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Emirates Team New Zealand – March 8, 2013

Published on March 8th, 2013

Emirates Team New Zealand have had a big week of race training with Luna Rossa. As team tactician Ray Davies explains there is no substitute for lining up again some proper opposition… and how much he ... Read More


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Scuttlebutt launches new website

Published on March 8th, 2013

TA DA The launch of the new Scuttlebutt website and e-Newsletter template is a bold move into the future. For the email subscribers, our hope is that the new format will still embrace the core simplicity ... Read More


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OLYMPICS: Revised format

Published on March 8th, 2013

TESTING, TESTING, TESTING The 44th edition of the Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofia Mapfre for Olympic classes (Mar 30-Apr 6), the first European event of the ISAF Sailing World Cup, has been chosen by ISAF to test ... Read More


Dock Talk

Sailing Shorts – March 7

Published on March 8th, 2013

* Miami, FL (March 7, 2013) – Racing at the Gaastra 52 World Championships was abandoned today when winds proved too little to complete a fair race. Race 5 of the series was started in very ... Read More


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CONDITIONING: The easy way to become a better sailor

Published on March 8th, 2013

STEPPING UP YOUR GAME WITH FITNESS There are about a million different factors that go into making awesome, unbeatable sailors. These factors include both controllable and somewhat uncontrollable variables. For instance, while the next guy on ... Read More


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RATING RULES: Evolving the VPP

Published on March 8th, 2013

WHAT’S NEW FOR THE ORR RULE IN 2013 The Offshore Racing Rule (ORR) was first used in the 2006 race season, and is now the prominent rule for distance racing throughout North America. Events such as ... Read More


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America’s Cup: Wings, foils, drag

Published on March 8th, 2013

FOIL FOCUSED Behind the scenes at Oracle Team USA, Joseph Ozanne crunches numbers using mind-numbing equations all in the name of a faster time around the racecourse for his team’s AC72. Ozanne is the team’s wing ... Read More


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OCEAN RACING: Back in the day

Published on March 8th, 2013

“IT WAS MAGIC. I DON’T KNOW WHY” By Kimball Livingston, Blue Planet Times – Once upon a time ocean racing was going gangbusters. Every new boat seemed important, and the new boats kept on coming. In ... Read More


News

America’s Cup Discovered – Episode 80

Published on March 7th, 2013

This week on America’s Cup Discovered we take a look back at the America’s Cup World Series San Francisco with NBC commentators Gary Jobson and Todd Harris. The Bay Area truly became the Bay Arena with ... Read More


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Get ready for Opening Day

Published on March 7th, 2013

Yacht Clubs will soon begin their time honored celebration known as “Opening Day” to mark the official beginning of the Yachting Season for the Club. Tom Leweck, founder of Scuttlebutt and past commodore of California Yacht ... Read More


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