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April 15, 20112011 Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race WeekIn a light-air finale, Mike and Beth Eckstein's Detroit-based Demon Rum team took the six-boat Tartan 10 division. See results for all 16 divisions.
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April 11, 2011A Good Race That Should've Been BetterIn a shifty, unpredictable breeze, staying at the front of pack can be harder than getting there in the first place. One key is to minimize leverage, aka risk, when you can.
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March 30, 20112011 Sperry Top-Sider Annapolis NOOD Regatta InformationGeneral info for competitors
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March 28, 20112011 SAP 505 World ChampionshipChristophe Favreau shares images from this 87-boat affair in Hamilton Island, Australia.
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March 10, 2011Backseat TacticianYou know the outcome of a race if the tactician spastically strips his baseball cap from his head and heaves it to the ground: “Thwap!” goes the hat as it smacks the cockpit sole . . .
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March 10, 2011Stern ScoopedStern Scooped
You know the outcome of a race if the tactician spastically strips his baseball cap from his head and heaves it to the ground: “Thwap!” goes the hat as it smacks the cockpit sole.
Thus was the scene moments after two hastily executed down-speed jibes mere boatlengths from the finish line. Pieter Heerema’s RC44 No Way Back had maneuvered its way to the near bottom of the 11-boat pile during first day of fleet racing at the Oracle RC44 Cup San Diego in March.
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March 8, 2011From Buccaneers to Bieker DesignsThe 2011 Sperry Top Sider San Diego NOOD will see Buccaneer 18 sailors making like pirates and the debut of a new International 14, the Paul Bieker-designed B6.
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February 15, 2011Sperry Top-Sider Sponsoring Charleston Race WeekRegatta organizers Charleston Ocean Racing Association and South Carolina Maritime Foundation announce partnership with makers of the original boat shoe.
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January 27, 2011Five Important HailsIn the heat of competition, what you say is as important as when, and how you say it.
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January 22, 2011Flying High on Fuzzy Lifting DrinksBy carefully executing our last-day strategy, we were able to sail away with victory in the Farr 30 fleet.
