Mark Chisnell helps keep us up to speed with the ever changing twists and turns of the AMERICAS CUP

Marine Blast is delighted to welcome content from Mark Chisnell who will help keep us all up to date with the twists and turns CHAT! of The Americas Cup. And boy don’t they just change every twenty minutes or so? Checkout Mark’s BIO  which is very interesting indeed.

 Here is Mark’s latests

Snuffed Out

It’s almost as though they’re doing it deliberately. Oracle and the Golden Gate Yacht Club, that is… I barely manage to get a blog up before they move another chess piece and change the dynamics of the game again. This is the third week on the trot that it’s happened, or maybe they just have their lawyers working on this stuff the same day that I post. read on

Champagne Yachting in Largs

photo credit: fotoboat www.fotoboat.com

“Great breeze & surfing conditions – it doesn’t get much better” is how current overall leader Jeremy Davy described the days sailing.  Competitors enjoyed stronger wind conditions with a fresh westerly breeze and sunny conditions.   The fleet launched with the support of the slipway team while North Ayrshire Economic Development Manager, Alex Anderson, watched on and was very impressed to see all the action and hoped the sailors would enjoy their sailing at Largs.

England hit by floods all summer! But look on the bright side

Here’s a clip of some residents sailing from Gloucestershire to Worcestershire down their main high street on there way to the new  town called Atlantis, well they do say every cloud has a Silver lining. 

UK Flying 15 National Championships @Largs Scotland

Photo credit: Courtesy of Fotoboat/Alan Henderson

26-29 July 2007

The Flying Fifteen National Championship got underway today, 26th July, at Largs. With 37 boats entered and near perfect conditions the fleet launched and headed for the race area off the North end of Great Cumbrae. The course was set with about 11 knots of breeze from the SSW. Both the open and classic fleets got off to a clean start with no penalties at the scheduled start time, 1400hrs. The sportscotland National Centre Cumbrae had their new work boat put to the test laying the full course with good angles and distances. Chris Nichol, Chief Instructor, said “I am very pleased with the new boat and it is the ideal equipment to support the mark laying for large championship events.” results here

Diamond Jubilee West Highland Yachting Week set to sparkle!

Marine Blast will be reporting from this event, so look forward to some intresting video and photos next week. Event web site www.whyw.co.uk 

TENNENTS West Highland Yachting Week celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of the Regatta this year.  The event starts on Friday July 27 running till Friday August 3. 

The 60^th Anniversary of WHYW coincides with the 28^th year of sponsorship from Tennents – an unprecedented sponsorship relationship for any sailing regatta.

Tennents continue to support the event until their 30^th year in 2009 but already the event organisers have started discussions with future potential sponsors to ensure the continued success of the event from 2010.Regatta chairman Dave Waltho told YL: ’We are proud of the unique bond we have had with Tennents over the last 28 years.  With the change of focus for the company we are now seeking the right sponsor to continue a good relationship for the future.

CORBY MASTER PIECE FOR SALE [BLONDIE 3]

This wee space ship left everything standing in IRC class 2 at the Scottish Series plus most other regattas it attended, So question is where do you go from here? Is it bigger and faster? what do think? comments or answers.

Checkout Corby boats for the full spec

Happy as Larry! as Coutts signs up for pension fund in advance

 

HOW MUCH ARE YOU GETTING PAID RUSSELL?

“Happy as Larry” is used to getting what he wants, well until he got involved in the Americas Cup yacht racing programme. With some practice now completed it looks like he may just be one step closer to getting what he wants by signing up Russell Couttes. But and there always is a but, and thats if he is going to be the best man for the job come the time, after all thats what Dicko was back then. But magic for Russell getting all that cash for sailing, and you got to think did his parents ever say to him “Get a proper job, you will never make any money from sailing” So the real question is just how much is ge getting paid? I think it must be $25 milllion dollars what do you think? any comments?

Here’s what the papers say: Sailing Anarchy & BYM & BMW Oracle

TRI THIS! 4 days 03 hours 57 minutes 54 seconds across the big pond

Video credit Groupama 3

This is just pure mental with a average speed of 28.6 kts over 4 days,  what the F$£k is that about? thats faster than going through security in Glasgow Airport.

 http://www.cammas-groupama.com/en/index.jsp

Six Metre World Championship, 2007

Some very tasty wee yachts from another planet, brought to you by The knowledge zone.

Swiss on a Roll and take the 8mtr World Cup

 

photo credit: Marc Turner www.pfmpictures.co.uk  Alluette taking the final Gun.

The final day of the 8 metre Centennial World Championship 2007 started with very light winds and only three points between the leaders, the Swiss boat Alluette and the Scottish boat, Lafayette.