Annapolis, MD (May 28, 2014) – Racing continued today on the Severn River at the U.S. Naval Academy in the second day of the Sperry Top-Sider Women’s Semi-Finals. Twenty-eight collegiate sailing teams from across the nation qualified to compete in these semi-finals to determine the top 18 teams who will advance to the finals, which begin tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. The 28 teams are divided into...
After four months of intensive training, Team Brunel skipper Bouwe Bekking announced two more crew. Bekking has chosen 25-year old Louis Balcaen (BEL) and 27-year old Rokas Milevičius (LIT) to cover these two Under-30 spots. Only one position remains to complete the sailing crew....
Richard Mille will support the all British sailing team managed by Pete Cumming and the cutting edge GC32 Foiling Catamaran in which they will be attempting to break the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Sailing Race record set by Ben Ainslie in 2013...
The first ever fleet race with fully foiling catamarans took place on Wednesday, May 28th in Gmunden. This season's opening event of the GC32 circuit got underway with a number of America's Cup teams and sailors battling it out on the waters of the Austrian lake...
The 35th America's might be years away and its Protocol is still weeks from being published but Patrizio Bertelli's team isn't wasting any time. Luna Rossa is now active in the GC32 circuit and carried out the first ever full foiling gybe...
One of my favorite places to go sailing - and running - is Colt State Park in Bristol RI. As the website for the Rhode Island Division of Parks and recreation says... Colt State Park is often referred to as the 'Gem' of the State Parks System. The entire western border of the park is an open panorama onto Narragansett Bay. Open year round, the park offers four miles of bicycle trails ...
The Luna Rossa team, consisting of Chris Draper (helmsman), Francesco Bruni (tactician/ mainsail trimmer), Adam Minoprio (tailer), Emanuele Marino (bowman) and Pietro Sibello (coach) will participate in the first stage of the GC32 European Tour...
Newport, RI (May 25, 2014) – Gryphon Solo 2 skippered by Joe Harris and Patrick O’Connor, held on to first place overall in the 2014 Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing after a tight weekend of inshore racing. Both Gryphon Solo 2 and JeffreyMacFarlane.com were tied at the end of racing today, however, per the Notice of Race, all ties are broken in favor of the boat with the most points...
Thirty-eight teams competed in the 2014 5O5 North American Championship, held in Santa Cruz, CA on May 22-25. A mix of conditions over nine races resulted in Howard Hamlin narrowly beating Mike Martin by one point for the title. Mike Holt was third. Click here for results...
(May 26, 2014) – It’s been an exhausting 24 hours for the 12-strong fleet with the Clipper Race teams matching each other tack for tack as they beat upwind through the Windward Passage to the Virtual Mark off the coast of Cuba. As Henri Lloyd now leads the pack, the majority of the fleet has now exited Windward Passage, with decisions ahead on what tactics to deploy as the teams navigate around,...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its 2013 forecast on May 23, which called for an active or extremely active hurricane season, predicting that there was a 70 percent chance of having 13 to 20 named storms, of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes, including three to six major hurricanes (categories 3-5). However, [&hellip...
In its 2014 Atlantic hurricane season outlook, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a near-normal or below-normal season. The main driver of this year’s outlook is the anticipated development of El Niño this summer. El Niño causes stronger wind shear, which reduces the number and intensity of tropical storms [&hellip...
The Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) three national championships, Sperry Top-Sider Women’s National Semi-Final and Final Championship, APS Team Race National Championship, and the Gill Coed Dinghy National Semi-Final and Final Championship commence Tuesday, May 27. The Women’s event will last for four days immediately followed by the Team Race Championship on May 31,...
The 2014 Atlantic Cup started in Charleston, SC on May 10 for the 685-mile doublehanded leg to New York City. Following a brief stop-over in New York City, doublehanded teams begin on May 17 to race a 240-mile leg to Newport, RI. The third and final leg consists of two days (May 24-25) of inshore [&hellip...
One of my friends, who is going to the Laser Masters Worlds in Hyères later this year, was wondering what it would be like. I take two things from this video… 1. Sometimes it's a bit windy 2. They speak French. ...
(May 24, 2014) – The thirteenth race – The Grange Hotels Trophy – from Port Antonio, Jamaica to New York, USA got underway today at 1330 local time (1830 UTC) from the Folly Point Lighthouse by Port Antonio. PSP Logistics, Old Pulteney, and Derry~Londonderry~ Doire crossed the line first, in that order in a beautifully [&hellip...
Capri, Italy (May 24, 2014) – On the BARCLAYS 52 SUPER SERIES’ first visit to the island of Capri it was the Italian team on Azzurra which came away with top honours, clinching the first regatta title of the 2014 European TP52 season with an impressive second and a first place from the two difficult [&hellip...
Newport, RI (May 24, 2014) – The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing started its third and final leg racing today with its Inshore Series in Narragansett Bay. Heading into today Dragon was tied for first with Gryphon Solo 2. Dragon was leading the first race of the day en route to the first [&hellip...
Medemblik, The Netherlands (May 24, 2014) – The 2014 Delta Lloyd Regatta came to a thrilling conclusion on Saturday 24, May with all classes completing their series, including eight medal races. Already on Friday evening, Dylan Fletcher and Alain Sign (GBR) had taken the gold in the 49er class after three exciting theatre style medal [&hellip...
(May 25, 2014) – The Grange Hotels Trophy got off to a flying start at (1800 UTC) yesterday as the 12-strong matched fleet left behind the warm, laid back hospitality of Jamaica ahead of the 1,420 mile race to the city that never sleeps, New York. With less than 20 miles currently separating the tightly-packed [&hellip...