COMING
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Ronnie and the team at the Eilat Sailing Centre are
looking forward to meeting you on the sea at the 2013 Bic
Techno 293 European Championship! .......( more
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83 competitors from 13 countries
have entered so far! Go to T293 Event
Page for more info |
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The NeilPryde Racing Series, together with the prestigious
Extreme Sailing SeriesTM, will stop in the city of Nice
on the 5th and 6th October.......( more ) |
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The Notice of Race for the 2013 Enel RS:X
Youth World Windsurfing Championships in October .......( more ) |
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For the 5th consecutive year, Six Fours les plages will host the
EFPT from the 24th to 27th October, the European Freestyle
Championships Tour during the "European freestyle Expression" event.
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Croatia will once again play host to the IFCA Pro Kids,
Junior and Youth Freestyle European Championships. This year's
championship returns to the venue of last year's successful
Europeans, and takes place from October 29th to November 2nd.......( more) |
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GENERAL
NEWS |
Tokyo will host the Olympics and Paralympics
in 2020 after seeing off rivals Madrid and Istanbul in dramatic
circumstances to win the vote. It will be the second time the Japanese capital
has hosted the Games having previously done so in 1964.......( more ) |
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Latvian windsurfer Janis Preiss crosses
Baltic sea from Liepaja to Gotland in 11 hours on his windsurf
board! On
Tuesday, 10th of September around 12 midday windsurfer Janis Preiss
returned back to Latvia. The day before, on September 9, he crossed
the Baltic see on his Gastra Formula windsurf board from Liepaja
(Latvia) to Gotland (Sweden) with the assistance of supporting yacht
"Nordic Virgin" and covered about 320km in 11 hours. It took 8 years
to achieve his dream. ( ...
more ... ) |
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Run with what you've got and as fast as you can!
It what has become a uniquely San Francisco sailing competition, the
Ronstan Bridge to Bridge race pits kite boarders, windsurfers,
skiffs & cameramans against each other & mother nature in an
epic 7 mile downwind sprint from the Golden Gate bridge to the Bay
bridge. ......( more ) |
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Camille Juban has broken the Guinness world record for the
longest duration surfing a wave, in the iconic Chicama, in Peru. The
French sailor has ridden the longest windsurfing wave ever, with a
total time of 7 minutes and 3 seconds.......( more ) |
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COMING UP
IN
2014! |
The 2014 Asian Windsurfing Championship returns to
Singapore and will take place from 22nd to 26th January from the
National Sailing Centre. It is a new venue for this championship,
but the National Sailing centre has hosted many international
sailing events, including the 2010 inaugural Youth Olympic Games
sailing regatta.......( more ) |
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Azores confirmed for 2014 Slalom World
Championships
Clube Naval da Praia da Vitoria will host the 2014 IFCA
Slalom World Championships on the island of Terceira, in the Azores.
This championship is scheduled for May 6th to 11th, and will follow
on from the FW Worlds. Terceira will be the focus for two weeks of
top class funboard racing in 2014! |
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Manly Sailing Club, Whangaparaoa, will host the Oceanic
Championships for RS:X and Techno 293 from 14th to 16th February
2014. The event will be the Oceanic Continental Qualification
regatta for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in the T293 youth
division.......( more ) |
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2013/2014 CALENDAR . . . |
EVENT
REPORTS |
It was a big blue sky that welcomed competitors to the briefing
for the last day of racing. With the prospect of weakening winds,
the race committee sent the racers afloat at 10:30, hoping to run
two rounds of light wind racing, oscillating between 7 and 13 knots.
Very technical and tactical . ........ (
more ) |
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With such a mix of winds the PWA DAM7 Festival provided the
perfect conditions for all disciplines of freestyle to take place.
During the event we managed to find a few hours where the winds were
calm and the chop was on the smaller side, this allowed the EFPT to
run the tow-in qualifiers, and then on the Friday night, the tow-in
final.......( more )
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After 6 championship races, Algerian Bouras Hamza claims the
title of Raceboard Men's African Champion, having scored 4 bullets
and a second to count. ......( more ) |
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After the excitement of the wave competition, the 2013 "JEEP"
IFCA South American Slalom Championships started on Thursday on the
Gallito Ciego lake. Winds were good, 15 to 22 knots which made for
very nice sailing in this most amazingly beautiful venue. ......( more ) |
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On day 4, with just one heat left to sail, despite light winds
and a diminishing swell, we had the luxury of picking the best
possible moment to call the heat. We met early to check the
conditions and were on hold much of the day. ......( more ) |
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No doubt about it, light winds are definitely more suited to
Max Wojcik (POL-7) than to Patrik Pollak (SVK-1) as
Max claimed all three bullets in the last three championship races
and thus takes the title of 2013 Raceboard World
Champion. ......( more )
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Event Round-Up (pdf) |
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Two very worthy new world champions - Christian Justesen and
Marco Begalli - have been crowned at the end of the Formula
Windsurfing Youth and Masters World Championships "Pannonia Surfing
Days" on Lake Neusiedler See in Austria.......( more
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