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The regatta began with a mixture of keelboats, catamarans, Lasers and, even, wind-surfers, occasioning some ‘interesting’ confrontations.
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A series of three selection regattas that began in December last year ended on Sunday with 44 rowers being named for the Athens Olympic team.
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The annual regatta got off to a good start yesterday with a steady force three breeze, which was in marked contrast to the conditions experienced by their sailing compadres on the west coast.
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Mr Mills had raced at many regattas over the years, including Henley, and trained regularly both on and off the water.
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The championship regatta comprised eight races, with the best six results to count.
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Last year's Regatta grew to a record 138 high-calibre racing yachts with over 4000 competitors and spectators.
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Ron Sparks, managing director of QBE Insurance, a consistent sponsor of yachting and regattas for many years, could be regarded as representative of the legion of supporters.
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Boston is home to one of the most prestigious regattas that North America has to offer.
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A Viking procession, a regatta with replica Norwegian longboats, and a spectacular floodlit battle re-enactment called The Challenge To Power will also feature.
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Mr. Egremont grants us glimpses of an austerely gorgeous idyll, of untamed forests and wide Masurian lakes, of a "softly lit horizon . . . and the pale-blue East Prussian sky," of ice-sailing regattas and sleigh rides, of marzipan at Christmas.
Eastern Reproaches
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That last day of the regattas -- a Saturday -- the wind had been almost true north, and freshish, but nothing to mention: beautiful sailing weather for the small boats.
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For the first time, the regatta will include a fun dragon boat race with 12 teams of corporate sailors.
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Earlier in the season, during Dartmouth's annual regatta, diners watched agog as he threw out a drunken boatie.
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This is the one area along the downtown San Francisco waterfront where you have a public park on the water, expressly designed with sweeping views of the open bay and the Bay Bridge," Travis said, adding that the space will be even more important in 2013 as "a little bit of respite" during the regatta, which is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of onlookers to the city shoreline on race days.
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The regatta was the third and last stop on the Southern California Ullman Sails Inshore
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This was the first qualification regatta for the Olympics.
Times, Sunday Times
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The regatta finishes with a huge grudge match.
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Singapore's 30-strong sailing contingent are contesting 11 out of 14 classes at the Asian regatta, which is also serving as a preparatory meet ahead of the 2010 Asian Games, to be held in Guangzhou from Nov 12 to 27.
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It is the kind of village where they have summer dances in the local hall, a yachting regatta, a seafood festival, Hallowe'en walks in the forest and Hogmanay ceilidhs.
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Evoking the jolly spirit of regattas the rowing centre has a festive functionalism that sits lightly on the earth.
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Henley was getting ready for the regatta, and was full of bustle.
Three Men in a Boat
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Britain's six medals were second at the regatta, which is the second of seven stops of the International Sailing Federation's 2009-2010 World Cup.
U.S. sailors take 10 medals at Rolex Miami OCR
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The regatta finishes with a huge grudge match.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leander Rowing club president Mark Lindstrom inspects the smashed and mangled riggers stolen from rowing boats recently after a regatta on the Buffalo River.
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After a delay for the weather to pass, Malta regatta course turned to a millpond of calm, perfect rowing conditions for the men's four.
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He does not generally harbour grievances or grudges and it is rare for him to finish a regatta with lingering feelings of resentment towards a rival competitor.
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Like the boats of Anguilla and Martinique, these are now used for racing at the regattas.
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He also brings up some unexpected intrusions of gemination, asking how it happened that "the Italian word ‘regata’ entered English as ‘regatta’."
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But from a distance, say on a charter boat coming from Phuket, the whitened cliffs catch the sun and shine like spinnakers in a yachting regatta, locked side by side in a never-moving race.
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The regatta is the eighth race of the West Florida PHRF 12-race Boat of the Year series, which begins annually in October and ends in May.
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Today sees the conclusion of the regatta with three races and the promise of improving weather.
