.jpg "Image") Day three of racing at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships proved a disappointment for many, as fickle winds were forecast. This forced many races to be postponed and in the late afternoon, finally abandoned for the day. But the RS:X’s enjoyed a different fate inside Weymouth Bay, with the experienced race team managing to fit in two races, between the fluky conditions. |
.jpg "Photo by: Carlo Borlenghi/ Rolex") In the end they made winning the Rolex Farr 40 European Championship 2006 look easy, but as Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team approached the dock to the clapping and cheering of their opponents and the blasts from their mother ship's horn, Vincenzo Onorato and his victorious crew knew they had been in fight. |
.jpg "Image") Sunday (16 July) saw two more races completed in both the boys and girls RS:X fleets at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship, with Great Britain’s Richard Hamilton and Beth Williamson guarding their positions on the top ten ladder. Hamilton remains in fourth place and Williamson moves up a place into seventh overall. |
.jpg "Photo credit: Daniel Forster/Rolex") Today's sunny weather made for a grand opener at the New York Yacht Club's Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex. The first half of the biennial event started today with 66 boats competing in handicap racing for three IRC and three PHRF classes as well as a class each for Classics and 12 Metres. A total of 161 boats will have participated in Race Week by the end of next weekend when the regatta's second half is completed for additional competitors in several one-design classes. |
.jpg "Image") Day two of the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships saw the sailors competing in perfect conditions, with winds averaging 15 knots all afternoon for the young talent in Weymouth Bay. |
.jpg "Photo credit: Carlo Borlenghi / Rolex") The third day of the Rolex Farr 40 European Championships saw three more races in the bag and a new leader climb to the top of the tree. Today was Mascalzone Latino Team Capitalia's day as Vincenzo Onorato and crew posted two seconds and scored their first bullet of the series to lead by 4 points going into the final day. |
.jpg "Image") Day two of racing at the 36th Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship, held at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, proved to be a challenge for the British sailors that make up Volvo RYA GBR Youth Worlds Team as they took on the other 62 nations vying for medals, the Volvo Trophy and the chance to make their nations proud. |
.jpg "Photo credit: Dan Nerney / Rolex") The fifth biennial New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex will start tomorrow, hosting 161 boats and filling nine straight days with a variety of competitive sailing choices. The event's unique split-racing format makes it a popular draw, allowing sailors to customize their competition experience with handicap racing in the first half of the week (July 15-18) and/or one-design racing in the second half (July 20-23). An Around-the-Island Race, open to all entrants, takes place mid-week (July 19) and is scored separately. |
.jpg "Photo credit: Carlo Borlenghi / Rolex") Day two of the Rolex Farr 40 European Championships saw a change at the top as Alinghi moved a point ahead with three second places; meanwhile TWT struggled to find the sort of consistency needed to stay on top of the leaderboard at this level of one-design racing. |
.jpg "Photo credit: Carlo Borlenghi / Rolex") Day one of the Rolex Farr 40 European Championships got underway with three close races of around 6.5 nautical miles each. TWT came out of the blocks the fastest with two storming and virtually unchallenged wins in races 1 & 2. The third race of the day saw the potential wildcard newcomers, Enfant Terrible, post an emphatic bullet that may be a taster for the rest of the event. |
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