Saturday Sailing #40

British single handed sailing academy





Opti Worlds team racing:



Unwise surf skiers

Saturday Sailing #39

Rolex Sydney Hobart Day 1



Rolex Sydney Hobart Day 2



Cat Crash









Dinosaur sailing fans?

Saturday Sailing #38

Volvo Ocean race at sea for christmas







Canadian Olympic Sailors had a successful worlds in Perth

Two or more Canadian boats are in this vid:


6 Canadians are now qualified to go to the olympics.  Story here:
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Canadian-Sailing-Team---Perth-2011.html?soid=1103755470060&aid=kATe0FZmOmg


Mike Golding completed the Transat B to B single handed open 60 race:






Cat meets bridge ...






Clever animation that has nothing to do with sailing.


Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

Saturday Sailing #37

I'm posting one day early this week as I was a day late last week.

The most interesting thing happening this week is the ISAF world championships:



More at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/isafchannel?feature=watch


Banc Populare continue to rock around the world.  The boat is 100 feet long.  How big does that make the waves in this vid?

Saturday Sailing #36

Published Sunday the 11th.


Volvo Ocean Race leg 2 start.  All the boats are back in one piece and racing.




Britain's Mike Golding is back racing Open 60's again.




Three boat crash at the start of the Brest to Bristol race for single handed open 60's




The Maxi Trimaran "Bank Populaire" is at sea attempting to win the Jules Vern trophy for the fastest crewed passage around the planet.

http://www.thedailysail.com/offshore/11/60608/0/banque-populaire-jules-verne-trophy-attempt-2011-10-dec-report

Saturday Sailing #35

30 Min Highlight video of the Volvo Ocean Race leg #1 into Cape Town





Sailing world article "Casualty Corner" describing the status of the three VOR boats under major repairs:
http://www.sail-world.com/Canada/index.cfm?SEID=0&Nid=91339&SRCID=0&ntid=113&tickeruid=0&tickerCID=0


Global Ocean Race departing Cape Town

Saturday Sailing #34

Yachting Monthly Crash test boat test.

Yachting Monthly is a UK magazine that has been doing a series called "Crash Test Boat"  The last one is what happens when a gas system is poorly maintained.  You can probably guess the results ...
http://www.yachtingtv.co.uk/explosion.php

Click here for the rest of the series
http://www.yachtingtv.co.uk/index.php


More big trouble in the Volvo Ocean Race.  Puma is dismasted.

Story here:
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/PUMA-Ocean-Racing-retires-from-Leg-1/4117/news.html

Video here:




Canadian open 60 "O Canada"