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Day One - 470 Junior Worlds
Racing got underway yesterday at the Junior 470 World Championships for Men/Mixed and Women crews in Poland. For the first time, the Junior 470 World Championships are separated into two events; Men/Mixed and Women. ... [more] 
Qingdao - It's not normally like this !!
Despite long-held predictions of almost guaranteed light winds at the Olympic regatta, the waters off Qingdao have another face with 22-25 knots over the last few days. After a prolonged period of fog and very light winds, these photos show a completely different side to the Olympic venue, with the 2004 Finn silver medalist Rafael Trujillo of Spain training this week in winds of 22-25 knots. ... [more] 
2008 Fuerteventura Kitespeed Grand Slam Report
The 2008 Fuerteventura Kitespeed Grand Slam came to an end today with another two exciting races in conditions from 25-35 knots. It was again a hard fight between Sebastien Cattelan, Robert Douglas and Alex Caizergues. ... [more] Young Sailors compete in Chubb U.S. Junior Champs Chicago Yacht Club's Belmont Harbor Station is gearing up to host the country's top youth sailors at the Chubb U.S. Junior Championships from July 28 through August 1. ... [more] 
Safe Kids Of Greater Toledo takes excellence award
The BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water honored Safe Kids of Greater Toledo, OH with its 2007 Boating Safety Grant Excellence Award and announced the granting of nearly $50,000 to 19 groups across the US for its 2008 Boating Safety Grant program. ... [more] 
Breitling Regatta Day 2 images
Peter de Ridder’s team were on top of their game when they chased Bribón across the finish line of the first race before going on to win the second race by a comfortable margin. ... [more] 
On the chase amidst wind holes in Quebec St Malo
The fleet of the 7th Transat Quebec Saint Malo is continuing to make headway as best it can towards the infamous pierced rock (the Percé mark) that forms the second course mark along the banks of Gaspésie. True to form, the 50 foot trimaran Crêpes Whaou! has taken off. Franck-Yves Escoffier and his crew have made their getaway. ... [more] 
2008 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam – Day Five
Albeau and Ghibaudo show defiance to reign supreme on the final day of racing in Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam. First shock to the final day’s proceedings was that Micah Buzianis (JP, NeilPryde, MFC) would not be participating after sustaining a broken leg in the previous day’s racing. ... [more] 
Class racing starts tomorrow at NYYC Race Week
New York Yacht Club (NYYC) race office is in full swing again for the second half of its sixth biennial Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex. Starting tomorrow two IRC, two PHRF and four one-design classes will begin a four-day racing series. ... [more] 
International Rolex Regatta 2009
International Rolex Regatta is one of the most popular of several Caribbean sailing events that, when strung together, can keep a hard-core, fun-loving racer occupied in the islands for the better part of two months. It joined with the BVI Spring Regatta to offer the inaugural Virgin Islands Race Week. ... [more] 
Mean Machine on the Comeback trail
Mean Machine emerged from a classic sea breeze day of three good races on the Bay of Palma to lead the 14th Regatta Breitling by seven clear points from Matador. Peter de Ridder’s team were on top of their game when they chased Bribón across the finish line of the first race before going on to win the second race by a comfortable margin ... [more] 
Crêpes Whaou leads Transat Quebec Saint Malo
At noon, Franck-Yves Escoffier and his 50 foot trimaran 'Crêpes Whaou' were the only ones in the Transat Quebec Saint Malo, the 7th of that name, to have rounded the Percé passage mark, to the north of the Gaspésie and 354 miles from Quebec. ... [more] 
Junior 470 World Championships and awards
470 Class celebrates at Junior 470 Worlds for Men/Mixed and Women International 470 Class Association awards 4700 euros in cash to sailors in the frame of its Sailors Supports Prorammes ... [more] 
Wind deserts Optimist Worlds
The glorious winds deserted the venue today and, despite moving the course far out into the bay, only one full race (Race 9) could be completed. Division A of Race 10 was completed but divisions B and C will have to wait until, hopefully, tomorrow ... [more] 
Spithill wins Mackinac race on board Genuine Risk
Genuine Risk with BMW ORACLE Racing’s James Spithill on board as a helmsman and Watch Captain, has crossed the finish line first at the 100th Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac on Lake Michigan. ... [more] 
Dutch reveal revolutionary new Tornado sails
Last week, Dutch Team Zwitserleven Booth/Nieuwenhuis revealed its revolutionary sail for the Olympic competition in China. Because of the expected light winds in Qingdao, the Tornado duo focused on developing a special gennaker. ... [more] 
Ericsson takes a battering in VOR qualifier
