The Sailing Champions League finals are here and about 32 clubs from the 12 nations participating are ready for the challenge in St Moritz. The second semi final was recently concluded in St Petersburg, Russia. This was after four days of racing in the waters when Verein won the Norddeutscher Regatta.
The race was a close one with Norddeutscher Regatta Verein winning over Deutscher Touring Yacht Club's German team with a close point difference of 2.8. The navigator sailing team of Russia gained third position overall. With the big finals of Sailing Champions League are coming up from 30th August to 2nd September, the big finals would see 32 clubs participating from 12 nations at St Moritz.
Racing started at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup (MYRC) and Rolex Maxi 72 World Championship recently in Porto Cervo.
This is the annual event, which is organized jointly by the Costa Smeralda Yacht Club, this year in the celebration of its 50th anniversary along with the International Maxi Association. The body is sanctioned by the World Sailing to represent the Maxi classes.
And the day was full of surprises for the competing seven classes. Initially, there were the conditions eight knots as declared in the forecast, but later it increased to the gusts of 15+ knots, although patchy.
The Land Rover Ben Ainslie Racing team is looking pretty solid.
The manager of the Land Rover BAR team is happy for the team to be taking part in the Great Sound in Bermuda. Jono Macbeth the team manager is having a good time with the crew of the BAR team. He is happy to be part of the team that is taking part against the Emirates Team New Zealand and the French team.
The super yacht S/Y a having been seized by the Bay of Gibraltar has brought much interest and intrigue in the sailing world. Indeed, the fact that the shipbuilding yard released the vessel only to get it seized and arrested does raise questions.
When most of the school students were sleeping in during the break of winter, another student of Queen's Matti Muru was busy in achieving his dreams.
On Dec 4 2016, Muru travelled to Auckland to participate in the (YSWC) Youth Sailing World Championships. Though, Muru finished at 25 out of 60 but has gained a lot of experience.
The young sailor started practicing the sport at the age of 9 and by the time he turned 14, he started his training to get into YSWC. After spending countless hours in the water and gym to get the perfect fitness and skills for sports, Muru became one of the best sailors in the country and after that he got the opportunity to participate in Youth Sailing World Championship.
The difference between admirers and die-hard followers is admirer, just praising the moves of their heroes on the other hand follower take lessons from these moves and implement in their real life.
Example of this has been shown by secondary students of south lake school. Following their heroes of Olympic sailing, these students from south lake followed their heroes and created the national squads.