Anyone who sails or is on the water for any activity knows that Gill make great gloves.  The good news for 2010 is that the best just got better.

The entire collection of Gill gloves has had an update for 2010, from the industry standard Deckhand Glove, offering great all round protection at a great price, to the widely accepted best performer in the market place – the Pro glove with its distinctive “yellow” Proton Ultra durable material – there have been tweaks and adjustments in design to enhance performance across the range.

Highlights in the 2010 collection are the Dura-Grip material now used in the crucial grip area’s of the Championship, Pro and 3 Seasons Gloves – offering fantastic grip with durability, and the all new Neoprene Winter Glove with its innovative Aquafit wrist seal, offering great warmth combined with dexterity and grip.

Private equity firm Bain Capital is expected to hand over the helm of German sailboat builder Bavaria Yachtbau to two distressed-debt investors, according to reports appearing in the financial press this week. US-based investors Oaktree Capital Management and Anchorage Advisors are thought likely to take equal equity stakes in Bavaria Yachtbau after buying its debt for a total of about €300m, reported Private Equity News.

Bain Capital bought Bavaria in 2007 at the height of the private equity boom for a reported €1.3bn, and is said to have put €400m of equity from its own funds into the deal.

VIAREGGIO - TELEMAR YACHTING, www.telemar-yachting.com  the Viareggio-based Integrated Marine Electronics Specialists providing Navigation, Communication, Audio/Video Entertainment systems, Computer Integration, Security Systems and Airtime to the world's superyacht industry has signed two projects for Italian builder Codecasa.

The two 65-metre yachts, projects C118 and F71, will have the most comprehensive electronics, navigation and audio visual packages to date.   TELEMAR YACHTING will install all of the electronics including VSAT and as a result the Audio Visual System could be integrated with the yacht's computer network and navigation system. 

Alex has announced his co skipper for the TJV on the 8 November will be his long time boat captain Ross Daniel. Alex and Ross will take part in this transatlantic race on the current IMOCA 60 HUGO BOSS, which is now up for sale following the purchase of PINDAR last week.

This is the last race that Alex will take part in on his 2007 Finot Conq Open 60, and the first IMOCA offshore race that he and Ross will compete in together. Having sailed and worked together for 8 years, and seen through 2 vendee campaigns, Ross and Alex are in a very good position to push the boat to its maximum potential.

Ross, like Alex, started his career at Clipper, then went onto skipper on their round the world race before venturing into the IMOCA class. Ross also won early accolades in his career being the youngest skipper to win the ARC in 2001 at the age of 21, and at the same time breaking the record for the crossing in 11 days.

For 2010, BRP is expanding the availability of its award-winning iControl system, the world’s most advanced PWC technology, to the entire Sea-Doo GTX and RXT line-ups and to the WAKE PRO 215 model. The iControl system features the industry’s only on-water braking system, Intelligent Brake and Reverse (iBR).

According to Captain Mark Rizzo, chief of the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Auxiliary and Boating Safety, BRP earned the Boating Safety Innovation Award because: “The braking capability of this new design is not just an evolutionary improvement but a revolutionary improvement to the safety of these vessels”.

All Sea-Doo GTX, RXT and WAKE PRO 215 watercraft also offer BRP's exclusive S3 hull for 2010. Meanwhile, the 2010 GTX 215 iS model benefits from Intelligent Suspension (iS™), the world’s first and only on-water suspension system, also found on 2010 GTX Limited iS 260 and RXT iS 260 models.