Yachting News March Part 4

Mar 13, 2009 No Comments by

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 [...]

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Yachting News March Part 2

Mar 06, 2009 6 Comments by

Part one here Greetings yachties, The annual round Waiheke Race promised up to 20knots with a westerly turning south. Some thunderstorms around Hamilton, lucky we weren’t going there. The day dawned with mist on the hills and by 0900 nothing, not even a zepher, then it rained. Perfect lets go yachting. No short course. We [...]

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Yachting News March

Feb 28, 2009 2 Comments by

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: [...]

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Volvo Leg 5

Feb 14, 2009 5 Comments by

500 more photos here ALL POINTS NORTH The first milestone of leg five was achieved yesterday, when Ericsson 4 (Torben Grael/BRA) led the fleet through the first of two scoring gates on leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race, to collect the maximum of four points.   The team now has 53 points in total and [...]

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Volvo 2008 – 2009 Part 2

Feb 12, 2009 1 Comment by

nice jib Oskar Kihlborg/Ericsson Racing Team “That didn’t sound good,” said Justin. “Nope,” I said. PUMA LEG TWO DAY 5 QFB: received 19.11.08 0743 GMT Greetings from the monster hospital ward.  And the hospital is not necessary humans.  Just for our beautiful boat. At 0430 GMT this morning, we flew off yet another nice little [...]

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Volvo 2008-2009 Part 1

Oct 12, 2008 1 Comment by

BIG WAVES, BIG ACTION “The depression in the South Atlantic has aligned itself perfectly to fire the fleet to Cape Town at record place,” promises Green Dragon’s skipper, Ian Walker/GBR. But the although the 24-hour record of 562.96 nautical miles currently held by ABN AMRO TWO could be broken, it is a question of which [...]

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