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    Update from the Moth Worlds

    by  • 19 October 2013 • Adam May, Ben Paton, Bora Gulari, chris rashley, Dinghy, Foilers, Iain Jensen, loick peyron, Moth, moth world championship, Nathan Outteridge, Nico Luca Marc delle Karth, Nikolaus Leopold Resch, Rob Greenhalgh, scott babbage, Thierry Martinez, United States

    The McDougall + McConaghy International Moth World Championship being held out of the Kaneohe Yacht Club in Hawaii this week, at present looks like it will end up as a two horse race between Americread more

    Full Throttle comes out on top

    by  • 6 October 2013 • Alan Field, Alec Cutler, altea, Andrea Pardini, Andrea Racchelli, audi, Bandit, blu moon, Bora Gulari, Brian Porter, Bruce Ayres, Cameron Miles, chris rast, Don Jesberg, Doug Wilhelm, efg bank, embarr, flavio favini, Full Throttle, Giovanni Pizzatti, Harry Melges III, Hedgehod, Inshore, Jeff Madrigali, Kim Christensen, Loren Colahan, Lounge Act, maidollis, Maitech, Melges 24, Melges 24 Europeans, Mikey, Monsoon, nathan wilmot, One Designs, Pierrick Contin, riccardo simoneschi, Rose Bud, Soffe 2, Sportsboats, Team Windhonver, Terry Hutchinson, Tetsuya Matsunaga, Three Bond, United States, US Regattas, Viva, Warwick Rooklyn, West Marine Rigging/New England Ropes, Wilco, wtf

    American Brian Porter and his Full Throttle team took fourth in the final race of the Sperry Top-Sider Melges 24 World Championship 2013 today to finally lay claim to the title he has beenread more

    Blu Moon v Full Throttle

    by  • 5 October 2013 • Alan Field, Alec Cutler, altea, Andrea Pardini, Andrea Racchelli, audi, Bandit, blu moon, Bora Gulari, Brian Porter, Bruce Ayres, Cameron Miles, chris rast, Don Jesberg, Doug Wilhelm, efg bank, embarr, flavio favini, Full Throttle, Giovanni Pizzatti, Harry Melges III, Hedgehod, Inshore, Jeff Madrigali, Justin Chisholm, Kim Christensen, Loren Colahan, Lounge Act, maidollis, Maitech, Melges 24, melges 24 world championship, Mikey, Monsoon, nathan wilmot, One Designs, Pierrick Contin, riccardo simoneschi, Rose Bud, Soffe 2, Sportsboats, Team Windhonver, Terry Hutchinson, Tetsuya Matsunaga, Three Bond, United States, US Regattas, Viva, Warwick Rooklyn, West Marine Rigging/New England Ropes, Wilco, wtf

    Day three of competition at the Sperry Top-Sider Melges 24 World Championship 2013 saw three races take place in a shifty northeasterly breeze, which ranged as low as eight knots and as high as 18read more

    Strong start for Jeff Madrigali

    by  • 3 October 2013 • Alan Field, Alec Cutler, altea, Andrea Pardini, Andrea Racchelli, audi, Bandit, blu moon, Bora Gulari, Brian Porter, Bruce Ayres, Cameron Miles, chris rast, Don Jesberg, Doug Wilhelm, efg bank, embarr, flavio favini, Full Throttle, Giovanni Pizzatti, Harry Melges III, Hedgehod, Inshore, Jeff Madrigali, Justin Chisholm, Kim Christensen, Loren Colahan, Lounge Act, maidollis, Maitech, Melges 24, melges 24 world championship, Mikey, Monsoon, nathan wilmot, One Designs, Pierrick Contin, riccardo simoneschi, Rose Bud, Soffe 2, Sportsboats, Team Windhonver, Terry Hutchinson, Tetsuya Matsunaga, Three Bond, United States, Viva, Warwick Rooklyn, West Marine Rigging/New England Ropes, Wilco, wtf

    The first day of racing at the Sperry Top-Sider Melges 24 World Championship 2013, hosted by The San Francisco Yacht Club in Belvedere, California delivered three excellent races sailed in bright sread more

    Rolex Big Boat Series concludes

    by  • 30 September 2013 • Barby MacGowan, Beecom, BustinLoose, Daniel Forster, Daniel Thielman, Double Trouble, Inshore, Isao Mita, Jeff Pulford, Jim Swartz, multihulls, One Designs, Peter Krueger, Resolute, Sportsboats, St Francis Yacht Club, Swiftsure, Sy Kleinman, Tai Kuai, Terry Hutchinson, Tim Fuller, Tony Pohl, Twisted, United States, US Regattas, Vesper

    Just as the America’s Cup finals did for two weeks before it, the Rolex Big Boat Series - St Francis Yacht Club’s top regatta - took over San Francisco Bay for four days of spirited racread more

    Oracle Team USA successfully defends 34th America’s Cup

    by  • 26 September 2013 • Adam Beashel, America's Cup, America's Cup, Ben Ainslie, Chris McAsey, Chris Ward, Dean Barker, Derek Saward, emirates team new zealand, Gillo Nobili, Glenn Ashby, Grant Dalton, Guilain Grenier, Inshore, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Jimmy Spithill, Joe Newton, Joe Spooner, Jono MacBeth, Kyle Langford, oracle team usa, Ray Davies, Rob Waddell, Rome Kirby, Shannon Falcone, Simeon Tienpont, Tom Slingsby, United States

