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Sceptre and Velsheda Enter the Race
Raymarine Yachtsman of the Year Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is a keen supporter of the JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. This year he will be the skipper aboard the 12M former America’s Cup yacht Sceptre. No stranger to the event, Sir Robin has competed previously in Suhaili, the 32 foot ketch he built himself and in which he became the first solo, non-stop round the world sailor in 1968/9. As a contrast, last year he opted to race in a state-of-the-art Open 60.

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Thierry Bielak
An unmissable character from the windsurf world, specially where that concerns speed sailing, 3 times world speed record holder and Speedsailing Hall of Fame member Thierry Bielak is saying his farewells after years of appearing on the runs and roads for the RRD brand… New horizons, new projects ahead, he takes time out to talk to us about his long career as a speedboard addict

Windsurfjournal.com : From 1991 to 2004, you’ve been the boss of speed windsurfing, with those 3 consecutive world speed records, what’s your retrospective view of this decade of domination?

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The Endless Wrangling
The America’s Cup has been the theater of countless battles since 1851 and every single Defender’s mission has been to defend the “Auld Mug” with all his might against the repetitive assaults of various Challengers. On or off the water!

Over the past few months we have seen several of those legal ‘battles’ from both sides and as painful as it might be for the millions of America’s Cup’s fans, one should not blame the Defender for using every single tools the US legal system has on offer to protect the trophy in an all out war against BMWOracle.

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