Posts Tagged ‘Sailing’
Top Reasons Why Your Team Should Do Key West Race Week
Sail22 really looks forward to coming to Key West every year and we’ve been thinking about reasons why you should bring your team here to join us. Here are a few we came up with:
1) Tropical…warm…sun…blue water. Need we say more?
2) It’s like a family reunion. We both agree that this is the regatta where we are able to catch up with the most people who we don’t normally see.
3) It’s hard not to have a good time here.
4) Any day sailing is a better day than being stuck behind a desk! We’ve both learned that.
5) Cool Boats. It’s a Grand Prix event. It’s always been one of THE regattas for a class to do. This year the RC 44′s caught on and joined in the fun.
6) Where we are from…it’s downright cold currently…and snowy. We’ll take tropical any day.
7) Great restaurants, bars and entertainment of all varieties.
8 ) Premiere Racing use top Principal Race Officers and Race Committees. They are really professional in what they do.
9) Only two races a day! Plenty of time to have fun off the water.
10) Five days of racing and a parties. What other events are there in the US that give you that?
11) Excellent competition. People are excited to come from all over the world to race here…and it’s not a Worlds, North Americans or any other single class event where that would happen. Where else do you see that in the US sailing scene?
I’m sure there are more…comment and add on. We’re personally tired of seeing any sailing event in the US ripped and torn apart. It’s not good for sailing in our country or in general. What do you think?
-Becky & Ed
Sail22.com
Etchells Jaguar Mid-Winters Day 1 Photos
Here are a few photos from Day 1 of the Etchells Jaguar Mid-Winters in Miami, FL. The full gallery can be seen here.
Junior Sailors at the Melges 32 Gold Cup
At Sail22 we strongly support Junior sailors and keeping them excited about sailing. What a better way to do just that then to take them out on a Melges 32 with some of the best sailors in the world? We think it’s great that the Melges 32 Gold Cup has integrated a “take a Junior racing day” from its inception. Each year a Junior sailor from the Lauderdale Yacht Club sails with each team on the Saturday of the event. We’re not sure who actually has more fun…the teams or the kids based on the comments we heard from both groups! The day started off with light air and ended with some great breeze to give the kids a taste of everything the Melges 32 can do. Here are some shots from the Junior Day from this year’s event. Our full gallery of the Juniors hiking hard and learning from the best can be found here.
Melges 32 Gold Cup Day 2 Report
Kip Meadow’s RoXanne is the new leader after two more races on Day 2 of the Melges 32 Gold Cup. Ramrod was granted redress for race 1 of the day after a collision with Dark ‘N Stormy. Johnny Lovell’s Rougarou slid to third place overall and John Taylor’s Ninkasi is in fourth. Jason’s Carroll and his team on Argo moved into fifth. Racing was called for the day after two races as the breeze was shifty and a tornado warning was in effect.
Melges 32 Gold Cup: Rougarou Leads Day 1
Andy Lovell’s Rougarou leads after 3 races on Day 1 of the 2009 Melges 32 Gold Cup hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club. The day started off slowly with the fleet being under postponement until a nice breeze of 6-10 knots filled in later in the afternoon. Rod Jabin’s Ramrod lead the first race of the day and finished third overall, while John Taylor’s Ninkasi was second overall for the day with consistent sailing in all of the races.
We are out on the water giving real time updates at www.sailingupdates.com and photos from Day 1 of the Melges 32 Gold Cup can be found at here. Full results can be seen here.
