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Omani sailors battle to the end in Round the Island race
Muscat :: Oman | about 14 hours ago
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Over 200 boats sailed out into Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour yesterday to take part in Hong Kong’s biggest yacht race. Among them were the six Extreme 40 catamarans competing in the Hong Kong leg of the Extreme Sailing Series Asia. The race counted towards...
Tags: Masirah, Hong Kong, Island Race, Muscat, Oman, Victoria Harbour, Yacht, Olympic sports, Sailing, Masirah Island
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope ‘frustrated’ that couple were not rescued from pirates
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 5 days ago
Credibility Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, the First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Service, praised the crew of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel Wave Knight for locating the hijacked yacht of Paul and Rachel Chandler. However, he said there was no one on board trained...
Tags: somali pirates, Royal Navy, Mark Stanhope, wave knight, admiral stanhope, sir mark, admiral sir, Somalia, Mogadishu, Yacht, Piracy in Somalia, International criminal law, Piracy
Britney sizzles in skimpy bikini
Sydney :: Australia | 7 days ago
Credibility Australian tour, pop princess Britney Spears took time out to soak up the sun on Sydney Harbour yesterday. After arriving in the Harbour city on Saturday, the singer spent the day on millionaire media owner Paul Ramsay's yacht Oscar, the boat on which...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Spears, Port Jackson, Yacht, Woolloomooloo New South Wales, Sydney Harbour, Britney Spears, Mouseketeers, in music, Hospitality Recreation, Entertainment Culture
Yachting: Oracle mast takes breath away
Auckland :: New Zealand | 8 days ago
Credibility Okay, but since when was a sail bigger than a jet airliner's wing?...BMW Oracle's massive 58 metre wing mast is a gobsmacking piece of kit...It is just short of the total wingspan, including fuselage, of a jumbo jet...It is built of carbon fibre and kevlar,...
Tags: BMW Oracle, America, soft sail, Alinghi, wing sail, wing masts, New Zealand, Auckland, Catamaran, Sail, Yacht, Mast, America's Cup, Trimaran
Lost and found at sea
Two seniors in their mid-60s got together and left on a sea voyage from Rarotonga in Cook Island to Nukualofa in Tonga – one was a British, the other a Kiwi. The yacht belonged to the British and, his companion had met him while holidaying on Cook...
Tags: holidaying, cook island, yacht
Londoners go sailing through a new online Sailing Club
Londoners are now able to join a sailing club without the usual hassle of elite London 'closed' clubs who insist on new members getting reffered in by existing members.Set-up in January this year, The London Sailing Club now has over 150 members...
Marie Douglas-David, the original Bond Girl: The World is not Enough.
Maria Douglas-David, the original Bond Girl: The World is not Enough. After seven years of marriage, Maria Douglas-David wants a divorce from former CEO of United Technologies, Inc, George David. She also wants to break the 2005 post-nuptial...
Tags: Marie Douglas-David, Geroge David, United Technologies, Swedish Countess, Robert S Cohen, Park Ave residences, Alexander Oxenstierna, Swordtrainer, fencing, divored, Grand Duke Ludwig I of Baden, aerospace manufacturing, air conditioners, elevators, Harry Winston, Stockholm, Countess Marie Douglas, Sagaponack, Falsterbro, expenses, yacht, Oprah
Yachting: Team NZ playing catch-up for regatta
Auckland :: New Zealand | 10 months ago
Credibility The Kiwi syndicate hadn't sailed a single day since the last race of the 32nd America's Cup in Valencia in July 2007, but yesterday got the opportunity to test out the waters, taking NZL 84 and NZL 92 out for sea-trials. Despite 25- to 30-knot southwesterlies...
Ashby making plans
University :: FL :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility The 24-year-old is on a well earned break from sailing after winning Gold off Qingdao in August. Ashley has remained mum on his future in the sport but appears to be contemplating a return. Yachting New Zealand and his sponsors about plans for the future.
Record drugs haul off Irish coast
Irish navy personnel have recovered cocaine worth over €600M from a yacht apprehended about 320 Km off the south west Irish coast. The yacht was crewed by 3 middle aged men one travelling on an Irish passport and was en route from South America...
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