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Dragon
Defending champion Markus Wieser wins Dragon Gold Cup again
The professional sailor, competing for the United Arab Emirates, was in the lead of the 70th Dragon Gold Cup the whole week, but didn’t get it for granted. Lawrie Smith (GBR), Yevgen Braslativ (UAE) and Lars Haigh (DEN) were close in the ranking. Surprisingly, however, Dutchman Pieter Heerema scored a second place overall after six (...) -
Sportboats
John Kilroy’s ’Samba Pa Ti’ Crowned Audi Melges 20 World Champion
After one final race, John Kilroy at the helm of Samba Pa Ti, tactician Paul Goodison and crew Jeff Reynolds proved they were more than deserving of the 2014 Audi Melges 20 World Champion title. Four days of racing and no worse than a fourteenth in a fleet of fifty-seven entries, the Samba team excelled in almost every condition and under a (...) -
International Star Class World Championship
Germans Robert Stanjek & Frithjof Kleen become the new Star world champions
Today, July 5th, the International Star Class World Championship was decided in dramatic style on the last leg of the last race. GER 8340 Robert Stanjek with crew Frithjof Kleen led by ten points going into the last race and held on in a nervy final race to become the new world champions and the first German world champion for seventeen (...) -
M34, J80 & IRC
Normandy Sailing Week : Eric Brezellec and Franck Cammas win in J80 and M34
The J80 Interface Concept rounded off this 2014 edition of Normandy Sailing Week in style, a performance matched by Groupama in the M34 M34 #M34 category. CVSAE 2 took the top step of the podium in the First Class 7.5. Dunkerque Plaisance in IRC 1 and 2 and Pinguin Playboy in IRC 3 and 4 both came off victorious too in what proved to be a (...) -
Voiles de Saint-Barth
Alex Schaerer won the Maxi class in St. Barth
With several classes still up for grabs, crews going into the final day of racing at Les Voiles de St. Barth were eager to get on the race course and best the score. The conditions remained fresh, with a 22 – 25 knot southeasterly producing an impressive swell on the island’s windward (...) -
BACARDI Miami Sailing Week
Mark Reynolds & Magnus Liljedahl won the 55-boat Star fleet in Miami
Wrapping up a six-day schedule today, the 180 teams racing in six one-design classes – Audi Melges 20, J/70, Melges 24, Star, Viper 640 and VX One – completed enough races for the victors to collect the spoils, and, with the mid-day cancellation of additional races the sailors had ample time to enjoy the legendary hospitality of (...) -
XXXe PRIMO CUP
Nicolas Berenger won the Longtze division in Monaco
“At this time of year the only place you can sail is Monaco!” – those were the words of the Frenchman Nicolas Bérenger, four-time winner in the Longtze Premier, and assisted on tactics for the first time by Bertrand Pacé. There was domination too by Stephen Molle (Grun), who led the German armada in the well-represented Platu (...) -
XXXe PRIMO CUP
Swiss have a field day at Monaco’s Primo Cup first week-end
With a total of eight races, of which seven counted, for the one-designs competing in the first weekend - Star, Dragon, Surprise and J/24 - and seven races, of which six counted, in the two IRC categories, competitors had plenty of opportunities to rediscover their reflex actions, sail trimming skills and get the feel of the helm again, so (...) -
RC44 World Tour
Slovenia’s Team CEEREF crowned RC44 World Champions
In a thrilling end to the RC44 season, three races saw the leaderboard at the Calero Marinas RC44 World Championships turn inside out. Going into the final day Ironbound and Team Aqua had occupied the top of the leaderboard. Just nine points separated first from sixth, but after some exhilarating racing from the 15 strong RC44 fleet it was (...) -
RC 44
Team Aqua wins the 2013 RC44 Match Racing Championship in Calero Marinas
Returning to Lanzarote for the sixth time since the RC44 class was conceived in 2007, the final leg of the 2013 Championship Tour kicked off with season’s match racing finale in Puerto Calero. The competition was tight with just four points separating the top four teams. The race committee managed to squeeze nine flights into a squally (...)