With the new Olympic boat, the ISAF Elliott 6m making its debut at the ISAF (International Sailing Federation) Sailing World Cup event in Kiel, Germany, in June and women’s match racing events growing in number and participation throughout the world, our sport has never been stronger.
New teams are joining the ranks and established match racing teams are developing Olympic programmes.
The next stop on the ISAF Sailing World Cup, the Delta Lloyd Regatta, in Medemblik, The Netherlands, will feature women’s match racing for the first time and currently has 24 teams registered from 13 countries…Â Details
Sources close to the legal action over the 33rd America’s Cup, confirmed today that Societe Nautique de Geneve had lodged papers with the New York Supreme Court, late last week, seeking to have the Challenger, Golden Gate Yacht Club disqualified.
The charge is that of not furnishing the Customs House Registry document (CHR) ‘as soon as possible’.
The Challenger, as of 7 April 2009, has been sailing a 90ft long by 90ft trimaran for eight months, since early September 2008.
While SNG, as Defender, did not recognise Golden Gate Yacht Club as the Challenger until ordered to do so by the New York Appeal Court, SNG made rasping overtures about the provision of the Customs House Registry document, which is issued in the USA by the US Coast Guard…Â Details
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On Friday 1 May at 1719hrs, Sail-World (along with many others) received an alert from the New York State Unified Court system advising that a motion had been filed to ‘Disqualify Counsel’.
It was widely believed to have been lodged by Societe Nautique de Geneve, seeking to disqualify one of the Golden Gate Yacht Club team, involved in their Contempt of Court action, set down for Hearing on the 14 May, in the New York Supreme Court.
That Contempt action is seeking to punish Societe Nautique de Geneve for advising that the 33rd match for the America’s cup will be sailed three months later than previously Ordered by the New York Supreme Court.
Subsequently it has been confirmed to Sail-World by two independent sources that the Court alert was in error…Â Details
2009 North American Hobie 16 Championships dates are as follows:
Hobie 16 Youth/Women July 17-19, 2009, CORK, Kingston, Ont. website – http://www.hcana.hobieclass.com/default.asp?MenuID=Major_Events/10814/0/,2009_Hobie_16_North_Americans/c10844/3163/
Hobie 16 Open July 20-24, 2009, CORK, Kingston, Ont. website http://www.hcana.hobieclass.com/default.asp?MenuID=Major_Events/10814/0/,2009_Hobie_16_North_Americans/c10844/3163/
Sail Kingston/CORK operates from the Portsmouth Olympic Harbor in Kingston, Ontario, home of the 1976 Olympic Sailing venue, the 2007 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships and the annual CORK regatta and ISAF Grade 1 event that draws in excess of 1000 boats.
The waters off Kingston offer some of the best fresh-water sailing in the world. Located at…Â Details