La Route du Rhum - La Banque Postale 2010: A perfect start
A perfect start for a record fleet....

Reports, Happenings, Events
A perfect start for a record fleet....
Route du Rhum - Aboard Safran, Marc Guillemot got off to an almost ideal start in the lead neck and neck with PRB....
Busan Cup Women's International Match Race Final was sailed between Claire Leroy (FRA) and Katie Spithill (AUS)...
18 footers - Skill and experience won the day for John Winning, Andrew Hay and Dave Gibson when they sailed their skiff...
Rough sea conditions in the northern Tasman Sea have abated today....
Katie Spithill and her crew have won the Silver medal at the 2010 Busan Cup Women's International Match Race in Korea...
Now you can now Win an Opti for the Kids and One for the Club!!...
The global production and distribution company IMG Media is confirmed as official television partner to the Volvo Ocean...
Gusto, the race winner, arrived into Stanley on the top of Tasmania with virtually no breeze, but plenty of rain....
The fleet in the Gosford to Lord Howe Island Yacht Race has taken a pounding overnight out in the Tasman Sea....
Port Esperence Sailing Club at Dover in the far south of Tasmanian is arguably the southernmost yacht club in Australia...
Consistent sailing in the light conditions of this weekend's the Ensign Yachts Queensland Beneteau Cup has delivered...
Six of the 17 yachts retired from the Hempel Paints 37th Gosford to Lord Howe Island Race....
2010 Pittwater Farr 40 regatta win to Guido Belgiorno Nettis' Transfusion....
Jenny Graney has been sailing International Mirror dinghies since she was a slip of girl, as crew and as a skipper...
'NEW' reusable filter systems from H2Out.com, removes and prevent water contamination of your on board fuel systems....
Marc Guillemot and Sylvain Mondon are stepping up the weather analysis aboard Safran and running through the latest mode...
Quite evidently the China Cup has tapped into a bottomless well of money, and hoop-la is what they are spending it on....
The ending was anticlimactic to the RS:X Youth World Championships....
Farr 30 World Championship 2010, day three, and there was an unexpected drama to deal with between races 8 and 9....
Well it is over for this year... ..this wonderful, challenging, maddening and enriching World Cup experience....
Farr 30 World Championship 2010 - The stage was set for all-conquering Team Orca to show their dominance again....
Without warning, Spartan sailed through a cloud of insects of all different sorts and nationalities...
Seventy-six boats started the race, and 60 finished, one of the highest numbers of finishers in recent years....
Jay Price has taken to the controls of the newest boat to leave the Como...
Tony Bullimore's catamaran is capsized and waiting a salvage team and a tall ship with teens on board has lost a mast....
It seems that it will be sailing vessels that lead the way in the new world of space....
The sweat runs down my fingers and onto the key board, hope the laptop can handle the heat....
Definitely the days are flowing but are not the same after the small period with a good wind from behind...
Route du Rhum - For this ninth edition I race with a Pogo 40....
Route du Rhum - Lionel Lemonchois races this time in the Multi50 Class as skipper of Prince de Bretagne....
Route du Rhum - Cammas needs optimum conditions, but thinks winning is possible on Groupama 3....
Three of the skippers setting sail next Sunday in the Route du Rhum-Le Banque Postale are facing a double challenge...
Route du Rhum - For any first time anglophile visitor, landing in the heart of the ninth edition might be overwhelming....
Farr 30 World Championship 2010 - Patrick Lindblom had the kind of day a sailor rarely forgets....
Intertropical convergence zone plays havoc with race leaders...
Izzy Hamilton [GBR] is close, very close, to winning....
Global boat shipping company expands its sponsorship 'umbrella.'...
The meet was a triumph for Australia....
Dany Bruch hits the wave pool with his windsurfing gear at the Water Kingdom in Siam Park, Tenerife!
The news is all good from the South China Sea here in Shenzhen as the mega typhoon Megi has turned and is now just east....
Updates on the catamaran capsized off Cape Finistere...
His expertise as both sailor and coach make him a great fit for the TP52 World Champions, says Ed Reynolds...
Tony Bullimore's 33m catamaran capsized in the Bay of Biscay and seven British based crew members have been rescued...
Until around 2006 Yemeni was just as productive of pirates as Somalia, but now is one of its greatest victims...
A sailor has drifted in the ocean for days before being rescued because he didn't have an EPIRB on board his boat....
Perth International Regatta received a boost today with seven world number ones confirming they will sail....
The sailors and Race Committee had their hands full with a long and shifty day...
Canadian Olympian Tyler Bjorn was awarded the Sailor of the Year trophy by the Quebec Sailing Federation...
Route du Rhum - Christopher Pratt is unequivocal. His dream of becoming a solo ocean racer was born twenty years ago....
The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) today announced the appointment of the International Jury for the 34th ACi...
Records are falling by the day at Luderitz
Ludertiz Speed Challenge Namibia - The wind blew up to 45 knots today and the organisers decided to built a retaining wa...
Fifth round of the Championship continues to be held in limbo by Typhoon Megi...
If the early miles of the Rolex Middle Sea Race were a test of patience, the latter miles were a true test of endurance....
The frustration meter is in direct opposite proportion to the wind speed...
Tony Bullimore's catamaran capsized off Cape Finisterre - seven crewmembers rescued by French Air Sea Rescue services...
the rather unexpected announcement that the first race of what some refer to as 'China's signature yachting event' was c...
Capital Insurance Brokers ACT Dinghy Titles will be on this weekend. Entries still open www.canberrayachtclub.com.au....
RS:X Youth World Windsurfing Championships - We're getting winds from every direction except the usual one....
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