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America's Cup TeamOrigin announces team for 1851 Cup at Cowes Week

29 July 2010   18:20
TEAMORIGIN, the British America’s Cup team, has announced their team for the 1851 Cup taking place during the Cowes Week Regatta. Included in the team are three time Olympic Gold sailor Ben Ainslie, two time Olympic Gold sailor Iain ...

Extreme Sailing Series: Stage set for UK round at Cowes

29 July 2010   13:43
With just two days to go before the start of the UK round of the 2010 Extreme Sailing Series at Cowes Week, Official Timekeeper, OMEGA, has announced it will present a Seamaster Planet Ocean Watch to the winning skipper: ...

Velux 5 Oceans : Brad Van Liew reveals Le Pinguin

29 July 2010   13:16
VELUX 5 OCEANS racer Brad Van Liew has showcased the huge sponsorship potential of his Eco 60 yacht – by branding it with a giant penguin. The eye-catching penguin graphic now adorns the bow of Van Liew's newly refitted ...

Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race: Weather forcast predicts record breaking race

29 July 2010   12:41
The Official Race briefing for the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race was conducted this evening from 1800 hours with over 160 people in attendance. Rob Webb, Senior Duty Forecaster, Bureau of Meteorology, announced the conditions that the fleet ...

Rolex Commodores' Cup: RYA Team GBR Black set to compete in August

29 July 2010   12:34
RYA Team GBR Black will conclude Britain’s line-up for the 2010 Rolex Commodores’ Cup which is set to take place in and around the Solent during the middle of August. RYA Team GBR is entering three teams in the ...

Extreme Sailing Series Europe: GAC Pindar set for racing in Cowes

29 July 2010   12:16
Team GAC Pindar will join a total of nine world class entries for Round Two of the Extreme Sailing Series Europe during Cowes Week, from July 31-August 5. The British team, skippered by Australian all round yachtsman, Nick Moloney, ...

RYA Volvo Zone and Home Country Championships entries open

29 July 2010   11:39
Entries are now open online for the 2010 RYA Volvo Zone and Home Countries Championships with more than 1,000 young sailors and windsurfers set to descend on eight venues around the UK on the weekend of 25 – 26 ...

Netherlands & England. G-Force Yachts & Wight Vodka announce One Design GB launch 

29 July 2010   11:14
Aligning Wight Vodka with G-Force’s X-Treme 25 is a match made in heaven…or at the very least a match made on the English Channel! G-Force Yachts has been building high-tech racing boats in their Dutch factory for over six ...

RC44 Valencia Cup : Sea Dubai Sailing Team fourth in match racing round

29 July 2010   09:46
Sea Dubai takes fourth place in the match racing round of the RC44 Valencia Cup. After an average start on the first day they excelled on the second winning all four matches majestically. Favouring the right hand side of ...

Australia. Harken extend it sponsorship of the CYCA Youth Sailing Academy

29 July 2010   09:14
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia Commodore Garry Linacre is pleased to announce that long standing sponsor Harken Australia have extended their sponsorship of the CYCA Youth Sailing Academy for a further 2 years. Harken Australia’s sponsorship ensures the YSA fleet ...

Solitaire du Figaro. Yann Elies runs aground and then manages to get off 

29 July 2010   08:53
At 8:43 p.m. Wednesday, July 28, Yann Eliès warned Race Directer, that he had run aground on Primel beach in northern Finistere. The PSP's Cormoran Naval ship located in the area was warned one minute later at 8:44 p.m ...

RC44 Match Racing: Paul Cayard reports from Valencia 

29 July 2010   08:27
We just finished the second day of Match Racing here in Valencia. 11 teams are competing. Both days were blessed with strong sea breezes reaching 20 knots and making the racing fast and exciting. Cameron Appeton, strategist for Artemis ...

PWA Sotavento, Fuerteventura Grand Slam : Dunkerbeck seizes the day; Albeau holds the Aces

29 July 2010   08:17
Dunkerbeck may have stolen final race glory, but it was Albeau who claimed his fifth consecutive crown in the 25th Anniversary Fuerteventura World Cup today. The fifth and final day of slalom competition started off in a very similar ...

Additions to the BYM News Photo Gallery

28 July 2010   22:31
 Todays additions to the BYM Image gallery RC44 – http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=329 Sydney -  Gold Coast – http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=248 Irish Dragon Championship 2010 - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=350 OK Dinghy European Championships. Medemblik - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=858 Women's Open Keelboat Championship - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=69 Farr 45 regatta at .

OK Europeans:Bartosz Rakocy extends lead after another mixed day in Medemblik

28 July 2010   22:29
After a second shifty offshore breeze day, Batozs Madrcoy continues to lead the OK Europeans in Medemblik, Netherlands. Jorgen Lindhardtsen moves up to second with race six race winner Greg Wilcox (NZL) in third after six races. The forecast ...

