Racing

Looking ahead to Quantum Key West 2012, Ingrid Abery shares her favorite images from last year's Race Week.

More than 60 boats from seven countries are celebrating the class's 50th anniversary in Manduarah, Australia.

Photos by Tom Gruitt/ www.fotoboat.com

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Great photo of one of the racers (sail number 11533) trying to keep up with the water coming in over the bow of his Opti during the Portland Yacht Club and SailMaine Junior Olympic Sailing Festival Northeast in Portland Maine.

Photo by Ann E. Blanchard

The fleet races from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi. Photos by Amory Ross, Diego Fructuoso, Yann Riou, Nick Dana, Hamish Hooper, Andres Soriano.

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Read Ryan O'Grady's blog on the finish of Leg 2.

Unfortunately, a downwind finish and they got our wind and rolled us...beat us by just over a second and a half. We should have luffed instead of shooting photos...:D

It was a dramatic end to the 2011 Audi Melges 20 Gold Cup Championship, hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club with Alessandro Rombelli's STIG, tactician Jonathan McKee and crew member Giorgio Tortarolo coming from behind to win the event.

"It was a classic last race," said McKee. "The deciding point was at that last top mark. When we rounded, literally, we were right on their stern. We knew that was the whole regatta. It was all about who was going to beat who. And, with the conditions like they were, it was all about how you approached the finish line. At this event, that counted for a lot of points and position."

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At the final act, in Singapore, Luna Rossa put in a stellar performance to win the event and take the series' overall crown.

Photos by Lloyd Images.

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We've enshrined submissions to our Regatta T-shirt Facebook contest in this Hall-of-Fame gallery.

In Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Steve Howe and his Warpath team (bow No. 603)—with Morgan Larson calling tactics—notched their first major win in the Melges 32 class.

Photos by Joy Dunnigan.

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© Sara Proctor

Photo © Sara Proctor

Photo © Sara Proctor

Taken at Lake Walchensee in Bavaria, Germany.  45 29ers competed in the German National Championships.  The lake was beautiful!  Tons of kitesurfers were out sailing as well.

Oracle 4 and Oracle 5 crossing each other during the ACWS in San Diego, 11/17/11

photo by: RJ Lewy

In Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, Ian Williams won both the tour's final event and it's overall title.



Photos by Chris Davies/WMRT

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Steve Lapkin shares photos from the first AC45 contest in the United States. For more coverage of the San Diego event, click here.

Step onboard with Aleph, Team Korea, Greencom, and China Team during the Port Cities Challenge on the opening weekend of the AC45 regatta.

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• Photos by America's Cup media below.
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