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While seven of the fleet’s eight navigators fret over the leg ahead, Roger Nilson is relieved to be able sail at all after he narrowly avoided being part of a tragic building collapse while on leave during the stopover.
The Telefonica Black veteran was visiting a Hindu festival with a friend east of New Delhi when a roof, upon which they and 6,000 others were eating lunch, collapsed.
Nilson had left to make a phone call about 15 minutes earlier, while his friend avoided the catastrophe by less than a minute. According to Nilson, approximately 150 people died.
Dick has conceded about 10 miles to Josse, who has been quicker about 45 miles to his north, and is now just 1.5 miles behind Josse.
At the start of a new era for the world’s oldest and largest sailing regatta of its kind, Cowes Week Limited has appointed award-winning consumer lifestyle agency Focus PR to carry out its media communications in 2009.
The nine-month integrated PR programme will continue to build the positive reputation of Cowes Week with sailors and non-sailors alike.
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Four new models are now available in the UK including one with a colour display.
They are the PiranhaMAX 160, the PiranhaMAX 170, the PiranhaMAX 180 and the PiranhaMAX 190 with the colour LCD.
While the distances to the leaders are still significant, it will certainly feel a whole lot better this evening for that chasing middle group on the Vendée Globe.
Dominique Wavre , SUI, (Temenos II) has made up 126 miles in 24 hours, which will feel much better than the 400 miles he was behind 24 hours ago.
The owner of Boatshed Cowes, Frank Gelder, will be opening a new office in Yarmouth on 20th December.
This second office, which will run in conjunction with his existing business in Clarence Boatyard, will offer boat owners in the west of the Island more choice when it comes to yacht brokerage.
Dr Eric McLarty, a well known former Salcombe GP, began his association with the RNLI as an Honorary Medical Adviser in 1973 requiring him to respond, along with the volunteer lifeboat crew members, to rescues involving the sick or injured at sea although some would say that having delivered some members of the lifeboat crew at birth his association began much earlier!
Dominique Wavre on Temenos 2 lamented his lack of breeze yesterday and last night, losing over 120 miles on the leaders over one day but tonight it is the two Swiss skippers Wavre and Bernard Stamm who are seeing the highest numbers on their speedos.
As Jean Pierre Dick leads by 29 miles tonight fastest in the fleet are Loïck Peyron (Gitana Eighty) and Mike Golding (Ecover 3) racing less than ten miles apart.
Both were making 18.3 knots, and in the four hours between the position reports Golding has averaged 18.4 knots to Peyron’s 18 knots. Peyron is fourth and Golding fifth.
In her first appearance at the prestigious Eiserne sailing race, the Enigma 34 Signature Edition ‘SUI 01’ skippered by Daniel Schroff, romped home to a commanding victory in the final regatta of the year on Lake Constance.
Over 260 yachts met during the last weekend of November for the traditional season climax. With sunny 3° Celsius and light, changeable breezes, SUI 01 made a good start, leading the fleet to the first buoy on the Swiss side of the lake and staying in front all the way to the finish-line.