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Sailors from Ireland Challenge Moth World Championship

Two sailors from Ireland are currently contesting at the Moth Worlds which is being held at Perth in Western Australia. David Kene flck of Royal Cork was still at the 28^th position, while Fionn Conway at the 38^th position during the 61-boat fleet at the Mounts Bay Yacht Club. Conway, as well as Keneflck, participated at the Lake Garda Week for foiling held in the month of July. Kenefick of Cork Harbour won the contest.

It was an all play situation for the contestants at the Moth World Championship held at the Mounts Bay Yacht Club in Australia. Every second, the fleets were changing their positions and it was difficult to understand who will ultimately lead the race. Everyone’s eyes were on the boats to see who will make it reach the Gold Fleet racing. The finals for this race are set to be held on 16^th December 2019. For that, all the fleets participating will be divided into several groups.

January 16, 2020 Uncategorized

New Material for Next Generation Sails

The Laser Company and Advanced Precision Related Instruments (APRI) have jointly announced the development of new two-nanometer thick material that will be used for sailing. The announcement in this regard has been made recently.

Stanley Hardy, the president of the company said on this, “For the taller rigs, now we can provide thin films that are light in weight incredibly and have the ability to enables sailing crafts giving high performance and yachts to harness the power of wind. Hardy said, “The material is so light in weight and thin that it is next impossible to see this with the naked eye. Though this can create a certain difficulty for sailors as well spectator but are working on it and we are very confident that we will make it visible from naked eyes without disturbing its weight and thinness.”

May 6, 2019 Uncategorized

America’s Cup: 8 More Challengers Received For 2021

8 more challengers have come up for America’s Cup event to be held in Auckland in 2021. Team New Zealand has confirmed that 8 Notices of Challenge has been received before the official deadline. However, just one among eight entries can be accepted immediately.

Seven other entries carry condition prior to being accepted for the event. Some of the entries are mostly to be found invalid when it goes through the vetting process.

December 6, 2018 Uncategorized

2018 International Youth Sailing Championship (IYSC) Will Be Hosted By Corpus Christi

The Corpus Christi will be organizing the 48th Annual 2018 Youth Sailing World Championships (AYSWC). This is the top youth sailing event worldwide. In the event, over 382 sailors who are the world’s finest young sailors will take part and competing. The event will take place between July 14-21.

This event last held in the United States in the year 1996.

July 21, 2018 Uncategorized

Upcoming Transatlantic Races

There is an upcoming transatlantic race that is coming up. The fourth edition of RORC transatlantic race has been planned which will start from Marina Lanzarote in Canary Islands from November 25^th 2017. It is expected that about 25 teams will participate in the race and there would be large ocean based yachts that would be used. A total of nine nations would be sending in participants and they would be racing for a total distance of 3000 miles that would end at Grenada in West Indies.

The RORC Transatlantic race of this year would be part of the Atlantic anniversary regatta that is planned for this year. It would be half of this regatta series as there is another half planned which would be organized jointly by the RORC and another organization, the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein. This would take place from Bermuda in the following year in July 2018 and would finish in Hamburg which is the home port of the NRV. This would be a celebration of their 150^th anniversary.

For the upcoming RORC transatlantic race there are two favorites who would also run the race between Bermuda and Hamburg who are Jens Kellinghusen from Germany and Eric de Turckheim who would be competing from France. Both are boat owners and members of Royal Ocean Racing Club. Even though their yachts are new to these races they would be having some experienced sailors on board. For instance, Eric’s boat called the Teasing Machine would have Laurent Pages who would be the onboard tactician, having on the accolade of winning the Volvo Ocean Race. The other rival boat called Varuna is also known to have excellent capabilities. Hence, it remains to be seen how these yachts perform on the water. No matter what is the outcome, the regattas would surely be exciting events for local sailing enthusiasts to look forward to.

June 26, 2018 Uncategorized

Kiwis Take 29ers Worlds Day 1 Honors

The Alamitos Yacht Club in California is hosting the 29er World Championship and after the day one of the Worlds, it is the Kiwis that have taken an early lead.

The Bravo Course race was an entertaining one with variable and shifty winds creating drama and confusion at the starting line. The Alpha Course did not have any problems with the wind and this resulted in most of the stars to begin without any glitches.

The participants at the 17th Annual 49ers W4old Championships were split into 2 groups and each of the groups had to compete in three races. The racing at the Bravo Course had to be stopped for some time at the start due to oscillating winds. 20 teams had to face premature start disqualifications by the start of the final race.

The ABYC Commodore Chuck Clay said that the courses looked quite apart from each other despite being on the same coastline. The sailors on both the courses encountered different sailing conditions, the wind as well as racing. Jerelyn Biehl, the 29er class executive director, is happy that the event has kicked off in testing race conditions.

September 16, 2017 Yacht

Thomson Looking For 2020 Vendee Globe Glory

The British sailor Alex Thomson has said that he wants to again go for glory in the 2020 Vendee Globe round the world race.

Thomson has completed this year’s Vendee Globe in January in the 2^nd position and he wants to better his performance in the 2020 Vendee Globe. He had a wonderful battle with Frenchman Armel Le Cleac’h for the first place.

Thomson said that he finished the Vendee Globe in the 3^rd position last year and this year he touched the finishing line in the second position. He feels that there is only one way to go from here and that is to win the Vendee Globe race. He realizes that it is a really huge task and is looking to get the sponsors and the team to fall in line with his ambition.

May 16, 2017 Yacht

ENP Motivates Sailors Narrow Performance Gap

The Aon Youth Sailing World Championships that will take place in Torbay is going to have 400 best youth sailors from the world.

Participants from 67 nations have participated in an event and will take part in a race that will go for five days.

Yachting New Zealand Development Manager and Participation Andrew Clouston said “Sailing is not a mainstream sport in many countries across the world. An event of this large scale is motivating for some and can be daunting from other young sailors who belongs to countries where sailing is not taken as main sport,”

He further added that World Sailing’s Emerging Nations Player program is a great move and it is also a way to ease sailors of young generation. The program helps participants to learn sailing skill and take part in competitions.

The aim of the ENP is to increase the number participation of sailors in Youth World championship, and also to narrow the gap of performance between countries. Countries that do not have sailing as a main sport often see less participants and also the sailors lack the skills in the absence of proper training.

March 11, 2017 Yacht

Extreme Sailing Series Act 6

Among the different sailing events that are going on in the world, Oman Air looks forward to shine at the Extreme Sailing series that it is participating in at Lisbon currently. Act 6 is currently on at the Madeira coast in Portugal. It is definitely top of the table.

Having a favorable position, the team is looking to add on more points as the competition progresses. It is considered to be penultimate in the series of Extreme sailing event this year. Later in the week Act 6 will be coming up. There have been two prior events that were held at Madeira and St Petersburg.

November 12, 2016 Yacht

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