Sailor's movie All is Lost, Charlie Rose interviews Robert Redford and Director J.C. Chandor (video)

All is Lost, Charlie Rose interviews Robert Redford and Director J.C. Chandor 

How Sailing Brought Me Closer to a Breast Cancer Survivor -- My Birth Mom
Huffington Post
Sailing, and particularly racing, taught me a lot about who I am and what kind of life I want. It taught me how to be fearless when it mattered most, in a sport where safety coming first means the ability to react when you might be exhausted, cold, wet ...

College Sailing Chalk Talk – Season 9, Episode 5
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
(October 31, 2013) – In this very windy week in college sailing, the west coast picked its reps for November's Singlehanded Nationals at Sail Newport: Stanford women Molly McKinney '14 and Sally Mace '14 in Laser Radials and Stanford's Oliver Toole '14 ...

Exe Sailing Club - Widening Horizons, The Exe Sailability Project
Sidmouth Herald
Exe Sailing Club's commitment to providing access for those with disability goes back to 2007, when The West of England School for children with little or no sight and the Exeter College for Deaf education were invited to sailing sessions, writes Rex ...

Former Olympic sailing champion arrested as police break up alleged ...
Daily Mail
Police in Italy have arrested a former Olympic sailing champion after breaking up an alleged child kidnapping ring. Larisa Moskalenko, 50, who won bronze in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, is one of several special forces veterans arrested according to ...

Extreme Sailing Series sets new benchmark in global broadcast distribution
Boxscore
Extreme Sailing Series: October 30, 2013 - As the Extreme Sailing Series™ prepares to make the final stop of the 2013 global tour in Brazil, Series organisers and owners OC Sport can confirm that 54 channels around the globe will now broadcast the ...

Sailing World's College Sailing Rankings
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
footer logo. Launched in 1997, Scuttlebutt provides sailing news with a North American focus. Look for the latest information to be posted on the website, with the highlights distributed Monday through Friday in the e-Newsletter. We hope you love our ...

GW Sailing Goes to the War This Weekend
George Washington University - Official Athletic Site
WASHINGTON - GW sailing will compete in the premier Mid-Atlantic IntercollegiateSailing Association (MAISA) event of the fall season - the War Memorial MAISA Coed Fall Championship - this weekend in Norfolk, Va. GW is among an 18-team field that ...

Onne van der Wals Newest Coffee Table Book, "SAILING," Featuring His Award ...
Consumer Electronics Net
Onne van der Wal will be signing copies of his long awaited coffee table book, SAILING, during a reception at the Clarke Cooke House on Thursday, November 21st, from 5:30 7:30pm. Published by the art book experts at Rizzoli in New York, SAILING is ...

Beach sailing begins tomorrow in Sur
Omanet.com (press release)
The first ever Oman Sail beach sailing event supported by Omantel and Oman Shipping Company debuts in Sur this weekend bringing an opportunity for all members of the local and expat community to try out sailing, water sports and fun family oriented ...

Dave's Dust Up Grade 5 Match Race
Sail World
On Saturday, Nov. 23, Long Beach Yacht Club will present Dave's Dust Up, an ISAF Grade 5 match race. The racing action will begin around 11:30 a.m. (weather conditions permitting) and will be able to be seen from Long Beach's Veterans Memorial Pier.

Chinese Entry Confirmed For 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race
Afloat
#VOR - It's been confirmed that a Chinese team will race in the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. The new Team Dongfeng, backed by automaker Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle and run by international events and marketing firm OC Sport, will set sail ...

Dubai Muscat Yacht Race - Action underway November 2nd
Sail World
Competitors have been arriving in Dubai from all over the world including Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States of America. Sailors from the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Oman will also be taking part. Hot favourite ...

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Alone at Sea, All is Lost video; the Ocean is Broken

All is Lost official video trailer

All Is Lost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "All Is Lost is a 2013 American survival film written and directed by J. C. Chandor. The film stars Robert Redford as a man lost at sea. Redford is the only cast member, and the film has almost no dialogue. All Is Lost is Chandor's second feature film, following his 2011 debut Margin Call. It screened out of competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in May."

More info: http://allislostfilm.com/ and All Is Lost (2013) - IMDb

The broken ocean -- we are in big trouble --
The ocean is broken | Newcastle Herald: "BACK in Newcastle, Ivan Macfadyen is still coming to terms with the shock and horror of the voyage. "The ocean is broken," he said, shaking his head in stunned disbelief. Recognising the problem is vast, and that no organisations or governments appear to have a particular interest in doing anything about it, Macfadyen is looking for ideas. He plans to lobby government ministers, hoping they might help. More immediately, he will approach the organisers of Australia's major ocean races, trying to enlist yachties into an international scheme that uses volunteer yachtsmen to monitor debris and marine life. Macfadyen signed up to this scheme while he was in the US, responding to an approach by US academics who asked yachties to fill in daily survey forms and collect samples for radiation testing - a significant concern in the wake of the tsunami and consequent nuclear power station failure in Japan." (read more at link above)

Do It: Sailing the Caribbean
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Bob Polhemus and Brenda Buckingham of Mendon spent three years sailing the Caribbean seas. Here they enjoy the pleasures of Grenada. 'The bottom line is the people you meet,' Polhemus says. 'You see one island, you've seen them all. But the people ...

Learn to sail at Al Hamra Marina's RAK Sailing Academy
Sport360°
Al Hamra Marina's wind and sea characteristics are perfect for sailing, some say the best in the UAE, and has charter facilities where sailing boats are used for daily excursions and crew available for tourists at the Al Hamra Village. Facilities for ...

Washington College Sailing Finishes 15th at KP Dinghy Open, 18th at Stu ...
WashingtonCollegeSports.com
KINGS POINT, N.Y. -- The Washington College sailing team finished 15th of 20 teams at the Kings Point Dinghy Open, hosted by Merchant Marine, and 18th of 18 teams at the Stu Nelson Women's, hosted by Connecticut College, this weekend. At the Kings ...

J/80 Titlist Brian Keane Wins Championship of Champions
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
COLUMBIA, S.C. (October 27, 2013) – The 2013 edition of the Championship of Champions, hosted by Columbia Sailing Club, came down to a dramatic conclusion Sunday. It took all 16 races to determine this year's winner of the Jack Brown Trophy....

Sailing News:World's Longest Ocean Race
Live Trading News
Novice sailor and Invest Africa crew member, Suzie Fontannaz, 48, who studied at Cape Town University and runs her own business in Stellenbosch was thrilled to sail into her home port having never set foot on a boat prior to undertaking extensive ...

ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne Paralympic hotspot ahead of Rio 2016
Sail World
Australia is one of the top nations on the Paralympic sailing scene and as past International Association for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) Vice President and current President of Sailability Victoria, David Staley, explains, a strong focus of Paralympic ...

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