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Star Worlds win, Ayton returns, latest America's Cup and more

by Sail-World.com Team on 26 Jan 2010
Welcome to this week's edition of our UK newsletter.

The big news was Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson's Star World Championship win in Rio de Janeiro. The 81-boat-fleet included 11 former world champions. Congratulations and well deserved.

The RYA Volvo Youth National Championships entries are now open, Yngling Olympic Champion Sarah Ayton makes a surprise appearance at the Miami OCR alongside Saskia Clark and the Warsash Spring Series and Spring Championship entry is also open.

In World news, there is the latest on all the America's Cup happenings, including the TV schedule, the Clipper prize giving for the Singapore leg has taken place and the Rolex Miami OCR is underway.

And of course there is more........

Happy reading!
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