14 Year-Old Boy Aims to Sail the Atlantic Solo.

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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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British yachtsman Mike Golding awarded an OBE for his contribution to the sport of sailing

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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 ...
 

Australia. Adventure skipper Major Charles Roberts recalls dramatic rescue of Ray White Koomooloo crew

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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 ...
 

Australia & UK. Mile Goldings OBE delights Sir Robin Knox-Johnston

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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 ...
 

Tasmania. Love & War wins 2006 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race & Tattersalls Cup

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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 ...
 

Tasmania. Bill Sykes skippers Wot’s Next and its young crew across Rolex Sydney Hobart line

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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 ...
 

Tasmania. Humble box on Castray Esplanade means Home to every Rolex Sydney Hobart sailor

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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 ...
 

Australian Laser Championships: Olympic medallist Vasilij Zbogars OCS protest dismissed

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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 ...
 

Rolex Sydney Hobart. Love & War set to claim third Tattersalls Cup win

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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 ...
 

Risks and Costs Rise With Seas for Competitors in a Solo Race

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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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