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Mini Transat Returns to Code Red

October 24th, 2013

The scenario proposed yesterday by the Race Director to start the 84 strong Mini Tansat fleet on Friday with a stopover in Gijon has been determined a no-go so there’ll be no start on Friday for the Mini Transat however management is optimistic for a race start early next week. The Race Director and meteorologists


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Jobson Report: Curtis’ Revival

October 24th, 2013

A new Hall of Famer grabs the spotlight once again at Block Island Race Week. By Gary Jobson At Storm Trysail Club’s 25th Anniversary Block Island Race Week in June, the stars aligned for 67-year-old Dave Curtis, of Marblehead, Mass., one of the greats of one-design sailing and one of the first college sailing All-Americans.


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ABYC Appoints Allie Blecher as New Junior Director

October 24th, 2013

LONG BEACH, CA (Oct. 24, 2013) – Allie Blecher . . . does the name sound familiar? Just last weekend she skippered the California Yacht Club team to victory in the 22nd annual Linda Elias Memorial Women’s One-Design Challenge in Long Beach, followed by the announcement that she has been hired as Alamitos Bay Yacht


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Youth KOs Competition in Fall Brawl

October 24th, 2013

The Young Guns team came up from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and dominated the 24-boat J/70 Fall Brawl fleet from the start last weekend. St. Mary’s was led by Venezuelan Olympic hopeful Victor Diaz de Leon, borrowing a boat from the skipper on whose team Diaz de Leon had sailed a couple weeks earlier


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Finest Wave Sailors Compete at JP Aloha Classic PWA World Cup

October 24th, 2013

October 23, 2013 – Is this the dawn of a new era in windsurfing? With the finest wave sailors on the planet from both the AWT and PWA tours united at the Aloha Classic in Maui, even Robby Naish couldn’t resist throwing his hat into the ring for what is being dubbed ‘The Clash of


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Eight Bells

October 24th, 2013

We are very sad to report from Port Washington, New York, the passing of a wonderful friend and sailor- Gould “Stretch” Ryder. Stretch is best known as the winch grinder for Ted Turner aboard Courageous for the 1977 Americas Cup defense against Australia (One). Stretch fought cancer for the past ten months and leaves behind


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Former Olympic Sailor’s Empty Boat Found Off Cayman Islands Coast

October 24th, 2013

October 23, 2013 – Authorities in the Cayman Islands are continuing their search for missing Olympic sailor Mark Clarke, whose boast was found lodged on reefs off the Cayman Kai last night after the 63-year-old was last seen setting sail on Monday morning. Clarke, who was born in Jamaica before moving to the Cayman Islands


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Ben Ainslie’s British Syndicate Needs Backer

October 24th, 2013

Sir Ben Ainslie’s bid to launch a British challenge for the America’s Cup is gathering momentum with the ace sailor now eyeing design and sailing talent. Ainslie, the English sailing great whose late addition to the Oracle crew helped the Americans defend the Auld Mug against Team New Zealand, is desperate to get a local


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Day 4 Hobie 16 & Hobie 18 North American Championships

October 24th, 2013

Galveston, TX (October 24, 2013) – Day 4 of the Hobie 16 & Hobie 18 North American Championships delivered highly tactical light wind racing. Three additional races were completed, one in the morning and two additional races in the late afternoon. The final race of the day was finished as the sun was setting. Enrique


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Day 2 Lightning North American Championships

August 20th, 2013

(August 20, 2013) – Long Island Sound treated sailors to breeze once again today! Another beautiful day with 6-10 knots from the South/Southwest. The final races of the qualifying series were completed. Debbie Probst, Jenna Probst and Mikayla Warde from the Buffalo Canoe Club won the Blue Fleet Race while Charlie Wardwell, Colin Kirby and



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