http://www.sailcam.tv Video Channel includes interviews and profiles of key market figure's, race coverage, industry updates from manufacturers, retailers and designers as well as a sneak peak at emerging industry trends and brands.  Sailcam has a strong focus on youth in sport and plans to extend further into this market through advertiser funded and member-based initiatives. 2009-12-15 02:22:20 © 2008 Sailcam.tv http://www.sailcam.tv/news_843.php 15-Dec-2009 Wild Oats XI and Alfa Romeo, both Reichel Pughs, shot out of the starting gate off Steele Point, the two boat-for-boat up the first beat in an America’s Cup style match race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_844.php 15-Dec-2009 This morning representatives from seven of the eight maxis lining up for this year΄s Rolex Sydney Hobart became mini boat skippers, racing two feet long model boats in the inaugural Little Boat Challenge. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_845.php 15-Dec-2009 It’s that time of year again and important to start thinking and planning – though not yet in any detail! Your real homework starts at the weekend or net week when there is some certainty in the forecast. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_851.php 15-Dec-2009 Day two of the 2009 Sail Brisbane took place in ideal sailing conditions resulting in some great racing with a number of class leaders consolidating their leads while there was also plenty of movements throughout the fleets. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_839.php 12-Dec-2009 Racing on Manly Circle, the Rolex Trophy One Design sailors were surfing with the best of them as they enjoyed 12 knot nor’easterly breezes for day two of the three-day regatta. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_840.php 12-Dec-2009 It was a day for families at the Rolex Trophy One Design Series, as husband and wife team Martin & Lisa Hill (Estate Master) and the father and son owned The Tavern (Ian and Shane Guanaria) scored three wins from three races each in the Farr 40 and Sydney 38 classes respectively this afternoon. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_841.php 12-Dec-2009 he Latest on Etihad Stadium The 98 foot Victorian maxi Etihad Stadium (Wild Thing) is still motoring to Eden and is due to arrive at the coastal port at approximately 5.30pm this afternoon. A further update on the boat will be distributed after 2.30pm today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_842.php 10-Dec-2009 The top five NSW Farr 40 One Design crews will hit the water for three days of intense competition starting tomorrow (Friday December 11), kicking off the Rolex Trophy 2009, organised by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_852.php 03-Dec-2009 The Monsoon rain in Kuala Terengganu on the east coast of Malaysia, with more than 200mm (eight inches) falling in the last 24 hours, has provided a dramatic backdrop to the 2009 Monsoon Cup, the final event in the 2009 World Match Racing Tour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_853.php 03-Dec-2009 Chris Dickson, one of the most recognisable names in international yachting, again showed his brilliance on the race track, leading the small boat in the hot Racing division to convincing podium finishes in both of today΄s challenging races. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_847.php 30-Nov-2009 The Phuket King΄s Cup Regatta is Asia΄s biggest and most popular regatta. Inaugurated in 1987 to celebrate the 60th birthday of His Majesty the King of Thailand, the event has been held every year since during the first week of December. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_848.php 30-Nov-2009 King΄s Cup racing machines rev up as record fleet hits Phuket http://www.sailcam.tv/news_846.php 27-Nov-2009 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_849.php 27-Nov-2009 Josh Junior and his crew of Matthew Steven and Chris Jones, representing Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, have won the Musto International Youth Match Racing Championship in convincing style. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_850.php 27-Nov-2009 Keith Swinton΄s Black Swan Racing competed at the recent Sunseeker Australia Cup in Perth and finished an impressive third, defeating current World Match Racing Champion Ian Williams and other top teams as they fought their way through the round robins to the semi- http://www.sailcam.tv/news_838.php 23-Sep-2009 Rod Jones the 2009 Audi Australian IRC Ocean racing champion has not rested on his laurels since winning the prestigious title during last month’s Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_837.php 22-Aug-2009 NEW GOLF COURSE ON HAMILITON ISLAND OPENS http://www.sailcam.tv/news_836.php 17-Aug-2009 Since 1964 this salt encrusted and somewhat sun damaged yachting journalist has had the pleasure of covering major dinghy and yachting events around the World while enjoying the fellowship of the sport. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_830.php 16-Aug-2009 Its party time, Turkey style, as the Pegasus Airlines World Cup draws to an exciting climax. Antoine Albeau and Valerie Ghibaudo predictably take the titles. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_833.php 16-Aug-2009 Melbourne Ocean racing sailor Michael Hiatt and his high performance Living Doll crew expressed their light wind sailing skill http://www.sailcam.tv/news_829.php 15-Aug-2009 DAY 5 - NO CHANGES ON THE PWA LEADER-BOARD BUT TEAM WORLD STEP IN TO WIN THE ROZI LADIES CUP AND TAKE THE BOUNTIFUL €2000 PRIZE. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_832.php 15-Aug-2009 The Scarlet Runner crew deserved to be happy http://www.sailcam.tv/news_828.php 14-Aug-2009 Albeau and Ghibaudo continue their domination, but fantastic days for Offringa and Maynard mix the rankings up in the overall. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_831.php 14-Aug-2009 Victorian skipper Michael Hiatt steered Living Doll to a runaway win in the opening race of the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week http://www.sailcam.tv/news_827.php 13-Aug-2009 Albeau and Ghibaudo extend their leads as two more races are completed on the azure waters of Alaçati. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_834.php 13-Aug-2009 Blue water yacht racing tacticians have been forced to revise their tactical strategy http://www.sailcam.tv/news_826.php 12-Aug-2009 Day 2 - Three completed races today allow Antoine Albeau and Valerie Ghibaudo to assert their authority and move into healthy leads. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_825.php 11-Aug-2009 A perfect start to Alaçati as race 1 sees Ross Williams and Sarah Hebert take the early advantage. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_824.php 10-Aug-2009 Whitsunday Sailing Club will celebrate the opening regatta of the 2009 Festival of Sails when they host the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week http://www.sailcam.tv/news_821.php 08-Aug-2009 Porto Cervo, Italy. 7th August 2009. Massimo Mezzaroma’s Nerone(ITA) has been crowned Farr 40 European Champion http://www.sailcam.tv/news_822.php 08-Aug-2009 He and fellow Australian Rohan Veal each won two races on the first day of the US Moth Nationals, being held before the 2009 Moth Worlds in Cascade Locks, Oregon USA. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_823.php 08-Aug-2009 BMW ORACLE Racing - Another tonne of live crew weight will dramatically sink the 5.5 tonne BOR90 - extending the waterline as the overhang is immersed΄ The simple measurement rules for the 33rd America΄s cup have been published ahead of the New York Supreme Court hearing on 10 August to consider the Customs House Registry issue. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_818.php 07-Aug-2009 Societe Nautique de Geneve (SNG), representing America΄s Cup Defender Alinghi, yesterday said http://www.sailcam.tv/news_819.php 07-Aug-2009 Australian Ports and Waterways Minister Joe Tripodi has announced the go-ahead for more than A$50m in maritime developments at Rozelle and Blackwattle Bays. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_820.php 07-Aug-2009 New Zealand yacht-builder Sensation Yachts has been forced into liquidation, http://www.sailcam.tv/news_816.php 05-Aug-2009 Southport Yacht Club’s Shane Smith will rely on proven Australian championship winning tactical knowledge when he contests the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week sports boat championship on Pioneer Bay from August 14-20. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_817.php 05-Aug-2009 Bob Robertson recently elected Commodore of the Mooloolaba Yacht Club showed he is not yet prepared to accept a back seat in Queensland ocean racing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_835.php 03-Aug-2009 17-year-old Jason Waterhouse, who won the Hobie 16 class Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship in Brazil earlier this month, is now preparing to sail an 18ft Skiff with the Australian 18 Footers League during the 2009-2010 season. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_815.php 31-Jul-2009 The late afternoon saw the return of the wind, and with it, the return of the super stars. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_812.php 30-Jul-2009 Rod Jones continued to firm a strong grip on the prestigious 2009 Audi Australian Ocean Racing championship http://www.sailcam.tv/news_813.php 30-Jul-2009 Course Racing at the Palmolive for Men Kitesurf World Cup started http://www.sailcam.tv/news_814.php 30-Jul-2009 The age of epic ocean adventuring lives on. A replica wooden craft will provide an inspiring example of Australia’s rich maritime history and close links with Great Britain http://www.sailcam.tv/news_810.php 25-Jul-2009 25 July 2009, 1000 hours http://www.sailcam.tv/news_811.php 25-Jul-2009 The Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race commenced in light ESE breeze of 3-5 knots with a strong ebb tide... http://www.sailcam.tv/news_808.php 24-Jul-2009 Sunshine Coast ‘Old Salt’ Bob Robertson will face yet another serious ocean sailing challenge when he skippers the Mooloolaba sloop Cracklin Rosie in the 348 n/ml Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel race starting on August 1st. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_809.php 24-Jul-2009 The Official Race briefing for the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race was conducted this evening from 1800 hours with over 160 people in attendance. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_807.php 21-Jul-2009 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_806.php 15-Jul-2009 SPINNAKER TALES. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_805.php 14-Jul-2009 Day 4: The Mighty Albeau holds all the cards after a cruel twist neutralizes Williams. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_800.php 13-Jul-2009 24th Windsurfing & Kiteboarding World Cup on Fuerteventura http://www.sailcam.tv/news_801.php 13-Jul-2009 Day 1: Unbelievable action as the men’s wave event is underway, whilst expectations build in the theatre of dreams. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_802.php 13-Jul-2009 Day 2: Fernandez and Moreno continue their dominance, as nuclear Pozo strikes again. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_803.php 13-Jul-2009 Day 3: Köster and Moreno excel in the waves, as Williams opens the slalom in style http://www.sailcam.tv/news_804.php 13-Jul-2009 John Galloway expressed his tactical sailing skill on Pioneer Bay http://www.sailcam.tv/news_799.php 08-Jul-2009 It’s that time of the year when Sunshine Coast ocean racing sailors focus their attention on casting the mooring lines and cruising north for some warm water http://www.sailcam.tv/news_795.php 06-Jul-2009 Phil Gray will not be out of his depth when he contests the SB3 Dart Airlie Beach Challenge http://www.sailcam.tv/news_797.php 06-Jul-2009 Back in 1989 Airlie Beach enterpreneur Don Algie launched the Hogsbreath Cruising Classic in what was then a small resort town on Queensland΄s Whitsunday Coast. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_798.php 06-Jul-2009 ΄We are delighted with the take up so early into the life of the event. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_794.php 30-Jun-2009 Australia is the largest island continent to sail around http://www.sailcam.tv/news_796.php 30-Jun-2009 1 hour delay under overcast skies and building wind. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_792.php 29-Jun-2009 5 Australian 18fter crews take on the kiwis and the european΄s in Carnac http://www.sailcam.tv/news_793.php 29-Jun-2009 For windsurfers and kiteboarders, Fuerteventura is the Hawaii of Europe. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_787.php 25-Jun-2009 the first of four scheduled race days in the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship 2009 was held in near perfect conditions http://www.sailcam.tv/news_788.php 25-Jun-2009 A second meeting was held in Marseilles during the recent Audi MedCup regatta http://www.sailcam.tv/news_789.php 25-Jun-2009 The highlight for the Australian Sailing Development Squad was the performances of the Women’s Match Racing crews http://www.sailcam.tv/news_790.php 25-Jun-2009 They will be Australia΄s representatives in the double handed dinghy girls, in the 420 class. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_791.php 25-Jun-2009 Sailing around Australia is one of those things every sailor wants to do during their life. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_785.php 24-Jun-2009 Although the Farr 40 class is highly competitive and victory often hangs on a team’s performance in the last race of the last day http://www.sailcam.tv/news_786.php 24-Jun-2009 Phil Gray will not be out of his depth when he contests the SB3 Dart Airlie Beach Challenge http://www.sailcam.tv/news_779.php 22-Jun-2009 Victorian skipper Damien King finally realised a career ambition http://www.sailcam.tv/news_780.php 22-Jun-2009 Scott Cavanough will make the supreme sacrifice of human comfort in the Trans-Tasman Yacht Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_781.php 22-Jun-2009 Maurice Drent Boating Services trophy series on Pioneer Bay http://www.sailcam.tv/news_782.php 22-Jun-2009 The strong Mistral winds brought too much force for the 24 Farr 40 yachts moored in Porto Cervo for the start of the Audi Invitational. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_783.php 22-Jun-2009 Javier Pujol, owner/skipper of the Sparkman & Stephens-designed 43-foot Calima (ESP), was confirmed as winner of the Giraglia Race http://www.sailcam.tv/news_784.php 22-Jun-2009 The build up has begun on the dock at Muelle Viejo http://www.sailcam.tv/news_773.php 08-Jun-2009 An impressive list of title challengers representing Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australian clubs. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_774.php 08-Jun-2009 A heavy fog in Brisbane and relatively calm 5 knot South West winds at Maroochydore Airport suggest the 55 crews will need to play some ‘lucky cards’ http://www.sailcam.tv/news_775.php 08-Jun-2009 Gair and another 12 boats were black flagged at the start of Race 3 of the series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_776.php 08-Jun-2009 Going into the last day of the 2009 series Mark Johnson and his Roulette team were leading the regatta by 10 points http://www.sailcam.tv/news_777.php 08-Jun-2009 The Musto Australian Winter Etchells championship swung dramatically in favour of Sydney skipper Mark Johnson’s Roulette crew http://www.sailcam.tv/news_778.php 08-Jun-2009 Victorian Damien King expressed exceptionally clever tactics when he and his Sandringham Yacht Club crew combined to claim an exciting win http://www.sailcam.tv/news_772.php 06-Jun-2009 54 boat fleet was gunned away in glorious winter sunshine and six knots of breeze http://www.sailcam.tv/news_770.php 04-Jun-2009 Amongst the sailors on the start line will be the 2004 World Champion skipper Peter McNeil and crew Greg Torphy http://www.sailcam.tv/news_768.php 29-May-2009 The One Design Etchells yacht racing circuit is one of the most active in the world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_769.php 29-May-2009 Three-times in a row Vincenzo Onorato and Mascalzone Latino, the current champions, have taken the sword to all other opposition at the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_765.php 25-May-2009 Ericsson 4 again took maximum points this morning when she crossed the finish of Volvo Ocean Race leg seven in Galway in first position. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_766.php 25-May-2009 relations become increasingly strained between the two protagonists in the 33rd America΄s Cup http://www.sailcam.tv/news_767.php 25-May-2009 Plante has achieved success with seven Australian championships and four State titles in Etchells, J24’s, NS14’s, and teams racing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_764.php 28-Apr-2009 The Farr 40 Class Association is delighted to announce details of its 2009 European Championship http://www.sailcam.tv/news_762.php 27-Apr-2009 Volvo Ocaen Race - PUMA Leg 6 Day 14 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_763.php 27-Apr-2009 The top three boats finished Leg 6 of the 2008-2009 Volvo Ocean race http://www.sailcam.tv/news_759.php 24-Apr-2009 The outcomes of the meeting were that the offer of a Multi Challenger event in AC33 class yachts was rejected by the Defender along with other proposals made two days ago by Golden Gate YC. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_760.php 24-Apr-2009 Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic (CRO) goes into the deciding race with an 11 point margin over world ranked number one, Gasper Vincec http://www.sailcam.tv/news_761.php 24-Apr-2009 At 0700 GMT this morning, Ericsson had inched to within six miles of the blue boat and skipper Bouwe Bekking was faced with an important tactical decision. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_758.php 06-Apr-2009 After a race long battle with Southern Cross Constructions, Gotta Love It 7 scored a 1m42s win when Southern Cross capsized at the final windward buoy. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_757.php 01-Apr-2009 The Australian Wot Rocket world speed record attempt is gearing up again http://www.sailcam.tv/news_756.php 16-Mar-2009 Day five of the Etchells world championships the competition is hotting up http://www.sailcam.tv/news_754.php 11-Mar-2009 The longest ever leg of the Volvo Ocean Race http://www.sailcam.tv/news_755.php 11-Mar-2009 John Bertrand and his crew of Ben Ainslie and Andrew Palfrey (AUS) led the 85-strong 2009 Audi Etchells Worlds fleet from go to whoa in the three-lap windward/leeward Race 3 today, sailed off Royal Brighton Yacht Club, the host for the series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_749.php 09-Mar-2009 After two months of championship racing, the Australian 18 Footers League returned to Sydney Harbour today when it conducted the Club Trophy 3-buoys race http://www.sailcam.tv/news_753.php 09-Mar-2009 Hamilton Island is getting back to business as usual after Cyclone Hamish threatened last night and this morning http://www.sailcam.tv/news_751.php 08-Mar-2009 Audi Final Challenge tomorrow to decide who will take home the brand new Audi Q5 compact SUV http://www.sailcam.tv/news_752.php 07-Mar-2009 Ideal sailing conditions under sunny skies heralded the start of the Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta today http://www.sailcam.tv/news_750.php 06-Mar-2009 The Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta continues to grow and grow http://www.sailcam.tv/news_712.php 04-Mar-2009 Four keen CSC sailing members joined forces to make up a Singapore team http://www.sailcam.tv/news_713.php 04-Mar-2009 Strong wind, close racing and hard partying - What more would you want? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_714.php 04-Mar-2009 The tiny Firefly Voodoo Child was the toast of sailors after running up a very credible performance during the four day annual Phang Nga Bay Regatta. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_715.php 04-Mar-2009 The fundamental principle of sailing is quite simple http://www.sailcam.tv/news_716.php 04-Mar-2009 Andrea and Ian Treleaven continue their tales of sailing in the West Indies on their yacht Cape Finisterre http://www.sailcam.tv/news_717.php 04-Mar-2009 Sailing off the coast of New Zealand a merchant ship altered its course 10 degrees and rammed a 47-foot bluewater sailboat http://www.sailcam.tv/news_718.php 04-Mar-2009 Humpback whale entangled in a lobster pot and netting eight miles east of Sandy Hook. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_719.php 04-Mar-2009 They sail on pink oil http://www.sailcam.tv/news_720.php 04-Mar-2009 Preparation before attempting to be the youngest person to sail around the world, alone and unassisted. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_721.php 04-Mar-2009 Magic Roundabout, OceansWatch lead boat, spent August - October 2008 in Papua New Guinea http://www.sailcam.tv/news_723.php 04-Mar-2009 Couple were funding their trip yachting around the world by illegally claiming more than £50,000 in Government benefits http://www.sailcam.tv/news_724.php 04-Mar-2009 sailors considering a visit in their own boat or a charter holiday to the Caribbean are wondering ΄Were they isolated? Or is is too dangerous to go there?΄ http://www.sailcam.tv/news_725.php 04-Mar-2009 Now that surviving crewman, Leo Sherman, tells his story. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_726.php 04-Mar-2009 The Islands are as you would imagine the Caribbean was 30 years ago. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_727.php 04-Mar-2009 It΄s no secret to the long range sailing fraternity who have experienced it personally that Globalstar does not reach many parts of the oceans of the world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_728.php 04-Mar-2009 Discovery has confirmed that one of their Discovery 55s is about to round Cape Horn having undertaken an adventurous passage from the UK via the Falkland Islands. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_729.php 04-Mar-2009 Once prey to an industry that hunted them almost to extinction, whales today face a new threat – violent encounters with ships and pleasure craft. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_730.php 04-Mar-2009 The US Military is undertaking tests on the high-speed Stiletto Boat which it plans to use to catch drug smugglers. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_731.php 04-Mar-2009 Tempers were frayed last week as passengers scrambled ashore and attempted to work out exactly where they had landed in relation to the CBD and airport. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_732.php 04-Mar-2009 Last weekend saw a flotilla of some of the world’s finest marine craft assemble in the serene surroundings of Middle Harbour’s Sugarloaf Bay. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_733.php 04-Mar-2009 The Australian Federal Treasurer recently announced a business tax break applying to small and general business as part of the stimulus package. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_734.php 04-Mar-2009 Porto Montenegro plans to offer the world’s yacht owners exactly what they need most – ultra generous berths. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_736.php 04-Mar-2009 Good news from Nexus Marine AB, a global player in the manufacture and distribution of marine navigation products for the yacht racing fraternity. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_737.php 04-Mar-2009 Austal has secured its first European defence contract with an order for four 21.2 metre inshore patrol craft http://www.sailcam.tv/news_738.php 04-Mar-2009 Following the excitement of the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in February, it’s now only weeks away until the Auckland International Boat Show kicks off in the Viaduct Harbour Marine Village from March 5-8. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_739.php 04-Mar-2009 The Australian pavilion has grown in size and cements Australia’s position as a key player in the global market. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_740.php 04-Mar-2009 The second Korea International Boat Show will be held this year from 3-7 June at Jeongok Harbour, in Gyeonggi Province, near Seoul. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_741.php 04-Mar-2009 Yamaha four stroke outboards have been selected to power the latest Coast Guard boat launched in Victoria. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_742.php 04-Mar-2009 Exide has released two all-new flagship marine batteries to spearhead the company΄s expanded marine ranges. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_743.php 04-Mar-2009 The NSW Sports Federation Awards are given to those who have had outstanding achievements in their sporting and administrative career over the past 12 months. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_744.php 04-Mar-2009 Day one of the Entire Port Philip Championship, the last regatta before the start of the Audi Etchells World Championship, has been won by New Zealander Alastair Gair. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_745.php 04-Mar-2009 BYC’s 43rd Annual Governor’s Cup International Junior Match Racing Championship will take place July 14th-19th, 2009 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_746.php 04-Mar-2009 If successful, Shaun will make the only solo crossing of the Tasman, other than his father, Colin Quincey, who made history in 1977 by completing the first ever and only solo Tasman crossing from New Zealand to Australia. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_747.php 04-Mar-2009 Tony Walls helmed ΄Acuity΄ lived up to their name and proved to be the sharpest and keenest of Australia’s Sydney 38 Class http://www.sailcam.tv/news_748.php 04-Mar-2009 Victory at a regatta where a luxury vehicle is the major prize is a very appealing inducement for yachties Australia-wide http://www.sailcam.tv/news_708.php 02-Mar-2009 With two ocean liners on the course and unpredictable winds prevailing it was a tough race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_709.php 02-Mar-2009 Mike Slade’s 100ft supermaxi, ICAP Leopard came to Antigua with a clear target, to set a monohull record for a new offshore race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_710.php 02-Mar-2009 Tight racing as the four boats stream east 50 miles above the mandatory, Pacific Ocean ice gate at 45°S with an unavoidable area of light wind blocking their route. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_711.php 02-Mar-2009 Comparison between Sam and Britain’s no.1 player in this the toughest part of our sport - Ellen. