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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

Marblehead Junior Race

The Marblehead Race Week for juniors made its record on 25th July with many young sailors taking part in the event this year. The oldest junior yacht club in the United States has become one of the 2nd largest competitions for youth in the country today.

There are 400 participants who would compete on 300 boats for the entire week. The event will take place for 3 days and the Pleon Yacht Club would be hosting it. There would be competitions in 3 distinct categories which include the Optimist, the Laser and the 420s taking part. Children by the age of 8 to 18 belonging from New England would be taking part in the competitions this week.

August 19, 2016 Yacht

Star Winter Series dominated by Augie Diaz and Magnus Liljedahl

The 2nd event of the 4th annual Star Winter Series took place on 2nd and 3rd January, with twenty teams taking part in 4 races in Miami, Florida. Posting all top 2 scores, Magnus Liljedahl and Augie Diaz won handily, outstripping themselves by 9 points over Brian Fatih and William Swigart in second, who were drew with Steve Calder and Eric Doyle but winning on count back.
John Hokanson and Arnd Glunde, the Canadians, have managed to leave with some edals, winning the Grand Masters part. Now in its 4th year, the Star Winter event is a single 1-design series, constituted of four winter weekend meets and a four-day Midwinter Championship, all voyaged out of a great club with a convenient and economical storage solution.
Only the top three Winter Series weekend meets will count toward SWS Championship Presented By EFG International. The Star Winter Series Champion would be the captain with the lowest total score to be accounted as follows – The sum of the overall spot in Star Midwinters multiplied by two, plus the lowest 3 scores from the 4 SWS weekend meets. Series Championship draws to be determined by a team’s spot in Midwinters.

April 7, 2016 Yacht

Mayra Yachts build 46m sailing yacht

A brand new forty-six meter classic yacht is to be made by Turkish yacht brand Mayra Yachts following a deal signed back in August this year. According to reports, the 45.5m long yacht is being made for a Russian client and is anticipated to be all set for delivery in the year 2017. The wooden hull of the yacht has already been made with epoxy through a cold moulded process.

Along with this, recently Mayra Yachts went to the Monaco Yacht Show recently where they exhibited their fifty meter superyacht Euphoria that is presently at the yard, ahead of a summer as an Greek Island Bareboat charter. Mayra Yachts reports that they are looking ahead to going to the show again next year along with the completed vessel.