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Oct 10
Oct 10
Onboard Sodebo around Brittany
English Channel- La Manche 48°57'47"N 3°24'96"W
Onboard Sodeb’O around Brittany with Skipper Thomas Coville preparing for La Route du Rhum La Banque Postale 2010: Thomas does not believe in reincarnation but, if it were to happen, he wouldn’t want to become a foil.
Loa: 32m 105ft
Beam: 16.55m 54ft 4 in
Displacement: 12t 26455 lbs
Sail area: 379 sq m 4079 sq ft
Launched: 2007
Class: Record-breaker
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May 10
May 10
Pink Star: Jessica Watson
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 33º49’26″S 151º18’73″E
Jessica Watson, crosses the finish line of her unassisted solo voyage around the world in her yacht Ella’s Pink Lady S&S (Sparkman and Stephens) 34 at Sydney Harbour.
One 16 year-old girl, weighing about 100 pounds, just sailed a heavy 34′ cruiser around the Southern Ocean – alone – without stopping. She stood up to rogue waves as she stood up to critics, taking the shot, rolling back upright, and continuing on her way. Her pictures and notes were always cheerful and bright, and she seems incapable of a frown, and her accomplishment blows away those 99% of the population.
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Nov 09
Nov 09
Moth Mach 2
Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia 33º51’06″S 151º15’59″E
Scott Babbage in a training session on his Moth Mach 2 in Sydney Harbour, Single-handed sailing dinghy with hydro-foils.
McConaghy Boats understand strong, light and fast and in no time at all McConaghy partnered with McDougall and began to build the next generation of foiling moths. Drawing upon the two names McDougall / McConaghy and acknowledging the name of the 2nd moth ever built by founder John McConaghy, they formed Mach 2 Boats Pty Ltd.
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Jun 09
Jun 09
Fayaoué, Ouvéa
Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia 20º39’48″S 166º32’30″E
PARADISE #6
Ouvéa is a commune in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The settlement of Fayaoué, on Ouvéa Island, is the administrative centre of the commune of Ouvéa.Ouvéa is made up of Ouvéa Island, the smaller Mouli Island and Faiava Island, and several islets around these three islands. All these lie among the Loyalty Islands, to the northeast of New Caledonia’s mainland.Ouvéa Island is one of the Loyalty Islands, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island is part of the commune (municipality) of Ouvéa, in the Islands Province of New Caledonia.
The Loyalty Islands (French: Îles Loyauté) are an archipelago in the Pacific. They are part of the French territory of New Caledonia, whose mainland is 100 km (62 mi) away. They form the Loyalty Islands Province (province des îles Loyauté), one of the three provinces of New Caledonia. The first Western contact on record is attributed to the British Captain William Raven from the London trading ship Britannia, who in 1793 was on his way from Norfolk Island to Batavia. It is very likely however that the discovery and naming of the islands goes back to the London ship Loyalty (also Loyalist, Jethro Daggett master), being on a South Sea trading voyage from 1789 till 1790.The archipelago consists of six inhabited islands: Lifou Island, Maré Island, Tiga Island, Ouvéa Island, Mouli Island, and Faiava Island, as well as several smaller uninhabited islands and islets. 
Mister Ohmoou Waibo Felix wood carver inside his house in the Fayaoue village on the Ouvea island in the Loyalty islands, he was my guide for my timeless promenades
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Jan 09
Jan 09
Ben Ainslie
Adelaide, Southern Australia, Australia 34º48’42″S 138º28’67″E
Onboard Ben Ainslie Finn during a photoshot for JP Morgan, in Adelaide, Southern Australia, Australia.
Charles Benedict “Ben” Ainslie, CBE (born 5 February 1977 in Macclesfield) is an English sailor and three-times Olympic gold medalist.
