According To Mark Orams: Monohulls Of America’s Cup Are “Extremely Fast And Dramatic”

Posted on October 8, 2017 by index

According to the professor of sailing, Mark Orams, monohulls will offer spectacular America’s Cup racing to match; it will do same charisma what the catamarans did in Bermuda.

He is also the Team member New Zealand previously, he further added that the foiling monohulls suits the conditions of Auckland in a better way, and now monohulls would witness a welcome comeback to more basic sailing techniques, which includes more crew members. For sure, it would see an end of motocycle-grinding.

Orams said the declaration that the regatta of 2021 would involve foiling monohulls, has left an interesting question in everybody’s mind, and the question is will catamaran specialist and TNZ skipper Glenn Ashby remain on board.

He said, Grant Dalton the boss of TNZ had talked about bringing sailing together already, especially in unifying the championship America’s Cup with the race Volvo round-the-world (VRW).

When asked by Rachel Smalley of NewstalkZB if monohulls would be as stunning as catamarans, Orams replied: “Certainly they can Continue reading “According To Mark Orams: Monohulls Of America’s Cup Are “Extremely Fast And Dramatic”” →

Navy Rules The Trinco Blu Regatta

Posted on July 4, 2017 by index

The Navy yachtsmen of Sri Lanka took major honors in Trincomalee at the 8th Trinco Blu Sailing Regatta (TBSR). The regatta held in Trincomalee.

This event of this year featured the fleet of 43 sailboats, which is the record and more than 60 sailors competed in the championship and tried to win the Royal Colombo Yacht Club (RCYC) trophy of the Trinco Blu Challenge.

In the race Optimist Class was won by Zai Pestonjee, eh second position was secured by Jehan de Silva and the third position was taken by Sahanya Wevita.

In another race Laser Class, the first position was secured P.D.D.S. Rajapaksa, who is from the Navy, the second position was secured by P.N.P.K. Dissanayake and the third position were taken by Devin Goonewardena.

In the Enterprise Class (EC) race, the first position was secured by W.A.R. Nishantha of Navy and N.G.M.U. Gunawardhana and teammates K.C. de Soyza and W.M.C. Marambe came second.

In the championship N.G.M.U Gunawardhana and W.A.R Nishantha secured the first position overall first-place and declared as the winners of the Regatta, on the other hand A.S.K. de Soyza and J.M.P.L. Jayasuriya, in association with K.C. de Soyza and W.M.C. Marambe was declared second and third winners overall. Continue reading “Navy Rules The Trinco Blu Regatta” →

Bausele Super 11 Won By Poco Loco

Posted on April 1, 2017 by index

The 2017 Festival of Sails has drawn to a close and it was one of the most challenging sailing that the 220 odd keelboat crews had to face in the four days of the event.

The event was held at the Port Phillip and Corio Bay and the busy water program kept everyone on their toes.

The Bausele Super 11 Australian Championship, the top title of the 2017 Festival of Sails, was won by Poco Loco. The Super 11s final day race saw SSW winds touch 23 knots at the start and then finally moderated to 16 knots and this cause a problem for all sailors during the final day race. The winner Cam Rae said that they did not do much wrong in the 8 race series and was happy to have won the biggest regatta that they have sailed so far. Continue reading “Bausele Super 11 Won By Poco Loco” →

Vendee Globe Insists Safety

Posted on December 1, 2016 by admin

As we all know, the IMOCA Monhulls have started arriving at the Port Olona three weeks prior to the race. The French Sailing Federation has sent referees to the event as they are supposed to look after certain aspects of the race. A safety check is must before the fleet across the starting point. That’s how Vendee Globe ensures safety.

They also have a very important international jury to ensure that there are no safety issues. This jury has expert members from all over the world, including Britain, New Zealand, France and Spain. Their duty is to check for faults and apply time penalties in case if they come across some safety issues. A time penalty will be added to the particular boat as they will have a delayed start. Continue reading →

Australia Wins Silver In Rio

Posted on September 3, 2016 by admin

With several eyes on Australia and New Zealand who are known for their sailing prowess, Australian teams have acquired silver in the 49er and 470 classes. You might not help but wonder whether it has something to do with the common historic link with Britain and common sea bound geographies that have made these countries have a continued focus on sailing as a recreational as well as sport.

Many say that family tradition goes much into developing the winners and sportsmen of these countries. For instance, Mathew Belcher, one of the participants found the win to be reality to a hope that he had built for years. His two young children, Amelie and Anton Belcher were there too with their father who won silver in the country in the 470 category. Continue reading →

Yachting New Zealand

Posted on July 27, 2016 by admin

There have been seven years spent in Yachting New Zealand trying to build a sailing facility on the beach at Takapuna. The process begins anew as an application has been made for acquiring 1000 square meters of land that is reserved.

The application is for a consent lease by the landowner which needs to be acquired from the Takapuna Devonport local boar. A portion of the land is part of the Takapuna Beach Holiday Park. The yachting company would apply for 580 square meters of the reserve land which should be cordoned by December. The land would then be handed over to Whatua waka ama club. Continue reading →

Still hope for Jules Verne Trophy

Posted on April 7, 2016 by index

On 22nd November, two maxi-trimarans began their journey in an attempt to get their hands on the Jules Verne Trophy, an award for the fastest circumnavigation of the world.

The 40 meter maxi-trimaran Spindrift 2, captained by Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard, and Francis Joyon’s maxi-trimaran IDEC SPORT were in a surprising battle against each other as they look to beat the clock.
The present holder of the award was Loïck Peyron as well as his crew on Banque Populaire V (also called Spindrift 2), which in 2012’s January had fixed a time of forty-five days, thirteen hours, forty-two minutes and fifty-three seconds.
The primary forecast began the two maxis on record speed, but a sequence of highs and lows soon followed them. AS they both came at the Cape Horn within reach of the prize, the teams recognized on Day forty-three that their efforts would be for nothing.
It is expected that both teams would arrive at the marked start-finish line, situated between the Le Créac’h Lighthouse off the Brittany as well as Lizard Point in Cornwall, on 8th January, which was the 48th day in their journey calendar.

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Winners of the Clipper Race arrives in Sydney

Posted on January 9, 2016 by admin

LMAX Exchange has passed the end-line in Sydney, Australia, taking line honors in Race 4 of Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, following 2088 nautical miles away from Albany through Southern Ocean on Elliot Brown Timekeeper Cup. It passed the line at the 1901 AEDT/0801 UTC, on 12th December.

LMAX Exchange took the level best seventeen points available by also getting to win the Ocean Sprint (an extra 2 points) as well as Scoring Gate (an extra 3 points) and will also recover their overall lead in the Clipper Race 2015-16.

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