January 2008
Monthly Archive
Wed 30 Jan 2008
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Joe Glanfield and Nick Rogers fall away to finish ninth in the world 470 championships as Britons Nic Asher and Elliot Willis take gold.
Wed 30 Jan 2008
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Dan Slater has won silver at the Finn Gold Cup in Melbourne, Australia after being pipped by Britain’s Ben Ainslie in the deciding medal race late yesterday. Ainslie had already surpassed the previous record of three Finn Gold Cup ...
Wed 30 Jan 2008
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Once again Hugo Boss managed to make up a further 36 miles overnight – and at just over 400 miles behind, it is the closest the two boats have been for several weeks. Although Paprec Virbac 2 managed to ...
Wed 30 Jan 2008
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Last night the Doldrums slowed Groupama 3's progress, which was only able to rack up an average speed of around a dozen knots in a breeze rarely in excess of ten knots. At 0600 GMT, the giant trimaran had ...
Wed 30 Jan 2008
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Brits Nic Asher and Elliot Willis overcame great odds this week to pull off a stunning 470 Men’s world championship victory at Mordialloc Sailing Club today. The 2006 world champions survived a nasty mid-race collision in Race 8 before ...
Tue 29 Jan 2008
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Now in its fourth year the 2008 Vice Admiral's Cup Regatta, hosted by the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club Cowes, will take place from Friday 30 May to Sunday 1 June inclusive. Originally instigated as a fun level racing regatta ...
Tue 29 Jan 2008
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Olympic champion Ben Ainslie wins his fifth Finn single-handed dinghy world title.
Tue 29 Jan 2008
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Olympic champion Ben Ainslie wins his fifth Finn single-handed dinghy world title.
Tue 29 Jan 2008
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Great Britain’s sailors saw a solid start to the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta on Monday (28 January), with Yngling World Champions Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson displaying the most consistent scoreline of the Brits on the ...
Tue 29 Jan 2008
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Perfect first-day conditions greeted sailors at US SAILING's Rolex MIami OCR, where 369 Olympic and Paralympic sailors from 34 countries are competing in four Olympic classes (Laser, Laser Radial, Star, and Yngling) and three Paralympic classes (2.4mR, SKUD-18 and ...