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ORACLE Racing Spithill wins Match Race championship Cascais, Portugal

August 14, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

James Spithill and his ORACLE Racing crew swept aside the previously ascendant Emirates Team New Zealand to win the Cascais AC Match Race Championship on Saturday, as the AC World Series Cascais enters the final weekend of racing. Many of the matches featured close starts, blazing speed runs to the first turning mark and early... ... read full story

Tall ship sailing yacht Friendship of Salem at Dennis Conner’s North Cove

August 11, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

The 171ft Tall-ship sailing yacht “Friendship of Salem” made her first appearance at Dennis Conner’s North Cove this morning.  S/Y Friendship of Salem is a reconstruction of a 171-foot three-masted Salem East Indiaman built in 1797. She is the largest wooden US Coast Guard certified sailing vessel to be built in New England in more... ... read full story

AC World Series Cascais: Kiwis continue to roll over the competition

August 11, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

Emirates Team New Zealand is quickly becoming the star of the show at the America’s Cup World Series – Cascais. For the second consecutive day, the Kiwis earned maximum points, after beating Artemis Racing in a match racing duel for first place to conclude a full day of racing. The Emirates team picked up where... ... read full story

America’s Cup on display at the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2011.

August 11, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

The America’s Cup will be on display during the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week at regatta headquarters, Hamilton Island Yacht Club - Photo Credit Andrea Francolini  Audi ©

The America’s Cup, the oldest trophy in the history of international sport, will be the spectacular centrepiece at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week this month, and while there it will celebrate a remarkable milestone: the 160th anniversary of when it was first contested in 1851. Sporting history reveals that the contest for this remarkable trophy... ... read full story

AC World Series continues to set pace for close action sailing in Cascais

August 11, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

Emirates Team New Zealand is setting a torrid pace at the Cascais AC Match Race Championship, the third stage of the AC World Series competition, leading after the first day of the series. Following a two-hour postponement due to unusually light and fickle winds in Cascais, the three seeding fleet races were packed with thrills... ... read full story

Superyacht fleet arriving for 2011 Shipyard Cup

August 10, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

Boothbay Harbor is starting to buzz with excitement as the entrants for this weekend’s Shipyard Cup start to arrive.  The Shipyard Cup is a big boat sailing regatta held annually in the Boothbay Region (racing Saturday and Sunday from about noon – 4:30 P.M. depending on conditions).  This year’s Shipyard Cup is of special interest... ... read full story

Yellowbrick launches Yellowbrick 3 – The world’s most advanced tracking device

August 09, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

Yellowbrick, the world’s largest truly-global tracking provider, has launched Yellowbrick 3, an advanced professional tracking device incorporating a unique Two-Way Messenger function. This latest device from Yellowbrick enables communications and social media updates to be sent from any location in the world, no matter how remote, thanks to its use of the Iridium Satellite network.... ... read full story

SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island: Fundraising surpasses $4 Million

August 08, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

Back in 2008, it was a perfect time for Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI) to find a deal on a tall ship hull, but a formidable year to launch a multi-million dollar campaign to acquire the vessel and finish its build-out as Rhode Island’s official Education-at-Sea school ship. The 501(c)3, Newport-based organization this month... ... read full story

Hodgdon Yachts offering a taste of Maine at the Monaco Yacht Show 2011

August 08, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

The oldest American shipyard, Hodgdon Yachts based in Maine will be at the 2011 Monaco Yacht Show Hodgen Yachts will introduce their Limo Custom Tender on board the 86m Oceanco superyacht Seven Seas, and will also unveil information about new superyachts constructions. Hodgdon Yachts will then give an update on the 9th edition of the... ... read full story

STRUCTeam™ to engineer first example of new 100ft Wally Cento Sailing Yacht.

August 08, 2011

Written by Chelsea Smith

STRUCTeam Ltd is proud to announce that it has gained a contract to engineer the first example of a new class of sailing yacht being built to the Wally Cento “box” rule. The 100’ (30m) Wally Cento sailing yacht, designed by naval architects Judel Vrolijk, currently being built in the UK at Green Marine, due... ... read full story

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