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Fast, warm reaching is on offer today for the five-boat Volvo Ocean Race fleet as it races on through the Pacific Ocean on leg five, the longest leg of the course at 12,300nm.
Skipper Ken READ (USA) is delighted that PUMA is able to keep in touch with race leader Ericsson 4, who is known to excel in fast reaching conditions. PUMA is only four miles behind Ericsson 4, making up four miles in the last 24-hours, and the pair is beginning to open up a substantial lead over …Â
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the middle of Poland’s largest lake covered by ice, a hundred or so speed demons fly across the frozen surface in special sail boats on blades.
Sleek and built to race, the narrow boat hulls are fixed on a base of three gleaming blades and sports sails like those used in windsurfing to harness wind power and roar across frozen water.
“It’s the speed that gives you an adrenaline rush,” says Tomasz Zakrzewski, ranked number fourth in the world in the DN class ice boat racing.
Sailing on ice is his passion.
“Among the disciplines that use wind and sails, it is the fastest. We sail at three times the speed of the wind…Â More info
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It’s the perfect hour for a leisurely cruise: late afternoon on a sunny Friday at a ritzy yacht club in Sarasota, Fla. But for the five men entering the marina, the next few minutes will be an adrenaline rush. Two of them approach the dock on foot carrying a tool bag, pretending to be mechanics. Three partners advance by sea in a 22-foot towboat. Their target: a 46-foot sport-fishing yacht worth $300,000. “She’s a beauty,” says Rudy Lamel, who’s leading this team of “recovery agents” who’ve spent weeks searching for this vessel.
The boat’s owners have fallen behind on their payments, so the lender has called National Liquidators…Â More info
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The Louis Vuitton Pacific Series showed over the past two weeks how good an offseason event in America’s Cup boats can be. Under the loom of volcanic Rangitoto Island, with the city skyline scraping the clouds, 10 teams of the world’s best sailors traded tacks, jibes, barbs and laughs in a friendly competition in towering Cup boats that got better as it rolled along.
Kiwi arch rivals and onetime bosom buddies Russell Coutts of the U.S. entry BMW Oracle and Brad Butterworth on Swiss Alinghi wound up facing each other in challenger finals …Â More info
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