Teen with cerebral palsy sails the Channel solo (video)

Video: Teen with cerebral palsy sails the Channel solo - Telegraph: "Natasha left from Boulogne-sur-Mer in France and arrived in Dover after sailing across the Channel. She used just her mouth to control the specially adapted boat, dubbed the, ‘Miss Isle Too’ and was able to control the vessel completely independently. . . ."


America's Cup Practice: Artemis Racing and Oracle Team USA (July 30 video)

2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne - Notice of Race published
Sail World
'We are very excited about this year's event as we have a strong focus on ensuring that we attract the best sailors in the world to Melbourne for the ISAF Sailing World Cup. We are looking forward to the London 2012 battles resuming, as well as seeing ...

Seven Questions About Larry Ellison and the America's Cup With Author Julian ...
All Things Digital
Having secured the America's Cup in Spain in 2010, Ellison's Team Oracle USA is defending it later this year in San Francisco. On Monday, Team New Zealand secured the right to proceed to the final round of the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series. The ...

Sailing: Kimberly and Savannah win silver for S'pore at 420 World Championships

Straits Times
The sailors, who were fourth last year, finished the 12-race regatta on 69 points. Great Britain's Annabel Cattermole and Bryony Bennett-Lloyd (52 points) took gold while Italy's Sara Scotto di Vettimo and Vittoria Barbiero (74) brought home the bronze.

Sailing barge launches in Vermont to test carbon-neutral shipping
Treehugger (blog)
This week a new sailing barge was launched on Lake Champlain that its backers hope will soon be in the vanguard of a new carbon-neutral shipping alternative. The 39-foot Ceres — built by volunteers from the Vermont Sail Freight Project and farmer Erik ...

Sooke sailing says “Sayonara” — for the season
Sooke News Mirror
The sailing camp, also called the MOSS Program, is organized by BC Sailing and certified by Sail Canada (formerly Canadian Yachting Association). The Sooke Sailing Association (SSA) was instrumental in bringing the program to Sooke for its second year.

Volunteers operate Sailing Angels in Clear Lake Shores
Houston Chronicle
The Sailing Angels Foundation is a Bay Area charitable organization that's comprised of experienced sailors who donate their time and resources year-round, explained McCabe. "In the winters, boats are totally enclosed in plexiglass. It's like sailing ...

Plain sailing for sea cadets who were regatta victors
Bakewell Today
Sea cadets performed strongly at a sailing contest despite coming from a land–locked part of the country. Buxton Sea Cadets won two of the four races at the North West Area Sailing Regatta, held in Southport, in which they competed against 60 other ...

My winning yacht race debut was just plain sailing
Irish Examiner
Since hearing that tune, and seeing the wind blowing through Simon le Bon's blonde locks while he ponced around a yacht in the video for 'Rio', I've fantasised about poncing around myself some day, to find out if sailing is the 'paradise' name-checked ...

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Sailing a wooden yacht on Sydney Harbour (video)

Sailing a wooden yacht on Sydney Harbour from New York Video Service on Vimeo.
http://www.PeterBucknell.com - There's a class "wooden boat" in the weekend regattas that handicaps boats to even them out a bit. This yacht is a particularly old one, and beautiful to sail. When the wind is strong as it was on this particular day, the wood creaks and beams bend. Exciting stuff and good fun to be a part of the old-timers crew
Filmed in 720p 60fps on a Kodak playsport (waterproof to 10ft)

'Sailing to Freedom' highlights New Bedford's abolitionist past
SouthCoastToday.com
The director of the "Sailing to Freedom" sessions, UMass Dartmouth associate professor Timothy Walker, said he hopes they will help revise the traditional understanding of the Underground Railroad by highlighting the role of the sea in the escape of ...

Coloradan wins national sailing contest at Johnson Lake
Kearney Hub
JOHNSON LAKE — Gib Charles, a veteran sailor from Colorado Springs, Colo., won the 2013 Mutineer National Championship at Johnson Lake Saturday. It was the sixth time Charles has won the title for the 15-foot sailboats. Ernie French and his wife ...

Smooth Sailing For Evatran's Wireless EV Charging Demo
CleanTechnica
Smooth Sailing For Evatran's Wireless EV Charging Demo. We've been following the company Evatran as it road-tests its wireless EV charging system, and the latest report has just come in. With more than 1500 hours of charging time logged so far, ...

Sailing: Murdoch's Finn success no fluke
Northern Advocate
Junior, who grew up sailing at the Worser Bay Boating Club in Wellington, medalled at ISAF Sailing World Cup, Hyeres earlier this year and the young campaigner will also now turn his focus to the up-coming World Championships. The Finn fleet will come ...


VIDEO: Sailing ship sinks a week after leaving shelter of Mounts Bay
This is Cornwall
A BEAUTIFUL sailing ship that moored in Mounts Bay just over a week ago has sunk off Ireland in stormy seas. All 30 people on board were plucked from the 42 metre Dutch training vessel Astrid by RNLI lifeboats before it sank on rocks off Kinsale in ...

Wavertree woman makes sailing dream a reality
Liverpool Echo
Grace, 31, said: “It's an incredible feeling to have been selected from amongst hundreds and hundreds of applications from amateur sailing fans from all over Europe. “I am so excited about this opportunity, and so grateful to the Gore-Tex Experience ...

 Southampton duo are silver sailors
Daily Echo
Southampton sailors Ben Saxton and Hannah Diamond won a silver medal at the Nacra 17 World Championship in Hollandy. The pair, from Warsash, took part in the new Olympic class and could have had a gold medal but settled for second place after the ...

RYA award for Torbay sailing volunteer
This Is South Devon
The Disabled Sailing Association has been awarded a National Community Service Award by the Royal Yachting Association. The Disabled Sailing Association was started in Torbay in 2005 by six visually impaired friends who loved to sail and wanted to ...

The Wave, Muscat finish joint leaders
Times of Oman Porto: Staying calm under intense pressure turned out to be the key strategy for The Wave, Muscat team who were crowned champions in the Extreme Sailing Series Act 5 in Porto for the second consecutive year and once again topped the leaderboard ...

Annapolis Yacht Club Hosts International Junior Sailors Eye On Annapolis Annapolis Yacht Club's Junior Sailing program is known in the Annapolis area for its prestige in coaching and sailboat racing, and it seems this reputation has reached far beyond the Chesapeake Bay. This summer, AYC is hosting kids from yacht clubs in ...

J/70's Sail Travemunde Week
J/Sailing News (blog)
J/70 Bundesliga- Travemunde winners Great Racing in Bundesliga Between German Clubs (Travemunde, Germany)- The J/70 Bundesliga yacht club participants were looking forward to sailing on Travemunde's famous bay on the Baltic Sea; renown for the ...

