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Showing posts with label sailing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sailing. Show all posts
Monday, March 10, 2014

New concept in speed sailing

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A fabulous French catamaran named the Flying Phantom was introduced to the international sailing world at the Paris Boat Show 2013. Its rev...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Sinister name

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In the following NASA image, the dense white horizontal bars that look like gigantic clouds indicate the shifting location of the Intertrop...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Australian liberator vessel

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This evening on French TV, along with countless other followers of the Vendée Globe around-the-world yacht race, I was overjoyed to see an A...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Breakage in the Antipodes

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Pursuing their attempt to break the round-the-world sailing record known as the Jules Verne Trophy , the 35-year-old Provençal yachtsman Fra...
Friday, June 22, 2007

America's Cup

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Tomorrow, in the opening race of the 32nd America's Cup in Valencia, the Swiss defender Alinghi will be meeting up with the Kiwi chall...
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William Skyvington
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After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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