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City reputations are on the line this weekend as some of the capital’s leading legal, accounting, media and banking institutions prepare to battle it out at London’s Royal Victoria Docks for the coveted BMW City Challenge sailing title. The …

Student mental health and student “misbehavior” are two issues that every student program is obliged to respond to with ever greater frequency.  This presentation will focus on who our students are, common psychological issues, alcohol use and abuse, responding to psychological crises in international or remote settings, psychotropic medications and student screeening. We will also […]

Once again it is the weekend (29-30 September) Great Britain’s Olympic hopefuls of the future have their first real chance to shine. The annual RYA Zone and Home Country Championships will see around 1,000 of England and Scotland’s most …

British sailing’s Yngling World Champions and Beijing Olympic nominees Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson have been shortlisted for the prestigious ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award. Launched in 1994, the awards are recognised as the …

ISAF and Rolex are proud to announce the shortlisted nominees for the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2007. The criteria for nomination for the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2007 was “outstanding sailing …

In the year 1967 the Australian Rodney March designed the Tornado, an Olympic class boat, that will be showing herself in the upper Garda Lake for three days with her high speed performance. Forty years ago two friends, Terry …

Within five and half days of the Notice of Race appearing on the official regatta website in late August, the 2008 Laser Masters Worlds, with an entry cap of 320, had sold out, forcing organisers to lift the limit, …

Flaming-hot Fanatic rider Nayra Alonso helps her team take a valuable triple discipline lead at Sylt with a famous victory over world champion Iballa Moreno in the waves. A narrow window of wind and waves allowed the women a …

King of Cool or lucky break? That is the question. Whatever the real answer, the positions at the end of Day Two and Race Five of the Rolex TP52 Global Championship 2007 do not lie. Artemis (SWE) sits on …

It has been rumoured that money makes the world go round. In my experience it is human kindness and generosity that is the more powerful propellant - money is something like death - for most of us the most …