One week until Extreme Sailing Series 2013 begins - The original high-performance, stadium-style global racing circuit, designed for spectators, is set to come alight with a rash of new talent in its seventh season, as 8 international teams with some of the worlds best sailors prepare for Act 1 of the 2013 global tour, to the held at The Wave, Muscat Oman 5th-8th March. Three new skippers and two completely new teams will bring a wealth of fresh talent to the Extreme 40 fleet in 2013, along with a set of credentials that will make predicting not only the outcome of the opening Act but the entire Series a near impossibility. The public race village opens on the 6th March with Red Bull Free Runners, a dedicated kids zone, a football tournament for local teams and try sailing amongst other activities all staged at the The Wave, Muscat community beach.
Coast Guard suspends search for sailboat reported missing - MontereyHerald.com :: " . . . . A Coast Guard spokesman said the search was ended at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, and that no debris or other evidence from the sinking was found after searching a 20,000-square-mile area of ocean. . . . The Coast Guard received a radio distress call Sunday afternoon from a man who reported his 29-foot sailing vessel Charm Blow was sinking 65 miles west of Pillar Point, that there was no life raft aboard, and that he and his wife were assembling a makeshift raft from a cooler and lifesaving ring before abandoning the boat with their 4-year-old son and a nephew. A search by the Coast Guard and Air National Guard was conducted Sunday night through Tuesday morning with no results. No one has come forward to report missing family members, the Coast Guard said, and searchers have not been able to identify the people on board or the port where the Charm Blow originated."
Officials: Badger to begin sailing season May 6
Fond du Lac Reporter
MANITOWOC — Lake Michigan Carferry announced Monday the S.S. Badger will begin the 2013 sailing season on May 6, two weeks earlier than previously announced. Spokeswoman Terri Brown stated the expanded season is in response to a request to ...
Medals Spread At Sail The Gulf Regatta In Qatar
International Sailing Federation
"Our objective is to engage Hussain and our other National sailors in the Olympic classes at both regional and international training camps and regattas to intensify their development and raise their level to prepare them for major international ...
International Sailing Federation
Artemis Racing suspends sailing program to modify AC72s
Gant Daily
San Francisco, CA, United States (4E Sports) – Artemis Racing has suspended its sailing program to give way to modifications on its AC72s, according to sailing director Iain Percy. The decision was reached following Artemis Racing's training sessions ...
CSULB Sailing Team is ranked first in the Southwest
Daily 49er
The top-ranking Cal State Long Beach Sailing Team breezed through to a first-place finish at the South 3-4 regatta hosted by University of California, Irvine last weekend at the Newport Harbor Yacht Club. CSULB ranked as No. 2 in the Southwest, right ...
Laser Midwinters East Wrap Up In Clearwater
International Sailing Federation
In the end the Bermudan, who sailed the inaugural Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games finished sixth as well as two ISAF Youth Worlds managed to do what he needed to do to take bronze. He finished the final race in 14th and ahead of all of his rivals ...
International Sailing Federation
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