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Some pretty cool sailing pictures from boston.com, more from the link.

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Finally, an America’s Cup challenger to root for:
The Sailing Anarchy Yacht Club (SAYC) today confirmed its entry in the 33rd America’s Cup to be contested in the waters off Valencia, Spain in 2010 or 2011. Known as Anarchy Challenge, SAYC’s racing syndicate will draw upon the immense resources of the world’s most popular sailing website, [...]

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Well, since I kind of stopped paying attention to this for a while, I never said anything about how Nationals turned out. So even though the 4 people that will actually read this were either there or have already heard about how it turned out, I’m writing anyway.
So the event was held out of [...]

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The new format for ICSA Dinghy Nationals showed up just in time for my last season. We qualified for the championship in Newport, June 2-4 after finishing 5th this weekend at the Western Semi-Finals at USC. Of the schools that qualified for Nationals, 8 are from NEISA (New England conference, including BC, UVM, [...]

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As close to March Madness as college sailing will ever get?
http://www.collegesailing.org/news/2008coedbrackets.pdf
and the story.

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So MIT finally gets a band that I would want to go see for Spring Weekend, and then goes and schedules the concert when I hope to be at the ICSA Semi-Final Dinghy Championships. Third Eye Blind is set to play on April 25th in Johnson, but I hope to be headed either to [...]

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I thought this was a pretty good post on the United States’ selection process for sending teams to the Olympics. The excerpt below is from sailjuiceblog.com and the original post can be found here.
Erin Maxwell and Isabelle Kinsolving now hold a commanding lead going into tomorrow’s Medal Race, while Amanda Clark and Sarah Mergenthaler [...]

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Coming off a win at the Asia Pacific Regatta, Erin Maxwell and Isabelle Kinsolving have captured the gold at the 470 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. Here they are after accepting medals, Erin on the left and Isabelle on the right (in front of the US flag).

The team steadily moved up throughout the [...]

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Francis Joyon has broken Ellen MacArthur’s Solo Circumnavigation record by more than two weeks, a remarkable feat. The Frenchman finished yesterday after a grueling 57 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes, 6 seconds alone with the sea aboard his 92 ft trimaran (below).

The ability to smash a record like this is just amazing. [...]

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Coming off a disappointing second place finish in the US 470 Women’s Olympic Trials, Erin Maxwell and Isabelle Kinsolving have won the windy Asia Pacific Regatta out of Sail Melbourne, Australia. Results of the qualifying stage can be found here and results of the medal race are here.

This is their first [...]

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