Welcome to Sailing World's coverage of 2008 Acura Key West Race Week. We'll have three correspondents on the ground working the event from a variety of angles. Whether you're hoping to live vicariously through the 3,000 or so sailors racing this year, or trying to find out what happened on some of the other circles, this page will serve as your hub for our coverage of sailing's biggest mid-winter event. From here you'll be able to link to results and photos, read reports, watch Gary Jobson's videos, and listen to daily podcasts.

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Entry List                                                                                                            Event Homepage

Results: Division 1 (Farr 40, Melges 32, Mumm 30)                            Division III (Melges 24, J/105, J/80)

Division II (IRC 1 & 2, PHRF 1 & 2, Club Swan 42)                      Division IV (Corsair 28R, PHRF 3 thru 6)

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Jan. 25, 2008 Key West Final Podcast, sponsored by CrossCurrent Marine & New England Ropes: Where did it go? 2008 Acura Key West Race Week is in the books and it's hard to imagine five days passing any faster. The last one was a doozy, three races for all circles in a blustery post-frontal northerly. It certainly put a nice cap on the week. Two boats that came through in the clutch on the final day were Dave Ullman's Melges 24 Pegasus 505 and Andy Fisher's Club Swan 42 Bandit. Both had to overcome a few hurdles on the way to their respective class championships. Both were proud of the work put in by their crews.

Boat of the Week: Barking Mad

Boat of the Day: Swan 42 Interlodge

Dave Reed's Key West 2008 Blog: If Only a Little Hindsight

Jobson Video: 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, Melges 24s and 32s

Jobson Video: 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, Day 5

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Jan. 24, 2008 Key West Day 4 Podcast, sponsored by Hall Spars & Rigging: When he puts the holidays in the rear view mirror, Tom Coates thoughts move right to Acura Key West Race Week. For nearly a decade, January has involved a trip to the Florida Keys for some racing. Almost as regularly, Coates has done well. With five races remaining, he's perfectly positioned to win his fourth J/105 class title at Key West. We talked with Coates about the regatta. Also a one-on-one conversation with Alinghi's Brad Butterworth where we discuss the battle with close friend Russell Coutts at BMW/Oracle Racing and the new 90-footer that Alinghi would like to use to race the next Cup.

Dave Reed's Key West 2008 Blog: One Up With One Day to Go

Boat of the Day: J/122 Teamwork

Jobson Video: 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, Jeff Linton

Jobson Video: 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, Day 4

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Jan. 23, 2008 Key West Day 3 Podcast, sponsored by CrossCurrent Marine: With no racing on Day 3 of 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, the Sailing World podcast goes in search of interesting interviews. We found two, both former Olympic champions. One, two-time Olympic medalist Ian Walker, is looking forward to the biggest challenge of his sailing career. The other, well, he's enjoying his retirement from professional athletics. To find out more you've got to listen.

Dave Reed's Key West 2008 Blog: Roll 'Em

All or Nothing for BMW/Oracle Racing? Herb McCormick on the latest in the America's Cup legal saga

Jobson Video: 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, Onboard Amelia

Jobson Video: 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, Day 3

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Jan. 22, 2008 Key West Day 2 Podcast, sponsored by Hall Spars & Rigging: Three races in a lumpy sea and a shifty, puffy, and unpredictable breeze made the second day of 2008 Acura Key West Race Week a difficult one for each of the 260 boats entered. Some came through with flying colors, Vincenzo Onorato's team on the Farr 40 Mascalzone Latino took three top-three finishes and Boat of the Day honors. Bill Sweetser got off to a solid start in PHRF 2. For others it was less successful. Sweetser and Onorato fill us in on their days, and we check in with a rising star on the world match racing circuit.

Dave Reed's Key West 2008 Blog: PHRF Times Roll

Boat of the Day Profile: Vincenzo Onorato's Farr 40 Mascalzone Latino

Jobson Video: 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, Day 2

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Jan. 21, 2008 Key West Day 1 Podcast, sponsored by SLAM: The breeze showed up as expected for the first day of 2008 Acura Key West Race Week. Most boats left the dock after a two-and-a-half hour delay, but the wind never relented, gusting well above 30 knots frequently throughout the day. By 1 p.m., Peter Craig decided against holding any racing and sent everyone home. It was a prudent decision, especially coming during the first day of a five-day event.

