October 10th, 2012
The Canadian Yachting Association High Performance review is under way this week with a stacked agenda in Toronto, ON. Discussions will continue from the strategic work already developed earlier this year at the HP summit in Toronto. The spring summit was the starting point for developing a High Performance Plan for the next Olympic quadrennial and beyond. Input has been
October 10th, 2012
Sailing World magazine has announced their nominees for the 2013 Boat of the Year awards. The BOTY awards recognize and honor the best new sailboat models introduced to the North American market. Sailing World nominated 14 performance-oriented models for its awards. Nominees include the Bavaria B/One, C&C 101, Carkeek HPR40, Dufour 36 Performance, Harbor 30, J/70, K1, McConaghy 38, Motive
October 10th, 2012
Beneteau Group elevated Wayne Burdick to president of the holding company for Beneteau’s U.S. group entities and tapped Laurent Fabre, formerly director of sales and marketing for Beneteau’s North American powerboats division, to replace Burdick as president of Beneteau America. Under Burdick’s direction as president of Beneteau in North America since 1997, the company became the leading brand of high-quality
October 10th, 2012
While I never had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Len Ruby, I found his obituary very touching and inspiring (in Scuttlebutt 3692). Clearly he led a life well lived. When I was kid and young adult, like many, I aspired to be like the professional athletes that I was a fan of. Now, as a 50+ year old “weekend
October 10th, 2012
Congratulations to Taylor Canfield for winning the Bermuda Gold Cup! Certainly he did not do this by himself…..who was on the TEAM? Let’s give them all Credit. Match Racing is about the Team, as much as the Skipper. COMMENT: Since details about the crew on each team for each event is typically not provided on the World Match
October 10th, 2012
I traveled to San Francisco and was at Piers 30-32 on Thursday (10-4-12) to catch a charter and watch the match racing on the water for the morning. I decided to head over to the Marina Green for the afternoon racing. Over 10 cabs turned me down to take me to the Marina district. I had to hoof
October 10th, 2012
In response to Scot Citrin and George Morris total trashing of television coverage (Scuttlebutt 3692), all I have heard for years on Scuttlebutt is about the lack of television coverage of sailing. Now that we have major coverage on weekends that is as good as any in decades, the naysayers start up. Can we please give it a
October 10th, 2012
With all the supposed emphasis of this America’s Cup to convince the general public that ours is an exciting spectator sport, I was disappointed to see that my TV Guide labeled the program “Yachting.” Hmm…Football or Yachting
October 10th, 2012
Americans John and Erika Heineken, siblings from San Francisco, are the 2012 Men’s and Women’s Kiteboard Course Racing World Champions,
October 10th, 2012
It was a perfect storm of events this week in San Francisco, highlighted by the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Fleet
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