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Another windy, stormy and cold Sunday, another Crawford Pursuit. 19 boats entered to kick off the season, with 16 boats making it onto the water. 2 races were planned, with the start times of the second race determined by performance in the first.

The America’s Cup Defender clocked up another six hour day on the Hauraki Gulf, in a 12-18kt onshore breeze. Not entirely sure whether it is Day 8 or Day 9 for the Kiwis, but they’re certainly off to a good start.

The forecast looked promising leading into the event, and on the day delivered, the WNW breeze between 15 and 25 knots kept most sailors on their toes with some rather large gusts in the afternoon.

With 29 entries the OK fleet arrived at Grafham SC on Saturday 21st March for the Ovington OK Inland event to be joined by the Fireflys and K1’s in the slow handicap fleet with separate starts for all 3 classes.

Trigano has seen sales of its motorhomes rise by 7.1% in the past six months, its latest figures suggest, despite uncertainty about the economic and political climate. The French company has a number of subsidiaries, including a number of well-known makes of motorhomes, such as Auto-Sleepers and Auto-Trail (which produces ‘vans such as the Expedition…

Auto-Sleepers has been converting panel vans into motorcaravans for well over 60 years. Nothing represents the genre better than the Symbol. It wasn’t ‘new-new’ when it was launched back in the late 1990s. It was – in essence – a copy of their popular Symphony, but with more contemporary fabrics and all-new Italian-style cabinetwork. Twenty-seven…

The next-generation of wind instrument has landed, with A+T Instruments launch of the Quantum 530. Readings are no longer limited by what’s happening at the top of the mast, thanks to the field of physics that Albert Einstein referred to as ‘spooky’.

Following the close of Late Challenges on March 31, the America’s Cup Partnership have confirmed to Sail-World that additional Challenges have been received. However one team has confirmed they are not challenging.

75 years of collaboration came to a close today when the Merlin and Rocket dinghies decided to go their separate ways.

After a second consecutive day of shifty, difficult offshore winds many of the 1100 athletes, and for certain the on-the-water race officers running the races, would welcome a return to the Bay of Palma’s reliable, more regular sea breeze regime.