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This too will be the venue for the Festival Regatta when inflatable dinghies will race from Barrow Bridge to Spa Bridge.
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The winner of the selection trials will go to the Olympic Qualification Regatta in June in Lucerne, Switzerland, to try to earn a spot at the Games.
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The regatta finishes with a huge grudge match.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tailless satin coat described in Town Topics, Mr. Sonne believes, was a variation on the classic British naval mess coat, a uniform Griswold and his pals observed officers wearing earlier that summer at the Cowes sailing regattas.
Off With Their Coattails
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The tailless satin coat described in Town Topics, Mr. Sonne believes, was a variation on the classic British naval mess coat, a uniform Griswold and his pals observed officers wearing earlier that summer at the Cowes sailing regattas.
Off With Their Coattails
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The pub has been associated with the regatta for many years, and became involved in organising it after it was cancelled a couple of years ago.
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His colourful style was influenced by Dufy, with whom he shared a liking for cheerful subjects such as horse races and regattas.
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The Forum will provide some of the necessary tools for turning already well-organised regattas into special events.
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This, too, will be the venue for the Festival Regatta, when inflatable dinghies will race from Barrow Bridge to Spa Bridge.
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On the north-east coast, Royal Findhorn Yacht Club's race officials were thwarted by unfavourable tides and dying wind for day one of their dinghy regatta.
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The service is available to anyone without regard to their ability to pay for it and the donations from charity events like regattas cover the costs of care not covered by insurance or other means.
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Last year she finished in fifth place but will be looking to improve on that and possibly challenge for a medal in what will be one of the toughest events in the regatta.
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Potomac cleanup began in the 1960s and the river has since rebuilt its reputation on first-class events like sailing regattas and bass fishing tournaments.
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The more Germans go out upon the waters, whether it be in races or regattas, whether it be in journeys across the ocean, or in the service of the battle flag, so much the better it will be for us.
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End up at Spatahori for a punch party - and a briefing on the regatta.
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The crowned heads of Europe - kings, emperors, tsars, and kaisers - still entertained each other at regattas, manœuvres, weddings, and funerals.
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As the starters signalled the first race a light rain signalled the wintry conditions at Munich's Olympic regatta course.
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There were few rule 42 penalties regardless of light air and sloppy swell, and there were zero boats called OCS during this past regatta.
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The Regatta is classified as a category C event.
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Other events will include a Victorian picnic cricket match, concerts and poetry readings, horse-drawn carriage rides, guided walks and a rowing club regatta.
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Mrs. Jerome had brought her two elder daughters to join in the gaieties of the regatta.
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Nevertheless, wind or no wind, the Fourteenth Regatta, with a record number of keelboats and ocean going catamarans peaking at 93 craft, was probably the best on record, in terms of sponsorship, management, the social side and the media.
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The annual regatta fortnight is held over the final week of July and first week of August, a time when the place is jumping with visitors and locals alike.
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Oxford's women rowers bounced back at last weekend's regatta to reinstate themselves at national level.
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After six regattas, a boat's worst European regatta* and its remaining worst regatta are excluded.?
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Squadrons also conduct on-the-water activities for members such as regattas, navigation contests and fishing derbies, plus social events on shore.
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There was also a thank you from the people of Dingle to Charlie, the man who helped make the local regatta a national media event.
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In 1865 it was rowed by a team of eight 'watermen', ferrying passengers around the River Derwent, taking families on picnics and ferrying dignitaries on Regatta Day.
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We are also paying attention to the Henley Regatta Course; and are providing a new Island in place of this eyesore with its decayed cribwork (indicating near Hanlan's Point) to protect the new watercourse so that there will no longer be any delays on account of eastern winds.
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A fine night's carousing at the college ball was followed by a boisterous afternoon on the river at the annual regatta.
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Sometimes the finish line just doesn't come soon enough especially if this is your third race of the regatta.
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Henley was getting ready for the regatta, and was full of bustle.
