25 August 2011

US SAILING's 2011 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship Preview



US SAILING's 2011 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship Preview
US SAILING (press release)
This biennial regatta, marking its 14th edition in 26 years, will offer these top sailors the opportunity to experience high-level competition along with social activities designed to promote camaraderie. The Rolex Gala, on Thursday, September 1, ...
Setting sail on America's Cup plans
Marinscope Community Newspapers
The task force, created to prepare the city for the September 2013 sailing race, is focused on three aspects — residents, maritime and business. “I think we all know we will be inconvenienced, no matter what we do,” said Bill Werner, head of the Sail ...
CORK OCR Regatta day 5
Sail World
In second, and members of the Canadian Sailing Team, was Matt Dubreucq and Trevor Parekh of the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club. Kevin Jewett and Mike Rivlin, of LGYC, took third place. This was an ISAF Grade 1 event for the Laser Full-rig and Laser ...
Weiss Lake Regatta this weekend
Gadsden Times
(Dave Hyatt, Gadsden Times) By Anne Shumaker LEESBURG — The 2011 Weiss Lake Regatta will be held Saturday and Sunday. Sponsored by the Rome Sailing Club, based near Leesburg, theregatta will feature three races and 30 sailboats from four states ...
Volvo Ocean Race: Why sail strategy could hold key to victory
Sail World
With no one team looking likely to deliver any significant raw speed advantage straight out of the blocks, the 2011–12 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race looks set to produce some of the closest racing ever. The race gets underway from Alicante, ...
Hudson River regatta will raise money for leukemia research
The Journal News | LoHud.com
The regatta is the society's sailing program. / Submitted photo Where: The Nyack Boat Club in Nyack for one-design racing and the Hudson Cove Yacht Club in Haverstraw Marina in West Haverstraw for larger cruising boats . When: Aug. 27. ...
Herreshoff Regatta off, boats being hauled out
EastBayRI.com
Also, beginner sailing lessons have been canceled for the rest of the week; classroom lessons are still taking place. As far as Mr. Dyer knows, and he came on board with the museum last year, this is the first time the regatta has been called off. ...
Team Heritage sailing in Defender's Trial with Canada's Cup berth on the line
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Fleury has competed in the America's Cup eight times, and he was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in Bristol, RI, a year ago. "It's a solid team, I like our team and I wouldn't trade it for anyone," Hughes said. "There is a lot of pressure ...
Coed Sailing Earns No. 1 Preseason Ranking
Boston College Official Athletic Site
Chestnut Hill, MA - Boston College sailing team will open the 2011 fall season with as the No. 1 team in the country. Sailing World released the 2011 preseason rankings and the Eagles are No. 1 and received six first place votes. ...
Solo sailing teen close to Darwin
Ninemsn
Some have disputed Watson's record due to the route she took and because the World Speed Sailing Record Council discontinued its "youngest" category. If she all goes to plan Dekker will be 16 years and eight months old when she completes her journey in ...
The world travel of "Armenia” sailboat has expanded the geography of the ...
Public Radio of Armenia
The Prime Minister Tigran Sargsjan received the stuff of the “Armenia” sailboat under the patronage of Zori Balayan. Welcoming guests in the Government, the Prime Minister congratulated the team for the successful completion of the tour: The Prime ...
Telford sailing club awarded Big Lottery grant
BBC News
A Shropshire sailing club has been awarded a £10000 Big Lottery Fund grant to give disabled people the chance to take part in the sport. Telford Sailability, based at Priorslee Lake, said the money would pay for a new dinghy as well as a hoist and ...
Iceland And Trinidad And Tobago Make It Five For The 2011 ISAF Training ...
International Sailing Federation
Anna Ólöf Kristófersdóttir was identified as suitable for the course by ISAF Training and Development Manager Dan Jaspers and Icelandic Sailing Association President Ulfur Hrobjartsson after lengthy discussions following both a Technical Course for ...
Leo DiCaprio Is Reportedly Cruising Australia On This Massive Superyacht
Business Insider
Last summer we first wrote about the largest sailing yacht to date from New Zealand's Alloy Yachts, a 220-ft. ketch designed by Philippe Briand. Now Leo DiCaprio is rumored to be cruising on the impressive craft off the coast of Australia, ...
America's Cup and Admiral's Cup on display together at Hamilton Island
My Sailing