Dave Reed's Key West 2008 Blog: Different Strokes

Jobson Video: 2008 Acura Key West Race Week, Day 1

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Jan. 20, 2008 Key West Preview Podcast No. 4, sponsored by SLAM and New England Ropes: It's breeze on in Key West. A stiff northerly kept most teams on the dock for the final tune-up day before the big show. The few teams that did venture out found the conditions to be quite challenging. Returning to the dock with everyone on board and the boat in one piece was something of a relief. Matt Wachowicz, navigator for Desafio Español in the last America's Cup tells us what he's been up to and looks ahead at the racing in IRC-1, where he'll be sailing on the biggest, heaviest, most luxurious boat in the regatta.

Dave Reed's Key West 2008 Blog: Practice or Preserve?

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Jan. 18, 2008 Key West Preview Podcast No. 3, sponsored by Atlantis WeatherGear: For a few lucky souls, the 2008 Key West Race Week experience started Wednesday with the annual 160-mile feeder race from Fort Lauderdale to Key West. Brisk easterly breezes provided perfect conditions for some of the big ocean racing stallions in the fleet. America's Cup veteran Andy Horton was on board Hap Fauth's TP 52 and he tells us all about the sleigh ride south and takes a look at the interesting IRC 1 class, which features 8 boats between 50 and 55 feet long.

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Jan. 14, 2008 Key West Preview Podcast No. 2, sponsored by SLAM Sailing Apparel: For Melges Boatworks, Acura Key West Race Week is the best boat imaginable. With 73 boats divided between two one-design classes, the Wisconsin-based boatbuilder will have a commanding presence at the bottom end of U.S. 1. And lest you think they're resting on their laurels, while working to sustain the popular Melges 24 and Melges 32 classes, the company is eagerly awaiting the release of the Melges 20 this coming spring. Andy Burdick talks about the two existing classes, winning at Key West, and the company's latest creation.

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Jan. 7, 2008 Key West Preview Podcast No. 1, sponsored by Atlantis WeatherGear: The clock on the Premiere Racing website is inside of 20 days to the annual mid-winter sailing fiesta known as Acura Key West Race Week. To get an overview of this year's regatta we got on the phone with Peter Craig, the head of Premiere Racing and the director of 2008 Acura Key West Race Week. Craig has been running this event for more than a decade and he's locked into a successful formula that brings people back year after year. But he's not afraid to change things if needed.

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Sailing World's Key West Archive

2007

Day 5: Interview with Boat of the Week winner, Melges 24 skipper Riccardo Simoneschi

Day 4: Interview with Farr 40 Champion Ernesto Bertarelli

Day 3: Moving Day Does, And Doesn't, Live Up To Its Name

Day 2: A Good Start Is Nice, A Good Finish Even Better

Day 1: Neighbors Get No Favors At Race Week

Preview: Changes Aren't Hard to Find at Race Week, You've Just Got to Look

2006

Interview with Rick Wesslund, whose J/120 won PHRF Boat of the Week honors

2005

Day 5: Key West Wrap-Up

Day 4: Some Overall Winners Emerge on Day 4

Day 3: Key West Moving Day

Day 2: Full Day of Full-On Racing at Key West

Day 1: Game On at Key West Race Week

Preview: Wind in Abundance for Key West 2005

2003

Interview with John Aras from the Farr 395 Tsunami, winner of PHRF Class 3

Thrills, Chills, and Spills at Terry Nova Key West Race Week

2002

Getting Warm, Fitting In

Day 5: Unsung Heroes at Key West

Day 4: Key West Log: No Wind and the Road Home

Day 4: Kahn and Son Share a Passion

Day 3: Key West Log: Over Early, Shifting Gears

Day 3: T-Bone in Paradise

Day 2: Key West Log: 15-20 Knots and 75 Degrees

Day 2: The Breeze Turns On

Day 1: Key West Log: The Art of Traffic Management

Day 1: Race Week Starts With A Whimper

Preview: On the Eve of the Big Event

Preview: Key West Log: Practice Always Pays Off

Preview: Key West Log: No Complaints About the Heat

Preview: Key West Log: …Planes and Automobiles

2001

Interview with Premiere Racing's Peter Craig