Three Men in a Boat
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Youth rowing has always been a feature of Carlow Regatta.
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The comm unit popped and the voice of the Regatta master of ceremonies came crystal clear through his headset.
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The Italian crew will row their flagship, the Disdotona, on the way back from the Henley Regatta, accompanied by two Venetian racing fours.
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There are also individual coaching decisions on what crews race at which international regattas.
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This latest regatta was especially important, because from now on, points count towards the final showdown when a winner is chosen to challenge Alinghi for the Cup.
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The regatta finishes with a huge grudge match.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still the only youth regatta in the UK to focus on keelboat racing rather than dinghies, the event has a rich tradition of nurturing friendly rivalry, bringing through some of the top Scottish sailors.
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Three local rowers, two of them oarsmen who learned their skills on the River Aire as fellow pupils at Bradford Grammar School, celebrated victory at the Henley Royal Regatta.
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Cowes Week, which starts tomorrow, is a highly prestigious sailing regatta in which the crews battle against not just each other but also the brute forces of wind and tides that can rip through the Solent.
Cowes weatherwatch
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It was sometime after midnight—after four hours in that shit-hole—when a senior officer showed up, said he had spoken with the regatta organizers, and he was letting us go as an exception to the rule.
Fallin’ Up
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Villagers are appealing for bygones and curios as they take their plans for a madcap ‘inland regatta’ a step forward.
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Henley was getting ready for the regatta, and was full of bustle.
Three Men in a Boat
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On home territory, Loch Lomond Sailing Club held their closing keelboat regatta in some devilish conditions.
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Kaishek failed to notice the concealed motion and came at his opponent with both blades swirling like the oars of a seven man regatta rowing boat.
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Today sees the conclusion of the regatta with three races and the promise of improving weather.
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Free activities: The brass band gives regular concerts, there are guided walks and even occasional windsurfing regattas!
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I sealed the regatta win and it worked out.
Times, Sunday Times
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You could start with the word regatta, such a richie-rich-sounding word for rowers racing in long, skinny shells.
The Seattle Times
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More than 8,000 crew are participating in the world's biggest international sailing regatta.
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On Sunday, the regatta gets underway at 10: 00 a.m. for monohulls and 11: 00 a.m. for multihulls.
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As I derig the boat back at the beach I mull over what I learned at this regatta.
Proper Course
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The one hundredth race of the regatta came down to a battle between Denmark and Austria.
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The new International Rules of Yacht Racing, covering the triennium 2001-2004, were implemented for the first time in an Optimist regatta in Asia and the race organizers watched with great interest.
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We were stationed in Henley-on-Thames, a beautiful riverside town best known for its annual Regatta and the huge brawls between toffs, tourists and anarchists on Henley Bridge which marked the start of the boat racing.
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The regatta finishes with a huge grudge match.
Times, Sunday Times
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An early tradition established was that the incumbent president of the regatta organizing committee was the then commodore of the Royal Varuna Yacht Club, which holds the proprietary rights to the event.
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The games are more fun to watch than a swimming meet, and for spectators, a rowing regatta is more an occasion for a picnic than an exciting sports contest.
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They are not allowed to trailer their own boats, so they must join up with other schools such as St. Thomas in order to travel to regattas.
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The Olympic regatta consists of 14 races over the course of nine days.
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The crowned heads of Europe - kings, emperors, tsars, and kaisers - still entertained each other at regattas, manœuvres, weddings, and funerals.
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Despite some wind early on in the regatta, the expected meltemi did not stick around and the two days of finals were not only calm, but a light head wind contradicted all expectations.
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On the north-east coast, Royal Findhorn Yacht Club's race officials were thwarted by unfavourable tides and dying wind for day one of their dinghy regatta.
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Many marinas are having BBQs, music, raffles, charity fundraisers, beach clean-ups, regattas and boat safety demonstrations.
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The regatta provided an excellent opportunity for sailors to hone their skills against some of the best sailors in the country.
