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.
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
July 18th, 2013
It must give ISAF comfort to know that their highly acclaimed jurists appointed to the America’s Cup International Jury are being kept busy determining such high valued protests as these submitted on July 17: * Protest by Luna Rossa Challenge, claiming that the America’s Cup Event Authority has breached the event Protocol by altering photographs
July 17th, 2013
(July 17, 2013) – The 2225-mile Transpac race attracts the sleek sleds designed to surf the tradewinds on the biennial race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Despite being ground zero for “Have a Hobie Day”, this west coast classic does not attract offshore multihulls. But this year it attracted two. One multihull is fueled by
July 17th, 2013
(July 17, 2013) – Artemis Racing this week completed the structural testing on its second AC72. The team turned the platform upside down, placed it on dollies and then used heavy weights and hydraulic rams to torque it. The current timetable has Artemis Racing hitting the water early next week. If conditions permit, the team
July 17th, 2013
Limassol, Cyprus (July 17, 2013) – Racing followed the schedule on the third day at the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship with warm winds and waves for the 350 sailors from 61 nations. The breeze kicked in nice and early, working its way up to 16 knots with gusts of 20 knots. New Zealand’s Isaac
July 17th, 2013
We will spare you the repetitive facts that the 34th America’s Cup is not yet the event we were promised. In fact, this edition is a shocking embarrassment when put aside other prominent events that organizers sought to match. Having now held six races, there are five Did Not Starts and one Did Not Finish.
July 17th, 2013
(July 17, 2013) – There was nothing quick about getting to the finish line in the extreme light wind conditions
July 17th, 2013
At the end of his workday in steamy midtown Manhattan (NYC), Joel Terry craves relaxing outdoors. But these days, instead
July 17th, 2013
As badly as the 34th America’s Cup seeks to attract the “Facebook Generation”, it can’t escape its deeply rooted history
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