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Rolex Capri Sailing Week Volcano Race prizegiving By KPMS, , 3:22 PM Friday May 2013 GMT
Rolex Capri Sailing Week Volcano Race’s third edition concluded with the final prizegiving ceremony today at the docks in Capri’s Marina Grande. During the ceremony, the crew of Alexander Schaerer’s Caol Ila R (USA) received the week’s most coveted prize – the Rolex Trophy and Rolex timepiece – awarded to the overall winner of the event on IRC. ...

Bollé RS300 Grand Prix at Sheffield Viking By Matt Jenkins, , 12:08 PM Friday May 2013 GMT
Sheffield Viking SC hosted the second round of the Bollé sponsored RS300 Grand Prix event on the 18th – 19th May. Visitors came from far and wide to join three home boats for some great sailing in cracking conditions. ...

Sail for Gold Regatta - World class race management By Matt Carter, , 11:39 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Sailors taking part in the 2013 Sail for Gold Regatta, being held at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy from the 9th-13th June, can call upon the experience of a World Class Race Management Team which has been put in place for this year’s event to ensure a top quality racing experience. ...

Skipper Jean-Pierre Nicol stakes it all on prestigious classic By Agence Mer et Media, , 11:11 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Skipper Jean-Pierre Nicol has perfected his training methods in order to improve his results and hopes to be there at the top of the rankings. After pulling off some brilliant surprises in La Solitaire du Figaro, and ending up on the podium after two legs, the skipper of Bernard Controls is staking everything this year on the prestigious classic. ...

Weymouth and Portland - Visit the 2012 Games sailing venue By Jessica Francis, , 10:47 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
After the amazing success of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Weymouth and Portland is becoming an increasingly popular destination for cruise liners this year. ...

Momentum Ocean Racing preapre for high-profile offshore campaign By Will Carson, , 9:34 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
They have already joined forces on land – and now two rising stars of solo sailing have teamed up on the water to launch a top-level double-handed racing campaign. Fiancées Dan Dytch and Emma Creighton will put their relationship through the ultimate test as they take on some of the world's most promising sailors in a series of races on 40ft Class 40 ocean racing yachts. ...

Star Sailors League Eastern Hemisphere Championship Day 1 + Video By Marios Polos, , 8:52 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
The first day of the Eastern Hemisphere Championship in Torbole was successful with two races sailed. The sea breeze helped a lot the sailors to compete on ideal weather conditions. So with two races today, the duo of Diego Negri and Frithjof Kleen found them in the lead with 10 points difference from the second and the third. ...

Colours of India to illuminate as part of Vivid Sydney By Jude Timms, , 8:13 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Australian National Maritime Museum is ecstatic that its iconic 1,700 square metre roof, historic vessels and surrounds will be illuminated with the Colours of India as part the renowned Vivid Sydney from 24 May to 10 June 2013. ...

Riviera invests in Australia’s manufacturing future By Stephen Milne, , 8:10 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Riviera chairman and owner Rodney Longhurst announced today that his family will purchase Riviera’s 14-hectare state-of-the-art Coomera facility on Queensland’s Gold Coast. ...

Warrnambool Magistrates Court - Stiff penalties on abalone cases By Melanie Curtis, , 7:54 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Warrnambool Magistrates Court this week charged three men with abalone and commercial fishing equipment offences. In the first of two abalone related cases heard, the court was told that on December 11 last year, Fisheries Officers observed three men, aged in their forties and fifties, taking abalone from the intertidal zone at Griffith Island, Port Fairy. ...

NZL Sailing Team: Three in the medal chase at Medemblik By Jodie Bakewell-White, 5:50 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
The NZL Sailing Team are back in the hunt for medals with three crews lying top two across three classes as 2013 Delta Lloyd Regatta, Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie are ten points clear in the Women’s 470, Andy Maloney has climbed to second in the Laser event and in the Men’s 470 Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox have also improved to second place ...

Yamaha celebrates production of its 10 millionth outboard! By Mike Rose, 5:42 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
The Yamaha Motor Company has celebrated the production of the company’s 10 millionth Yamaha outboard. Celebrations to mark achievement were held at Fukuroi South Factory, Yamaha’s state-of-the-art outboard manufacturing facility, in May. ...

