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Yachting headlines
Yachting: Team NZ remains unbeaten
Team New Zealand have continued their dominant start to the Louis Vuitton Trophy with victory over Mascalzone Latino.They have smashed the Italians by 4.43 seconds, to remain unbeaten in the regatta.Britain's Team Origin have...
Oceans of talent
The Louis Vuitton Trophy isn't all about sailors battling it out on the water. We meet three women connected in other ways. The artist Life is a journey. We are all on our individual roads. Where they lead is, of course,...
Yachting: Team NZ thrive in erratic breezes
While other sailors grimaced at Auckland's aloof sea breezes yesterday, Emirates Team New Zealand tactician Ray Davies gave them the welcoming grin of an old friend.Few know the fickle winds of the Waitemata as well as Davies,...
College Sport: Stadium at EGGS part of big plan to catch up
The first sod being turned at Epsom Girls Grammar tomorrow in front of a host of past sporting stars signals the start of an ambitious $6 million project aimed at providing facilities as good as, or better than, other Auckland schools.The...
Yachting: Louis Vuitton series underway
Racing is underway in the Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.Light winds delayed racing for a couple of hours before this afternoon's start.The first match this afternoon is Mascalzone Latino against...
Yachting: Coutts hints at quitting America's Cup
Sailing legend Sir Russell Coutts has hinted at retirement from America's Cup racing.The four-time winner of yachting's top trophy yesterday said he was taking time in the next two months to decide his future.Coutts, in New...
Yachting: Coutts eyes up Oracle's opposition
Russell Coutts has pushed aside the sniping from the last America's Cup - so much so he's planning a raid on rivals Alinghi.It is believed Alinghi strategist Murray Jones, who joined BMW Oracle chief executive Coutts in jumping...
Yachting: Barker has familiarity on his side
Coming to grips with the hardware has been the major challenge for the visiting international teams as they prepare for their opening round-robin matches of the Louis Vuitton Trophy.The second stop on the Louis Vuitton world tour...
Yachting: Barker hopes to rise above lady luck
The weather gods may have been on his side in the finals of the Omega match racing regatta at the weekend, but Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker is hoping he will not need to rely on luck quite so much in this week's Louis Vuitton...
Yachting: Barker hits his straps
Dean Barker seized every favourable wind shift to win the Auckland match-racing regatta as the present and future of New Zealand yachting enjoyed success on the Waitemata Harbour yesterday.Team New Zealand's Barker, who had earlier...
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Sailing info from about.com:
Because sailing involves many lines (ropes) that you need to tie in various ways for different uses, it is important to know a few basic knots when learning to sail. Here are step-by-step directions for tying a cleat hitch, bowline, clove hitch, square knot, and other essential sailing knots.
How to Tie a Reef Knot
The reef knot is used on sailboats for a temporary knot that can be quickly untied. Like a square knot, a reef knot is used to tie a line in a loop around something. Unlike a square knot, it can released with a quick jerk.
Sailboat Keel Shapes
The keel of a sailboat is necessary to keep the boat from being blown sideways and usually also to provide ballast weight low in the water to reduce heeling. Different keel shapes have varying advantages and disadvantages for different kinds of sailboats.
How to Tie a Clove Hitch
A clove hitch is frequently used on boats for securing a line around a rail, post, or other cylindrical structure. It is a secure temporary knot used, for example, to hang fenders on the boat’s rails or lifelines. Because it can work loose if there is not continual tension on the line, however, it should be used only in certain situations.
How to Tie a Cleat Hitch
A cleat hitch is used to tie dock lines to a cleat, to tie an anchor rode to the boat's bow cleat, and to secure other lines on a boat to cleats.
Websites of the week!
Yacht-Web.com
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politicalrogue.com
Political Yak site from parallel universes. Expect the unexpected. No Politics a usual here. Let’s get ready to rumble!
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