RYA Dinghy Show - Laser sailing with Nick Thompson + Video
Sail World
Continuing on from his extremely popular main stage talk at the RYA Dinghy Show on getting the most out of your Laser, this month we hear from British Sailing Team Laser sailor Nick Thompson who has campaigned in not one, not two but three Olympic ...

Royal Cork Duo Are Best of Irish in Day One of Lough Derg's Mirror Worlds
Afloat
 Royal Cork Yacht Club pairing Douglas Elmes and Scott Levie are top Irish boat after day one of the 91-boat Mirror World Championships at Dromineer on Lough Derg today. This is the first time a world sailing championship has been held ...

 Opti Regatta tests next generation of York sailors Seacoastonline.com YORK, Maine — The World War II-era Husky launch boat dutifully towed the Opti sailboats from the docks of the Agamenticus Yacht Club Saturday to off the shores of York Harbor Beach. There, young sailors of the AYC tested their skills on a triangular ...

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Emirates Team New Zealand opts for Louis Vuitton Cup Final (video)

News: Emirates Team New Zealand elects to advance to Louis Vuitton Cup Final - YouTube: Emirates Team New Zealand Sunday won its ninth consecutive race of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the America's Cup Challenger Series, cementing its status as the top team in the challengers' series. Later in the day skipper Dean Barker announced his team would exercise its right to advance to the Louis Vuitton Cup Final, scheduled to begin Aug. 17. Emirates Team New Zealand earned that right by winning the round robin of the Louis Vuitton Cup. Emirates Team New Zealand will race either Artemis Racing or Luna Rossa Challenge. Those two teams will race the Louis Vuitton Cup Semifinal, scheduled Aug. 6-15. Barker said the team considered racing the semifinals, but in the end opted to advance development program of Aotearoa, the team's AC72. On the racecourse today, the Kiwis completed a sweep of Luna Rossa Challenge, their one-time training partners. With Barker back on the helm and movie star Tom Cruise watching, the Kiwi crew grabbed the lead on the first reach leg and never looked back. The Kiwis led by 7 seconds at the first turning mark, 35 seconds at the second turning mark and 1:35 at the third turning mark en route to a 3:20 victory.

America's Cup: Sweden's Artemis Racing team taking 'baby steps' to prepare for regatta, skipper says - San Jose Mercury News: "Each time Sweden's Artemis Racing has practiced on the bay over the past few days, sounds of cheers rise up from their America's Cup opponents sailing by. It's a sign of the emotional pull all the competitors feel for the beleaguered team, which is only now staging a valiant comeback after one of its crewmen was killed during a capsize in May. "We have great support from these guys when we get out there," Artemis skipper Iain Percy said during a news conference Sunday at America's Cup Park at Pier 27/29. But just how well the Swedish team will do against Italy's Luna Rossa, which it will meet for the first time Aug. 6 when the semifinals begin in the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series"

Sailing-New Zealand to go straight to Louis Vuitton Cup finals
Reuters
Sailing-New Zealand to go straight to Louis Vuitton Cup finals. Tweet · Link this · Share this; WELLINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - Team New Zealand's hopes of securing the America's Cup took a massive step forward on Sunday with their ninth successive ...

Sailing on Lake Champlain
North Country Public Radio
But sailing isn't always peaceful. Everybody scrambles around whenever it's time to tack, or put up the spinnaker. It's hard to juggle my microphone while crawling all over the boat. So I stash it down below and enjoy the ride. We race around ...

Sailing: Singapore's world champions target SEA Games, Youth Olympics
Channel News Asia
But for two of Singapore top sailors Loh Jia Yi and Bertha Han, there's no letting-up on their hard work. Loh and Han were crowned World Champions at the recent World Optimist Championships. They were also part of the team which beat Germany and won ...

National Sailing Championship: Jasvir Singh clinches Standard class
Deccan Chronicle
Hyderabad: Jasvir Singh did not end it with a bang but the Army Yachting Node sailor did what he had to do to clinch the title in the Standard class of the Laser National SailingChampionship in Hyderabad on Sunday. Enjoying a healthy lead at the top ...

Extreme Sailing: The Wave, Muscat wins Act 5 in Porto
Boxscore
EXTREME SAILING: Porto, Portugal - July 28, 2013 - Act 5 of the Extreme SailingSeries™ in Porto has delivered the ultimate challenge in Stadium Racing for the eight international teams competing this week, with a narrow river, high walls, strong ...

Sailing-New Zealand beats Luna Rossa at Louis Vuitton Cup
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
July 28 (Reuters) - Emirates Team New Zealand defeated Luna Rossa Challenge by three minutes and 21 seconds on Sunday in a Round 5 race for the Louis Vuitton Cup, which serves as the selection series to decide the challenger for the America's Cup.

RORC Channel Race & A Hat Trick for French Skipper's 'Night and Day'
Afloat
"My father is a great teacher!" smiled Alexis. "It was a difficult race with many sailchanges but the boat is very good in all wind angles and conditions and I think we sailedvery well. Like me Joel is a Figaro sailor and we have sailed together for ...

Coast guard chides men spotted sailing 'bathtub' down the Fraser River
The Province
The middle-aged men had a sail, a bailer and life jackets and seemed intent on sailingfrom the south arm of the Fraser River out into the Strait of Georgia, up past the Coast Guard's hovercraft base on Sea Island and into the north arm of the river ...

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Sailing Videos, America's Cup, Extreme Sailing Series

News: Another exciting week at the America's Cup both on and off the water: "Last weekend saw big crowds to enjoy the racing at the America's Cup Park and also at the America's Cup Village at Marina Green, where the atmosphere was brightened by the AC Open. And the San Francisco Symphony brought the best of Tchaikovsky to the America's Cup Pavilion. On the race course, the Kiwis survived a scare when equipment failure meant they sailed much of Sunday's race without a headsail. But the story of the week really belonged to Artemis Racing, who launched and sailed their second AC72 this week. Big Blue went into the water on Monday. On Wednesday the team was out for its first sail and wasted no time in getting the beautiful blue machine up on its foils. On the Louis Vuitton Cup Round Robin leaderboard, Emirates Team New Zealand has an unassailable lead, with 7 points. The Kiwis will race Luna Rossa one more time, on Sunday, before they are expected to announce their intentions...As top team in the Round Robins, they can choose to advance straight to the Final, or pick an opponent to race in the semis, starting on August 6...."

Team New Zealand wins Cup trial
ESPN
SAN FRANCISCO -- Emirates Team New Zealand beat Italy's Luna Rossa by 3 minutes, 21 seconds in their final meeting in the round-robins in the America's Cup challenger trials Sunday on San Francisco Bay. As the points leader in the round-robins, the....Sunday replay here

Extreme Sailing Series Act 5 Porto Highlights: For four days the Extreme Sailing Series world tour entertained the crowds in Porto, battling in the heart of the city on one of the most challenging Stadium Racecourses the fleet have ever sailed on. Eight teams including two wildcard entries ROFF Cascais Sailing Team and Team Tilt went head to head, and after 30 hard fought races it went right down to the final race to decide the winner. The Wave, Muscat accelerated off the start line while Alinghi found themselves stuck in the traffic jam and going nowhere - they could only watch as the Omani team sailed to victory. 

