August 18th, 2013
San Francisco, CA (August 18, 2013) – Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge evened the final of the Louis Vuitton Cup against Emirates Team New Zealand at 1-1 with a victory in Race 2. Luna Rossa was trailing by more than 400 meters on Leg 3, upwind, when the Kiwis stopped sailing, apparently due to a problem
August 18th, 2013
Chicago, IL (August 17, 2013) – After a long 10-hour day of match race sailing off Chicago’s Belmont Harbor, four Semi-Finalists have emerged today from the field of 12 teams from six nations at the CMRC Grand Slam, the first event of the 2013 US Grand Slam series. World #2-ranked Taylor Canfield and his USone
August 18th, 2013
By Steve Deane, The New Zealand Herald Brad Butterworth and the bulk of the crew from the Alinghi America’s Cup syndicate gathered around a television screen yesterday on Hamilton Island, near Great Barrier reef off the northern Queensland coast. They tuned into the opening race of the Louis Vuitton Cup and, like a good chunk
August 18th, 2013
By Julian Guthrie, SFGate It was the fall of 1976 when Sally Lindsay went looking for a college student named Stan Honey to repair her Volvo 122S. She was told that Honey, an engineering major at Yale, had a car like hers, and was a guy who could fix just about anything. “I towed my
August 16th, 2013
(August 16, 2013) – Taking an abrupt jibe from its previous position, the America’s Cup measurement committee has absolved one of the three Oracle Team USA boats in a cheating scandal that has taken front stage in the regatta. In a new report made public Friday, the committee said Oracle CEO Russell Coutts’ boat had
August 16th, 2013
Corpus Christi, TX (August 16, 2013) – Sailors were prepared to rally for the fourth and final day of racing at the U.S. Youth Sailing Championships, hosted by the Corpus Christi Yacht Club. Boats were launched and courses were set, but lack of breeze and travel schedule considerations made racing impossible on Friday. Seven classes
August 16th, 2013
There was no shortage of drama throughout a memorable and historic 45th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race. 336 yachts from 20 countries started the biennial 611-nm race that runs from Cowes to Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock on the south-west tip of Ireland. The lineup had everything: professional and Corinthian sailors; some of the
August 15th, 2013
Corpus Christi, TX (August 15, 2013) – The second to last day of racing at the U.S. Youth Sailing Championships, hosted by the Corpus Christi Yacht Club, was crucial for sailors trying to tack up the leaderboard in their respective classes to be in contention for Friday’s final races. Racing was postponed this morning due
August 15th, 2013
(August 15, 2013) – History was made at the Rolex Fastnet Race when the doublehanded French team of Pascal and
August 15th, 2013
The foiling of the AC72 has been both a blessing and a curse. The sight of a fully foiling 72-foot
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