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_706.php 24-Feb-2009 The closest race in 18ft skiff history http://www.sailcam.tv/news_707.php 23-Feb-2009 The competition element of the Farr 40 class is extraordinary and the talent is the Australian fleet is up there with the best. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_705.php 22-Feb-2009 Kokomo takes the lead in the 2009 Hamilton Island Farr 40 Australian Championship http://www.sailcam.tv/news_704.php 22-Feb-2009 The scene is set for the closest finish in the 70-year history of the Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_700.php 20-Feb-2009 Southern Cross Construction had to produce all their skills and experience to bring home a narrow win in Race 3 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_701.php 20-Feb-2009 In a cool 8-10 knot North East breeze appliancesonline achieved a 37s lead winning race 5 of the JJ Giltinan Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_702.php 20-Feb-2009 Lang Walker and his crew on Kokomo will be aiming for three in a row this weekend when they take to the water to defend their 2008 Hamilton Island Farr 40 Australian Champion title. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_695.php 18-Feb-2009 A close thrid race with several race leaders and close calls with Manly ferry. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_696.php 18-Feb-2009 he New Zealand team beat Alinghi by 29 seconds http://www.sailcam.tv/news_697.php 18-Feb-2009 Mr America΄s Cup Dennis Conner who always referred to the quest for the world΄s oldest international sporting trophy as "a game of life." http://www.sailcam.tv/news_698.php 18-Feb-2009 The islands of southern Japan are now safely behind the Volvo Ocean Race fleet and the five teams have now plunged into the Pacific Ocean http://www.sailcam.tv/news_699.php 18-Feb-2009 Dee Caffari became the first woman to have sailed around the world solo in both directions http://www.sailcam.tv/news_694.php 16-Feb-2009 In perfect sunshine and just gentle winds, Davies, supported by her technical team brought the famous Open 60 down the canal to huge cheers http://www.sailcam.tv/news_693.php 15-Feb-2009 Matthew Searle, Dan Wilsdon and Archie Massey totally dominated the 32-boat fleet today when they took out Race 2 of the JJ Giltinan Championship on Sydney Harbour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_691.php 14-Feb-2009 The traditional Invitation Race in the JJ Giltinan Championship was sailed on Sydney Harbour today as a warm up for the championship-proper which begins tomorrow (Saturday, 14 February). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_692.php 14-Feb-2009 1st Race of the Giltinan Championships on Sydney Harbour sees an exciting start to the regatta. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_689.php 13-Feb-2009 Extremely high tech light weight carbon fibre boat http://www.sailcam.tv/news_690.php 13-Feb-2009 “The ultimate racing machine” http://www.sailcam.tv/news_668.php 11-Feb-2009 Will adding a pair of veterans to the crew lineup help Ericsson 3 n the race to Rio... http://www.sailcam.tv/news_671.php 11-Feb-2009 China Team lose to Luna Rossa in nail-biter finish http://www.sailcam.tv/news_672.php 11-Feb-2009 Golden Gate Yacht Club legal journey coming to a close http://www.sailcam.tv/news_674.php 11-Feb-2009 Challenger Sail-off round starts with a ‘sudden death/knock out’ format http://www.sailcam.tv/news_679.php 11-Feb-2009 exhilarating victory for Greek Challenge in LV Pacific Series http://www.sailcam.tv/news_682.php 11-Feb-2009 Smaller, Lighter, and Better Value Than Lead Acid http://www.sailcam.tv/news_683.php 11-Feb-2009 More eco-friendly methods of enjoying our boats are at hand http://www.sailcam.tv/news_684.php 11-Feb-2009 Set to be one of the world΄s most exclusive and luxurious Super Yachting event http://www.sailcam.tv/news_685.php 11-Feb-2009 Located on the north island of New Zealand http://www.sailcam.tv/news_686.php 11-Feb-2009 Ayton and Wilson’s switch to the 470 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_666.php 10-Feb-2009 Dream your Dreams - But will they crack it. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_667.php 10-Feb-2009 Two sudden-death races - who will be the lineup for the challenger quarter finals? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_670.php 10-Feb-2009 Marc Guillemot is making a decent job of keeping close to Sam Davies this afternoon http://www.sailcam.tv/news_681.php 10-Feb-2009 The first race of the New Zealand Millennium Cup Pacific Series superyacht sailing regatta http://www.sailcam.tv/news_673.php 09-Feb-2009 Close keelboat racing has commenced at Monaco Primo Cup http://www.sailcam.tv/news_669.php 08-Feb-2009 After the toughest leg in the history of the Volvo Ocean Race competitors celebrate their achievements http://www.sailcam.tv/news_678.php 08-Feb-2009 Last race in the Round Robin 2 for K-Challenge http://www.sailcam.tv/news_675.php 07-Feb-2009 Fogbound and frozen Dave Kneale/Volvo Ocean Race Magnify Iker Martinez had been on to something. ΄Wear lots of layers,΄ he had said. Possibly the best advice I ever ignored http://www.sailcam.tv/news_676.php 07-Feb-2009 A taut and tense battle between Italy’s Luna Rossa and the newcomer British team TEAMORIGIN http://www.sailcam.tv/news_677.php 07-Feb-2009 Bad Sportsmanship? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_680.php 07-Feb-2009 Quotes of the day http://www.sailcam.tv/news_688.php 03-Feb-2009 Hall Spars unveils its adjustable, turnbuckle-free rigging for racing boats, and jumps into the carbon rigging game. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_687.php 30-Jan-2009 The Southern Cross 52 is a semi-custom concept http://www.sailcam.tv/news_665.php 12-Nov-2008 After a perfect night’s sailing the Vendée Globe solo skippers are on the train south, pushed by favourable 15-18 knots N’ly winds and making around 12 knots heading towards the islands of Maderia. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_649.php 11-Nov-2008 After 32 hours of horrendous Biscay conditions in the Vendee Globe race, Alex Thomson is returning to Les Sables d’Olonne following the discovery of a structural problem onboard HUGO BOSS. A crack has appeared on the port side hull, the opposite side to the recent repair. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_650.php 11-Nov-2008 This week we have 2 more fantastic offers available; We have the Gul ΄Tour΄ Wheeled Holdall reduced from £80 to just £39.95 and the outstanding Optimum Time Big Yellow Watch reduced from £49.95 to just £39.95. For all Topper Sailors we have the Ronstan Topper Race Centre Mainsheet Kit reduced from £110.45 to just £89.98. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_651.php 11-Nov-2008 All the 30 Vendée Globe skippers were expecting an extremely tough opening 24-48 hours of racing, and that what they got with eight boats now having returned or on their way back to port since the start in Les Sables d’Olonne. Those who rode it out the under fifty-knot gusts and six metre high waves with lashing rain, have made their tacks as the cold front passed over and the conditions have eased to give faster reaching conditions. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_652.php 11-Nov-2008 The Green Dragon Racing Team is pleased to announce that the Dragon is now back in the water. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_653.php 11-Nov-2008 Gul Sailor Derek Hatfield Skipper of the Algimouss Spirit of Canada in a satellite phone conversation at 19.00hr UTC Derek Hatfield informed his shore crew and race organizers that he was unable to continue racing due to electrical problems. He has turned around and is headed back to Les Sables d’Olonne for repairs; he will assess the damage after arrival in port. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_654.php 11-Nov-2008 STATEMENT OF TOM EHMAN (Spokesman, Golden Gate Yacht Club) http://www.sailcam.tv/news_655.php 11-Nov-2008 Bahrain Team Pindar’s World Match Racing Champion, Ian Williams, heads to Madrid today for the 2008 Rolex ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards. Widely regarded as the highest accolade in sailing, Williams has been nominated for his outstanding victory at the 2007 World Match Racing Tour, when he became the first British sailor ever to win the World Match Racing title. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_656.php 11-Nov-2008 33rd America΄s Cup teams reach consensus on rules governing the event at a Competitor Meeting in Geneva http://www.sailcam.tv/news_657.php 11-Nov-2008 For the first time a European Championship (EC) of an international dinghy class will be sailed out during the Kieler Woche. To determine their champion from Wednesday 24 June to Sunday 28 June, the “Fives” will get their own race course which will meet the EC requirements in site and size accordingly. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_658.php 11-Nov-2008 19 Wayfarers found themselves on the start line at Bough Beech Sailing Club, on 8th & 9th November, for the final event of the National Circuit Series. With the Sevenoaks Weald to their sterns, they faced 8 kts of tricky shifting south westerly breeze, and although conditions were at first, more moderate than originally forecast the overcast sky, was a portent of more interesting things to come. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_659.php 11-Nov-2008 The much anticipated Leigh and Lowton SC open winter series have started this weekend with the Guy Fawkes Pursuit Race. 74 boats turned out including 32 visitors with no less than 22 classes of boat being represented. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_660.php 11-Nov-2008 Malaysians from all walks of life got a glimpse of the thrills and excitement of the Monsoon Cup Malaysia 2008 with the staging of a live outdoor concert today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_661.php 11-Nov-2008 The weather has turned grim for the first four boats in the Portimão Global Ocean Race. A small area of high pressure to the south of the fleet is feeding them strong easterly winds in an area where westerlies normally blow 11 months of the year. It’s a cruel twist a month into the race, but not as cruel as it was for Michel Kleinjans, the leading solo sailor aboard his Open 40, Roaring Forty. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_662.php 11-Nov-2008 Phuket always boasted one of the cruising grounds that land-bound weekender sailors dreamed about visiting - gentle breezes, azure skies, warm weather, easy swiming and diving in pristine aqua coloured water.. Now, three years after the devastating tsunami which ravaged the area, the local villagers are working to retain the beauty and naturalness of their home - to the benefit of visiting yachts. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_663.php 11-Nov-2008 With just under a month to go to the close of entries, The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club has reported that entries are rolling in for the 2009 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour race, the 28th running of the event. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_664.php 11-Nov-2008 With Hermanus, one of the best land based whale watching spots in the world less than two hours from Cape Town, Team Russia’s racing and shore team were invited to learn more about these fantastic animals yesterday in a trip to this whale watching hot spot. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_633.php 10-Nov-2008 The Royal Southampton Yacht Club, the leading organiser of two-handed yacht racing in the UK, is planning a 500-mile double handed race, from the Solent to Northern Spain in June next year. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_634.php 10-Nov-2008 It’s been a tough first night in the sixth Vendée Globe, with the fleet facing headwinds of 20-30 knots and 4-6 metre seas, and two boats already returning to port — Dominque Wavre on Temenos returned soon after the start with electrical problems, but was able to fix them and rejoin the race shortly after 11pm (local time), whilst Bernard Stamm has also been forced to turn back after a collision with a fishing boat damaged his bowsprit. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_635.php 10-Nov-2008 Thanks to a tie up between Ronstan (distributors of Puma Sailing Gear) and Viking Marine of Dun Laoghaire, Co.Dublin, Puma Sailing Clothing is now available in Ireland. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_636.php 10-Nov-2008 committee lead by William Borel: Sailing Director of the Tour de France a la Voile, met in Saint-Tropez on the 3rd of November to define the specifications of the boat that will succeed the M30 for the 2011 edition. Participating on the committee were renowned skippers Bertrand Pacé, Daniel Souben, Bernard Mallaret and Dimitri Deruelle. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_637.php 10-Nov-2008 One of the country’s top marine recruitment companies has expanded its workforce. Southampton-based Marine Resources has appointed Katrina Verdon-Roe as Recruitment Consultant. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_638.php 10-Nov-2008 The Autumn Championships for the J/109 UK Class took place over the weekend 24/25 October 2008 with racing run by Hamble River Sailing Club. With six races scheduled (4 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday) and no discard, consistency was going to be the name of the game. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_639.php 10-Nov-2008 British yachtswoman Dee Caffari had a flying start to her first Vendée Globe round the world yacht race. The weather conditions were challenging but Caffari produced the best start of her Aviva Ocean Racing campaign. As the hours passed the solo skipper maintained a strong position in the leading pack of French yachtsmen as the fleet faced headwinds of 20-30 knots and 4-6 metre seas. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_640.php 10-Nov-2008 At Speed Sails we realise things may be a bit tight, but you still need to keep warm if you are sailing through the winter. We have got together with a couple of suppliers to give you some fantastic offers on winter clothing... http://www.sailcam.tv/news_641.php 10-Nov-2008 Races one and two got under way under the most evil looking skies that the Maylanders had seen for some time but over the summer period following a hearty layer of snow at Easter they have not been spoilt for wicked skies, high winds or no wind at all. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_642.php 10-Nov-2008 The Alinghi sailing team raced SUI100, the 32nd America’s Cup winning boat, to five wins out of six this weekend in Valencia, winning the AC class trophy of the Trofeo Desafío Español, Club Náutico Español de Vela’s annual regatta. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_643.php 10-Nov-2008 Defending champion Seve Jarvin led his Gotta Love It 7 team back from a seemingly hopeless position to take out Race 1 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_644.php 10-Nov-2008 74 year-old Minoru Saito, on his eighth circumnavigation, after 38 days from Yokohama has reached the coastline of Australia, and is travelling south roughly parallel with the coast. Sailors on the east coast of Australia, watch out for Saito-San, surely one of the most incredible sailors in all leisure sailing history. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_645.php 10-Nov-2008 At the first official rankings for the Vendée Globe 2008 published at 1500 GMT, Seb Josse onboard BT shares the lead with Marc Guillemot on Safran. In third is Jean-Pierre Dick on Paprec Virbac just a tiny distance behind (+0.2nm) and then sailing legend Loick Peyron onboard Gitana Eighty - Peyron competed in the first ever Vendée Globe. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_646.php 10-Nov-2008 Sandringham Yacht Club member and Olympic sailor, Krystal Weir has organised a coaching weekend for the 15th & 16th November for all sailors in the Optimist, Int. Cadet, 420 and Laser classes. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_647.php 10-Nov-2008 It was full steam ahead in the meeting rooms of Madrid as day four of the ISAF Annual Conference threw the spotlight on women΄s match racing at the 2012 Olympic Games. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_648.php 10-Nov-2008 As from November 1 all boats venturing two nautical miles offshore must carry a 406MHz digital EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon), the new regulation applying to yacht and sailboat owners, powerboaters, even commercial operators. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_616.php 09-Nov-2008 Alinghi showed today why it is the Defender of the America’s Cup. SUI 100, after being on the cradle for over a year has won both ACC races with style at the Club Náutico Español de Vela annual regatta. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_617.php 09-Nov-2008 Tacktick’s wireless, interfacing, solar powered Remote Display has been shortlisted for this year’s Dame Awards for innovation taking place at Mets 18th-20th November 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_618.php 09-Nov-2008 After the emotional farewells on the dock, the final goodbyes were an undignified scramble for most teams, with shore crews despatched to RIBs at the very last minute. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_619.php 09-Nov-2008 Week four of the Portimão Global Ocean Race has all been about gains, or losses, depending upon your perspective. Gains for the chasing pack of Desafio Cabo de Hornos and Team Mowgli, and a big loss for Belga Racer as the German team ran slap bang into tactical mine fileld. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_620.php 09-Nov-2008 Every vantage point along the canal from the haven of Les Sables d’Olonne port to the sea was jammed deep with tens of thousands of well wishers. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_621.php 09-Nov-2008 The shore crew of Temenos are working hard to fix the electrical problems which forced Dominique Wavre to sail back to Port Olonna. If the problem can be solved before midnight tonight then Temenos may be able to leave Les Sables d΄Olonne and rejoin the race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_622.php 09-Nov-2008 Defending champion Seve Jarvin led his Gotta Love It 7 team back from a seemingly hopeless position to take out Race 1 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_623.php 09-Nov-2008 66 entrants made their way to Draycote Water SC on Saturday 8th November for the last event in the Solo Class Championship Calendar, the End of Season Championships. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_624.php 09-Nov-2008 12 Lightnings took part in the season finally on a day that brought southerly winds averaging 12 mph. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_625.php 09-Nov-2008 The ISAF Annual Conference is underway in Madrid, Spain with the 2012 Olympic sailing equipment and the vote for the next President and Vice-Presidents amongst the key issues set to be decided. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_626.php 09-Nov-2008 With the Volvo Ocean Race fleet now safely ensconced in the V+A Waterfront facilities in Cape Town, the shore crews are tackling job lists while the sailors are recovering from the mental and physical stresses of the past three weeks at sea. With a relatively short stopover here in Cape Town, there΄s precious little time for reflection. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_627.php 09-Nov-2008 Louis Vuitton announced today that 12 teams from 11 countries will compete in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in Auckland starting on January 30 2009. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_628.php 09-Nov-2008 The 2008 ACT Youth Sailing Championships were conducted by the Canberra Yacht Club on Saturday the 8th of November. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_629.php 09-Nov-2008 The new International Sailing Federation (ISAF) 2009 – 2012 racing rules start in all countries from January 1, 2009. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_630.php 09-Nov-2008 Alan Briety’s Corby 49 Limit has scored back-to-back IRC wins in the CYCA’s Cabbage Tree Island Race for the prestigious Halvorsen Brothers Trophy, sailed off the New South Wales coast over the weekend. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_631.php 09-Nov-2008 Neil and Ley Langford have been cruising in South East Asia on their yacht Crystal Blues for many years now, and entertaining Sail-World readers with their adventures. Here Neil gives us Part 3 of their personal experiences with obtaining, installing and using an Automatic Identification System (AIS). Find links to Parts 1 and 2 at the end of this article http://www.sailcam.tv/news_632.php 09-Nov-2008 631 miles to Hobart with an average of two frontal systems. It’s a testing voyage south to latitude 41 for boat crew and sails. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_603.php 08-Nov-2008 The thrill of America’s Cup Class yacht racing is back in Valencia, home to the 32nd America’s Cup. The defender, Alinghi and TEAMORIGIN are on equal points and leading the fleet after the first two races. Both teams provided some great racing and a spectacular show fighting for the lead. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_604.php 08-Nov-2008 On the eve of the gruelling Vendée Globe Race, Crewsaver are proud to announce the start of an exciting partnership with Alex Thomson and his crew. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_605.php 08-Nov-2008 Sail 4 Cancer are delighted to announce that they have been offered a much sought after Silver Bond place in the 2009 Flora London Marathon. This means a guaranteed place in this prestigious event. With over 90,000 people applying each year for only around 50,000 places, there must be a lot of disappointed people out there and this place is like gold dust! http://www.sailcam.tv/news_606.php 08-Nov-2008 Liverpool Yacht Club held the second race of the Bluepoint Construction Late Autumn series on Sunday November 2nd. Race Officer Commodore Derek Sparks set two courses; one for the class 1 IRC fleet and a second for the combined class 2 & 3 IRC fleets. The weather was cool with an oscillating NNE of F3-4. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_607.php 08-Nov-2008 For the Vendée Globe veterans start day will be a heady cocktail of déjà vu rushing into an immediate test of seamanship and brinksmanship. For the rookies – the first timers – a real baptism of fire awaits. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_608.php 08-Nov-2008 Teams comprising Cadet and ex-Cadet sailors are well-placed at the overnight stage of this year’s championships being held at Oxford S C. The junior fleet are sailing Fevas and the youth fleet, Fireflys, in teams of three boats competing in a Swiss League-type round robin. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_609.php 08-Nov-2008 The October shot in the 2009 Fotoboat was taken by Heather Davies at the Firefly Nationals at Royal Torbay Yacht Club and shows Bram Appleton & Laura White from Sheffield University SC enjoying a lively reach. 2008 was the summer that never really was, but was also the year the Fireflies returned to the venue of the 1948 Olympics where racing took place in Fireflies. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_610.php 08-Nov-2008 Team Origin won the first ‘Cup’ race in the CNEV regatta in Valencia and took third place in race two to share the overnight leaderboard with Alinghi who finished third and first. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_611.php 08-Nov-2008 The race has tightened considerably as a weak front sweeps across the South Atlantic bringing strong winds and some superb sailing to the leaders of the Portimão Global Ocean Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_612.php 08-Nov-2008 Two days to go until the start of the sixth Vendée Globe and the big unanswered question which still prevails, public, media and skipper alike, is predicting who will win the biggest and most wide open round the world race ever? Will experience win over sheer drive and determination? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_613.php 08-Nov-2008 With the action underway on various fronts in the America΄s Cup, the BMW Oracle Media Team conducted a debrief with their CEO and skipper, Russell Coutts on the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series: and his views on the on going debate between his long time friend, and Alinghi counterpart, Brad Butterworth over the 33rd America΄s Cup. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_614.php 08-Nov-2008 Bob Oatley΄s Wild Oats XI, the triple Rolex Sydney to Hobart line honours winner has until 2.30 this afternoon (local time) to finish and break the race record for the CYCA΄s 180 nautical mile Cabbage Tree Island Race which started from Sydney Harbour last evening. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_615.php 08-Nov-2008 Event organisers at Sydney΄s Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club have announced a cracking field of local, interstate and International competitors for the 2008 ISAF Grade 3 HARKEN International Youth Match Racing Championships to be held on Pittwater from the 19th to the 23rd November 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_589.php 07-Nov-2008 The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s inaugural RORC Caribbean 600 looks set to stage the first battle between the two 100ft super maxi’s Leopard and Speedboat. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_590.php 07-Nov-2008 The SB3 Match continues to build strong momentum marked by its selection for US SAILING’s 2009 Rolex Miami OCR and another match racing event featuring Dave Perry and Anna Tunnicliffe-Funk. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_591.php 07-Nov-2008 Team Russia today announced that Nick Bubb (29) takes on the role of Watch Leader for Leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race. Nick joins Stig Westergaard (DK) as the second watch leader on Kosatka, leaving Cape Town for Kochi, India on 15 November 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_592.php 07-Nov-2008 Two days to go until the start of the sixth Vendée Globe and the big unanswered question which still prevails, public, media and skipper alike, is predicting who will win the biggest and most wide open round the world race ever? Will experience win over sheer drive and determination? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_593.php 07-Nov-2008 The climax of the 2008 World Match Racing Tour is the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia, which will be sailed from 3rd to 7th December 2008. The Monsoon Cup is the last stage of the 2008 Tour and is shaping up to be the most exciting event of the year. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_594.php 07-Nov-2008 With three days left before the start of the Vendée Globe the atmosphere gets ever more electric as the crowds swell in Les Sables d΄Olonne and the skippers continue their mix of media, preparation, and weather and routing strategy for the first few days. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_595.php 07-Nov-2008 NSW Maritime is to target offshore boating safety this weekend in Operation Blue Water, General Manager Recreational Boating Brett Moore said. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_596.php 07-Nov-2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race line honours favourite Wild Oats XI will return to ocean racing this weekend when she sets sail tonight in the CYCA’s 180 nautical mile Cabbage Tree Island Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_597.php 07-Nov-2008 Worried about other sailors or workmen tripping over your shore power cables? US company Furrion have come up with an excellent solution - it΄s a portable ramp which gives an alert that a cable is present, protects the cable and provides a ramp over it to prevent trips and falls. When you leave, just pick it up and take it with you - it΄s our Product of the Week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_598.php 07-Nov-2008 The annual Lipton Cup Regatta, run by the RYCV at Williamstown is in preparation mode for the event, running on the 15th and 16th November. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_599.php 07-Nov-2008 The second annual regatta of the Club Nautico Español de Vela (CNEV) was presented Thursday in Valencia. Four teams on board ACC yachts and over 70 RN cruisers and Platu 25 will race at the 2nd Trofeo Desafí­o Español in Valencia this weekend. The fourth team to officially enter the ACC regatta is Luna Rossa. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_600.php 07-Nov-2008 In Madrid, the Annual Conference of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) gets underway, with the principal topics being the selection of the 2012 Olympic classes and election of the Vice Presidents. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_601.php 07-Nov-2008 Francis Joyon, skipper of the maxi trimaran IDEC, crossed the finish line of the Discovery Route in San Salvador in the Bahamas today, Friday at 02 hours, 06 minutes (or 03 hours, 06 minutes - European time). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_602.php 07-Nov-2008 Record-breaking British yachtswoman Dee Caffari, who sailed into the record books in May 2006 by becoming the first woman to sail solo, non-stop around the world against the prevailing winds and currents, will start her next ‘world first’ attempt on Sunday 9 November. Caffari is attempting to become the first woman to sail solo and non-stop both ways around the world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_574.php 06-Nov-2008 The instructor who taught me celestial navigation many years ago started every class by saying ΄When the GPS has fallen into the bilge...΄ thus justifying his insistence that every sailor who adventures into an ocean needs a knowledge of classical celestial navigation. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_575.php 06-Nov-2008 Ericsson 3 have replaced their non-compliant keel and will no longer be penalised to the tune of one point per in-port race, one for each scoring gate and two for every leg finish. The keel arrived in Cape Town on Sunday, one day before the team crossed the finish line in third place. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_576.php 06-Nov-2008 The Vendée Globe pilgrims arrive in ever greater numbers, ready to bathe in the unique atmosphere that prevails in Les Sables d΄Olonne with five days left until Sunday΄s start. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_577.php 06-Nov-2008 To mark its 60th anniversary in 2009, the International Finn class is planning to publish an extensive photographic collection to record six decades of Finn sailing in style. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_578.php 06-Nov-2008 Portimão Global Ocean Race and the racing continues to be unbelievably close as the Chilean entry Desafio Cabo de Hornos and the British boat, Team Mowgli race neck and neck through the South Atlantic. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_579.php 06-Nov-2008 Thirteen Flying Dutchman boats took part in the Flying Dutchman Australian titles on Sydney Harbour last weekend (November 1st,2nd ,3rd), sailed out of the Sydney Flying Squadron. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_580.php 06-Nov-2008 In four days those skippers participating in the Vendée Globe 2008-2009 will one by one adopt the channel out of Les Sables d’Olonne. This will form part of a ceremony much anticipated by the public, who are still out in force along the pontoons, as well as the solo sailors who take to the sea. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_581.php 06-Nov-2008 How was it for you? Team Russia crew members reflect on the experience of Leg 1 in the Volvo Ocean Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_583.php 06-Nov-2008 Luna Rossa is the fourth team racing in the ACC v5 regatta with Desafío Español, Alinghi and TEAMORIGIN http://www.sailcam.tv/news_584.php 06-Nov-2008 Next week the ISAF Annual Conference will decide which equipment will be used at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The Yngling is a contestant for the Women Keelboat (match) Event. The Yngling Class is ready. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_585.php 06-Nov-2008 Another development in Alex Thomson’s race to get to the start line, emerged after 2-3 days of extensive sea trials of the repaired HUGO BOSS. Yesterday the team uncovered a potential problem with the main halyard. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_586.php 06-Nov-2008 At the New Zealand Embassy today, Louis Vuitton announced the names of the 12 teams from 11 countries which will compete in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in Auckland, New Zealand next February. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_587.php 06-Nov-2008 The climax of the 2008 World Match Racing Tour, is the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia which will be sailed from 3rd to 7th December 2008. The Monsoon Cup is the last stage of the 2008 Tour and is shaping up to be the most exciting event of the year. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_588.php 06-Nov-2008 The Vendée Globe pilgrims arrive in ever greater numbers, ready to bathe in the unique atmosphere that prevails in Les Sables d΄Olonne with five days left until Sunday΄s start. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_558.php 05-Nov-2008 It is 36 hours since Green Dragon arrived into Cape Town to complete the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. For the shore team the work has just begun. The Dragon has been stripped, the sails, boom, bunks, kit bags, rubbish, spare supplies and mast have been removed. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_559.php 05-Nov-2008 Specialist marine clothing brand Henri Lloyd and Dee Caffari have been working hard together since the announcement of their partnership in 2007 to ensure that Dee is completely prepared for her attempt to become the first woman to sail both ways around the world, when she competes in the Vendée Globe racing on her Open 60; Aviva. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_561.php 05-Nov-2008 20 catamarans turned up at Weston Sailing Club to sail in some very windy and gusty conditions brought on by a cold north easterly wind. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_563.php 05-Nov-2008 Telefonica Black, bruised and battered after a incident-filled first leg, have reached the santuary of the finish port of Cape Town. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_566.php 05-Nov-2008 Vendee Globe. To each ocean its own music: in a minor key we have the voyage down and back up the Atlantic; the crashing crescendos of the southern sea, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. In order to be the perfect conductor, each yachtsman has his or her own method and tempo. We look here at four very different characters, who each present one movement of this major opus. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_564.php 05-Nov-2008 On Saturday 1st November 35 Lasers were rigged up in cold morning temperatures at Carsington Sailing Club for the annual Laser Inland Championships. With the winds gradually building it was looking like it would be a lively day on the water. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_565.php 05-Nov-2008 With 11 teams’ kit already Tasmania-bound for the 2009 World Titles, the Flying Circus arrived at Grafham with a slightly depleted B14 fleet for the Ovington Inland Championship and final Travellers Trophy meeting of the year, shared with Musto Skiffs, 49ers, International 14s, 420s and 29ers. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_567.php 05-Nov-2008 ValenciaSailing reports from on the water as the four teams start training for the second edition of the Desafío Trophy: http://www.sailcam.tv/news_568.php 05-Nov-2008 The wind has kicked in and speeds are up for the chasing pack sailing down the South Atlantic on leg one of the Portimão Global Ocean Race. Another small area of low pressure has spun off the Brazilian coast and it is bringing some prefect sailing conditions to the Chileans aboard Desafio Cabo de Hornos and the British aboard Team Mowgli. The system is just starting to effect the leading solo sailor, Michel Kleinjans aboard Roaring Forty. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_569.php 05-Nov-2008 Neil Pryde Limited (Pryde Group) designed and developed the RS:X Olympic Windsurfing Equipment and is the exclusive manufacturer. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_570.php 05-Nov-2008 Yachting Australia is seeking an experienced and highly competent full-time Manager for the Australian Sailing Team. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_571.php 05-Nov-2008 This is a Jeppesen Alert on a missing chart on a C-Map MAX chart product. Jeppesen strongly urges affected C-Map Max Customers to update their chartlibrary to the latest version, if planning to navigate in or close to the affected area - North East Australia http://www.sailcam.tv/news_572.php 05-Nov-2008 With all the talk of recession, liquidity crises, credit crunches, stock market big dipper rides, job layoffs, dismal financial forecasts, it΄s no wonder our hands are staying in our pockets. But are we missing out on LIFE? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_573.php 05-Nov-2008 A career spanning four decades of hull tormenting ocean racing will again be tested when the Michael Freebairn skippered Ray White Spirit of Koomooloo sets her sails in the 2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race on Boxing Day. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_541.php 04-Nov-2008 Full details of the candidates for elections for the President and Vice-President of the International Sailing Federation, to be held in Madrid this November, are now available to view on the ISAF website. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_542.php 04-Nov-2008 Ireland’s Ger O’Rourke’s last minute Irish/Dutch entry, Team Delta Lloyd safely crossed the finish in Cape Town to night at 2303 GMT (0103 local time), to finish the leg in seventh position. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_543.php 04-Nov-2008 With reference to the last meeting held on October 30th in Geneva among the Société Nautique de Geneve, Alinghi and the challengers to the 33 America΄s Cup, Mascalzone Latino apologizes for not having attended due to previous commitments and confirms its participation to the next meeting scheduled on next November 11th. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_544.php 04-Nov-2008 Saturday was windy; force six to seven, but that didn΄t stop the Illusion fleet going afloat. The nine intrepid sailors managed two races. It may, however, be argued that the four race officers had a harder time of it. Bruce Huber, Rudy Jurg and Mark Downer finished one, two, three in both flights. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_545.php 04-Nov-2008 Telefónica Black (Fernando Echávarri/ESP) will be the last of the eight boats racing in leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race to cross the finish in Cape Town later today. Her estimated time of arrival is 1546 GMT and, at 1000 GMT today, she still had 78 nm to run. Her boat speed was averaging 13.3 knots. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_546.php 04-Nov-2008 Tacktick’s wireless, solar powered instruments have been installed on the VOR Telefonica team support ribs to provide invaluable on-the-water wind speed and direction information for the inshore race series at each stopover port. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_547.php 04-Nov-2008 British solo sailor Steve White today re-launched his IMOCA 60 yacht in Les Sables D’Olonne (France), announcing that he will compete under the new name of ‘Toe in the Water’. The tenacious skipper secured sufficient funds from a consortium of private backers at the eleventh hour to enable him to compete in the pinnacle ocean racing event. The funding has come from a group of like-minded supporters who together will provide the money privately and whose only request has been that Steve’s boat carries the branding and message of the Toe in the Water project with him around the world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_548.php 04-Nov-2008 Telefónica Black, with Spaniard Fernando Echávarri in charge, crossed the finish in Cape Town today at 1643 GMT (1843 local time) to complete leg one in 24 days 04 hours 43 minutes and 15 seconds (24:04:42:14). This is the last boat to finish leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race and the team earns one point, bringing their total to seven points and putting them in fifth place overall. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_549.php 04-Nov-2008 In the final preparatory period before departing to compete in the ‘Ondeck Trans-Atlantic Race’, the crew of The Spirit of Juno, all of whom are both ex-servicemen and are missing at least one limb, have completed some sea-survival exercises in a swimming pool in London. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_550.php 04-Nov-2008 Record breaking British yachtswoman Dee Caffari has begun the final countdown to the start of the world’s toughest solo yacht race, the Vendée Globe 2008/09. The excitement in the race village is growing daily as next Sunday, 9 November, Caffari lines up against 29 of the world’s best solo sailors to take on 27,000 miles of ocean alone. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_551.php 04-Nov-2008 Francis Joyon on IDEC has lost two thirds of the advantage he had managed to build on the time of Thomas Coville in the first four days of sailing on the Route of Discovery. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_552.php 04-Nov-2008 Unshaven, exhausted and five places behind the leader, Andreas Hanakamp stepped off Team Russia entry Kosatka at the end of the first leg this evening and declared: ΄I loved it.΄ http://www.sailcam.tv/news_553.php 04-Nov-2008 Over Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd November 2008, The Southport School Sailing Club hosted the inaugural Special Olympics Queensland Invitational Games Sailing Regatta. Contested on Olympic Triangle Courses on the Paradise Waters arm of the Nerang River, thirteen races were completed for five classes. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_554.php 04-Nov-2008 If it’s Monday it must be back to business as the international skippers in the Vendée Globe fleet enter what is bound to be a whirlwind final week of media, public, social, sponsor, family commitments, meteorological preparation, final checks on the IMOCA Open 60 itself, continual briefing and de-briefing with shore teams, media teams, commercial teams, skippers’ briefings with the race management, whilst trying to bank or cut back on sleep. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_555.php 04-Nov-2008 Beijing Olympian Sally Barkow of the USA swept aside reigning World Champion and world #1 Claire Leroy to win the Busan Cup Match Race in Korea, the first-ever ISAF Grade 1 women΄s match racing event held in Asia. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_556.php 04-Nov-2008 On Sunday 26th October, Perth Water saw the inaugural WA Sail Classic and it was a fantastic event. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_557.php 04-Nov-2008 South African team member Camron Wills (31) took the helm of Team Russia as it crossed the finish line at 15.29 (GMT) today, in a respectable sixth position, after a challenging first leg in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008/09. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_560.php 04-Nov-2008 After a period of consultation with the designers, Silicon Designs Ltd., the Folkboat Association are very pleased to announce the re-launch of their website, www.folkboats.com , on Wednesday, 5th November. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_562.php 04-Nov-2008 Burghfield Sailing Club saw the close of the RS200 South East Area Circuit with its open on the 25th of September. This was the 8th event in a fantastic series of one day events around the South East in which 106 boats competed. Turnouts were over 20 all year with 33 boats at biggest event. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_523.php 03-Nov-2008 Ericsson 3, skippered by Sweden’s Anders Lewander crossed the finish line at 0408 GMT (0608 local time) today, after 22 days, 16 hours 08 mins and 50 secs at sea. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_524.php 03-Nov-2008 Two words sum up week three of the Portimão Global Ocean Race. Beluga Racer. The German entry, co-skippered by Boris Herrmann and Felix Oehme, http://www.sailcam.tv/news_525.php 03-Nov-2008 At 0712 GMT (0912 local time) today, Green Dragon crossed the finish line in Cape Town. She is the fourth boat to finish leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race, which was won by Ericsson 4 (Torben Grael/BRA). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_526.php 03-Nov-2008 Competitors from Australia, USA, Brazil, Hungary and Czeck Republic joined entries from a dozen European nations, including 12 from Great Britain and were given a warm Croatian welcome with a lavish champagne and canapé opening ceremony. The championship was sailed in an idyllic setting on the sea from a promontory off Copacabana beach on the Babin Kuk peninsula north of Dubrovnik Old Town. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_527.php 03-Nov-2008 Having decided at an early age that he wanted to be a shorthanded offshore racer, 18 year old Cowes based sailor Oscar Mead achieved another step down that road recently when he was confirmed as the winner of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club’s, season long, 2-Handed Series earlier this month. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_528.php 03-Nov-2008 Bouwe Bekking/NED with the crew of Telefónica Blue became the fifth team to finish leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race in Cape Town today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_529.php 03-Nov-2008 At 1300 GMT today, there are still three boats out on the race track. The finish of Andreas Hankamp’s Team Russia is imminent, around 1500 GMT today, and looking sure to claim sixth place, but still racing are Team Delta Lloyd (Ger O’Rourke/IRL) in seventh place and the injured Telefónica Black (Fernando Echávarri/ESP) in eighth. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_530.php 03-Nov-2008 If it’s Monday it must be back to business as the international skippers in the Vendée Globe fleet enter what is bound to be a whirlwind final week of media, public, social, sponsor, family commitments, meteorological preparation, final checks on the IMOCA Open 60 itself, continual briefing and de-briefing with shore teams, media teams, commercial teams, skippers’ briefings with the race management, whilst trying to bank or cut back on sleep. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_531.php 03-Nov-2008 Austria’s Andreas Hanakamp brought Team Russia’s Kosatka safely into Cape Town today at 1529 GMT (1729 local time) to finish sixth in leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race after 23 days 03 hours 14 minutes 00 seconds at sea (23:03:14:00). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_532.php 03-Nov-2008 Skipper Torben Grael and his team aboard Ericsson 4 are sipping cold beers and downing some burgers in the Race Village in Cape Town – hot showers, dry clothes and warm embraces all round after a great performance. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_533.php 03-Nov-2008 At 17:44 GMT (19:44 local time) Sunday, PUMA, skippered by America’s Ken Read, a first-time skipper in this event, crossed the finish line today in Cape Town to take second place in leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race, after 22 days, five hours, 44 minutes and 50 seconds (22:05:44:50). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_534.php 03-Nov-2008 This year΄s McGrath Real Estate Flying Eleven 2008 Upper Harbour Championships have been won by all girl Manly 16΄s crew 1363 Crunchie Olivia Price and Maddie Clancy after a very tough fought battle with the lead changing almost as many times as the undulating ΄true river sailing΄ conditions on the course set from Clarkes Point to Goat Island in the SSE 10-20kts fluctuating breeze and strong runout tide. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_535.php 03-Nov-2008 Wot Chicks made it through to the semi finals of the Busan Women΄s World Match Race but the world’s best quashed the Aussies’ hopes for a win in the curtain closer for this year’s grade 1 international match racing circuit. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_536.php 03-Nov-2008 Most of the inventions and innovations in the history of sailing have come from sailors themselves, and now Sydney sailor Bob Wright is keeping that tradition alive with an invention that could save many sailors΄ lives - the Sea Scoopa. What΄s a Sea Scoopa? Read on. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_537.php 03-Nov-2008 Two words sum up week three of the Portimão Global Ocean Race. Beluga Racer. The German entry, co-skippered by Boris Herrmann and Felix Oehme, continue to dominate the race in classic case of the rich getting richer. Since exiting the doldrums Beluga Racer has stretched out a lead that is, barring some disaster, almost insurmountable. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_538.php 03-Nov-2008 The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is delighted to announce one of the largest fleets in a decade with 113 yachts nominated for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2008, Australia’s premier blue water event, with the close of entries today at 5pm. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_539.php 03-Nov-2008 Ericsson 3, skippered by Sweden’s Anders Lewander crossed the finish line at 0408 GMT (0608 local time) today, after 22 days, 16 hours 08 mins and 50 secs at sea. She is the third boat to arrive in Cape Town at the end of the 6,500 nautical mile leg, which started from Alicante in Spain on October 11. Her stablemate, Ericsson 4, is already in Cape Town and flying the leg winner’s flag and leading the race overall. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_540.php 03-Nov-2008 At this weeks ISAF meeting amongst the agenda items is a proposal to switch windsurfing boards for the 2012 London Olympic Games from the existing Neil Pryde RS:X to a new Starboard built Formula board. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_502.php 02-Nov-2008 Torben Grael/BRA and his crew onboard Ericsson 4 is on the home strait with just 237 nm to go to the finish of leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race in Cape Town. The boat went into StealthPlay last night at 19:00 GMT, emerging still in the north, where although the breeze is lighter, there are less miles to sail to the finish. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_504.php 02-Nov-2008 Taste the salt and feel the wind, now you might be able to see the Sailor Radio Rogues in action. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_505.php 02-Nov-2008 The cruising season in the South Pacific is coming to a close and some cruisers have already made their way to New Zealand, where they’ll stay over the hurricane season. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_506.php 02-Nov-2008 This year΄s Flying Eleven 2008 Upper Harbour Championships have been won by all girl Manly 16΄s crew 1363 Crunchie-(Olivia Price and Maddie Clancy) after a very tough fought battle with the lead changing almost as many times as the undulating ΄true river sailing΄ conditions on the course set from Clarkes Point to Goat Island in the SSE 10-20kts fluctuating breeze and strong runout tide. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_507.php 02-Nov-2008 Boat Blogs from Day 22, Leg 1 Volvo Ocean Race as the fleet approaches Cape Town. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_508.php 02-Nov-2008 While the other skippers were mostly meeting the public, fulfilling their sponsor and media requirements, or some still enjoying a final helping of home comforts, over a chilly final weekend on ‘terra firma’ before next Sunday’s start, Alex Thomson started the testing process for his freshly repaired IMOCA Open 60 Hugo Boss today off Les Sables d’Olonne. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_509.php 02-Nov-2008 The 19th IODA Asian Championship in Qatar attracted 61 sailors from ten Asian countries plus the New Zealand second team as guests. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_510.php 02-Nov-2008 Victorian yachts will be strong contenders for IRC handicap honours in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, judging by the strong performances of Shogun and Chutzpah in the Melbourne to Stanley race across Bass Strait over the weekend. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_511.php 02-Nov-2008 Competition for the 2009 Skandia Docklands Invitational will be fierce as some of Australia’s best performed IRC yachts prepare to contest the invitation only series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_512.php 02-Nov-2008 In yacht clubs all over the world there are unsung heroes who labour without reward for years, carrying out all the tasks necessary to keep the sport alive - the ΄Learn to Sail΄ programs, the Committee boats, the care of the equipment. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_513.php 02-Nov-2008 As someone who, being a wench (that΄s my excuse), has found many a winch to be the cause of great angst in the past, this ΄Product of the Week΄ is just the thing! And if, as a sailor, you have more brains than brawn, you΄ll like this gadget too. