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Fisher's View: Probably the best race so far . . .
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Bob Fisher,
1:56 AM Thu GMT
With the threat of elimination, TeamOrigin and Artemis pulled out the most exciting race of the regatta. The advantage swung between the boats, first to the British and then to the Swedish team. Wind shifts and variable current added to the strategies while match racing tactics were seen in profusion, particularly on the first lap.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy: TeamOrigin makes early exit
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Richard Gladwell. Sail-World.com,
1:24 AM Thu GMT
Artemis despatched TeamOrigin from the Louis Vuitton Trophy in the sudden death elimination race sailed on the Waitemata this afternoon. The reality is that was a match the the British team should not have lost, and managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory just short of rounding the windward mark for the second time.
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2010 Newport Bermuda Race entry deadline approaching
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Newport Bermuda Race,
10:37 PM Wed GMT
The deadline for submitting an Application For Entry for the 2010 Newport Bermuda Race is 1700 hrs on April 1, 2010. More than 160 boats have already entered.
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A100 Majan surviving 70 Knots in the Southern Ocean
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OC Events,
10:21 PM Wed GMT
Oman Sail’s A100 trimaran ‘Majan’ has been battling hurricane force winds in the Southern Ocean on leg 3 of the Indian Ocean 5 Capes Race en route to the next stop over in Fremantle, Australia. From Mark Covell on board ‘Majan’: It’s been a long couple of days. As I woke the first day of this storm Paul, Mohammed and Mike were on watch. The sky was grey with driving rain that stung your face. The
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Extreme Sailing Series Europe 2010 debuts in Sète, France
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OC Events,
10:04 PM Wed GMT
Sète on the South Coast of France is the opening venue of the Extreme Sailing Series Europe 2010 from 27-30 May. Sète has a history of hosting top international sailing teams: the city played host to Alinghi and Victory Challenge in 2002 prior to their departure for Auckland, New Zealand and French Kiss in 1986 before the America's Cup in Fremantle, Australia.
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Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 ahead of the front
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Groupama-Cammas,
9:23 PM Wed GMT
Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 is beginning the final sprint in a steady yet disturbed SW'ly wind. The current aim for Franck Cammas and his nine crew is to seek to position themselves ahead of a cold front, which should push them all the way to the finish off Ushant.
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St. Francis Yacht Club becomes first 2012 Gold Medal Partner Club
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Marni Lane,
9:12 PM Wed GMT
St. Francis Yacht Club (San Francisco, Calif.) is the first yacht club to become a gold medal partner yacht club of the Olympic Sailing Program for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, US Sailing announced today.
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ISAF Sailor Classification Code reminder - Group 2 to be eliminated
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ISAF,
8:51 PM Wed GMT
ISAF would like to remind events, classes and sailors using the ISAF Sailor Classification Code, that the Code is changing and starting from 1 April 2010, the category of Group 2 sailors will be eliminated.
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Nantucket Race Week, August 7-15, 2010
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Diana Brown, Nantucket, MA ,
11:13 PM Wed GMT
The seventh annual Nantucket Race Week promises to be a great week of sailing competition and social events, culminating with the 38th annual Opera House Cup Regatta. Throughout the week there are regattas for one designs, twelve metres, PHRF rated boats, and classic wooden yachts, and fun social events every night.
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Clipper 09-10: First three through scoring gate
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Clipper Ventures,
9:21 PM Wed GMT
Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht race. Three of the teams have even more to celebrate having picked up Scoring Gate points. Cape Breton Island took the maximum three points followed by Jamaica Lightning Bolt scoring two for crossing in second place and Uniquely Singapore claiming a point for third.
