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Chuan's Class 40 Circumnavigation
Chinese skipper Guo Chuan completed a solo non-stop circumnavigation in a Class 40 and set a new world record of 137 days, 20 hours, 1 minute and 57 seconds on April 5. Here's what he said after finishing:It is difficult to describe my feeling at the moment. It is still like a dream, I feel like being in a dream. Sometimes during the journey, I do not know if I could go home. In Cape Horn, when I could not see anything in the wave, I felt it might be too far to go back. Several days ago in Taiwan Strait, I suspected if I could go home with the boat safely. But finally, it is all over. I have to say many many thanks to my family, my friends, my sponsors. But I'd like to say 'THANK YOU' to the wind as well. For the whole journey, wind is always accompanying me. It is fighting with me, it is driving me back home. |
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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. |
Checking the centerboard for weed.
Sometimes I am a little too enthusiastic in ensuring that there is nothing wrapped around the centerboard and slowing me down. |
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Hard to recover from here!
Yes that head does belong to the legs, and is still attached via a contorted body. The legs were 4 inches shorter than the day before and so missed the toe straps. Back to normal length now. |
Sperry Top-Sider San Diego NOOD, Day 3
A bit of groundhog day at the Sperry Top-Sider San Diego NOOD Regatta: more light winds and challenging conditions, but enough breeze to put two more races on the results sheet. For more images, visit Tim Wilkes PhotographyClick here to view full results. |
Sperry Top-Sider San Diego NOOD, Day 2
Tim Wilkes keeps the images coming. Day 2 at the NOOD. A light oneMore . More pics at www.timwilkes.com. |
Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regatta San Diego
Highlights from the opening day of the 2013 Sperry Top-Sider San Diego NOOD Regatta |
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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. |
Club Sailor: from back to front
In the UK at least, there are only sailing books for newbies and Olympic wannabes. But nothing for those stalwarts that only want to race at their clubs every week, perhaps with an occasional regatta for variety. So I wrote the book to fill the gap. As well as the normal start-beat-reach-run stuff (albeit with a refreshing slant) is the explanation why you always drop it in on the last gybe when doing better than usual. And sections on why luck is not just random chance. Available in hard copy and digital versions More at www.clubsailor.co.uk |
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Class 40 Circumnavigation
Guo Chan, of China, departed from Qingdao on Nov. 18 to circumnavigate the globe solo on a Class 40. Here are some photos from on board.Click here to visit Chan's website. |
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. |
Bruschetta's Fast Tracks
Screen grabs from Kattack's Race Player reveal the winning moves of Maricio Santa Cruz's Bruschetta at the 98-boat 2012 Quantum Loop J/24 World Championships in Rochester, N.Y. |
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