It's Plane Sailing with Ondeck and Virgin Atlantic at this year's Cowes Week

28 July 2010   22:20
 Official Charter Partners, Ondeck have a full programme of events and racing throughout the week that includes hosting media and competition winners from national, regional, local and lifestyle press as well satisfying the hundreds of bookings to race at this ...

Solitaire du Figaro sailors head into second complex night at sea

28 July 2010   22:09
The 45 Figaro sailors set off from Le Havre in Northern Normandy yesterday on their first leg, 515 miles to the Gijón, in Asturias on the Spanish Cantabrian coastline. Eric Peron (Skipper Macif 2009) grabbed Karine Fauconnier’s (Eric Bompard ...

RC 44 Valencia Cup : Team Aqua wins match racing championship 

28 July 2010   21:52
The conditions today off Malvarrosa Beach were similar to yesterday’s 20-knot winds, but the match racing at the RC 44 Valencia Cup was even more boisterous. New Zealander Cameron Appleton and Team Aqua captured the match racing portion of ...

Women's Open Keelboat Championship : Espada takes top prize 

28 July 2010   20:37
Louise Morton's Espada beat 16 other teams to win the Women's Open Keelboat Championship 2010. It's the third time Louise has claimed the trophy, but this year the competition was hot on her heels. In a closely contested championship, ...

Eco 60 Class launches new website

28 July 2010   20:18
The Eco 60 Class of ocean racing yachts today launches its own dedicated website. The new class – which currently makes use of Open 60 yachts launched before 2003 – was created as an ecological, sustainable and affordable ocean ...

America's Cup : Jaguar announces partnership with TEAMORIGIN for summer of sailing

28 July 2010   19:52
Jaguar has announced a partnership with TEAMORIGIN, the British America’s Cup sailing team, created by Sir Keith Mills with the single purpose of winning the America’s Cup for Great Britain. This new partnership brings the two parties together for ...

Extreme Sailing Series : Edmond de Rothschild Group back to business

28 July 2010   19:41
Two months after their victory in Sète, Yann Guichard and his crew aboard Edmond de Rothschild Group are back on the Isle of Wight to compete in the Extreme Sailing Series circuit for the second event of the season. ...

RYA appoints Richard Falk as new Training Manager

28 July 2010   19:13
The RYA is delighted to announce that Richard Falk who joined the RYA in February this year as RYA Cruising Manager has now been appointed the new RYA Training Manager, following the retirement of James Stevens. After a long ...

British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta roundup report

28 July 2010   19:11
The British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta 2010 ran from Sunday 18th July to Saturday 24th July and attracted an overall entry of fifty-nine boats. This unique event, which is now in its ninth year, brings together some ...

Hull & Humber & Edinburgh Inspiring Capital enter Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race 

28 July 2010   19:05
Having recently returned from their 35,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race, Clipper Ventures is pleased to announce that the two British entries, Hull & Humber and Edinburgh Inspiring Capital, will be ...

RC 44 Valencia Cup: Sea Dubai Sailing Team in Valencia

28 July 2010   18:58
Great racing conditions with winds of around 12 knots started the first day of the RC44 Valencia Cup but the day ended by testing the limits of crews with winds of up to 18 knots with gusts of 20 ...

OK Dinghy Europeans : Bartosz Rakocy takes lead after mixed day in Medemblik

28 July 2010   18:36
Day two of the OK Dinghy European Championships in Medemblik, Netherlands produced a late finish after a complete change in conditions with very unstable offwind winds mixing up the results, with most of the leading contenders picking up a ...

Cowes Week: British sports stars take to the water for Artemis Challenge charity race

28 July 2010   09:07
Sporting stars Zara Phillips, Amy Williams and former England rugby international Martin Bayfield will this year join teams sailing in the Artemis Challenge at Cowes Week.  The race, an annual IMOCA 60 sprint round the Isle of Wight attracting ...

Martin Byrne claims Dragon Irish Championship 2010 Sponsored by Belfast Harbour

28 July 2010   08:51
The ability of the Irish to throw a good party has never been in any doubt, but the 2010 Dragon Irish Championship, sponsored by Belfast Harbour, supported by North Down Borough Council and hosted by the Royal North of ...

PWA Sotavento, Fuerteventura Grand Slam : Maynard claims line honours; Albeau fails to make finals

28 July 2010   08:44
Maynard claims line honours in an outstanding showdown of the world’s fastest, minus Albeau who fails to make the finals… The spectators lining Sotavento’s beautiful beach were awarded with some world-class racing on day four of the competition following ...