A relentless The Wave, Muscat wins Act 5 in Porto » Extreme Sailing Series: "Act 5 of the Extreme Sailing Series™ in Porto has delivered the ultimate challenge in Stadium Racing for the eight international teams competing this week, with a narrow river, high walls, strong tides, big rocks and gusty winds to contend with. After 30 races it came down to the wire between The Wave, Muscat and Alinghi in the final double pointer with just three points separating two of the most experienced teams on the circuit. Impeccable boat handling from McMillan and a win in the final race – their tenth of the Act - ultimately saw the Omani flagged team claim a deserved win who have been unflappable this week having led the charge since race eight." Sunday replay here

Sailing-New Zealand beats Luna Rossa at Louis Vuitton Cup
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
July 28 (Reuters) - Emirates Team New Zealand defeated Luna Rossa Challenge by three minutes and 21 seconds on Sunday in a Round 5 race for the Louis Vuitton Cup, which serves as the selection series to decide the challenger for the America's Cup...Sunday replay here

Extreme Sailing Series - Ultimate challenge delivered in Porto
Sail World
The fifth act of the Extreme Sailing Series in Porto has delivered the ultimate challenge in Stadium Racing for the eight international teams competing this week, with a narrow river, high walls, strong tides, big rocks and gusty winds to contend with ...

Sailing with Charlie: Challenges
All At Sea
Charlie often mutters under his breath after the third request is made to close all hatches (prior to sailing, of course) and does it himself. The same applies to stowing items likely to crash to the cabin sole underway, putting dishes away, not just ...

Junior Olympian sailor start first day of racing
Summit Daily News
Expand Photo Dillon Junior Sailing's Steve Ragle,17,(solo in boat) racing in the Sebastian Foltz/ Dillon Junior Sailing's Steve Ragle,17,(solo in boat) racing in the Junior Olympic Sailing Festival Saturday on Lake...

Big J Fleet Sailing Youngstown Regatta
J/Sailing News (blog)
J/70s sailing off starting line (Youngstown, NY)- It what may be the 40th, and last, Youngstown Level Regatta hosted by the Youngstown YC, sailors in the northeast have showed up 180 boats strong to celebrate a wonderful four decades of summer sailing ...

New pairing joins Australian Sailing Team
Sail World
I've also achieved a seven year dream of mine, qualifying for the Australian SailingTeam, alongside superstars such as Nathan Outteridge, Tom Slingsby and Mat Belcher. 'We've worked hard for this result and the Worlds couldn't have had tougher ...

Melges 24 European Sailing Series - Teams arrive in Torbole.
Sail World
European Sailing Series leader Riccardo Simoneschi, sailing ITA819 Audi Ultra, will be hoping to make it three wins out of three and retain his overall series lead, but there are plenty of teams determined to try and prevent that happening. Leading the ...

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LIVE Sunday: Louis Vuitton Cup AND Extreme Sailing Series!

Live Porto: Day Four - Extreme Sailing Series - LIVE Streaming of Extreme 40 stadium racing  12noon- 1 pm (EDT - US); 1700 - 1800 (5-6 pm) BST (London)
Porto Extreme Sailing Series Day Three Replay here

LOUIS VUITTON CUP - RR5 - RACE 1, 28 July 2013 - YouTube: "Emirates Team New Zealand vs Luna Rossa Challenge" Sunday 3 pm EDT (US); 7 pm (1900) UTC/GMT


News: Another exciting week at the America's Cup both on and off the water: "Last weekend saw big crowds to enjoy the racing at the America's Cup Park and also at the America's Cup Village at Marina Green, where the atmosphere was brightened by the AC Open. And the San Francisco Symphony brought the best of Tchaikovsky to the America's Cup Pavilion. On the race course, the Kiwis survived a scare when equipment failure meant they sailed much of Sunday's race without a headsail. But the story of the week really belonged to Artemis Racing, who launched and sailed their second AC72 this week. Big Blue went into the water on Monday. On Wednesday the team was out for its first sail and wasted no time in getting the beautiful blue machine up on its foils. On the Louis Vuitton Cup Round Robin leaderboard, Emirates Team New Zealand has an unassailable lead, with 7 points. The Kiwis will race Luna Rossa one more time, on Sunday, before they are expected to announce their intentions...As top team in the Round Robins, they can choose to advance straight to the Final, or pick an opponent to race in the semis, starting on August 6. In the meantime, we'll have racing over the weekend and into next week as the Round Robin concludes."


Highlights from the first day's racing off Marblehead, featuring J/105s, J/70s, Rhodes 19s, Etchells, Megabytes, and more.
Video Highlights: Sperry Top-Sider Marblehead NOOD, Friday | Sailing World: "After a morning postponement, the 2013 Sperry Top-Sider Marblehead NOOD gets underway with 10 knots of breeze and lumpy seas. Here's highlights from across all circles. The spinnaker set of the day can be found at the 10m:20s mark."

The Sailing Tradition Continues: Race Week Well Underway
Patch.com
They were eager after a light day of racing Thursday, and eager because the tradition rich Marblehead regatta — starting in 1889 it's one of the oldest if not the oldest sailing regatta in the country — is a favorite of local racers. It's also the ...

Sailing takes place at Gulfport, Pass Christian this weekend
SunHerald.com
Gulfport Yacht Club and Pass Christian Yacht Club will conduct regattas this weekend as the sailing season heats up as July comes to a close. Gulfport will hold its annual Weatherly Regatta, which includes Capdevielle racing for the Gulf Yachting ...

Extreme sailing in Portugal: Near-misses and stunts during Portugal leg of ...
ITN
... Near-misses and stunts during the Portugal leg of the Extreme ...

Optimist Sailing: Loh Jiayi and Bertha Han are world champs as S'pore sweep ...
Red Sports
Singapore sailors swept all four titles on offer at the 2013 World Optimist Championship. Our sailors won two individual titles, the team racing title and the Nations Cup. Loh Jiayi, 15, was crowned ...

Sailing: S'pore sailing team returns home victorious
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: More than 80 friends, family and sailing officials were at Changi Airport to welcome home the victorious Singapore sailing team. Singapore did well at the recent 2013 Optimist World Championship, with the team comprising Loh Jiayi, Bertha ...

RACE WEEK: Smoother sailing on second day
Wicked Local
Friday's rainy morning blues gave way to a mid-day with overcast skies, no rain and plenty of wind for the 65 boats competing in the 2013 Quincy Bay Race Week's Inside Line for sailors aged 8-18. Most of the 12 classes of boats got in three separate ...

