'Blind' man to sail around the world alone CNN International "But what I immediately gave up on in my head was sailing. I just thought, 'well, I'll never do it again.' "But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I just had to change the way I sail ... I want people to realize that they shouldn't just ... | ||
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First day a success for disabled sailing regatta Hamilton Spectator The Cup — Canada's national regatta for people with disabilities — kicked off with opening ceremonies Monday evening, following practices early in the afternoon. Some climbed and others with more severe disabilities were lifted in and out of their ... | ||
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URI Sailing Center Prepared for the Worst, Hoped for the Best Patch.com The URI Sailing Center on Pt. Judith Pond battened down the hatches as Hurricane Irene approached. By Rachel McCarty The URI Sailing Center was ready for Hurricane Irene. Usually sporting a gleaming white fleet of Flying Juniors and Tech Dinghies on ... | ||
Beached Sailboat Owner 'Grateful' for Island Park's Help During Irene Patch.com Sherry Gibson certainly didn't want or expect her sailboat, Wind Swept, to end up stranded on Island Park beach during Hurricane Irene on Sunday. But that's exactly what happened. The sailboatcame loose from its mooring during Hurricane Irene and ... | ||
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Just a smattering of boat damage SouthCoastToday.com PETER PEREIRA/The Standard-Times Anne Tisdale and husband Verne Tisdale assess the damage caused to their sailboat by Tropical Storm Irene. Their sailboat broke from the mooring during the storm and ran aground on the Mattapoisett beach. ... | ||
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Green Dragon Sailing for Kinsale then Rotterdam Afloat "At this major global exhibition in Germany this will be a fantastic opportunity to showcase IrishSailing and our plans for 2012 - and also to show our support for Team Sanya our Chinese IrishVolvo Ocean Race Team. A formal sendoff is planned from ... | ||
Queen Mary Sailing Club's Jerry Wales claims RS700 National Championship title ... bettor.com (blog) A consistent sail from Queen Mary Sailing Club's Jerry Wales brought him on top of the standings to claim the title of RS700 National Championships held at Weymouth and Portland National SailingAcademy. Wales gained the overall lead early in the ... | ||
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Storm Roundup: Chafed Lines Sprang Boats from Moorings Patch.com Many of those boats were large sailboats, a majority of which appeared to receive minor damage; a few boats, including at least one sailboat, were destroyed. Susan Booras of Swampscott said that her family's boat, Moira, a 25-foot sailboat, ... | ||
New Zealand. Euro City Napier signs up to support OptiWorlds BYM News (press release) The Opti Worlds programme commences on 20 December with a four day sailing clinic, and an invitation regatta for all internationals and 100 of the top New Zealand Optimist sailors, runs on 28 and 29 December. There will be a welcoming ceremony and ... | ||
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'Bash' For A Cause Yankton Daily Press By Derek Bartos With summer winding down, lake enthusiasts made sure to take in as much fun as possible over the weekend during this year's Bash to the Colonies Sailboat Regatta. The annual celebration, held at Lewis and Clark Lake, consisted of a ... | ||
Storm-tossed: Italian disability rights activist, sailor land in Belfast ... Bangor Daily News The handicapped-accessible sailboat is the centerpiece of his nonprofit organization that helps disabled people have a chance to go sailing for free, he said Tuesday. Buy Photo BELFAST, Maine — Andrea Stella's life changed forever 11 years ago, ... | ||
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30 Years of Sailing at Kielder Water Sailing Club - Yachts and ... Kielder Water Sailing Club and Kielder Water Yacht Club celebrated the 30th anniversary with aregatta on the August Bank Holiday weekend, this year hosted by the sailing club which is based at Tower Knowe. Originally, both the sailing club ... Rounding off the regatta weekend was KWSC's long-standing Little America's Cup - match racing in Toppers, a knock-out competition where pairs of competitors sail a very short triangular course against each other. The winner was Adrian ... Latest news from Yachts and Yachting... | ||
Pacific Northwest Boating News: Two tales of sailing down the west ... By Nigel Barron We cleared the Juan de Fuca Strait yesterday (8/18) around 3 p.m., quickly got the main up and started motor sailing. The wind direction initially was not the most favorable, but over the course of the evening backed enough that we spent the ... Three Sheets Northwest | ||
