Adventures

Catching up with Iain Murray in Bermuda

16 October 2015
The final event of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Bermuda is warming up, with unofficial practice today, and practice racing tomorrow before racing on Saturday and Sunday. With all eyes on Bermuda as the new home of Oracle Team USA, and host of the 35th America’s Cup in 2017, I took the opportunity this morning to catch up with Iain Murray, the Regatta Director. We…
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Kite Foil Gold Cup wraps up and Sailor Girl kiting??!

15 October 2015
The Kite Foil Gold Cup circuit has wrapped in Townsville Australia for the second year running this week, with Maxime Norcher taking the tour overall, followed by Johnny Heineken, Nico Parlier and Axel Mazalla. The SeaLink leg of the tour in Townsville, sailed the week after my Tasar Nationals, was raced in exceptionally breezy conditions, and the battle definitely came down to Johnny Heineken and…
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World Match Racing Tour 2015 - Argo Gold Cup Bermuda

11 October 2015
Despite exceptionally light andvariable air on thefinal day of racingat the Argo Group Gold Cup in Bermudatoday, thefinalswere an intense affairforspectators and competitors alike with a number ofto-the-wire finishes.It was former World Champions BlackMatch on their return to the World Match Racing Tour after a two year hiatus with Adam…
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Kitefoiling Gold Cup 2015 - Townsville - Nico & Ricky

27 September 2015
While I am in Townsville for the 43rd Tasar Nationals, was great to chat with Nico Parlier and Ricky Leccese on the upcoming Kitefoiling Gold Cup stage, as well as the basics. Nico is currently tied for the tour lead, and won last year’s final stage here in Townsville. Will he be on top at the end of October? Time will tell. What is scarier is that I am apparently going to learn how to…
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Highlights show from 12 weeks in Europe!

6 September 2015
The first Adventures of a Sailor Girl radio show for some time, packed with action from the Sailor Girl’s twelve week stint in Europe. Listen below to the show on Mixcloud (streaming with music), or via the Sailor Girl App(stream or Podcast). The Show Line Up – Sailing News in 60 seconds-ish (1:05) – Ian Walker in Lorient – Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing take the win…
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And then there were 12...

2 September 2015
So… here I am back at London Heathrow Airport, awaiting departure after 12 weeks in Europe. 12 weeks… Wow. Some quick stats for the past 12 weeks… more airports, marinas and freeways on the Adventures of a Sailor Girl… 12 events covered (13 media centres) 19 airport visits(8 individual airports) 18 marinas one “million” freeways (slight overestimation…
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America's Cup World Series - Gothenburg - Day 2

31 August 2015
The interviews from day 2 of the America’s Cup World Series in Gothenburg! But what went down in the racing? It was a complete mix up on yesterday with local team Artemis Racing coming back from a capsize on the practice race day, and running aground yesterday to take a bullet in race one. Emirates Team NZ finished in second, levelling the scores for the weekendbetweenthe…
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