Sailing Ship Hits Rocks Off Irish Coast 30 People Rescued
New Tang Dynasty Television
The Coastguard and Royal National Lifeboat Institution crews conducted a major rescue off the coast of Cork, Ireland on Wednesday (July 24) after a sail training ship hit rocks and started sinking. Eighteen people were rescued from the floundering tall ...

Johnson Lake hosts sailing championship
Omaha World-Herald
JOHNSON LAKE, Neb. — Sailboating hit the big time at Johnson Lake this week with the 2013 Mutineer 15 National Sailing Championship. Sailors from as far away as Florida, North Carolina and Massachusetts are competing at the lake southwest of ...

NZL Sailing Team: Kiwis chase Bronze in Finns and top ten in Nacra 17s
Sail World
New Zealand will feature in the medal races at both the 2013 Finn European Championship and the 2013 Nacra 17 World Championship with kiwi Finn sailorsAndrew Murdoch and Josh Junior among a tight group who will battle it out for the lower podium ...

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Extreme Sailing Videos - LIVE Saturday

Saturday July 27 -LIVE Streaming of Extreme 40 stadium racing  12noon- 1 pm (EDT - US) 1700 (5 pm)- 1800 (6 pm) BST (London)


The Swiss Red Bull Youth America's Cup representatives Team Tilt got their first taste of Stadium Racing today in Porto at Act 5 of the Extreme Sailing Series. We caught up with their skipper, Lucien Cujean dockside

Extreme Sailing Series Friday Video here

Dorade, a 52-foot wooden sailboat considered the forebear of modern racing yachts, captured the Los Angeles to Honolulu race this week, echoing its 1936 victory.--
77 Years Later, Yacht Repeats Win in Trans-Pacific Race - NYTimes.com: " . . . .What Jenner and the rest of Dorade’s crew learned on their two-week sojourn was that the genius of the boat’s design and how the sailors in the 1930s skillfully sailed her never go out of style. “It was definitely a new style of steering,” Jenner said. “Everything all of us know we had to forget and go to the old school type of sailing.” The crew watched old films of Olin Stephens steering a rocking and rolling Dorade in the 1931 Transatlantic and holding the tiller steady in the center of the boat. By the end of this Transpac, Jenner said, they were all steering the same way as Stephens. Brooks and the navigator Matt Wachowicz added to the historical realism by practicing celestial navigation all the way to Hawaii. . . ." (read more at link above)

Young sailors take to Lake Dillon for Junior Olympic event
Summit Daily News
Youth sailors participate in a race during last year's Junior Olympic Sailing Festival on Lake Dillon. The U.S. Sailing event, now in its second year at Lake Dillion, is the country's only Junior Olympic race hosted at an inland lake. Expand Photo ...

Sailing: Clean sweep for S'pore at 2013 World Optimist Championship
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: Singapore created history on Friday when it won three titles at the Optimist World Sailing Championship for a second year running. The Republic won the Team title earlier in the week and the celebrations continued on Thursday when Loh Jia Yi ...

Sailing: Bay sailors crowd top of table
The Bay of Plenty Times
The 2013 Finn European Championship under way in Warnemunde, Germany, has also hit the midway mark and with six races sailed New Zealanders Josh Junior and Andrew Murdoch (Tauranga Yacht and Powerboat Club) both feature in the top five ...

Sailing club raises concerns after large log found in river
Gladstone Observer
THE Bundaberg Sailing Club is warning boaties to keep an alert eye out after a 20m log was pulled out of the river on Wednesday. Club member Peter Arney said the log was a reminder of the hazards still lurking in the river six months after the January ...

Extreme Sailing Series - Opening day delivers 'best racing' of season
Sail World
On the opening day of the Extreme Sailing Series Act 5 in Porto an epic nine races were sailed in open sea, with plenty of hull flying, close mark roundings and even a man overboard for the local boys on ROFF Cascais Sailing Team to keep the on water ...

NZL Sailing Team: Three in top five as major Olympic regattas near end
Sail World
A light winds day allowed for only one race at the 2013 Finn European Championship being sailed at Warnemunde, Germany and it provided many of the top sailors with some challenges. Josh Junior managed a 14th which sees him improve his overall ...

NZL Sailing Team: Kiwis chase Bronze in Finns and top ten in Nacra 17s
Sail World
New Zealand will feature in the medal races at both the 2013 Finn European Championship and the 2013 Nacra 17 World Championship with kiwi Finn sailorsAndrew Murdoch and Josh Junior among a tight group who will battle it out for the lower podium ...

Dressed for success, Youth Sailing Foundation campers have great summer
TCPalm
VERO BEACH — Youth Sailing Foundation successfully completed the second session of its six-session Summer Sailing Camp. This is the third summer the Camp has been held at the Moorings Club. Seacoast National Bank generously provided the T-Shirts ...

Questions surround Artemis for semifinal round
USA TODAY
Team Artemis Racing, whose first boat capsized and killed a crewmember during a practice run on May 9, sailed its second catamaran for the first time Wednesday. The Swedish team managed to put the giant AC72 class of yacht up on its hydrofoils – a ...

Saundersfoot Sailing Club
Tenby Observer
Sherpa Mor has also been 'round the corner', sailing to Dale and then up through Jack Sound. Unfortunately, persistent sea fog on the northern side of St. David's peninsular prevented them from going further north than Ramsey, but St. Brides Bay ...

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Extreme Sailing Series LIVE Video Friday

Friday 26 July -LIVE Streaming of Extreme 40 stadium racing  LIVE VIDEO 12noon- 1 pm (EDT - US) 1700 (5 pm)- 1800 (6 pm) BST (London)

Opening day in Porto delivers ‘best racing’ of season so far » Extreme Sailing Series: "An epic nine races were sailed in open sea on the opening day of the Extreme Sailing Series™ Act 5 in Porto, with plenty of hull flying, close mark roundings and even a man overboard for the local boys on ROFF Cascais Sailing Team to keep the on water umpire team busy. Despite hydraulics problems for The Wave, Muscat before racing had even started the defending champions were on fire, winning the opening race before going on to a further three race wins staking an early lead in Porto. Never letting them far from their sights however was Pierre Pennec who returns to the Series at the helm of Realteam, leading the Swiss entry to an impressive three race wins and showing everyone why he is one of the most formidable skippers in the fleet ahead of tomorrow’s Stadium Racing."

Extreme Sailing Series in Portugal
Yachting Monthly
The Extreme Sailing Series is about as far from yacht cruising as sailing could get, but it makes great viewing! The next round of the series, competed in state-of-the-art multihulls crewed by the world's top professional sailors, starts on Friday 25 ...

