The second edition of the Inter-Chamber of Commerce Regatta is back! This time we hope to see more nationalities pitting wits against each other out on the water! This BSC-sponsored event promises a weekend of exciting sailing and racing and loads of opportunities to meet people from other countries as well as all walks of lives! Not only that, if you are coming with your fellow mates, you will witness your team members growing beyond their capabilities, stretching their capacities…

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Have you ever wondered what your neighbours at work or home do on the weekends? Or have you done anything fun and exciting together on a weekend? Now grab this awesome opportunity to invite your neighbours to go on a sailing weekend! This will be an extraordinary weekend where you get to bond with your neighbours, learn a new sport together as well as race against your neighbours on the water! Back on shore; enjoy copious amount of beers together and a sumptuous spread of BBQ…

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Beijing Sailing Center(BSC) is the first-and-only sailing facility in Northern China to provide top grade sailing courses and activities.

Located on the pristine beach of Beidaihe, BSC aims to promote leisure and professional sailing locally and in the region.

A premier training facility with high safety standards and a team of Royal Yachting Association (RYA) qualified instructors, BSC sets to be China’s leading sailing center for sailing enthusiasts to enjoy yachting at all…

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It has been an interesting few months.   There has been a change of the Challenger of Record (Vincenzo Onorato, previously a strong defender of the new rules, and costs, of AC34 has pulled his Mascalzone Latino run Club Nautico di Roma challenge from its privileged position as Challenger of Record, and from the Cup entirely) and a change of boat rules for the pre-Cup regattas (the AC45 will continue to be used next year for all of the America's Cup World Series regattas, when the original…

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BMW Oracle Racing
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It was a great surprise to discover a brand new sailing club located at the Beijing Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Shun Yi, Beijing.

Today it was windy, and a large crowd of beginners and more experienced sailors had gathered at the new club.

They offer a large fleet of the small FE 11…

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Citing unhappiness with the decisions about boat design and racing format, Team Origin's owner Sir Keith Mills has said that he doesn't think the new format for the America's Cup is viable. Continue

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It looks like the new battle for the America's Cup will be between Owners and Sailors. Notwithstanding Mike Sanderson's departure from Team Origin, at the moment the sailors are winning. BMW Oracle design coordinator Ian Burns has said that the AC "is the pinnacle of our sport" and continues "the boats should be physically demanding to race well and produce…

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The competitors get to decide, they say, later this year. Will be interesting to see which way it goes. And the dates are 2013 - 2014. Which we means we all have a little time to try to get the sponsors interested again. And venue will not be finalised until end 2010. Continue

To Friends of the China America's Cup Team and members of the Beijing Yacht Club - inviting you to submit your sailing-related announcements, news, and images to Sail-World Asia, part of the biggest sailing news website in the world. Go to www.sail-world.com/asia, and click the 'Submit News and Pics' button in the top right corner.

Guy Nowell, Asia Editor, Sail-World.com

Now that the Auld Mug is back in US control, plans for America's Cup Challengers should get a little clearer. But not just yet.



Firstly Location. Oracle Team owner Larry Ellison seems, unsurprisingly, to prefer his home port of San Francisco (and the Golden Gate Yacht Club that Oracle represented in Valencia) but facilities there are not up to scratch, and other locations, including Cascais in Portugal (the original choice of Russell Coutts for AC32), are still being… Continue

I have now been sailing the Scandinavian Cruiser 20 for two warm and sunny days on November 25/26 with light wind of 5-10 knots in Xiamen, China. The water and air temperature was around 25C (80F). I wish sailing could be like this every day!



So how does she sail?



In many ways she feels like a big dinghy, with fast acceleration in a puff, turns on a dime, light on the tiller, etc, but in other ways she is like a keel boat, with… Continue

Adam Minoprio, ably supported by Tom Powrie, Dave Swete, Nick Blackman and Dan McLean, won the Monsoon Cup in convincing fashion at Kuala Terengganu on Malaysia's East Coast, yesterday afternoon. Winning 3:0 against the Origin Team who had lead the standings at the end of the Round Robin series, Minoprio showed why he is the 2009 ISAF World Match Racing Champion, a title he sealed the day before with points from the semi-finals. It hadn't looked this… Continue

Pieter Heerema and his team No Way Back have conquered the Sea Dubai RC 44 Gold Cup. Winners of the fleet regatta and the DHL Trophy, they also grab the RC 44 Championship Tour 2009 ahead of Artemis, who retains the overall fleet race title.



November 29, 2009 - The scenario couldn’t have been better ahead of the last racing day of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2009, with four boats in a position to win the overall title.… Continue

November 27, 2009 – Four races took place today in a light and fairly unstable breeze, allowing four different teams to score victories. Artemis and Team Aqua, the two teams who lead the overall Championship Tour, needed a couple of races to get back in a confident mode after their disappointing results in the match race event. They finally showed their usual leadership in the fleet regatta in the second part of the day.



The first regatta saw a splendid domination by the local Team… Continue

The emphatic 2-0 win over Team NZ by Francesco Bruni's all Italian Azzurra was a surprise to many, but not to the Italians themselves. Representing HH The Aga Khan's Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (Sardinia), and built around Giovanni Maspero's Joe Fly sailing teams, Azzurra were well trained and well supported from the start.



One wonders, though, what the large teams think of the results of these LV races. With Team NZ 2nd, Origin 4th and… Continue

Big boat this. And lovely lines. Click Here for the photos or just click through to "Photos" from anywhere on this site. These photos were taken yesterday afternoon at Le Bouveret, the boat having been moved from Villeneuve by a huge helicopter. I watched the 50m mast go on today and saw the boom arrive on its own semi-trailer. Everything is on quite a… Continue

Just had my first look at Alinghi's big catamaran - the one they have built to face BMW Oracle in next February's Deed of Gift 33rd America's Cup race off. Will try and post photos tomorrow. Impressive machine. It is parked on the hard in the industrial park of Villeneuve at the Eastern end of Lac Leman in Switzerland. They are planning to airlift it by helicopter to nearby Bouveret eary Wednesday morning, where they will step the mast and start water trials.

There were no races in Cagliari today due to the lack of wind. Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts’ BMW ORACLE Racing are the grand winners of the event, ahead of Chris Bake’s Team Aqua and Igor Lah’s Ceeref.



April 26, 2009 – The wind carried on playing tricks with the Cagliari Cup organisers today. Despite a good forecast and some promising moments, Peter “Luigi” Reggio had no other option but to send all the teams back to port at 2:30 PM.

Winner of the fleet regatta, Larry… Continue