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8 Days to the LVC

June 30th, 2013

By Dean Barker, Skipper ETNZ (from Barker’s blog dated June 30, 2013) Well, again a long time between posts. It would be fair to say though there has been a fair amount happening in the last couple of months. I have been in San Fran now for about 6 weeks. It has been great to


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US I-420 Fleet Improves Game at Kieler Woche

June 30th, 2013

By Michael Rudnick (June 30, 2013) – One of the largest fleets duking it out in the Baltic Sea this past week at Kieler Woche (Kiel Week) in Kiel, Germany was the 159-boat I-420 fleet. Team USA had 3 boats finish in the top 10, as well as the #1 women’s boat, in the 4-day,


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Winds Of Change blow Through Ullman Sails LBRW

June 30th, 2013

(June 29, 2013) – Challenging wind and the twists and turns on the race course brought some shuffles in the standings Saturday as Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week wound down to the last two races for all classes Sunday. The West Coast’s largest keelboat regatta, co-hosted by the adjacent Long Beach and Alamitos Bay


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8 Teams Advance to Chicago Match Cup Qualifier Quarter-Finals

June 30th, 2013

Chicago (June 29, 2013) – Lake Michigan delivered breeze-on, big-wave and overall spectacular racing conditions today at the Chicago Match Race Center’s Chicago Match Cup Grade 2 Qualifier, which whittled down the 12 teams from five nations to the eight quarterfinalists. Tomorrow’s knockout series will determine who receives the last open invitation to the Chicago


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Breeze On for Day Two of Racing

June 30th, 2013

(June 29, 2013) – The breeze switched on in a big way today at the 11th annual C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta, where 36 sailors with disabilities, sailing 23 boats in three Paralympic classes on Narragansett Bay, showed what they were made of. “The Clagett,” as it is affectionately called, is sailing


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Day 1 Racing C. Thomas Clagett Memorial Clinic & Regatta

June 29th, 2013

NEWPORT, R.I. (June 28, 2013) – Although stormy weather and heavy fog taunted Narragansett Bay this morning, competitors were not ready to take a rain check on the first day of racing at the 11th annual C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta. Held at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I., the event


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U.S. Coast Guard Issues Permit for America’s Cup Racing

June 29th, 2013

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued the America’s Cup with the Marine Event Permit required to conduct America’s Cup racing on San Francisco Bay this summer. “This is an important and necessary step for the America’s Cup,” said Iain Murray, independent Regatta Director for the America’s Cup. “I’d like to thank the United States Coast


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Team Aqua Lift RC44 Sweden Cup

June 29th, 2013

The breeze really kicked in on for the final day of racing at the RC44 Sweden Cup in Marstrand. Forecasters had predicting anything from 12-30 knots from the south, east or west; as the 12 competing RC44 teams headed out to the race course no-one knew quite what to expect. Ironbound (USA) won the only


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Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week

June 29th, 2013

(June 28, 2013) – Unlike other sailing venues, seldom is it said about Long Beach that if you don’t like the weather, just wait a little while. It just doesn’t make any difference to Dark Star, Jeff Janov’s Farr 40 from the California Yacht Club that has dominated Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week and


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Day 1 Chicago Match Race Qualifier

June 29th, 2013

A high pressure system lingering in the Midwest produced shifty and puffy conditions for first stage of competition today in the Chicago Match Race Center’s Grade 2 Chicago Match Cup Qualifier. The near ideal conditions with blue sky, fresh breeze, and flat water allowed the RC team to finish 14 flights today. This weekend will



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