Artemis sails new AC72 catamaran
ESPN
SAN FRANCISCO -- America's Cup challenger Artemis Racing has sailed its new 72-foot catamaran for the first time, 2½ months after Andrew "Bart" Simpson was killed in a capsize that destroyed the syndicate's first boat. Helmsman Nathan Outteridge calls ...

AC UNCUT's Genny Tulloch steps into PRO John Craig's "office" onboard the America's Cup Race Committee Boat Regardless. John is responsible for setting the race course with his team.

NZL Sailing Team: Kiwis handy at midpoint of Finns and Nacra17 Worlds
Sail World
The 2013 Finn European Championship on now in Warnemunde, Germany has hit the midway mark and with six races sailed New Zealanders Josh Junior and Andrew Murdoch both feature in the top five sailors after another solid day on the water.

A lesson on sailing, south of Boston - South - The Boston Globe: " . . . the relationship between the wind and the sail. “That is always the hardest thing to teach,” says Leonard. “But as you watch someone learn to move the tiller and the boat and sail move, then they learn to move the sail correctly and you see they suddenly get it. That moment when they first do get it, that’s a lot of fun.” Tom Gosselin, a 65-year-old Duxbury resident, said: “The feeling of the natural forces around you and learning to respond to the wind is just amazing. To do this later in life, I think you have a great appreciation for the beauty, and the interaction with the wind, sea, sun clouds, and the total silence. Just amazing. “You learn to respond to the natural forces that move the boat and your spirit at the same time.” He has had two lessons thus far and is working to become certifield to solo. The Duxbury program allows sailors, once they demonstrate basic skills, to use available boats for up to two-hour sails in Duxbury Bay. The entire season-long program costs $525. . . ."

Sailing camp draws youngsters nationwide to Acton Lake
Oxford Press
The camp has been offered by the Hueston Sailing Association for 40 years at the park with Jerry and JoAnne Callahan coordinating it for the past 35 of those years. “It's a lifelong thing they can do,” Jerry Callahan said. “You see the self-reliance ...

SAILING: Prosser to go Round the World
This Is Wiltshire
SWINDON sailor Steve Prosser has been selected for a place in the Clipper 13-14 Round the World Yacht Race. Prosser will join the only global race open to non-professional crew in San Francisco in April and sail back to the UK, arriving in July next year.

Sailing: Matthew Scott Lau finishes strongly to win laser 4.7 race at NSC Cup ...
Red Sports
National Sailing Centre, Saturday-Sunday, July 13-14, 2013 – Matthew Scott Lau finished strongly with eight points and a lead of three to win the Laser 4.7 category at the National Sailing Centre (NSC) Cup Series 2. Reynard Lee and Joel Neo tailed him ...

Sailing: Singapore's Loh Jia Yi wins overall individual title at Optimist ...
Channel News Asia
Enlarge. SINGAPORE: Singapore's Loh Jia Yi has won the overall individual title at the Optimist World Sailing Championship in Italy. He added to the Team title that Singapore won earlier in the week. Fifteen-year-old Loh won the final race 10 at Lake ...

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America's Cup: No Race for Old Men (video)

2013 America's Cup features new evolution in yacht racing | abc7news.com: " . . . . Way back in the dark ages, America's Cup boats were monohulls, and the guys in the back of the boat looked older and heavier -- they were the brain trust. They didn't have to be fast and strong and with cat-like reflexes."They would sort of lounge around in the back there and talk tactics, but now that's very, very different," said Stephen Barclay, the CEO of the America's Cup Event Authority. How different? Well the youngest guys on the team aren't the grinders, they may well be the guys driving the boat. Artemis' wing trimmer is the youngest on their team and is the second youngest, Nathan Outteridge, is the helmsman. . . ."

All 30 rescued after Dutch sailing ship suffers engine failure, strikes rocks off Irish coast | Fox News: " Irish emergency officials say all 30 people aboard a Dutch sailing ship have been rescued after it crashed into rocks off the County Cork coast. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution says the twin-masted Astrid was using engine power to enter the port of Kinsale when its motor failed and the ship drifted quickly on to rocks. It broke apart and sank hours after Wednesday's evacuation. The Astrid, a 42-meter (138-foot) training ship for sailors, was destined for a classic vessels regatta Friday in the West Cork harbor village of Glandore. . . ."

Oman Sail's Summer Sailing Camps exceed attendance targets
TheWeek.com.om
Attendance targets at Oman Sail's Summer Sailing Camps exceeded expectations this year at all three sailing schools, a press release said. At least 60 new sailors with the potential to join the Oman Sail Youth Programme signed up. The programme is ...

National sailing championship begins
Times of India
Rajaram, Rear Commodore of EME Sailing Association said that the objective behind organising such an event is to promote the eco-friendly sport, adding that top sailorsfrom all over the country are participating in the event. "Laser class is Olympic ...

Sailing-New Zealand clinch round-robin stage of Louis Vuitton Cup
Chicago Tribune
Sailing-New Zealand clinch round-robin stage of Louis Vuitton Cup. print. Reuters. 6:07 p.m. CDT, July 23, 2013. July 23 (Reuters) - Emirates Team New Zealand defeated Luna Rossa Challenge on Tuesday to clinch the round-robin stage of the Louis Vuitton ...

Sailing camp draws youngsters nationwide to Acton Lake
Oxford Press
The camp has been offered by the Hueston Sailing Association for 40 years at the park with Jerry and JoAnne Callahan coordinating it for the past 35 of those years. “It's a lifelong thing they can do,” Jerry Callahan said. “You see the self-reliance ...

Black Hills Sailing Association promotes a peaceful passion
Rapid City Journal
The Black Hills Sailing Association celebrated the sailing lifestyle this past weekend at Angostura with a Jimmy Buffet-themed Fleet Party, which included Dock Games in the marina, dinner and prizes at Breaker's Beach and then Moonlight Races after sunset.

Sailing group bids for Marconi house in Chatham
Wicked Local
Selectmen Chairman Tim Roper said it appeared the community sailing program didn't have a lot of cash available and he hoped the group wouldn't ask for Community Preservation Act funds. The restoration of the building could cost upwards of $60,000.

Sailing: S'pore retain world team title
AsiaOne
SINGAPORE - Succeeding a team that had made a clean sweep of the medals the year before is never easy, but Singapore's young sailors got off to a fine start on Sunday at the Optimist World Championships. The team of five retained the team title ...

Vet starts sailing rehab program
CNN
Vietnam veteran Urban Miyares helps other disabled vets heal through sailing ...

National sailing championship starts Thursday at Johnson Lake
Kearney Hub
 . . . Thursday, sailors from across the country will hit the water at Johnson Lake for the 2013 Mutineer 15 National Sailing Championship. National sailing championship starts Thursday at Johnson ...

