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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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