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Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ben Ainslie, the three-time Olympic gold medalist and Team Origin helmsman, was in Auckland during the last weekend, racing in the NZ Match Racing Championships, where he finished second, after being beaten in the finals by his form teammate Dean Barker. The differences between match and fleet racing were the first issue touched in the interview but then moved to the Louis Vuitton Pacific series, the...
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Dean BARKER won his fifth New Zealand Match Racing Championship title, sweeping past triple Olympic gold medallist Ben AINSLIE 3-0 in the final.
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Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
[Source: RNZYS] The fourth and final day of the New Zealand Match Racing Championships was held in extremely frustrating conditions for the competitors and the Race Committee alike. A light southerly breeze prevailed for most of the day but was very shifty, so the volunteers aboard the mark laying boats work hard to maintain a fair and equal course. The three remaining flights of the second round robin...
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Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
[Source: RNZYS] Competitors were greeted with a fresh easterly breeze of 15 – 18 knots as they sailed out into the third day of the Match Racing Nationals. The heavier conditions made for exciting spectator viewing, as boat handling and crew work was critical to maintain control of the boats. Another brilliant performance from Dean Barker today saw him leave the water with 17 wins, and is yet to lose...
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Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
[Source: RNZYS] Intensity levels were high going into day two of the New Zealand Match Racing Championships, with some tight races being fought out under the increasing pressure to make it into the semi finals. A fresh breeze of 10 – 15 knots coming from the South West made for perfect match racing conditions and created a mixed bag of results, with some upsetting losses and surprising wins. Rod Davis...
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Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
[Source: RNZYS] Day one of the New Zealand Match Racing Championships saw competitors take to the water in some very trying conditions, for both the sailors and the race committee. Teams headed out onto the water, and with racing postponed to begin with , they w ere left to try and figure out the conditions on a day which anything was possible. With a very gentle 3-4 knots in the morning, the breeze...
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Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Green Mountain Daily has the scoop. Leahy and Sanders were both on the record for removing him and evidently one provided the headcount: 43 for the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, 12 for the Democratic Party. The newly elected Senators voted; it wasn't clear to me that they would.
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Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Somewhere down in New Zealand, a bizarro world is born: A steady 15 to 18 knot breeze made the last day of the Club Marine National Keelboat Championships 2008 an intense battle between the top two crews, young Olympian Peter Burling and regatta-hardened Dean Barker from Emirates Team New Zealand. This is an Open Thread, because I'm hard at work on a poll-data rich diary that's taking me quiet some...
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Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
The following competitors have been confirmed for the upcoming NZ Match Racing Championships: Dean Barker Josh Junior Laurie Jury Adam Minoprio Ben Ainslie Jessica Smyth Rueben Corbett Jonathan Rankine Jan Dawson Adrian Short Rod Davis Phil Robertson The NZ Match Racing Championships are running in Auckland 26 – 30 November 2008. The event is managed by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. Quick Facts...
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GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Well, I had hoped to have been able to announce this with a more positive manner, but someone's unwillingness to defend their ideas of governance has put a kibosh to this: The Left: Carol Shea-Porter (Democrat) ...
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GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Well, I dipped my toe into the real Liberal waters over at Blue Hampshire where I just burst out laughing when I read this observation by Dean Barker (head honcho over at BH) of Governor Sarah Palin coming to NH...
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Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
There's a new SUSA Senate poll out today: Shaheen 48%, Sununu 40%. They also have a state Presidential poll: Obama 53%, McCain 40%. They see Obama headed to the biggest Dem win here since Johnson in 1964.
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Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
So says PolitickerNH . Even though it wasn't his intention, BlueHampshire.com has become a place where New Hampshire Democrats talk and argue among themselves. It's changing how political narrative is formed. If Dean's said that wasn't his intention, he and I started from more different places than I knew. But nonetheless, damn, boy! Not bad! And thanks to the community that made his exalted status...