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Emirates Team New Zealand, Louis Vuitton Cup finalist (video)

News: Emirates Team New Zealand clinches Louis Vuitton Cup round robin: Emirates Team New Zealand has clinched the top spot in the Round Robin of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the America's Cup Challenger Series. The New Zealand team, led by skipper Dean Barker, completed today's 15.43-nautical-mile course in 46 minutes, 53 seconds and finished more than 7 minutes ahead of Luna Rossa. The Italian team was scored DNF for failing to finish within 5 minutes. The Kiwis have amassed 7 points and have three races remaining in the challengers' series, but can't be overcome. In winning the round robin they've earned the right to advance straight to the Louis Vuitton Cup Final or choose their opponent for the semifinal round. As yet, the team hasn't announced its intention other than to say that it plans to sail its next scheduled races on Saturday and Sunday.

America's Cup: New Zealand team beats Italy, but are Kiwis faster than Oracle Team USA? - San Jose Mercury News: " Emirates Team New Zealand flashed its undisputed dominance in the America's Cup racing series again Tuesday, handily beating Italy's Luna Rossa for the third straight race and clinching the top spot in the challenger trials. But the looming question remains: Are the Kiwis fast enough to win when it really counts? Or, perhaps more intriguingly, is defending champion Oracle Team USA fast enough to beat New Zealand, its most likely opponent in the America's Cup finals? "That's the joy of the America's Cup," commentator Andy Green told the crowd gathered at the finish line along America's Cup Park at Pier 27/29. "Is the defender as fast as the fastest challenger?". . . ."

Sailing fans enjoy America's Cup action up close
Gant Daily
San Francisco, CA, United States (4E Sports) – Fans can now enjoy topnotch America's Cup action up close after they were allowed to watch from shore for the first time in the event's 162-year history. Traditionally, the races have been held far out to ...

Artemis launches new catamaran
ESPN
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Artemis Racing of Sweden has launched its new America's Cup 72-foot catamaran, 2½ months after the fatal capsize of its first boat. The syndicate hopes to sail sometime later this week. It has so far missed racing in the Louis ...

Swedish challenger launches new America's Cup yacht with tribute to dead ...
Reuters
Its 131-foot (40-metre) wing sail displays a tribute blue ribbon to Olympic gold medalist Andrew Simpson. The 36-year-old British father of two young children was trapped underwater after his team's high-tech catamaran capsized and broke apart on May 9.

Sailing: Area boats shine in fast Mackinac
Port Huron Times Herald
“We lie to our significant others and tell them we're still busy with sailing so that we don't have to do the honey-do list,” Benedict said with a smile when asked what he would do with his extra time. The significant others were there, however, and ...

Sailing: S'pore retain world team title
AsiaOne
SINGAPORE - Succeeding a team that had made a clean sweep of the medals the year before is never easy, but Singapore's young sailors got off to a fine start on Sunday at the Optimist World Championships. The team of five retained the team title ...

Black Hills Sailing Association promotes a peaceful passion
Rapid City Journal
The Black Hills Sailing Association celebrated the sailing lifestyle this past weekend at Angostura with a Jimmy Buffet-themed Fleet Party, which included Dock Games in the marina, dinner and prizes at Breaker's Beach and then Moonlight Races after sunset.

Sailing Boats Through the Ages – History of Sailboats
YachtPals.com News
In 1947, when I was 8 years old, I learned to sail in the crystal-clear, balmy waters of the East African coast. On home leave in England, my father had found an old International 14 foot sailing dinghy – in a shed, with chickens in it. He cleaned her ...

Hobart marina plan to set sail
Tasmania Mercury
AN expanded floating marina to be built near Wrest Point will help satisfy a growing demand for yachting berths in Hobart, the Derwent Sailing Squadron says. Hobart City Council has given the yacht club a green light to extend its 130-boat Marieville ...

Tritium Lending Club Finishes Transpac 2013: Transpac 2013 first to finish - Tritium Lending Club.

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Louis Vuitton Cup Race LIVE video Tuesday

Emirates Team New Zealand vs Luna Rossa Challenge - LOUIS VUITTON CUP - RR4 - RACE 1, 23 July 2013 -  Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 3 pm EDT (US) -  7 pm (1900) UTC/GMT


Emirates Team New Zealand overcomes breakdown for impressive victory Sunday


Artemis Racing launches AC72 at base in Alameda

America's Cup: Has world-renowned regatta become a gladiator sport? - San Jose Mercury News: "Gasps of surprise and worry rumbled across the Embarcadero when a front sail on the New Zealand boat came crashing down onto the trampoline deck of the 72-foot catamaran before the crew cut it loose and sent the rumpled sail drifting into the bay. It was a spectacle one commentator called an "emergency on Planet Kiwi." Emirates Team New Zealand recovered quickly and still managed to beat Italy's Luna Rossa by more than two minutes, its second victory this month. But the crowd . . . seemed to relish Sunday's accident, which ripped the jib off the front of the boat. . . . 11-year-old Wilson Conn, of Atherton, who watched with his two brothers and parents, had one thing on his mind: "I want to see if it capsizes.". . ."

Sailing: Singapore win team title at Optimist World Championships
Channel News Asia
RIVA DEL GARDA (Italy): Singapore's optimist sailors have won the team racing title at the Optimist World Championships for the third successive year. The team of Koh Yi Kun, Fathin Rasyikin, Loh Jia Yi, Edward Tan, Bertha Han knocked out Uruguay ...

Sailing in the Chicago Mackinac Race
ChicagoNow (blog)
This was the year to win the race for my father, Gene McCarthy. Why? This was his 60th Chicago Mackinac race. He is the second one to reach this milestone, John Nedeau of Muskegon, MI was the first to achieve this many races and has sailed65 ...

Team NZ sail through gear failure
NZ City
They made it six wins from six scheduled races in the round-robin, beating Italy's Luna Rossa by 2min 20sec despite sailing most of the race without a jib. "I was impressed with the composure on board. We have sailed together for a long time - through ...

Petrat writes about sailing to Florida in her first book
Seacoastonline.com
The book was published in July of 2013 and is a story Petrat's voyage on her boat (a 22-foot Pearson Ensign) in which she sailed from Kittery, Maine, to her new home in Sarasota, Fla. She sailed alone for all but the first week of her three-month ...

A roaring success for Sailing in Phuket 2013 Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek
eTurboNews
Winds gusting to 20 knots made for a perfect end to what has turned into one of the best Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek's yet. The weather conditions delivered fast and exciting racing throughout and after four days, the sailors of more than 15 ...

ADM Sailing Files for America's Cup Injunction
Mackay Daily Mercury
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013, ADM Sailing's legal team from the international law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery filed papers with the New York State Supreme Court supporting a motion for preliminary injunction, expedited discovery and a consolidated ...

Tall ships sailing back into Duluth harbor this week
West Central Tribune
DULUTH -- About halfway through Duluth's 2008 tall ships festival that brought threesailing vessels to the city, Visit Duluth President Terry Mattson said “I need more ships.” Two years later he got them — nine ships in total — and an estimated 250 ...

