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Published on March 21st, 2013
With time running short before the 34th America’s Cup, and the focus for each team now to develop their AC72 performance, the upcoming America’s Cup World Series event in Naples, Italy (Apr. 16-21) will have some different faces among the crowd. Nine teams are entered, with the crew for America’s Cup challengers Emirates Team New ... Read More →
Published on March 21st, 2013
By Carol Cronin I have a confession to make: I was out of the office last week. No, I wasn’t sick. I was sailing. Yes, I worked a few hours each evening. But that was really just to keep up with email, answer urgent questions, and put in enough time to (hopefully) allow me to ... Read More →
Published on March 21st, 2013
What if you were a talented young sailor, looking for an opening into the world beyond youth sailing, but weren’t sure how to make that transition? Over in England, the Etchells class is opening that door … ———- On the weekend of the 16th and 17th of March, seventeen selected young sailors from the RYA ... Read More →
Published on March 21st, 2013
This week marks the 97th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s release of his General Theory of Relativity. The renowned physicist spent the summer of 1935 in Old Lyme, CT, often sailing on the Connecticut coast. Despite sailing for over half a century, Einstein was not a very accomplished sailor. According to his biographers, he would lose ... Read More →
Published on March 21st, 2013
Admire more of Zeke’s Opti trophies while the Chalk Talk team reviews some astounding performances at the Trux and St. Mary’s Women’s regattas and compares two very talented women’s sailors. We also unravel the Sailing World ... Read More →
Published on March 20th, 2013
In the third poll of the spring college season, Sailing World’s College Rankings as of March 20, 2013 finds Yale in command of the coed rankings followed by Georgetown and Stanford. Boston College tops the women’s ... Read More →
Published on March 20th, 2013
The 2013 Islands Race Organizing Authorities of San Diego Yacht Club and Newport Harbor Yacht Club have jointly requested that US Sailing, national governing body of the sport, conduct an independent review of the sailing accident ... Read More →
Published on March 20th, 2013
Portsmouth, R.I. (March 20, 2013) – Thirty-eight talented sailors have been named to the 2013 US Sailing Development Team (USSDT), the pathway team supported by the U.S. Olympic Sailing Program and US Sailing’s Olympic Sailing Committee ... Read More →
Published on March 20th, 2013
Commencing tomorrow, Thursday 21 March, and running to Sunday 24 March, the International Rolex Regatta in St.Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. An impressive fleet of seventy boats will contest three days ... Read More →
Published on March 20th, 2013
Among the ten sailing events selected for the 2016 Olympic Games, nine of them involve high performance dinghies, skiffs, boards, and multihulls – all sailed by agile men and women. And then there is the Finn, ... Read More →