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Archive for July, 2010
2010 RYA Volvo Zone & Home Country Championships entries open
Entries are now open online for the 2010 RYA Volvo Zone and Home Countries Championships with more than 1,000 young sailors and windsurfers set to descend on eight venues around the UK on the weekend of 25 – 26 September. Northern Ireland’s event will take place three weekends earlier this year on 4-5 September. [...]
Ladies Day Arrangements at Cowes Week 2010
The lively Ondeck Hospitality area will play host to a number of events and functions throughout the Week including: The Ladies Day Trophy Awards for media, guests and nominees at 1800 on Wednesday 4TH August at 1800 and Mount Gay’s brand ambassador and mixologist (wouldn’t we all want his job!) all the way from Barbados, [...]
Court allows Dutch teenager Laura Dekker to set sail
Despite their application to extend the supervision order over 14 year old Laura Decker, the Child Protection Council of Utrecht in the centre Netherlands have learned that they lost the battle to prevent the youngsters voyage. Laura wants to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world and must complete the two-year trip before she turns [...]
Erika Reineke crowned the new Laser Radial World Youth Champion
After a highly charged day’s racing on the Clyde in some of the trickiest conditions of the week, Giovanni Coccoluto (ITL) and Erika Reineke (USA) have been crowned the new Laser Radial World Youth Champions. The upper reaches of the Clyde just to the north of Cumbrae, provided the perfect stage for the final two [...]
Ladies Afloat
I picked up a copy of Devon Life magazine this weekend to read an article about Salcombe and was delighted to discover that there is a very special organisation which encourages women to get out on the water, ‘Ladies Afloat’. Based at the Royal Dart Yacht Club (RDYC) in Kingswear, Devon, ‘Ladies Afloat’ has grown [...]
Girls set new world record in Virgin GB Row
After an incredible seven weeks at sea in a tiny 24-foot-long rowing boat, four women are set to complete an epic 2,010-mile journey rowing non-stop around Britain. The all female crew set out on June 1 to race a team of men around the British mainland. But when the male team gave up after less [...]
Day 3 of Laser Radial World Youth Champs
The wind arrived on the Clyde a little later than predicted today causing yet another long postponement, but thankfully a light south-westerly made its way up towards the race course area – just to the north of Cumbrae – by mid afternoon allowing two qualifying races to be held. Fully refreshed from yesterday’s opening [...]
Applications open for 2011 BKA squad selections
The RYA and UKSA have announced their commitment to extend the British Keelboat Academy partnership beyond 2010 as applications open for 2011’s squad selection trials which will take place in September. The Academy was set up in October last year for 18-24 year-olds offering budding young keelboat racers the opportunity to further their skills, experience [...]
Day 2 of Laser Radial World Youth Champs
After a day and a half sitting waiting for the wind, a steady, building northerly breeze trickled down the Clyde yesterday afternoon (21 July) allowing racing to commence at the Laser Radial World Youth Championship in Largs. The conditions were far from what the senior Radial fleet experienced at their world championship the previous [...]
Sarah Ayton & Saskia Clark put on an impressive show
Sarah Ayton and Saskia Clark are putting on an impressive show in their first World Championship together – and Ayton’s first in the 470 class. In spite of picking up a black flag penalty in the middle of the three races, the pair had an otherwise solid day with their disqualification sandwiched by two fourth [...]
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