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Emirates Team NZ loses headsail but wins (video)

Emirates Team NZ's headsail goes swimming: Even though they sailed more than half the race without a headsail, Emirates Team New Zealand still defeated Luna Rossa Challenge by 2 minutes, 19 seconds today in a race of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the America's Cup Challenger Series. Leading on the first upwind leg, the third of the course, a halyard seemingly broke on the Emirates Team New Zealand AC72. Skipper Dean Barker's crew tossed the jib overboard and it was retrieved by the chase boat. The Kiwis sailed the remainder of the race with just the 131-foot tall wing sail. Today's seven-leg course measured 15.42 nautical miles, and Emirates Team New Zealand completed the course in 48 minutes, 10 seconds. The Kiwis posted a top speed of 38.72 knots, compared to 37.73 knots for Luna Rossa Challenge.



2013 Sail First ISAF Youth Worlds Day 5 Highlights

Sail First ISAF Youth Worlds Concludes In Limassol, Cyprus
International Sailing Federation
After five days of epic racing featuring 96 races the 2013 Sail First ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship has drawn to a close in Limassol, Cyprus.

Yachting: New twist to America's Cup intrigue
New Zealand Herald
... relation to everyone else's - remains unknown to everybody except Oracle. Or, to be more accurate, Oracle have a better idea than anyone else. Fair? Of course it's not fair. But this is the America's Cup where things are usually slanted towards the ...

Full speed ahead for Coast yacht clubs | Outdoors | The Sun Herald: "Seven years and 11 months after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, the Coast's seven yacht clubs are sailing full-speed ahead. The Category 3 hurricane delivered a haymaker in the fall of 2005, wrecking the facilities of the Coast yachts clubs -- Bay Waveland, Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Ocean Springs, Pass Christian and Singing River. All seven yacht clubs now have excellent facilities, even as they've had to deal with Hurricanes Gustav and Isaac as well as the BP oil spill since Katrina's devastation."

Sailing off to Mackinac Island | The Times Herald | thetimesherald.com: "Windquest was one of the last boats out of the chute in Saturday’s Port Huron-to-Mackinac Island sailboat race. The Max Z86 owned by Doug and Dick DeVos out of Macatawa Bay Yacht Club is in the Turbo Class on the Shore Course, which had the final start of the day at 2:10 p.m. in lower Lake Huron, 2 hours, 40 minutes after the first start. By 5 p.m., it had caught the rest of boats on the Shore Course and was pulling away — from everyone but Il Mostro, that is, the Volvo 70 in the same class as Windquest which was slightly behind. . . ."

Sailing off to Mackinac Island
Port Huron Times Herald
No Surprise, a boat sailing in the Double Handed Class, owned by David Irish of Harbor Springs, was the last to be caught by Windquest, just north of the Sanilac County Park. The Double Handed Class had begun at 11:30 a.m., the first start of the day.

Sailing: Burling and crew keen to get going
The Bay of Plenty Times
Tauranga sailor Peter Burling leads the seven-man NZL Sailing Team with Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) set to go up against nine other teams in the inaugural Red Bull Youth America's Cup on San Francisco Bay from September 1-4 - the window ...

SAILING: Long Beach's John Sangmeister grateful for support after Tritium ...
Long Beach Press-Telegram
The Tritium Racing Team, owned and skippered by John Sangmeister of Gladstone's Long Beach, won the Transpac sailing race from Los Angeles to Hawaii. Sangmeister's trimaran crossed the finish line late Thursday night, completing the 2,225 ...

Sailing: Singapore win team title at Optimist World Championships
Channel News Asia
RIVA DEL GARDA (Italy): Singapore's optimist sailors have won the team racing title at the Optimist World Championships for the third successive year. The team of Koh Yi Kun, Fathin Rasyikin, Loh Jia Yi, Edward Tan, Bertha Han knocked out Uruguay ...

Petrat writes about sailing to Florida in her first book
Seacoastonline.com
The book was published in July of 2013 and is a story Petrat's voyage on her boat (a 22-foot Pearson Ensign) in which she sailed from Kittery, Maine, to her new home in Sarasota, Fla. She sailed alone for all but the first week of her three-month ...

Sail Townsville - a massive boost for Queensland Sailing
Sail World
The inaugural Sail Townsville event will run from 24 August until 3 September will be a culmination of SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, 'Townsville Alive' a mainland Community, Arts and Entertainment Festival and a Yachting Queensland Multi-Class ...

Yacht club sails toward 75th anniversary
South Bend Tribune
Although there's more emphasis today on social activities, it's sailboat racing that has sustained the organization. The club's largest such race is Saturday and Sunday, when it will stage its nationally recognized Open Sailing Championship Regatta ...

Sail Townsville - a massive boost for sailing in FNQ
Sail World
The inaugural Sail Townsville event will run from 24 August until 3 September will be a culmination of SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week, 'Townsville Alive' a mainland Community, Arts and Entertainment Festival and a Yachting Queensland Multi-Class ...

TOPICS: Sailing seals visit for winter break
Newcastle Herald
BRIAN Woodrow, of Whitebridge, did well to spot this visitor sprawled on the Nobbys breakwall. It was one of those brooding days where ocean and sky seem to meld into one grey liquid, but look closely and you'll make out a fat cigar-shaped figure face ...

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Live Video of LOUIS VUITTON CUP Sunday Race

LOUIS VUITTON CUP - RR3 - RACE 3 - Live video from San Francisco - Scheduled for July 21, 2013, Emirates Team New Zealand vs Luna Rossa Challenge 3 pm ET (US) - 7 pm (1900) UTC/GMT

Week 2 at the America's Cup - YouTube: "A look back at week two at the America's Cup in San Francisco."

Transpac: "At 18:17:26 today local Hawaii time, Syd Fischer’s Elliott 100 Ragamuffin 100 crossed the finish line at Diamond Head to be the fastest monohull to complete the 2225-mile course in the 2013 Transpac. For this feat Ragamuffin and its crew of 20 will be awarded the Merlin Trophy, dedicated in 2009 by Trisha Steele and named for the Bill Lee-designed and built boat that in 1977 set a new course record that stood for 20 years and ushered in a new age of high speed offshore race boat design."
2013 Transpac Honolulu Race on Yacht Scoring 

Lending Club takes line honours in Transpac Race
My Sailing
The modified ORMA 73 trimaran was sailed by a crew of nine and was just a few hours from breaking the fully-crewed multihull course record of 5 days 9 hours 18 minutes 26 seconds set in 1997 by the 86-foot catamaran Explorer, due in part to damage ...

ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship: "Puerto Rico, French And Brazilian Sailors Take Final Sail First ISAF Youth Worlds Golden Honours - Juan Perdomo (PUR), Lucas Rual and Emile Amoros (FRA) and Brazil's Tiago Brito and Andrei Kneipp added their names to the Sail First ISAF Youth World Championship gold medallists as racing concluded in Limassol, Cyprus."

