Maserati smashes the NY to SF Record with a time of 47 days 0 hours 42 minutes and 29 seconds! Interview with skipper Giovanni Soldini just after Maserati hit the dock in SF. Soldini also announces that Maserati will join the Transpac Race to Hawaii!
Yacht sets record from New York to San Francisco: "A racing yacht named after one of the world's fastest cars has docked in San Francisco after what organizers said was the fastest passage of a single-hulled sailing vessel from New York to San Francisco. The 70-foot Maserati sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge late Saturday morning and tied up at Pier 39 Marina around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, 47 days after pulling out of New York City, said Judy Laws, a spokeswoman for the event. The 13,225-mile journey around Cape Horn at the tip of South America is what sailors have said for centuries is one of the most challenging sailing journeys in the world. The Maserati finished the trip in 47 days, two hours and 33 minutes, easily beating the most recent record of 57 days, three hours and two minutes set in 1998, Laws said. . . . The eight-member crew of the Maserati — led by its Italian skipper 47-year-old Giovanni Soldini — left New York City on New Year's Eve. . . ."
Racing yacht sets record for fastest passage from New York to San Francisco - ESPN: "Though calm winds late Friday had pushed back the vessel's expected arrival by a few hours, Laws described a festive atmosphere as dignitaries, including Mauro Battocchi, Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, and others greeted the crew when they arrived at the dock."
Maserati Yacht Sets Sailing Record
The Ledger
SAN FRANCISCO | A racing yacht named after one of the world's fastest cars has docked in San Francisco after what organizers said was the fastest passage of a single-hulled sailing vessel from New York to San Francisco. The 70-foot Maserati sailed ...
Vendee Globe - Tanguy de Lamotte crosses finish line
Sail World
Vendee Globe 2012-13 skipper Tanguy de Lamotte crossed the finish line on Sunday at 10hrs 58min and 10 seconds (French time). He finished in 10th place with a race time of 98 days 21 hours 56 minutes and 10 seconds. He has travelled 28,160 miles on ...
Sail World
Meanwhile, Team Plastique progresses - Vendée Globe 2012-2013: "1,031 miles away from the excitement of Tanguy de Lamotte's finish in Les Sables d'Olonne, Alessandro is still in the race, progressing towards Vendée. Team Plastique passed the Santa Island, in the Azores, around 1AM and is now headed to Cape Finisterre, 640 miles ahead, at a speed of 14 knots. The French-Italian skipper is doing well as he covered 304 miles in 24 hours, which, compared to the 90 miles covered over the same period three days ago, must feel great."
Grand Prix denies watering left Albert Park Lake too low for sailing
The Age
A SAILING program for the disabled based on Albert Park Lake has been left high and dry as water levels drop to levels too dangerous to sail. Parents of one Sailability participant say the Melbourne Grand Prix Corporation must wear some blame for ...
The Age
SAILING: It's a clean sweep for experienced Strube at midwinter regatta
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Local knowledge played second fiddle to sailing skills on opening day of the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club's share of the 84th Southern California Yachting Association Midwinter Regatta on Saturday. The leaders among 86 boats in 11 classes came from as far ...
Paralympic sailing champion Lucas to compete against able-bodied rivals at ...
Insidethegames.biz
Based in Weymouth, which hosted sailing during London 2012, the 37-year-old Lucas became the first ever female winner of the 2.4mR class Paralympic title, as well as becoming Great Britain's first Paralympic sailing gold medallist. She will compete ...
Sailing: Riding the waves
Herald Scotland
It will irk him for the next three-and-a-half years. Such is the territory that comes with possessing an Olympic silver medal. Not that the Helensburgh sailor's achievement at London 2012, where he finished second to the 2011 and 2012 world champions ...
Herald Scotland
RORC Caribbean 600 : Danish champion takes on new challenge
BYM News (press release)
The RORC Caribbean 600 is a truly international yacht race, sailors from 31 countries have gathered in Antigua for the spectacular event. Of those nations, six have sailinggrounds in the Baltic Sea, which has a current sea temperature barely above ...
18ft Skiffs:: Winning Group 2013 JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, Race 2
BYM News (press release)
The team had sailed the entire course not knowing they had been recalled for an on course start. With Mojo Wine being declared a non-starter, race honours went to the Thurlow Fisher Lawyers crew of Michael Coxon, Trent Barnabas and Dave O'Connor, ...
Bahamian sailor heads to Los Angeles with the College of Charleston sailing team
Bahama Islands Info (blog)
Now a sophomore student at the College of Charleston in Charleston S.C., Brent is studying Business Administration and Economics and is also a member of the 'club'sailing team at the college. Brent will be traveling to LA along with team members Luke...
Sailing: Messe Frankfurt impress at Abu Dhabi races
Peninsula On-line
Abu Dhabi, UAE: The University of Plymouth crew on Messe Frankfurt won the first race of the three in-port races, and finished third in the other two, of the EFG Bank SailingArabia The Tour. Yesterday, three races were held in the lagoon between the ...
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