04 November 2011

Carisa Harris-Adamson: What is the America's Cup? (video)



Carisa Harris-Adamson: What is the America's Cup? (video)


Volvo Ocean Race fleet to set off for Cape Town
San Francisco Chronicle
IAN ROMAN / AP COMMERCIAL PHOTO - In this photo provided by Volvo Ocean Race, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing , skippered by Ian Walker, during the Iberdrola In-Port Race in Alicante, Spain Saturday Oct. 29, 2011. First points in the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, ...
World class competitors set sights on Australia for Sailing World Cup
AHN | All Headline News
After the Olympic test event in August, world class sailors will head to Australia for the first regattaof the 2011-2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup which runs from 6-12 November 2011. Sail Melbourne kicks off the fourth installment of this year's edition ...
America's Cup super-yacht plan faces vote today
San Francisco Business Times
A plan to scale back super-yacht mooring along the Embarcadero during the 2013 America's Cup could take a step forward today. Staff at the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, a government body charged with preserving public ...
Toomey threat results in smooth sailing
Allentown Morning Call
Pat Toomey R-Pa. threatened to hold up the international America's Cup sailboat races unless Congress granted a waiver for foreign-flagged tankers to transport Marcellus Shale natural gas within the United States. To transport natural gas from ...
America's Cup World Series San Diego – Oracle Racing to return 'home'
Sail World
The regatta is a return to Oracle Racing's second home. The winner of the 33rdAmerica's Cup spent 16 months in San Diego from August 2008 to December 2009 getting the giant trimaran USA 17 ready for the contest she won in February 2010. ...
Prada's entry ups ante for 34th America's Cup
Sail World
In a media call today, America's Cup Regatta Director Iain Murray and CEO Craig Thompson commented on the exciting confirmation that indeed, long time Cup favorite Prada/Luna Rossa is back, this time collaborating on boats and such with Emirates Team ...
The Showdown annual spring regatta preview
Sail World
While the Sabots, with 24 entries, are the strongest class, the International Cadets have a dozen entries, all contenders for a place in the Cadet World championships to be conducted by Sandy Bay Sailing Club in January 2013. ...
SAILING: Cooper dominates at Bowmoor regatta
This is Wiltshire.co.uk
THE annual youth regatta at Bowmoor Sailing Club was held recently, with Jon Cooper dominating proceedings to retain his title. Four races took place in a light, variable south-easterly breeze, with the 10 youth entries sailing a variety of boats ...
Sailing contest blows into Didim
Voices Newspaper
DIDIM Marina was this week putting the resort on the map as it hosted a key Sailing Championship. The Optimist and Laser races in the Turkey Championship, organized by the Turkey Sailing Federation, were being hosted by D-Marin from last Tuesday ...
Unfurling a historic rivalry
gulfnews.com
By Jaydip Sengupta, Deputy Editor-Sports Dubai: Morning shows the day, but it didn't when the Standard Chartered Challenge Cup took to the waters at the Dubai OffshoreSailing Club (DOSC) on Saturday. There was hardly any wind in the sails when the ...
One Concierge Offers Access to America's Cup World Series (San Diego)
PR.com (press release)
“As one of the premium events on the sailing/yachting calendar, the America's Cup World Series is an event not to be missed,” said Arman Motiwalla, CEO, One Concierge. Having bred some of the world's best sailors and boat designers San Diego continues ...
London to Dorset youth ship race ahead of Olympics
BBC News
They are expected to arrive in Weymouth and Portland, which will host the Game's sailing events, on 15 June. The vessels will range from 100-year-old pilot cutters to modern ocean racing yachts. The young people onboard will be aged 12 and over. ...
Sailing: Spectacular ending to the season
Caernarfon Herald
The series finale of the North Wales Club Youth Racing Circuit was hosted at Shotwick sailing club in Flintshire with nearly 50 sailors taking part despite national events drawing some of the top competitors away. It was Llyn Brenig who took the spoils ...
Sen. Pat Toomey's ploy raises questions
Allentown Morning Call
I was happy that Toomey will not be sabotaging the America's Cup event next week in San Diego, which is my second hometown. As a boy, I lived a couple of miles from where the main spectator area for those tremendous sailboat races will be. ...
Sailing Wins War Memorial Regatta; Competes at Harvard Women's Regatta
Georgetown University Official Athletic Site
WASHINGTON - The Georgetown coed sailing team traveled to the Naval Academy this weekend to compete in the Coed Conference Championship, more commonly referred to as the War Memorial Regatta. The team finished first of 18 teams with 156 points. ...
RYA OnBoard Awards presented to dedicated OnBoard Officers
Sail World
RS Sailing RYA OnBoard Awards 2011 were held on 2nd November at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, United Kingdom. The outstanding dedication of three of the RYA's OnBoard Development Officers (ODO's) who work to introduce youngsters to sailing and ...
America's Cup Plan to Curb Invasive Seaweed: Scrape Piers by Hand
The Bay Citizen (blog)
