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Go Sailing Blockbuster Weekend - Port Dalrymple's Greg Rowsell and Penelope Hextall battled hard in tough conditions to win the Ns14 class at Beauty Point yesterday.
The class was closely contested by Dennis Leitch and Blake Nicholson who finished two points behind Rowsell and Hextall.
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Kiteboarding and Windsurfing Format Trials evaluation event is to be held in Santander, Spain from 21 to 25 March 2012 at The Prince Felipe High Performance Centre which is also host to the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships.
In May 2011 ISAF Council selected Windsurfing and/or Kiteboarding as a possible event for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition.
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Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - There has been a division in the fleet as the ten 68-foot yachts navigate through the South China Sea. While Gold Coast Australia narrowly holds on to their lead, putting in their first tack since race start early this morning the trio of three yachts to the south east have successfully utilised the local funnelling conditions
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Thurlow Fisher Lawyers dominated the 18ft Skiffs Australian Championship contested on Sydney Harbour.
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The next few months are booked out with regatta racing for the highly competitive Australian Melges 32 fleet. Kicking off the racing was last weekend's inaugural Gosford Regatta, hosted by Gosford Sailing Club.
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The 174th edition of the Royal Hobart Regatta is set to get underway next Monday with the skipper of the winning yacht this year be able to accept the genuine Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, now that it has been recovered after it ‘went missing’ for several years.
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Treasure V111, the Riechel /Pugh 36 skippered by Whitsunday Sailing Club’s Harold Menelaus, continues to record impressive results; suggesting they have the potential to be a front runner for the club championship. The ‘Old Salt’ Harold Menelaus has owned and raced a number of well prepared yachts during his career of ocean racing at two of Queensland’s most ideal sailing destinations
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The Gold Coast to Brisbane race is deemed 'The Great Race' and is Australia's most entertaining and challenging marathon for off the beach dinghies and catamarans. The event is set to offer a prize pool that includes $5000 in cash and a beachside holiday retreat.
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Festival of Sails 2012 images by photographer Guido Brandt.
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Local crew member, Teng, better known as Tiger, was draped in a Chinese flag as he led Mike Sanderson’s men across the line in the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race Leg 3 finish, into the team's home port at 12:35:17 UTC, bringing to an end 14 days of gruelling racing in Leg 3 Stage 2 from the Maldives.
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At the 2012 Women's Match Racing International Country Olympic Qualifying Regatta, the final day of racing left one major question to be answered: Who will be the last country to qualify for a spot in the 2012 Women's Match Racing Event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London?
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Entries are closing in four weeks time for the blokart World Championships 2012, to be held at Ivanpah dry lake, USA. With over 130 entrants so far, the racing is set showcase competitive blokart sailing at its best. Competitors from thirteen countries will compete alongside 33 US sailors for eight world titles. Racing is conducted in two classes, further broken in to four weight divisions.
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ADCO Constructions, a national commercial constructions company with significant projects on the Sunshine Coast, is the new lead sponsor of the Etchells Australasian Winter Championship 2012 to be held off Mooloolaba on seventh to 10th June.
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Volvo Ocean Race organisers have released the Media and readership statistics for the first leg of the nine leg race.
As expected the event compares more than favourably with the America's Cup World Series which ran its San Diego event around the same time as the start of the Volvo Ocean Race from Alicante.
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Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) first week of the third leg, from Wellington to Punta del Este, so far has been the most demanding of the entire circumnavigation. The five double handed Class40s have faced strong conditions from within hours of the start on Sunday 29 January
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Boats will have to deal with the wind shifts that go with inter-island sailing, and the thoroughly complicated currents that develop when the tide tries to push the China Sea into the Indian Ocean (and back again) twice a day. Last year one particularly gnarly patch of sea, riddled with cross currents and tidal overfalls, was immediately named ‘The Cauldron’, and with good reason.
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Volvo Ocean Race Team Sanya, the first sole Chinese entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, crossed the finish line at their home port late Sunday night to a raucous welcome from thousands of locals who lined the dock. Firecrackers sounded as the exhausted team, including the first Chinese sailor to compete in the race Teng 'Tiger' Jiang He, stepped ashore for hugs, kisses and cheers
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Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race fleet are well aware of what lies ahead on this stage from Singapore to Qingdao. While the majority of the world’s longest yacht race follows the prevailing winds, this section of the 40,000-mile course is upwind, meaning the crews will be facing life at an angle for the next two and a half weeks.
