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Sailing

Phang Nga Bay 'Fun Regatta' gets underway today

Alan Parkhouse Bangkok Post 03.02.2010
Phang Nga Bay 'Fun Regatta' gets underway today

PHANGNGA : Thailand's rapidly growing sailing season gets underway in spectacular fashion today when a big fleet of almost 50 boats sets sail to contest the annual Phang Nga Bay Regatta in picturesque southern Thailand.

Sponsors required for Youth World Championships in Pattaya

PATTAYA : In a world clouded with doom and gloom, there is a bright ray shining at least for Thailand over the Sattahip-Jomtien-Pattaya Eastern Seaboard region. It is an event far removed from the outside turmoil. It is clear skies, sparkling wate...


Thailand voted favourite sailing venue in Asia

Chanut Nawnarong Infinity Communications 08.12.2009
Thailand voted favourite sailing venue in Asia

Phuket - Thailand was voted the favourite sailing venue in Asia and the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta best regatta in Asia, according to a recent survey. The survey found also that the Regatta generated approximately 40 million baht for the Island eco...

Laura Dekker

Laura Dekker, a 13-year-old Dutch girl, has been taken into the custody of child protection officers after a court blocked her bid to make a solo sailing voyage around the world.


Laura Dekker will find out on Friday whether the Dutch Court will back her record attempt.

A Dutch Court will decide the fate Friday of 13-year-old Laura Dekker, either making her a potential world-record-breaking sailor, or returning her to school.

New yacht race may start from HK

Hong Kong will likely be the starting point of a new world-class yacht race series bringing together 10 teams that will run parallel to the America's Cup competition, organisers say.


Wild Oats XI finishing to win the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Hobart, Australia, on Sunday. (Carlo Borlenghi/Rolex, via The Associated Press)

The discovery of a shark tangled in its aft rudder helped the Australian yacht Wild Oats XI surge to an unprecedented fourth successive first-place finish in the Sydney to Hobart race on Sunday.

Ayton, Webb and Wilson celebrate winning Olympic gold, but they can no longer target a repeat

Great Britain's gold medal-winning Yngling trio, dubbed “three blondes in a boat”, have disbanded after their class was dropped from the 2012 London Olympics. Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson may compete separately in the Olympic regatta i...


Disaster strikes Mike Golding again

Matthew Pryor Times Online 16.12.2008
Mike Golding of Britain aboard Ecover 3

Just hours after taking the lead for the first time in the Vendee Globe, Mike Golding’s Ecover 3 dismasted in the Southern Ocean, 940 miles southwest of Perth, Australia. A weary but safe Golding reflected later on the onboard data which showed it...

Ericsson 3 is seen passing on leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cochin, India

HONG KONG (AFP) — Sailors in the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race have been warned about the danger of pirates off the coast of Somalia and will be monitored by warships patrolling the Indian Ocean, organisers said.