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Contrary to claims elsewhere, Emirates Team NZ CEO, Grant Dalton is reported in the Herald on Sunday as saying that expense is the main reason there are so few challengers in the next America's Cup and not the oft-blamed world economy. Earlier in the week, America's Cup organisers were keen to damp down comments by America's Cup Regatta Management's Regatta Director, Iain Murray
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Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing have a need for speed, skipper Ian Walker said after finishing Leg 3 in fifth place under the cover of darkness at Sanya, China on Saturday.
'We can do tactics better, crew work better and everything better because at the moment it’s just not good enough' Jules Salter - navigator, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing
Walker’s team, who won the first stage of Leg 3 from their homepor
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Global Ocean Race (GOR) - Conditions have been improving significantly at the front of the fleet in the Southern Ocean since two of the Class40s turned back to New Zealand on Thursday. Leg three has already packed a significant punch with headwinds reaching up to Force 9 pounding the double-handed fleet and forcing the two lead boats, Buckley Systems and Campagne de France, to head west.
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The Board of Directors of the Canadian Yachting Association proudly declares that Paul D. Phelan, of Toronto, Ontario, is the winner of the 2011 Canadian Rolex Sailor of the Year Award. Other prestigious CYA awards winners will also be recognized tonight in Toronto.
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Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - After a week-long stopover in spectacular Singapore the ten yachts taking part in the race set sail this morning from the exclusive Marina at Keppel Bay, where they have been based since last Saturday. The send-off was no less spectacular than the welcome festivities, with drummers upping the tempo as the teams manned their boats in preparation for race start
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Volvo Ocean Race - Ken Read, Skipper of Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg reports on the crew's progress: I bet that almost every final leg blog from any Volvo boat starts with...'This has been a tough leg.' Don't imagine any of you have ever heard a Volvo sailor saying, 'This leg has been a breeze.' None are. This was no exception.
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Women's Match Race Country Qualifier – Strong winds and tough competition proved to be the knock out punch for three of the nine teams as they were eliminated from the regatta today. The winds on Biscayne Bay whipped up for the second day of racing as the first stage was completed and the second stage began.
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Volvo Ocean Race team Groupama have crossed the leg three finish line in Sanya (China) in second place after Franck Cammas and his men battled neck and neck with the Spanish on Telefonica for the past two weeks of racing between Abu Dhabi and Sanya in China. The performance by Franck Cammas and his international crew testifies to the constant progress they have been making
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Team Telefónica became the first team to win the first three legs of a Volvo Ocean Race in 22 years as they swept to glory in Leg 3 from Abu Dhabi to Sanya.
Not since Sir Peter Blake’s Steinlager 2 made a clean sweep of all four legs of the 1989-90 edition of the Whitbread Round the World Race has the event seen such success.
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At 2200 UTC tonight, in the Volvo Ocean Race, the first four boats racing in Leg 3 Stage 2 were screaming towards the Sanya finish in a high-speed chase led by Iker Martinez and Team Telefónica. Groupama sailing team were holding on to second place, 30.20 nautical miles (nm) behind.
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With just over 100nm to sail to the finish line in Sanya, China, Telefonica looks set to take her third ocean leg win.
According to the routing options from PredictWind, at 1900hrs UTC on 3 February, the Iker Martinex skippered Spainish entry, just has to sail the direct course to the finish, and should be able to average 15-17kts for the remaining distance.
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Global Ocean Race - There has been intense drama in Leg 3 as two of the Class40s, Buckley Systems and Campagne de France, have turned west and are currently heading for Auckland, New Zealand, while the three remaining boats, Cessna Citation, Financial Crisis and Phesheya-Racing continue into strong, Pacific Ocean headwinds in the Roaring Forties.
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Ontario Sailing is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 'Legends of Ontario Sailing' Award. This marks the third Annual presentation of the 'Legends of Ontario Sailing' Award. The Award will be presented as part of Ontario Sailing's fundraising event, Mad Men Gala, taking place on March 31, 2012 at The Boulevard Club in Toronto.
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Women's Match Race International Country Olympic Qualifying Regatta - The pressure is on as three of the nine women's match racing teams competing to qualify their country for the 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition will be eliminated at the end of the first round robin and the top six will move on to the next stage.
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After crashing off a monstrous wave in the Southern Ocean, Global Ocean Race leaders Ross and Campbell Field of Team Buckley Systems have suffered damage to their yacht and are heading back to New Zealand.
For the past 24 hours, the yacht has been smashing into in storm force winds and huge seas south east of the Chatham Islands.