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_514.php 02-Nov-2008 At 05:54 GMT or 07:54am local time, Ericsson 4, skippered by Torben Grael, drifted across the finish line off Cape Town to win Leg One of the Volvo Ocean Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_515.php 02-Nov-2008 The speed sailing season continues with Paul Larson΄s Vestas SailRocket and Alain Thébault΄s l’Hydroptère both posting improved speed figures. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_516.php 02-Nov-2008 Yet another North-East wind (the fourth from as many races) greeted the 23-boat fleet for the Mick Scully Trophy 3-buoys race on Sydney Harbour today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_517.php 02-Nov-2008 With varying wind conditions from force 1 to 6, twenty-one XODs took part in their Autumn Series during October including two visiting boats from Cowes on the Isle of Wight, Chris Caws in Foxglove (X174) and Neil Payne in Quest (X53). But it was Lymington boats that were the victors Ado Jardine in Lucrezia (X140) edging out William Norris in Beatrix (X178) for the top places overall. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_518.php 02-Nov-2008 At 1744 GMT (1944 local time) today, PUMA, skippered by America’s Ken Read, a first-time skipper in this event, crossed the finish line today in Cape Town to take second place in leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race, after 22 days, five hours, 44 minutes and 50 seconds (22:05:44:50). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_519.php 02-Nov-2008 Yet another North-East wind (the fourth from as many races) greeted the 23-boat fleet for the Mick Scully Trophy 3-buoys race on Sydney Harbour today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_520.php 02-Nov-2008 Christchurch Sailing Club’s Autumn Junior Regatta took place from 29th to 31st October. 10 young sailors from Mudeford, Highcliffe & Christchurch Sailing Clubs braved icy conditions to take part in the 3 day event, held during the half-term holiday. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_521.php 02-Nov-2008 The last weekend in October saw one Tempest from Ullswater YC and two from Arun YC join the fleet at CSC for the final ‘Tempest’ event of the year ‘The Last Blast. This was held over two days. A disappointing final entry of only 7 had the enjoyment of another really good ‘Last Blast’ with winds of 14 to 15 knots gusting towards 22+ on Saturday and Sunday. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_522.php 02-Nov-2008 The final round of the 2008 N12 Gill series was held at Northampton Sailing club on the 1st November. 32 boats came to play in the breeze that started off at 15 knots but increased steadily throughout the three back to back races up to 25 knots. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_485.php 01-Nov-2008 Volvo Ocean Race - Leg 1 Day 22 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_486.php 01-Nov-2008 The last Mirror event of the season was held on the 18-19th of October at Shustoke. The Saturday began with not a lot of wind at lakeside whilst rigging, but once we were out there, the gusts that came down the lake were strong and plentiful. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_487.php 01-Nov-2008 As Ericsson 4 (Torben Grael/BRA), racing in leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race, continued her record-breaking dash towards the finish in Cape Town, at 01:00 GMT this morning, the black cat, PUMA (Ken Read/USA) went into StealthPlay, and hid from the rest of the fleet for 12 hours. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_488.php 01-Nov-2008 A nervous week of waiting comes to a welcome end for the British solo ocean racer Alex Thomson when his IMOCA Open 60 Hugo Boss emerged from the boat shed today ready to be slipped back into the water of Les Sables d΄Olonne΄s Port Olona early tomorrow morning. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_489.php 01-Nov-2008 There is a Battle Royal developing mid-fleet of the Portimão Global Ocean Race as Team Mowgli holds onto a slim lead over Desafio Cabo de Hornos, and both boats are chasing down the leading single-hander, Michel Kleinjans on Roaring Forty. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_490.php 01-Nov-2008 Francis Joyon on IDEC is 270 miles ahead of the Discovery Route record pace set by Thomas Coville and his 60-foot trimaran Sodebo. The trick is to stay permanently in the most favourable wind strength and direction and to do this it is sometimes necessary to extend the route - sometimes up to 30% - provided the the favourable wind angle maintains the speed of the boat. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_491.php 01-Nov-2008 We regret to inform you that in discussions with the AOC today, it has been agreed that Sailing should be withdrawn from the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, scheduled to take place from 14-18 January. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_492.php 01-Nov-2008 Honda is offering a substantial ‘cash back’ incentive on its new, leading-technology BF40/50 and BF75/90 EFI four-stroke outboard engines in the lead up to summer. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_493.php 01-Nov-2008 Four months after its launch, the weather forecast system PredictWind has been widely accepted and used by the international sailing community. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_494.php 01-Nov-2008 The Board of Yachting South Australia wish to acknowledge with regret the passing of our much esteemed Life member, John Parrington. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_495.php 01-Nov-2008 If you were at Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week 2008, as skipper, owner, crew or onshore supporters, event organisers are looking for your feed-back which will help Race Week organisers ΄fine tune΄ the 2009 event. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_496.php 01-Nov-2008 South Africa: Charl de Villiers made headlines four years ago when he became the first deaf sailor to circumnavigate the world single- handedly. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_497.php 01-Nov-2008 95 Applications for entry for the 2008 Rolex Sydney to Hobart race, so far with more coming in. The absolute deadline is 5pm on Monday 3rd of November and as Cruising Yacht Club of Australia sailing manager Justine Kirkjian reminds sailors, the application deadline will NOT be extended. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_498.php 01-Nov-2008 The RYA is to build a multi-purpose facility in Portland, which the RYA says will be the hub of UK performance sailing in the lead up to and during the 2012 Olympic Games and an investment in the long-term future of the sport. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_499.php 01-Nov-2008 The stakes are being cut, trenches dug, bayonets sharpened and ammunition stacked as a wall rises around Cape Town. This is not an impregnable wall, not the thousand years of primacy of Constantinople sort of wall, more your thrown together, desperate-last-stand kind of hasty defensive position. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_500.php 01-Nov-2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race line honours contender Andrew Short Marine-Shockwave 5 really cracked on the pace in today’s Gascoigne Cup, the historic short ocean race off Sydney Heads conducted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron since 1886. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_501.php 01-Nov-2008 At the 1705 (5.05pm) sked with the fleet, the fleet was beating to windward into a 15 knot south-easterly breeze on a warm and sunny afternoon, with Georgia nearing the north-east corner of King Island on a long starboard tack. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_503.php 01-Nov-2008 Emirates Team New Zealand’s move back into the accepted Challengers’ fold has drawn some interesting reaction and comment over the past few days. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_470.php 31-Oct-2008 Sportswear performance brand, Helly Hansen has announced that it has become the first Scandinavian brand to become a Bluesign member. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_471.php 31-Oct-2008 Albatrosses appear as cat goes on the prowl http://www.sailcam.tv/news_472.php 31-Oct-2008 Jonny Malbon looks ahead to the greatest challenge of his life http://www.sailcam.tv/news_473.php 31-Oct-2008 Holders of the absolute speed record over one nautical mile and of the 500-meter record in Category D since April 2007, Alain Thébault and his crew have just improved their performances and established two new records: http://www.sailcam.tv/news_474.php 31-Oct-2008 Sunday 26 October saw races 5 & 6 of the Garmin Hamble Winter Series for the J/109 fleet. Gusts of 35+ knots were predicted for the time when the fleet would normally head out to the start area, so the PRO issued a postponement for one hour. When the fleet assembled for the delayed start, the rain had stopped and the wind had moderated to 12-14 knots. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_475.php 31-Oct-2008 The Flying Fifteen World Championships will be held in Melbourne, Australia on 9th - 15th January 2009, immediately preceded by the Australian National Championships. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_476.php 31-Oct-2008 Eleven challengers entered in the 33rd America’s Cup and the Defender, Alinghi, met today at the Société Nautique de Genève, for the first of several Competitor Meetings to discuss returning the competition to the water as soon as possible. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_477.php 31-Oct-2008 The Race Committee stepped up the pace today at the 2008 Melges 24 North American Championship, running four excellent races (race four to seven in the 12 race series) in winds ranging from 10 – 15 knots. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_478.php 31-Oct-2008 Torben Grael and the crew of Ericsson 4 swept into the history books yesterday as the first monohull to breach the 600-mile barrier in 24 hours. They’ve been chased by men, machines and the elements in the last 48 hours – and nothing has touched them. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_479.php 31-Oct-2008 We are pleased to announce that Bavaria 50 Vision with the race name Bavarioa Flyer MLT52 has successfully participated in the 2008 Rolex Middle Sea Race Double Handed Division and has won the following awards: http://www.sailcam.tv/news_480.php 31-Oct-2008 The WA Laser Association is looking forward to a massive Summer of laser sailing in Perth Western Australia. WA is hosting the WA State Laser Champs, Australian Laser Championships, Australian Youth Championships & the Asia Pacific Laser Championships all within the space of one month at differing venues throughout the Perth metropolitan area. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_481.php 31-Oct-2008 One of the key regattas of Sydney’s summer season particularly for Rolx Sydney to Hobart entrants is Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_482.php 31-Oct-2008 Only ten days left before the start of the Vendée Globe. The skippers are turning up one by one in the harbour in Vendée, while the shore teams are busy from first light, before the crowds, who certainly do not seem to have been put off by the rain, invade the pontoons. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_483.php 31-Oct-2008 Jimmy Cornell will be the Keynote Speaker at the Melbourne, Florida SSCA Gam December 5-7, 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_484.php 31-Oct-2008 The Organisers of The Superyacht Cup regattas in Antigua and Palma have joined forces with the Organisers of the St Barths and Newport Bucket Regattas to adopt the ΄Bucket Rating΄ system which is a pursuit racing rating. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_456.php 30-Oct-2008 On a fine Friday in Sydney Harbour, 24 October 2008, 16 Bavaria Yachts jockeyed for position at the start of the annual Bavaria Yachts Sydney Harbour Regatta. The day dawned sunny and with light, cool easterly breezes, a relief following the three preceding days of weather mayhem! http://www.sailcam.tv/news_457.php 30-Oct-2008 Alinghi, Defender of the 33rd America’s Cup, confirms that Emirates Team New Zealand has withdrawn its law suit against the team, Ernesto Bertarelli, AC Management and the Société Nautique de Genève and will now join all the other entered challengers in the process of getting the 33rd America’s Cup back on the water as soon as possible; starting tomorrow at the Competitor Meeting in Geneva. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_458.php 30-Oct-2008 Pudsey to have golden sailing experience with Children in Need at WPNSA http://www.sailcam.tv/news_459.php 30-Oct-2008 The RYA Team Racing Development Programme is now accepting applications to the 2008-09 Programme. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_460.php 30-Oct-2008 Portimão Global Ocean Race - Day 19 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_461.php 30-Oct-2008 Only ten days left before the start. The skippers are turning up one by one in the harbour in Vendée, while the shore teams are busy from first light, before the crowds, who certainly do not seem to have been put off by the rain, invade the pontoons. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_462.php 30-Oct-2008 France΄s Mathieu RICHARD gets a timely boost ahead of the battle for the 2008 ISAF Match Racing World Championship title as holds on to the top spot in the latest release of the ISAF World Match Racing Rankings on 29 October, whilst his compatriot Claire LEROY remaining untouchable in the Women΄s Rankings. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_463.php 30-Oct-2008 Ericsson 4 broke through the 600-mile barrier as their historic run continued with the log reaching 602.66 nautical miles at 18:54 GMT. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_464.php 30-Oct-2008 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race Handicap results http://www.sailcam.tv/news_465.php 30-Oct-2008 At 14:30 UTC today, Michel Kleinjans aboard his Open 40, Roaring Forty, sailed past the Recife Gate becoming the first singlehanded competitor in the Portimão Global Ocean Race to pass the mandatory waypoint. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_466.php 30-Oct-2008 Beijing gold medallist and the world #1 ranked skipper in the ISAF World Sailing Rankings, Anna Tunnicliffe (USA), will make her second appearance at Sail Melbourne following a fantastic experience in Melbourne earlier this year. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_467.php 30-Oct-2008 Sail-World’s Fleet Notes for the 64th annual Rolex Sydney to Hobart race are online already. While they are only in draft stage and applications for entries have not yet closed, let alone entries they make good reading and they will continue to expand, with the help of owners, skippers and navigators over the next two months. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_468.php 30-Oct-2008 Michael Blackburn and Malcolm Page are presenting two outstanding seminars on Fitness Preparation and Tactics and Strategy at Middle Harbour Yacht Club on November 7 and 19. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_469.php 30-Oct-2008 Four months after its launch, the weather forecast system PredictWind has been widely accepted and used by the international sailing community. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_443.php 29-Oct-2008 Informa Yacht Group (IYG), the leading global yachting events organizer also behind the Monaco Yacht Show announced today that 80% of Abu Dhabi Yacht Show΄s (ADYS) 7,000 square meters of exhibition space has already sold out. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_444.php 29-Oct-2008 Francis Joyon, skipper of the maxi trimaran IDEC triggered the stopwatch off Cadiz (Spain) at 05 hours 30 minutes and 57 seconds GMT (or 06 hours 30 minutes and 57 seconds - European time) on Tuesday 28 October 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_445.php 29-Oct-2008 Team Origin, the British America’s Cup team, has confirmed its entry at the 2nd Trofeo Desafío Español, CNEV’s annual regatta that will be held in Valencia from Thursday 6 November to Sunday 9 November. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_446.php 29-Oct-2008 Boat Blogs from Day 18 of the Volvo Ocean Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_447.php 29-Oct-2008 They may both be on a less travelled road, making ready for the Vendée Globe start, but the news remains positive from both the last minute refit of Steve White’s Spirit of Weymouth and from the Alliaura Boatyard shed where the Hugo Boss is responding well to treatment. Indeed both British boats should be back in the water at the weekend. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_448.php 29-Oct-2008 Italy’s Giulia Conti won the 2008 Rolex Osprey Cup – one of only two ISAF Grade 1 women’s match racing events in the U.S. – held at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club (St. Petersburg, Fla.), from October 22-25. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_449.php 29-Oct-2008 Insurance company OAMPS today announced it had signed on as major naming rights sponsor for Yachting NSW’s Sydney International Regatta to be held from December 6-9. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_450.php 29-Oct-2008 Every Sunshine Coast yacht, dinghy, catamaran and sailboard sailor are happy with the spring weather systems as they prepare to contest major ocean races and national class championships over the Christmas-New Year. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_451.php 29-Oct-2008 Sail-World spoke to Emirates Team New Zealand CEO, Grant Dalton, this morning following the announcement they had decided to drop their law suit against Ernesto Bertarelli, and that Alinghi had agreed to enter the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_452.php 29-Oct-2008 Boris Herrmann and Felix Oehme, co-skippers aboard the German yacht Beluga Racer were the first team to pass the mandatory Recife Gate on the first leg of the Portimão Global Ocean Race. In steady winds and with abundant sunshine Beluga Racer passed the gate at 18:56 UTC Tuesday and in doing so claimed the first points of the race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_453.php 29-Oct-2008 The 19th IODA Asian Championship in Qatar started racing on Sunday with 61 sailors from ten Asian countries plus the New Zealand second team as guests. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_454.php 29-Oct-2008 At 03:55 GMT, Ericsson 4 had sailed 565 miles over the past day, to break the record. But in the hours since, Grael and his crew have kept pushing and have been adding to the total. At 07:10 GMT, the number was up to 585 miles. It had grown to 589 by 07:55 andsoon after topped out at 590.5. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_455.php 29-Oct-2008 Sydney΄s Darling Harbour is the venue for the opportunity to step back in time for an 18th century tall ship adventure with the National Maritime Museum’s ΄Evening on Endeavour΄ from 6 pm to 8 pm on Saturday 15 November. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_426.php 28-Oct-2008 It has been a week since the incident involving a French fishing vessel and Hugo Boss. The team at Alex Thomson Racing have been working around the clock to manage the repair to the boat. Gail Willows updates us on the progress up to today, Monday. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_427.php 28-Oct-2008 Boat Blogs from Day 16, Leg 1 to Cape Town, Volvo Ocean Race http://www.sailcam.tv/news_428.php 28-Oct-2008 The USA boat, PUMA has edged ahead but it’s a nail-biting time for the fleet racing in leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race as it plays the waiting game. Waiting, that is, for the anticipated 40 knot gale that will propel them at record-breaking speeds towards Cape Town and the finish of this 6,500 nautical mile leg. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_429.php 28-Oct-2008 What a difference a week makes. The first week of the Portimão Global Ocean Race was all about loving life. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_430.php 28-Oct-2008 The final day of the Sydney 47 Regatta wrapped up in a fantastic 15 to 20 knot northeaster on Sydney Harbour. Nick Bartels and crew on Terra Firma proved their dominance over the regatta by winning all three races of the day. With wins of 30 seconds to a minute on IRC handicap, Terra Firma finished ahead of the rest of the fleet, who mixed it up all day, with Paul Clitheroe’s team on Balance deservedly placing second overall ahead of John Balderstone’s Jem in third. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_431.php 28-Oct-2008 Here is the full list of 2007 Rolex Sydney Hobart Line Honours results http://www.sailcam.tv/news_432.php 28-Oct-2008 Two of the older boats in the Hempel 35th Gosford – Lord Howe Island Yacht Race, the 50-year-old Sanyo Maris and the 38-year-old Polaris of Belmont, look set to take out top handicap honours today as they sail the final few sea miles to the island. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_433.php 28-Oct-2008 This morning in Sydney the 98-foot triple Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours winner Wild Oats XI was taken out of moth balls at Bankstown Airport, the first step in the crew’s quest for a record fourth consecutive line honours win in the Boxing Day classic that is attracting huge international interest. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_434.php 28-Oct-2008 The classic timber yawl Sanyo Maris is provisional winner of the IRC rating division of the Hempel 35th Gosford - Lord Howe Island Yacht Race - at the remarkable age of 50! http://www.sailcam.tv/news_435.php 28-Oct-2008 In an historic ocean racing victory, Ian Kiernan’s classic timber yacht Sanyo Maris today celebrated the 50th anniversary of her launching with an IRC handicap win in the 414 nautical mile Hempel 35th Gosford – Lord Howe Island Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_436.php 28-Oct-2008 It is more than a passing trend: with each new edition, the competitors in the Vendée Globe are more and more aware of the need to protect the planet. Several of them, like Raphaël Dinelli on Fondation Océan Vital and Yannick Bestaven on Aquarelle.com, have taken concrete measures. Two very different ways of doing things, but both aiming for the same goal. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_437.php 28-Oct-2008 There΄s nothing in modern yacht design that can replace the exquisite grace of the best of the classic sailing boats. This must be the reason that wooden boats and wooden boat festivals are so popular round the world. Whether is the famed Mediterranean Yacht Classic Series, or the local river festival with only a dozen boats, the enthusiasm is the same. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_438.php 28-Oct-2008 Emirates Team New Zealand says it will withdraw its legal action against Alinghi to ensure the success of the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_439.php 28-Oct-2008 Wind speeds and boat speeds are in the 20 knot range this morning with the fleet bearing down fast towards Cape Town. Most of the fleet is posting 24-hour runs near 400 miles now, with Ericsson 3 the standout performer at 417 miles. That’s allowed Anders Lewander to close back to within 50 miles of the leaders on the 0700 position report. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_440.php 28-Oct-2008 All the yachts participating in the Portimão Global Ocean Race are clear of the doldrums and in a free fall to get south as fast as possible. Their next target, a waypoint off the coast of Brazil, a mandatory gate that has to be honored, is coming up quick. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_441.php 28-Oct-2008 Northampton SC was the venue for the Hobie 405 Inland championships on 25/26th October. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_442.php 28-Oct-2008 Kestrel Winter Championships at Stewartby Water Sailing Club http://www.sailcam.tv/news_366.php 27-Oct-2008 The Australian 18 Footers League conducted the first championship race of the 2008-2009 Season when Race 1 of the Club Championship was contested on Sydney Harbour today http://www.sailcam.tv/news_409.php 27-Oct-2008 Sydney yachtsman Andrew Short is expected to steer his 80-foot maxi yacht Andrew Short Marine-Shockwave 5 across the finish line of the Hempel 35th Gosford – Lord Howe Island Yacht Race soon after daybreak tomorrow morning. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_410.php 27-Oct-2008 This afternoon Hobart resident Anthony Hawkins picked up his first ‘gold’ medal for a sport he was introduced to yesterday. Twenty-year-old Hawkins was one of 15 participants in the Noakes Youth Regatta held on the Derwent River and today he stood on the podium with the rest of the winning team. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_411.php 27-Oct-2008 Guido Belgiorno Nettis’s and his crew on Transfusion have taken their second title in the Australian Farr 40 2008-09 Circuit in as many weeks. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_412.php 27-Oct-2008 There are under 3,000 nautical miles to Cape Town and the talk among the crews is of hitching a ride and holding on tight. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_413.php 27-Oct-2008 Having your boat in pieces on the dockside just 14 days from the start of your first Vendée Globe is not ideal preparation, but everything is reported to be well under control in the last minute rush to get Steve White’s Spirit of Weymouth ready. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_414.php 27-Oct-2008 Boat Blogs from Day 16 of the Volvo Ocean Race, Leg 1 to Cape Town. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_415.php 27-Oct-2008 News Update: Beluga Racer is first into the Southern Hemisphere in Portimao Global Ocean Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_416.php 27-Oct-2008 The Australian 18 Footers League conducted the first championship race of the 2008-2009 Season when Race 1 of the Club Championship was contested on Sydney Harbour today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_417.php 27-Oct-2008 Andrew Short΄s recently acquired international maxi yacht Andrew Short Marine-Shockwave 5, the early Alfa Romeo has taken line honours in the 35th Gosford - Lord Howe Island Yacht Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_418.php 27-Oct-2008 Boat owners planning to be on the start line on Boxing Day, 26 December 2008, for this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race have one week left to submit an application for entry with the organising club, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_419.php 27-Oct-2008 Scott and Vicki Millar continue to express their catamaran sailing experience to set the pace in the 2008 Whitsunday Sailing Club Multihull class championship. