WE MOVED TO www.vsail.info 29 Dec 2010 | 06:04 am

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Wild Oats XI first boat to Hobart 28 Dec 2010 | 11:18 pm

[Source: Rolex Sydney Hobart] Bob Oatley’s champion 100-foot supermaxi Wild Oats XI has reasserted its claim as one of Australia’s greatest ocean racing yachts by being first across the Rolex Sydney H...

Vincenzo Onorato replies to Salvatore Sarno 28 Dec 2010 | 04:07 am

Salvatore Sarno, owner of Team Shosholoza, the first ever America's Cup challenger to come from Africa, stated in a recent interview in the Italian newspaper Quotidiano Nazionale that the 34th America...

Bass Strait delivers punishing conditions 28 Dec 2010 | 02:57 am

[Source: Rolex Sydney Hobart] The forecast gale-force conditions made good today for the bulk of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet with yachts experiencing 40-50 knots of gale to storm-force wi...

Video: Ludde Ingvall talks about the Australian challenge in the 34th America's Cup 27 Dec 2010 | 10:09 am

Ludde Ingvall and Dario Valenza, respectively skipper and project manager of YuuZoo Big Boat Racing, talk about the Australian challenge they submitted for the 34th America's Cup. Despite its length, ...

Video: Dramatic scenes at the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart 26 Dec 2010 | 11:32 pm

Wild Oats XI leads fleet out of Sydney Harbour 26 Dec 2010 | 10:28 pm

[Source: Rolex Sydney Hobart] The Mark Richards skippered 100 footer, Wild Oats XI, shrugged off a cheeky challenge from Grant Wharington’s Melbourne 98 footer, Wild Thing, to stamp its mark early on ...

Captain Sarno: This America's Cup is very expensive; Shosholoza will not take part 24 Dec 2010 | 09:55 am

An unknown outside South Africa, Captain Sarno became a household name in the sailing world when he built from scratch Shosholoza, the first ever America's Cup challenger from Africa. An Italian by bi...

BMW pulls out of Oracle Racing 24 Dec 2010 | 01:28 am

[Source: BMW Oracle] At the end of the year BMW will bring to a close its longstanding partnership with ORACLE Racing and thereby end its involvement in the America's Cup. This is by mutual agreement ...

Australian Syndicate Submits Notice of Challenge for the America's Cup 23 Dec 2010 | 09:14 pm

[Source: YuuZoo Big Boat Racing Team] Today a Syndicate of Australians including legendary yachtsman Ludde Ingvall, skipper of the YuuZoo Big Boat Racing Team, has submitted a Notice of Challenge to t...