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Two boys went into the water one Australia Day many years ago and only one came out. The other drowned, as did a rescuer. An elderly relative of mine was the survivor. He subsequently got married and had five children who duly delivered eight grandchildren … the ripple effect.
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In the Volvo Ocean Race, Puma has re-joined the fleet after a brief, but miserable sojourn to the east, while leaders of the pack, Team Telefónica, have again extended their lead over second-placed Groupama sailing team (Franck Cammas/FRA). At 2200 UTC tonight, Telefónica led Groupama 4 by 19.4 nautical miles (nm).
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An unexpected change in wind direction today dealt a cruel blow to Puma Ocean Racing’s plans to rocket to the head of the fleet on the home strait to Sanya. While the leg leaders shot towards the shore of Vietnam yesterday to escape strong currents that sweep south along its coastline, Puma surrendered third place in the rankings to stay offshore in the hope of better wind, calmer seas, a favourab
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Emirates Team NZ's coach, Rod Davis describes what it is like working with Luna Rossa and coaching against his old team:
A change is like a holiday. We are back to training for racing, a week off from testing and development work on our SL33s and working through ideas for the new boat. I must say, it is very nice to be back in AC45 mode and doing ' real' coaching again.
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Puma’s easterly track had dropped them down to fifth on the leaderboard with Team Sanya 260 nm off the lead in sixth. Puma were a distant third when they split from the fleet to head east, but Infante says based on the latest data they now stand a better than average chance of getting themselves right back in the fight to win the second stage of Leg 3.
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The weather has continued to close in on the four boats, which are racing towards the shore. In a make or break move, Read and his men on board Puma’s Mar Mostro are now 127 nm to the east of fourth placed Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing.
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The Global Ocean Race Class40s have dropped deeper south through the Pacific's Roaring Forties led by Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron with Campagne de France. The distance between the leading trio of boats has compressed rapidly from thirty miles on Tuesday evening GMT, to just six miles on Wednesday morning.
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The 14th edition of the ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship is set to take place from 25-30 June in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Notice of Race for the championship event has now been released. Hosted by the Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club (GKSS) the sixteen teams will sail the Elliot 6metre keelboat, the equipment being used for Women's Match Racing at the London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition.
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The ISAF World Sailing Rankings for 1 February 2012 have been released.
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RC44 Championship Tour - New faces and one new team are confirmed in the line-up for the Tour, which kicks off in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote next week. Each of the 14 competing teams will be hoping to emulate the success Chris Bake’s Team Aqua (GBR) saw in 2011.
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The America's Cup is the oldest trophy in international sport. There have been thirty-three matches for its possession since 1851, and no challenger was successful until 1983. By 2007 the Cup had only changed hands four times. Disputes around the thirty-third match generated judicial and arbitral decisions that will be influential in all areas of international sporting law.
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ISAF Olympic Evaluation Trials - Today ISAF has named the Multihulls who will compete at the evaluation trials in Santander, Spain during 17th to 25th March 2012.
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Olympic equipment evaluation for 2016 - Following the request for proposals, ISAF are pleased to announce that they have received entrants for six Women’s Skiff and seven Mixed Multihulls and wish to invite them all to the evaluation event in Santander, Spain in March.
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Global Ocean Race - Speeds in the GOR fleet rose dramatically throughout Tuesday as the double-handed Class40s dropped south below Chatham Island with the five boats reaching into the high latitudes on port in 25-30 knots of northerly wind. Having taken the lead early on Tuesday morning, Ross and Campbell Field hit the highest speed averages on their Tyker 40
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Volvo Ocean Race - The crew aboard Camper may be facing gale force winds and huge seas, but with confidence, they feel that they are now sailing into their comfort zone. Chris Nicholson’s team spent so long bashing upwind during their training for the VOR that the 35-knot winds forecast to pummel the fleet within the next 24 hours as they race through the South China Sea are little worry for them.
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The Volvo Ocean Race fleet are maintaining the pace and pressure at 2200 UTC this evening as Iker Martinez and the crew of Telefonica lead the fleet towards the South Cape of Vietnam, some 261 nautical miles (nm) ahead. Even though the team had to back up to free some plastic stuck in the daggerboard, since 1600 UTC today they have been making small gains on the entire fleet
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Telefónica navigator Andrew Cape couldn’t hide his relief at being clear of the Malacca Strait – but said the danger is not over yet.
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The first three boats Global Ocean Race Class40s are keeping close formation as they run off the wind in 30 knots of breeze in the Roaring Forties, leaving Chatham Island to port.
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