Yachting News 12th August 2010

Aug 13th 2010
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Greetings yachties,

Just a quick update – on duty at a Business Expo and SSANZ 2 on Saturday, back to the expo Sunday…… more a bit later.

In this issue:

Gabby Wonderland,

Waka Racing – update,

Sailing World – Sick Day,

Audi MedCup – update,

Des Top News,

Parkour,

Melges 24 Worlds,

PKRA 2010 Kiteboarding,

Scuttlebutt Europe – latest issue here,

Scuttlebutt – latest issue here,

Enjoy,

Hi all,

For the past three days the we have been in camp just out of Stockholm, in Sweden. We have been preparing for the upcoming Baltic Tour that starts tomorrow. The tour consists of three ISAF Grade 2 regattas sailed ‘back to back’ and is held over nine consecutive days in Sweden, Estonia and Finland in August. At the conclusion of each individual event all teams travel by overnight ferry to the next venue.

The training has been hugely beneficial, enabling us to train and stay on site at the location for the first regatta of the Baltic Tour. Also using the same boats that we will be racing in has been hugely beneficial. We are sailing J92 boats, which are a 4 man yacht with a symetrical spinnaker and have proven to be quite challenging to sail with only 4 people onboard.

Our training has been against Mike Perris, whos team is mainly crewed by our great mates from BlackMatch. We feel we have got our heads around the boats well and are really looking forward to sinking our teeth into the first event that starts tomorrow.

more here

Announcing Sailing World’s Sick Day

Here at Sailing World, we don’t need an excuse to slip out of the office and go sailing—it’s part of the job. Still, there’s nothing more rejuvenating than playing hooky. So what do you say? Are you up for a little (cough, cough) sick day this summer?

Along with our friends at LaserPerformance, we’re calling out for a national sailing sick day—Wednesday, August 25, 2010.

Of course, we want to know how you spent your sick day (and promise not to tell your boss what you were really doing). We’ve got prizes for the Sickest Video, Sickest Photo, and the Sickest Story.

details here

Three of the five regattas which comprise the 2010 Audi MedCup Circuit have now been contested, as the world’s leading regatta circuit visited three different countries, Portugal in May, France in June and Spain in July. Already the feedback from competing teams, the organizers and the host cities confirms that this is shaping up to be a fine vintage of a season. On the battle field, three different boats have won the season’s three different regatta trophies for both the TP52 and the GP42 Series.

The consensus from the teams in both the TP52 Series and the GP42 Series fleets is that on the water racing has never been closer, tougher or more open. Ashore, the city hosts, the sponsors, the Circuit organizers and most of all the visitors and Audi MedCup Circuit fans around the world are loving the new innovations which have made the Circuit and the sport all the more accessible.

In the TP52 Series and the GP42 Series three different boats have won the season’s three regattas so far. Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL), Quantum Racing (USA) and Artemis (SWE) have triumphed, as have Islas Canarias Puerto Calero (ESP), Iberdrola (ESP) and Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP).

more here

Tenerife Single Elimination – Day 2 – PKRA 2010 Kiteboarding

In an exciting step forward for 3D technology, we are excited to announce the world’s first consumer 3D camcorder, due to hit stores in late September.

The HDC-SDT750 lets you easily capture and create 3D movies of family and friends by simply attaching a 3D conversion lens.