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Preview: 2010 Melges 32 National Championship
This weekend, nestled in the exquisite Michigan township of Harbor Springs, fifteen of the very best Melges 32 performance racing yachts will compete for one of the fleets most coveted titles, that of U.S. National Champion.
Hosted by the Little Traverse Yacht Club (LTYC) and guided by the careful hand of PRO Bruce Golison, every team is excited about taking part in the four-day long Nationals, marking the fifth championship of its kind for the Melges 32 Class. It is also being he...
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Irish Dragon Championship 2010 - Fiona Brown Reports...
Image by Fiona Brown.
Cultra, Northern Ireland - The ability of the Irish to throw a good party has never been in any doubt, but the 2010 Dragon Irish Championship, sponsored by Belfast Harbour, supported by North Down Borough Council and hosted by the Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club (RNIYC) in Cultra, has confirmed that they also know how to host a darned fine regatta too. For four days and four nights the eighteen-strong fleet enjoyed outstanding raci...
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Offshore Rules Exclusive Interview: 2010 SB3 World Champion Helm - Jerry Hill....
Image by Carloni Grasso .
A few days ago British SB3 sailor Jerry Hill, along with his
crew Joe Llewellyn and Grant Rollerson pulled off a spectacular victory on Lake
Garda ahead of a hundred plus fleet, to be crowned 2010 Volvo SB3 World
Champions. Offshore Rules sat down with Jerry immediately on his return to the
UK, to find out exactly how his World Championship win had fallen into place.
We started by asking about Jerry’s competitive sailing
backg...
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RC 44s take flight as Artemis takes control...
Photo: Copyright Ignacio Baixauli / RC44 Class .
Small jibs and loose boom vangs were the order of the day as the RC 44 Valencia Cup got underway here in a pumping sea breeze that topped out at 20 knots.
Despite the strong wind off Malvarrosa Beach, the professional crews threw the light-displacement boats around with seeming ease.
In a day that saw seven flights and 28 match races completed, three crews made it through the first...
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2010 OK Dinghy Europeans Day Two: artosz Rakocy takes lead after mixed day in Medemblik...
Image by Norbert Petraucsh.
Day two of the OK Dinghy European Championships in Medemblik, Netherlands produced a late finish after a complete change in conditions with very unstable offwind winds mixing up the results, with most of the leading contenders picking up a high score.
Race three got underway at 13.30 in about five knots after an earlier attempt was postponed and the fleet sent ashore to wait for the wind to build. At the start muc...
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Mascalzone Latino Audi Team Returns To RC44 Racing...
After a nearly two-year absence from the racing circuit of yachts designed by three-time America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts, the Mascalzone Latino Audi Team is back racing on its own RC44 yacht at the RC44 Valencia Cup, the fourth event of the Championship Tour 2010.
Or...
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Offshore Rules Exclusive Interview: 49er European Champion Crew - Peter Greenhalgh...
Image by Mark Lloyd.
Offshore Rules sat down with British 49er crew Peter
Greenhalgh in the days following his win, along with helm Chris Draper, at the
2010 49er Europeans. The win had been a big confidence boost for the British
pair after a disappointing sixth for them at the World Championship in the
Bahamas at the beginning of the year. I started by asking Peter to highlight
what they had learned from the World’s experience and what changes they ...
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2010 RC 44 Season Championship resumes off Valencia...
Image by Ignacio Baixauli/RC44 Class .
VALENCIA, Spain (26 July 2010) – Featuring 11 crews ready to battle in match and fleet race disciplines, the RC 44 2010 Season Championship resumes here tomorrow on the Mediterranean Sea.
Pieter Heerema of The Netherlands leads his No Way Back crew into action atop the season standings. Last year’s season champs have amassed the low sc...
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OK Dinghy Europeans Medemblik, Netherlands Day One: Terry Curtis leads after solid day on IJsselmeer...
Images by: Norbert Petraucsh.
The 2010 OK Dinghy European Championships started Monday at Medemblik, Netherlands with two great races in a solid 3-4 with a few rain storms passing over providing some interesting wind shifts. With two third places, Terry Curtis (GBR) leads from Tim Goodbody (IRL) and Antoni Pawloski (POL)
In the first race, Pawel Pawlaczyk (POL) led round the top mark from Antoni Pawlowski (POL) and Alistair Deaves (NZL). Deaves too...
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