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Another good win for Artemis in the Louis Vuitton Trophy - Auckland
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Paul Cayard, ,
11:11 AM Wed GMT
Another good win for Artemis today over the Italians on Azzurra. No wild excitment like yesterday against the Brits, just steady control of the race, abeit in the upper wind range. In fact we were on hold for 45 minutes as the wind had built to 25 knots at our scheduled start time. It came down to 20 knots and we were underway. It was still a race in which I felt keeping it simple would pay of
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Fisher's View: Laddies who lunch
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Bob Fisher,
10:14 AM Wed GMT
There is an upside to counteract the general downside feeling that goes with postponed races – the opportunity to do what so many women do on a regular basis; and do lunch. In the Viaduct Basin in Auckland, the temptation is constant and while the opportunities to indulge have been there a-plenty, the postponements have not coincided properly with the luncheon hour
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Louis Vuitton Trophy: Christophe Favreau's view of Day 8
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Christophe Favreau,
10:01 AM Wed GMT
Christophe Favreau was on the water for Day 9 of the Louis Vuitton Trophy, and presents this gallery of images.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy: A seriously cool slide show - Artemis Racing
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Sander van der Borch /Artemis,
9:36 AM Wed GMT
Sander van der Borch, assigned to Artemis Racing presents a magnificent slide show of race images and backdrops from the Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy: Emirates Team NZ through to the semis
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Warren Douglas,
9:05 AM Wed GMT
Emirates Team New Zealandand Mascalzone Latino have gone through to the semi-final of the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland regatta.
ETNZ beat Synergy by 15 seconds to earn their ticket through to the semi-final; Mascalzone Latino beat Aleph by 59sec.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy - Elimination time! Down to six teams
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Louis Vuitton Trophy WSTA,
7:49 AM Wed GMT
Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland. Auckland’s harbour lived up to its name today. Waitemata means 'sparkling waters' and whitecaps dappled the course in mostly bright sunshine and gusty, shifty southerly winds that ranged from 15 knots to 30 knots. Top seed Emirates Team New Zealand and second-ranked Mascalzone Latino Audi from Italy each won their races and went through to the semi-finals to be saile
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Clipper 09 -10: The mighty Pacific beckons Team Finland
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Clipper Ventures,
2:42 AM Wed GMT
Two weeks after the Clipper fleet departed Qingdao, China, to do battle across the Pacific Ocean, Team Finland has set off on the 5,680-mile race to San Francisco. The Finnish entry in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race was delayed in her departure from China’s sailing capital after she was dismasted in the race from Singapore to Qingdao – renowned for its heavy conditions
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Louis Vuitton Trophy Elimination Round: Artemis defeats Azzurra images
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Sail-World.com/Sander van der Borch images,
2:41 AM Wed GMT
Artemis won the first race in the Elimination Round of the Louis Vuitton Trophy in Auckland. Our thanks to Sander van der Borch for these images.
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Senator Jack Reed announces Federal Funding for IYRS Program
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Cynthia Goss,
1:58 AM Wed GMT
U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) was joined today by the staffs of the International Yacht Restoration School and the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation to announce federal funding for IYRS' new Composites Technology Program.
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Voiles de Saint Barth launch just a few weeks away
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Mer & Média Agency (France),
1:50 AM Wed GMT
With just a few weeks to go to the launch of the Voiles de Saint Barth, the latest date on the Caribbean racing calendar, all of the island’s authorities are getting ready to host a long week of racing out on the water and a lot of celebrations ashore from sixth to 11th April.
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Int'l Rolex Regatta: A treat for spectators as well as competitors
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Regatta News,
12:28 AM Wed GMT
The only thing that could possibly be more fun than competing in the International Rolex Regatta, scheduled for March 26-28, is watching it from shore. Among the highlights of the regatta's three racing days are Friday's 'town races,' which take the fleet from St. Thomas Yacht Club right into the heart of the bustling commercial harbour of Charlotte Amalie.
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5th Commodores Forum - Insights into hosting commercial sailing events
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Cailah Leask,
11:19 PM Tue GMT
Yacht club operators across the world congregated at the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, Perth, Western Australia, to hold their fifth Commodores Forum to meet and share their experience and views.
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Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 breaks even
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Cammas-Groupama,
10:51 PM Tue GMT
Jules Verne Trophy - On the 44th day at sea, Groupama 3 has made up the ground on Orange 2 very quickly. Amassing a lead of up to 620 miles (6th day) and a 492 mile deficit (40th day) off Brazil, Groupama 3's progress has often been thwarted by rather unfavourable weather.
