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Sat Jun 27 20:21:56 EDT 2009
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Challenge Julius Baer: Alinghi gets a win in GP Romandie Act II in light airs -   “The conditions today were very light, and variable and a little bit shifty, with a maximum of eight knots, plus we had the threat of storms coming off the mountains”, says Yves Detrey, bow and mastman on board ...

Transpacific Yacht Race: Alfa Romeo owners to wish Neville Crichton and crew good luck - Nearly 60 members of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club will gather with 30 cars, June 28 at Gladstone's at Rainbow Harbor to wish Neville Crichton and crew of the super-maxi Alfa Romeo II, good luck in their attempt to ...

Royal Lymington Challenge Cup: Royal Yacht Squadron team wins on Christchurch Bay - Sunshine and a 10 knot breeze greeted the competitors for the first race of the day.23 boats made the start line for the windward/leeward courses in Christchurch Bay with the 24th,  Yes!, Adam Gosling needing a tow due to ...

Kieler Woche: Konig & Xie GER take X-41 European Championship title - Perfect conditions on the final day of the X-35 World Championship and the X-41 European Championship during the 127th Kieler Woche. Never more badly then place three the “König & Xie” (GER) sailed directly to her first X-41 European ...

Rolex Farr 40 Worlds: Jim Richardson with Terry Hutchinson takes third world title - You cannot ask for much more. Tremendous racing conditions with a building Mistral and a lumpy sea, made worse by the constant attention of the spectator fleet. Porto Cervo laid it on thick and the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Puma looks back on the leg and the race - The PUMA Ocean Racing team today finished the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 in second place overall. Having led the fleet right from the start of leg ten, which took the team 400 miles from Stockholm, Sweden to St Petersburg, ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Ericsson Racing Team is very proud - Ericsson Racing Team's two yachts in the Volvo Ocean Race arrived here early this morning to complete their participation in the 2008-'09 Volvo Ocean Race.  The yachts' positions were already determined after the layover in Stockholm. Skipper Torben Grael ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Puma skipper Ken Read signs off - I really don't know what to say other than – ‘It's over’.  This unbelievable adventure of a lifetime is over.  I can't believe it.  To be honest, I am a bit dazed right now. No work list for the ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Delta Lloyd very satisfied - In the early morning of Saturday June 27, Team Delta Lloyd (NED) finished the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 with the heads held high. Just before 7 am local time (GMT +4), skipper Roberto Bermúdez de Castro (ESP) sailed the ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Telefonica Blue skipper Bouwe Bekking signs off - The race has finished in a spectacular way, with another very close finish. With a first for the black boat and a third for us, it was a successful leg for the Telefónica team.  It was good to see ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Ericsson 4's Torben Grael recalls high moments -   Ericsson Racing Team’s two yachts in the Volvo Ocean Race arrived here early this morning to complete their participation in the 2008-’09 Volvo Ocean Race. The yachts’ positions were already determined after the layover in Stockholm. Skipper Torben ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Riath Al-Samarrai asks sailors what performances impressed them - The race is winding down and will soon be a memory. After 37,000 miles of sailing and nine months of observations, the sailors have been polled on five topics: 1: Considering each team's circumstances - competitiveness of boat, financial ...

Bass fishing Junior World Championship to be crowned at Forest Wood Cup in Pittsburgh - The Bass Federation has announced that its 2009 National Guard Junior World Championship will be held on The Allegheny River in Kittanning, Pa., July 31 - Aug. 1, in conjunction with the $2 million Forrest Wood Cup – the ...

Velux 5 Oceans: Clipper Ventures partners with Fastnet Marine Insurance - The VELUX 5 OCEANS race requires that all competitors have a minimum of Third Party Liability insurance, with a minimum limit of indemnity of £2 million. Clipper Ventures PLC, the race organisers, have therefore introduced specialist yacht insurance brokers ...

Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association inducts Dias, Kirk, McDonald & Segerblom - The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) recently acknowledged the contributions of five individuals to the sport of college sailing by inducting them into the ICSA Hall of Fame.  Austin Dias (San Diego, Calif.) received the Student Leadership Award; Joe Kirk ...

Royal Lymington Challenge Cup: Champagne sailing conditions in Christchurch Bay - The days racing was stalled by rain and absolutely no wind, but then it came in as predicted and Tony Blachford, Principle Race Officer for the Royal Lymington Yacht Club was able to set the course up for a ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Telefonica Black wins Puma battle to St Petersburg - It was an historic moment tonight in St Petersburg, Russia, when as the White Night turned to dawn the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, led by Telefónica Black in a thrilling climax,  crossed the tenth and final finish line of ...

PWA Costa Teguise Freestyle World Cup: Top windsurfers head for Lanzarote -   The Canary Islands events are one of the most eagerly anticipated legs of the PWA World Tour; offering a fantastic combination of challenging, extreme and spectacular windsurfing. The variety of the conditions coupled with the consistency of the ...

Block Island Race Week winners declares -   A single race today decided the fate of 153 boats entered in the Storm Trysail Club's Block Island Race Week XXIII presented by Rolex. The event, which began Monday, hosted 1500 sailors on the tiny land mass of ...

Walmart FLW Series: Neil Russell leads bass fishing event on Columbia River - Neil Russell of Nampa, Idaho, caught a five-bass limit weighing 14 pounds, 13 ounces Friday to capture the lead in the Walmart FLW Series® National Guard Western Division tournament on the Columbia River. With a three-day catch of 15 ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Dramatic boat length win for Telefonica Black - 0141 GMT this morning we managed to do what we have tried to achieve many times during the last eight months...To win a leg!  After an intense tacking battle with PUMA, which happened the last 30 min of the ...

Troia Portugal Women's Cup: Sweden's Marie Bjorling & Karin Hagstrom in the final - After a long day of races on Sado river, the two best classified crew were defined at Troia Portugal Women's Cup - the two Swedish crews lead by Marie Bjorling and Karin Hagstrom, who are going to fight for ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Green Dragon's Ian Walker reminisces on the past year - Time is running down in the 08-09 Volvo Ocean Race. We have had the last in-port race, the last pro-am race, the last day of corporate sailing and the last Green Dragon party. We have had the last leg ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Ericsson 4 crew celebrates her birthday - It's sunny it's calm were going over 11 kts but still it isn’t enough for the Ericsson 4 posse! We can see the first four boats ahead - but by a fair margin and we can just make out ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Ericsson 3 fears the minefield - Today “Life at the Extreme” got yet another meaning. We are getting closer to the finish and it’s not the weather, winds, waves or speed that are extreme. Not even the environment surrounding us is something I would raise ...

Kieler Woche: White horses on Fjord. No dinghies racing - With white wave crests cascading over the breakwater of Kiel Schiksee whipped up by winds of well over 30 knots it was generally precieved as a good idea to cancel most classes' races allready ashore. So there was no ...

Volvo Ocean Race course lengthened to ensure daylight arrival - The seven boats racing, plus Team Russia, who is accompanying the fleet, are beating under a blazing sun towards the finish line of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 in St Petersburg tomorrow.  Progress has been faster than predicted and ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Gustav Morin and sleepy people on Ericsson 3 - It is not only Magnus Olsson who is tired on Ericsson 3. It feels like everyone is taking every opportunity they can to get some sleep. We are running a standby watch system with three hours off and six ...

Volvo Ocean Race: Heart in mouth for Green Dragon skipper Ian Walker -   We have just passed over a rocky ledge between two islands and I had my heart in my mouth as the depth dropped to 1.9 metres below the keel - I prayed the chart was accurate and breathed ...

Rolex Farr 40 World Championship: Jim Richardson's Barking Mad hangs on to lead - It is a surreal experience sat at the windward mark on a media boat, waiting for the fleet to arrive, all the while listening to Bob Marley and the Wailers on the radio. Total relaxation. A complete world away ...