Kurt Arrigo
Rolex
While the GBR Red team started the final day of the Rolex Commodores' Cup with a comfortable lead, a double points scoring final race combined with a front passing over the Solent bringing with it solid 30 knot winds, even stronger gusts, rain and terrible visibility maintained the tension until the very last moments of the competition.
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Dave Dellenbaugh
Dave Dellenbaugh
Even though most genoas and jibs are smaller than the mainsails they team up with, your headsail should get at least as much careful trimming attention as your main. That's because a jib feels no disturbance from the mast and sails in an eternal lift created by flow around the main. As a result, your headsail provides more than its share of your boat's power.
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Rich Roberts
Eleven years ago pharmacist Bob Lane skillfully sailed Medicine Man, his Andrews 56 from Long Beach, to a record elapsed time in the Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii, beating Merlin’s 20-year-old record.
The only catch was that two days later five other boats that had started in another class three days after Medicine Man beat his time, ending his 48 hours of fame.
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Paul Cayard
With a ten o'clock first start, the teams were up early and off the dock by 0830.? The mistral continued all night and perfectly until 1500, when it abruptly shifted 180 degrees and a sea breeze filled in on the bay.?
Fortunately we go our three races in by 1430 and we were headed back to the dock by the time the big shift occurred.
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Alexandra Harris
The largest ever fleet of foiling moths have assembled for the CST Composites 2008 Moth World Championships.
With 99 entries from 18 countries, it is the second largest fleet of Moths to attend a world title event and Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy is a hive of activity with sail measurement and much preventative maintenance taking place.
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Ian Roman / AudiMedcup
Audi MedCup
Today off the Sardinian capital of Cagliari, Hutchinson and his team aboard Quantum Racing (USA) won a regatta of the 2008 Audi MedCup Circuit for the first time, lifting the Audi Region of Sardinia Trophy,
Quantum finished third in Alicante in May and fifth in Marseille last month and now, at the theoretical mid-point of the six regatta season, after 26 races the American boat tops the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008 standings.
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Dan Ljungsrik
WMRT
In an example of the Apprentice beating the Master, 22-year old Torvar Mirsky (AUS) and his Mirsky Racing Team has defeated four time ISAF Match Racing World Champion and America’s Cup veteran Peter Gilmour (AUS) and his PST Team to advance to the Semi-Final stage here at Match Cup Sweden. Their first-to-three point series went all the way to a fifth deciding match in this fourth stage of the World Match Racing Tour.
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Paul Cayard
The wind turned 180 degrees today and we had a mistral of up to 30 knots. There was enough carnage after race one that the committee sent us to the shore where we waited a short time until they called it for the day.
Onboard Desafio, we had a decent result finishing 4th, but unfortunately did not leave the race track feeling really good. How is that possible?
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Rich Roberts
Magnitude 80 sailed out of the dark into a French Polynesian welcome Thursday night to cross the Tahiti Race finish line offshore from the Pointe Verde lighthouse near Papeete at 11:13 p.m. PDT (8:13 p.m. local time) and break the record by almost 3 ½ days.
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Nico Martinez
Audi MedCup
With the Mistral wind peaking at nearly 30 knots at times only one race, the seventh of the Audi Region of Sardinia Trophy Regatta, could be completed today on the Gulf of Cagliari before the race committee sent the fleet of TP52’s back to the dock in the heart of the capital city of Sardinia..
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USMCA
03 JULY 2008 • The 2008 Heart Cup will take place on August 1-3 in Ocean City, New Jersey, hosted by none other than the Ocean City Yacht Club. The Ocean City area is a hot spot for growth with the Melges 24 Northeast District and, with this regatta comes a worthwhile charity in itself, extending a warm welcome to the entire USMCA fleet.
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Paul Todd
USMCA
30 JUNE 2008 • The Melges 24 Gold Cup took place on June 27-29 in Long Beach, Calif. in conjunction with Ullman Sails Race Week 2008, hosted by the Long Beach Yacht Club and Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. Out on top of the fleet was Bob Tennant on 'Where's Bob'
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Melges 32
The winner of the Melges 32 U.S. National Championship will qualify to apply for US Sailing's the 2008 Championship of Champions. One of the really fun things about this regatta is the range of sailors represented and the fact that it is in a different boat each year. This year, the championship will be sailed in Sunfish on Great South Bay.
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Kurt Arrigo
Rolex
Day five of the Rolex Commodores' Cup 2008 and the 45 competitors and their 15 teams found themselves challenged by a new course format. Today's single race was around a variety of marks in the central and eastern Solent, sailed in an awkward southeasterly breeze of around 12 knots.
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Ian Roman / AudiMedcup
Audi MedCup
I actually came into this in a very unique way; I had never sailed before I was twenty years old! I got a summer job as a sail maker in the North Michigan town where I lived, and the funny thing is that I had never occurred to me that there was actually somebody who made sails! I had never thought “I wonder where sails come from?!”
It was an interesting start- I begged my way into the job and became obsessed!
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