December 2008
Monthly Archive
Sat 27 Dec 2008
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Michel Desjoyeaux has continued to steadily increase his lead again over second placed Roland Jourdain. Since the lined up against other again on the same tack yesterday afternoon Desjoyeaux has gained 30 miles on Bilou and now leads by ...
Sat 27 Dec 2008
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Hi All, Front has gone through now and as the satellite photo showed there are clear skies behind, though the wind is much lighter than forecast. Seas were very lumpy when I got lifted after the front, and I had ...
Sat 27 Dec 2008
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"Two nights ago I was in the centre of a big low pressure with around 46 knots and big gusts of 50-55 knots plus snow. During the night a big wave catch the boat and put the mast on ...
Sat 27 Dec 2008
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Wild Oats XI has confirmed that it hit a two-metre long shark at 6.40 pm tonight while sailing at about 20 knots east of Schouten Island on Tasmania’s east coast and while engaged in a tense match race with ...
Sat 27 Dec 2008
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Hopes are running high that Team Russia will attract sufficient funding to allow a return to the Volvo Ocean Race track next year, according to race CEO Knut Frostad. The campaign raised and funded by Russian supermarket entrepreneur Oleg ...
Sat 27 Dec 2008
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Fourteen crew competing in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race were rescued overnight by fellow competitors after their yacht began to sink off the east coast of Australia.
Sat 27 Dec 2008
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What can I say, the days and nights are full of 35-45 knots of wind, big seas, some as large as 25 feet I think, and babysitting the errant auto pilot who for some reason looses the plot and ...
Sat 27 Dec 2008
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Dennis Conner has encountered whales while training for the America's Cup and sailing around the world.
Fri 26 Dec 2008
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A German warship has foiled Somali pirates, who were travelling in a heavily armed skiff in the Gulf of Aden.
Fri 26 Dec 2008
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At approximately 21:20 hrs, 32 miles south east of Point Perpendicular, a mayday call was issued from the yacht Georgia, a Farr 53 owned by Graeme Ainley and John Williams from Sandringham Yacht Club, as a result of losing ...