GBR sailors secure IFDS World Championships hat-trick
Britain’s Paralympic classes sailors scored their best ever World Championship medal haul at the Delta Lloyd IFDS World Championships, which concluded today (14 July) in Medemblik (NED) with a British crew on the podium in each of the three classes. Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell picked up their second straight world title with a race [...]
Kindred Female Sailing Spirits : Facebook Group
Ladies wot yacht in the USA! Check out this great Facebook group! The aim of KFSS is to discuss questions and issuea that can weigh on the minds of cruising women. Their goal is to empower female sailors to become independant, integral members of the sailing community. They meet every month both in Ventura and [...]
Shirley Robertson looks forward to Extreme 40 World Championships
The boat park in Portorož is awash with international sailing talent as the teams entered into the inaugural Extreme 40 World Championship prepare their boats for action. Five days of racing will kick off on Wednesday 14 July with the first of up to 15 Olympic style courses in the Bay of Portorož on the [...]
Champions in control at Laser Radial World Championships : Day 4
Finland’s defending champion stepped further clear of the chasing pack today when she sailed to a well earned fifth place from another difficult race at the Laser Radial World Championships on the Clyde off Largs. Both Women’s and Men’s current title holders lead their championships. As the women’s fleet entered the Finals phase today [...]
Ekaterina Skudina Wins Women’s Stena Match Cup Sweden
Running in conjunction with the World Match Racing Tour event is ‘Women’s Stena Match Cup Sweden’. Ten elite female crews are racing in Elliott 6m boats that will be used in the 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition. The inclusion of women’s match racing to the Olympic Sailing Competition has increased the profile of the women’s discipline [...]
Full of Easterly challenges at Laser Radial Worlds, Day 2.
Largs delivered the Laser Radial World Championships competitors a testing measure of its notoriously difficult offshore, easterly breeze for the second day of competition on the Clyde estuary. With the breezes gusting and swirling off the heather clad hills and down the glens at the back of the town of Largs the sudden changes [...]
Laser Radial Worlds’ Day 1
Olympic gold medallist Anna Tunnicliffe (USA) proved she has lost nothing from her speed and guile for her break this season from the Laser Radial class as she returned to a first and second place from the first two races of the Laser Radial World Championships which opened today on the Clyde estuary off Largs [...]
Keeping the powder dry, Laser Radial Worlds start Friday!
After nearly a week of blustery Scottish winds, many of the competitors preparing for tomorrow’s start to the Laser Radial World Championships elected to rest, to sail only briefly or to participate in only part of today’s official practice race. The Clyde Estuary off Largs offered great racing conditions. Twelve to 15 knots of SW’ly [...]
British crew set for sailing world title defence in Holland
British Paralympians Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell are looking forward to defending their SKUD World Championship title when the Delta Lloyd IFDS Worlds get underway in Medemblik, Holland, on Friday (9 July). Rickham and Birrell are among the seven-strong Skandia Team GBR squad set to compete across three Paralympic Classes over six days of [...]
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