Off to a flying start at Staunton Harold

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Powerboating champions from across the UK came together over the weekend for the annual RYA National Powerboat Racing Awards ceremony.

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The 25th edition of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers has already signed up its 150th member, nine months before the rally sets off.

The first Activate Your Laser Fleet workshop took place at Staunton Harold Sailing Club, Derbyshire on Sunday 7 February. A full house of ten "Activators" attended, representing six sailing clubs from the region.

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Groupama 3 prepares to skirt the South Atlantic high

When Louis Vuitton and the World Sailing Teams Association (WSTA) conceived the Louis Vuitton Trophy regattas they were designed to take the best sailing teams in the world sailing some of the largest and most impressive racing yachts to some of the most spectacular parts of the world and compete at the highest level in the discipline of match racing. One...

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This weekend saw an small fleet of Moths up at the Tiger Trophy at Rutland. Unfortunately the weather forecast was dire which meant that only myself, James Phare and newcomer Gareth Davies made the racing.Saturday's racing got off to a slow start with the racing delayed while waiting for the mist to clear (which it didn't!). It was pretty marginal...

Kennedy brothers compete against each other

In Plymouth this July

Karl Purdie over early at the OK Worlds

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Besides the Jury, Measurers and Race Committee there’s a fourth group of ISAF officials active at the AC 33. I’m talking about the Umpires! We all are in the dark about how these impressive sail machines will perform against each other, but imagine how difficult it must be, having to umpire them. When these boats were first revealed to the public and...

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• america’s cup

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 time or at all. Some of it I can accept. I know that we need wind to race and even with the best of planning and venues, there are going to...

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For Velux 5 Oceans

The Italia 70 entry for 2011-12 will herald the return of an Italian team to the world's premier ocean race - the first since the 1993 Whitbread. Carla Anselmi reports on the men behind the mission.