World Sailing Show September 2017; Next America's Cup Monohulls

The World Sailing Show - September 2017

Video above published Aug 28, 2017:

01:02 - Lendy Cowes Week
07:15 - News
09:29 - International Moth Worlds
12:28 - Rolex Fastnet Race
19:35 - Gitana 17 launched

• The Rolex Fastnet Race, the sailor’s Everest and this year there was a bumper entry and some fiercely close racing.
• There was also a record turn out for the International Moth World Championships where the world’s rock stars gathered, hot foot from the America’s Cup.
• The beast gets launched as Gitana 17 prepares to change the future. A visit with the boat and the brains behind the project.
• Plus, new talent, new trophy, new events and a new record at Lendy Cowes Week.

Sailing News: Next America's Cup: Foiling Monohulls?

• America’s Cup to ditch catamarans in favor of monohulls - The Washington Post: "... The Kiwis did not say whether the boats will have foils or canting keels. More details were promised at the end of the month. Team New Zealand released a statement after Italian billionaire Patrizio Bertelli, boss of the Italian Challenger of Record Luna Rossa and CEO of Prada, told La Stampa that the next regatta will be sailed in monohulls as a condition of his group helping the cash-strapped Kiwis in the 35th America’s Cup ..." read more at the link above
• Sailing professor Mark Orams: America's Cup monohulls are "dramatic, extremely fast" - NZ Herald: "Monohulls will provide spectacular America's Cup racing to match what the catamarans provided in Bermuda, according to the sailing Professor Mark Orams. The former Team New Zealand member said the foiling monohulls were better suited to Auckland's conditions, and monohulls would see a welcome return to more traditional sailing techniques involving more crew members. It would almost certainly see an end otocycle-grinding ..." read more at link above.
• Government pushes for big say in next America's Cup regatta - NZ Herald: "Documents obtained by the Herald under the Official Information Act reveal the extent of strategising that took place in the days after Team New Zealand's stunning win in Bermuda to ensure the Government would have a seat at the bargaining table.Team NZ are set to reveal their plans for the next event, likely to be held in early 2021, later this month. This follows negotiations with Luna Rossa, the challenger of record."

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Children's Cup Regatta, sailing videos, Fastnet winners

WALA FOX10 News, Mobile, Alabama USA - studio10: Children's Cup Regatta, sailing

Rolex Fastnet Race Homepage: "The father and son team from Cherbourg, France sailing the JPK 1010 Night n Day have won the overall Fastnet Challenge Trophy on handicap, some 33 minutes ahead on corrected time of another JPK 1010 Foggy Dew in second. This is the first time in the Rolex Fastnet Race's 88 year history that a two-handed entry has won."

America's Cup: Luna Rossa says it has improved
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- The first time Italy's Luna Rossa Challenge faced the New Zealand team on the America's Cup race course last month, the Kiwis won every race by a mile. With the teams facing each other again beginning Saturday in the best-of-13 Louis ...

Ellison defends 72s as the right choice for Cup, says 'structural failure ...
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
His reference to structural failure on Artemis was the first time anyone connected with the America's Cup has publicly identified that as the cause of the accident. Others have speculated that the boat's forward cross beam snapped before the bow went ...

Full starting grid for Extreme Sailing Series™ Cardiff presented by Land Rover » Extreme Sailing Series: "A number of high profile crew changes and two additional team entries still to be announced for the Extreme Sailing Series™ Cardiff presented by Land Rover, sees the Act shaping up to be one of the most closely contested of the Series to date, as the fleet prepare for four days of Stadium Racing hosted by the Cardiff Harbour Festival, over the UK Bank Holiday weekend, 23-26 August. . . ."

Anna Tunnicliffe blog » Extreme Sailing Series: "Best known for her success as an Olympic gold medallist and two-times ISAF World Sailor of the Year, Anna Tunnicliffe is set to make a return to the Extreme Sailing Series™ competing with the Swiss America’s Cup winners Alinghi in Cardiff. Sailing in the ‘fifth sailor’ spot, a position designed to allow an amateur, young sailor or women to race, Anna talks to us about her return to the Extreme Sailing Series, her latest passion CrossFit and . . . ."

SAILING: Weymouth sailor Emmett becomes a six-time champion
Dorset Echo
WEYMOUTH Laser Radial dinghy sailor Jon Emmett has scooped the UK Nationals title for the sixth time. The 35-year-old went into the final race of the UK National and Open Laser Championships at Paignton Sailing Club on equal points with his nearest ...

Sailing siblings impress again
Rugby Observer
Taking place at the Olympic venue of Weymouth and Portland SC, the RS Tera Sport World Championship attracted 72 sailors from seven different countries. Jack Lewis performed brilliantly to keep himself right at the forefront of the competition ...

Gorgeous Sailing @ Buzzards Bay Regatta
J/Sailing News (blog)
(Padanaram, Massachusetts)- The BBR (as the Buzzards Bay Regatta is commonly referred to) has long been one of the highlights of the summer sailing season on Buzzards Bay, and certainly renown as one of the best sailing areas in New England.

Italian skipper: Oracle cheated
ESPN
The Jury is investigating Oracle Team USA under Rule 69 of the Racing Rules of Sailing, America's Cup Edition, and Protocol Article 60. Rule 69 deals with gross misconduct capable of bringing the sport into disrepute. Protocol article 60 is aimed at ...

Pascal and Alexis Loison win top prize in Rolex Fastnet Race
The Independent
A father and son team from Cherbourg has won the top prize in the Rolex Fastnet Race, and the French have been climbing all over the top honours. Sailing two-handed, Pascal and Alexis Loison beat off the threat from bigger, more powerful, and vastly ...

Hingham youth sailors shine at Junior Olympics
Hingham Journal
Several Hingham youth sailors came away victorious at the 2013 Junior Olympic sailing regatta this past weekend in Duxbury. The annual event, which is part of a nationwide series of regional regattas for youth sailors put on by US Sailing, was hosted ...

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