COWES WEEK 2 -9 AUGUST

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Aviva back up to race pace

3:50pm Thursday 8th November 2007

Transat Jacques Vabre race update

Aviva loses a spinnaker

4:28pm Wednesday 7th November 2007

Aviva loses a spinnaker but Caffari and King are still pushing south in strong winds

Running high on adrenaline

2:32pm Monday 5th November 2007

Aviva's Dee Caffari and Nigel King are running high on adrenaline and sacrificing sleep in their bid for boat speed Light airs in the slow haul south to Finisterre have forced Dee and Nigel to stay mainly on deck, hand steering and trying to second guess what the fickle wind will do next as it shifts from north east to east.

HRSC Charity Pursuit Race 2:20pm Mon 5 Nov 07 It has now become the tradition to hold Hamble River Sailing Club's annual Charity Pursuit Race on the middle Sunday of the Garmin Hamble Winter Series, and a reasonable quorum of boats motored out to the starting area despite an obvious lack of wind.

A tough night for Dee and Nigel

2:15pm Monday 5th November 2007

A tough night for Dee and Nigel but Aviva is still in the heart of the fleet

Dee Caffari and Nigel King eye up the competition

9:59am Thursday 1st November 2007

On Saturday 3 November British yachtswoman Dee Caffari and her co-skipper Nigel King will start the highly competitive Transat Jacques Vabre race, from France to Brazil, onboard Open 60 racing yacht Aviva. The Transat Jacques Vabre (TJV) is one of this year's most anticipated offshore races and the two British sailors will be lining up alongside 17 other 60-foot racing yachts off the coast of Le Havre. The 4,340-mile course, following the historic coffee trade route, will be Caffari's first transatlantic race of the Aviva Ocean Racing campaign.

Will’s hardest test 10:02am Wed 31 Oct 07 ENGLAND 2003 rugby World Cup winner Will Greenwood is recovering from his cross-channel buffeting by the elements.

Garmin Hamble Big Boat Series

10:24am Monday 29th October 2007

Following on from the first two days of the Garmin Hamble Big Boat Series held on 13th and 14th October, the ten race series was completed with more intensive racing on 27th and 28th October.

Olympic sailor wades in to Lymington ferry row 4:08pm Fri 26 Oct 07 AN Olympic medal winning-yachtsman has thrown his weight behind a campaign to prevent ferry operator Wightlink using larger vessels on a busy cross-Solent route.Reader comments (4)

Garmin Hamble Series latest

10:02am Monday 22nd October 2007

Despite the wind finding it hard to get up early in the morning, the Hamble River Sailing Club race officers successfully started a total of 47 races to provide an excellent weekend of racing for 15 classes.

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