... Sails Sailing W PA Nixon WHEN is a sportsboat history? When it's 10 years old. Maybe even less. After that, it's either a classic or landfill. Or both. The 1720 s were all the rage 10 years ago. But they needed a crew of five. That's a lot of sailors ...

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... SAILING Waiting game for sailors THE waiting game resumed once again at Wicklow Sailing Club yesterday as finished co mpetitors joined with organisers in speculating which of the fleet still at sea would be fast enough to secure the overall race win of ...

... Sailing Cork Week GLORIOUS conditions swept the fleet yesterday as all six courses completed full programmes for the estimated 5,000 competitors afloat. With the fresher winds, familiar boats have started appearing at the top of many of the key clas-sPs ...

... SAILING James Hall GLORIOUS sunshine and competition between seven top ocean racing crews drew a record attendance for any edition of the Volvo Ocean Race to Galway, as the 10-month long event begins its closing stages. The chance of a close finish at ...

... Sailing James Hall THE countdown to the start of the Volvo Ocean Race finally runs out this afternoon at 12 noon when the eight boats of the event cross the starting line at Alicante for a fast run southwards for the exit from the Yesterday saw most of ...

... Sailing Jame Hal IRELAND'S Damian Fora ll with fellow skipper Jean- Pierre Dick were last night celebrating overall victory in the Barcelona World Race as Paprec Virbac crossed the fin- Wiing-line after 25,000 miles of non-stop racing. The Franco-Irish ...

... Sailing WELL, we've had yet another exciting and challenging week aboard the good ship Green Dragon. It was all going well for three days out of Cape Town, but we got struck by a 50kt squall, which resulted in a broken boom. We'd been sailing in strong ...

... SAILING Mkon KILLIAN BUSHE from Cork and Mark Mills of County Wicklow have been having a good week of it in their separate yet parallel careers on the global sailing scene. Bushe builds high-tech racing boats, while Mills operates in the design field ...

... SAILING James Ha WITH less than a month remaining before the winner holds the Waterford Crystal Fighting Finish trophy aloft, the second-last In-Port event of the Volvo Ocean Race will be staged on Galway Bay this afternoon as ...

... Sailing WM Nixon THERE'S a happy buzz in the Irish sailing community these days. We have new world title holders in our midst. National intervarsity champions Trinity College have won the Student Sailing World Cup off the coast of France, racing against ...

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