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January 9th, 2008
Nath and Ben have won the 49er worlds that have just finished in Melbourne (OK technically Sorrento), first time an Aussie has won the 49er worlds since Nicho won the last of his 3 worlds about 9 years ago.
Congrats to Nath, Ben and coach Emmett!
Top 10 are:
AUS
GBR
UKR
ITA
USA
ESP
GER
DEN
GBR
AUT
Hopefully this great performance carries through to Beijing!
Other aussies […]
Filed by Popeye at January 9th, 2008 under Sailing
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January 7th, 2008
The 29er and 49er worlds are currently on in Melb (ok, technically Sorrento thoguh close enough). Without a boat I’m not there, and well even if I had a boat, I’m not sure that I would’ve been there anyway, sailing around in emerald fleet just doesn’t excite me very much.
So I’ve been checking the results […]
Filed by Popeye at January 7th, 2008 under Sailing
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December 7th, 2007
I’m pretty much in awe of Francis Joyon, when he set his previous record some years back that Ellen Macarthur subsequently broke I was absolutely amazed (particularly so considering he was sailing what was designed as a fully crewed boat). After sadly wrecking the old IDEC on the rocks, he has built a new boat […]
Filed by Popeye at December 7th, 2007 under Sailing
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September 23rd, 2007
The last 2 weekends we’ve been having a series at the club called the Seiko Series… surprise surprise, sponsored by Seiko, to help promo their new watch called Velatura. With Clynton and Joe being serious with their Olympic dreams and sailing their new boat. I’ve been able to drive the old one this series which […]
Filed by Popeye at September 23rd, 2007 under Sailing
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August 30th, 2007
I came across a blog by some guy that sent in an ugly sail entry to Sailing Anarchy, I thought I’d look around it a little more to see if it was worth adding to Sailr.com (I am adding it) and I saw a couple of closeup shots of what looked to be an interesting […]
Filed by Popeye at August 30th, 2007 under Sailing
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August 12th, 2007
Cam gave me a call late last week about sailing on the 12 with him for the Brass Monkey regatta which was this weekend… not having done any remotely exciting sailing for a long time I couldn’t resist the opportunity to get out on the water and go for a blast.
Saturday was a reasonably fresh […]
Filed by Popeye at August 12th, 2007 under Sailing
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July 30th, 2007
Update: and I thought nobody read my blog… Sail World have just sent me an email about this post, turns out that I sent it to the wrong email address. They also appear to have fixed it.
One of the problems that I have with Sailr is that sometimes the sites change the structure of their […]
Filed by Popeye at July 30th, 2007 under Sailing
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July 19th, 2007
Scott posted about a discussion happening on the Moth forums which is about sail areas and gear restrictions.
I have been giving some thought to working out how I can become a part of the moth fleet (mostly finding the money), however unfortunately opinions of the majority of these people are causing me to have pretty […]
Filed by Popeye at July 19th, 2007 under Sailing
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July 9th, 2007
meant as a criticism of them and their sailing, just my observations and memories of keelboat sailing in general.meant as a criticism of them and their sailing, just my observations and memories of keelboat sailing in general.This post might need a bit of background for those that don’t know me very well so I’ll give […]
Filed by Popeye at July 9th, 2007 under Sailing
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July 6th, 2007
Seems the AC might be changing to a new rule.
I say it’s about time, though also can’t help but think… how dull a design will they think up?
And it seems that Alinghi are doing everything they can to keep the other boats from winning.
Filed by Popeye at July 6th, 2007 under Sailing
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