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Block Island Race Week Preview
Eight championship events, including the IRC and HPR North Americans, will be held at the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week this June. Over 150 boats have signed up for the 25th anniversary of the biennial event. New fleets include classic boats, doublehanded boats, and Gunboats. As usual, the regatta will include an 18-mile around-the-island race.Click here to visit BIRW's websiteClick here to watch footage from the 24th edition. |
Extreme Sailing Series 2013
Photos from the first act of the 2013 Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman.Click here to watch video from Act 1.Photos: OC Events and Sabine König for Chili Sports Communication Extreme Sailing Series 2013 Act 1, Muscat, Oman results Position / Team / Points 1st The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan, Ed Smyth, Pete Greenhalgh, Musab Al Hadi, Hashim Al Rashdi 232 points. 2nd Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman Hagara, Hans Peter Steinacher, Matthew Adams, Pierre Le Clainche, Graeme Spence 226 points. 3rd Alinghi (SUI) Ernesto Bertarelli, Morgan Larson, Pierre Yves Jorand, Nils Frei, Yves Detrey 218 points. 4th Team Duqm Oman (OMA) Robert Greenhalgh, Bleddyn Mon, Will Howden, Andrew Walsh, Nasser Al Mashari 185 points. 5th Team Korea (KOR) Peter Burling, Blair Tuke, Mark Bulkeley, Sungwok Kim, Matt Cornwell 173 points. 6th GAC Pindar (NZL) Will Tiller, Brad Farrand, Stewart Dodson, Harry Thurston, Shaun Mason 164 points. 7th SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) Jes Gram-Hansen, Rasmus Kostner, Pete Cumming, Mikkel Røssberg, Nicolai Sehested 153 points. 8th Realteam (SUI) Jerome Clerc, Bryan Mettraux, Arnaud Psarofaghis, Cédric Schmidt, Thierry Wasem 147 points. |
Bacardi Miami Sailing Week
Shots from Cory Silken at Bacardi Miami Sailing Week.Click here to visit the event website. |
Finns in Valencia
Photographer Pavlina Soukupova captures some of the best Finn action in Valencia, Spain. |
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Gunboats in the Caribbean
Gunboats joined the action at two recent regattas in the Caribbean: the RORC Caribbean 600 and the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta. Richard Langdon of Ocean Images shares shots from both. |
Oracle Team USA In the Air, From the Air
The defender releases the first aerial images of its AC72 ripping across San Francisco Bay. Photos by Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA |
Maserati's Record
Italian sailor Giovanni Soldini, and a crew of eight, sailing aboard a VO70 called Maserati (ex-Ericsson 3) set a record when they reached San Francisco from New York in just 47 days (and 42 minutes).Click here to read more about the passage and this historical clipper ship route. |
RORC Caribbean 600
The Caribbean 600 started off Fort Charlotte, English Harbour, Antigua, on Feb. 18, and the course wound the 53 boats competing around 11 Caribbean islands. Ron O'Hanley's Cookson 50 Privateer took the IRC Overall title.Photos: RORC/Tim Wright/Photoaction.comClick here to read more about Tim Wright and February's Photo of the Month.Click here to visit the event website. |
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Finn Brazilian Championship
From an International Finn Association press release:"In the lead up to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the Finn class in Brazil is undergoing something of a resurgence. It's recent National Championship, held in Sao Paulo, attracted 25 boats, and many of them were new boats built in Brazil. The 2012 Olympian Jorge Zarf dominated the series with six race wins from seven races. Second was the double Olympic Star medalist Bruno Prada on his return to the Finn class. Andre Mirsky was third.Also on the water was photographer Ale Socci from Green Pixel Photos. As well as the expected race action photos, he took some incredible water level shots of the fleet from a variety of angles proving once again, it's not what you have that matters, it's what you do with it."Photo by Ale Socci, www.greenpixel.com.br |
Inaugural Hamilton Island Race Week: 1984
Sandy Peacock--a Sydney-based advertising agency owner who was at the first Hamilton Island Race Week in 1984 working as a yachting journalist and photographer--found a long-forgotten box of images from the Australian event.This year's Audi Hamilton Island Race Week will be held Aug. 17 to 24.Click here to view photos from the 2011 event. |
Oracle Team USA's '17' Returns
Oracle Team USA was back on the San Francisco Bay on Feb. 4 with their new AC72. Photos: Guilain GRENIER / ORACLE TEAM USA |
From the Road: College Sailing Photo Contest
Sometimes, the journey to a regatta is just as memorable as the racing. This fall, we asked students to share the essence of the college sailing road trip with our photo contest. Here are all the honorable mentions, and the winners. |
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Quantum Key West 2013: Day Four
Onne van Der Wal brings us the Quantum Key West action from the regatta's big hardware: IRC, Maxis, HPR, and lots more.Click here to access SW's complete coverage of Quantum Key West. |
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Vintage Key West
Take a look back at J H Peterson's photos from the very first Key West Race Week in 1987. There was lots of competition in the 50-foot class, along with an interesting mix of cruiser/racers in the Conch Republic.Photos: J H PetersonAccess SW's coverage of Quantum Key West 2013. |
Rolex Sydney Hobart Race 2012
The 628-mile offshore classic got underway in 20-25 knots at Sydney Heads on Dec. 26. Robert Oatley’s Wild Oats XI 100-foot maxi Wild Oats XI secured Line Honours, Overall Winner and Race Record. The boat, skippered by Mark Richards, finished with a time of 1 day, 18 hours, 23 minutes, and 12 seconds, slicing 16 minutes and 58 seconds off her own record. |
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