Volvo Ocean Race Leg 7, Light Air Slows Fleet, Sailing videos

Back in the same patch | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - published on May 21, 2015
After a crazy day yesterday the fleet is now back in the same patch of water, skirting along the ice limits...


Inside Track: Leg 7 #4: Atlantic chaos | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - published on May 21, 2015
As the fleet settles out under the ice limits, teams reflect back on the chaotic conditions of yesterday, Abu Dhabi hits an underwater stopper, and Sam Davies updates us aboard Team SCA.

Volvo Ocean Race, Leg 7 - Newport to Lisbon - Positions at: 21 May 18:43 UTC above

Volvo Ocean Race - Live Twitter feed: JohnTheCrowd: VOR - Volvo Ocean Race
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A Skippers duel | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - published on May 20, 2015
It’s Leg 7 of a nine-month marathon. Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing is the overall leader, currently six points ahead of Dongfeng Race Team. But Charles Caudrelier won’t give up and let Ian Walker win that easily - his men are still in the hunt for the first place.

From heroes to zeroes | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-2015: "... caught for a day in a transition zone near the ice exclusion zone and in sub ten winds, the fleet has slowed down – but it’s cold, and it’s stressful. Seriously stressful. There are 0.6 nautical mile between Jens’ boat, currently first, and MAPFRE, second. Less than 3nm between the first five boats. And 8nm of total spread for the fleet...."

Can Sailing In The 2016 Olympics Kill You?: "... The International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Sailing Federation (ISAF), Rio Organizing Committee and at least one of the 140 Member National Authorities are remaining silent on water quality tests...The secrecy in all of this is appalling...  Is Olympic Sailing in Guanabara Bay in 2016 going to provide that same attraction, waiting to see if someone might die?" (read more at the link above)

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2016 Olympic Games Sailing out of Rio? Volvo Ocean Race video

Volvo Ocean Race - Leg 7 - Newport to Lisbon (source: volvooceanrace.com)

Volvo Ocean Race - Leg 7 - Newport to Lisbon: 2,800 nautical miles
In-Port Race Newport May 16, 2015, 2 pm ET (US)
Leg 7 Start - Newport-Lisbon - May 17, 2015, 14.00 EDT / 18.00 UTC.


The Volvo Ocean Race fleet is ready to head back to Europe for Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race - The translatlantic challenge begins this Sunday May 17, 14.00 EDT / 18.00 UTC. Watch live on volvooceanrace.com/live

Team Vestas Wind In-Port Race Newport | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - Saturday May 16th
The battle for the In-Port Series trophy continues in Newport - Watch the Team Vestas Wind In-Port Race @14.00 ET (US) on volvooceanrace.com/live

2016 Olympic Games Sailing out of Rio?
2nd Message to Sailing Leadership Worldwide | Live Your Dream: Sail Lake Michigan: By Glenn McCarthy - "Just to make sure that the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) cannot hide and pretend that they are not aware of these articles, I sent a 2nd email to the leadership of the country members of ISAF... Dear Fellow Sailors: As the 500 Day mark just passed for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2016 Olympic Games, we still know that Sailing is unprepared to provide a fair competition.  Pressing to give Guanabara Bay "another chance" in August 2015 is just wasting everyone's time.  A "chance" is gambling and there is no more time for gambling.   Move Sailing out of Rio and to a new venue like Buzios, Brazil, it is not too late for you to speak up...."

Miami International Boat Show plans challenged by Environmental groups: South Florida Business Journal--... On May 8, nine environmental organizations submitted a joint letter saying the permit needs to be amended. Groups in the letter include the Tropical Audubon Society, Environmental Coalition of Miami Beach, Friends of Biscayne Bay, Friends of Virginia Key, the Florida Keys Chapter of Izaak Walton League of America, the Cypress Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, Sierra Club Miami, Urban Environment League of Greater Miami and Urban Paradise Guild. The letter lists many concerns but mainly argues that Virginia Key and the basin should not be used for a major development like the boat show. They also say the temporary docks will natively impact endangered wildlife such as manatees. They have requested a public hearing before the application can be approved or denied...