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_421.php 27-Oct-2008 An American-flagged yacht participating in the South Pacific΄s Port2Port Rally from Vanuatu and Noumea to Bundaberg in Australia has hit Kenn Reef, an atoll on a submerged continental block about 280 nm north east of Gladstone. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_422.php 27-Oct-2008 The 22nd annual Cock o΄the River Trophy will be held on Sunday 22nd November at The Southport School Sailing Club. Since 1987 the Cock o’the River Trophy has been the most prestigious one-off invitation trophy event in the Club Sailing Season. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_423.php 27-Oct-2008 The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia has added a new category in its prestigious Ocean Racer of the Year Awards – Ocean Navigator of the Year. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_424.php 27-Oct-2008 Peninsula AquaFest is 3! Well - it will be on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 January 2009. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_425.php 27-Oct-2008 Andrew Short, owner/skipper of the carbon fibre-hulled maxi yacht Andrew Short Marine-Shockwave 5, this afternoon accepted the historic Pine Trees Trophy on beautiful Lord Howe Island to mark his line honours victory in the classic ocean race across the Tasman Sea. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_394.php 26-Oct-2008 Day two of the Pittwater Farr 40 Regatta and after six races there is a three way tie for first place between Guido Belgiorno Nettis’s Transfusion, Lang Walker’s Kokomo and Lisa and Martin Hill’s Estate Master. Nine Farr 40’s have lined up for the second event in the Australian Farr 40 2008-09 Circuit. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_395.php 26-Oct-2008 The 2008 Phuket King’s Cup Regatta is poised for the official launch of its 22nd year. An established perennial favourite, Asia’s top maritime event is set to draw thousands of sailors, friends and their families to beautiful Phuket for the ultimate celebration of competition sailing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_396.php 26-Oct-2008 The 29th Rolex Middle Sea Race drew to a close today with celebratory prize giving held under the vaulted ceilings of La Valette Hall, formerly the Sacra Infermeria΄s Great Magazine Ward, built by the Knights of St John, and a venue worthy of the epic sea battles fought over the past week on the racecourse. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_397.php 26-Oct-2008 The first day of the Sydney 47 Regatta was held on a beautiful Sydney day, with a light northeasterly and enjoyed by all involved. The first race was a close fought tussle throughout the whole race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_398.php 26-Oct-2008 The second week of leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race to Cape Town saw mixed fortunes as the boats surged up and down the leader board at an alarming pace. Anders Lewander/SWE was making sure that Ericsson 3 was attached to leading boat Puma (Ken Read/USA) by a piece of elastic. Wherever Puma went, Ericsson 3 was sure to follow. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_399.php 26-Oct-2008 The maxi yacht Andrew Short Marine-Shockwave 5 has streaked away from the fleet overnight in the Hempel 35th Gosford – Lord Howe Island Yacht Race, opening up a remarkable lead of 75 nautical miles over the second boat, Getaway-Sailing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_400.php 26-Oct-2008 One of the features of the 2008 HSBC Premier Coastal Classic was the performance of two small multihulls, Hooters and PredictWind.com, formerly Need for Speed. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_401.php 26-Oct-2008 Team New Zealand will be kicked out of the next America΄s Cup if they don΄t drop their legal action against holders Alinghi. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_402.php 26-Oct-2008 It must be one very confused superyacht by now. The secret yacht with the secret escape tunnel which was launched by Saddam Hussein in 1981, is for sale - again - this time by the Iraqi Government. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_403.php 26-Oct-2008 Surfwatch director Michael Brown, who flew in a helicopter over Cape Three Points when six sailors were rescued from their sinking yacht, has described the crew as ΄either incredibly naive or incredibly stupid΄ for sailing in such bad weather this week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_404.php 26-Oct-2008 Quantum Racing put a fantastic end to a spectacular season. After being crowned Med champions last month, the American boat helmed by Terry Hutchinson, won the world title after a week of tough racing in Puerto Calero. Vasco Vascotto’s Mutua Madrileña takes the silver medal with a similarly good performance. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_405.php 26-Oct-2008 The Australian 18 Footers League conducted the first championship race of the 2008-2009 Season when Race 1 of the Club Championship was contested on Sydney Harbour today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_406.php 26-Oct-2008 Phil Newman regained HDRC (Humpty Dumpty Radio Club) Burnham’s ‘It’s Not A Toy’ trophy at Blackwater Sailing Club on Saturday to maintain his dominance in south-east Essex area of RC Laser racing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_407.php 26-Oct-2008 Arnaud Psarofaghis won the Swiss Moth Open Cup at the Société Nautique de Genève ahead of Mikis Psarofaghis and Frédéric Duvoisin. Florence Beal, one the 3 women participating in the competition, finished in 4th place, while the first foreigner, the German Harald Steiner, took 7th place. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_377.php 25-Oct-2008 The waters of the Gulf of Aden are finally hotting up for Somali pirates. Apart from the swift action on a couple of occasions by France in freeing their French sailors and arresting pirates, months of Talkfest has so far been the only result of the United Nations edict permitting foreign nations to pursue pirates in Somali waters. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_378.php 25-Oct-2008 At 13:00 GMT today, Friday, Spain΄s Telefónica Black (Fernando Echávarri) snatched the lead to head the field by just two miles, with Green Dragon (Ian Walker/GBR) and PUMA (Ken Read/USA), breathing down their necks, just two and three nautical miles behind them. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_379.php 25-Oct-2008 An exhausted Richard Branson, speaking via satellite phone aboard Virgin Money, two days into their attempt to break the transatlantic mono-hull speed record, described their ΄Night of hell΄ . . . http://www.sailcam.tv/news_380.php 25-Oct-2008 An exhausted Richard Branson, speaking via satellite phone aboard Virgin Money, two days into their attempt to break the transatlantic mono-hull speed record, described their ΄Night of hell΄ . . . http://www.sailcam.tv/news_381.php 25-Oct-2008 The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) today released a letter sent last week from Larry Ellison to Ernesto Bertarelli proposing a framework to modernize the America’s Cup by mutual consent, reduce costs, and get the maximum number of teams back on the water for the 33rd edition as soon as possible, under fair rules similar to those that governed the highly successful event in 2007. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_382.php 25-Oct-2008 The overall winner of the Rolex Middle Sea Race 2008 was determined at 20.49CET Thursday evening when, Ricomincio da tre (ITA), the last remaining boat on the course with a prospect of winning, failed to cross the finish line. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_383.php 25-Oct-2008 Two more windward/leeward races were sailed today and two more opportunities for Terry Hutchinson and Quantum Racing to show their excellent tactics, crew work and boat speed. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_384.php 25-Oct-2008 It has been a week since the incident involving a French fishing vessel and Hugo Boss. The team at Alex Thomson Racing have been working around the clock to manage the repair to the boat. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_385.php 25-Oct-2008 It΄s been almost two weeks since the Volvo Ocean Race fleet left Alicante to start the first leg of 37,000 nautical miles around the globe. From Alicante, Spain, to the waypoint at Fernando de Noronha, an island off the Brazilian coast, means 3,000 miles for the hulls of most of the competing boats, including a slow crossing of the Doldrums. On board TELEFONICA BLUE, Bouwe Bekking has made some key decisions in these past 13 days of racing. The first came early, as early as 20 nautical miles after the start from Alicante. A sickening crack while fighting for the lead with Ericsson 4 put the crew on alert. After checking the damage, Bouwe decided to make a pit stop before facing the Atlantic Ocean. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_386.php 25-Oct-2008 Taste the salt and feel the wind, now you can see the Sailor Radio Rogues in action. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_387.php 25-Oct-2008 Croatia has over 1000 islands along its shores, plenty to explore in sailing holiday after sailing holiday - but the best advice is to take your hiking boots to discover the real secrets of the islands. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_388.php 25-Oct-2008 The 14 boat fleet in the Hempel 35th Gosford – Lord Howe Island Yacht Race got away to a perfect start this afternoon with Broken Bay sparkling in brilliant sunshine and a freshening north-easterly seabreeze. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_389.php 25-Oct-2008 The most challenging HSBC Premier Coastal Classic yacht race in many years has been won, for the second year in a row, by Dave Andrews’ 44 foot catamaran, Taeping. Taeping finished at 00:23hrs Saturday morning and was followed into Russell by Simon Hull’s Transpac 52, V5, at 01:09hrs. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_390.php 25-Oct-2008 Day 14 Boat Blogs from Leg 1 Volvo Ocean Race http://www.sailcam.tv/news_391.php 25-Oct-2008 The light winds are suiting Michel Kleinjans, the leading single-handed sailor in the Portimão Global Ocean Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_392.php 25-Oct-2008 The maxi yacht Andrew Short Marine-Shockwave 5 has opened up a substantial lead after six hours of racing in the Hempel 35th Gosford – Lord Howe Island Yacht Race that started from Broken Bay early this afternoon. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_393.php 25-Oct-2008 Canadian Derek Hatfield, 56, sets out to take on the Vendée Globe, a race which in 1996 sadly took the life of his compatriot Gerry Roufs. His first personal encounter with this race was seeing that fleet 12 years ago, an experience which clearly sowed the seed that the challenge was one to be taken on. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_369.php 24-Oct-2008 Companies and yacht owners are invited to compete in this year’s Giant Steps Sydney, Autism Sailing Regatta to be held at Middle Harbour Yacht Club on Friday, 31st October 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_370.php 24-Oct-2008 The Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club’s protest committee has abandoned the second race of last Saturday’s International Etchells Mini Regatta on Sydney Harbour, which was also heat five of the World Qualifying Series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_371.php 24-Oct-2008 Freshening northerly breezes tomorrow afternoon are forecast for the start of the Hempel 35th Gosford – Lord Howe Island Yacht Race which gets under way at 1300 hours (1pm) from Broken Bay. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_375.php 24-Oct-2008 Green Dragon - Ian Walker/GBR - passed through the scoring gate at Fernando de Noronha today in the lead at 12:24 GMT. They moved clear to the top of the score board for a short time with six points, before Ericsson 4 - Torben Grael/BRA - followed through at 13:59 GMT. They both sit at the top of the table with six points. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_376.php 24-Oct-2008 Today was a day for contrasting fortunes. Opportunities missed and opportunities taken. The 29th Rolex Middle Sea Race yet again confirming the adage that ΄it ain΄t over till it΄s over΄. By 1800 CET three boats had sat in pole position for overall victory. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_408.php 24-Oct-2008 It΄s been almost two weeks since the Volvo Ocean Race fleet left Alicante to start the first leg of 37,000 nautical miles around the globe. From Alicante, Spain, to the waypoint at Fernando de Noronha, an island off the Brazilian coast, means 3,000 miles for the hulls of most of the competing boats, including a slow crossing of the Doldrums. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_353.php 23-Oct-2008 The classic ocean racing yacht Sanyo Maris is coming out of retirement to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her launching ?by competing in two of Australia抯 toughest races, the Hempel 35th Gosford ?Lord Howe Island Yacht Race and the 64th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_367.php 23-Oct-2008 The classic ocean racing yacht Sanyo Maris is coming out of retirement to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her launching – by competing in two of Australia΄s toughest races, the Hempel 35th Gosford – Lord Howe Island Yacht Race and the 64th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_368.php 23-Oct-2008 Hobart is the next stop in the ongoing series of Noakes Youth Regattas and this weekend Noakes Youth founder Sean Langman will travel to the Island state to host a regatta on the Derwent River to bring together young people from different backgrounds. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_372.php 23-Oct-2008 One by one, the eight boats racing in leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race popped out the other side of the Doldrums and hooked into the south-easterly trade winds. In a drag race south, the fleet is steadily clicking off the miles towards Fernando de Noronha, around 253 nautical miles ahead of Ian Walker’s Green Dragon and the chance to score more points. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_373.php 23-Oct-2008 The International Sailing Federation΄s (ISAF) best teams will fight it out to be ISAF Match Racing World Champion at the last event on the World Match Racing Tour schedule (WMRT) in Terengganu, Malaysia this December 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_374.php 23-Oct-2008 Major changes are in the wind to revolutionise one of the most spectacular sailing classes in the world as it campaigns to earn its place back in the Olympic arena. Moves are afoot to completely revamp the class, breaking the old mould and transforming it into a more accessible, more friendly, one-design class with appeal to the masses, media and a new fleet of Generation Next sailors. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_346.php 22-Oct-2008 New Olympic prospects will cross swords with experienced campaigners including many who have recently returned from the 2008 Beijing Olympics when Yachting NSW’s annual Sydney International Regatta (SIR) is held from 6-9 December 2008 on Sydney Harbour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_348.php 22-Oct-2008 Dozens of fishing trawlers and a few yachts and motor cruisers lined the wharves in the small fishing village of Triabunna, on the East Coast of Tasmania, in late October as yacht club commodores, naval officers and civic leaders joined locals and tourists for a moving commemorative service on the waterfront. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_354.php 22-Oct-2008 You΄d think calling your sailing boat Noah΄s Ark should give it a head start in survival aptitude, but it didn΄t help the crew of the little boat called (reverently no doubt) Noah΄s Ark II the other day when everything seemed to go wrong at once. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_355.php 22-Oct-2008 Sir Richard Branson and triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie are on standby in New York to begin a Transatlantic Record Attempt aboard the 100ft supermaxi yacht Virgin Money (formerly Speedboat). With a potential weather window approaching, the crew hopes to set sail early tomorrow morning with TEAMORIGIN’s Team Director Mike Sanderson as skipper. Sanderson, who holds the current transatlantic record of 6 days, 27 hours and 52 minutes, will lead the crew, which includes Sir Richard Branson’s children Holly and Sam. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_356.php 22-Oct-2008 The team from Alex Thomson Racing have been working around the clock since the collision with a French fishing vessel last Friday. The full technical team from Alex Thomson Racing have been drafted in to help get Alex and HUGO BOSS to the start line. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_357.php 22-Oct-2008 It was another tricky day on the Lanzarotean waters for the 14 crews taking part in the TP52 World Championship – Islas Canarias Puerto Calero. The race committee had to move the starting line a mile further offshore, trying to get a better breeze but had to fire the gun with no more than 7 knots of a northeasterly. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_358.php 22-Oct-2008 The temperatures continue to rise onboard the Volvo Open 70’s out on the race course, as well as the frustrations of the crews. Over the past 24 hours PUMA (Ken Read/USA) and Ericsson 4 (Torben Grael/BRA) have gained on the leader Green Dragon (Ian Walker/GBR). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_359.php 22-Oct-2008 Following two weeks of productive testing and scheduled maintenance, BMW ORACLE Racing continues the San Diego testing session this week. The Pacific Ocean session with the new BMW ORACLE Racing 90 will go through the end of November. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_360.php 22-Oct-2008 Philippe Presti wins the Bentley Geneva Match Race 3-1 against Alinghi. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_361.php 22-Oct-2008 It’s prefect trade wind sailing for the Portimão Global Ocean Race fleet as they eat up the miles on a quick romp to the equator. But it’s not without mishaps. On board Kazimir Partners their revelry was rudely interrupted by a loud crash as the boat lurched to a sickening stop. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_362.php 22-Oct-2008 New Olympic prospects will cross swords with experienced campaigners including many who have recently returned from the 2008 Beijing Olympics when Yachting NSW’s annual Sydney International Regatta (SIR) is held from 6-9 December 2008 on Sydney Harbour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_363.php 22-Oct-2008 One thing Sir Richard Branson has always been good at is publicity - and his new Transatlantic attempt is proving no exception. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_364.php 22-Oct-2008 At 07.20.16 CET Andres Soriano΄s Mills 68 Alegre crossed the Marsamxett Harbour finish line of the 2008 Rolex Middle Sea Race, to take line honours in the 29th edition of the 607 nautical-mile race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_365.php 22-Oct-2008 Green Dragon, the Chinese sponsored Volvo 70 will have a lead of about 37 miles at the Brazil gate, according to the current projections. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_349.php 21-Oct-2008 The ten sailors competing in the Portimão Global Ocean Race could not have asked for a better way to slide into an around the world race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_350.php 21-Oct-2008 This weekend saw Green Dragon take the lead from PUMA as the westerly route paid dividends. By Sunday morning, they were in the most favourable conditions sailing in significantly more wind than the rest of the chasing fleet http://www.sailcam.tv/news_351.php 21-Oct-2008 The current TP52 World Champion started this year’s edition of the championship on a strong footing with a first and two seconds in shifty, tricky and quite light conditions, as was expected earlier in the morning. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_352.php 21-Oct-2008 The rumoured second America΄s Cup class regatta, organised by Club Nautico Espanol de Vela has been announced by Team Alinghi: http://www.sailcam.tv/news_331.php 20-Oct-2008 The final day was to be the test for the Rooster 8.1 Rig. Was it manageable in 20 knots of wind? Would the heavyweights be the only ones to handle the power - or would the lightweights understand what overpowered was and how to handle the rig? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_340.php 20-Oct-2008 CYCA members will skipper eight of the 14 yachts setting sail next Saturday, 25 October, in the Hempel 25th Gosford Lord Howe Island Yacht Race, the longest annual category 1 ocean race in Australian waters apart from the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_341.php 20-Oct-2008 The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, with the cooperation of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, is pleased to announce details of an organised Cruise to Hobart to take place in January ?February 2009. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_342.php 20-Oct-2008 We’ve had 24 hours in which the miles have been unwinding off PUMA’s lead faster than an odometer in the hands of Arthur Daley. But will this be the squeeze box effect – the fleet compresses and then extends again – or will we see real changes in the leaderboard? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_343.php 20-Oct-2008 Given the unpromising start to the day, the three frontrunners in the Rolex Middle Sea Race are probably delighted to be fast approaching Stromboli, and expecting to round by 1900 this evening. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_345.php 20-Oct-2008 The fun factor will be on high and the competition keen when keelboat yacht racing makes a welcome return to the Broadwater this Thursday evening. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_330.php 19-Oct-2008 Active Air-2UE scored an amazing win when she took out her second consecutive victory of the 18ft Skiff season on Sydney Harbour today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_332.php 19-Oct-2008 After three races in some seriously changeable conditions at Weston Sailing Club, the head of the leader board is Greg Carey from Royal Lymington Sailing Club followed by Ian Morgan and Steve Cockerill. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_337.php 19-Oct-2008 Conditions on the lake were light to very light again today forcing organisers to drop the semi finals altogether and go straight into the finals between the top two teams; last year’s winner Philippe Presti and Alinghi… http://www.sailcam.tv/news_336.php 18-Oct-2008 A light day and only one race on the lake leaving the round robins incomplete; after some careful mathematics guaranteeing a fair event, the top four boats go through to the semi finals and Alinghi is to race Gian-Luca Perris… http://www.sailcam.tv/news_335.php 17-Oct-2008 Ed, Rodney Ardern, Lorenzo Mazza and Curtis Blewett raced round robin one and two races of round robin two on Lake Geneva today in a stunning 8-14knot breeze… http://www.sailcam.tv/news_334.php 16-Oct-2008 Alinghi turns its hand back to monohull match racing this weekend in Geneva where the Société Nautique de Genève is hosting the 6th edition of the Bentley Match Race, an ISAF Grade 2 event … http://www.sailcam.tv/news_339.php 16-Oct-2008 Judging by her speed in last night抯 St Arnou Twilight Series, Andrew Short抯 maxi yacht PWC-Shockwave looks set for a record-breaking dash across the Tasman Sea in the Gosford Lord Howe Island Race, starting Saturday week, 25 October. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_338.php 15-Oct-2008 Hosted by the club΄s Cruising Committee, the talk was presented by Denis Doyle, skipper of Sextant, and included a presentation by Peter Davidson from EPHIRBhire on satellite phones. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_333.php 13-Oct-2008 For the fifth time Alfa Romeo took the Barcolana race on Sunday 12 October in Trieste, Italy. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_329.php 12-Oct-2008 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_323.php 10-Oct-2008 Jens Findel and Johannes Tennel of Germany are the new 505 European champions. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_324.php 10-Oct-2008 The Australian 18 Footers League will start its 2008-2009 Season on Sunday when the club conducts the traditional Alf Beashel Memorial Trophy race on Sydney Harbour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_325.php 10-Oct-2008 Local trio of Tom Woods, Keith Jensen and Dean Blatchford in ‘Echo Beach’ took out the annual Etchells Spring Regatta on Lake Macquarie http://www.sailcam.tv/news_326.php 10-Oct-2008 After another long postponement, the fleet regatta finally started today afternoon at 3:00 PM. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_327.php 10-Oct-2008 Ragtime – the 60 footer built for Sir Tom Clark in 1964 under the name of Infidel – has made an epic 7,000 mile southwards journey to New Zealand, only to turn around and nearly immediately depart on another epic journey http://www.sailcam.tv/news_328.php 10-Oct-2008 The following are excerpts from the comments made by BMW ORACLE Racing’s Russell Coutts at an October 7 press conference at Friuli Venezia Giulia RC44 Cup. A video of the complete interview can be found here. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_315.php 07-Oct-2008 In a piece published today by the Spanish website, valenciasailing.com, Team Alinghi head Ernesto Bertarelli says that in spite of talks being held between himself and Larry Ellison (BMW Oracle Racing), and between the lawyers from Team New Zealand and Team Alinghi, little progress is being made, other than the fact that the teams are talking. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_316.php 07-Oct-2008 This morning near summer conditions returned once again to Saint-Tropez and participants gathered in La Citadelle for the prize giving ceremony that marks the closing of this year΄s edition of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_317.php 07-Oct-2008 With less that a week to go until the start of the inaugural Portimão Global Ocean Race the dockside activity is getting more frantic and, for sure, the stomach butterflies are starting to swarm. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_318.php 07-Oct-2008 The South Australians Laser Association and South Australian Optimist Association are running a ΄Come and Try Event΄ at the Adelaide Sailing Club on Sunday October 12 from 10:30 am. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_319.php 07-Oct-2008 The eXtreme 40 Series – Alicante Grand Prix at the Volvo Ocean Race village kicked off on Monday with an action-packed day of racing under the bright Alicante sun. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_320.php 07-Oct-2008 Australia΄s Seven Television Network has reaffirmed its commitment to sailing and sport in unveiling its new 18ft skiff, Gotta Love It 7, at Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont in Sydney this afternoon. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_321.php 07-Oct-2008 The Volvo Ocean Race, described by some as the ‘Everest of Sailing’, is undeniably the world’s premier global race, and one of the most demanding team sporting events in the world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_322.php 07-Oct-2008 Bostik, the first unit of the Veolia Oceans® series for the SolOceans, left the Gulf of Saint Tropez yesterday afternoon towards Calvi and Ajaccio in Corsica. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_302.php 06-Oct-2008 With only a matter of days until the start of the 29th Rolex Middle Sea Race, organisers the Royal Malta Yacht club are rubbing their hands together at the prospect of an entry exceeding seventy boats for the first time ever. Not only that, but the yachts are drawn from most corners of the sailing world with the fleet flying no less than eighteen different national flags. Entries close on 11th October and the race itself starts from Marsamxett Harbour on the 18th October - so there is still time to be part of an historic contest that marks the 40th anniversary of this 607 nautical mile adventure. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_303.php 06-Oct-2008 There was smiles all round at the end of the 2008 Heaven Can WaitRegatta. The Royal Motor Yacht Club was packed with tired but happy sailorsyesterday afternoon for the Presentation ceremony. The Heaven Can Wait clubhas been the recipient of some wonderful hand crafted brass perpetualtrophies, made by Balmain Sailing Club member Steve Prince. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_308.php 06-Oct-2008 On Sunday October 5 2008, the Delta Lloyd was taken out of the water for repairing the damage. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_309.php 06-Oct-2008 Sylt’s final day of competition goes out with a bang, in the midst of 40-knot gales and characteristically turbulent North Sea weather, crowning the Event Winners and 2008 PWA World Tour Overall Winners. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_310.php 06-Oct-2008 After a series of setbacks in the preparation of his Farr designed boat, Jérémie Beyou has been able to complete the fine-tuning of his Delta Dore and can now focus on his goals around the world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_311.php 06-Oct-2008 A Working Party from the International Sailing Federation has made a submission to the International Sailing Federation supporting the previous submission from Yachting New Zealand that the Elliott 6m be chosen as the equipment for the 2012 Olympics in the new Womens Match Racing Event. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_312.php 06-Oct-2008 Whitsunday Sailing Club sailors Bruce Chapman, Jim Hayes and Klaus Lorenz proved their collective enthusiasm and skill when they won the Silver Medal at the 2008 Australian Corsair championship one Brisbane’s Bramble Bay last weekend. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_313.php 06-Oct-2008 With only a matter of days until the start of the 29th Rolex Middle Sea Race, organisers the Royal Malta Yacht club are rubbing their hands together at the prospect of an entry exceeding seventy boats for the first time ever. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_314.php 06-Oct-2008 BMW ORACLE Racing will compete in the fifth event of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2008 starting tomorrow in Trieste, Italy. Larry Ellison (USA) will be helming and Russell Coutts (NZL) will be calling tactics. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_300.php 05-Oct-2008 Alexandre Caizergues (FRA) is the fastest sailor on earth now, with a blistering 50.57 knots run today, accompanied by several more 50s and high 49s. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_301.php 05-Oct-2008 Saturday was the last chance for racing at this year΄s Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez. The wind gods must have taken to heart the prayers of the 3,000 or so participants as the violent Mistral winds of yesterday died down just enough to allow a final race before tomorrow΄s prize giving ceremony. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_304.php 05-Oct-2008 Ericsson Racing Team happy with boat speed http://www.sailcam.tv/news_305.php 05-Oct-2008 Today in the bay of Alicante, Spain the eight boats contending for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008 - 09 squared up against each other for the first time. The Green Dragon Team started strongly, leading the fleet off the line in race one and rounding the top mark in second place. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_306.php 05-Oct-2008 Team Russia will not be participating in the Pro Am race due to damage sustained in yesterday’s In Port Race. Closer inspection by the shore crew has revealed that the damage to the starboard side of Kosatka will need the boat out of the water for repairs. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_307.php 05-Oct-2008 At the 2008 PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt on Day Seven, Kauli Seadi slashes a path through to the wave elimination final, securing him his third consecutive Wave World Title on the penultimate day of competition in Sylt. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_295.php 04-Oct-2008 They lined up on the stage, mostly staring at their feet. When the microphone was passed around, the eight Volvo Race skippers took turns to speak inoffensive lines to the press pack. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_296.php 04-Oct-2008 Ports and Waterways Minister Joe Tripodi today announced the start of Operation Boat Safe - a state-wide campaign marking the start of the 2008-09 boating season, which traditionally kicks off with the October long weekend. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_297.php 04-Oct-2008 Unverified reports coming from Namibia. suggest that professional kite surfer Sebastien Cattelan (FRA) has finally broken the magical 50 knots barrier, the holy gral of speed sailing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_298.php 04-Oct-2008 Race committees are often criticized for not running races in big breezes. PRO Peter Reggio sent the fleet up the bay today and managed to deliver two additional races in this World Championship. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_272.php 03-Oct-2008 At 1100 this morning racing was cancelled in Saint-Tropez for the second consecutive day. With waves as big as 2.5 metres and gusts of wind rising sharply from 18 to 40 knots outside the bay, all fleets were kept in port to assure the safety of the participants and spectators. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_288.php 03-Oct-2008 Telefonica Black have struck the first blow in the battle for bragging rights by winning a practice in-port race in Alicante Thursday. Fernando Echavarri’s crew led from the start and eventually completed the four-mile course in 51 minutes and 10 seconds, 56 seconds ahead of second-placed PUMA Ocean Racing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_289.php 03-Oct-2008 Day Six of the 2008 PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt and an unpredictable day of rain storms, gales and eerie windless calms sees inroads made into slaloms third race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_290.php 03-Oct-2008 Ken Read, skipper of PUMA Ocean Racing and his crew are all set for the inaugural event of this year’s epic Volvo Ocean Race, the Alicante in port racing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_291.php 03-Oct-2008 Ericsson 3 was today handed a scoring penalty by the International Jury for failure to comply with the Volvo Open 70 measurement rule relating to their keel. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_292.php 03-Oct-2008 Seawind Catamarans, Australia’s largest manufacturer of cruising & charter catamarans have recently commissioned a new Seawind 1050 Resort on Hong Kong Harbour for Mr Andrew Kay who plans to run a new charter operation from Kowloon Pier, a very busy tourist area in the city. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_294.php 03-Oct-2008 Last night’s rain cleared out and the morning brought sunny skies accompanied by 14-17 knot shifty westerlies to Rhode Island Sound. Vincenzo Onorato’s Mascalzone Latino showed their championship winning style taking bullets in two of the day’s three races to pull within two points of Guy Stening’s Optimum. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_268.php 02-Oct-2008 The Volvo Ocean Race 2005/06 was the first edition for a new class of boats: the Volvo Open 70 or VO70 for short. Bouwe is one person who knows ΄the beast΄. In April 2005, he broke the 24-hour speed record for a monohull logging 530 nautical miles and went on to sail more than 15,000 nautical miles as part of the team build-up programme. During the race itself he faced all sorts of problems before being forced to abandon the VO70 movistar in the North Atlantic Ocean in May 2006. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_271.php 02-Oct-2008 Yesterday΄s wind was just a foretaste of what was to come today as the Mistral well and truly settled in, with winds of 30 knots onshore and certainly more outside the Gulf of Saint-Tropez. No coastal races were scheduled for the Classic Yachts, who stayed safely tied up at the dock, protecting their rigging and sails from the violent winds. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_279.php 02-Oct-2008 On the strength of yet another Tour event win at last weekend’s Troia Portugal Match Cup, Sebastian Col (FRA) and his French Match Racing Team/K-Challenge have closed to within only 4 points of current leader and reigning World Champion Ian Williams (GBR) and his Team Pindar. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_281.php 02-Oct-2008 The ISAF Athletes΄ Commission held their annual meeting at the ISAF Secretariat on 24-25 September, chaired by 2008 Olympic silver medallist Marcelien De Koning. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_282.php 02-Oct-2008 With 13-14 knots of breeze from the south and heading southwest, reigning Australian M 30 Champion Guy Stening (Sydney, AUS) sailing Optimum won the first two races and finished third in Race three to take Boat of the Day Honors on Day 1. Stening won the 2008 Coastal Living Sail Newport Regatta in July, so he is no stranger to the waters off Newport, RI. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_283.php 02-Oct-2008 Australian Naval Architect Simon McGoldrick has just qualified for the 2009 Mini Transat. The log of his Pogo 2 ‘Composite Works’ now reads 5000nm after a summer packed with racing and qualification passages in Europe. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_284.php 02-Oct-2008 Josh Angulo shows defiance in the face of hammering 35-knot wind; slaying the opposition to claim his first ever slalom race victory. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_285.php 02-Oct-2008 Icom Australia is pleased to launch the world’s first VHF/DSC with integrated AIS (Automatic Identification System) receiver. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_286.php 02-Oct-2008 The Volvo Ocean Race 2005/06 was the first edition for a new class of boats: the Volvo Open 70 or VO70 for short. Bouwe Bekking is one person who knows ΄the beast΄. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_287.php 02-Oct-2008 Lock Crowther was an Australian design pioneer of ocean going racing and cruising multihulls. Lock was responsible for thousands of successful Catamarans and Trimarans that are still successfully sailing in all parts of the world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_269.php 01-Oct-2008 Bright sun and fresh gusts welcomed the crews this morning in the bay of Saint-Tropez. Today the 300 participating yachts in this year΄s Voiles de Saint-Tropez were given the chance to truly test themselves for the first time this week. No more twiddling thumbs while waiting for the wind; with the Mistral in full effect since sunrise, the crews of the Classic Yachts had to put real muscle into their work in order to keep control of their vessels΄ massive sails, which can often exceed 200 m2. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_273.php 01-Oct-2008 Mathieu Richard (FRA) will be looking for revenge after the Troia Portugal Match. In Bermuda, he’ll battle against fellow Frenchman Sebastian Col (FRA) who took first place in the finals of the seventh tour event last week plus six of the other top ten skippers from the ISAF open match race rankings. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_274.php 01-Oct-2008 The 2008 PWA Colgate World Cup, Sylt – Day Four. Antxon Otaegui digs deep to win the opening freestyle single elimination after a day of nerve-racking competition on Sylt’s Westerland Beach. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_275.php 01-Oct-2008 Racing at the 10th edition of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez began this morning under bright sun and almost summer conditions. With a promising breeze at the start that later fell still, today was the first race for the Classics who enjoyed the chance to hoist their sails and race one another over a 24-mile coastal course. Leading the fleet home were Altair and Rowdy within a hair΄s breadth of one another. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_276.php 01-Oct-2008 Emirates, the Dubai-based global airline, on Wednesday confirmed its continued support for New Zealand and the sport of sailing by renewing its successful partnership with Emirates Team New Zealand. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_277.php 01-Oct-2008 Audi Australian IRC class sailing champions Rod Jones and Kai Timm have not rested on their laurels since winning their National Ocean racing title at Hamilton Island in August 2007. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_278.php 01-Oct-2008 With just three days to go until the first Volvo Ocean Race In Port race on October 4th, Green Dragon have announced their additional crew in the form of America’s Cup sailors David Carr and Julien Cressant. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_270.php 30-Sep-2008 Racing at the 10th edition of Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez began this morning under bright sun and almost summer conditions. With a promising breeze at the start that later fell still, today was the first race for the Classics who enjoyed the chance to hoist their sails and race one another over a 24-mile coastal course. Leading the fleet home were Agneta and Rowdy within a hair΄s breadth of one another. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_265.php 29-Sep-2008 The Nick Scali Furniture Sprint Series for youth classes incorporating the 2008 NSW Flying Eleven Sprint Championships always seem to leave an indelible memory for those crews and classes who manage to venture away from their home clubs early in the season. They were rewarded with a feast of quick exhilarating races amongst a multitude of classes with marks scattered seemingly all over the course in a what looks initially to be an obstacle course more than a sailing course. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_266.php 29-Sep-2008 This coming October Long Weekend is the third annual Heaven Can Wait 24 Hour Yacht Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_267.php 29-Sep-2008 Four J Class yachts, including the new Huisman-built Hanuman, have communicated their intention to participate in The Superyacht Cup 2009 in Palma, June 24-27. It will be the first time the four J΄s, Ranger, Velsheda, Shamrock V and Hanuman will race against each other. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_261.php 28-Sep-2008 Yet again a sailor has been lost by going overboard at sea and unable to regain the boat, leaving the boat to be found still sailing - this time in the North Sea. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_262.php 28-Sep-2008 Mirsky Racing Team is just one win away from the Semi Finals at the Portugal Match Cup. Kinley Fowler΄s report appears below. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_263.php 28-Sep-2008 San Francisco Bay Area residents got a glimpse at one of the most luxurious private yachts in the world as it made its way through San Francisco Bay yesterday (Saturday). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_264.php 28-Sep-2008 San Francisco Bay Area residents got a glimpse at one of the most luxurious private yachts in the world as it made its way through San Francisco Bay yesterday (Saturday). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_259.php 27-Sep-2008 He΄s 74 years of age, he΄s sailed 265,000 nautical miles, he΄s circumnavigated the globe solo seven times, he΄s completed three BOC Challenges. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_260.php 27-Sep-2008 After a morning practice session comprising a mixed round-robin at the request of the competitors, racing got underway at 1.30 this afternoon in absolutely sparkling conditions but with a shifty light south-westerly breeze that ranged from 8 – 13 knots. Racing was made challenging for sailors and the race management personnel alike. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_257.php 26-Sep-2008 Crowded around a 30cm (or 12 inch) Rank Arena colour television set in the early hours of the 26th of September 1983 my family and I watched the greatest race in Australia’s history. It was race 7 of the America’s Cup with Australia II taking on Liberty. And we won. I was 14 years old, in year 8 at high school, had no idea about sailing, and had been told by our Prime Minister that I could have the day off (school)! It was, perhaps, that event that started my interest in sailing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_258.php 26-Sep-2008 Competition for the 2009 Skandia Docklands Invitational will be fierce as some of Australia΄s best performed IRC yachts prepare to contest the invitation only series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_299.php 26-Sep-2008 SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area residents will have a chance to get a glimpse at one of the most luxurious private yachts in the world when makes it way into San Francisco Bay this weekend. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_254.php 25-Sep-2008 Australia΄s Laser sailor Tom Slingsby was the gold medal favourite going into the 2008 Olympic regatta. He΄d won the last two World Champions and was in winning form. But he had a shocker, finishing 22nd overall. Now Tom talks about what happened and the road ahead. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_255.php 25-Sep-2008 Kinley Fowler from Morsky racing Team, reports on Day 1 at the Troia Portugal Match Cup. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_256.php 25-Sep-2008 The day’s racing started leisurely, with the westerly seabreeze filling in about midday to a perfect 8-10 knots which lasted until late in the evening, allowing the race committee to complete 7 more flights of the round robin. We dropped only one race, putting us on 7 wins and 2 losses, just one point off Mathieu Richard in first. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_252.php 24-Sep-2008 The luck of the Irish has not be running with the crew of Sunshine Coast sailors during the qualifying races for the 2008 Dart SB3 World championship in Dublin. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_253.php 24-Sep-2008 The 10 metre yacht ‘Berrimilla’ has just crossed the North Atlantic and sailed into Falmouth this week after a hazardous and historic voyage through the North West Passage. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_251.php 22-Sep-2008 Nick Moloney, Darren Bundock, Ed Barney and Steve Mitchell, the crew of BT Extreme 40 are celebrating tonight after a fantastic result in the 2008 iShares Cup Extreme 40 Sailing Series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_248.php 21-Sep-2008 Kinley Fowler, Mirsky Racing Team, reports on ACI Match Cup Day Four. MRT finished fourth, behind Paolo Cian, Bertrand Pacé and Sebastién Col. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_249.php 21-Sep-2008 In September 1983, the crew of Australia II broke the United States΄ 132-year grip on the America’s Cup. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_250.php 21-Sep-2008 Almost 25 years have passed since they sailed into Australian folklore by snatching the America΄s Cup from its long-held reign, but the memories were as vivid as ever for the Australia II team as they gathered in the port city of Fremantle yesterday. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_243.php 20-Sep-2008 After the first day of the final event in the iShares Cup Extreme 40 Sailing Series in Amsterdam, the BT Extreme 40 crew of Nick Moloney, Darren Bundock, Ed Barney and Stevie Mitchell scored a 6th, 1st, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd and 7th leaving them in second place, two points ahead of Oman Sail. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_244.php 20-Sep-2008 Sydney Fleet Etchells sailors Mark Johnson and Nik Burfoot have teamed up with champion US helmsman Jud Smith to score an historic win in the 2008 Etchells North American Championship sailed on The Chesapeake off Annapolis this past week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_245.php 20-Sep-2008 ACI Match Cup Day Three report from Kinley Fowler, Mirsky Racing Team. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_246.php 20-Sep-2008 Pharmacies are stocking up on Viagra; sailing clubs are dusting down their defibrillators; Commodores are reviewing their CPR procedures while waterfront bars everywhere are stocking up their supplies of antique port. The beaches are ringing with the sound of Zimmer frames bashing against fibreglass hulls and even the local lap dancing club is getting in on the act by offering a pensioners discount. Yep, it’s that time of year again- the PSA Laser Masters Series is coming to town. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_247.php 20-Sep-2008 The incidence of injury or death from accidental or premature jibes is unknown but the problem is not insignificant (see Sail-World.com World Cruising Sailors Boom Death on 27ft boat). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_238.php 19-Sep-2008 Kinley Fowler reports from Trieste, on Mirsky Racing Team΄s progress at the ACI Match Cup Day Two. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_239.php 19-Sep-2008 Olin J. Stephens II, one of the 20th century’s most innovative yacht designers, and the ΄Stephens΄ of Sparkman & Stephens΄ fame, died last weekend at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. He was 100 years old. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_240.php 19-Sep-2008 At least 20 of the 27 Etchells already entered for the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s 2008-2009 summer season have nominated for the World Qualifying Series that starts this Saturday, 20 September. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_241.php 19-Sep-2008 Will Ryan on top after Round One of the Australian Youth Match Racing Championships http://www.sailcam.tv/news_242.php 19-Sep-2008 For the BT Extreme 40 this is it - the final round of the iShares Cup - and the BT crew will be gunning for a place on the podium starting today (Friday, 19th September) and concluding on Sunday, 21 September. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_237.php 18-Sep-2008 Prominent Sydney yachtsman Andrew Short has entered his recently acquired Reichel/Pugh 80 Shockwave 5 (now renamed Andrew Short Marine) for the Hempel 35th Gosford Lord Howe Island Yacht Race, joining record-holder Getaway Sailing in a likely duel for line honours in the ocean race across the northern Tasman Sea. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_233.php 17-Sep-2008 They΄ve done it again! President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that French commandos stormed the sailing boat Carre D΄As to free two French sailors who were being held by heavily-armed Somali pirates. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_234.php 17-Sep-2008 Olympic sailor Krystal Weir used a meet and greet session with the public at her home club yesterday, to formally announce Sail Melbourne in December would be the start of her 2012 London Games campaign. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_235.php 17-Sep-2008 Rod Jones, the 2007 Audi Australian IRC class ocean racing champion, has nominated his impressive new Archambault A40 CR Alegria for the Rolex Regatta and the Skandia Geelong Race Week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_236.php 17-Sep-2008 World Cruising Club is justifiably proud of the international interest being shown in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), which is over-subscribed each year, and limited to 225 yachts. The entire ARC fleet will depart again from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on November 23rd on a 2,700 nm passage to Rodney Bay in St. Lucia. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_228.php 15-Sep-2008 New information about the last heard of messages from the Blessed Be has emerged. Drew Woodhouse, son of Graeme Woodhouse said the boat suffered a knockdown in horrendous weather conditions off the Queensland coast. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_229.php 15-Sep-2008 In an announcement which has implications for yachting and sailing in Australian waters, Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, this week released new research to improve understanding of how climate change might affect off-shore waves and the potential impact on our coastal zones. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_230.php 15-Sep-2008 Jeff Shipsey and his Sunrise crew will be looking over their shoulder when the Whitsunday Sailing Club fleet contest the important third race of the John Sails Trophy Division 2 class series on Pioneer Bay this week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_231.php 15-Sep-2008 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_232.php 15-Sep-2008 The Sailors with disABILITIES (SWD) boat will be docking in the Coffs Harbour Marina just before Westport High School – Special Education Unit jump aboard the 54-footer to experience the thrill of sailing. Coffs Harbour 15 – 19 September 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_218.php 13-Sep-2008 Playing water polo in the still waters off Porto Cervo was an odd way to prepare for the winds to come. But no one had predicted the speed and severity of the conditions that would end the day, prematurely for some. