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Weather - More : Weather forecast for the 05th December

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:26:27 +0100

General synopsis by December 5, 2008 at 00h

Low 982 hPa 50S 022W, moving southeast and deepening, expected 958 hPa 59S 051E by 06/00 utc, then 950 hPa 63S 057E by 06/12 utc. Associated trough extending north.

Low 956 hPa 67S 035E, moving southwest. Associated trough extending northeast soon.

Low 999 hPa 33S 031W, moving southeast, expected 999 hPa 38S 019W by 06/00 utc, then 1001 hPa 41S 010W by 06/12 UTC.

Low 993 hPa 38S 025W, moving southeast and deepening, expected 990 hPa 49S 002E by 06/00 utc, then 992 hPa 50S 010E by 06/12 utc.

Low 1013 hPa 36S 042E, moving southeast, expected 1008 hPa 35S 055E by 06/12 utc.

New low expected 974 hPa 54S 026W by 06/00 utc, expected 967 hPa 58S 017W by 06 à 12h UTC.

High 1024 hPa 33S 008E, with litle move. Associated ridge extending southeast.

High 1010 hPa 45S 001E, moving northeast and building, expected 1021 hPa 43S 028E by 06/00 utc, then 1023 hPa 42S 034E by 06/12 utc.

High 1027 hPa 44S 065E, moving southeast, expected 1028 hPa 42S 079E by 06/12 utc.

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Rolex Sydney Hobart: Leukaemia Foundation is Sailing for Home

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:25:11 +0100

The Leukaemia Foundation has received generous support from co-owners A/Professor Stewart Kellie, a Children’s Hospital at Westmead Children’s cancer and leukaemia specialist and Richard Holstein to sail their Sydney38 yacht in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race under the ...
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OAMPS Sydney International Regatta: Roll call of Olympians and world champions face start on Sydney Harbour

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:18:11 +0100

A big roll up of Olympians and world champions will face the starter’s gun when the OAMPS Sydney International Regatta, conducted by Yachting NSW, starts on Sydney Harbour this Saturday, December 6. Already a massive 216 entries for the ...
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Vendee Globe: Yann Elies Generali leads; 280 miles to longitude of Cape of Good Hope

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:43:34 +0100

Six days after he first lead this Vendée Globe race, Yann Eliès is back on top of the fleet after he took Generali past his rival Seb Josse (BT) last night. The pair crossed tracks during the night with ...
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Newswire : A chance encounter

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:29:44 +0100

Pete Goss, who finished 5th in the 1996 Vendée Globe, is currently sailing from Cornwall to Australia aboard a replica of a traditional fishing lugger. He was surprised this week to spot the lights of an Open 60 off the coast of Brazil and after investigation discovered he was within a mile of Jean-Baptiste Dejeanty (Groupe Maisonneuve). Astonished to see such a boat in the vast expanse of the Atlantic, he also discovered that although out of sight, Raphaël Dinelli (Fondation Ocean Vital) was also nearby. In the 1996 race, Pete Goss went to the rescue of Raphaël after his boat overturned in the southern seas.

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ROARING FORTIES

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:08:53 +0100

After a night with more than 40 knots of NW'ly winds Mike Golding has taken the southerly option on ECOVER 3
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ROARING FORTIES

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:08:53 +0100

After a night with more than 40 knots of NW'ly winds Mike Golding has taken the southerly option on ECOVER 3
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Weather Report: 5-6 December

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:00:00 +0100

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New : Generali leads as opinons divide

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:38:22 +0100

The leading pair crossed tracks during the night with the Finot Conq design now just 22 miles to the north and slightly east of BT, computing to a lead of just two miles over the Farr designed BT.

After a challenging night of high speed sailing the winds look to have dropped, with quieter spells, particularly to the south, nearer the centre of the depression which has provided the pack with up to 40 knots of NW’ly wind.

Jean-Pierre Dick’s investment in the south sees Paprec-Virbac 2 now 225 miles under the track taken by Loïck Peyron (Gitana Eighty) who is just less than 40 miles ahead of him third place. Peyron has been quickest through the night, gaining 14.7 miles on leader Generali. Dick’s course is 155 miles south of that of leader Elies.

Mike Golding, GBR, (Ecover) also made his desire to go south known yesterday evening when he gybed just after tea-time (GMT) and his course has taken him to 78 miles north of the more extreme route of Paprec-Virbac 2. They have the Kerguelen security ice gate as their long term waypoint to pull them back north, 590 miles ahead.