Snipe Worlds 2011: Hardest Regatta Yet | Boats.com Blog By Carol Cronin So I'll go even farther out on the one-design limb and say that in two decades of high-level international sailing, the 2011 Snipe Worlds was my Hardest Regatta Yet. Here's why. Team Cronin takes advantage of a postponement on day 3 to do ... Boats.com Blog | ||
Desert Sea - New Mexico and Southwestern Sailing: Former Cup ... By Pat Southwestern sailing, New Mexico sailing, sailboats, Rio Grande Sailing Yacht Club, New MexicoSailing Club, Arizona Yacht Club, sailboat racing, Elephant Butte Lake, sailors, sail, boat safety, past commodore, race management, club race officer, ... I'm pretty sure it was "Stars and Stripes" but not the 1995 USA-34 International America's Cup Class (IACC) Stars and Stripes that is moored adjacent to the barge shown in these pictures, but rather a slightly order IACC boat, USA-11. ... Desert Sea - New Mexico and Southwest... | ||
Two Months. – Sailing Wondertime By Sara We're extremely grateful that we decided to sail down the west coast of Vancouver Island after all; the trip has given the girls and us valuable experience sailing in ocean swells and much greater confidence in sailing together as a family. ... Sailing Wondertime | ||
What do sailors do when they are on land? » Extreme Sailing Series Known for their achievements on board multihulls, monohulls and speed machines, a group from the world of professional sailing, are lesser known for their ... www.extremesailingseries.com/.../what-do-sailors-do-when-the... |
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Blind man to sail around the world alone
30 August 2011
Volvo Ocean Race: Year of the Tiger for Teng Jiang He
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Cancer survivor's sailing success Suffolk Free Press They are truly inspiring.” Dame Ellen MacArthur founded the trust in 2003 after spending time with a similar organisation in France. The charity's aim is to boost the self-confidence of young cancer patients through sailing, allowing them to test ... | ||||||
Van Voorhis clan sails as one Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Heide picked up sailing when she was 2, starting on a one-person Laser Class sailboat. "Sailing is a lifelong sport and there is never an opportunity where you're not learning," Bowen said. "Every condition is different, every day is different. ... | ||||||
Maine Maritime sailors take on world in next effort Morning Sentinel Joseph and seven others on the Mariners' big boat offshore sailing team are slated to compete for the top spot among the world's best college sailing teams this fall in France. The team sailed away with the US championship for big boat offshore racing ... | ||||||
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A new name for sailing trust charity News Guardian A NORTH Shields-based charity is making waves with the launch of its new identity. Ocean Youth Trust North has officially changed its name as it launches an assertive new campaign to make young people throughout the region aware of the sail training ... | ||||||
Sailboat lands on Hampton Bays lawn Newsday (subscription) Click here Sailboat lands on Hampton Bays lawn 8 m ago By Keith Herbert When Thor Anderson woke up Sunday morning, there was a 28-foot sailboat on his front lawn in Hampton Bays. The only problem: It wasn't his boat. “It's about 50 feet away from my ... | ||||||
Lack of breeze cancelled practice race of 2011 Region of Murcia Trophy: 2011 ... bettor.com (blog) However, the practice race will be commenced next day to begin the fourth regatta of 2011 Audi MedCup Circuit. All eight teams of TP52 series have reached Cartagena, Spain to take part in the fourth leg of the season. So far they have seen strong winds ... | ||||||
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Schock 35 Nationals: Michaelis' Mako takes top honors in close fought regatta BYM News (press release) Leading at the end of the first two days, but finishing the regatta in second place was Richard Fish's Outlier. “In our first race today MAKO boxed us in next to the Race Committee boat,” Fish said, “and we had to back out of the start. ... | ||||||
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Montague sailor has his life jacket, and emergency responders, to thank for ... Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com By Jerry W. Morlock | Muskegon Chronicle When Bruce Froelich's small sailboat capsized for the fifth time during high winds in Lake Michigan Saturday, he thought: "This is the last day I'm going to be alive." The 60-year-old Montague man was wearing a ... | ||||||
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After hurricane, New Yorkers hardly miss a beat Houston Chronicle COLLEEN LONG, AP, DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Zack Fluhr of New York secures his sail boat at the Manhattan Sailing club marina on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 in New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered mandatory evacuations for residents in ... | ||||||
