Perhaps Ernee has been building Cheezezilla for a while? Year : 1986 Length : 14,00 m Width : 12,00 m Weight : 1300 kg Materials : Carbon aramid - PVC Foam – Nomex Construction : Wet lay-up on mannequin Designers : Grégoire Dolto & Patrick Dubois Engineers : [...]
For Sale Golden Globe and Jules Verne Trophy winner Sir Robin Knox-Johnston provides background to the all-new look recently given to a historic ocean race. These are exciting times for the Velux 5 Oceans. In September 2007 the continuing partnership was confirmed between Velux and the 5 Oceans race, guaranteeing a bright future for what [...]
Record Breaking Quadriplegic Woman Re-Launches Solo Sail Around Britain. Hilary is preparing to complete the round Britain dream starting from Plymouth at the end of May, 2009. Hilary Lister, 36, will officially re-launch the “Round Britain Dream”, in which she aims to become the first disabled woman to sail solo around Britain, on stand P80 [...]
more here The top skippers in the world have been invited to the 2009 ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship in Lysekil, Sweden held during Lysekil Women’s Match from 27 July-1 August. With women’s match racing on the Olympic programme for the first time at the London Games in 2012, the World Championships this summer [...]
Winners “The best in the world were here, and our wins in the Round Robin against current World Champion Ian Williams and Ed Baird (Alinghi helmsman) in the quarter finals gave us confidence. We started today without any pressure, as we had already reached our objective. We are really happy and proud!” more here MINOPRIO [...]
Part 1 Part 2 more here Boatshed reports bumper sales By IBI Magazine/Motor Boat & Yachting UK-based yacht broker Boatshed.com has reported another month of buoyant boat sales. The company says that despite tough market conditions, a number of positive factors have led to decent sales results. Peter Watt of Boatshed Portsmouth says: “The strength [...]
Weather guru of sailonline, Brainaid For your next adventure offshore and you want to know the weather go here With the Portimão Global Ocean Race fleet stalled by light breeze, the event’s Race Director, Josh Hall, draws on his immense ocean racing experience to describe the frustration and fatigue that the teams may be feeling: [...]
Greetings, If this is your first visit to Yachtyakka, I have a few helpful tips about how to navigate. Yachtyakka is a collection of yachting stories from around the world and around the corner. There is a lot of New Zealand content and stories that Kiwi yachties like to read. The pictures are headlines for [...]
YachtyakkaTV Bay Week here winning style The deliriously obnoxious Jagged Edge on her way to yet another win. 1st on just about everything meant they had to drop their worst performance of a 1st in a 9 race series with 8 to count. Well done team. Stand by for some obnoxious celebrations. Seen here arriving [...]
Greetings yachties, e-anarchy – Weibel, Vendee Globe – Sam Davies on waves, Volvo Ocean Race – Green Dragon, Portimão Global Ocean Race – Wellington Stopover, Bladerider fleet hit the Zhik Australian International Moth Championships, MetalBoatbuilding.org, Team Banque Populaire – I’m Free Maxi Tri, The Jubilee Sailing Trust, Sailonline – CroxGirl, Jessica Watson arrives in New [...]