And while Eliès and Josse race as a ‘duo’, so to do Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) and Roland Jourdain (Veolia Environnement) in the sister-ships. Jourdain spent his fourth place with his choice to move down to the south of Le Cam and now lies sixth, 12.9 miles behind Le Cam.

Chasing hard, 15.3 knots is the highest average speed among the top 20 over the last 24 hours, a ‘score’ shared by both Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) and Sam Davies, GBR, (Roxy). Desjoyeaux has stuck to a more northerly course and is now 30.4 miles behind Golding.

Dominique Wavre, SUI, (Temenos II) and Brian Thompson, GBR, (Bahrain Team Pindar) are well passed the west extremity of the first gate, and seem set to pass some 60 miles to the north.

Unai Basurko, ESP, (Pakea Bizkaia), with his damaged rudder cassette, has been making slow, but steady progress NE.

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Newswire : Nasty scare for Steve White

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:30:24 +0100

"I decided to change down to a Code 5, which is like a rolled up mini spinnaker for stronger winds, as the breeze was hitting 30 knots regularly. I went through the motions, rolled away the gennaker, took it down, bagged and stacked it at the back of the boat on deck, and as I was preparing the Code 5 there was a big bang that I felt through the boat - "Oh, we've hit something" I thought - not an unusual occurrence if you sail in the English Channel which is absolutely full of flotsam from shipping and rivers, and so I carried on and put up the sail, but when I unrolled it I could not get the boat to steer. Without further ado I rolled it up again, which is no mean feet in 30 knots of breeze, and looking over the back of the boat I convinced myself that the wash was different from the starboard rudder and the earlier collision had broken the tip off it. What went through my mind was pretty grim, the thoughts of coming so far to wind up in Cape Town to do a rudder repair or retire if I didn't have enough materials on board to fix it. At the very least I'd be re-starting at the back. I went all through the steering gear checking that the rudders hadn't been knocked out of alignment and everything seemed OK, so in desperation I gybed the boat with the ballast on the wrong side to get the rudder out of the water - it was OK! minus a big chunk of it's orange paint, but otherwise unscathed. So what was wrong with it, why wouldn't it steer? I put a second reef in and then - we were off with me feeling like a fool! The size of the swell and the increased breeze during the sail change just meant that the boat was going too slowly (ten knots) for the rudders to work, and I had heard the bang, put two and two together and made six! It's there in the Ladybird book of sailing on page three "If the steering doesn't work and the top guardwire is underwater, try putting in a reef!"
Steve White (Toe in the Water) in his daily log sent during the night.

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Monsoon Cup

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:21:59 +0100

In the first match of the day Ian Williams(Bahrain Team Pindar) and SebastienCol (K-Challenge) went into the match with an equal number of wins from the previous days racing. Williams beat Col after a tactically challenging race in a soft, shifty breeze. It was only in the last leg of the course that Williams caught a soft puff on the left-hand shore and
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Flight reports and results - Day 3 Monsoon Cup

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:51:00 +0100

Flight reports and results from Day 3 of the the Monsoon Cup 2008, being sailed in Terengganu, Malaysia.
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Weekend boating campaign: Operation New England

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:50:25 +0100

NSW Maritime will conduct a boating campaign this weekend (6 & 7 December) in the New England region
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Newswire : Record speed for Foncia

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:20:43 +0100

Message from Foncia sent this morning at 03h30:

«It's fun, when we're sailing quickly, although the waves weren't much good for surfing. The boat's record speed: 30.44 knots according to the GPS, but once or twice the bow has really dug in. That isn't much fun, checking to see whether everything is still in place - the mast, the runners. After that we reduced the sail, but were still speeding along. You become more reasonable.
On a calm sea it would be possible to reach 35 knots.. I can't wait. What is good when it's windy is when you've brought in the large sails and only have to work with the smaller ones, so you can really get some sleep. Bringinging down a 400m² spinnaker in 25 knots of wind,is more complicated than dealing with 130m² in 35 knots 35! A broach under staysail and two reefs is easier to deal with than when you're under full mainsail and big spinnaker. Mich »

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Anxious start to last ditch Monsoon match races

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:01:18 +0100

Monsoon Cup match racers, while waiting for the sea breeze to settle, anxiously eyed off their competition before the st
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And another new leader

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:51:17 +0100

Yann Elies and Generali take pole in the Vendee Globe
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Lift off...