Both Ericsson boats have endured a bruising encounter with the North Sea during their qualifying run. Ericsson 3 and Ericsson 4 ran into 40 knots within 24 hours of a relatively gentle departure from Sweden on their round trip to the team training base in Lanzarote. ... [more] 16 More Pacific Cup Racers Hit One-Week Mark The Pacific Cup - steadily gaining on the fleet, Raindrop (Portland, Ore.) has pushed into first place overall, recalling Skip Allen's double-handed victory aboard Wildflower in 2002. ... [more] Fuerteventura Kitespeed Grand Slam 2008 Sotavento Beach saw another epic battle today, with the better end for Sebastien Cattelan - Fuerteventura Kitespeed Grand Slam 2008. It was again Cattelan, Douglas and Roberts who fought for the event lead. Christophe Prin-Guenon is also still in reach of the podium. ... [more] 
Owen Parker (1932-2008) - the professional racer
Owen Parker, who was Sir Edward Heath’s professional sailing master on several yachts owned and skippered by the former UK Prime Minister passed away on July 9 aged 76 after a long battle with cancer ... [more] 
Congress restores exemption on recreational boats
Congress restores 35 year exemption for Recreational Boats from proposed EPA Permitting requirements. In a remarkable display of bipartisan support for recreational boating, both the House and Senate today passed S. 2766, 'The Clean Boating Act of 2008' which will permanently restore a long-standing exemption for recreational boats from permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act. ... [more] 
Rolex US-IRC National Championship
Rolex US-IRC National Championship Second annual national title to be decided at Little Traverse Yacht Club's Annual Regatta & One Design Series Harbor Springs, Michigan, USA. ... [more] 
2008 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam – Day Four
The fourth day of relentless wind put the sailors endurance to the test in three more rounds of adrenaline-fuelled racing. The men hit the water first to add a ninth race to their tally from the previous days. Signs of nerves were all too apparent, when four out of the twelve competitors in the losers’ final false started. ... [more] Preliminary Results for CYC Race to Mackinac There are four overall winners for the 100th Running of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac representing top honors in each of the four divisions: Chicago-Mackinac Trophy Division, Mackinac Cup Division, Multihull Division, and the Cruising Division - Preliminary Results by Division. ... [more] 
British Classic Yacht Club Regatta at Cowes
Conditions on the Solent could not have been more perfect this morning for the start of the Round the Island race, on the first day of the 2008 British Classic Yacht Club Classic Regatta. The 45 classic yachts making up the regatta fleet were a marvellous spectacle, as under clear blue skies, in a ten to twelve knots northwesterly wind, they manoeuvred for optimum position on the RYS startline ... [more] 
Audi MedCup Circuit - De Ridder leads on Day 1
Winners of the first regatta of the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008, Peter de Ridder´s Mean Machine leads the Breitling Regatta after the first three races on the Bay of Palma off Puerto Portals. De Ridder and his team sailed to two race wins and a fifth place to share the same overall points tally as Alberto Roemmers’ Argentinian boat Matador ... [more] 
Three UK teams start at Melges 32 US Championships
Three international teams, all from the UK are bringing some spectacular talent to the third and largest ever Melges 32 US National Championship on July 25-27 in Newport, R.I. Twenty entries have been confirmed for the regatta which will be held in conjunction with the New York Yacht Club's Race Week at Newport, presented by Rolex ... [more] 
Spirit of Yachting 2008 updated broadcast schedule
Spirit of Yachting 2008 is a series of ten half-hour programmes featuring some of the very best yachting events taking place this year. ... [more]
Ericsson Racing Team makes steady progress
Ericsson 3 and 4, the two high-performance yachts of the Ericsson Racing Team for the Volvo Ocean Race, today began Day 6 of their race-mandated qualifying sail. This morning the international crew aboard Ericsson 4, skippered by Torben Grael, found themselves approaching Cape Finisterre. ... [more] 
Bostik has arrived in United States
Alexia Barrier (France), Phil Paxton (Canada) and Yann Clavier (France) arrived safe and sound onboard Bostik, the first unit of the Veolia Oceans® series for the SolOceans, in the North Cove Marina on the Hudson River, close to Manhattan skyscrapers. ... [more] 
New USA kitespeed record by Robert Douglas
Day four of the 2008 Fuerteventura Kitespeed Grand Slam Sebastien Cattelan and Charlotte Consorti (FRA) take the overall lead. A new USA kitespeed record was set by Robert Douglas. ... [more] 
Mackinac fleet heads to the finish
As the day progressed forward, so too did the boats participating in the 100th Running of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. ... [more] 
160 Juniors flock to 'Bay Week' Events
Over 160 junior sailors converged on tiny South Bass Island on Lake Erie for the first of three events in the Inter-Lake Yachting Association's (I-LYA) Bay Week Regattas. ... [more]
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