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Volvo Ocean Race, Day 1 of Leg 7. Amory Ross, MCM for Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg, reports on the crew's progress. There are not many day one’s left between here and Galway. But here we go again, one day closer to the end of this very long race. As we leave Miami for Portugal there are several things that come to mind:
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After a light airs start to Leg 7 yesterday, Groupama sailing team have the lead today as northerly winds blowing against the Gulf Stream kick up a choppy sea in the opening stages of the transatlantic leg to Lisbon in Portugal.
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The Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race 2012 gets underway on Saturday 28th July off Sydney Harbour at 1pm. Entries for the 27th edition of the race have been open for just over one month and already 28 owners have signed on for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s annual winter pilgrimage north.
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Volvo Ocean Race Leg 7 restart images from photographer Leighton O'Conner
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Melbournes Classic Yachts 2012 Winter Series Race 2 - Sailing under Port Phillip Bays renowned winter sailing conditions, vintage Tumlare’s showed their pedigree and put the fleet of 23 starters on the rack.
A corrected time honours, by a mammoth number, was the pay back to Doug Jenkin for his the restoration of the Tumlare, Ettrick.
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Laser Radial World Championship 2012 finals series has concluded in Boltenhagen, Germany with Lithuanian sailor Gintare Schiedt winning her first world title. Australian sailor Krystal Weir finished the event 21st overall after a 43rd and an 18th in the final two races in Boltenhagen, Germany.
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Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 team Puma’s Mar Mostro is off across the Atlantic Ocean with the start of Leg 7 from Miami, Florida, USA to Lisbon, Portugal. The Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg crew rounded the buoys in Miami to complete the six-leg inshore loop and headed out for the offshore portion of the leg in the fifth position, with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing leading the fleet.
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Rod Sawyer’s Peter Norlin designed Surefoot, regarded as the Golden Oldie, showed she still has the class to outpace her handicap rating in the Whitsunday Sailing Club sprint race series on Pioneer Bay. A lot of water has passed under her keel since her glory days of representing the Royal Papua Yacht Club during the 1983 Champagne Mumm Admirals Cup in England and she is showing her age but still
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The Global Ocean Race fleet’s first night at sea was wet and lumpy - proving a tough reintroduction to offshore racing following their stopover in Charleston, South Carolina, as they sailed straight into headwinds and cleared the coast of the USA.
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It’s a rather tricky thing to celebrate the tenth anniversary of something that doesn’t officially exist. That’s the task facing participants in the annual BBQ Cruise to Lord Howe Island which will take place for the tenth consecutive year in early November.
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Sailing mates, friends and family of Guy Stening will gather at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron next Wednesday afternoon, May 23, for a memorial service and celebration of the life the Australian and World championship yachtsman who passed away recently after a short illness.
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The Volvo Ocean Race fleet headed out of Miami and directly towards a tropical storm on Sunday after making a slow start to Leg 7, potentially one of the most critical stages of the 39,000 nautical mile marathon. With a gentle breeze blowing off Miami’s famous South Beach it was Ian Walker’s Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, winners of Saturday’s Port Miami In-Port Race, who lead around the six-mile course
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Day 4: The ACWS has certainly captured the imagination of the Venetians. For Saturday's racing there were in excess of a thousand spectator boats (counted from helicopter-shot images) and over 100,000 spectators along the shoreline. The attendance in the AC Village was 14,500 and you can take it from me that that was probably understated - it was extremely crowded.
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At the Laser Radial World Championships, in a six to eight knot strong sea breeze, the first race pushed the sailors to their limits. A total of ten yellow flags were awarded, the majority for rocking the boat. For favourites Sari Multala (FIN) and Alison Young (GBR) it was the second yellow flag, which meant they had to retire from the race.
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In the Volvo Ocean Race, Camper slipped her moorings this morning in Miami to leave for the start of Leg 7. This leg leaves the tropical area off the coast of Miami finishing in medium latitudes in Lisbon in Portugal. This is the last long leg of race at some 3600 miles and it is likely to be a fast and long sprint to the finish line at the Portuguese capital.
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America's Cup World Series - Photographer Carlo Borlenghi was on hand to capture this gallery of images on the final day of action in Venice, Italy.
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Clipper Round the World Yacht Race fleet has been faced with yet more frustrating weather conditions over the last 24 hours, with sparse wind and intense heat affecting its position and mood.
