Rolex Fastnet Race videos, Extreme Sailing Series, Act 6 Finals LIVE

LIVE St. Petersburg: Day Four - Extreme Sailing Series™ 2015
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Starts: August 23, 2015
SUN 9:00 AM ET (US)


Extreme Sailing Series, Act 6 Finals - 3D St. Petersburg, Russia: Day 4 (graphics only above) - Extreme Sailing Series™ 2015 - Starts: August 23, 2015 SUN 7:30 AM ET (US)

Extreme Sailing Series, Act 6, Day 3 video replay here
Extreme Sailing Series, Act 6 Results
Leaderboard:
1 The Wave, Muscat
2 Lino Sonego Team Italia
3 Red Bull Sailing Team
4 Oman Air
5 SAP Extreme Sailing Team
6 Gazprom Team Russia
7 GAC Pindar
8 Team Turx


The Saint Petersburg Stadium, Russia - ExtremeSailingSeries: With its hidden currents the River Neva race track is riddled with passing and losing lanes. Mastering the conditions is is no mean feat with big wins, and even bigger loses to be had, the skippers talk us through this tight tactical Russian venue.

Rolex Fastnet Race 2015 sailing videos:

Rolex Fastnet Race 2015 – A worthy winner - 21 August - A memorable edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race concluded on 21 August. Géry Trentesaux’s JPK 10.80 Courrier du Léon from France has been confirmed as overall winner of the race on IRC handicap prevailing from a record-breaking fleet of 356 international yachts. As winner of the race Trentesaux and his crew received the Rolex Fastnet Challenge Trophy and a coveted Rolex timepiece at the final prizegiving in Plymouth. The 90th anniversary edition of this famous offshore classic will be long remembered for its tactical challenges, the diverse conditions experienced and the quality of the competing yachts and sailors.


Stuart Childerley and Kelvin Rawlings on Jester win the two handed division of the Rolex Fastnet Race - Olympic dinghy sailor Stuart Childerley and long time big boat sailor Kelvin Rawlings have not only won the two-handed class in the Fastnet, but also came 4th in the overall results. The duo, new to shorthanded sailing, but many Fastnets between them are the first Brits in the Rolex Fastnet Race, that has been dominated by the French this year.

Rolex Fastnet Race 2015 results

The Rolex Fastnet Race facts:

THE RACE: 
The 603nm Rolex Fastnet Race is organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) and just 7 boats sailed in the first race in 1925. The race has been sponsored since 2001 by Rolex SA of Geneva and is legendary within the world of ocean racing. The 46th edition of the biennial race will start off the Royal Yacht Squadron line, Cowes, Isle of Wight on Sunday 16th August 2015. It is the largest offshore race in the world and attracts the most diverse fleet of yachts.

ORGANIZERS: 
Established in 1925, The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) became famous for the biennial Fastnet Race and the international team event, the Admiral's Cup. It organises an annual series of domestic offshore races from its base in Cowes as well as inshore regattas including the RORC Easter Challenge and IRC National Championship in the Solent

The RORC works with other yacht clubs to promote their offshore races and provides marketing and organisational support. The RORC Caribbean 600, based in Antigua and the first offshore race in the Caribbean, has been an instant success and the RORC has extended its organisational expertise by creating a new Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote to Grenada, the first of which was in November 2014.

The club is based in St James' Place, London, but after the recent merger with The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club Cowes, now boasts a superb clubhouse facility at the entrance to Cowes Harbour and a membership of over 4000.

The RORC has also been a leader in yacht handicap systems and in co-operation with the French offshore racing club, UNCL, created IRC; the principal yacht measurement system for the rating of racing yachts. worldwide.

The Spinlock IRC rating rule is administered jointly by the RORC Rating Office in Lymington, UK and UNCL Centre de Calcul in Paris, France. The RORC Rating Office is the technical hub of the Royal Ocean Racing Club and recognised globally as a centre of excellence for measurement. For Spinlock IRC rating information in the UK please see: www.rorcrating.com

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Extreme Sailing Series Day 4 LIVE, Transpac 2015, Sailing Videos

Extreme Sailing Series LIVE Hamburg: Day 4 - July 26, 2015 SUN 9:30 AM ET (US)

Graphics below start at 8AM ET (US)

3D Day 4 Graphics - Extreme Sailing Series, Hamburg, 26 Jul 2015 at 8 AM ET (US)

• Results | Extreme Sailing Series: SAP Extreme Sailing Team leads (see below)
• Watch Replay of Day 3 video here

Extreme Sailing Series™ Act 5, Hamburg, Germany, presented by Land Rover standings after Day 3 (19 races)--Position / Team / Points--

1. SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) Jes Gram-Hansen, Rasmus Køstner, Hervé Cunningham, Mads Emil Stephensen, Nicolai Sehested 137 points.
2. The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan, Sarah Ayton, Pete Greenhalgh, Ed Smyth, Nasser Al Mashari 136 points.
3. Gazprom Team Russia (RUS) Igor Lisovenko, Phil Robertson, Garth Ellingham, Alexander Bozhko, Aleksey Kulakov 131 points.
4. Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Hans-Peter Steinacher, Jason Waterhouse, Jérémy Bachelin, Shaun Mason, Stewart Dodson 130 points.
5. Team Turx (TUR) Edhem Dirvana, Mitch Booth, Selim Kakış, Diogo Cayolla, Pedro Andrade/Can Bayülken 118 points.
6. Oman Air (OMA) Stevie Morrison, Nic Asher, Ted Hackney, Ed Powys, Ali Al Balashi 117 points.
7. Lino Sonego Team Italia (ITA) Lorenzo Bressani, Enrico Zennaro, Stefano Ciampalini, Stefano Rizzi, Manuel Modena 108 points.
8. GAC Pindar (GBR) Seve Jarvin, Adam Minoprio, Marcus Ashley-Jones, James Corrie, James Wierzbowski 95 points.
9. Team Extreme Germany (GER) Paul Kohlhoff, Philip Kasueske, Johann Kohlhoff, Peter Kohlhoff, Max Kohlhoff 50 points.

Transpac 2015 Wild Oats Welcome to Hawaii (video above)


Transpac 2015 analysis by Dobbs Davis of Seahorse Magazine, July 25, 2015
Transpac 2015 updates:

• #Transpac2015 on Twitter
• Transpac 2015 Tracking: http://yb.tl/transpac2015
• 2015 Transpac Honolulu Race on Yacht Scoring - Results
• Transpacific Yacht Club - Transpac 2015

America's Cup World Series at Portsmouth, England --
High water marks for Ben Ainslie and his £100m America’s Cup dream | Sport | The Guardian: "Ben Ainslie’s £100m America’s Cup dream finally hit the hit the water here on Saturday and a victory and a second place had an estimated crowd of more than 100,000 dancing in the Solent sunshine. Two years after the last competition, and 18 months after they started building the boat for the America’s Cup proper, the battle for the Auld Mug, in Bermuda in 2017, Ainslie and his all-British Land Rover BAR team finally gave some credence to the vast investment, both financial and emotional, that has gone into the project. Suddenly, all that hype and optimism looks well placed. The world’s greatest sailor has raised the BAR...."

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America's Cup and ISAF to invest in youth sailing : News & Features | ISAF | World Sailing | Official Site: "The America's Cup and the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) are supporting youth sailing with major investments in two youth sailing programs - one in Bermuda and one international..."

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Extreme Sailing Series Day 4, Volvo Ocean Race, Sailing Videos

3D Qingdao: Day Four - Graphics Above (video below) - Extreme Sailing Series™ 2015 - Starts: May 3, 2015 - SUN 2:00 AM EDT (US)

Turkey are the country of the day in Qingdao | News: "A patchy seven-knot breeze blew across the Chinese racecourse today as the nine international Extreme 40s took to the water in the shadows of the Qingdao skyscrapers at Act 3 of the Extreme Sailing Series™. The change in conditions mirrored a change in rank within the fleet, as Team Turx powered by Kaya Ropes stepped up to the mark...."

Results | Extreme Sailing Series

Day 3 replay videos here

LIVE Qingdao: Day Four - Extreme Sailing Series™ 2015 -
Starts: May 3, 2015 - SUN 10:30 AM EDT (US)


One week to Newport | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - May 1, 2015: There is one week until the Volvo Ocean Race fleet reaches Newport!

Volvo Ocean Race Position Report at 2 May 12:40 UTC
source: volvooceanrace.com

Volvo Ocean Race--VOR Position Report on 2 May at 12:40 UTC:
1. Dongfeng Race Team
2. Team Brunel
3. Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing
4. Team Alvimedica
5. MAPFRE
6. Team SCA

Projected ETA Newport: May 7th

Food glorious food | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - With the extreme sailing taking its toll on the crews, it’s always important to get a good meal inside you. The Onboard Reporters take a break from filming the race to show us some of the scrumptious delights they cook onboard.

Feeling tired? | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-2015: "... 204 days after the start in Alicante last October, all boats are within 56 nautical miles and Dongfeng’s skipper is also showing signs of fatigue. “This is our sixth leg of 20 days and this one has come right after the stressful Southern Ocean leg,” declared Charles Caudrelier in an email from the boat a couple of days ago...."

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