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Clark Completes UK Olympic Sailing Line-Up
Royal Naval Officer Penny Clark has earned the nod for the British Laser Radial berth for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, with her official selection today, along with eight other sailors, by the British Olympic Association completing the British sailing team line-up for the 2008 Games.

Sailing is the first British sport to have completed its cast for the Beijing Games with Clark, plus RS:X windsurfers Nick Dempsey and Bryony Shaw, the 470 men’s and women’s crews of Nick Rogers-Joe Glanfield and Christina Bassadone-Saskia Clark and Tornado duo Leigh McMillan and Will Howden, all officially named today as members of ‘Team GB’ - the BOA’s team for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, which could ultimately comprise 300 athletes competing across 22 sports at the Games in August.

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Late Availability for Antigua Sailing Week
26th April 2nd May 2008
Ondeck, official sponsors (and preferred Yacht Charter Company) of the 41st Stanford Antigua Sailing Week have just 1 X Farr 65 & 1 X Farr 40 left ready for you to ‘rock up and race’ in this world class event. We also have a very limited amount of availability for individuals on one of our Farr 65s and on Team Pindar’s Volvo 60. Full event management is included along with shore support and some fantastic opportunities for partying.

For more information contact sh or visit www.ondeck.co.uk

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San Francisco - Yokohama
Since leaving San Francisco last Saturday at 22h45′45” UT, Lionel Lemonchois and his crew have been racking up the miles at a steady pace - an average of over 21 knots - as they jump from one weather system to another. This strategy has paid off as, after just four days of racing, the 33 metres maxi-catamaran has a good lead over the reference time.

“Conditions are now ideal… We have been experiencing periods of sailing which have been considerably more pleasant over the past 24 hours. We have brilliant sunshine, increasingly calm seas and a twenty knot NE’ly breeze, which are currently enabling us to belt along at between 27 and 34 knots” confided Cyril Dardashti shortly after 2300 hours yesterday night.

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