Ragtime the wooden wonder boat added to its legend Monday when, undeterred by a disabled engine, a torn main sail and broken gooseneck, it finished the Transpacific Yacht Club's Tahiti Race not only faster than the old record already beaten
Faster and faster, Magnitude 80 flew the final miles into French Polynesia Thursday, racing daylight for a sunset finish to decorate their record in the Transpacific Yacht Club's 3,571-nautical mile Tahiti Race. Sundown would be at about 6 p.m. Tahiti
Though the current America's Cup competition is in legal disarray and sailing syndicates associated with it are quickly unraveling, America's Cup Charters in Newport, Rhode Island (USA), is managing the largest fleet of 12 Meters in the world and celebrating
All four boats shared in the glory in the first Tahiti Race in 14 years. Doug Baker's Magnitude 80 claimed a new record---11 days 10 hours 13 minutes 18 seconds---and Tahiti Yacht Club officials dusted off the Fritz Overton Perpetual
Communities in control: real people, real power was launched on 9 July 2008. This White Paper is about passing power to communities and giving real control and influence to more people.The key themes are power, influence and control: who has
Wigan broke new ground in 2005 by providing free swimming for under 16s, followed by free swimming for the over 60s.Now Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, who is also MP for Leigh, has launched a bid to encourage councils up and
Doubling the size of the southern Atlantic's largest reef system Fort Lauderdale, FL Scientists announced today the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off
Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles Darwin... All adult flatfishes--including the gastronomically familiar
In a voice vote, the House tightened a 2000 law that bans the practice of shark finning, where, mainly, Pacific Ocean fishermen cut off a shark's fin and throw the dying fish back into the sea. Shark fin soup is
VERMILION, Ohio -- For more than a century, no one knew exactly where the sidewheel steamer Anthony B. Wayne came to rest. Now researchers are diving 60 feet below the surface of Lake Erie to explore the wreckage discovered in
Report by Campbell AlexanderThe Action Bolt SA Laser Class National Championships enjoyed a week of good winds, sailing off Richards Bay. The Race Officer, Mike Leigh, ran 8 races for the Standard and Radial world-class competitors, The Radial Class was
The Active Network, Inc (Active), a leading provider of application services technology and marketing solutions for community service and participatory sports organizations, has announced that it has acquired Hodgson’s Hurricanes, Inc. and certain assets of T&C Products, Inc., which collectively
The recent trucking of South Africa's America's Cup campaign yacht Shosholoza RSA 83 from Naples to the mountains beyond Pompeii for a week long display in the piazza of the small Italian town of Nocera Inferiore was never a secret.
COMMODORE CALLINGHow heartwarming it was to see such a good turn-out at the GLYC annual Prize Giving and AGM in our club house on Sunday 8 June. I know that the lovely winter sunshine and the promise of snacks had
Thomas should cross the start line off Ambrose Light tomorrow morning, Wednesday 9th July, between 0600 and 1200 UT. On stand-by in New York since 19th May, the maxi Sodeb'O skippered by Thomas Coville, will leave Brooklyn Harbour this evening,