Auckland to Bluff Ocean Race: A family affair
Sail World
The Auckland to Bluff Ocean Race is New Zealand's new blue-water sailing event and is attracting a range of yachts and crews for its inaugural race which sets sail from Auckland's Waitemata Harbour on Sunday, 9th February 2014. One of the interesting ...

Wilson And Star Studded Team Win CMRC A
International Sailing Federation
In the midst of hot, wild and windy conditions along the Belmont Harbor lakefront, Chicago Match Race Center's own Don Wilson won the CMRC Grade 3 Summer Invitational A regatta, the first of an ISAF Grade 3 match racing double-header.

Come sail away
Marquette Mining Journal
The Peacemaker is docked at Mattson Lower Harbor Friday evening for the Tall Ships 2013 event. Three sailing ships will be in Marquette this weekend offering tours and sailing excursions. The Peacemaker is being joined by the S/V Denis Sullivan, ...

AfloatMagazine: Defending Champions Take Charge at Skerries SC Fireball…
Afloat
Two Olympics and two Windward-Leewards were sailed and defending champions Noel Butler & Stephen (15061) pulled the irons out of the fire to go top of the leader board with. a 3pt margin on Kenny Rumball & David Moran (15058) who in turn has 3pts ...

A kite surfer has flown into the record books sailing from France to Ireland.
Belfast Telegraph
Bruno Sroka took off from the Penn Enez beach at l'Aber Wrac'h in Brittany at 6.25am on Friday morning and hit land in Co Cork later that night. The 240 nautical mile (444km) kite surf challenge saw him reach Crosshaven at 10.02pm on Friday. Sroka is ...

Flying Fifteen Title Goes to Goacher & Evans
Afloat
They only joined the class last year, and were sailing in their just launched, brand new, boat. Graham, 73, had won a Merlin Championship here 15 years ago, and seemed to remember his way round the course! Under much pressure, they defended their ...

Sailing: Forecasted wind could be good for Cove Island racers
Port Huron Times Herald
“That would be wonderful for us,” said Warner, owner and skipper of Cheeky, which issailing out of the Port Huron Yacht Club. “That would be very good. Then, coming up north, we'll have to see how we play it and stay out of the rough seas, because it ...

Sailing gives disabled man wonderful feeling of freedom
The Guardian Charlottetown
This week if you traveled just outside of the Charlottetown harbour you would see many yachts racing in Hillsborough Bay. On Saturday, directly in the Charlottetown Harbor, the sight was much of the same with only one difference. Members sailing the ...

5 Weekend Musts: Sailing Open House + More
GoLocal Worcester
Saturday Spend an afternoon testing the waters at Regatta Point Community Sailing for this unique opportunity to get free boat rides and sailing lessons! Kids will appreciate the games being offered during the day as well, but this event is perfect for ...

Montrose Sailing Club
Montrose Review
Six dinghies set sail and the handicap races were sailed as planned. The glorious sunshine and high temperatures resulted in the more brave individuals taking to the water in short wetsuits so it seems the summer has finally arrived! The lighter airs ...

Becalmed youth sailing crew needs new rigging
This is Somerset
Morvargh Sailing Project, based at Sutton Harbour in Plymouth, uses all aspects of life on board ship to inspire and change lives by providing voyages for young people aged 14 to 25. Using a Class D tall ship, its mission is to help participants ...

ISAF Youth Sailing Worlds - Henson and Greber claim bronze
Sail World
At the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships, James Henson admitted to going through almost every emotion on the final day in Cyprus – but the overriding one was elation as he and Oli Greber clinched bronze. Helm Henson and his crew Greber took to ...

For New Zealand, San Francisco America's Cup looks make or break
Reuters
With competitive sailing in the 34th America's Cup getting under way on San Francisco Bay, New Zealand already stands out as the most polished of the three teams that hope to pry the trophy away from software mogul Larry Ellison's Oracle Team USA.

Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for 20 July 2013
Afloat
#dbsc – BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Legally Blonde (C.Drohan/P.Egan), 2. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty), 3. Levante (M.Leahy/J.Power). BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Levante (M.Leahy/J.Power), 2. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 3. Prima Nocte (Patrick Burke ...

Five rough weather sailing tips for balance and control
Sail World
Learn to sail with ease by maintaining just the right amount of weather helm on your boat. Too much and you will fight the helm with 'white fisted' effort that will wear you down and slow the boat. Too little weather helm makes the boat feel lifeless ...

Palmeter, Ruitenberg start strong at sailing nationals
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Local sailors Alex Palmeter and Luke Ruitenberg both enjoyed strong performances on the opening day of the 420 North American and Laser Canadians at the St. Margaret Sailing Club on Friday. Palmeter, who sails out of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht ...

John Tipp and his boat have unrivaled history in Port Huron to Mackinac
Detroit Free Press
Balcirak and Tipp are youngsters compared to 91-year-old Lee Smith of St. Clair Shores, who will be sailing his 60th Mackinac. He'll join the crew of Mostly Harmless, owned by Warwick Smith of Grosse Pointe Woods. Tipp, 74, competed in his first ...

Yachting: Kiwis collect gold and bronze at sailing champs
New Zealand Herald
This country's sailing future looks bright after New Zealand crews won gold and bronze at the youth sailing world championships in Cyprus this week. All five Kiwi crews finished in the top six, helping New Zealand to third in the Nations Trophy behind ...

Richmond Hill's Rohde wins sailing championship
Savannah Morning News
MARION, Mass. — Dana Rohde of Richmond Hill led from start to finish and won her first Nancy Leiter Clagett Memorial Trophy at the 2013 U.S. Junior Women's Singlehanded Championship (USJWSC) on Friday. The 42-boat Laser Radial fleet completed ...

Oman Sail's women team set for France event
Oman Tribune
FRANCE Oman Sail's inspirational women's crew on Al Thuraya Bank Muscat Team are relishing the prospect of being part of a vast and competitive fleet at the J80 World Championships in Marseilles despite being relative newcomers to the race track.

Lead the way, Captain Selo! Cruising the Mediterranean on a glorious gulet ...
Daily Mail
We are here for a week's sailing along the Turkish coastline, touring the glittering Aegean on a traditional gulet – a sailing yacht – that will go wherever the wind takes it. Our first day aboard is spent getting to know our fellow passengers. It's an ...

Lonely Planet travel expert's tips on island-hopping sailing trips around Croatia
TNT Magazine
It offers a five-day sailing trip on board a skippered yacht stopping at Brac, Hvar and Vis. It then continues to Biševo, where you can visit the famous Blue Cave, a grotto with turquoise waters providing a surreal indoor swimming experience. It ...

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