August 20, 2008

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Good trade wind flow again yesterday. Lighter wind today in comparison, tending ENE during the afternoon.

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Images from the Medal Race of the RS:X Men’s Event

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Images from the Medal Race of the RS:X Womens Event

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Greetings from Qingdao, on this 12th day of the 2008 Sailing Olympics.

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Lovely Ingrid Abery came our aid today, lending us a camera body, when we were one down.

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Images from the Laser Medal Race sailed off the seawall at Qingdao Olympic harbour, today

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Images from the Womens Laser Radial Medal race today.

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RS-X Medal Races were real nailbiters today. Not quite enough to get the boards planing plenty of wind whacking going on

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Some amazingly murky pics from Qingdao - trying to spot Tornados and Stars in the murk at more than 50 paces…

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Is the harvesting of the share of television rights monies by ISAF too high a price to pay for the incursion of TV

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Beijing Olympics 2008 - Sailing - Qingdao venue Day 12 Medal tally

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Olympic Sailing Day 12 - All Classes Results Table

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Images of Qingdao: RS:X Mens Medal Ceremony

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Light and Scheidt

On a day when the breeze grew progressively lighter, Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada won three races.

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Wolverines howl in Whitsundays

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‘Tomorrow’s a big day - we’re just going to go for it and try to win’ -The Australian Tornado Crew

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Quantum Racing wins despite mast drama

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Tasqua Youth in runaway win in the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week Dart SB3 championship

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Arajilla unbeatable in IRC Division 2 at MMABRW

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Tom Ashley has just won the RS:X Gold medal at Qingdao. Stay tuned to Sail-World.Com for pictures, audio and reports

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Olympics Day 12 Womens RS:X Medals Jian Yin (CHN) Gold, Alessandra Sensini (ITA) Silver, Bryony Shaw (GBR Bronze.

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Quantum Racing sportsboat does well at Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week

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Whale researchers say collisions between whales and yachts are likely to increase along the Australian coastline

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Whale researchers say collisions between whales and yachts are likely to increase along the Australian coastline

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A Bundaberg couple rescued from their yacht off the Queensland coast last month want you to watch out for it

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‘I surfaced and there was the boat going off to the southeast, and I thought, ah man, not gonna be a good day’

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SMS equates Sports Boat fleet at Airlie Beach

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Sydney’s lost baby whale which was led out to sea a couple of days ago, has sadly come back into protected waters

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Tom Ashley and Carl Williams comment on their racing yesterday in the RS:X windsurfer and Star class

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Peter Campbell’s voice report from the start of Day 5 racing at Meridien Marina’s Airlie Beach Race Week.

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Click below to see recent article in local?? paper

http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2008/08/14/features/dpt-onthewater08152008.txt

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Exporters can anticipate cuts to the Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) of as much as $30,000, changes which Trade

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Another beautiful day at Airlie Beach for racing at Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week.

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The first online Australian Marinas Guide has just been launched as a comprehensive free resource for boaties www.marina

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PredictWind forecasts only very light winds in Qingdao today, Wednesday, increasing substantially for the next two days.

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A $20m project will open up NZ’s shipbuilding capacity as gov and private enterprise invest in the Northland province.

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Strong trade winds continued to blow to cast a collar of foaming white water around the windward shore

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