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SolOcéane
Liz Wardley set sails off Caen
At 01.00pm sharp (1200UT) on Sunday, by force 7 wind, Liz Wardley crossed the start line off Caen - Ouistreham (France) of the Around-the-world Reference Tour of the SolOceans - OceanoScientific® Campaign 2009-2010. She rounded Cabourg / Dives-sur-mer (Normandy - France) buoy before heading (...) -
Extreme Sailing Series Asia
Pete Cumming takes overall victory in Hong Kong
Oman Sail’s Masirah continued their winning form by taking a comfortable overall victory in the first leg of the inaugural Extreme Sailing Series Extreme Sailing Series #extremesailing Asia in Hong Kong this afternoon. The champions of this year’s European Series, skippered by Pete Cumming of Great Britain, consolidated their (...) -
Clipper 09-10
Victory for Cork in South Atlantic leg
The jubilant crew of Cork, Ireland, has arrived in Cape Town after taking victory in Race 3, the South Atlantic leg, of the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race. They crossed the finish line in Table Bay at 1638 local time (1438 GMT), accompanied by a pod of dolphins surfing down the face of the waves. Earlier in the day the cloud had (...) -
Photo
Images of the Melges 24 Worlds
The fifty-one international teams had travelled from across North America and Europe to compete in the Sheehy Lexus of Annapolis 2009 Melges 24 World Championships. Chris Larson at the helm of ’West Marine Marine Marine nationale Rigging/New England Ropes’, who had led the regatta on-and-off for much of the week, took a (...) -
Clipper 09-10
Team Finland takes line honours in Rio de Janeiro
Team Finland has taken line honours in Race 2 from La Rochelle to Rio de Janeiro of the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race. Crossing the line at 16:00:36 local time (18:00:36 GMT) their latest victory makes it two out of two for the Scandinavian entry. -
Platu Worlds
Anton Paz wins Platu Worlds in Punta Ala
Vilagarcia the Spanish team from Galicia skippered by Anton Paz is crowned 2009 Platu25 world champion. Nothing was sure until the very last race in Punta Ala, where the 92 boat strong fleet competed over five days and on 12 races to win the title of best Platu25 (...) -
28 Copa del Rey
Neville Crichton’s white 70 footer has confirmed
"Bella Mente" has tried, but "Alfa Romeo" was the fastest boat of the Mini Maxi fleet of the Copa del Rey Audi Mapfre. Neville Crichton’s white and majestic 70 footer has confirmed, in case anyone doubted it, that he is the fastest one of the Mini Maxi fleet registered at the Copa del Rey Audi Mapfre. In 8 to 14 knots of wind with a (...) -
RC44 Championship Tour
Torbjorn Tornqvist win the RC 44 Malcesine Cup
The fight for the podium positions, between Team Aqua, Artemis, BMW ORACLE Racing and No Way back has been fantastic. Showing great stamina, Chris Bake’s squad managed to overcome a backstay breakage to remain in the fight. But Artemis dominated the last race and won the (...) -
Rolex Farr 40 Worlds
Jim Richardson win the Farr 40 Worlds
In typical Farr 40 style the final day of racing in the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship 2009 saw the 25 boat fleet line up for the tenth and final race with just one point separating the top two teams. All was set for a duel to the death between two time world champion Jim Richardson (1998, 2004) on Barking Mad and Massimo Mezzaroma with his (...) -
Deauville International Week
Souben wins the Farr 30 division in Deauville
Deauville International Week was certainly born under a lucky star. 4 editions, 4 forecasts with wind, 4 forecasts with sun and 4 sessions of top quality competition.