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Regate di Coppa America nel maggio 2013 a Napoli, ora sono meno a rischio. “Sì all’ingresso della Camera di Commercio nella società di scopo Acn – ha infatti annunciato il presidente dell’ente camerale partenopeo, Maurizio Maddaloni – ma non solo per bancare Napoli rispetto a Venezia, ma per tutte le manifestazioni che posso svolgersi in Continue Reading
The Vendée Globe is arguably the toughest sailing race in the world and in theory an utterly simple affair. A sailing race around the world, for singlehanded sailors, without any stopover or outside assistance allowed. France to France, leave Antarctica to Starboard.
That´s it. In theory at least, because beyond this, the Vendée Globe is the stuff of legends. Kito de Continue Reading
Saturday is the big day. At 13:02hrs (French, 1202hrs UTC) the twenty solo skippers who will compete in the Vendée Globe solo non stop around the world race take the start line, heading into the open ocean for their legendary passage round the three great Capes. As it is at each successive start, every four years Les Sables d’Olonne will be engulfed by huge crowds of Continue Reading
Garmin Italia, una società di Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), leader mondiale nella navigazione satellitare, presenta il kit portatile per la serie Echo. Tutti gli appassionati di pesca sia che utilizzino piccole imbarcazioni, kayak, canoe, o che pratichino la pesca dalle banchine, avranno con il nuovo kit portatile Garmin un eccellente alleato nella pratica della loro Continue Reading
Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Lijia Xu (CHN) were named the male and female winners of the 2012 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards at a ceremony held at the Mansion House, Dublin, Ireland this evening. Four-time Olympic Gold medallist Ben Ainslie commented: “Winning the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year award is a huge honour, especially for everyone who has helped me. Continue Reading
In occasione del 43° meeting generale dell’ Offshore Racing Congress ( ORC) siamo lieti di annunciare un cospicuo passo in avanti nell’accuratezza e nella precisione del Velocity Prediction Program (VPP) che verrà utilizzato per la stagione velica 2013. Uno degli elementi principali di questo programma, la formula di Resistenza Residua (Rr) , è stata aggiornata Continue Reading
Ben Ainslie, the record setting Olympic sailor from Great Britain, won the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year award at a reception tonight (6 Nov) in Dublin, Ireland, as part of the ISAF Annual Conference. Ainslie last summer won his fourth consecutive gold medal at the London-Weymouth Olympic Regatta by winning the Finn class in a tiebreaker over Danish sailor Jonas Continue Reading
The German sailing team has extended sponsorship agreements with Audi and SAP and signed a new deal with Marinepool. All the deals run until after the next summer Olympic Games in Rio four years from now. According to Sponsors.de, the German online sports business portal, the Audi and SAP deals are worth some €3 million (US$3.8 million) in total, plus €1 million (US$1.28 Continue Reading
Le cerate più famose al mondo seguiranno i campioni della vela nella competizione in solitaria più famosa e avventurosa al mondo. Musto, azienda inglese leader mondiale nel settore dell’abbigliamento tecnico da vela, accompagnerà Vincent Riou, Armel Le Cléac’h e Mike Golding nella Vendée Globe 2012, la più famosa e conosciuta regata oceanica intorno al Mondo. La Continue Reading
Set to be held at US Sailing Center Miami from 26 January to 2 February 2013, the regatta will form part of the ISAF Sailing World Cup until 2016 and will be the second stop in the 2012-2013 series following on from Melbourne, Australia and preceding Palma, Spain and Hyeres, France. Following a bid process, an ISAF appointed evaluation panel advised the Executive Committee Continue Reading