Yachting: The Kiwi sailing team proudly bags 4 medals

The New Zealand sailing team recently finished the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres, in France successfully with 4 medals in their kitty, which included 2 gold medals, 2 silver medals, while two ace sailors finished just behind the 4th position in the competition. The overall race went quite well for them, which the victories for the kiwis came from Jo Aleh, Blair Tuke(49er), Polly Powrie (Women’s 470) and Peter Burling, who were medalists in the London Olympics for New Zealand. Both Polly Powrie and Jo Aleh have bagged gold medals back to back at the ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma during early april, followed by Hyeres. Powrie commented that as a team they have put up a great show and she is much happy that they are heading home after this.

The Silver medal was bagged by Andy Maloney in the Laser, post quite a close race for the medal with Australian Tom Burton. The other Kiwi crew who won the silver in Hyeres is Alexandra Maloney in the 49erFX class. Tuke and Burling were quite dominant throughout the week in the competition, a rounded off the race quite spectacularly is an emphatic way with 3 great races in the finale, including an opening gun. Strikingly, out of the top ten ones to finish in Hyeres, eight were from team New Zealand. This was another feather in the cap for the New Zealand sailing team.

Since the ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma Regatta, in April 2014, this year’s race was quite an improvement, since in the previous race the NZL Team hauled only 2 gold medals (49er and Women’s 470) while only 5 finished in the top 10. These spectacular results have made the New Zealand sailing team one of the top performers at the regatta, as they bagged the equal number of Medals as Poland and Australia.

Best Luxury Yacht For The Year Is Contest 42CS

The much awaited news for the award for best luxury yacht has been declared. The proud winner for this award has gone to Contest 42CS. Each year the European Yacht of the Year Awards are held in some of the most prestigious places in the world and this time it was held at Dusseldorf. The winner was decided by the Yachting World and the whole team of Contest 42CS was beaming with joy after getting the award. A boat show also followed just after the award ceremony. The boats that were shortlisted for this category were all quality boats and each one of them could have won the award.

The family sized cruiser looks like it is ever shining and it will be available to the teams in a very short time. The cost is very much approachable. The credit to create this magnificent boat goes to the Dutch and it has the best seaworthy design and top quality. When it comes to performance in the mainstream events this boat is guaranteed to be in the top rank. This model unlike the previous models has more number of custom boats attached and for the benefit of the people the custom boats have been made larger than what they normally should be. The overall performance of the Contest 42CS is far superior than any other boat in the same category. The protected cockpit layout is another reason why this boat was chosen as the winner for the award. It is a new innovation that was seen first in this boat. Watzels & Brown is responsible for the interior decoration of this masterpiece and the space provided in the interior would also help the helmsman. The capacity of the boat is also big enough to fit quite a number of people. So it would serve both the cruising and the racing purpose.

RYA appreciates Stoke Sailor’s effort

Stoke sailor Dennis Priebe’s efforts towards building an edgy boathouse and training center at Leek based Rudyard Sailability for phyusically challenged sailors has been hugely appreciated by RYA, the national governing authority of sailing. The latest fully inclusive training center is an investment worth 550,000 pounds.

The chairman of Rudyard Sailability, Priebe himself is on wheelchair following a bad spinal injury since 1993. He was awarded with Exceptional Contribution reward at RYA Sailability annual Voluneteer Awards last weekend.

Priebe was undoubtedly the most instrumental figure behind the foundation of Rudyard Sailability twelve years back. He has metamorphosed the spot from a simple shed to a grand venue off late. In the last eighteen months, it was the chairman who alone has raised more than 400,000 pounds for new improved facilities – spending long days & nights  at the site even in minus degree winter days, during the construction of the facility.

With the mission to make the sport of sailing easily accessible to literally everybody, regardless of disability, the design of the center renders complete independence.

While the project was running last year, Dennis carried shoestring activities for local special academic institutions, social-service users & “Aiming High for Children” with the disabilities project. However, now that Rudyard has received official status of training center from RYA, the present season would see Priebe achieving his mission of  complete family inclusiveness & sailing for everyone.

“I am really ecstatic to receive this award. I am even smiling & I am supposed to stay grumpy. I will thank every volunteer who assisted me in this project & this honor would not have been possible without their help”, remarked a happy and content Dennis while asked to speak on the recent honor conferred to him.