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 | Irishman Jeremy Elliott joins Team Russia For Volvo Ocean Race
Posted by admin on Tuesday, August 19 2008 @ 13:08:45 GMT
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 Jochen Wolfram (GER), Jeremy Elliott (IRE), Andy Meiklejohn (NZL) and Nick Bubb (UK) have taken their places onboard Kosatka, Team Russia's VO70 competing in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. |
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| Irish sailor excels in bluQube Solo 1000 mile race
Article sent by sally. Posted by admin on Friday, August 15 2008 @ 14:48:07 GMT
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Barry Hurley, originally from Cork, but now living in Dublin, has finished runner up in both classes of the bluQube solo 1000, single handed yacht race. His boat ‘Dinah’ (a modified JOD35) was 2nd in the open class, which is based on the actual placings of boats as they cross the finishing line and also second overall in the coveted IRC* class.
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| VOR Qualifications... One Done, One Started
Posted by admin on Friday, August 15 2008 @ 14:31:12 GMT
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 The Green Dragon Volvo Open 70 has completed its qualification passage for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008/09. Having decided to find the most testing weather for the trip, conditions onboard were extreme, as the crew rounded the famous Fastnet Rock and headed north-east straight into the North Atlantic. |
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| Brief update from James O'Callaghan ISA Performance Director
Posted by admin on Wednesday, August 13 2008 @ 17:10:12 GMT
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Today has been a long day on the water – waiting for the wind to fill in. Both the Laser Radial fleet with Ciara Peelo and Tim Goodbody in the Finn class have postponements for their scheduled second race of the day when the wind failed to hold. Those races will be reschuled tomorrow and the Finn class will now race on both Thursday and Friday to catch up. |
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| Olympic Sailing Update
Posted by admin on Tuesday, August 12 2008 @ 11:27:10 GMT
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Ciara Peelo (Laser Radial) completes first day of competition in Qingdao.
Owens & Lawton 13th overall after day two in the 470 class.
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| Nicolas Troussel Wins 39th Edition of La Solitaire Du Figaro
Posted by admin on Tuesday, August 12 2008 @ 11:25:21 GMT
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By crossing the finish line in Aber Wrac'h on Monday at 19h27'18'', Nicolas Troussel (Financo) takes the 18th place in the provisional results for the leg. The six hour and 17 minute advantage he holds over Gildas Morvan, who is finishes 2nd just over two hours earlier, means that in the overall time rankings, before the final jury decision he wins the Figaro overall.
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| Owen & Lawton win 2nd race in 470 double handed men’s dinghy
Posted by admin on Monday, August 11 2008 @ 11:39:43 GMT
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In the doubled handed men’s 470 class Ireland’s Gerald Owens & Phil Lawton lies 9th overall after scoring a 22nd in Race 1 and 1st in Race 3 in their first day of competition.
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| Green Dragon Leaves Her Lair for 2000 Mile Qualification Passage
Posted by admin on Monday, August 11 2008 @ 08:56:37 GMT
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The Green Dragon Volvo Open 70 set off for her mandatory 2000-mile Volvo Ocean Race qualification passage from her base in Cork this morning (08/08/08). The boat, which is sailing with a crew of 13, will head south to round the Fastnet rock and then north-east into the North Atlantic for the weeklong passage. The current forecast is quite strong, with a large depression heading east providing a good test for the crew and the boat.
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| The Olympics Begin
Posted by admin on Monday, August 11 2008 @ 08:51:13 GMT
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Expectations; I arrived in Qingdao full of pre-conceptions and restrained expectation. The venue had been variously declared as bad, very bad and diabolical. Its record of the necessary motive force, which was under suspicion from the first time that the Chinese announced that the sailing events would take place at this site - even the statistics supplied were of dubious value, threatens not to materialise every day. But on the day before the first races there was a nice little breeze.
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| 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Posted by admin on Friday, August 08 2008 @ 08:52:37 GMT
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 Qingdao, China: The British Yngling team was first to the hoist after practice racing was abandoned at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Centre on Thursday. Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb, and Pippa Wilson (GBR) are favoured to win gold in the Women's Keelboat -Yngling event category, and wasted no time returning to the centre ahead of their 14 rival teams.
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