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_221.php 13-Sep-2008 The stunning performances of Joe Woods (Torbay, UK) on GBR-700 Red and Michael Illbruck (Munich, Germany) on GER-401 Pinta confirmed that racing on San Francisco Bay at the 2008 Rolex Big Boat Series is challenging, sometimes unpredictable and at other times pleasantly surprising. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_222.php 13-Sep-2008 Although the grey fogged-over conditions around the St. Francis Yacht Club seemed to deter spectators from gathering along the shore, building 10-15 knot breezes on San Francisco Bay were the only thing on the minds of competitors in the 111-boat fleet racing in the Rolex Big Boat Series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_225.php 13-Sep-2008 Hurricane Ike is expected to hit the sailing and yachting centre of Galveston in the USA, Saturday morning, and forecast to be the worst since the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 that cost than 6,000 lives. Galveston Island and Galveston Bay, just a short drive from the centre of Houston, are the home of no less than 60 marinas and hundreds of boat yards. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_226.php 13-Sep-2008 The search for the 42ft yacht the Blessed Be, missing since August 23 on a journey between Noumea and the coast of Australia, has been suspended. However, relatives are asking for all to report sightings of debris along the coastline. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_227.php 13-Sep-2008 Three very different books are covered this week - the first a vital read on choosing or building a cruising boat that will be seaworthy, the second a series of rivetting and adventurous tales by cruiser and writer Peter Muilenburg, and finally, for those in UK waters - or ever likely to be - a new Guide to North Brittany and the Channel Islands: http://www.sailcam.tv/news_210.php 12-Sep-2008 Flat calm left a flat mood at the third day of the Rolex Swan Cup 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_211.php 12-Sep-2008 France΄s Bruno JOURDREN, Jerve LARHANT and Nicolas VIMONT VICARY extended their overall lead in the Sonar event at the Paralympic Sailing Competition with victory in today΄s sole race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_212.php 12-Sep-2008 The US team of Nick SCANDONE and Maureen MCKINNON-TUCKER increased their overall lead after today΄s single SKUD18 race at the 2008 Paralympic Sailing Competition. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_213.php 12-Sep-2008 The countdown to the start of the 10th running of the Volvo Ocean Race, formerly The Whitbread Round the World Race has begun. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_214.php 12-Sep-2008 It was confirmed today that the Dutch yacht Team Delta Lloyd will be the eighth entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, which starts in Alicante, Spain on 4 October. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_219.php 12-Sep-2008 The Australian Team Coach Greg Omay said, ΄It was a tough day in the office today with all three races being sailed in less than 5 knots and strong current, making it a very demanding day for all teams.΄ http://www.sailcam.tv/news_220.php 12-Sep-2008 Coaching and Staff at the Paralympic Games http://www.sailcam.tv/news_223.php 12-Sep-2008 Mirsky Racing Team΄s Kinley Fowler reports from the Trieste Challenge on day two. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_224.php 12-Sep-2008 Australia΄s Allison Shreeve is leading the Womens Division of the 2008 Formula Windsurfing Worlds, being held in Portimao Portugal. The event continues until September 14. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_203.php 11-Sep-2008 Next Tuesday, 16 September, the two new boats built by the Spanish team, Telefonica for the next Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009 - Blue Telefonica and Telefonica Black - will be officially launched in the Race Village at Alicante, in front of the Telefonica building. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_186.php 10-Sep-2008 What a Missed Opportunity! http://www.sailcam.tv/news_189.php 10-Sep-2008 The Green Dragon Racing Team arrived in Alicante after our 1500-mile delivery trip. Compared to the 2000 mile qualifier, which was rough, wet and all in all a pretty brutal trip, this was a slightly different experience. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_190.php 10-Sep-2008 The Beijing 2008 Paralympic sailing regatta will be sailed in the Sonar and the 2.4mR classes. It starts on Sunday 8th September 2008 and finishes on Friday 13th September 2008 in Qingdao. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_193.php 10-Sep-2008 Day two of the Rolex Swan Cup was reminiscent of a family day at the park where different age groups take part in different activities. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_202.php 10-Sep-2008 Racing started at the Rolex Swan Cup 2008 bright and breezy, and bang on time at 11:35. Conditions for a first day could not have been gentler. All four divisions will have come off the water having had a very satisfactory day΄s racing in winds that peaked in the early-teens in the channel, but stayed below ten knots elsewhere on the various courses. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_206.php 10-Sep-2008 The International and Nordic crews for Ericsson Racing Team yesterday departed their training base in the Canary Islands nearly one year after it was opened. Their destination: Alicante, Spain, in preparation for the start of the 10th Volvo Ocean Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_207.php 10-Sep-2008 Day two of the Rolex Swan Cup was reminiscent of a family day at the park where different age groups take part in different activities. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_215.php 10-Sep-2008 September 10, 2008: Day two of the Rolex Swan Cup was reminiscent of a family day at the park where different age groups take part in different activities. The Swan Maxis went on a hefty 30 nautical mile hike up and down Bomb Alley using the Island of Spargi as an oversized leeward turning mark, whereas the Classics undertook a shorter, 24 nm stroll only venturing into the channel as far as Secca di Tre Monti, but featuring a long beat to Mortoriotto. Meanwhile, the sprightlier Swan 45s and Club Swan 42s were given their own part of the park to play in and tackled two four-leg windward/leewards of 8 & 7.2 nm. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_185.php 09-Sep-2008 UK marine equipment manufacturer Lewmar has chosen Alliance Marine to cover Lewmar distribution... http://www.sailcam.tv/news_188.php 09-Sep-2008 BMW Oracle΄s team launched their DoG boat this week and the team is conducting engineering tests of the 90x90 multihull in preparation for sailing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_191.php 09-Sep-2008 Great Britain΄s Poul Richard Hoj Jensen is the Cascais Dragon Gold winner. Poul Jensen/Theis Palm/Andrew Mortem were 9th in the final race and won the championship, with a four point advantage over Gavia Wilkinson-Cox/Jon Mortimer/Ron Rosenberg (GBR). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_195.php 09-Sep-2008 Bruno JOURDREN, Herve LARHANT and Nicolaos VIMONT-VICARY of France stretched their overall lead in the Sonar fleet after three races on day two of the Paralympic Sailing Competition in Qingdao. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_196.php 09-Sep-2008 The US team of Nick SCANDONE and Maureen MCKINNON-TUCKER continue to lead the way in the SKUD18 Paralympic event, winning another two races in Qingdao today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_197.php 09-Sep-2008 Canada΄s Paul TINGLEY maintains the overall lead after the second day of racing in the 2.4 Metre event at the Paralympic Sailing Competition, but is now just one point ahead of John RUF of the USA http://www.sailcam.tv/news_198.php 09-Sep-2008 Elodie WUILMART and Benjamin DUTREUX of France won the first SL 16 World Championship after an impressive display in La Baule, France. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_201.php 09-Sep-2008 The second day of racing at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Qingdao kicked off early with the sailors leaving the dock at 10:45am. Three races were sailed in 6 - 8 knots of breeze. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_204.php 09-Sep-2008 Today’s triangular course out on Cleveland Bay was always going to decide the winner of the second Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week Grand Prix division. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_205.php 09-Sep-2008 Racing at 15th edition of the biennial Rolex Swan Cup starts tomorrow, Tuesday, with 100 yachts, divided into four divisions, all gunning for glory and the much sought after trophies - the mythical Swan Cup and the Rolex Chronometer. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_216.php 09-Sep-2008 Bruno JOURDREN, Herve LARHANT and Nicolaos VIMONT-VICARY of France stretched their overall lead in the Sonar fleet after three races on day two of the Paralympic Sailing Competition in Qingdao. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_217.php 09-Sep-2008 The US team of Nick SCANDONE and Maureen MCKINNON-TUCKER increased their overall lead after today΄s single SKUD18 race at the 2008 Paralympic Sailing Competition. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_199.php 08-Sep-2008 Evan WALKER and his crew representing Sydney΄s Cruising Yacht Club of Australia claimed the 2008 Barbagallo Marine Australian Match Racing Championships on Perth΄s Swan River in unequivocal style. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_200.php 08-Sep-2008 Kieler Woche 2009 from 20-28 June will start with the Olympic sailing events and finish with racing in the International classes in the second half of the week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_208.php 08-Sep-2008 For the past 44 years, the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, Calif., has run one of the world΄s most challenging regattas, the Rolex Big Boat Series. Known for the sometimes confusing current and steady, strong wind on San Francisco Bay, the regatta has attracted an almost-record fleet of 111 boats (the record is 115, set in 2003) ranging in size from 40-78 feet in length http://www.sailcam.tv/news_209.php 08-Sep-2008 Townsville΄s own Leon Thomas, racing his 7m sports boat Guilty Pleasures at the second Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, yesterday took the IRC handicap win from his bigger rivals. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_174.php 07-Sep-2008 Townsville΄s own Leon Thomas, racing his 7m sports boat Guilty Pleasures at the second Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, yesterday took the IRC handicap win from his bigger rivals. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_175.php 07-Sep-2008 2008 Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week Director Denis Thompson was in fine form this morning. He’d stopped for a few minutes to watch crew member Glen Orenshaw from Don Algie’s Warwick 66 Storm 2, with rod and reef was casting for half metre long Queen Fish at the base of the Nelly Bay marina walkway. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_176.php 07-Sep-2008 With all their sails aloft, the maxi-catamaran in the colours of the LCF Rothschild Group is now benefiting from some fine conditions, slipping along in a SE’ly air flow characteristic of the southern hemisphere. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_177.php 07-Sep-2008 Peter Millar convincingly claimed his fourth consecutive Festival of Sails Great Whitsunday Fun Race line honours trophy when he steered the catamaran Cynophobe to a record smashing win on Pioneer Bay. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_179.php 07-Sep-2008 Crack syndicate Emirates Team New Zealand is down to only ΄four or five΄ people, says former director of sailing Rod Davis, one of the latest casualties as the cost of prolonged America΄s Cup court action bites deep. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_180.php 07-Sep-2008 In the past, the only way you could really clean, remove paint or some other unsightly material from the hull of your boat was to either chip it off, sand blast it, use harsh chemicals, or hand sand it until your arm fell off or your equipment failed. Now, there΄s Eco-friendly Soda Blasting... http://www.sailcam.tv/news_181.php 07-Sep-2008 The 19th Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup ended today, not quite as hoped as the wind eventually fizzled out along with the ambitions of the owners and crews hoping for one final chance to get to the top of the podium. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_182.php 07-Sep-2008 With the quarter-finals decided today (Saturday) action for the semi-finalists, Mathieu Richard, Philippe Presti, Ian Williams and Adam Minoprio, got under way in a fading breeze. Only one match was completed - Mathieu Richard won first semi-final match against Philippe Presti. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_183.php 07-Sep-2008 Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week entry, the Simonis 42 White Pearl, comes out of the highly-regarded international design team office of Alex Simonis and Maarten Voogd. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_163.php 06-Sep-2008 Big Smiles from an overflowing roomful of skippers, tacticians and crew at Peppers Blue on Blue at the weather briefing for the 2008 Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week fleet last night. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_164.php 06-Sep-2008 Every year the Women’s Match Racing National Championship is sailed to test up and coming women sailors in different locations, sailing conditions and boats. This year’s event was hosted in Western Australia at the Fremantle Sailing Club in the J24 class. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_172.php 06-Sep-2008 Day four of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup started late, but did not come up short on excitement or entertainment, especially in the Cruising Division. Today was another day for the holiday-makers in this vacation paradise to witness the impressive array of the big, the beautiful and the fast in the sailing world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_173.php 06-Sep-2008 Fort Lauderdale based ACR Electronics has received FCC approvals and will soon begin shipping the GlobalFix™ iPRO, a patented, next generation 406 MHz EPIRB featuring breakthrough technology that makes it the first EPIRB in the world to offer an exclusive Digital Display Screen and Dual GPS capabilities. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_192.php 06-Sep-2008 The 19th Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup ended today, not quite as hoped as the wind eventually fizzled out along with the ambitions of the owners and crews hoping for one final chance to get to the top of the podium. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_161.php 05-Sep-2008 Day four of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup started late, but did not come up short on excitement or entertainment, especially in the Cruising Division. Today was another day for the holiday-makers in this vacation paradise to witness the impressive array of the big, the beautiful and the fast in the sailing world. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_162.php 05-Sep-2008 Rambler (USA), Ernesto Bertarelli’s Numbers(SUI), Ranger (CAY ISL) and Lindsay Owen Jones’ Magic Carpet2 (GBR) lead the Racing, Mini Maxi, Cruising and Wally divisions respectively as the forty-strong fleet heads into tomorrow’s final day of racing in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_165.php 05-Sep-2008 Ian Hamilton΄s Townsville yacht, Akarana was a divisional winner at the inaugural Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week and this year she’s back aiming to make an even bigger splash. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_166.php 05-Sep-2008 Kinley Fowler reports from the St Moritz Match Cup. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_167.php 05-Sep-2008 Sydney skipper Evan Walker holds the top spot on the leader board at the end of the first round robin, at the Barbagallo Marine Australian Match Racing Championships, being hosted by the Royal Perth Yacht Club. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_168.php 05-Sep-2008 Six twin aircraft are searching southeast Queensland and northern NSW for a yacht, Blessed Be, overdue on a trip from Noumea, as weather allows. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_169.php 05-Sep-2008 Sunferries Magnetic Island Regatta is a very attractive option for skippers with their boats already in the Whitsundays, wanting to enjoy some more northern racing, while waiting for the trade winds turn for an easy trip south. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_170.php 05-Sep-2008 Associated Press reports that British billionaire Sir Richard Branson is back in the business of chasing speed records on the high seas — this time with his family. The chairman of the Virgin Group announced Thursday that he΄ll attempt to break the record for a trans-Atlantic crossing in a single-hulled sailing boat. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_171.php 05-Sep-2008 Last year they had a horror start, in fact for Leon Thomas and his Townsville crew aboard their 7 metre sports boat Guilty Pleasures, a non start, in the 2007 Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week. T-Boned in a prestart collision, the boat limped back to Townsville not even having started a race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_119.php 04-Sep-2008 St Moritz, Switzerland 3 September 2008 - St Moritz Match Race got under way this morning and while the lake looked like glass, as promised the wind came through in time for the scheduled start. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_140.php 04-Sep-2008 ailor Russell Boaden and his two crewmates on the Australian Sonar yacht have had to adapt their normal sailing procedures to avoid potential health hazards. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_143.php 04-Sep-2008 It’s events like these that make you feel like you have made it. A 5 star hotel 2,000 metres up in the Swiss Alps, sailing on brand new boats with the world’s best match racers fighting it out for a share in the $100,000 prize pool with a crowd of sailing enthusiasts cheering you on. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_144.php 04-Sep-2008 Pirates have seized another French yacht off Somalia΄s northern coast. The French foreign ministry said two French nationals were aboard the yacht that was seized in the Gulf of Aden, where hijackings of vessels have increased in recent months. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_159.php 04-Sep-2008 After three days of racing and with winds having picked up considerably following yesterday’s light air the leaderboard at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup has changed for the Racing and Wally divisions which now see Neville Crichton’s Alfa Romeo (NZL) and Jean Charles Decaux’s J One (FRA) leading respectively. Ernesto Bertarelli’s Numbers (USA) retains his overall lead in the Mini Maxi Division as does George David’s Rambler (USA) in the Racing division. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_160.php 04-Sep-2008 If they ever invent a 4x4 RIB the photographers and film crews that covered today΄s proceedings at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup will be in the market for it. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_194.php 04-Sep-2008 The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) announced in separate press releases this week new dates for both of its New York metropolitan area shows. The US trade association said the new dates should have a positive impact on attendance. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_104.php 03-Sep-2008 There are two new leaders in the latest release of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings and some major changes elsewhere with the inclusion of results from the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_108.php 03-Sep-2008 Overall leaders in their respective divisions after two days racing in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup are Ernesto Bertarelli’s Numbers (USA) for the Mini Maxi Division, George David’s Rambler (USA) in the Racing division, Magic Carpet 2 (GBR) in the Wally division and Ranger (USA) among the maxis of the Cruising division. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_120.php 03-Sep-2008 Sydney Harbour again will be a sea of sail next Saturday, 6 September, when the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club, Sydney Amateur Sailing Club and Middle Harbour Yacht Club begin their club yacht racing programs for the summer of 2008-2009. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_121.php 03-Sep-2008 Without doubt one of the best views in the house at the 19th Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is that of the helicopter pilot tasked with positioning the film and photographic teams recording events unfolding. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_122.php 03-Sep-2008 Perth sailors will take on Sydneysiders in the Barbagallo Marine Australian Match Racing Championship, being hosted by the Royal Perth Yacht Club from 3 to 7 September on the Swan River. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_141.php 03-Sep-2008 Light to moderate winds blew for the third and final day of the Australian Women’s Match Racing Championship in Perth, WA providing fair racing that saw Nicky Souter, Samantha Boyd, Susan Veal and Lilly Taylor crowned as the 2008 Australian Women΄s Match Racing Champions. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_142.php 03-Sep-2008 The Australian Olympic Team 2008 - Sailing Section were welcomed home by the Yachting community during the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_145.php 03-Sep-2008 Paul Mitchell will be a reluctant spectator when Peter Millar defends the prestigious line honours trophy in Saturday’s 4MK FM Great Whitsunday Fun Race on Pioneer Bay. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_187.php 03-Sep-2008 Sailing secures the least television ratings interest of any Olympic sport according to the IOC and the Medal race was implemented in an attempt to make the sport more media friendly. Did it deliver in Qingdao? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_101.php 02-Sep-2008 Porto Cervo, Italy. 2nd September 2008. After the first days racing in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo the leaders... http://www.sailcam.tv/news_102.php 02-Sep-2008 Without doubt one of the best views in the house at the 19th Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is that of the helicopter pilot http://www.sailcam.tv/news_103.php 02-Sep-2008 When the skipper of The Philosopher’s Club, Peter Sorensen, arrived in Geelong, Victoria in January 2008 to contest the opening event http://www.sailcam.tv/news_105.php 02-Sep-2008 The ISAF In-House Certification (IHC) programme passed a major milestone in Qingdao this August with the first set of self-certified sails used at the Olympic Sailing Competition. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_106.php 02-Sep-2008 Swiss sailing enthusiasts eagerly await the start of the sixth St Moritz Match Race, stage six of the 2008 World Match Racing Tour, which takes place from 2-7 September 2008. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_123.php 02-Sep-2008 With a current growing membership of over one hundred the club is still going strong and the Mooloolaba Yacht Club and its members are still representing the Sunshine Shine Coast and will continue to vigorously promote the Sunshine Coast as one of Australia΄s best sailing venues as witnessed by the success of the recent Winter Etchells Titles. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_124.php 02-Sep-2008 When the skipper of The Philosopher’s Club, Peter Sorensen, arrived in Geelong, Victoria in January 2008 to contest the opening event of the Audi IRC Australian Championship, he took one look at the Audi Q7 on display and announced to his crew that the car was going to be his. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_125.php 02-Sep-2008 The uncertainty of the next America΄s Cup, locked as it is in the New York courts, took another twist last week with the launch of Larry Ellison΄s American challenger, and the enormity of the problem brought into sharp focus when a 90-foot long trimaran hit the waters off Anacortes in Washington State. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_126.php 02-Sep-2008 Frenchman Mathieu Richard will be back in Bermuda in just over a month to defend his title in the 101st year of sailing for the spectacular golden trophy. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_146.php 02-Sep-2008 Following on from the success of the previous seasons, the events for the Elliott 7 2008/2009 Grand Prix series have been set. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_147.php 02-Sep-2008 When the skipper of The Philosopher’s Club, Peter Sorensen, arrived in Geelong, Victoria in January 2008 to contest the opening event of the Audi IRC Australian Championship, he took one look at the Audi Q7 on display and announced to his crew that the car was going to be his. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_148.php 02-Sep-2008 Report of an explosion on board a sailing catamaran moored in Pwlheli Harbour in North Wales this week raises the question of how to keep one΄s yacht safe from fire. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_149.php 02-Sep-2008 Ten years after surviving the fatal storm of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race and finishing 12th on line in that race, top South Australian offshore yacht ‘Rager’ is preparing for yet another Hobart race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_100.php 01-Sep-2008 All set for start of Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2008 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_99.php 01-Sep-2008 THE WHO΄S WHO AND WHAT΄S WHAT OF THE MAXI RACING SCENE http://www.sailcam.tv/news_107.php 01-Sep-2008 Richard STENHOUSE of Great Britain was crowned 2008 World Champion after dominating the competition at the Ricoh sponsored Musto Performance Skiff Worlds in St Mortiz, Switzerland. