Wild and windy photos from the 44 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mapfre (ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma) in Palma, Spain, which ran from March 30 to April 6, 2013. Click here to read an interview with event photographer Jesús Renedo. Click here to view results.
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 website [Click here to watch footage from the 24th edition.](http://www
Let your adrenaline pump as you count down to the next tiny Armageddon—as long as you’re prepared you should stay upright.
Spanish photographer Jesús Renedo captured March’s Photo of the Month out of his home base in Palma where Olympic hopefuls were training in big breeze and waves for the ISAF Sailing World Cup.
Jim Sears, skipper of the San Diego NOOD Regatta’s overall winning Viper 640 F.N.G., explains how he and crew Sarah Hester and Rachel Ellis got it done in tough conditions.
The new-and-improved 2013 Sperry Top-Sider NOOD regatta series makes its next stop in San Diego, so the South Bay course will be teeming with action: we get up to speed with the Buccaneer and Viper 640 classes.
Photos from the first act of the 2013 Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman. 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
Shots from Cory Silken at Bacardi Miami Sailing Week. Click here to visit the event website.
Photographer Pavlina Soukupova captures some of the best Finn action in Valencia, Spain.
Watch the first act of the Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman, right here!
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.
_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. A
Wild and windy photos from the 44 Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mapfre (ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma) in Palma, Spain, which ran from March 30 to April 6, 2013. Click here to read an interview with event photographer Jesús Renedo. Click here to view results.
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 website [Click here to watch footage from the 24th edition.](http://www
Let your adrenaline pump as you count down to the next tiny Armageddon—as long as you’re prepared you should stay upright.
Spanish photographer Jesús Renedo captured March’s Photo of the Month out of his home base in Palma where Olympic hopefuls were training in big breeze and waves for the ISAF Sailing World Cup.
Jim Sears, skipper of the San Diego NOOD Regatta’s overall winning Viper 640 F.N.G., explains how he and crew Sarah Hester and Rachel Ellis got it done in tough conditions.
The new-and-improved 2013 Sperry Top-Sider NOOD regatta series makes its next stop in San Diego, so the South Bay course will be teeming with action: we get up to speed with the Buccaneer and Viper 640 classes.
Photos from the first act of the 2013 Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman. 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
Shots from Cory Silken at Bacardi Miami Sailing Week. Click here to visit the event website.
Photographer Pavlina Soukupova captures some of the best Finn action in Valencia, Spain.
Watch the first act of the Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman, right here!
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.
_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. A
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