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Vic-Maui Race is a Blast

Aug 9, 2016

The TP 52’s set the pace to rewrite the record book in the 2016 addition of the Vic-Maui Race. Valkrie, Kinetic V, and Westerly were 1,2 and 3 on elapsed time.

Congratulation to Valkrie “Line Honour Winner”,on their record setting run to Maui. Congratulations to the overall winner Kinetic V and division winners StringTheory, Rain Drop, Amiskwi and Forty, Valkrie Crew.

Over all winners Kinetic V.

Photo: Reigh North, David Sutcliffe, Karen Brown Barron, Andrew Liebmann, Lindsay Burgess,Christopher Lewis, Kyla Sanderson, Chad Grice,Zach Mesman and Marie-Pier Alary

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Race to Alaska is Underway

The 750-mile wind and human powered Race To Alaska began June 4th in Port Townsend, Washington. A cash prize of $10,000 will go to the first competitor to reach Ketchikan without the aid of an engine. Second prize is a set of steak knives.

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2019 CanAm now two days

Youngstown’s CanAm Regatta for 2019 will be a two day regatta this year, easier on the crew and family schedules! All the same great racing with top knotch RC work and fun ashore!

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Route Halifax Saint-Pierre, 10th Edition

Created in 2002 by Philippe Paturel and the late Hal Davies, the 350-mile ocean race that connects Halifax to the French Archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon every two years is one of the big events of offshore sailing race in North America.

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Velux 5 Oceans 2010-11 Concludes

Velux 5 Oceans 2010-11 is the longest single handed event in the world. After nine months the racing has finished.

It was an epic battle full of thrills and spills, highs and lows, drama and action – but like all good things it must come to an end.

The arrivals of solo sailors Derek Hatfield and Zbigniew ‘Gutek’ Gutkowski into the French port of La Rochelle on Sunday marked the end of racing in the 2010-11 edition of the Velux 5 Oceans, following the arrivals of winner Brad Van Liew and Chris Stanmore-Major in the days previously.

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Port Credit Hosts Two Of The Biggest Regattas Back To Back Proving Sailors Are Ready for Competition Post Two Years of Pandemic

Port Credit Yacht Club proudly hosted its annual Steerers’ and Four Sisters regattas July 21^st to July 24^th welcoming more than 350 sailors to compete in challenging weather conditions.

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Race to Alaska Explained

The inside passage to Alaska has been paddled by native canoes since time immemorial, sailing craft for centuries, and after someone found gold in the Klondike the route was jammed with steamboats full of prospectors elbowing each other out of the way for the promise of fortune.

Sail NS Shares Community-Wide: Welcome to ROCKWOOL Canada SailGP

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Armdale YC Welcomes Atlantea Expedition

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