Media from D1D

Much Still Up in the Air Regarding 34th Cup, and the Clock is Ticking

Details of the new-look America’s Cup competition slated for San Francisco are still emerging and much remains to be discussed. That was the measured but optimistic report from Iain Murray, head of America’s Cup Race Management, after the latest teams’ forum held today in Auckland, New Zealand. ..more

TIME TO PANIC? uh, no

The recent spate of negative headlines from Auckland to San Francisco will someday make comic collectibles. I seem to recall, not so many years ago, a great handwringing around the building of a ballpark that was sure to drag the City of San Francisco straight to gridlock-perdition . . . A “disappointing turnout” at the America’s Cup World Series event in San Diego? I wasn’t disappointed. I was validated. Before the event I had told contacts in the office of the mayor, the tourism office, and the port that, sure, they should go to San Diego and observe and learn what they could...more

Volvo Ocean Race : Telefonica leads in final showdown

At 1000 UTC today, Telefónica (Iker Martínez/ESP) led Groupama 4 (Franck Cammas/FRA) by 27 nautical miles (nm) in the final showdown of Leg 3 to Sanya. Both boats tacked shortly before 0900 UTC and are still upwind but on the layline for the finish, 274 nm ahead. Soon, as the wind shifts to the right, they will have fast reaching conditions ideally suited to both boats...more

Farr 30 North American Championship to be held in Annapolis MD at the Annapolis NOOD May 4-6

We are pleased to announce the Farr 30 North American Championship will be held on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis MD at the Sailing World Annapolis NOOD May 4-6, 2012. We expect to have close to 20 boats in attendance...more

269 Sailors To Compete At 15th Asian Sailing Championships

Racing at the 15th Asian Sailing Championships 2012 gets underway on 16 February through until 25 February 2012. Teams from 24 nations in Asia will gather in Langkawi, Malaysia ready to do battle for the 14 classes in Asian Championship titles...more

Volvo Ocean Race : Puma gambles everything on last ditch attack

PUMA skipper Ken Read launched a surprise tactical gamble on Wednesday that could take the Leg 3 fight all the way to the wire, with the American taking his team offshore just as Telefónica led the main fleet towards the coast of Vietnam...more

14 teams confirmed for 2012 RC44 Championship Tour

New faces and one new team are confirmed in the line-up for the 2012 RC44 Championship Tour, which kicks off in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote next week (8 February 2012)...more

ISAF Launch London 2012 Olympic Games Website

With 177 days until the London 2012 Olympic Games, the International Sailing Federation has launched their Olympic website. The website will be the home of Olympic Sailing during London 2012 with all the information, stories, results and multimedia that teams and spectators will need...more

How to Start Faster

It’s make or break time out on the racecourse, MARK RUSHALL explains how to get a flying start and what to do when things don’t go quite to plan. When the race officer sounds the starting signal for the Sunday race at Daydreamers YC, he can already see which boats are going to compete in the leading pack, which will be fighting with the mid fleet masses, and which crews will consider a recovery to the mid fleet a success. For most racers, the first five minutes set the agenda for the entire race...more

Just Another Week in Paradise

A couple of weeks ago I spent a rewarding (and exhausting) five days working on my Laser skills at the Laser Training Center in Cabarete in the Dominican Republic. The week was billed as a "Pre Brisbane Master Worlds Clinic" but of the eighteen sailors on the course, only a handful of us were planning to go the Master Worlds in Australia. In fact I'm not going to the Master Worlds this year myself. (More on why not in another post perhaps.)..more

Bribon Movistar Wins Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series Third Edition

To call it exciting is an understatement! One can best summarize the second and final of the third phase of Merchbanc Melges 32 Barcelona Winter Series, organized by the Real Club Nautico de Barcelona, whose last act was on stage today, starting at 12. After the three heats conducted yesterday, which saw the dominance of Bribon Movistar helmed by Marc de Antonio with an impeccable Hugo Rocha as tactic, now comes with about 10 knots for the first of three scheduled races...more

New week means new undies

It's day eight and we have just cleared the last turning mark off Singapore before heading north to Sanya. I have just come down below for dinner after being on deck for eight hours and I'm about to head back out for another four hour watch. Such is the nature of racing the Volvo especially around a port as in the busiest Singapore straits...more

Update from Artemis Racing skipperTerry Hutchinson in Valencia

Artemis Racing skipper Terry Hutchinson is in Valencia, Spain, with the rest of his team, preparing for their first training session of 2012 The Artemis Racing sailing team begins its 2012 training program this week in Valencia, Spain, with a two-boat training session on the team's two AC45s. For skipper Terry Hutchinson, this is a chance to begin 'chipping away' at what he calls a 'laundry list of things we have to work on to get better'...more

Telefonica leads the fleet round the Horsburgh Lighthouse into the South China Sea

At 1605 UTC today Iker Martínez’s men on Telefónica led the six-boat Volvo fleet round the Horsburgh Lighthouse and out into the South China Sea for the final 1000 nautical miles (nm) to Sanya in China. Groupama 4 (Franck Cammas/FRA) was 3.4 nm behind and, in third, 10.8 nm further back, was PUMA’s Mar Mostro (Ken Read/USA)...more

Volvo Ocean Race: Which way will pay?

At the head of the field and in the centre lane of the Malacca Strait, Telefónica (Iker Martínez/ESP) is in a closely fought battle with Groupama 4 (Franck Cammas/FRA) and Puma’s Mar Mostro (Ken Read/USA). It’s almost too close to call with barely a mile between the top trio as the fleet are at the midway point of Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race...more