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Power Play: Open 60 Class Boats Have Few Constraints
Apply it to a wickedly overpowered racing yacht, sailed across oceans or around the world, by just one person, then it takes on meaning with real substance.

And this is question that’s vexing the Open 60 class right now as the latest generation of boats head across the Atlantic in the Artemis Transat. Metre for metre, kilo for kilo, the Open 60s are the most exciting and innovative boats on the planet.

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Voice of a Sailor
Kimball Livingston’s blog has a new entry that speaks of his friend and fellow author Margie Smith, who was recently diagnosed with cancer:

I’m not going to represent her most personal voice here. It simply is too personal. That belongs to Margie.

But I believe she will forgive me if I excerpt a passage as to why she is glad, so glad, that she went sailing when she did. These are the thoughts of someone who got out there and did something she had dreamed of doing in the thick of life, and she’s going to get back out there. Or not. What I’ve been reading is a life or death struggle, happening live.

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The Olympic Vote

Although the outcome was not what the multihull fraternity had wanted, six times world Tornado champion, Darren Bundock believes some gains were made at the ISAF Council Meeting, yesterday in Qingdao, China.

‘It was really positive that Council supported us’, he told Sail-World. ‘We got a lot of support from Council members that we didn’t really have before.’

‘The Events Committee decided not to reaffirm and that they would like to see the Mens Events reopened. And the Women’s well.

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