This is only the third time that the Cup has been seen in Australia, so its presence at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week is high recognition of the stature that this regattanow holds on the international sailing scene. The Admiral's Cup is currently ...
Irish Offshore Sailing Makes Success of Debut Season
Afloat
Irish Offshore Sailing, a new yacht training centre based in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin is now launching its autumn winter calendar, having had a very busy first season, despite the current economic climate. The school is an RYA and ISA recognised yacht ...
Five-way battle for 18ft Skiffs in San Francisco
My Sailing
From out of the fog, heralded by a chorus of foghorns growling in bass tones in concert with soprano finish horns, the 10th annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta, hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club, expanded its scope on the third day of racing ...
Sailing: 49er Olympic campaign - Countdown to a stimulating ambition
Malta Independent Online
“After Medemblik we went to Weymouth (UK), the venue for the Olympic sailing events for 2012, for a regatta: Skandia Sail for Gold. At this event we had some good races and some bad ones but we finished on quite a high since we managed to place 46th ...
K. Karapetyan hosted the staff of “Armenia” sailboat
Times.am
By Times.am at 24 August, 2011, 3:28 pm Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan hosted today the staff of “Armenia” sailboat, which has made a world-wide voyage. Yerevan Mayor congratulated the staff members for successful journey and noted it was an original ...
We are sailing
People's Daily Online
"Qingdao is the only city in China trying to promote sailing as a sport," Yin Jian, champion of RS:X Women at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Sailing Regatta, told the Global Times. Yin said the local government not only offers free-of-charge sailing ...
London 2012 Olympics: Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson setting sail to conquer ...
Telegraph.co.uk
The need for a change is self-evident, given that the former vessel — a trusty steed, but just about on its last legs — struggled in capricious gusts at the Skandia Sail for Goldregatta to yield only a fifth-place finish. ...
Schull Ready To Host ISAF Team Racing World Championship
International Sailing Federation
Sailing teams from Australia, Japan, United States, Thailand, Italy, Spain and Ireland will converge on Schull next week to contest the ISAF Team Racing World Championshipat both open and youth level. The seaside village looks resplendent as it...
Good start for Australian women's match racers in Wisconsin
My Sailing
Australia is being represented by two crews at the ISAF Grade 1 event with Olivia Price, Nina Curtis and Lucinda Whitty sailing in one crew while Nicky Souter, Jessica Eastwell and Katie Spithill are competing in their first regatta together in the ...
Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 | Sanya face wall of water on wild ...
By Volvo Ocean Race
Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 entry Team Ian Roman/Volvo Ocean Race. “Every so often we dig the bow in and a wall of water comes flying down the deck and out of the back.” Speaking from on board Sanya during their second day at sea, ... Groupama Sailing Team, skippered by Frankc Cammas from France, at the finish of the Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, skippered by Ian Walker from the UK, at the finish Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, skippered by Ian Walker from the UK, with Eddystone Light ...
Volvo Ocean Race - Latest News
C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta - Overall ...
There were no surprises, just a great day of sailing, as the ninth annual C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Regatta, North America's premier event for sailors with disabilities, concluded after three days of racing.
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[EN] Act 5, Big finish to the week » Extreme Sailing Series
An estimated crowd of over 72500 visited the Extreme Sailing Series Race ... For the first time this week the Extreme Sailing Series was streamed live ...
www.extremesailingseries.com/.../act-5-big-finish-to-a-big-we...

Light winds benefit specialists in Audi MedCup
The Independent
By Stuart Alexander The light air specialists came through strongly in the opening race of the fourth regatta for the Murcia Trophy in the Audi MedCup series, but it was a day to put in the bin for Niklas Zennström's south coast-based Rán team. ...
C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Regatta overall
Sail World
C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta was based from Sail Newport, Rhode Island's community sailing center. The regatta has now concluded after three days of racing on Narragansett Bay. The standings leaders in the three Paralympic classes ...

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