Alessandro Di Benedetto: "I hope in a little bit more than one week I’ll be there." - Vendée Globe 2012-2013: ""Yes, it’s true unfortunately (I'm stuck in a hole) but this is sailing and racing, this is part of going around the world just with sails, so it’s quite normal. I am in the high of the Azores, it’s quite complicated. So, now I am going a little north-east, east-north-east and west, north-west, just going one side then the other to go up north as fast as possible. I will join the west winds, there is a low pressure coming from the west."
Vendee Globe - Final act will test two skippers still at sea + Video
Sail World
The final act of the Vendée Globe will test the two skippers still at sea. What to do? Where to go? How to get out? Di Benedetto is in hole and De Lamotte has one in front of him, with apparently no way round it on the way back to Les Sables. At 503 ...
Sail World
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24dash (press release)
The Vendée Globe is the only single handed, non-stop round the world yacht race. The race takes place every 4 years - it started in Les Sables d'Olonne 12 November 2012 and finishes at the same location in France. Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) broke the ...
GW Sailing Begins Spring Season at Competitive Charleston Intersectional
George Washington University - Official Athletic Site
GW's opening regatta of the spring season features a competitive 18-team field consisting of six of the nation's Top 20 programs, including Middle Atlantic IntercollegiateSailing Association (MAISA) counterparts No. 1 Georgetown, No. 12 Navy and No ...
Record sailing voyage wrapping up in S.F.
San Francisco Chronicle
The Maserati's skipper is Giovanni Soldini, 47, who has sailed around the world alone and holds several sailing records. He once rescued Isabelle Autissier, a personal friend and another experienced sailor from certain death when her boat capsized in ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Photo | In Norfolk, ODU sailing team preps for season's first regatta
The Virginian-Pilot
The Old Dominion University sailing team practices on the Elizabeth River on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. The team, made up of both men and women, is preparing for this season's first regatta this weekend in Charleston, S.C. (Steve Earley | The Virginian ...
The Virginian-Pilot
UPDATE 2-Puma abandons sailing for running as profit sinks
Reuters UK
FRANKFURT, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Sportswear firm Puma said it is pulling out of the sailing market to concentrate on other sports such as soccer and running to rebuild its flagging business, leaving an Americas Cup team seeking a new sponsor. The German...
Qualifying Begins For America's Cup Youth Sailing Race
The San Francisco Appeal
sf-americas-cup.jpg Racing started Wednesday for several international youth sailing teams in San Francisco this week to vie for a spot in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup later this year. Six teams from around the world are racing today through Friday ...
The San Francisco Appeal
Players: Sailing on ice
Poughkeepsie Journal
Last year, we had no sailing at all — no ice formed (due to the mild winter).'' Ice yachting/boating, which involves boats or yachts gliding on runners on the ice, dates back to the 1790s on the Hudson River. “Poughkeepsie and Hyde Park were the ...
Spanish cinema: sailing in tandem
Screen International
High-profile projects that bring together Spanish and overseas producers include En Solitaire [pictured], a $20m film about a world sailing regatta co-produced by A Contracorriente in Spain, Gaumont and Le Films Du Cap in France and Scope Pictures in ...
Dubai Offshore Sailing Club holds Sail Around The World event
AME Info (press release)
More than 20 children aged as young as eight will circumnavigate The World independently this weekend in single-handed racing dinghies. The children from the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club (DOSC) race squad are among the nation's most talented young ...
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Cup Spy Apr 25-26: Three Sailings and a Reveal
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Two teams sailed today – one in Auckland and the other in Cagliari.
American Magic gave an unexpected reveal today, when the US Challenger
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Jim Lawrence obituary
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One of the last sailing barge skippers working on the Thames who later went
into the sailmaking business
There were more than 2,000 sailing barges carryi...
Safety Day with SFFD
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Safety Day 2024 was attended by 25 BAADS and SBYC sailors, plus
representatives from the San Francisco Fire Department Engine 35. The day
included presenta...
WEATHER MODELS 201 - WHICH WEATHER MODEL IS BEST?
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[image: Isler Weather Academy]
So many models - so little time! Marine Weather University announces an
upcoming course in these ubiquitous forecasting to...
The Year 2019 in Sailing (video)
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2020 Coronavirus Updates:
- Cancellations of regattas: go to links on the Calendar page.
- See also cruise refunds and cancellations info.
2019 -...
GC32 Racing Tour @Villasimius Cup 2019: Day 3
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Photo: Sailing Energy / GC32 Racing Tour - report sent by GC32 Racing Tour
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S/V Uhuru: Intuition
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VIDEO: Programme Seven 2014, Sydney, Australia
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the world famous Opera House provided the
iconic backdrop to the final of the 2014 Extreme Sailing Series™. After 11
month...
Sailing Magazine - Episode 20 - Dec. 2011
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Just a few years ago, these collegiate sailing teams did not even exist.
The University of Central O...