28 September 2011

Nominees ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2011



ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2011 - Nominees Announced
International Sailing Federation
The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) received nominations for the 2011 Awards from across the world for sailors representing all aspects of the sport. In deciding the nominees, the achievements of sailors made during the qualifying period of 1 ...
Volvo Ocean Race: 'Nicko' raring to go
YACHTe.com.au
Camper joined Team Sanya, Team Telefónica and Groupama sailing team in Alicante. Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing and PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG are expected to arrive later this week ahead of the first In-Port Race on October 29. ...
Oyster's Palma Regatta
BYM News (press release)
Richard Smith sailing Oyster 655, Sotto Vento is a veteran of twelve previous Oyster Regattas: “This will be my fourth regatta in Palma but I also love the variety of locations, Sardinia, the British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Antigua, ...
Brownie's Marine Group to Present at Both United States Sailboat and Powerboat ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Chesapeake Bay town is also home of the US Naval Academy and recognized worldwide as the premier sailing showcase to buy or sell products. The Sailboat Show is followed by the United States Powerboat Show, October 13-16, 2011. ...
Gamesa to support India International Regatta 2011
Hindu Business Line
Gamesa is interested in strengthening its association with the sailing event, Kymal said. The regatta, organised by the Yachting Association of India, the Tamil NaduSailing Association and the Chennai Sailing Academy, will see over a hundred sailors...
SF taxpayers may be stuck with portion of America's Cup bill
San Francisco Examiner
America's Cup organizers still have yet to raise the $10 million they need to have in hand by the year's end to pay budgeted planning activities for the regatta, which is set to come to San Francisco in 2013. They will also have to raise an additional ...
America's Cup website aimed at small business coming soon
Bizjournals.com (blog)
San Francisco small businesses have been asking for months about how they can compete for America's Cup work. The city responded on Tuesday - by telling them they will have to wait a bit more. Mayor Ed Lee said San Francisco and America's Cup officials ...
SAILING | Windless weekend doesn't stop sailors
Yale Daily News
1 coed and women's sailing teams. The women's team completed a weekend-high 14 races at its regatta, seven in each division, while none of the four coed teams sailed in more than eight. Several members of the team expressed frustration at the small ...
SAILING | Hagood's Sixth-Place Finish Highlights Navy Regatta
Georgetown University The Hoya
The sole sailor from Hobart and William Smith Colleges took the regatta handily. The second regatta at Navy showed why Georgetown has a right to be excited about the future. Freshman Alex Post finished in second place, qualifying for individual ...
Record turnout for Seabrook Sailing Club regatta
Your Houston News
Junior sailors from the Houston area, across the state and Louisiana turned out in record numbers to participate in the 2011 Endless Summer Regatta, hosted by the Seabrook Sailing Club last weekend. A total of 96 youth sailors participated in the ...
Sailing wins two weekend regattas
The Dartmouth
Dartmouth raced at the Women's Regis Bowl at Boston University, the Hood Trophy at Tufts University, the Salt Pond Invitational in Rhode Island, the St. Mary's Fall at St. Mary's College and the Northern Series Two, a home regatta at Mascoma Lake in ...
Sailing: Under starter's orders,
Malta Independent Online
Many skippers and crew will be using this race as a training session for their sailing Everest in a months' time, the Rolex Middle Sea Race. Although on a much shorter scale, the Oiltanking Vega Offshore Race has its own difficulties. ...
Harvard Picks up Victory at Regatta
Harvard Crimson
By Ricky Liu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Looking to prove that it has what it takes to be one of the country's top teams, the Harvard sailing team entered the third week of its fall schedule still searching for its first top finish. ...
Fitch sailing wins Casco Bay Challenge
The Westerly Sun
PORTLAND, Maine – The Fitch High School sailing club finished first among 16 teams in the Casco Bay Challenge on Sept. 17 in Portland's outer harbor. The victory qualified the Falcons for the National High School Championships held in November in New ...
Marine Patrol Secures Wayward Sailboat
Patch.com
A King County Marine Patrol crew secured a drifting sailboat on Lake Washington during Tuesday morning's windstorm, then towed it to safety, reports Paula Miller, who lives near Champagne Point in Kirkland and tipped Patch to the incident. ...
TP52 World Championships preview
Sail World
Ironically Audi Azzurra Sailing Team, which is skippered by Guillermo Parada (ARG) is one of the two teams that will race on these Sardinian waters which has not won an Audi MedCup Circuit regatta this season. But as Matador, the core crew won the 2009...
Spotlight on sailing history
Warrnambool Standard
AN exhibition that captures the vessels that sailed into Australia's history books has been launched at Cape Otway Lightstation. The 27 paintings appeared in the book Ships That Shaped Australia, the work of former Deakin University lecturer Jack L. ...
New Build: Dubois 100M sailing sloop
Yacht Forums (press release)
Well noted naval architecture and yacht design firm Dubois have designed an astounding 100M long super sailing sloop. Much talk has circled around this project yet few details are available. We do know that the Project is Dubois design number 380. ...
