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Storm Trysail Safety-At-Sea Video Library

Published on January 2nd, 2017

The Storm Trysail Foundation is one of the world’s leaders in the development of safety-at-sea strategies and techniques. For over a decade, Storm Trysail Club members have been conducting Jr. Safety-at-Sea Seminars at yacht clubs across ... Read More


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Record Setting Day for IDEC SPORT

Published on January 2nd, 2017

(January 2, 2016; Day 18, 23:30 FR) – Francis Joyon (FRA) and his five crew on the 31.5m VPLP-designed trimaran IDEC SPORT had a record setting day in their bid win the Jules Verne Trophy for ... Read More


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Vendée Globe: Upwind in the Atlantic

Published on January 2nd, 2017

(January 2, 2017; Day 58, 18:21 FR) – In the ongoing upwind duel up the South Atlantic at the front of the Vendée Globe round the world race over the last 24 hours Alex Thomson has ... Read More


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VIDEO: Iceboats on Lake Kegonsa

Published on January 2nd, 2017

The Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club held an informal fun regatta, The Grand Slam, on Lake Kegonsa near Madison, WI December 31, 2016-January 1, 2017. Five classes of iceboats competed on the first ice of the ... Read More


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Match Racing Survey

Published on January 2nd, 2017

A proposal has been made by the U.S. Match Racing Championships Committee (USMRCC), which organizes the Open, Women’s and Youth match racing qualifiers and championships, to require at least one female and one male on each ... Read More


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Where Women Sailors go to Learn

Published on January 2nd, 2017

The Southern California Yachting Association (SCYA) will hold its 28th Annual Women’s Sailing Convention on Saturday, February 4, 2017 at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club in Corona del Mar, California. The daylong, ladies-only series of shore-and-boat-based ... Read More


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Sarah Mecoy: What years at sea have taught her

Published on January 2nd, 2017

The Cape 2 Rio Yacht Race, started in 1971, is the longest continent to continent yacht race in the southern hemisphere. The 2017 edition, with starts on December 26 and January 1, includes Sarah Niedswiecki-Mecoy bowman ... Read More


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The Container Conundrum

Published on January 2nd, 2017

The adventurers that seek races and records when circumnavigating the world once had only two worries – fierce storms and drifting ice. But a third foe might now be the worst – unidentified floating objects. Even ... Read More


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VIDEO: Raw and Natural

Published on January 2nd, 2017

The Cape 2 Rio Yacht Race, started in 1971, is the longest continent to continent yacht race in the southern hemisphere. Jeff Ayliffe spent the start of the 2017 Cape2Rio yacht race aboard the GP 42 ... Read More


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IDEC SPORT Rides the Indian Ocean Train

Published on January 1st, 2017

(January 1, 2016; Day 17, 23:30 FR) – Francis Joyon (FRA) and his five crew on the 31.5m VPLP-designed trimaran IDEC SPORT are nearing Australia’s Cape Leeuwin in their bid win the Jules Verne Trophy for ... Read More


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