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Women's Match Race Country Qualifier – Emotions ran high on the water as Olympic dreams came true for some and ended for others. Finland and Spain will be going to the Olympics in Women's Match Racing and Germany and Slovenia will not. One more place remains to be decided on Sunday.
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Seems like a lot of places North of the divide have not seen much of you lately. Indeed our hearts go out to all the people in some of the Northern reaches of our country, who have seen nothing but water for a very long time. Down South, however, it has been gleaming of late, on the whole and Round Four of the 2011/12 Club Marine Series on Melbourne’s Port Phillip, certainly had plenty on display.
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18ft Skiffs Australian Championship – With the Australian Championship title already won by the Thurlow Fisher Lawyers team of Michael Coxon, Aaron Links and Trent Barnabas, today’s last race of the event became more a final hit out for the upcoming Giltinan Championship from 17 February. And what a race it was as the Gotta Love It 7 team put on an awesome display to defeat Thurlow Fisher Lawyers
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Auckland's America's Cup fans got the chance, today, to see what they have missed, with the no-show of an expected event in the America's Cup World Series.
On the inner harbour course, familiar to many as a match racing track, bounded on its southern side by a number of vantage points, spectators got the chance to view at first hand, the two Auckland based America's Cup teams going head to head
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Hardy Cup 2012, an ISAF Grade 3 under 25 match racing regatta, gets underway tomorrow Monday 6th February until 9th February on Sydney Harbour. Young New Zealander Josh Junior will start favourite in the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s annual event.
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Sail Auckland 2012 is now half completed and the results are starting to take shape for competitive finishes.
New Zealand’s selected Olympians for 2012 are all proving their status as top in their fleet of NZ, and two National Champions are about to emerge as favourable conditions continued today.
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Downunder Pro - Oceanic and Australian Formula Windsurfing Championships concluded on Saturday with an action packed seven races taking place over the four-day regatta at picturesque Jimmy’s Beach, Hawks Nest. The strong 58 competitors, including World number one from Brazil, Paulo Dos Reis had a challenging trial of races
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Contrary to claims elsewhere, Emirates Team NZ CEO, Grant Dalton is reported in the Herald on Sunday as saying that expense is the main reason there are so few challengers in the next America's Cup and not the oft-blamed world economy. Earlier in the week, America's Cup organisers were keen to damp down comments by America's Cup Regatta Management's Regatta Director, Iain Murray
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Volvo Ocean Race - The Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand crew crossed the line in Sanya on Saturday after 12d 23h 28m 23s and a hard earned 3000 miles, to take third place on Leg 3. In claiming the final podium position, Chris Nicholson and his crew retain second place on the leaderboard, but the battle for a first winning leg continues.
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Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing have a need for speed, skipper Ian Walker said after finishing Leg 3 in fifth place under the cover of darkness at Sanya, China on Saturday.
'We can do tactics better, crew work better and everything better because at the moment it’s just not good enough' Jules Salter - navigator, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing
Walker’s team, who won the first stage of Leg 3 from their homepor
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Global Ocean Race (GOR) - Conditions have been improving significantly at the front of the fleet in the Southern Ocean since two of the Class40s turned back to New Zealand on Thursday. Leg three has already packed a significant punch with headwinds reaching up to Force 9 pounding the double-handed fleet and forcing the two lead boats, Buckley Systems and Campagne de France, to head west.
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Volvo Ocean Race team Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg have completed the second stage of the third leg from Abu Dhabi, UAE, to Sanya, China in fourth overall. After a roller coaster leg they crossed the line at 08:29 UTC/16:29 local on Saturday 4th February 2012. The crew added 12 points to their overall total after completing the stage in 13 days, 29 minutes and 12 seconds.
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Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - After a week-long stopover in spectacular Singapore the ten yachts taking part in the race set sail this morning from the exclusive Marina at Keppel Bay, where they have been based since last Saturday. The send-off was no less spectacular than the welcome festivities, with drummers upping the tempo as the teams manned their boats in preparation for race start
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Volvo Ocean Race - Ken Read, Skipper of Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg reports on the crew's progress: I bet that almost every final leg blog from any Volvo boat starts with...'This has been a tough leg.' Don't imagine any of you have ever heard a Volvo sailor saying, 'This leg has been a breeze.' None are. This was no exception.
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last evening the Mount Gay Rum 2012 Neptune Regatta was officially launched at a hugely convivial gathering of participants (the ones wearing the red hats), wannabe participants (sorry, no hat), corporate well-wishers and other experienced party-goers at the Ying Yang Bar at the Club Hotel, Singapore.
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