Sailing accessible to everybody
4-traders (press release)
Sailing regatta «Dobryi spomyn» («Good memories») in commemoration of the late Ukrainian yachtsmen and sailing managers was held on September 24, 2011, near Kyiv. This year's regatta is aimed not only to carry on the competitions but to hold the ...
SYC sailing races 2 - 5 results
Seaway News
After a postponement of one day, Race 2 was held on Monday, September 5 on 4.5 nm course to Begin Island and Lakeview Heights. The first three boats – Chapy, Aragonand Irish Mist – finished within 35 seconds on a course taking over one hour. ...
Graet Race - Fastest sailing skiff in the world
Sail World
Sydney Flying Squadron has completed the 'Graet Race' to find the fastest sailing skiff in the world on Saturday 24 September 2011. In the tradition of the 18 footers the race was on Saturday and did start at 2.30pm. On the start line were historic 18 ...
Docklands' boat restoration sailing ahead
Leader News
Alma Doepel restoration director Peter Harris on the deck of the tall ship. Picture: MATT MURPHY n13me527 AT the western end of Bourke St, where it becomes North Wharf Rd in Docklands, sits Shed 2. This is where Australia's last surviving square-rigged ...
Sail-World set for huge coverage of the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race
Sail World
Publisher Rob Kothe commented 'Internet coverage of sailing events is becoming very significant in audience size. 'We are running similarly large Olympic newsletters as well as the Volvo Ocean Race newsletter series and by the mid 2012 we will be ...
America's Cup: Jury assesses six figure damages in final Plymouth race
Sail World
Unfortunately Green Comm Racing fluffed their tack, the wingsail stalled and the boat lost steerage and started sailing backwards. Aleph and Artemis tried to avoid, but could not. As Green Comm Racing was held to be a tacking boat (and had not made her ...
Harvest Moon Regatta sets skippers meeting
Your Houston News
Don Mitchelll, Harvest Moon Regatta Port Aransas Docking Committee Chairman, explains to more than 300 racers and crew the proper docking procedures when they arrive at Port Aransas' City Marina after the race. 1 Keep it Clean. ...
Harrowing voyage: Couple to share sailing stories, including scary whale encounter
Yakima Herald-Republic
Just like that, it was over. But the damage had been done. Four months earlier to the day, a 40-footsailboat struck by one or more whales some 50 miles off the Mexican coast sank in 45 minutes. Donna had  read all about it in a sailing magazine. ...
National Junior Sailing Championship on Tap for Grand Bahama October 1-2
thebahamasweekly.com
“The kids are really excited about this for a number of reasons,” said senior sailing instructor Robert Dunkley, now the official instructor after years of volunteering with others who give countless afternoons and weekend hours to make the junior ...
Oman Sail set for French challenge
Times of Oman
“Oman Sail have already had some great results in international sailing, and they have a great vision to get to future Olympics. Further down the line I am sure this will become a reality.” Nice, in the South East of France, is the capital city of the ...
Rutland sailing charity thanks its supporters
Rutland Times
ORGANISERS of a beer festival were among those thanked at a presentation day at Rutland SailingClub. Rutland Sailability, which provides sailing opportunities for people with disabilities, thanked its regular supporters and those who had made ...
Young And Hungry Match Racers Set to Test Champions In Bermuda
International Sailing Federation
"We've had some incredible success stories where young, less experienced sailors have come from nowhere, knocked the big boys off their pedestals and then gone on to compete regularly on the World Match Racing Tour and the America's Cup...
Olympics 2012: Dorset sailing star Lucy Macgregor predicts a 'full on' year ahead
Dorset Echo
The Sailing star, who will represent Britain in the new women's match racing Olympic class with her sister Kate Macgregor and teammate Annie Lush, said keeping secret about last week's announcement was made easier by being out of the country. ...
Record fleet of 30 Oyster yachts for Palma Regatta - Yachts and ...
Richard Smith sailing Oyster 655, Sotto Vento is a veteran of twelve previous Oyster Regattas: “This will be my fourth regatta in Palma but I also love the variety of locations, Sardinia, the British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Antigua, they are all ...
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New initiative for marine industry | Sailing news | Yachting Monthly
The marine industry could be boosted by £8 billion to make it worth £25 billion by 2020 if a new government strategy is successful, Business Minister Mark Prisk believes. He visited the Southampton Boat Show to discuss his plans with ...
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London 2012 Games / Sailing – facts and numbers « Dorset 2012 Blog
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To help put the London 2012 Games and the Sailing events in Weymouth & Portland into perspective, here are some interesting numbers! Team GBR Sailing was ranked 1 in the Beijing Games with 6 Olympic medals (4 Gold, 1 Silver, ...
Dorset 2012 Blog
America's Cup Uncovered - Episode 9 - YouTube
The America's Cup World Series is in Plymouth. After a dramatic fleet race the teams are fighting against time to get their boats back on the ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WY47i-WXIQ
America's Cup: New, faster format promises TV-friendly thrills - FT.com
The awkward years are over for the America's Cup – at least if the sailing regattas associated with the world's most venerable sporting trophy are judged for their ...
www.ft.com/.../ba1cafb4-d9fe-11e0-b199-00144feabdc0.html

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