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RainbowChaser

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  1. Sailonline will very soon be returning to the ever popular sailing waters of Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, on New Zealand’s North Island! Once more Sailonline is buddied with the Shorthanded Sailing Association of New Zealand for their annual SSANZ Safety at Sea Two Handed Triple Series of c 200nm in total. Currently the biggest Two Handed Series in New Zealand, in 2017 the three races making up the series are being co-sponsored as follows (UTC dates in brackets): Race 1 NZ Spars and Rigging 60 --- 8th (7th) July Race 2 Evolution Sails 100 --- 5th (4th) August Race 3 Baltic 50 --- 2nd
  2. This is the seventh season that Sailonline will be associated with tall ships races organised by Sail Training International. This year’s events will shortly begin with the remarkable Rendez-Vous 2017 Tall Ships Regatta. Sailonline will begin its programme of transatlantic tall ships races in Lisbon (Race 2 for the real ships) racing the Sailonline Clipper ship polar. The real fleet will be making a stopover in the Canary Islands, but in a bid to remain competitive with the fastest members of the real fleet, Sailonline will be sailing by the islands and continuing on to Bermuda. From Bermu
  3. AHOY ALL yachties and erstwhile sailors.... Sailonline is about to host a virtual version of a race that it is associated with in reality and which will race, in reality, next year from Melbourne to Osaka. Sailonline has been linked with this upcoming 2018 event since early 2016 and, as you can see, this time our marketing guy in Australia has bagged the podium three some prizes from Gill Australia. This could be an awesome race, so please do all spread the word! Here's the full info: Sailonline.org is pleased to team with the organising authority of the Melbourne to Osaka Doubl
  4. Sailonline's Virtual RNI - if you can't get into the race yourself, why not join in with our buddied-with-SSANZ virtual event? An ideal opportunity to hone those routing skills! Once every three years, sailors have the opportunity to pit their courage, their skill and their competitive natures in a race around New Zealand’s North Island. This is not an event for the faint-hearted –racing left-about the North Island, and contending with the swirl of the Southern Oceans mixing with the Pacific and the challenge of navigating the Cook Strait, where these waters are funnelled betwee
  5. Once every three years, sailors have the opportunity to pit their courage, their skill and their competitive natures in a race around New Zealand’s North Island. This is not an event for the faint-hearted –racing left-about the North Island, and contending with the swirl of the Southern Oceans mixing with the Pacific and the challenge of navigating the Cook Strait, where these waters are funnelled between North and South Islands. WX systems accompany these often turbulent waters, making Sailonline’s virtual event, using wind grib forecasts from NOAA downloaded four times a day and released i
  6. SAILONLINE RACE START: Sailonline is delighted to be hosting the virtual version of this year's Coastal Classic New Zealand classic race although instead of our trusty Seacarts, this year sees us racing the Young 11 polar. Sailonline sorely misses SOLer yachtyakka who regularly raced the course on Promise and who had been readying the Pied Piper, BeepBeep for racing this year before his early death. Cast a thought to the skies and yakka’s memory as you race up the coast this time. Sailonline's Race Description: With the N Hemisphere sailing season virtually over, racing in New Zealand
  7. If anyone is not going out on the water... remember... Sailonline is racing Y88s in the virtual race(s) this year
  8. Racing in the blue waters of the Pacific always fires up the imagination, so it is with great pleasure that Sailonline is once again partnering with Royal Akarana Yacht Club, to bring you the virtual version of ANZ Sail Fiji 2016. Sailonline's race is now open for pre-race practice. VO70v4 Polar
  9. and.... Sailonline has the Virtual Race open for pre-race practice already - we are racing VO70s this time with a view to (trying to) beating Giacomo. If it has been a while since you raced on Sailonline OR you never have but fancy honing your nav skills (including learning how to use routers) then why not hop over and join in!
  10. Sailonline is delighted to announce that it will be partnering for a second time with Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, one of the oldest sporting clubs in Hong Kong, for the running of the 2016 Rolex China Sea Race which starts in Hong Kong on Wednesday, 23 March at 1320hrs local (0520UTC). Sailonline's virtual race is now to allow ample time to practise. Press Release At the time of writing, 33 yachts have entered the race ranging in size from the Swan 82 'UBOX' to the Jeanneau SunFast 3600 ' Ymir'. In cooperation with the Race’s tracker provider, YB Tracking, Sailonline will
  11. Sailonline's Race Committee has now published the exciting Q2 Racing Calendar and, going from strength to strength, there are some exciting buddy-ups, where Sailonline is the non-commercial virtual partner with real racing organisations - including the Rolex China Sea Race (Royal Hong Kong YC), the Melbourne to Osaka Prelude race (Ocean Racing Club of Victoria), racing a Viking Longship, Draken Harald Hårfagre, on her way to N America, Sail Fiji and racing off San Diego in the SoCal300. For many of these races Sailonline brings the live track of the real boats on to the virtual racing sc
  12. Sailonline will be running the virtual race, as is now our custom, this year, though, we are racing our Seacarts so should have some fun with the multihulls! The race is already open for pre-race practice. Here's the link to the Introductory Blogpost: http://www.sailonline.org/blog/2015/oct/19/pic-coastal-classic-yacht-race-2015/ and here's the race info:
  13. Just a heads-up... Sailonline is back again as the virtual partner for SSANZ for this year's trio of races and... we'll be racing our Y88 Polar in the hopes of competing against entrants from the Y88 Association! The virtual course for the NZ Spars and Rigging 60 will be open for pre-race practice from 2110utc tomorrow, Tuesday, 7 July and you'll see the Race Description on the Homepage from 2110utc today. Do tell all your chums who can't race in reality... the competition on Sailonline is getting tougher as folks are getting more skilled in the art of wind navigation.
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