December 2006
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Sat 30 Dec 2006
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Meet Michael Perham, a 14-year-old boy who aims to become the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic by all himself: A 14-year-old boy aims to make history on New Year's Day by becoming the youngest person ...
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Sat 30 Dec 2006
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Golding, 46, who lives in Hampshire, is regarded as one of the world’s best offshore racing sailors. Having sailed since childhood, Mike first came to public attention in 1992 as a skipper in Sir Chay Blyth’s revolutionary British ...
Sat 30 Dec 2006
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Adventure, the yacht that diverted to rescue the crew of Ray White Koomooloo, has arrived in Hobart. The big steel boat, a former BT Challenge yacht sailed by members of the British Army Royal Signal Corps, crossed the finish ...
Sat 30 Dec 2006
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British yachtsman Mike Golding has been awarded an OBE for his contribution to the sport of sailing. Golding, 46, who lives in Hampshire, is regarded as one of the world’s best offshore racing sailors. Golding will visit Buckingham ...
Sat 30 Dec 2006
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Love & War, the magnificent timber Sparkman & Stephens 47 skippered by Lindsay May, has been declared the official winner of the Tattersalls Cup, the trophy awarded to the winner of the race on IRC handicap. The Race Committee ...
Sat 30 Dec 2006
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Graeme Wood’s Wot’s Next, skippered by Bill Sykes, arrived in Hobart this morning thrilled with their race time and with half a boat load full of young novices on board with their first of many Rolex Sydney Hobarts now ...
Sat 30 Dec 2006
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It’s a humble structure, just 15 square metres in area; it has no hot water, just an aged cold water tap that has lost its chrome; it has a portable outside toilet, an old fridge, a pie warmer and ...
Sat 30 Dec 2006
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A protest by the Athens bronze medal winner Vasilij Zbogar against the Race Committee in declaring him OCS in race one of the Australian Laser Championships on Hobart’s Derwent River has been dismissed. Zbogar crossed the line first in ...
Sat 30 Dec 2006
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The old salts are claiming the Corinthian spirit has returned to ocean racing with the provisional success of Love & War in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The boat that the late Peter Kurts took to handicap ...
Sat 30 Dec 2006
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Nearly 40 years ago, Robin Knox-Johnston of Britain became the first person to sail solo around the world nonstop, but recently he was drifting along in the desolate Indian Ocean, alone in his 60-foot sailing ...
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