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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Transpac Update, Extreme Sailing Data Analytics, Sailing Video

Transpac 2015 Fleet Endures Diverse Conditions in 48th Transpac California to Hawaii Yacht Race: "... Wild Oats navigator Nick White reporting “Right now we’re averaging around 19 knots and aiming straight at the Barn Door – Hawaii. It’s fantastic downwind sailing. You couldn’t ask for much better…except we’d like some sunshine instead of heavy cloud. “As it turned out, the forecasts proved to be completely unreliable,” White said. “We had to ignore them and do our own thing in the conditions we were experiencing at the time. It was really tough tactically, especially when we were trying to get around Santa Catalina Island and out to sea.”..."


July 21st daily analysis of the 48th Transpac with Dobbs Davis of Seahorse Magazine
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
• Transpacific Yacht Race | KTLA

Extreme Sailing - The importance of data | Gillette World Sport - Extreme sailing requires precision analytics--the data driven evolution has hit the sport.

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Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Film

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Film (2012)

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2013 
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2013 Yacht Tracker
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2013 - Latest News
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2013 -  Results
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2013 - Latest video

Sailing-Wild Oats XI on course for seventh Sydney-Hobart win
Yahoo Eurosport UK
Wild Oats, trying to equal the seven line honours victories of the boat called Morna and later renamed Kurrewa IV, is expected to sail up the Derwent River to the finish of the 628 nautical-mile (1,163km) race late on Saturday afternoon. The remainder ...

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Sailing legend Sir Ben Ainslie sends Christmas message to Clipper Race crews
Daily Echo
HAMPSHIRE sailing star Sir Ben Ainslie has sent a Christmas message to sailors from the county who are today back at sea on the next leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Speaking as the 12 teams set off on Boxing Day from Sydney, Australia, ...

Ivan Shestopalov keeps his eyes on the prize before Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta - Outdoors - MiamiHerald.com: " . . . . The OBIYR, held in Coconut Grove at the Coral Reef Yacht Club, is in its 68th year, and is one of the largest youth dinghy regattas in the world. There are expected to be 689 competitors from 27 U.S. states and 23 countries ... The four days of competition feature several types of vessels: Optimists, Lasers (Full, Radial, and 4.7), and Club 420s.... Awards will be distributed Monday night to the top sailors in each category by government officials, Orange Bowl Committee leaders and Olympians including Magnus Liljedahl, a former U.S. gold medalist who will be presenting the sportsmanship award that bears his name..."

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