Sailing News from around the world. http://bymnews.com/news/newsList.php?cat=2 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:41:35 +0100 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:41:35 +0100 http://www.bymnews.com/rss_banner.gif http://bymnews.com/news/newsList.php?cat=2 144 42 Exactly one week ago in Marina at Keppel Bay, Singapore, as the fleet prepared to leave for the gruelling race to Qingdao, Cape Breton Island's skipper, Jan Ridd, explained the advice he had received from skippers in previous editions ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65580 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:43:46 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65580 The fourth edition of the RC 44 Championship Tour will begin in Dubai on February 22 with the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy. Terry Hutchinson and Adam Minoprio join the Class for this event. February 9, 2010 - The RC ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65578 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:36:31 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65578 New Zealanders Josh Junior from Wellington and Adrian Short and Will Tiller from Auckland today hit winning form on a shortened day of sailing in the 2010 Hardy Cup ISAF Grade 3 under 25 match racing regatta on Sydney ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65575 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:27:26 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65575 Three days before everything was expected to begin, last organizational touches were visible at the America´s Cup Marina. Technicians, electricians, waiters…everyone was suffering the countdown stress situation.  On Friday, both teams called media for press conference. At the first ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65573 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:15:36 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65573  Since altering course on Monday evening, Groupama 3 has finally been able to distance herself from the Brazilian coast and switch onto a more productive course towards the SE. Even though the giant trimaran cannot yet thread her way ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65559 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:39:07 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65559 This past weekend was the 2010 Radial Women's North American Championships in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.  I competed in the event in the hopes of qualifying for a spot at the 2010 Radial World Championships, and of defending my title ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65558 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:21:27 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65558 No wind, no race, no good. I feel like we let everyone down today. Too often when we have big events where Television, sponsors, sailing fans and media have planned on following a race, the race doesn't happen on ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65557 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:11:01 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65557 Photos added to the BYM News Gallery Monday 8th Feb 2010 33rd America’s Cup Race day 1 -  http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=483 Porto Montenegro - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=649 Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=253 Video : Trophy Jules Verne - Groupama 3 - Crossing ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65549 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:39:33 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65549 Race officer Harold Bennett (NZL) and the race committee team made considerable efforts to locate a wind which was settled enough and of sufficiently even strength across the proposed 20 miles first leg, but they proved fruitless. An offshore ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65546 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:23:53 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65546 Groupama 3 has been forced to pick out a course to the SSW before slowly straightening out her trajectory to the South this Monday afternoon… As a result her lead over the reference time is diminishing. Franck Cammas and ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65540 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:01:51 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65540 Race One of the 33rd America's Cup Match was abandoned for the day on Monday afternoon. With very light and shifting winds over the race area, the Race Committee was unable to find suitable conditions for racing. “We had ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65539 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:54:09 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65539  Seven months of trialling and testing the 90ft load waterline length catamaran Alinghi 5 were exhilarating for everyone associated with the team. The multihull design, foreign to many of the monohull sailors in the team, was a refreshing change ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65538 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:36:10 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65538 Today’s scheduled Race 1 of the 33rd America’s Cup Match was postponed due to light and unstable winds on the Mediterranean Sea. The Alinghi team was looking forward to racing the 90ft catamaran Alinghi 5 after seven months of ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65537 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:32:05 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65537 I'm back out on the ocean and happy to be here. I was really beginning to miss it! I left Cabo around 10:00am on Saturday. Things are going really well now. I'm on a nice beam reach and making ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65536 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:11:38 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65536 Another day in the race to Qingdao and the relatively benign conditions persist. It will not be long, however, before the wind ramps up and the teams experience the harsh conditions that this race is renowned for. Spirit of ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65534 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:55:12 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65534 Race One of the 33rd America's Cup Match was abandoned for the day on Monday afternoon. With very light and shifty conditions prevailing over the race area, the Race Committee was unable to set a fair race course. After ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65533 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:46:55 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65533 After a long period waiting for enough of a settled breeze, the two giant multihulls Alinghi 5 (SUI) and USA awaiting the scheduled start of Race 1 of the 33rd America’s Cup were sent back to their respective bases ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65532 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:36:05 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65532 A very excited Joe Woods climbed down from the podium a couple of weeks ago in Key West at Race Week giddy as a school boy with his second place trophy in the highly competitive Melges 32 fleet. "Second ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65529 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:51:47 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65529 VELUX and Clipper invest in new onboard cameras and media systems across fleet, enabling skippers to document the action 24/7 and communicate with race followers on land For the first time in singlehanded offshore racing, the VELUX 5 OCEANS ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65528 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:47:21 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65528 The America's Cup Park here is very busy with a festive atmosphere, all ages and nationalities assembled in front of the giant screens awaiting the historic action. Air temperatures are quite pleasant now, mid-morning. Still no significant change on ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65527 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:47:23 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65527 Just 120 miles off the Brazilian coast, Groupama 3 is continuing to drop down to the SSW to hunt down a low off Rio de Janeiro. Meantime their 530 mile lead over Orange 2 is being maintained Franck Cammas ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65525 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:09:06 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65525 The tropical sailing paradise of the Whitsunday Islands supported by the friendly fellowship of the Whitsunday Sailing Club has continued to become a destination of choice for major dinghy and yacht racing championships. Later this year the Whitsunday Sailing ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65523 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:59:48 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65523 Sydney sailor Evan Walker has thrown down an early challenge to the strong New Zealand contingent on the opening day of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Hardy Cup under 25 match-racing regatta on Sydney Harbour. The 20-year-old from the ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65522 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:51:26 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65522 See the scene in Valancia today See 33rd America’s Cup images: http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65521 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:42:18 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65521 Brothers Mark and Scott Kennedy will be competing against each other in the Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, which begins on Sydney Harbour later this week. While it’s not unusual that this happens in sport, why it is unusual with ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65520 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:23:55 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65520 The BMW ORACLE Racing team slipped its mooring at the boatyard base in Valencia in the dark this morning and headed to sea ahead of the first race of the 33rd America's Cup Match. The team had a rousing ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65514 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:54:01 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65514 Alinghi 5 cast off this morning at 06:30 for Race 1 of the 33rd America’s Cup Alinghi 5, the 33rd America’s Cup defending yacht, left the Alinghi base this morning for Race 1 of the 33rd America’s Cup amid ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65513 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:48:00 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65513  The defender from the Société Nautique de Genève will enter the start box on port tack. That was determined today at a draw on the main stage of the America’s Cup Park featuring SNG Commodore Pierre-Yves Firmenich and Golden ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65512 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:45:13 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65512 The Alinghi Collection 2010 was presented tonight to an enthusiastic audience at a fashion show in the Port America’s Cup. The collection was presented by 21 models, featuring former Swiss top model Emilie Boiron. There were also 14 children ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65511 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:36:21 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65511 Today’s additions to the BYM News Gallery BMW Oracle –Last day of training before the Match - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=240 Alinghi 5 sailing today - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=246 Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3- Live audio session with Franck Cammas and Videos added ... http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65510 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:29:36 +0100 http://bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=65510