On Thursday, the opening day of the Auckland International Boat Show, Sail-World’s America’s Cup Editor, Richard Gladwell spoke with James Spithill on the Sail-World stand close to the Halsey Street entrance. In this first part of a two part interview, we cover the opening stanzas of Race 1, of the 33rd America’s Cup; alarms on the super multihulls; the areas of strength of USA-17; scariest moments and the mast breakage … Details
If you’d been born to gypsies and grew up in a carnival – and also happened to like motorcycles – you might have felt right at home at the 69th annual Daytona Bike Week.As the traditional opening to the spring riding season, this year’s event was staged from Feb. 26 to Mar. 7, and again lived up to its billing as a freewheeling street party, a virtual circus and a place to pose and/or gawk all rolled up in one. The moto-culture spectacle went forth pretty much full-steam-ahead, despite temperatures ranging much of the time from the high-30s to mid-50s with a few brief afternoon periods up to the low-70s.
Mark ‘Scratch’ Cameron and Jill Noble are the new Scottish Surfing champions.
The national competition was held in the famous wave located at Thurso-East.
Surfers battled in five divisions and the winners will represent Scotland in the ASP’s O’Neill Cold Water Classic and qualify for a place in the Scottish National Surfing Team … Details