College and High School Pacific Coast Championships, US Sailing Center, Long Beach, Calif. April 9-10, 2011.
Go Coronado! The Islanders from the other side of San Diego Bay don’t take a back seat to rivals that have dominated high school sailing in Southern California in recent years.
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THE new-look America’s Cup will begin this summer with 15 teams from a record 12 countries.
Organisers announced on Friday that 14 challengers from around the globe, plus defending champion Oracle Racing of San Francisco, had signed up for the 34th America’s Cup. They also announced Portugal, England and San Diego as the first three stops on the new America’s Cup World Series. Other AC World Series regattas will follow during the build-up to the 2013 America’s Cup on San Francisco Bay.
Of the 14 challengers who’ve entered, 12 have been  … Details
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While much of the world has been debating the United Nation’s proposed Global Carbon Tax, a watchdog group reported last week about another proposal which seemed to have slipped silently through committee after committee, and is now scheduled for a vote in the General Assembly without so much as a whisper in the popular press. It’s not entirely surprising. After all, the tax affects a comparative few of the world’s citizens: Simply those of us who flagrantly display our wealth with ostentatious possessions known as a yachts … Details
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America’s Cup 2013 – Less than a week after declaring that a team from China would contest the America’s Cup, it appears that that syndicate has missed a critical deadline for the payment of their security bond and is thus not going to be allowed. ‘The check is in the mail doesn’t really cut it in today’s world of electronic transfers’ said a representative of the Golden Gate Yacht Club on condition of anonymity, citing fears of retribution from Triad gangs in San Francisco.
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