Nova Scotia Speedbumps On The Road To Paris

Nova Scotia kicks up hard for the Olympic skiffs

31.08.2022 by Ben Remocker



Hubbards, Nova Scotia, Canada –

All the pent-up pre-regatta tension was set free on a wild and wavy race track on day one of the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Nova Scotia, Canada.

HIGHLIGHTS

Multiple nosedives and capsizes in conditions that kicked up to 27 knots with waves of 1.5 metres
First-time race wins at a...

An emotional sequence this Monday August 29 in Port-la-For?t when the sailing team, led by Yannick Bestaven, slowly pushed the monohull in the colors of the Vend?e poultry maker, Ma?tre CoQ, to get it out of the CDK yard.

Focused on the task but with joy in their eyes, the men and women of the team shared this highlight with a delegation of representatives from Ma?tre CoQ.

“What an incredible moment! See the curves take shape as the boat moves forward...

PIROUELLE PUSHING LEADER LAPERCHE HARD, DOLAN PROFITS FROM FAST, PRODUCTIVE NIGHT IN THE CHANNEL
Published on 30/08/2022

After two of the toughest, fastest and most demanding spinnaker reaching legs of recent editions of La Solitaire du Figaro - totaling nearly 220 relentless nautical miles - accomplished in winds gusting to over 30kts, only one minute separated the top two leading skippers, Tom Laperche and Guillaume Pirouelle, as they passed the Cardinale Chauss?e de Sein buoy...

Washed up on peninsula, a picked over shark


Thousands of dead fish are piling up across the Bay Area.

KQED Reports: https://www.kqed.org/news/11923920/d...al-bloom-grows

From the concrete outer edges of Oakland's Lake Merritt to the sandy beaches of San Francisco's Fort Funston, and the pebbled banks of Oyster Point in San Mateo County, the carcasses of fish likely poisoned by a harmful algal bloom — more commonly known as a red tide —...

We are tired, torn, at a loss. Those who were eliminated today have lost most of their gear in horrendous crashes. The four of us remaining in the final can’t fathom our fortune. I find myself replaying the narrow misses on huge barreling sections, the brushes with reef and disaster. Making the final feels less an act of competitive prowess as much as a revelation: this is what windsurfing can feel like. Powerful, perfect and real.

The morning is still in...

The 36th edition of Hamilton Island Race Week concluded on Saturday with a mixture of courses around Lindeman Island, the traditional landmark of the closing passage race which sorted the finish order in multiple divisions of the Hamilton Island and the Australian Yachting Championship point scores.

The strong south-east trade winds trumped the showers and there were smiles all around as more than 200 crews packed up wet boats before glamming-up for the traditional...

At 1 p.m. this Sunday, under the sun, the conditions were ideal for this flying start in an East / South-East breeze established around 10 knots in Port-la-For?t. It's not easy for the sailors to master their mounts on the starting line across the wind, “English style”. Several of them cut the line too soon, which forced the committee to relaunch a starting procedure after a general recall.

The second start will be the correct one for the entire fleet. Port tack,...

2022 International 110 National Championship Regatta

words by Skip Shapiro



Inverness YC hosted the 82nd International 110 National Championship regatta on Tomales Bay August 8-12. With the largest 110 fleet in the US, IYC hosts the regatta every three years.

Twenty boats competed in this year’s regatta, including two father-son teams from the recently formed fleet on Bainbridge Island, WA; two more family teams from Hull YC outside of Boston,...

Brisk and breezy Australian Yachting Championships Day 4


A sunny day but fresh and chilly this morning for the 2022 Australian Yachting Championships (AYC) at Hamilton Island Race Week in Queensland, with the wind metre registering 30 knots and gusting as competitors rugged up and waited.
“All Dent Passage starts are postponed. It’s likely the wind will drop to 20 knots a little later, which is manageable. Those on the Eastern line will start on time,”...

THE APPENDAGE FACTORY
Auckland - 24th August 2022

As excitement builds around the arrival of the AC40 and the focus on the build at McConaghy boats, Emirates Team New Zealand’s build facility on Auckland’s North Shore has been running at capacity for the past 8 months building all of the foil arms and appendages that will allow the AC40 to fly




Scott Stokes, the Emirates Team New Zealand Build Facility Manager and project manager of the massive...