March 2007
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Sat 31 Mar 2007
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Bookmaker William Hill has installed Team Alinghi, the Swiss entry and holder, as the 8/11 favourite to win again. Hill makes Emirates Team New Zealand the 3/1 second favourites for the event, which gets underway in April, with the US ...
Sat 31 Mar 2007
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"Bob did the sums all along the way and always got the right answers"
Email this story Print this story 5:00AM Saturday March 31, 2007 By Robyn Bailey Croker has stepped down after 12 years as chairman of the National Maritime Museum. via New Zealand Herald
Sat 31 Mar 2007
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Since the America’s Cup Class was introduced as the new design for the Cup in San Diego in 1992 the class has reached sail number 100, although not all the sail numbers assigned resulted in boats that were completed. ...
Sat 31 Mar 2007
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Britain’s Olympic sailing hopefuls start their competition season in earnest this week with the first of the top European regattas, the Princess Sofia Trophy in Palma, Majorca. The event, which runs from Sunday 1 April through until Friday 6 ...
Sat 31 Mar 2007
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On the 1st of April the America’s Cup boats have to be revealed to the public. Tension is building in the Port America’s Cup in Valencia. Two days before the start of Louis Vuitton Act 13, the Unveiling Day ...
Sat 31 Mar 2007
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The 38 Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofia, which is sponsored for a second consecutive year by insurance company MAPFRE, will be held from 30 March to 6 April with record figures: around 1000 boats, 1,600 competitors and up to ...
Sat 31 Mar 2007
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Sat 31 Mar 2007
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"This is one of the last vessels of its kind"
The old sailing ship spent years ferrying timber along the California coast and even more time riding the pitching swells around Alaska's Aleutian Islands, fishing for salmon and cod.
But what almost sank the C.A. Thayer, a wooden schooner built in 1895, were the rain drops that peppered its decks for decades as it rested in San Francisco Bay as a floating museum.
'In some places you could have put your hand through the wood,' said Jim Hayes of Bay Ship & Yacht in Alameda, where for the past three years the vessel has been undergoing renovation. 'Salt water preserves wood. But over the years fresh water was seeping through the deck to the internal framing. It was just rotting away.' Read more
Sat 31 Mar 2007
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Sir Robin Knox Johnston was clearly both tired and overjoyed when his Open 60 came alongside in Norfolk, Virginia and he was able to step ashore. One of the first to welcome him was Unai Basurko, who will be Sir ...
Sat 31 Mar 2007
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Daniel Andrieu , member of China Team's design team, sent us this interesting report on the design of Longtze , CHN-95, the first ever America's Cup yacht to be built in China.
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