Smile, be happy! 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. For the final day of racing, conditions were ideal once again: 2O knots of S/SW’ly to delight competitors. “It’s the first time I’ve raced in [...]
Alan Sefton was a friend and colleague of Sir Peter Blake. As a journalist, Alan covered many of Blake’s races. Their working relationship continued with Team New Zealand, and blakexpeditions. Review International successes In 1952 the New Zealand Yachting Federation was formed to prepare for the Melbourne Olympic Games, and to administer the national classes. [...]
400 more photos here sign up for your Newsletter and support the trust. New Zealand Leadership Week, 26th June – 3rd July 2009 New Zealand Leadership Week highlights the strategic relevance and value that great leaders, and great leadership, provide for our country. A range of organisations, institutions and schools organise activities and events to [...]
Emirates Team New Zealand masters in the big breeze. Emirates Team New Zealand proved the most consistent, top scorers of the day across the three windward-leeward races when they posted a 2,1,2 from the three races which were contested with a windward mark set off the Ile Maire on the eastern entrance to Marseille, while [...]
Geneva Rolle Geneva Photos: My Images more here International 5.5mIC Swiss Championship on the Lake Thun Christoph Burger on Odlo takes gold As usual the Thunersee Yacht Club stands for a perfect organization and infrastructure during the International Swiss Championship of 5.5mIC 24 boats from 6 nations (AUT, BAH; GER; NED; NOR; SUI) were competing [...]
“The Alinghi Team will also begin their matches with the dance from the Swiss billionaire’s home village. “We are happy to see this honorable traditional dance revived for the Rugby World cup,” said Bertarelli. “Called the Hakyodel, it involves the players chanting out the words to a challenge in an archaic Swiss language whilst waving [...]
Greetings Yachties, As you can see there are a number of images missing. We had a little default issue over the weekend which changed the look of the Home page and dumped alot of images & logos. Thankfully Mothership have updated the code and all systems will be up and running asap. The reason is [...]
“We got a nice puff and extended down the run. At the bottom of the run, a strong gust came through…. about 35 knots. We had just gotten around the bottom mark and were going up wind as BMW Oracle and Artemis were coming downwind straight at us, pretty much out of control. I thought [...]
Performance Yachts appoint Azzura Marine to build new PY-125 & PY-115 Just weeks after the highly successful trials of Performance Yacht’s PY-100 in New Zealand, the company has announced the expansion of its range and appointed Azzura Marine, the premier Australian boat builder, as constructors of the PY-115 model, and its new flagship, the PY-125. [...]
New Shaw 30 canter Images from Boat Slut first sail more here more Sailing Anarchy interviews here Katie Miller Picks up Another Sponsor for OSTAR Race. May 21, 2009 Filed under Business, OSTAR, United Kingdom Katie Miller has added more sponsors to her OSTAR campaign. In addition to title sponsor bluQube, Katie will be supported [...]
