Peter Wann
The amazing and affordable Z-21 is truly a unique value proposition. WingZ purchased the original hull and deck tooling of the R21 catamaran designed by Randy Reynolds. Then John Slattebo, the design engineer at WingZ, went to work on updating and re-designing many aspect of the Reynolds 21. The new Z-21 is now faster and simply a better all-around boat...
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Lesley Curwen
"Have you ever sailed in a 40 before?" came the question.
I shake my head and lose my footing on a trampoline stretched just feet above roaring salty green water.
The question cast a faint echo of "Have you ever been to a Harvester before?" But I was not about to get a lecture on steaks and salad.
I am the only non-sailor on an Extreme 40 racing catamaran, about to compete in a professional race in the choppy seas off Cowes on the Isle of Wight. ..
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clay
Today was the third day of the Worlds. We had more breeze today, starting at about 12 knots and dying to 7-10, but the sailing was just as difficult.
I was in Yellow today, which was nice because I got to race first and sail the outer loop. In the first race, I had a good start in the middle of the line, sailed for a few hundred yards, and tacked to port...
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John Burnham
While Larry Ellison, Russell Coutts, and the BMW Oracle team that will defend the next America’s Cup are keeping their cards close to their chest until September 13th, they’ve shown a lot of interest in using multihulls again in Cup competition. And their skipper, James Spithill, took part in the International C Class Catamaran Championship—the successor to the “Little America’s Cup” which was the class championship for many years. The 2010 championship just concluded in Newport, R.I., and Spithill finished second as crew with countryman Glen Ashby as skipper aboard the Austalian entry, Alpha...
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brunning
Hi all,
Day 3 started off with me waking up and getting some good ol honey oaties into my belly. A nice chicken, cheese and hummus wrap was seconds with an all important banana and can of coke last. Some may ask why the can of coke? because like all the worlds coffee consumers I need my caffeine in the morning too just with 5 sugars :P ..
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Ralph
The CNDM One Design Regatta is open to any class with enough boats, but one class showed, and made it a big and important event.
Shark Showdown. That is what this became. A lot of Montreal Sharks have been shoving each other around the course, vying for that leader of the pack designation, that heft to be head of the howling hounds. And it has taken a lot of shoving to be at the top of this competitive heap. The very first Lac St. Louis race of the year in the spring saw 10 Sharks out on the course right off the bat.
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Mirsky Racing
After one and a half months break from the World Match Racing Tour with each of MRT’s members pursuing different areas in fleet racing the first day of St Moritz match race got off to a shaky start with the team only winning 2 races.
The fickle mountain winds brought challenges for all the teams, but MRT found themselves on the wrong side of the shifts in most races...
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Golden Gate Yacht Club
Organizers for the 34th America's Cup plan to host a press conference on 13 September in Valencia to reveal three of the four cornerstones of the next competition:
The year in which it will be held
The new Class of Boat for the competition
The competition rules (The Protocol)..
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Lindsey Bell
On the strength of two impressive race wins in slightly stronger breezes today off Hayling Island, Australia’s double world champion Tom Slingsby stepped four points clear at the top of the Laser World Championships leaderboard after six of the .....
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Jerelyn Biehl
Ernesto Rodriguez and Mary Hall of the US have made a statement after the 2nd day of racing at the Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championships in Canada. With a 2-1-1, their finishes have vaulted them to the top .....
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Tessa Wiechmann
The Steiner X-Yachts Gold Cup kicked off today at Marina di Scarlino in Maremma Tuscany with the first day of racing of the X-35 World Championship and the X-41 European Championship, the X-Yachts Gold Cup organized by the Yacht .....
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Sam Crichton
Sydney (AUS) – In six weeks the 2010 -2011 Australian Farr 40 season will kick off an intense four month racing and training time frame for the Australian Farr 40’s who are planning on competing in the 2011 Rolex Farr 40 Worlds in February 2011...
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brunning
Hi all,
Light wind today and sailed in anything from 3 – 6 knots.
First race I found a lane off the boat end and headed out to the right with a group of 1o boats. We started knocking and had pressure so I consolidated back toward the middle of the fleet and tacked in front in about the middle right...
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World Match Racing Tour
The race village at the Segel-Club St. Moritz was buzzing today, with 12 world-class sailing teams making their final preparations for a week of fierce head-to-head competition in the St. Moritz Match Race, the sixth stage of the ISAF World Match Racing Tour Championship...
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New York Yacht Club
The New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup U.S. Qualifying Series, where 24 preeminent yacht clubs in America will compete, will be held in Newport, RI next week on September 7-11.
The top three U.S. teams from next week's event will join the top six teams from the 2009 Invitational Cup: New York, Royal Canadian, Japan Sailing Federation, Nyländska Jaktklubben of Finland, Royal Cork of Ireland and Royal Bermuda, plus at least 10 other international teams, September 10-17, 2011 at the NYYC Invitational Cup presented by Rolex. ..
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