Deb Self, executive director of the nonprofit Baykeeper, who has been working closely with regatta organizers to help minimize environmental impacts from the event, warned that the measures might be insufficient to prevent the seaweed's spread. ...
USA. North Cove's Patron "Dennis Conner" Inducted into National Sailing Hall ...
BYM News (press release)
He became known as "Mr. America's Cup." But the America's Cup is just one aspect of Dennis' storied sailing career. He has won 28 world championships, an Olympic medal, 2 Congressional Cups, 4 Southern Ocean Racing victories, skippered two Volvo Round ...
Seawind Pittwater Regatta a Pirate’s Tale
My Sailing
With a couple of hundred guests dressed in their best pirate outfits and the atmosphere provided by some live entertainment who kept the Jimmy Buffet and sailing tunes rolling, this swashbuckling affair had the crowd dancing the night away and ...
Sailor Nathan Outteridge's London calling
Lakes Mail
But Wangi Wangi's Nathan Outteridge is a modest type who attributes part of his success to the sailing basics his grandfather taught him as a child. "I started sailing with Pop [Owen Winter] at [age] three on his Northshore 27 in Fennell Bay," ...
Stawell Yacht Club season off and sailing
Summit Sun
The fleet consisted of three Impulse dinghies, the Sorcerer trailer sailor skippered by past-Commodore Leigh Edwards, and a recently acquired Taipan catamaran sailed by Mark Knights, who has made a welcome comeback to sailing after many years. ...
Festival of Sails - Big changes, NOR, and online entry
Sail World
'Within the Yacht Club area, with the support of Club Marine, we now have a sailboatshow, a boating lifestyle show, focused on the sailing scene. The entrance area at the side of Royal Geelong Yacht Club, that'll be transformed into a boat show area. ...
Maryland Seafood Festival and Others Go Green with Help of WasteStrategies
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Environmental waste management company, WasteStrategies LLC, announced the results of their 2011 recycling and waste management work with the Maryland Seafood Festival, Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association (CBYRA) Race Week, Hospice Cup Regatta, ...
Woollahra Sailing Club - BlooSee
By Blue Peter
Whether you are a seasoned sailor or someone who is brand new to the sport, by joining the Woollahra Sailing Club you can enjoy a whole host of benefits, including coaching, low-cost sailinglessons, year-round racing, social nights and ...
BlooSee.com recent infopoints
| Olympic and Paralympic Teams
By US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics
American Yacht Club raised an impressive $125000 for the US Olympic and Paralympic SailingProgram at an event held October 22 in collaboration with four regional yacht clubs: Larchmont, Centerport, Noroton and Stamford. ... the live auction was a package for two people to cheer on Team USA at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England, that included coveted tickets to the Opening Ceremonies, the Women's Volleyball preliminary games, and the sailing regatta in Weymouth. ...
Olympic and Paralympic Teams
OnBoard Officers Awarded for Commitment to Youth Sailing - Yachts ...
The outstanding dedication of three of the RYA's OnBoard Development Officers (ODO's) who work to introduce youngsters to sailing and windsurfing, was acknowledged last night (02 November) at the Annual OnBoard Conference dinner.
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san diego: dialed in: America's Cup Village Is Coming...and Bringing ...
By Rosemary
America's Cup Village Is Coming...and Bringing FREE Concerts!!! The America's Cup doesn't take place until 2013, but for many years it was an institution here in San Diego, so it is fitting that the first America's Cup World Series event is taking place right here in our own backyard (if you consider the Big Bay your backyard). Even if you know nothing about the regatta, the great thing for you is that the organizers are making a big party out of it. So even if that means they're trying to ...
san diego: dialed in
Thursday 3 November 2011 – Gamesa Sailing Team Update
By emily
Gamesa Sailing Team's Mike Golding and Bruno Dubois have had a relatively long and demanding night as they settle in to the high speed battle which has marked the first night at sea of their Transat Jacques Vabre race from Le Havre to ...
Mike Golding Yacht Racing
ORACLE Racing set for 'homecoming' at ACWS ... - Blue Water Sailing
By val
The regatta is a return to ORACLE Racing's second home. The winner of the 33rd America's Cupspent 16 months in San Diego from August 2008 to December 2009 getting the giant trimaran USA 17 ready for the contest she won in February ...
Multihulls Quarterly • The...
Coast Guard rescues boater off capsized sailboat
Coast Guard, Search and Rescue, SAR, LE, 47 foot motor lifeboat, boating, boating safety, Ninth Coast Guard District, D9, shipwreck, Great Lakes, Mackinaw , ...
https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/443/1228839/
Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 | Sacrifice, honour and a spirit of ...
In the quest to conquer the Everest of the ocean Volvo Ocean Race skippers are sacrificing an Olympic bid, ... Click to play Cliffhanger - six skippers and the Everest of sailing .... Volvo Ocean Race Legends Regatta: Fisher & Paykel. ...
www.volvooceanrace.com/en/Sacrifice-honour.../news.html

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