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Cowes Week Sailing Regatta August 2-9 (LIVE Twitter feed)

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Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week - News: "Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week... this year’s regatta promises action-packed excitement afloat with a shore-side programme to match. This year, Cowes Combined Clubs celebrates 50 years of co-ordinated race management at the 188 year-old regatta, and at least 13 competitors racing this year also took part in the 1964 regatta (the first year of the formation of CCC). Eric Williams of Williams Shipping is one, and these days is frequently to be found towards the top of the leader-board with his Dragon, Ecstatic...." more info: http://www.aamcowesweek.co.uk/

Cowes Week NEWS:

Portsmouth News
Get ready for Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week 2014
Keith Prowse
Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week 2014 is set to get underway this weekend (August 2nd) and will see thousands of fans of all things ...


Telegraph.co.uk
Cowes Week hopeful of Ben Ainslie Racing's £80 million British bid for America's Cup
Telegraph.co.uk
Cowes Week hopeful of Ben Ainslie Racing's £80 million British bid for ... and sailors at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week is underpinning a ...


BYM News (press release)
Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week 50th Anniversary
BYM News (press release)
Cowes Week is one of the UK's longest running sporting events, having first taken place in 1826. The aspirational and inclusive sailing regatta is the ...


Island Echo
POP-UP TOURIST INFORMATION POINT OPENED
Island Echo
The “Island Welcome Centre” as it is being known will operate during Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week (2nd-9th August) from within the ...

Other Sailing News:
JohnTheCrowd.com coverage of Sopot Match Race, Alpari World Match Racing Tour, Jul31-Aug3 NEWS, Results, Leaderboard and LIVE Twitter Feed (go to link)

Volvo Ocean Race crews to battle in Round Britain test
Sail World
The event, which starts on August 9 and is preceded by Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, will see five of the new, one-design Volvo Ocean ...

NBCSports.com
U.S. Sailing not hindered by contaminated Rio bay before test event
NBCSports.com
The 2016 Olympic sailing venue is contaminated with sewage, but American sailors' training in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay hasn't been hindered ...


Bognor Regis Observer
Sailing: Races short on distance but not on drama
Chichester Observer
About half of the group will be engaged in sail training to Royal Yachting Association standards from start sailing through to advanced modules of ...

Jeremy Thorp wins Etchells Invitational Cup at Cowes
My Sailing
"It was my first time racing an Etchells," said Thorp, "And they absolutely live up to everything my really successful sailing friends have told me.

Plain sailing for Norfolk youngsters
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
The event was excellently organised by Downs Sailing Club and the National Schools Sailing Association who deserve a great deal of praise for their ...


KOMO News
Two-day shutdown of international sailing 'irresponsible,' Ranker says
Journal of the San Juan Islands
A decision by Washington State Ferries to shutdown the international sailing for two days to remedy disruptions in ferry service near Seattle drew a ...


Sutherland Northern Times
Sailing day announced great success
Sutherland Northern Times
LOCH Shin Sailing Club's first ever training course has been hailed as a great success. The five-day course was well supported by 12 enthusiastic, ...


Sail World
Clean start for 35 boats in Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Race
My Sailing
Peter Harburg's Juan K 70 Black Jack, sailing for the event host club Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Yachting Australia President Matt Allen's ...


Tenby Observer
Saundersfoot Sailing Club
Tenby Observer
The continuing brilliant weather is bringing more boats out for the racing each week. Last Sunday, 16 dinghies rigged up to take part in the final two ...

Remembering CJ Buckley
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
The 12th annual CJ Buckley Team Race for the c420 class Team Racing Nationals was sailed out of East Greewich, RI on July 28-30 with 33 teams ...

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Sopot Match Race, Alpari World Match Racing Tour, Jul 31-Aug 3 (video)

Sopot Match Race, Alpari World Match Racing Tour, July 31-August 3 (promo video above)
Sopot is the most prestigeous sea resort in Poland located by the Baltic Sea, between Gdansk and Gdynia. 12 teams will be competing at the Sopot Match Race, Stage 3 of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour starting on 31 July and culminating in the final on 3 of August.