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:53:00 +0100

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RC44: One last chance...

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:45:53 +0100

One last chance to climb up to the podium in Puerto Calero - by Team Aqua
The season champions of the RC 44 Class will be crowned on December 14 in Puerto Calero, on the Island of Lanzarote (Canary Islands), at the end of the RC 44 Gold Cup. Currently fourth of the fleet race ranking, 16 points behind Ceeref and 24 points behind team Banco Espirito Santo, Team Aqua has a good chance to make it the team sails at its best level.

Fifth of the match race ranking, Team Aqua is only four points behind second placed Larry Ellison on board BMW ORACLE Racing: there are some precious points to grab in this contest too.

Seven RC 44 teams will participate in the event: Team Aqua, Ceeref, BMW ORACLE Racing, Artemis, Banco Espirito Santo, Team Hiroshi – Città di Milano and the new local Team Islas Canarias Puerto Calero.

Organised by Puerto Calero, a superb real estate development on Lanzarote's seafront, the RC 44 Gold Cup will begin on Wednesday December 10 with the match racing event. After a full round robin held in two days, the team owners will take (or keep, depending on the cases) the helm for three days of fleet racing. The DHL Trophy regatta will take place on Sunday; the winner of this race will be awarded with the DHL Trophy, whilst the points of the regatta will be incorporated in the fleet race ranking.

The teams involved in the Gold Cup:

BMW ORACLE Racing, Larry Ellison / Russell Coutts
Ceeref, Igor Lah / James Spithill
Team Hiroshi – Città di Milano, Armando Giulietti
Team Banco Espirito Santo, Patrick de Barros / Mark Mendelblatt
Team Aqua, Chris Bake / Cameron Appleton
Artemis, Torbjorn Tornqvist / Dean Barker
Islas Canarias Puerto Calero – José Calero / José Maria Ponce

RC 44 Championship Tour 2008

Fleet-race - Provisional results after five events - (Ranking, name of team, helmsman, points)

1) Team Hiroshi – Città di Milano, Armando Giulietti, 100 points
2) Team Banco Espirito Santo, Patrick de Barros, 126 points
3) Ceeref, Igor Lah, 136 points
4) Team Aqua, Chris Bake, 150 points
5) Team Sea Dubai, DIMC, 196 points
6) BMW ORACLE Racing, Larry Ellison, 209 points
7) Organika, Maciej Navrocki, 237 points
8) Cro-A-Sail, Miroslav Reljanovic, 241 points
9) Beecom, Isao Mita, 248 points
10) Mascalzone Latino, Vincenzo Onorato, 327 points
11) Artemis, Torbjorn Tornqvist, 330 points
12) Magia, Fabio Apollonio, 351 points

Match-race - Provisional results after five events - (Ranking, name of team, helmsman, points)

1) Ceeref, James Spithill, 6 points
2) BMW ORACLE Racing, Larry Ellison, 13 points
3) Team Banco Espirito Santo, different helmsmen, 14 points
4) Team Hiroshi – Città di Milano, Seb Col & Armando Giulietti, 16 points
5) Team Aqua, Cameron Appleton, 17 points
6) Team Sea Dubai, Markus Wieser, 23 points
7) Beecom, Isao Mita, 30 points
8) Cro-A-Sail, Morten Henricksen, 31 points
9) Organika, Philippe Presti, 31 points

Etc…

DHL Trophy - Provisional results after five events - (Ranking, name of team, points)

1) Team Banco Espirito Santo, 8 points
2) Team Hiroshi – Città di Milano, Armando Giulietti, 9 points
3) Team Aqua, Chris Bake, 18 points
4) Team Sea Dubai, DIMC, 21 points
5) Organika, Maciej Navrocki, 22 points
6) Ceeref, Igor Lah, 25 points
7) BMW ORACLE Racing, Larry Ellison, 25 points

Etc… - http://www.teamaqua.org/ - http://www.rc44.com

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VOR aerials of the fleet arriving in Cochin.

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:44:00 +0100

Stunning aerials of the fleet arriving in Cochin. www.VolvoOceanRace.tv

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New Mens 470 partnerhip quest for London Olympics

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:40:18 +0100

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games gold medallist Malcolm Page links with Mathew Belcher on a new four-year quest for glory.
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