The Green Dragon Volvo Open 70 set off for her mandatory 2000-mile Volvo Ocean Race qualification passage
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Conditions are rough on the final leg of La Solitaire from Cherbourg to l’Aber Wrac’h in Brittany.
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Conditions are rough on the final leg of La Solitaire from Cherbourg to l’Aber Wrac’h in Brittany.
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Caribbean Security is so much of a problem that in 1996 local cruisers formed a self help organisation, now a website.
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Hermann Tomasgaard of Norway is the runaway leader of the RS Tera Worlds being held at Gottskar in Sweden
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National 18 Championship win for Colin Chapman in Aquaholics
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After getting together with a bunch of Georgetown Sailing alumni to watch the Opening Ceremonies here in Washington DC last night, I am definitely psyched up to head to Qingdao on Monday morning. We couldn’t seem to catch any sailors on the US broadcast of the Opening, but saw plenty of the spectacular fireworks, 15,000 man choreography, and US men’s basketball players. I’d hate to be the next country to have to put on an Opening Ceremony, since China appears to have pulled out all the stops.
I arrive in Qingdao on Andrew’s first official day of racing, August 12th, as a few fellow Hoyas make their way around China to arrive later in the week. More to come…
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I missed the live online coverage of the first day of Finn and Yngling sailing, but did find that they are archiving the footage. You can find the video link on the “Results & Schedule” page by clicking the “rewind” button.
For the video player to work, you’ll have to install the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in (which is similar to the Flash plug-in) and then watch an ad. I clicked the Finn link and it started a Yngling race, so I guess there might be some bugs, or it’s all in one long clip.
The footage doesn’t include any commentary, but it is high quality. With the big sail numbers, you can easily pick out boats on the course. There are a number of different cameras in the air and on the race course. The different perspectives make it very easy to follow the racing.
This is really top-notch and exciting for sailing!
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Images of Qingdao: 49er training race
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Images of Qingdao: Yngling Day 1
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Images of Qingdao: Finn course - Day 1
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Anyone who has raced a sailboat will have been overwhelmed by circumstances beyond their control
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The waiting is over. The racing has begun. First starting signal for the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition was for Finn c
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Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page are Australia’s representatives in the 470 Mens competition.
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Qingdao, China: Kiwi Dan Slater was on the water in the 26 strong heavy weight dinghy class - the Finn.
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‘We’re really pleased and we couldn’t ask for anything more,’ said Australia’s Karyn Gojnich, who is competing at her th
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Welcome to Sail-World.Com’s Olympic newsletter for Day 1 of the 2008 Olympic Sailing Regatta.
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ISAF, having effectively eliminated the multihull community from future Olympic participation, appears intent on endorsi
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Weir and crew Karyn Gojnich and Angela Farrell took the lead to win the first race of the Yngling competition. The Briti
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Today’s first race was not the stuff of fairy tales for Ben Ainslie. But he recovered to win Race 2.
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Today’s first race was not the stuff of fairy tales for Ben Ainslie.
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Today’s first race was not the stuff of fairy tales for Ben Ainslie.
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Greetings from Qingdao, on this the opening day of the 2008 Sailing Olympics.
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A typical racing sailboat has many parts such as the mast, boom, hull, keel and rudder.
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www.bayofislandssailingweek.org.nz
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Dan Slater reports on the ASB Finn 2008 campaign on the eve of the first race in the 2008 Olympic Regatta:Well tomor
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Profile on the Australian 470 Womens Team Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson. The team is coached by Victor Kovalenko.
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At 1300 local time today, the 2008 Beijing Olympic sailing regatta starts on Course A, just off the Qingdao Harbour rock
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Profile on the Australian 49er Team members Nathan Outteridge and Ben Austin.
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Joe Tripodi said a proposal to relocate the old lighthouse vessel, the MV Cape Don is being considered by NSW Maritime.
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International yachting photographer Ingrid Abery has arrived in Qingdao, China with lenses poised
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For St. Moritz Match Race 2008 Adam Minoprio from New Zealand and the Australian Torvar Mirsky will be there.
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