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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Team Origin, the America's Cup team founded by U.K. businessman Keith Mills, will attempt to capture sailing's biggest prize while also tackling climate change.
Messing About In Sailboats (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
According to readers of this blog, nearly half feel that the America's Cup has lost its premiere position to other events (e.g. VOR, LV Cup, etc). A few feel that it was always over-rated. A third feel that it will...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Italians soundly defeat New Zealand favourites in final • Russians defeat Britain's TeamOrigin for third place There were two major upsets in the Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta in Nice in its final stages – the first was the defeat of Britain's TeamOrigin by the Russian team, Synergy, in the match for third place, and the second when the favourites, Emirates Team New Zealand, were...
ISAF News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Francesco Bruni and his Azzurra crew, including tactician Tommaso Chieffi, defeated Emirates Team New Zealand 2-0 in the Grand Final to win the Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Côte d'Azur.
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dean Barker talks about his team's result in the LV Trophy. Nice, 22 November 2009. Video copyright BTS Broadcast
Water Dissolves Water (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
1. Today was the first day of my nine-day Thanksgiving vacation. I'll be travelling in a few days. but today I celebrated by spending the afternoon at a chan temple ( chan is the Chinese form of Zen, the ancestor tradition to the younger Japanese lineage). The temple was new to me, but it had apparently opened on the other side of the city about a year ago, and a friend had invited me to attend an...
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
[Source: Cammas-Groupama] Groupama 3 arrived in Cape Town early this Saturday afternoon and immediately tied up alongside so as repairs could begin to reinforce the aft beams. It was at around 1300 hours UTC that Franck Cammas and his nine crew made landfall after two weeks at sea: Groupama 3 had to abandon her Jules Verne Trophy record attempt on the eleventh day after breaking the port beam bulkhead....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A disappointing fourth was the reward for Ben Ainslie and Britain’s America’s Cup challenger Team Origin in the Louis Vuitton Trophy series off Nice.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
During a visit to flood-hit Cumbria Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledges an extra £1m to help storm victims who are now braced for more rain after England's wettest day on record. Alex Thomson reports.
ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
BT controlled the fleet on day two of racing in Victoria Harbour at the inaugural Extreme Sailing Series Asia taking a hat-trick of wins to top the leaderboard two places ahead of European series champions Oman Sail's Masirah.
ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Brad Jackson and Stu Bannatyne, watch captains on Ericsson 4, the outstanding winner of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009, have been jointly named Singapore Airlines Sailor of the Year, at the 2009 Yachting New Zealand Excellence Awards.
ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Team Origin evened the score agains Azzura yesterday in the Semi-Final Round of the Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Côte d'Azur whilst a visit to the protest room for Emirates Team New Zealand and Synergy Russia Sailing team set up winner takes all matches for Saturday morning.
Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
[Source: Louis Vuitton Trophy] TeamOrigin and Azzurra are tied 1-1 while Emirates Team New Zealand and Synergy await the outcome of a protest. Emirates Team New Zealand has been the strongest team at the Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Côte d’Azur. Synergy Russia Sailing Team has been the most surprising. Those forces collided today in the Semi Final Round of the regatta, and tonight the two...
ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Racing just metres from the shoreline on both sides of the Harbour here in Hong Kong, the six Extreme 40s put on a spectacular display for the gathered international media on day one of the inaugural Extreme Sailing Series Asia.
ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The latest decision from the New York Supreme Court has ruled that both boats shall be measured with all ballast on board.
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malki_milko | 11/03/2009
INTERVIEW : TORBJÖRN TÖRNQVIST His company has a greater turnover than Ericsson. Now he is going to look for oil with the Lundin family. For the first time Torbjörn Törnqvist tells how he built up the Gunvor Group to one of the world’s largest oil-trading enterprises. And he comments on all kinds of rumors about the enterprise. Secret Oil Billionaires TEXT: ERIK WAHLIN • PHOTO: JESSE MORGAN The oilman
malki_milko | 11/03/2009
Torbjörn Törnqvist, Gunvor’s dicreet oil trading giant Gunvor’s co-owner (along with Gennady Timchenko) gave an exclusive interview to Swedish business magazine Affars Varlden. According to me, the most interesting part of this rare interview is not Törnqvist’s unprecedented explanations about the various allegations made toward Gunvor (funny though how he explains that this type of rumours did not...
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