    Emirates Team New Zealand was today unable to halt the inexorable march of Oracle Team USA.read more

    Essential viewing – 34th America’s Cup decider

    by  • 25 September 2013 • Adam Beashel, America's Cup, America's Cup, Ben Ainslie, Chris McAsey, Chris Ward, Dean Barker, Derek Saward, emirates team new zealand, Gillo Nobili, Glenn Ashby, Grant Dalton, Guilain Grenier, Inshore, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Jimmy Spithill, Joe Newton, Joe Spooner, Jono MacBeth, Kyle Langford, oracle team usa, Ray Davies, Rob Waddell, Rome Kirby, Shannon Falcone, Simeon Tienpont, Tom Slingsby, United States

    8:8

    by  • 25 September 2013 • Adam Beashel, America's Cup, America's Cup, Ben Ainslie, Chris McAsey, Chris Ward, Dean Barker, Derek Saward, emirates team new zealand, Gillo Nobili, Glenn Ashby, Grant Dalton, Guilain Grenier, Inshore, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Jimmy Spithill, Joe Newton, Joe Spooner, Jono MacBeth, Kyle Langford, Multimedia, oracle team usa, Ray Davies, Rob Waddell, Rome Kirby, Shannon Falcone, Simeon Tienpont, Tom Slingsby, United States

    Another exemplary performance on San Francisco Bay today in which they extended their consecutive series of bullets to seven, and Oracle Team USA has Emirates Team firmly on the ropes in the 3read more

    34th America’s Cup LIVE – watch races 17 (and 18) here

    by  • 24 September 2013 • Adam Beashel, America's Cup, America's Cup, Ben Ainslie, carlo borlenghi, Chris McAsey, Chris Ward, Dean Barker, Derek Saward, emirates team new zealand, Gillo Nobili, Glenn Ashby, Grant Dalton, Inshore, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Jimmy Spithill, Joe Newton, Joe Spooner, Jono MacBeth, Kyle Langford, oracle team usa, Ray Davies, Rob Waddell, Rome Kirby, Shannon Falcone, Simeon Tienpont, Tom Slingsby, United States

    Fifth consecutive bullet

    by  • 24 September 2013 • Adam Beashel, America's Cup, America's Cup, Ben Ainslie, carlo borlenghi, Chris McAsey, Chris Ward, Dean Barker, Derek Saward, emirates team new zealand, Gillo Nobili, Glenn Ashby, Grant Dalton, Inshore, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Jimmy Spithill, Joe Newton, Joe Spooner, Jono MacBeth, Kyle Langford, oracle team usa, Ray Davies, Rob Waddell, Rome Kirby, Shannon Falcone, Simeon Tienpont, Tom Slingsby, United States

    With every day that passes, Oracle Team USA looks stronger and stronger and so it was that today the defender of the 34th America's Cup  put yet another point on the board, their fifth consecuread more

    34th America’s Cup LIVE – watch races 15 (and 16) here

    by  • 23 September 2013 • Adam Beashel, America's Cup, America's Cup, Ben Ainslie, Chris McAsey, Chris Ward, Dean Barker, Derek Saward, emirates team new zealand, Gilles Martin-Raget, Gillo Nobili, Glenn Ashby, Grant Dalton, Inshore, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Jimmy Spithill, Joe Newton, Joe Spooner, Jono MacBeth, Kyle Langford, oracle team usa, Ray Davies, Rob Waddell, Rome Kirby, Shannon Falcone, Simeon Tienpont, Tom Slingsby, United States

    The high stakes turnaround

    by  • 23 September 2013 • Adam Beashel, America's Cup, America's Cup, Ben Ainslie, Chris McAsey, Chris Ward, Dean Barker, Derek Saward, emirates team new zealand, Gilles Martin-Raget, Gillo Nobili, Glenn Ashby, Grant Dalton, Inshore, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Jimmy Spithill, Joe Newton, Joe Spooner, Jono MacBeth, Kyle Langford, oracle team usa, Ray Davies, Rob Waddell, Rome Kirby, Shannon Falcone, Simeon Tienpont, Tom Slingsby, United States

    Can they really pull this off? From being 8-1 down to their Kiwi rivals, 34th America's Cup defenders, Oracle Team USA added two more wins to current tally of four consecutive victorread more

    Mother Nature smiles on Oracle Team USA

    by  • 21 September 2013 • Adam Beashel, America's Cup, America's Cup, Ben Ainslie, Chris McAsey, Chris Ward, Dean Barker, Derek Saward, emirates team new zealand, Gillo Nobili, Glenn Ashby, Grant Dalton, Inshore, James Dagg, Jeremy Lomas, Jimmy Spithill, Joe Newton, Joe Spooner, Jono MacBeth, Kyle Langford, Multimedia, oracle team usa, Ray Davies, Rob Waddell, Rome Kirby, Shannon Falcone, Simeon Tienpont, Tom Slingsby, United States

    While there is an element of Groundhog Day to the end of this America's Cup - since Tuesday Emirates Team New Zealand has been in a position to take home the Auld Mug only for them either to lose tread more