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Clipper 09-10: Team Finland leaves Qindgao for San Francisco
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Clipper Ventures,
10:39 PM Tue GMT
Clipper 09-10: Team Finland has left the Olympic Sailing Centre in Qingdao and has begun her race to San Francisco where she will join the rest of the Clipper 09-10 fleet. At 0900 GMT the leading yacht, Cape Breton Island, had approximately 50 miles to run to the Scoring Gate, with Jamaica Lightning Bolt and Uniquely Singapore in hot pursuit.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy - Artemis images from Sander van der Borch
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Sander van der Borch images,
10:11 PM Tue GMT
Photographer Sander van der Borch presents these images from Artemis Racing on Day 7 of the Louis Vuitton Trophy in Auckland. In the first race Artemis almost lost mastman David Brooke over the side when the jib sheet got caught underneath his legs. See Sander's sequence below.
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Andrew Campbell on Bacardi Cup: Big breeze, we placed 13th overall
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Andrew Campbell,
11:52 AM Tue GMT
Chris Rogers and I set the boat up for big breeze and got our angles sorted out but were quickly nulified by a 20 degree swing to the left right as the gun went off. We flopped onto port tack and essentially fetched the windward mark some 2 miles later.
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Artemis Racing: Cayard rates quality of Louis Vuitton Day 7 contest
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Paul Cayard, Artemis Media & ARL media,
11:31 AM Tue GMT
Paul Cayard, skipper of Artemis Racing reviews the racing from Day 7, with the help of some graphics from Animation Research Ltd's Virtual Eye: We had a great day today on Artemis. Things really went our way and it was very satisfying. First, we had a good tussle against ALL4ONE. Our second match of the day, ranks right up there with some of the all time races I have had in 20 years of racing i
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Fisher's View: Close…too close for comfort.
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Bob Fisher,
10:04 AM Tue GMT
Contacts, loss of control, shouting, more shouting and more flags than you see at a Coronation. That was some helluva race – the one between Artemis and TeamOrigin. It had promised to be a cracker and lived up to the promise, because there was so much at stake.
An early error saw TeamOrigin penalised and a split tack start gave Artemis the right hand side
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Louis Vuitton Trophy - A free team-building exercise!
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Louis Vuitton Trophy WSTA,
9:53 AM Tue GMT
Louis Vutiion Trophy Auckland - Packed with protest flags, incidents and flogging sails at three marks of a four-leg course, this close-fought duel went ultimately to Artemis and her helmsman Terry Hutchinson on a series of umpire calls. Asked to explain all that happened, Cayard simply said: 'We should have had to pay for that (team building), but luckily the Brits paid for it for us!'
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Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race - New Cork skipper revealed
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Clipper Ventures,
4:58 AM Tue GMT
Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht race. Hannah Jenner will celebrate her 30th birthday as she races into Kinsale as the skipper of the Cork, Ireland, entry in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race.
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Emirates Team NZ on top after Qualifying Round
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Warren Douglas,
2:35 AM Tue GMT
Emirates Team New Zealand has finished top qualifier in the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland regatta with a six win, one loss record in the round robin. In today’s final race in the round robin, Emirates Team New Zealand beat Synergy by a minute. The race committee’s mission on Tuesday was to get seven races away to catch up on the three lost yesterday because of the wind.
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Images of San Francisco: The Big Daddy Regatta
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Erik Simonson,
10:39 PM Mon GMT
Erik Simonson of h2oshots.com presents a gallery of images from the Richmond Yacht Club's annual spring rite of passage, the Big Daddy Regatta.. This is the first major event of the YRA calendar - two days of racing, one day of round the buoys
and on the second day there is a pursuit race with an awesome theme party in the middle.
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Clipper 09-10 - Qingdao into Stealth Mode as scoring gate approaches
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Clipper Ventures,
9:55 PM Mon GMT
Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht race - Race 7 Qindgao to San Francisco Day 14.
The Pacific is clearly not living up to its name at the moment as the cold wet and windy conditions persist and heavy squalls mean that layering up is a must before the crews dare to venture on deck
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