Monthly Archives: July 2013

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A Course of Legend…

July 18th, 2013

Among offshore racing tracks, none traces its origin earlier than transatlantic. The first race from the United States to England took place in 1866, the result of a healthy wager among three young schooner owners. To ensure the challenge matched the ante, they decided to send the boats off in December. They needn’t have bothered.


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Five World Champions Crowned early At ISAF Youth Worlds

July 18th, 2013

Limassol, Cyprus (July 18, 2013) – With one race remaining on Friday at the 2013 Sail First ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship, winners have already been decided in the RS:X Boys, RS:X Girls, Laser Radial Girls, SL16, and International 420 Girls Great Britain’s Kieran Martin has not finished outside the top four once all week


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Optimist World Championships – DAY 2

July 18th, 2013

Riva del Garda Trento, Italy (July 18, 2013) – Another beautiful, but long day of racing, confirming the strength of the Singaporean team. A day of redemption for Germany and Great Britain. It was the second day of racing in the Optimist World Championship in Riva del Garda with highly variable conditions. In the first


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Stephanie Roble is the New Number One Match Racer

July 18th, 2013

Wisconsin native Stephanie Roble (East Troy, WI) and her Epic Team Racing is the new number one women’s match racer in the U.S., number seven in the world, and number nine in the U.S. Open Division. Racing out of the Chicago Match Race Center, Roble recently won the Stena Match Race Sweden, a stop on


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We can’t make this stuff up

July 18th, 2013

It must give ISAF comfort to know that their highly acclaimed jurists appointed to the America’s Cup International Jury are


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New World Record

July 17th, 2013

(July 17, 2013) – The World Sailing Speed Record Council ratified the new Singlehanded Monohull 60 foot Transatlantic Record. From



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