Green Dragon Sails Again Afloat Ireland's Volvo 70 the Green Dragon was back on the water again yesterday, two years after she had finished fifth out of seven entries in the 2009 Volvo Ocean Race. In spite of the disappointing performance the boat was welcomed in to Galway after the ... | ||||||
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Tall Ships say farewell to Turku Helsingin Sanomat A total of 30 tall ships took part in The Culture 2011 Tall Ships' Regatta in Turku over the weekend. ”Among the vessels were four ships of more than 100 metres in length, including the world's longest and second longest traditional sailing ships”, ... | ||||||
Hard on Port Wins Cruisers III DBSC Cruiser Challenge Event Afloat In what at first glance looks like a repeat of the results from July's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta there are familiar name at the top of the leaderboard after the weekend's Dublin Bay Sailing Club Cruiser Challenge contested by 70 boats from 7 classes. ... | ||||||
Hamilton hosts Mobility Cup Hamilton Spectator Millar decided to give sailing a shot again and got his start in the Mobility Cup, Canada's international regatta for disabled sailors. He had to spend two years relearning everything, but he hasn't looked back since. In 2004, he went to Athens to ... | ||||||
UK 18 foot Skiff Nationals: Pica leads after six races BYM News (press release) The lighter conditions, resulted in a unanimous decision for big rigs which teams had given a serious shakedown in the heavy weather sailing yesterday. The start was committee boat biased with Pica winning the start and Investec to leeward. ... | ||||||
Espey Wins Lasers, Local Sailor Takes Radials at Lough Derg Nationals Afloat LDYC Sailing Secretary, Michael McCarney, said that the "seventy plus volunteers, helping out at the event, ensured four great days of racing". He said that the "wildly varying weather conditions provided quite a challenge for sailors and race ... | ||||||
Anybody lose a sailboat? | Universal Hub By adamg Anybody lose a sailboat? By adamg - 8/28/11 - 7:38 pm. Lost sailboat in Swampscott. Tim Mouradian photographed a lost sailboat in Swampscott today. Copyright Tim Mouradian. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr. Reply · E-mail this ... Universal Hub | ||||||
Weston Regatta at Weston Sailing Club - Yachts and Yachting Online The Weston regatta took place over the August bank holiday weekend with six races being held over the three days. The camping field was available for the whole weekend and the club barbecue was available for participants to cook their ... Latest news from Yachts and Yachting... | ||||||
America's Cup – Wired Magazine | Illustrophile, Illustration blog ... By Joel Kimmel I'm really excited to show you these new portraits and spots I did for the new issue of Wired Magazine. This job for one of my favorite magazines came in on Canada Day, giving me one more reason to celebrate. Wired uses a ton of great ... Illustrophile, Illustration blog,... | ||||||
This is Exeter | Regatta's special date By Exeter Express and Echo Both of the events were free to enter and there were prizes for the winners. The regatta in its present form was revived by Sidmouth Sailing Club. Collections were taken for the local branch of the RNLI during events held on Saturday evening. ... Exeter All Content Feed | ||||||
The Sabang International Regatta | IndonesiaCultures.Com By Dimitri Jointly organized with the Technical Assistance from the Indonesian Sailing Federation, and supported by the provincial government, the Sabang International Regatta kicks off with a pre-regatta dinner on the evening of September 13 in ... IndonesiaCultures.Com | ||||||
Pacific Northwest Boating News: Two tales of sailing down the west ... By Marty McOmber Tom Brown and Jeanne Walker on their sailboat, Eagle, after arriving in Eureka, Calif. Editor's note: For Northwest sailors heading to California, Mexico and points further afield, the trip down the west coast can be difficult and hazardous, with ... Three Sheets Northwest | ||||||
Champagne Twilight Sailing Experience - Perth - DUPLICATE ... This Fremantle champagne sail is the perfect after-work wind down with friends or colleagues, or the perfect date with to share with someone special. Gift Ideas | Adventure and Experience... | ||||||
World Tour Stories - Alex and Taru sailing around the world: Hey ... By World Tour Stories Did you know that the previous owner of this beauty of a boat that we're now busy preparing for a circumnavigation was D Randy West? Yes, the professional racing sailor and author of the famous Hurricane Book. Randy is very well known ... World Tour Stories - Alex and... | ||||||
Windfinder - News/Blog about Windfinder, Kitesurfing, Windsurfing ... pkra_2011_spo_race.jpg. On the first day, big parts of the Freestyle trials were held. The days afterwards, there was a lot of light wind with a lot of races going on. It was again a fight between the two Americans Adam Koch and John Heineken. ... Windfinder News | ||||||
Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 | Year of the Tiger for Team Sanya Despite sailing for the first time only last year, Teng's tenacious spirit has earned him a coveted position aboard China's first entry in the Volvo Ocean Race and ... www.volvooceanrace.com/en/Year-of-the...for.../news.html
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29 August 2011
Anna Tunnicliffe wins Buddy Melges Challenge final 3-0
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Coast Guard rescues man after sailboat capsizes in Lake Michigan BYM News (press release) A US Coast Guard boatcrew from Station Muskegon, Mich., rescued a man after his sailboatcapsized in Lake Michigan about three miles from White Lake Channel Saturday afternoon. A 911 dispatcher notified Coast Guardsmen at Station Muskegon after the ... | ||||||||
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Irish Sailing joins attack on Ivan Yates SportsNewsIRELAND The Volvo Ocean race brought in €55m in economic benefit to the West of Ireland when Galway hosted one of the stopovers. If we all subscribed to Ivan's narrow view of the world we would all end up being couch potatoes watching sport on TV taking place ... | ||||||||
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Sea Notes: Riding out the storm SouthCoastToday.com Placing second in this year's Bullseye regatta were Will Tifft and David Webb, also of the BYC, with Christopher and Stephen Streit of Card Sound Sailing Club taking third. Other local sailors in theregatta were Wendy Goodwin and Chris Verni in 5th; ... | ||||||||
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Irene loses hurricane strength, hits Coney Island Houston Chronicle Photo: Steve Helber / AP One of two people rescued from a sailboat, right, uses a line to make their way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk, Va., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, after they and another person were rescued from the boat that foundered ... | ||||||||
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Hatton: Remembering Dad a birthday tradition Yakima Herald-Republic It had exposed our wooden dock and left our small sailboat marooned on the shore. I decided to open up a channel so we could pull the sailboat safely out into deeper water. I started tossing the rocks on either side of me. It was a slow process. ... | ||||||||
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Ruffles Wins DBSC Ruffian Race Afloat Dark clouds brought heavy rain but also great sailing conditions for Saturday's Dublin Bay SailingClub race. The Cruiser classes were racing for Cruiser challenge honours leaving the one designs to the regular bay race. Results below: FLYING FIFTEEN ... | ||||||||
Oliver and the sport of sailing | VSail.info By Valencia Sailing It's encouraging to see kids like Oliver and maybe it shows that the internet can bring the sport of sailing to wider audiences. Even if Oliver is a sailor himself, he would have never known about this regatta or even this circuit hadn't he watched ... VSail.info | ||||||||
On Teaching, Sailing, and Swimming « the Bok Blog By Odile Harter On Teaching, Sailing, and Swimming. 28 Aug. Today's guest post comes from Suzanne Smith, who teaches in the History and Literature Department. …whether one falls into a little swimming pool or into the middle of the biggest sea, one ... the Bok Blog | ||||||||
Maldives postage stamp boy with model sailboat | Flickr - Photo ... By nobody@flickr.com (oldsailro) 1981 International A Class British Championship won by Dick Priest show here with HIGHLANDER the winning · Boy lying on the lawn toy boat · Maldives postage stamp boy with model sailboat · 2011 Pond Yacht Regatta Oxelosund Sweden ... Uploads from oldsailro | ||||||||
Man injured when sailboat explodes off Savin Hill | Boston Taxi ... By admin Joseph Doolin, a South Boston resident, was driving down Morrissey Blvd. with his father down when he heard the explosion and saw a white piece went flying tens of feet up into the air. I had my windows up and I heard it, he said. It was loud. Boston Taxi Service | Boston... | ||||||||
America's Cup | Countdown to America's Cup World Series San Diego Adding a new and exciting chapter to its storied history with America's Cup, San Diego is renown as one of the best sailing venues in the world. But come this ... www.americascup.com/.../Countdown-to-Americas-Cup-Worl... | ||||||||
Sailboat | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Sailboat. Aquatic Park, August 2011 ... R Cecil Photography's... (954) · Alcatraz Island; Balclutha &Sailboat; Sailboat; Howard ... Sailboats and sailing (Group) ... www.flickr.com/photos/41336350@N06/6079817731/ | ||||||||
Sail-World.com : 18ft Skiff Regatta - Kiteboard, Coxon winners in ... Martin crewed for Hamlin in four of his five wins in this regatta and is now, officially, Director of Umpiring and Rules Administration for America's Cup Race ... www.sail-world.com/USA/18ft-Skiff-Regatta.../87752
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