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Date: 2007-10-09
Views: 457

Category: Sail Boats

Team Origin, the British challengers for the 33rd America's Cup, tested the water this weekend at the Trapani Cento Cup, a Grade One ISAF Match Race Regatta in Sicily, and won.

As warm-ups go, this was no easy race - Team Origin's Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Matt Cornwell were up against a formidable line-up of skippers from the last America's Cup, including the Danes Jes Gram Hansen and Jesper Raddich, Australian James Spithill and Italian Paolo Cian - but the team pulled it off. Read More...

Date: 2007-09-19
Views: 1223

Category: Sail Boats

The world's largest sailing yacht, Eos, has caused a stir by docking in Dartmouth harbour.

At 300 foot long, with 200-foot masts and worth around £100 million, Eos, owned by Barry Diller, a powerful figure in the US television and film industry, Eos overpowers every yacht in the harbour, where it has docked to allow the British crew members to spend time with their families. Read More...

Date: 2007-09-13
Views: 496

Category: Sail Boats

The Burger Boat Company celebrated a new addition to its fleet this week with the launch of the new Areti I.

Areti I is the first of two new 127-foot tri-deck yachts the company will launch this year, with classical exteriors and stylish interiors, designed by the Burger design team to be both elegant and minimal at the same time. Read More...

Date: 2007-07-05
Views: 531

Category: Sail Boats

Hanse has posted pre-tax profits of £3.9 million for the first three quarters of 2007 - effectively doubling its earnings compared with last year.

Turnover, meanwhile, for the Swedish yacht company has tripled to £43.7 million. Read More...

Date: 2007-06-27
Views: 608

Category: Sail Boats

Halyard Marine has won the Spirit of Inovation Award at the Seawork exhibition for its marine exhaust silencing technology.

The award was granted for the company's Resonator Silencer, which filters out specific problem noise frequencies from a band cenred around the engine's firing frequency. Read More...

Date: 2007-05-15
Views: 948

Category: Sail Boats

The first-ever glass reinforced plastic dinghy in the Victory class has been launched at Portsmouth.

Lady West, wife of one-time First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Alan West, blessed the boat, dubbed Zafirah, this weekend at Camber Dock, Old Portsmouth. Read More...

Date: 2007-02-20
Views: 918

Category: Sail Boats

Sixteen boats capsized and three sailors were left needing medical attention after severe weather conditions on the first day of the Seawind F18 Worlds caused chaos off the Australian coast of Yeppoon.

Although the wind was blowing at no more than 15 knots at the beginning of the day the swell from three days of strong southerly winds made conditions comparable to a 25 knot draft. Read More...

Date: 2007-01-31
Views: 764

Category: Sail Boats

Technical difficulties in the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand have forced Robin Knox-Johnston to resort to manually reading the weather conditions as he slipped further behind in the Velux 5 Oceans round-the-world race.

This morning (January 31st), Sir Robin found himself over 100 miles behind Kiwi skipper Graham Dalton as he was unable to make any tactical manoeuvres due to the breakdown of his Fleet 77 satellite communications terminal that normally allows him to download weather forecasts. Read More...

Date: 2006-12-14
Views: 845

Category: Sail Boats

Some 250 of the 420 class' biggest sailing stars will be avoiding exuberant celebrations this new year as the 420 World Championships are due to begin on January 3rd in New Zealand.

Current world champions Carl Evans and Peter Burling will defend their title on home waters in Auckland and will be hoping to come up with a performance that belies their age. Read More...

Date: 2006-12-13
Views: 1802

Category: Sail Boats

A Hampshire tall ship crew came to the rescue of seven French sailors in the mid-Atlantic after their yacht became stranded in stormy conditions.

The 43-foot Sun Odyssey Zouk, had been drifting for six days before the Tenacious was alerted of the situation and departed from its planned route to Antigua in order to rescue the Frenchmen. Read More...

Date: 2006-12-12
Views: 1108

Category: Sail Boats

A 13-year-old boy took charge of a potentially dangerous situation when his family yacht ran aground on the Thames late on Saturday night.

In the dark, the teenager phoned Thames coastguards and proceeded to accurately explain where the vessel was and what had happened to it on behalf of his completely deaf father and brother. Read More...

Date: 2006-11-30
Views: 994

Category: Sail Boats

The London boat show will play host to the launch of the all-new Delphia 33 yacht, it was announced yesterday (November 29th).

The model occupies the gap between the highly popular Delphia 29 and the slightly larger Delphia 37 while following on the same sleek lines of the 37 and 40 models. Read More...

Date: 2006-11-22
Views: 763

Category: Sail Boats

A large British contingent will be taking part in the second round of the JPMorgan Asset Management Winter Challenge Series this weekend.

The event, which will see some top draw grade three match racing, takes place at the Queen Mary Sailing Club in Staines. Read More...