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_109.php 01-Sep-2008 Shahar JACOB of Israel and Singapore΄s Elizabeth YIN took the titles at the Laser 4.7 World Championships in Trogir, Croatia. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_110.php 01-Sep-2008 Reigning World Champion Ian WILLIAMS of Great Britain defeated Frenchman Seb COL in the final of the Danish Open to win stage five of the 2008 World Match Racing Tour and extend his lead at the top of this year΄s World Championship standings. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_127.php 01-Sep-2008 The 19th Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, gets underway tomorrow with an entry list of 40 yachts representing a broad spectrum of the maxi scene. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_128.php 01-Sep-2008 The fourth round of the iShares Cup put on a fantastic spectacle, and today΄s conclusion proved the perfect finale with huge crowds - Kiel officials estimated 50,000 spectators came to watch Day 3 of racing - packing the foreshore 10 deep. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_129.php 01-Sep-2008 Sunsail Marketing Manager Kim Lehmann said now is the time for guests to soak up some savings before the end of Sunsail’s financial year on 30 September. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_130.php 01-Sep-2008 The Green Dragon Racing Team arrived in Alicante this morning after our 1500-mile delivery trip http://www.sailcam.tv/news_131.php 01-Sep-2008 Once again, we woke up to yet another team member with food poisoning. This time our bowman, Graeme Spence had been struck and was unable to sail with us today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_150.php 01-Sep-2008 The crew of the Australian Customs vessel (ACV) StormBay have plucked three German men to safety from their stricken yacht in waters near the Raine Island entrance to the Great Barrier Reef, making it the second rescue of foreign sailors in the area in a month. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_151.php 01-Sep-2008 Sydney Harbour again will be a sea of sail next Saturday, 6 September, when the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club, Sydney Amateur Sailing Club and Middle Harbour Yacht Club begin their club yacht racing programmes for the summer of 2008-2009. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_113.php 31-Aug-2008 Bribón took the final winning gun in Cartagena to win the Region of Murcia Trophy, whilst Quantum Racing head for Portugal having enhanced their overall lead of the Audi MedCup Circuit to 41.5 points. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_132.php 31-Aug-2008 A continual stream of people along the promenade and pontoons along the Inner Førde at Kiel saw the iShares Cup attract its biggest ever audience for Day 2 of the fourth round of the circuit, with tens of thousands of visitors enjoying six races in glorious sunshine. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_133.php 31-Aug-2008 As the crowd eagerly watched from the rocky shores overlooking the race area, 12 teams fought hard to determine who would make it to the Semi Final round to compete for their share of the $100,000 total purse in this fifth stage of the World Match Racing Tour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_134.php 31-Aug-2008 Going into the day we knew that we needed at least 2 more wins to qualify for the Semi Finals, and we were granted one of those in our first race of the day against Matthiu Richard. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_135.php 31-Aug-2008 Graham Jones’ Bluewater, the IRC Premier Passage winner, almost came to grief in the final race today after shaving the north east corner of North Molle Island a little too close and finding themselves stranded on an outlying reef for just under a minute. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_152.php 31-Aug-2008 A yacht capsize off the Tauranga Coast in New Zealand this morning, which appears to be caused by the loss of the keel, has left one sailor dead. The second crewman survived by clutching on to the upturned hull. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_153.php 31-Aug-2008 A wise man once told me that it’s better to be born lucky than born rich, and after today’s events, not a truer word was spoken as we got the better of a 5 way tie to qualify for the semi finals. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_154.php 31-Aug-2008 Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, the multi-national force that has been patrolling the Gulf of Aden as part ΄War on Terror΄ for years, will now patrol a ΄maritime security patrol area΄ in the waters between the coasts of Somalia and Yemen with the focus on ridding the area of pirates, and are asking cruising convoys to contact them. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_111.php 30-Aug-2008 Fighting to the end of each and every race and good downwind speed see Matador lead the Region of Murcia Trophy regatta into the final day, but they have only two points on Bribon. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_112.php 30-Aug-2008 Reigning World Champion Ian WILLIAMS continues to lead the way at the Danish Open, where there are still eight teams with a chance to make the semi-final cut on stage 5 of the World Match Racing Tour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_136.php 30-Aug-2008 “It’s a better result than we expected,” said a delighted Whiteley this afternoon. “We have been sailing in very esteemed company...the crew is ecstatic about taking out the grand prix division. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_137.php 30-Aug-2008 The 10 teams competing at the fourth round of the iShares Cup didn΄t fail to put on a great show, with some of the closest racing ever seen in the 2008 series. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_138.php 30-Aug-2008 Ian Williams ended the day 7-3. “Seven wins should be enough to get into the count back but I’m not sure that it will be good enough for us to get through. We’ll need to go out there and disappoint the locals tomorrow and beat Peter Wibroe.” said an optimistic Williams. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_155.php 30-Aug-2008 We continue the story of the Wheeler Family, Mark and Susan with their children Marshall and Amy in their yacht Mima. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_114.php 29-Aug-2008 The first day of the Danish Open, Stage 5 of the World Match Racing Tour 2008 season saw 12 crews from 7 countries take to the waters off the Jutlandic peninsula. With a shifty gusty breeze that blew off the land up to 22 knots the teams were tested to the max. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_139.php 29-Aug-2008 “We’ll just have to keep the throttle down” said Honeysuckle’s navigator Michael Spies this afternoon. The final result will depend on who beats who tomorrow...if it goes to a countback we will be better off.” http://www.sailcam.tv/news_156.php 29-Aug-2008 The momentous tussle at the top of the IRC Grand Prix Division 2 pointscore will go down to the wire tomorrow with Rod Jones’ Alegria and Ray Harris’ Honeysuckle still separated by just one point after six days of racing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_157.php 29-Aug-2008 Takumi Nakamura, Albatross Match Racing Team (JAP) has won the 2008 Knickebocker Cup and secured an invitation to the prestigious Bermuda Gold Cup, a grade 1 match racing event that is part of the World Match Racing Tour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_158.php 29-Aug-2008 Courtesy of North Sails Australia, this Weather Forecast was issued by Kenn Batt at 0630hr for Friday 29th August 2008, for 2008 Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_115.php 27-Aug-2008 Frederikshavn becomes the host city of one of Denmark΄s biggest yachting events of the year, as the World Match Racing Tour comes to town for stage 5 of the 2008 season, the Danish Open. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_116.php 27-Aug-2008 First and third place finishes from two challenging races sees Bribón leading the Region of Murcia Trophy Regatta off Cartagena. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_117.php 27-Aug-2008 The Coach and Support Boat Regulations for 2008 Paralympic Sailing Competition have been published on the ISAF Paralympic microsite. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_97.php 25-Aug-2008 The fight for the European champion title is still open between Antoine Albeau (FRA, Starboard) and Bjorn Dunkerbeck (SUI, Proof, North Sails). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_98.php 25-Aug-2008 Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, the Official 2012 sailing venue, marked the official Beijing to London hand over with the unveiling of a new 2012 flag, given to the Academy by the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_118.php 23-Aug-2008 On 24 August, the Olympic flame will be extinguished simultaneously at the National Stadium in Beijing and the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center, officially ending the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and bringing to a conclusion a remarkable journey for the sport of sailing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_75.php 21-Aug-2008 Windsurfer Jian YIN won China΄s first ever Olympic gold medal in sailing after a nail-biting finish to today΄s Women΄s RS:X Medal Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_78.php 21-Aug-2008 Hopes of saving a baby whale abandoned by its mother in a bay north of Sydney faded late on Wednesday as the calf continued to try to suckle from a moored yacht. International experts said it had just days to live. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_81.php 21-Aug-2008 Great Britain topped the medal table as the podium positions were decided on the final day of racing at the 2008 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship in Århus, Denmark. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_91.php 21-Aug-2008 Frenchman Julien Bontemps hit the front of the Men΄s RS:X fleet after their final Opening Series race today, but Britain΄s Nick Dempsey and Kiwi Tom Ashley are just one point behind. Julien Bontemps (FRA), ranked #4 in the ISAF World Sailing Rankings, has timed his move to the top of the RS:X Men΄s fleet at just the right time; one day before the Medal Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_65.php 20-Aug-2008 Monday saw the medal races for the 470 Men and Women, three races sailed in the Laser Men, Laser Radial Women, Star and Tornado, with two races sailed in the RS:X Men and Women. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_66.php 20-Aug-2008 Australian΄s Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page won today΄s Men΄s 470 Medal Race to take the gold medal in style http://www.sailcam.tv/news_67.php 20-Aug-2008 Young guns Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson completed an Australian double in the 470 fleets by securing the gold medal in the Women΄s Two Person Dinghy event http://www.sailcam.tv/news_68.php 20-Aug-2008 Paul Goodison of Great Britain took a giant step towards winning an Olympic gold medal with a superb display http://www.sailcam.tv/news_69.php 20-Aug-2008 After today΄s three races USA r Radial representative Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.) has ensured herself a medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_70.php 20-Aug-2008 Scientists urge careful approach to northern rivers development http://www.sailcam.tv/news_71.php 20-Aug-2008 This vintage class skiff bailer boy of the late 40’s has been fortunate to bond a lifetime fellowship with the people who have a passion about the healthy sport of sailing and yacht racing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_76.php 20-Aug-2008 Tom ASHLEY won the Olympic gold medal for New Zealand in today΄s Medal Race of the Men΄s Windsurfer event at the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_79.php 20-Aug-2008 An innovative regional agreement is beginning to turn the tide for the ΄ancient mariners΄ of the world΄s oceans. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_90.php 20-Aug-2008 Anna Tunnicliffe won the USA΄s first gold medal of the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition following a magnificent comeback in the Laser Radial Medal Race held today. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_92.php 20-Aug-2008 Jian Yin reclaimed her lead in the Women΄s RS:X fleet with a runaway win in race 10 today and is now eyeing China΄s first ever sailing gold in Wednesday΄s Medal Race. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_93.php 20-Aug-2008 There are slow days and dull days, and grey days, and then there are slow, dull, grey days watching the Olympic regatta in Qingdao when you cannot see the horizon around a full 360 degrees. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_94.php 20-Aug-2008 Light wind, Choopy waves, the visibility diminished, and the stakes high. This was the scene for the Laser Radial medal race in Qingdao on Tuesday. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_95.php 20-Aug-2008 Ben Ainslie in the Finn. Anna Tunnicliffe in the Laser Radial. Natha. Wilmot and Malcolm Page in the 470. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_96.php 20-Aug-2008 Vincent Riou΄s run of bad luck has continued. After he hit a whale in the Artemis Transat and had to abandon his boat, he has been involved in another collision. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_89.php 19-Aug-2008 Four-time European champion Goodison, who finished fourth on his Olympic debut at Athens 2004, http://www.sailcam.tv/news_64.php 18-Aug-2008 LAST MINUTE HEARTBREAK AFTER HEROIC EFFORT FOR 49ERS - Protest Delays Final 49er Results http://www.sailcam.tv/news_73.php 17-Aug-2008 QINGDAO: Qingdao´s hi-tech industries will soon account for more than half the city´s total income. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_62.php 15-Aug-2008 Magnificient tropical venue for mid-winter regatta http://www.sailcam.tv/news_63.php 15-Aug-2008 ΄Dean Brenner΄ US Sailing Olympic Team, I think there is something very interesting going on here in Qingdao, and it΄s not happening on the water. Sure, the racing is great and the experience is intense. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_61.php 13-Aug-2008 Porto Cervo, Italy. 12th August 2008. With little under a month until the 15th edition of the Rolex Swan Cup, preparations are in full swing with over 100 entries already confirmed. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_80.php 12-Aug-2008 Elephant seals swimming under Antarctic ice and fitted with special sensors are providing scientists with crucial data on ice formation, ocean currents and climate change, a study released on Tuesday said. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_60.php 10-Aug-2008 The Australian 49er and Yngling crews are both sitting in fifth place overall after today’s racing in Qingdao. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_57.php 08-Aug-2008 This morning, sailors who will take part in the Opening Ceremony flew to Beijing where they will join up with other Australian Olympic Team athletes to march into the Bird’s Nest Stadium tonight. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_58.php 08-Aug-2008 AUSTRALIAN SAILING TEAM READY TO ROLL http://www.sailcam.tv/news_59.php 08-Aug-2008 Porto Cervo, Italy. 31st July 2008. What is possibly the largest, and certainly the most spectacular, annual gathering of Maxi Yachts is set to take place in Porto Cervo in just over one month. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_82.php 08-Aug-2008 Double Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie talks to Robert Deaves about his preparation for the Olympic Games, the competition he is faced with and his thoughts on the future. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_54.php 07-Aug-2008 Australia enjoys a very proud history in Olympic Sailing, boasting many medal-winning sailing Olympians. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_55.php 07-Aug-2008 Picture: Nathan Outteridge & Ben Austin are racing the Skiff Event. The boat is called a 49er. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_56.php 07-Aug-2008 For the last seven years Jonas Hoegh-Christensen (DEN) has had one goal in mind - winning an Olympic medal in his Finn. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_83.php 07-Aug-2008 From the 400 athletes and 62 nations competing at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition, eight are recipients of the prestigious ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_51.php 06-Aug-2008 Team New Zealand yachting chief Grant Dalton has called for Alinghi and Oracle to negotiate a settlement to the seemingly endless America΄s Cup courtroom dramas. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_52.php 06-Aug-2008 The flower artwork "Olympic triumphal arch" at Fuzhou road of Olympic co-host city Qingdao, in east China΄s Shandong Province. Photo by Wang Song/Xinhua. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_53.php 06-Aug-2008 The Beijing Meteorological Bureau has today predicted that two or three typhoons are likely to land China΄s eastern provinces in August. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_47.php 01-Aug-2008 The Green Dragon’s Volvo Open 70 has arrived in its home port of Galway after a short delivery from the team’s training base in Cork. The trip allowed the crew a chance to test some of the on-board systems. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_48.php 01-Aug-2008 Both Ericsson boats have endured a bruising encounter with the North Sea during their Volvo Ocean Race qualifying run. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_49.php 01-Aug-2008 The Telefonica team have announced their four Under-30 crew members for the Volvo Ocean Race. They are Spaniards Pablo Arrarte, Antonio Cuervas-Mons, New Zealander Daryl Wislang and Michael Pammenter, of South Africa. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_46.php 01-Aug-2008 Day 3 in Lysekil saw the completion of the Stage 1 Round Robin, with the six highest scoring teams qualifying for the next stage. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_50.php 01-Aug-2008 Skipper Bouwe Bekking, reports from on board Telefonica Blue, on the seventh day of the Spanish team’s two-boat 2,000-mile qualification run. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_42.php 31-Jul-2008 "We are delighted with this result; we can now continue with our vision of a multi-challenger event. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_43.php 31-Jul-2008 Want a competitive edge in your next regatta? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_44.php 31-Jul-2008 "Only a miracle can stop Nicolas Troussel winning this years race," http://www.sailcam.tv/news_45.php 31-Jul-2008 New Cowes Classics Week Included A British Olympic Centenary Regatta http://www.sailcam.tv/news_41.php 30-Jul-2008 NY appeals court declares Spanish club America΄s Cup challenger http://www.sailcam.tv/news_39.php 28-Jul-2008 The predicted west/sou’westerly winds have arrived and are helping the remainder of the fleet arrive in Southport. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_40.php 28-Jul-2008 Tough Race for Ray and the crew but victory sweetens the experience http://www.sailcam.tv/news_38.php 27-Jul-2008 At 0700hrs radio report this morning, race leader Quantum Racing leads Yendy΄s and Quest http://www.sailcam.tv/news_35.php 26-Jul-2008 The Bureau of Meteorology delivered its pre start weather forecast at this morning’s race briefing with little change from the previous forecast http://www.sailcam.tv/news_36.php 26-Jul-2008 Racing is under way in the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race with the first boats to clear the heads being Quest, Ragamuffin, Wot Not and Quantum Racing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_37.php 26-Jul-2008 Matthew Short’s new boat Shortwave together with Graeme Wood’s new yacht Wot Now, are in a tough battle for the line honours lead, based on positions at the 2205 race position report. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_32.php 24-Jul-2008 SAILORS READY SET RECORD STRAIGHT http://www.sailcam.tv/news_72.php 24-Jul-2008 NASA prepares to test a satellite that can be propelled by light particles from the sun. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_34.php 23-Jul-2008 Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Michael Logan today predicted a 5-10 knot west to sou’westerly wind for the fleet of 76 yachts which start at 1pm on Saturday from Sydney Harbour. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_84.php 21-Jul-2008 Nominations are now invited for the 2008 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards, the most prestigious award of recognition in the sport of sailing. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_86.php 16-Jul-2008 French skipper Thomas COVILLE has set a new solo North Atlantic record 5 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes and 20 seconds on the trimaran Sodeb΄O, subject to ratification from the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC). http://www.sailcam.tv/news_33.php 15-Jul-2008 A fleet of top IRC racers including Steven David’s Wild Joe, Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats X, Peter Harburg’s Black Jack and four TP52s http://www.sailcam.tv/news_31.php 10-Jul-2008 Race reports thanks to Alec Mckinlay & presse@adonnante.com http://www.sailcam.tv/news_29.php 09-Jul-2008 Australia won the Volvo Trophy at the 2007 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF http://www.sailcam.tv/news_88.php 08-Jul-2008 The International Maritime Organization has supported the International Sailing Federation΄s position on the prevention of collisions at sea. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_26.php 05-Jul-2008 Report by Alec Mac Kinley, Pictures by Christophe Favreau http://www.sailcam.tv/news_25.php 03-Jul-2008 Consistent sea breezes on the Gulf of Cagliari http://www.sailcam.tv/news_22.php 30-Jun-2008 Laser sailor back on course for Games http://www.sailcam.tv/news_21.php 29-Jun-2008 Australian Sailing Team Update – Kiel Week, Germany http://www.sailcam.tv/news_87.php 27-Jun-2008 The WSSR Council has announced an addition to the International Sailing Federation/World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) Record Rules 2005-2008, on Rule 3 The Course. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_20.php 23-Jun-2008 Chicago boats claimed two of the top three finishes in today΄s first race of the Etchells World Championships, http://www.sailcam.tv/news_7.php 21-Jun-2008 Crack French troops are being sent to help free the crew of a luxury yacht seized by pirates off Somalia. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_74.php 20-Jun-2008 A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large areas in real time http://www.sailcam.tv/news_18.php 18-Jun-2008 The more wires you have snaking up the main mast, davits or mizzen, the more potential problems there are. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_19.php 17-Jun-2008 (Chicago Yacht Club) Some of the best sailors from around the globe will compete in the 2008 International Etchells World Championship, http://www.sailcam.tv/news_5.php 12-Jun-2008 Ricky Ponting may have just joined both Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar in Test cricket΄s elite 10,000 run club, but according to former English batsman Geoff Boycott, the Australian Test skipper is not in the same league as his fellow modern-day greats. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_6.php 12-Jun-2008 The undefeated Mayweather, 31, announced his retirement from boxing last week, denying fans a rematch with De La Hoya after Mayweather defeated the http://www.sailcam.tv/news_13.php 12-Jun-2008 Neville Crichton has smashed his own course record in the Giraglia Race http://www.sailcam.tv/news_14.php 12-Jun-2008 Tartaruga, has taken overall honours in the Giraglia Race 2008 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_4.php 11-Jun-2008 Mal Meninga has rejected suggestions half-back Scott Prince will be the weak link in the Maroons΄ defence in tonight΄s second State of Origin match in Brisbane. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_15.php 24-May-2008 Rolex Capri Sailing Week ended today in a fading breeze, but with no reduction in the entertainment value or the intensity on the water. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_77.php 12-May-2008 Arctic ice is melting fast and the area covered by ice sheets in ocean could shrink this summer to the smallest since 1978 http://www.sailcam.tv/news_23.php 05-May-2008 Yachting Australia is very disappointed over the decision taken by ISAF in May http://www.sailcam.tv/news_24.php 05-May-2008 Earthrace, 78 foot bio-diesel powered trimaran has sustained significant damage to its propeller as it hit sea debris on its departure from Koror, Palau, the eighth refuelling stop of its world record circumnavigation attempt. The crew are calling on the Singapore business community to help save the world record attempt. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_8.php 01-May-2008 An overloaded cabin cruiser on a night-time joyride in Sydney΄s famous harbour has collided with a fishing trawler, killing five young people and injuring nine. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_12.php 29-Apr-2008 Miami. What is it about this place that makes everything so exhilarating? http://www.sailcam.tv/news_9.php 19-Apr-2008 A Chinese ship carrying weapons destined for Zimbabwe has left the South African harbour where it was docked and is heading for Mozambique, a human rights group said. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_11.php 19-Apr-2008 Miami Beach, Fla. USA - Vincenzo Onorato and his Mascalzone Latino are the 2008 Rolex Farr 40 World Champions http://www.sailcam.tv/news_16.php 24-Mar-2008 Last night the land-sea breeze off the Philippine coast made and lost fortunes for the potential handicap winners in this 565-nautical mile offshore Asian classic. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_10.php 01-Feb-2008 Bekatorou and team preparing for upcoming 2008 Yngling Women΄s World Championship http://www.sailcam.tv/news_17.php 30-Jan-2008 The Farr 40 Class announced the venues for the Rolex Farr 40 World Championships from 2009-2011. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_85.php 07-Nov-2007 Claire LEROY and Ed BAIRD have joined one of the most distinguished lists in sailing after winning the 2007 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards. http://www.sailcam.tv/news_30.php 16-Jul-2007 Royal Findhorn Yacht Club hosted the third event in the 2007 Scottish Skiff Grand Prix series over the weekend of the 14th and 15th of July.