John Merricks Sailing Trust 100th Award
The John Merricks Sailing Trust (JMST) has made its 100th award and has now awarded over 160,000 GBP in total to deserving individuals or community sailing projects. The 100th award was made to the 2007 420 Youth champion Peter Irwin from Scotland who will use the money to help fund his expenses to compete with his crew David Kohler in the 420 World Championship this Summer in Athens, Greece.
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Record Ratified
The WSSR Council announces the ratification of a new World Record:
Record: Transatlantic. Powered Sails - WSSR rule 21c.
Yacht: “Leopard” 30m Monohull
Name: Chris Sherlock. GBR
Dates: 27th May to the 3rd June 2008
Start time: 00; 01; 00 UTC on the 27th May
Finish time: 19; 21; 49 UTC on the 3rd June
Elapsed time: 7 days 19 hours 20 minutes 49 seconds
Distance: 2925nm
Average speed: 15.6 knots
The previous record
“Phocea” Bernard Tapie, FRA, Jul 88, 8d 3h 29m
John Reed
Secretary to the WSSR Council
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470 Open European Championship
Riva del Garda, Italy: Race 2 and race 3 took place today in wonderful Garda conditions. Sunny again, with a wind strength around 10 knots throughout both races. On Alpha course, further South down the lake, the wind came in first and racing started with the ladies fleet. Both races ware closely contested, but the USA team of Amanda Clark/Sarah Mergenthaler (1736) started well, going right into an early lead, and taking the bullet for both races, putting them in overall lead in the Regatta. They were followed in race 2 by Emanuelle Rol/Anne-Sophie Thilo (SUI 12) and Niki Kornecki/Vered Bouskila (ISR 10), and, in race 3 by Ai Kondo/Naoko Kamata (JPN 4151) in second and Rol/Thilo third.
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