ALPARI World Match Racing Tour - Alpari World Match Racing Tour moves on to Poland: "Sopot, Poland (30th July 2014): One of the most exciting developments in the Alpari World Match Racing Tour for 2014 is the addition of Sopot Match Race into its roster of events.  This year will be the 11th edition of Sopot Match Race, taking place on the Baltic in the Polish holiday resort close to Gdansk. As a nation Poland is one of the most prolific internationally when it comes to match racing with the annual Polish Match Tour comprising five or six events annually. As a result, according to event organiser and competitor Przemek Tarnacki, his country also has more sailors in the top 100 of the ISAF match race rankings than any other. It is therefore fitting that Poland’s top event for the first time this year should form part of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour... Racing takes place over 4 days from Thursday 31st July until Sunday 3rd August and sunshine with a light to moderate sea breeze are to be expected. The format will see a full round of Qualifying, with the winner advancing to the Semi Finals, followed by a 6 team Quarter Final then Semi Final and Final."
Results
Leaderboard
Stage 3 Sopot Match Race, Alpari World Match Racing Tour:
Ian Williams (GBR) GAC Pindar
Björn Hansen (SWE) Hansen Sailing Team
Keith Swinton (AUS) Team Alpari FX
Mathieu Richard (FRA) LunaJets
Taylor Canfield (ISV) USone
Phil Robertson (NZL) Waka Racing
David Gilmour (ASU) Team Gilmour
Przemysław Tarnacki (POL) Tarnacki Yacht Racing
Karol Jabłoński (POL) Jablonski Sailing Team
Nicolai Sehested (DEN) Trefor Match Racing
Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Stena Sailing Team
Staffan Lindberg (FIN) Alandia Sailing Team

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The National Sailing Hall of Fame: Hall of Fame 2014 -  (July 29, 2014) – The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF) today announced the eight people who will make up its 2014 class of inductees into the National Sailing Hall of Fame:  Yachtsman, historian and senior statesman of the sport Henry H. “Harry” Anderson, Jr. (Mystic, Conn.); mathematician and navigator Nathaniel Bowditch (Salem, Mass.); boat builder and U.S. Olympic Sailing Team boatwright Carl Eichenlaub (San Diego, Calif.); brothers Olaf Harken and Peter Harken (both Pewaukee, Wisc.), respectively, boat builder and sailing hardware designer; naval architect and prolific writer L. Francis Herreshoff (Bristol, R.I./Marblehead, Mass.); 1960 5.5 Metre Olympic Gold Medalist and boat builder George O’Day (Brookline, Mass./Dover, Mass.); and Grand Prix yachtsman John B. “Jim” Kilroy (Marina del Rey, Calif.), the recipient of the NSHOF’s first Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Class of 2014 will be inducted on September 28, 2014 in a ceremony at the Detroit Yacht Club.

Sailing NEWS Digest:

Stuff.co.nz
Sailors to navigate dirty water in first Rio test
Columbia Daily Tribune
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sailors, coaches and the mayor of Rio de Janeiro acknowledge the problem: Guanabara Bay, the venue for sailing at the ...


National Post
Sailing's not all gin and tonics, say Olympic hopefuls
Herald.ie
THE Irish Sailing Team had their most successful Olympics for 30 years at London 2012 with fourth, 10th and 14th place finishes setting the bar for the ...

Sailing the Flathead
Flathead Beacon
Jim Kelley, center, releases tension on the sails while Ken Yachechak, left, and his wife Jodee, prepare to tack during the Tuesday night race league ...

Sailing camps a hit with Prince Rupert youth
Prince Rupert Northern View
Prince Rupert's Big Blue Sailing School has helped bring back their kids camp, run by B.C. Sailing and the Mobile Optimist Sailing School (MOSS).

Oakville sailing coach in court again
Hamilton Spectator
An Oakville sailing coach facing 21 sexual assault-related charges stemming from allegations made by seven males appeared briefly in Milton court ...

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