The Belouga Zephyr and the Belougirls, Éléonore Poncelin de Raucourt and Delphine Prat.
Posts tagged classic
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Oct 10
Oct 10
Elena
Saint Tropez, France 43º13’70″N 6º42’42″E
Onboard the schooner Elena during “Les voiles de saint Tropez”, France.‘Build me a schooner that can win’. Elena is a replica of the Herreshoff schooner designed in 1910, who won the Trans-Atlantic Race in 1928. Newly built in 2009 at the Factorial Naval
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Oct 10
Oct 10
Altair
Saint Tropez, France 43º16’42″N 6º38’48″E
Onboard Altair during “Les voiles de Saint Tropez”, France.
Commissioned in 1929 by Captain Guy H MacCaw whose brief to William Fife was simply: ‘build a sound, safe cruiser, safe to go to the south seas islands in with no anxiety’. Fife was then 73 years. 
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Sep 10
Sep 10
Velsheda
Saint Tropez, France 43º16’54″N 6º42’43″E
Onboard Velsheda during “Les Voiles de Saint Tropez”, France. Designed by Charles Nicholson and built by Camper & Nicholson in 1933 for Mr W.L. Stephenson, Owner of Woolworth chain of shops, she was built in 1933 at Gosport.
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Sep 10
Sep 10
Shamrock V
Saint Tropez, France 43º17’36″N 6º38’46″E
Shamrock V (JK3) during “Les Voiles de Saint Tropez”, France.
Shamrock V was built in 1930 for Sir Thomas Lipton’s fifth and last America’s Cup challenge. Designed by Nicholson, she was the first British yacht to be built to the new J Class Rule and is the only remaining J to have been built in wood.
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May 09
May 09
Bide a Wee
Balgowlah Heights, New South Wales, Australia 33º49’93″S 151º15’70″E
A 13m vessel, the Bide a Wee, on her side with holes in her timber hull, having been battered by heavy seas. The ketch went aground after leaving North Harbour under sail, it was was marooned on the rocks at Grotto Point near Dobroyd Head at Balgowlah Heights, Sydney.
A Maritime vessel and a police boat were both unable to reach two men on the ketch because of the wild waves and strong winds.An officer was winched down onto the stranded vessel from police helicopter PolAir to rescue the two.
They were winched to safety and flown to Manly Hospital for treatment.
The men did not appear to be injured.
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Mar 06
Mar 06
Swimming
Manly, New South Wales, Australia 33º47’90″S 151º17’43″E
Swimming (aquatic locomotion) is biologically propelled motion through a liquid medium. Swimming has evolved a number of times in a range of organisms ranging from arthropods to fish to molluscs. 
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Aug 01
Aug 01
America’s Cup Jubilee Regatta
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, 50º46’22″N 1º18’90″W
“Man Overboard” on “The Lady Anne”, a 15 metre (95′) Gaff Cutter design by William Fife of Fairlie (1912), during the America’s Cup Jubilee Regatta, 1851-2001
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the World’s Oldest and Most Famous Sporting Trophy. The Woodstock of sailing as it has been described. Was truly a remarkable event.
