a joy buying stuff from LDC - everything I have ordered recently from the site arrives the next day without fail. The site is one of the few selling to sailors that gives you live stock information - none of this "we will ring you if it is not in stock".
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2012 Great River Race - Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre
By admin
Events on 01/09/2012. RYA Level 1 Sailing. Starts: 1:00 am. Ends: 1:00 am, 03/09/2012. RYA Start Windsurfing. Starts: 1:00 am. Ends: 1:00 am, 03/09/2012. 2. Events on 02/09/2012. Youth Club. Starts: 1:00 am. Ends: 1:00 am, 03/09/2012. 3 ...
DSWC - Docklands Sailing and...

Found This Really Neat Sailing Video | Round Valley Fishing
By Robert Ivan
The following video is created by Lisa Robinson and Nick VanHorn showing the journey of their sailboat from land to water from many unique angles. With its expansive open waters and easy access shore launch points Round Valley ...
Round Valley Fishing

420 Class sees upsurge in local interest ... - Royal Cork Yacht Club
By Tom Crosbie
The 420 class has seen a major upsurge in interest this month – 4 brand new club pairings joined “old hands” Peter McCann/Arran Walsh and David Fogarty/Tom McGrath (both started way back last June!) for boat set-up and training in great ...
Royal Cork Yacht Club

2012 Cobh to Blackrock list of entries | Cove Sailing Club
By Club Secretary
If you registered but your boat name is not on the list (please give us a few hours), and you've not been contacted by Cove Sailing Club, then email us at info@covesailingclub.ie and provide your boat details and when you registered and we ...
Cove Sailing Club

BBA students build a strip-planked version of Iain Oughtred's Gannet ...
By Gavin Atkin
Boat Building Academy students Anna Raussmüller and Richard Jolly built this 14ft 5in by 5ft 8in beam sailing dinghy based on Iain Oughtred's Gannet design. However, the boat is strip-planked in red cedar rather than the glued clinker that ...
intheboatshed.net

Storyboard Podcast: Transforming the America's Cup Into Good TV ...
Wired dispatched America's Cup correspondent Adam Fisher to cover how technology is changingsailing's biggest race for the September issue. On this ...

6th World University Match Racing Championship 2012 - Nice ...
6th World University Match Racing Championship 2012 - From 3 to 8 September Nice - France ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-OIl1WyP7E

Yacht club plan wins overwhelming support
The News Journal
OCEAN PINES, Md. — In a referendum, Ocean Pines residents have resoundingly approved building a new $4.3 million yacht club. Results announced Friday show that 3,432 residents voted yes on the referendum while 1,641 voted no. Many residents were ...

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