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EIGHT BELLS: Svend Svendsen

May 29th, 2013

After a courageous and dignified battle with cancer, Svend Svendsen passed over the bar quietly at home in Alameda, CA on May 27 with his family by his side. Born 1932 in Espergaerde Denmark, Svend was the fourth of six children to Anna and Jens Svendsen. Svend descended from a long line of Danish fishermen.


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WMRT: French on top in Korea

May 29th, 2013

Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (May 29, 2013): Pierre-Antoine Morvan’s Vannes Agglo Sailing Team took the top of the leaderboard with four wins from five matches on day one of the Korea Match Cup. However the only team to keep a clean sheet thus far was the reigning champion of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour, Ian


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Ten Great Modern Sailing Innovations

May 29th, 2013

By Zuzana Prochazka, Boats.com My colleague, power-boater Lenny Rudow, wrote a discussion-provoking article on 10 Great Modern Boating Inventions and Innovations. He started with the concept of cup holders, which seemed strange until I thought about our latte-consuming culture and realised he might be right in his priorities. However, a different set of innovations have


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TESTING: How Do You Stack Up?

May 28th, 2013

By Susan Shingledecker, BoatU.S. Magazine Whether you’ve been boating for 20 days or 20 years, many boaters around the country are now required to take some form of boating education in their state. In fact, nearly 100,000 boaters registered for the BoatUS Foundation Free Online Boating Safety Course last year alone, in part, no doubt,


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QUOTABLE: Explaining the Olympic advantage

May 28th, 2013

“The Australians, British and New Zealanders are island people. Communicating with the sea and sails is in their DNA. This is an entire culture passed down from generation to generation. Half of those countries’ populations are interested in sailing.” – Georgiy Shaiduko, senior vice president of the Russian Yachting Federation, member of the Executive Committee


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BAADS Karma vs. Bad Karma

May 28th, 2013

As if San Francisco didn’t need more bad news. The memory remains vivid of the America’s Cup training accident on



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