Monthly Archives: March 2009

Luis Doreste, a four-time Olympian who won Gold medals in the Los Angeles (1984) and Barcelona (1992) Olympic Games will join Telefonica Black for the Rio in-port race. Doreste will be tactician for Pedro Campos, who is also scheduled … Continue reading →

Telefonica Blue may have taken the brunt of the notable damage caused to the fleet in leg five, but shore boss Campbell Field is comfortable with his workload. The team hit a rock with their keel before the leg … Continue reading →

A small fleet of Stars has turned up here in Mississippi for the Western Hemisphere Championship also known as the Spring Championship. There is one Spring Championship in Europe and one in North America each year. This year there … Continue reading →

Discovered in 1502 by the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the tropical island of Ilhabela has been a naval defence outpost; a pirate lair; a slave trading centre and location for black market smuggling. Today, however, the 350,000 square mile … Continue reading →

PUMA shore boss Neil Cox is aiming to get il mostro back on the water by Wednesday, a turnaround he hopes will give the team sufficient preparation time for Saturday's in-port race. The yacht arrived in Rio de Janeiro … Continue reading →

Allison Shreeve has completed windsurfing 125km of the Bass Strait Challenge in formidable conditions with 30-35 knot winds and 3-4m swells. In doing so she has exceeded CoastCare’s “Life on the Edge” campaign target for people from all walks … Continue reading →

Day three started off much more positively with a forecast of sea breezes developing but yet again, this took longer than expected to arrive. At the start of the day, Jess Smyth and Miranda Powrie (both NZL) and Katie … Continue reading →

446 crews from 21 nations at La Marina di Scarlino in Maremma Tuscany are facing off in the Gulf of Follonica during the Italian leg of the Europa Cup. After 4 races x leads in the Standard, Y in … Continue reading →