Alpari, a global association of companies providing online foreign exchange (“Forex”, “FX”), precious metals and CFD trading services, today announced a five-year title partnership with the World Match Racing Tour. The agreement sees the world’s leading professional sailing series become the Alpari World Match Racing Tour from February 2012. Jim O’Toole, CEO of the Alpari … Continue reading »
The 2011 RC44 World Championships came down to the eleventh and final race of the event to be decided. Katusha made a late comeback, Artemis Racing held their nerve and two new teams made it onto the podium for the first time this season. It was Katusha (RUS), steered by Steve Howe this week with … Continue reading »
The Circolo della Vela Sicilia of Palermo and the team Luna Rossa Challenge 2013 announce that their Notice of Challenge for the 34th America’s Cup, which will be held at San Francisco in September 2013, has been accepted by the Golden Gate Yacht Club. Luna Rossa Challenge 2013 and Emirates Team New Zealand have signed … Continue reading »
via Rolex Fastnet Race The two largest trimarans in the record-sized Rolex Fastnet Race rounded the Fastnet Rock off southwest Ireland at around 0930 this morning. As expected Loick Peyron’s Maxi Banque Populaire (FRA) was leading, but surprisingly just eight miles ahead of the Seb Josse-skippered Gitana 11 (FRA), despite the latter being just 77 feet compared to Maxi Banque … Continue reading »
Here’s our roundup of top news from the week, as well as some news that we’ve just received today. Start reading below to catch up on everything that happened in sailing this week.
Tough Break for Oracle Racing’s Daubney Four-time America’s Cup winner Simon Daubney (NZL) is the unfortunate one to miss out due to a broken bone in his left hand sustained during Friday’s practice session in Cascais. He is replaced by the rigging/wing expertAndrew Henderson (AUS) from the shore team and one of ORACLE Racing’s reserves. “Hendo” has a … Continue reading »
The videos coming from Quantum Racing’s production team are really something special. The past few videos (including the one just posted above) have featured cameras mounted in places that cameras weren’t built for – which makes them something special. There was even a vid of bowman Greg Gendell cleaning the mast (from his perspective!) Anyway, … Continue reading »
A pessimistic forecast gave way to the best day of wind here in Crans for the Realstone Cup. Foncia, who finished 8th I believe in the first event two weeks ago, won this event easily. Four races were held today in winds varying from South to North and 3 knots to 15 knots. That’s racing … Continue reading »
The RC44 class had a mix of world class match racers along with match race novices fighting it out for honours at the RC44 Austria Cup today. Mathieu Richard (FRA) was runner up at the 2010 World Match Racing Tour, today he was at the helm of the new Aleph Sailing Team’s RC44. He finished … Continue reading »
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT By Norbert Bajurin, GGYC Commodore Regarding your ‘Insider’ comments in Scuttlebutt 3322, you are correct that Golden Gate Yacht Club is the home club of ORACLE Racing, of which we are exceptionally proud. However, your suggestion that Mr. Ellison funded the club to gain control of our Board is false. As … Continue reading »
