Rolex International Women's
Keelboat Championship

For the third year in a row, Sally Barkow of Nashotah, Wisconsin, has won the U.S. Sailing Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship (IWKC), held in Shoreacres, Texas. Sally and her crew of Debbie Capozzi of Bayport, New York, Amanda Callahan of Canton, Massachusetts, and Annie Lush of Poole, England, took the top spot out of 39 teams to win the IWKC title. ...

Budweiser Select Snags
Eighth World Championship

Budweiser Select Offshore Powerboat Racing won the 27th Annual Super Boat International World Championship in Key West, Florida. Budweiser Select racers David Scott of Edwardsville, Illinois, and John Tomlinson of Miami, Florida, took first place in the 73- boat fleet. Their 50-foot Budweiser Select catamaran, Mystic, averaged a top speed of 119-mph during ...

Navy Team Wins Kennedy Cup

The U.S. Naval Academy won six of 10 races to take the 2007 Kennedy Cup, which the Academy hosted aboard its fleet of 44-foot sloops. California Maritime Academy came in second, SUNY in third and St. Mary’s College finished fourth. ...

Carib 1500 in Google Earth

For the first, you could track the progress of Caribbean 1500 sailors as they raced from Hampton, Virginia, to Tortola, B.V.I. With position trackers on most boats, race organizers worked with Magnalox.net to organize position reporting and tracking on Google Earth. ...

Rolex World Sailor of the Year

American Ed Baird and Claire Leroy of France have been named the ISAF Rolex World Sailors of the Year. Since May 2005, Leroy has been the top ranked skipper on the ISAF Women's World Match Race Rankings. Baird is the only American to have won the ISAF Match Racing World Championship and to be ranked number one on the ISAF World Match Race Rankings list. ...

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