Photo by Zergradinord San Francisco Three races were held on Berkeley Circle for the 68 international teams competing in the J70 World Championship on Wednesday. The conditions were once again, true San Francisco. The fog was lurking if not covering the race course, the wind had bite, and blew 14-18 knots. There was a big […]
photo’s by Zerogradinord San Francisco 68 J70’s lined up for the first two races of the 2016 World Championship on Tuesday on Berkeley Circle… the eastern side of San Francisco Bay. After three days of “non San Francisco” conditions over the wekend-85 degrees with sailors waiting around for wind while complaining of it being to hot in the parking lot-“San […]
Photos by Nico Martinez Mahon, Menorca Day 5 provided the fleet with races 9 & 10, both in a huge seaway of 2-3 meters from the north. The wind in the first race was north northeast between 10 and 14 knots and the wind in the second race started at 16 knots and dropped to […]
Photos Max Ranchi Mahon, Menorca Two races were held today off the east coast of Menorca. The wind in the first race was 8 knots from the Southwest and the second race had 16 knots from the Northeast. There was a big wind shift between the two races and the Race Committee did a good […]
52 World Championship – 52 Super Series- Photo’s © Zerogradinord Two race were held yesterday in a wide range of conditions. The wind speed was between 5 and 20 knots and the direction went from 225 to 355. The first attempt at the second race was abandoned midway due to a collapse of the wind […]
Photo by Mauro Melandri-Zerogradinord Mahon, Menorca Today was the second day of the 2016 TP52 World Championship here in Mahon. Lighter conditions prevailed for races 3 and 4. Onboard Phoenix we made a few changes and were very competitive in terms of speed. In the first race, after a good start, we fouled Alegre half […]
Mahon, Menorca The 2016 TP52 World Championship began Wednesday with two windward leeward races in 12-20 knots from the southwest. There was a decent seaway as a front had passed through the area during the night. The World Championship fleet consists of 12 boats from 8 countries. The racing is very tight as all the […]
Photos by Marta Rovatti Studihrad Riva del Garda Five more races we held over Saturday and Sunday for the J70, Alcatel Italian Circuit Championship. The conditions continued to be challenging on Saturday, in that they were not classic Lake Garda. Saturday featured light winds where the left side of the course paid hugely most of the time. […]
Photo by Marta Rovatti Studihrad Riva del Garda I am here in Italy training with the team that I will race with at the J70 World Championship laster this month in San Francisco. It is an Italian team and this weekend were are racing the final event of their annual circuit. Three days and 9 […]
English Bay Danny and I came up to Vancouver to race against the best of the northwest on Labor Day weekend. Danny recently moved to Seattle, we thought we would join in the racing up here in beautiful Vancouver BC, home of Star World Champion Ross McDonnald. Ross, no longer sailing the Star, was mountain […]
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