Virtual Skipper 5 : 32nd America's Cup - The Game
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
A British sailor has been killed after the mast of his yacht snapped and hit him as it collided with another boat in France.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Bret Bishop of Boise, Idaho, finished third overall to lead Team USA Two to the championship in the first America Cup International Fly-Fishing Tournament based in Summit County.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
FRISCO, Colo. - Town of Frisco and The America Cup International Fly Fishing Tournament announced today the winners of Colorado’s first international fly fishing event. The first place winner of the event is Michael Drinan, captain of Team Emerger, one
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
FRISCO, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Town of Frisco and The America Cup International Fly Fishing Tournament announced today the winners of Colorado’s first
ContractsProf Blog (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
If the Americas Cup, were a competition among boats to see which could be the subject of the most celebrated lost volume seller case, the 1970 31-foot Broadwater "Bay Breeze" at issue in Neri v. Retail Marine Corp. would surely...
MOLDY CHUM (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Eleven teams representing six nations will compete in the inaugural America Cup fly-fishing competition Wednesday through Friday in the Blue, Colorado and Arkansas river drainages. Teams from Australia, Hungary, Ireland, Japan and Poland will challenge two squads from Fly Fishing...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Menorca, Spain - If the America's Cup sailing duel competition finally manages to get underway in the Mediterranean port of Valencia in eastern Spain next ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Menorca, Spain- If the America's Cup sailing duel competition finally manages to get underway in the Mediterranean port of Valencia in eastern Spain next year, sailors will compete in a variety of new generation carbon fibre yachts which are meant to...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Golden Gate Yacht Club today appealed a New York courts decision stripping it of the role of Challenger of Record for the next Americas Cup. ...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Golden Gate Yacht Club today appealed a New York courts decision stripping it of the role of Challenger of Record for the next Americas Cup. ...
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Welcome to Newport, RI, former home of the Americas Cup. I first posted this arrival shot of Arabella soon after we boarded. Arabella was as elegant inside as out. Tim was dumbfounded. He expected a frowsy old vessel like some we’d seen in the Caribbean. During the cocktail hour we took a complementary jaunt in Rumrunner, a [...]
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Many major sports have their iconic trophies that have a special place set aside from their World Championships. Sailing has the Americas Cup, tennis the Davis Cup and golf the Ryder Cup. Motorcycling now has the Red Bull Riders Cup. The team challenge between the top ten in the Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup and the top ten from the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. Cheeky perhaps to mention an event for...
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Short one this, as there's nothing to report. Herein lies the story for those of us caught-up in the America's Cup spat. There was no decision today from the Apellate Division of the New York Supreme Court and now with summer upon us, the appeal judges will release their decisions only once a week (Tuesdays) instead of twice until 16 Sep when they resume normal service. If you're anxious to find out...
GenevaLunch (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Lorient, France (GenevaLunch) - Geneva-based Alinghi has hired a multi-hull sailor to join the defender of the 33rd America’s Cup,...
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
WHETHER its America’s Cup cats or ocean-racing monohulls, the quest for speed has never been greater. Carbon, Kevlar, Mylar, Aramid fibre sails — the technology being employed to shave weight and gain speed has taken a real hold on yacht racing. The days of GRP and Dacron are over. It seems everyone is in a hurry and in the past few weeks some have been positively turbo-charged, writes Chris McLaughlin....
