|
|
| |
Welcome to Sail-World Canada
 ACWS in San Diego!
The America's Cup World Series have landed in San Diego, CA this week; the action is now heating up from earlier in the week when lighter conditions prevailed for some of the qualifying races. Saturday will see the winner of the Match Racing Championship decided in the final three race duel, while Sunday will should be exciting with the Speed Trial runs and the Fleet Race. All the action is available live on Sail-World.com; we also have video replays and amazing photos. San Diego is an incredible venue for this racing format!
Quite the year for Jean-Pierre Dick and Jeremie Beyou who were the first across IMOCA entry across the finish line in the Transat Jacque Vabre on boats Paprec-Virbac 3; Dick won the Barcelone World Race earlier this year, while Beyou was first in the Solitaire du Figaro. While the French know a thing or two about offshore racing, British racer Alex Thompson, on Hugo Boss, is set to arrive in Costa Rica in second place with Spaniard Guillermo Altadill. After 16 days of racing, the remainder of the Open 60 fleet still have a few hunder miles to go, closely followed by the two Multi 50, while Aquarelle.com, the closest Class 40 yacht, is still 1300 miles away.
While the entire fleet pushed as hard as they could to score additional points through the Clipper Round the World Ocean Sprint, Singapore has retired from the race following the steering problems they encountered last week. The 70-foot yachts regularly posted speeds over 20 knots surfing waves in the Souther Ocean. The top five boat are only within 40 miles of each other and it's still anyone's race to win as the leader keeps changing now that they are heading north along the New Zealand eastern shore.
Another duel at the front of the fleet is taking place in the Atlantic Ocean where Team Telefonica has just edged Puma Mar Mostro for the lead in the Volvo Ocean Race. Following the required celebrations while crossing the Equator, teams set their sight on the Fernado de Noronha Island, where they could start their big left hand turn through the Southern Atlantic. Navigators will have to find the best way around the St. Helena high pressure system and might be forced to put in more miles in order to keep the speedo up; this race is not over yet with Groupama slowly closing the gap at the back.
Sail-World is attending the METS trade show in Amsterdam where David Schmidt shares pictures of cool new toys.
All the best!
Guy Perrin
Sail-World Canada Managing Editor
grperrin@sail-world.com
Canadian Yachting - latest news
Yachting News from Canada...
For more details and news for this event, go to:
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?Eid=1216
We have sending you our another Sail-World Canada Newsletter because you are already receiving an existing marine newsletter from us or because we believe this will be of interest to you. If you like this newsletter, do nothing, we will send you another issue next month. If you don't want us to send you another newsletter,  and we won't.
|
| |
Follow Sail-World on Twitter
Customised news feeds
Marine Industry companies, Clubs and Associations have asked can they received their own customised
version of our Sail-World news feed. The answer is yes; customised in content, news category, for example or region of the world and appearance.
CLICK HERE to view examples and get free news tickers for your site.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Change the frequency of newsletters, from once a week to a monthly newsletter. Change from html (graphics & pictures) newsletters to text only newsletter, (best for slow connections, mobile phones and PDA's etc. Change from Sail-World New Zealand Newsletters to Sail-World Cruising International Newsletters etc. Temporarily inactivate your subscription for a period, when you will be on holidays etc. or change to text for the same period. Or even (gasp) unsubscribe.
If you don't want us to send you another newsletter, a single CLICK HERE and we won't.
or take off list
If you are having difficulty with the above link, please copy and paste the link below into your browser
http://www.sail-world.com/subscription/index.cfm?sid=<:id:>&pwd=<:password:>&tbl=<:tableName:>&tmpid=<:templateID:>
| | |
|