All Marine Spares - Best trade turn out ever! By Jeni Bone, , 4:48 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Leigh Francis and his team of 8 are basking in the noon day sun, figuratively. They are on the job in their prominent spot adjacent the marina at Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show, day 2, and enjoying brisk trade with interest from consumers and trade contacts from all over the country. ...

Sanctuary Cove Boat Show 2013 day 1 + Images By William Burton, Gold Coast , 4:44 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Boaters are expected to flock in droves this weekend to the 25th International Sanctuary Cove Boat Show. Despite the odd 10 second Queensland shower, weather here has been perfect. ...

Sanctuary Cove Boat Show 2013 - Video interview with Brent Vaughan By MarineBusiness-World.com Media, 4:21 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Sanctuary Cove Boat Show 2013 - Video interview with Brent Vaughan, the 15 year multihull industry veteran who is the principal of Multihull Central, the exclusive Australian distributor for Seawind and Outremer Yachting´s catamarans. ...

Barry Gourlay receives RNLI Bronze Medal for Gallantry By RNLI, , 2:34 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
When knowledgeable mariner Paul Harrison and his son Sean left North Shields on 31 July 2012 in ideal conditions aboard the 16m former lifeboat Princess, they had no idea this would be ‘the old rescuer’s’ last journey. By midnight the wind had increased to 25 knots and large swells outran the boat. ...

Delta Lloyd Regatta – Consistent day 3 for Australian crews By Craig Heydon, , 1:42 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
2013 Delta Lloyd Regatta third day of racing got underway in Medemblik, Holland. Australian sailors have retaken the lead in two classes ...

Find a special experience at US Sailing youth racing events in 2013 By Jake Fish, 1:36 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Young sailors in search of great competition, quality coaching instruction and a fun time on and off the water, will find a special experience at US Sailing youth racing events in 2013. Another exciting season of youth racing is rapidly approaching at the many US Sailing coordinated events from two popular circuits. ...

Coast to coast sailing reports—Sailing news from the U.S. and beyond By David Schmidt, Sail-World USA Editor, Seattle , 1:26 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
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Red Bull Youth America's Cup - Teaming up to help French youth prepare By Chantal Buard, , 1:23 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
When the first week of September arrives, between the Louis Vuitton Cup and America’s Cup finals, the city of San Francisco will be hosting the Red Bull Youth America's Cup, for teams with members under 24 years old. The AC45 of France’s Next World Energy team will be taking part in this high-level competition. ...

America's Cup: Review Recommendations not expected to be an easy meal By Richard Gladwell, 1:18 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
There could be some belching in San Francisco before teams digest and maybe sign-off the 37 recommendations served up by the America’s Cup Regatta Director, Iain Murray yesterday. The recommendations came on the back of a fatal accident on the Swedish AC72, and triggered the commissioning of a six person panel, by event organisers. Includes two videos of the first sail with three AC72's together ...

ICSA Women’s National Championship Day 3 By College Sailing Media, 1:17 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
The Sperry Top-Sider/ICSA Women’s National Championship third day of racing got underway today in St. Petersburg, Fla. on Tampa Bay co-sponsored by the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Eckerd College and St. Petersburg Yacht Club ...

FLIR cross Princess Leia with an Imperial Stormtrooper + Video By John Curnow, 12:35 AM Friday May 2013 GMT
Yes. You do need to see this to believe it. FLIR Systems has recently launched their new maritime products and heading up the show, is the truly spectacular MU Series, which with its buns on the side of its head and shiny, white plastic cover, certainly does look like something from Star Wars. ...

America's Cup: Images from San Francisco Bay - First sail for three By Erik Simonson, www.pressure-drop.us, San Francisco , 11:07 PM Thursday May 2013 GMT
For the first time three America's Cup AC72 catamarans were sailing on San Francisco Bay, today. Erik Simonson of www.pressure-drop.us was on the water and filed this gallery of images of the action. ...

College Sailing Nationals - Day 3, Women's Finals By Jennifer Mitchell, St Petersburg, FL , 10:33 PM Thursday May 2013 GMT
The Sperry Top-Sider/ICSA Women’s National Championship continued today in St. Petersburg, FL, on Tampa Bay co-sponsored by the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Eckerd College and St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Eighteen collegiate teams from across the nation are vying for the national title, the Gerald C. Miller Trophy, awarded to the winning team. ...

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