Mirsky to race Gilmour at Match Cup Sweden
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Mirsky Racing Team,
3:06 AM Fri GMT
Mirsky Racing Team will be up against mentor Peter Gilmour and his PST crew at Match Cup Sweden tomorrow. MRT's reports on Day Two and Three at Match Cup Sweden are below.
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Hull & Humber leads Clipper race 14 to Liverpool
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Clipper Event media,
2:42 AM Fri GMT
Race 14, the final race of the Clipper 07-08 Round the World Yacht Race series from Cork, Ireland, to Liverpool, UK, is underway with the crew of Hull & Humber signalling their intent from the outset and crossing the start line first.
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Race filled - 30 entrants for Vendée Globe 2008
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Vendée Globe media,
2:27 AM Fri GMT
The 2008 Vendée Globe thirty places planned in the race notice have now been filled and there will indeed be thirty candidates lining up on 9th November for the start in Les Sables d’Olonne.
An exceptional line-up, an unprecedented competitive level, this edition of the race deserves all the superlatives. It is now certain that the 2008 Vendée Globe will be an all ticket affair.
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2008 Gran Canaria PWA Grand Slam –Registration Day
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© PWA / Andrew Buchanan,
11:03 PM Thu GMT
The 2008 Gran Canaria PWA Grand Slam – Registration Day. The wait is almost over, as windsurfing’s elite wave, slalom, and freestyle fleets register for the forthcoming nine days of high-wind, multi discipline competition.
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NZ sailors heading for Magnetic Island
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Event Media,
9:17 PM Thu GMT
One of New Zealand’s top Grand Prix sailing boats will be racing at the second annual Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, starting Friday September 5 and running until Tuesday 9 September 2008.
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Tour World Champion out of Match Cup Sweden
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WMRT Media, Sweden ,
9:05 PM Thu GMT
Mathieu Richard (FRA) wins the round robin, but the reigning World Champion Ian Williams (GBR) failed to qualify amidst tough competition at the Match Cup Sweden.
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GBR Red head Rolex Commodores' Cup pack
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Karenza Morton, Cowes, IOW ,
8:10 PM Thu GMT
An impressive offshore second for Jerry Otter’s Erivale and a fourth for Peter Rutter’s Quokka allowed GBR Red to maintain their position ahead of the French despite, in the Class One race, Fair Do’s VII finishing ninth behind France Blue’s race winner Lady Courrier. GBR Red went into the offshore with a two-point lead over the French and have maintained that lead
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Mutua Madrilena win the Cagliari Coastal Race
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Event media, Sardinia ,
7:55 PM Thu GMT
Damaged to such an extent that they had to withdraw from this Race in Marseille, Mutua Madrilena, proved they are finding their form in skipper Vasco Vascotto´s native country, winning both sections of the 32 miles Coastal Race into the Gulf of Angels. But, it was the steady performance of Quantum Racing which sees them top of both the event leader-board and the season long Audi MedCup Circuit
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Malbon sets sights qualifying for Vendee Globe
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Tim Kelly & Associates,
11:03 AM Thu GMT
Jonny Malbon, fresh from helming Artemis Ocean Racing I to second place in class in this weekends round the island race, joins a number of other teams aiming for the extended deadline of the 1st September for his qualification into the Vendee Globe on board Artemis Ocean Racing II
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Olympic sailors comment on Qingdao Green - Video
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ONE Sport,
10:38 AM Thu GMT
ONE Sport talks to Dan Slater, one of NZ's Qingdao bound sailors, about the problems the algae outbreak on the course could cause for him and the rest of the team at the 2008 Sailing Olympics. Plus video from ABC on the algae in Qingdao.
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Velocitek is the 2008 Contender Worlds sponsor
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Stephanie Mah, Toronto ,
9:41 AM Thu GMT
The North American Contender Association is pleased to announce that Velocitek, the preeminent maker of performance racing tools for sailors of all classes, is the 2008 Contender World Championships naming sponsor.
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Day Two Audi Region of Sardinia Trophy images
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Ingrid Abery images,
1:58 AM Thu GMT
Images by Ingrid Abery, www.hotcapers.com from Day Two of the Audi Region of Sardinia Trophy regatta.
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SolOceans Bostik sails 1,700 nm in Northern Europe
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SailingOne Media, ,
1:09 AM Thu GMT
While the first Veolia Oceans (R) one-design has still not been presented to the French sailors, which will be done at the end of August, Charles Caudrelier has just completed in the middle of the night between the 1st and the 2nd of July a promotional sailing tour of the SolOceans in Northern Europe
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