Optimist Sailing News
Optimist Nationals Sail Training Race
18 May 2012 By Alan Leave a Comment
the short clip show the skill and determination of this great sailors, with each day covered by the people of both TQstudios and Ed ye Happy Fish and hosted by Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. Video Rating: 5 / 5 … [Read More...]
US Sailing starts new membership drive
17 May 2012 By Google Leave a Comment
US Sailing starts new membership drive Posted on 17 May 2012 ShareTweetUS Sailing is introducing a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of being a member of the sport's national governing body. In conjunction with Membership Matters and to celebrate the rich history of racing in the United States, US Sailing will be announcing an interactive online contest to give fans a chance to crown the Greatest American … [Read More...]
Juniors run an impressive race
17 May 2012 By Google Leave a Comment
THE Whitsunday Sailing Club held its second race in the Junior Skipper's series on Saturday afternoon. THE Whitsunday Sailing Club held its second race in the Junior Skipper's series on Saturday afternoon. A total of seven boats consisting of five monohulls and two multi's took to the course on Pioneer Bay with juniors at the helm. With winds blowing 10-15 knots and gusts of up to 18, boats were on the edge of being over-pressed under large number one headsails, but the young helmspeople … [Read More...]
Yachties take on the world
17 May 2012 By Google Leave a Comment
CLAY WILSON Taking on the world: Queen Charlotte Yacht Club sailors, from left, Alastair Gifford, Hamish Clark, Oscar Rorvik and Taylor Burn are preparing to compete overseas in the near future. Burn and Rorvik are representing New Zealand at the World 420 Champs in Austria, while Clark and Gifford are doing the same at the European Optimist Championships in Italy. Five Queen Charlotte Yacht Club sailors are preparing for major … [Read More...]
Against the tide
17 May 2012 By Google Leave a Comment
The world of sports is replete with famed fables overcoming obstacles of various forms before walking on the path to glory. Kaki Raghavendra and Nikhil, who finished 14th and 21st respectively in the Optimist Class at the recently-concluded Junior Sailing Nationals in Mumbai, belong to the aforementioned category. As one ventures along the banks of the Hussain Sagar Lake in Sanjeevaiah Park, the two can be spotted fine-tuning their sailing skills at the Yacht Club of Hyderabad. Raghavendra, who … [Read More...]
Irish Fireballer Kenny Rumball Wins Volvo Ocean Race Trip to Miami
16 May 2012 By Google Leave a Comment
#VOR – Volvo Ocean Race fan and Irish Fireball champion, Kenneth Rumball, has won a trip to Miami, USA, to sail with Abu Dhabi backed outfit Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. The 24-year-old, from Dun Laoghaire County Dublin, says the chance to meet his heroes and sail on the team's Volvo Open 70 race yacht, Azzam (determination), in the gruelling round-the-world sailing event is a dream come true. Hoping to follow in the footsteps of one of his heroes, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing's Irish bowman, Justin … [Read More...]
Kirklands’ success ‘another sign of sailing’s growth’
16 May 2012 By Google Leave a Comment
<!----> Make text smaller Make text larger Photos Jesse (left) and Zander Kirkland in action at the 49er World Championships in Croatia.<!--2 of 2--> “We are benefiting from some of the outreach efforts such as Waterwise, Bermuda Sloop Foundation, the bursary programmes at the sailing clubs and all of those things are raising awareness and bringing people in the sport that otherwise wouldn't be.”Patton, who represented Bermuda at … [Read More...]
Membership Matters campaign introduced by US Sailing
16 May 2012 By Google Leave a Comment
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Winds of change at BzSA Honey Camp Lagoon Regatta
16 May 2012 By Google Leave a Comment
Last Edition Gunmen invade UB ITVET compound posing as students • 3 students robbed at gunpoint of laptop computers, cell phones and jewelry... One day after the finance officer of the YWCA on St. Thomas Street in Belize City was robbed at gunpoint by a lone gunman who got away with around $3,000 in cash and checks, three students of the University of Belize engineering department were also robbed at gunpoint around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, … [Read More...]
Optimist Capsizing in 25 Knots
16 May 2012 By Alan 17 Comments
Oppie sailing and capsizing on Chichester Bar. HISC Training in southern Norway in strong wind. Originally from seilmagasinet.no … [Read More...]