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Dean Barker, Emirates Team NZ skipper and Director of Kiwi Yachting Consultants and Nexus AB, reports from Venice, Italy from the America's Cup World Series: The last two days for us have been incredibly frustrating as we struggle to repair damage sustained when tensioning the trampoline that connects to both hulls.
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The Derwent Sailing Squadron’s autumn short-handed series ended today with a countback needed to decide the overall winner in one division while no more than two points separated the top boats in two other divisions. The final race in the five-Sunday series was sailed in a fresh and cool (11 degrees that felt like 7 degrees) breeze on the Derwent that fully tested the two crew sailing each boat.
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Laser Radial World Championship 2012 finals series is underway in Boltenhagen, Germany. Australian sailor Krystal Weir has finished with mixed results on the penultimate day of racing.
Racing was delayed for three hours on Saturday morning due to a lack of breeze with the crews initially sent out before returning to shore as the breeze disappeared.
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Volvo Ocean Race Miami In-Port Race – Puma’s Mar Mostro stretched its nose across the line to capture third place and return to the podium on Saturday in Miami, Fla., USA. The Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg crew pushed past Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand with meters left on the race course, finishing nine seconds ahead.
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Audi Winter Series - Light and shifty winds today means all competitors in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Audi Winter Series are getting a fair go, with a good mix of conditions experienced in the four races sailed so far and in unusual circumstances, Richard Holstein won the Sydney 38 Division and the Audi Drive Weekend – without being aboard his boat!
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After a very successful ISAF Perth 2011 Laser World Championships Performance Sailcraft Australia (PSA) has more than 250 Lasers for sale. PSA General Manager Chris Caldecoat said today ‘These are one event old ISAF Worlds charter boats. Boats come on dolly, with top cover, mast bag, foil bag all new rigging…ready to race. Deals to be done anywhere!!
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In part one, we looked at plastic bags. We went through the numbers and quantified how much one million and one billion is in reality. Let's revisit that before we move onto Plastic water bottles. To count straight through from one to 1,000,000 will take you 11 days and it will take 32 years to count to one billion. You cannot count to one trillion in your lifetime.
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The ocean is our playground. We sail on it, we swim in it, we fish from it and without it we don't have 60-80% of the world's oxygen........So why do we abuse it? The reason we abuse it is because most of us don't even realise we are. Covering 70% of the planet, our oceans seem to cope with everything we throw at it, right? Well think again.
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Audi Laser Radial Womens World Championships 2012 - Germany - The seasons most consistent sailor, with three World Cup wins under her belt Lijia Xu (CHN) had her worst day of this Boltenhagen regatta. She was saddled with a 14th and 12th, these are now her two drops.
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Overall race leaders Team Telefónica are lamenting their second successive in-port race loss at the hands of a simple error that racing veteran Neal McDonald described as heartbreaking.
The error has cost the overall points leader dearly on the overall points table. Their once comfortable lead has now been cut to just seven points ahead of Groupama
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On the final day of the 470 World Championships, Australian sailors Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page won their third world title following a dominant week in Barcelona, Spain. Belcher and Page’s win was the third World Championships for the Australian Sailing Team in the space of 10 days as the paired joined 2012 world title winners Tom Slingsby in the Laser class and Nathan Outteridge and Iain
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Photographer Leighton O'Connor sends this gallery of images of the action during the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 Miami In-Port Race.
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The magnificent final day of the 470 World Championships in Barcelona brought to an end seven days of intense and closely fought racing. Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS) have made it three World Championship titles in a row – an outstanding accomplishment. In the 470 Women event, Hannah Mills/Saskia Clark (GBR) make it a first for British sailing by winning the 470 World Championship title.
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In the Volvo Ocean Race, there was tight and tense racing during today’s Port Miami InPort Race held this afternoon. Following a frustrating first beat Camper trailed the fleet, but the fluky conditions and strong currents in Miami Bay played havoc on the water with the lead changing four times during the race. The 8.2 mile nine mark course tested crew work to the maximum
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The final day of the 2012 470 World Championships in Barcelona was a spectacular wrap to seven days of intense and closely fought racing. Mat Belcher/Malcolm Page (AUS) have made it three World Championship titles in a row – a phenomenal achievement.
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In the Volvo Ocean Race, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing launched an eleventh hour comeback in the Miami In-Port Race to take their tally of in-shore successes to three, while Groupama scored a strong second to pile the pressure on overall race leaders Telefónica. Ian Walker’s crew were rewarded for sailing a near-perfect race on Saturday when they snatched the lead from Groupama on the penultimate leg and
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