Powerboat P1 Superstock powers onto boat show line-up
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Sam Feasey,
9:58 PM Wed GMT
Powerboat P1 SuperStock Championship 2010 - The PSP Southampton Boat Show will be the backdrop for the fourth round on September 12.
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Cowes Torquay Cowes - Buzzi double secures Harmsworth trophy
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Chris Ray, ,
6:41 PM Sun GMT
Cowes Torquay Cowes - Red FPT of Fabio Buzzi has taken victory in the 50th anniversary, completing a dominant double victory at the British Powerboat Festival.
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Researchers find widespread floating plastic debris in North Atlantic
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
10:32 PM Sat GMT
A previously undefined expanse of western North Atlantic has been found to contain high concentrations of plastic debris. More than 64,000 individual plastic pieces were collected at 6100 locations that were sampled yearly over the course of the study. A surface plankton net was used to collect plastic debris as well as biological organisms at each station.
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UIM President commends Formula future event
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Powerboat P1,
10:18 PM Sat GMT
The Union Internationale Motonautique President Dr. Raffaele Chiulli pointed towards a bright future for international powerboat racing after an extremely successful Formula Future World and Continental Championships at the Lancashire Powerboat Racing Club.
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UIM Marathon World Cup - Buzzi returns to Cowes with a win
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Chris Ray,
12:11 AM Sat GMT
UIM Marathon World Cup - Buzzi returns to Cowes with a win - Alongside fellow Italian Emilio Riganti and Britain’s Simon Powell, Buzzi took a tactical approach in the uncertain waters of the 100-mile course, averaging 60 knots, well below the speed afforded to the 2400 horse power machine, to preserve the boat, engines and crew for Sunday’s second leg, the Cowes Torquay Cowes.
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Curtis back on the Australian offshore circuit
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
2:52 AM Fri GMT
Final two rounds of Offshore Superboat Championships to welcome the sport's legendary champion.
Curtis, with Qatar's Sheik Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani at the wheel of the Maritimo-prepared Class 1 catamaran, Qatar 96, has two wins from two starts in his only two visits to Australia as a competitor.
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Super Boat International conquers the Space Coast
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
12:36 AM Fri GMT
Cocoa Beach wins hearts and minds and is set to become a permanent race venue for the Super Boats.
It was the inaugural Super Boats International (SBI) Grand Prix for the area and according to all involved it proved a success beyond all expectations.
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British Powerboat Festival secures Worldwide TV deal!
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Polygon Marketing,
1:52 PM Fri GMT
UIM BPRC Marathon World Cup races at next weekend’s British Powerboat Festival, powered by RB12.com, will be available to over 500 million households following a landmark agreement between the event organisers, the BPRC (British Powerboat Racing Club) and Isle of Man-based production company, Greenlight Television.
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Boat names forever
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Sail-World Cruising,
8:53 PM Thu GMT
There's always some wag who can come up with a name to set you chuckling - have you seen these on the water?...
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Super Boats to descend on the Space Coast
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
11:31 AM Thu GMT
Thousands of horsepower 'goes to war' in the Thunder on the Beach Space Coast Grand Prix. The field will include vee bottoms and catamarans in varying sizes up to 50' and capable of speeds in the region of 200mph in calm water.
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UIM Formula Future Junior Powerboating – Germany crowned Champions!
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Susie Nation-Grainger,
3:12 PM Mon GMT
UIM Formula Future junior powerboat racing event ran over the weekend (14-15 August) it was team Germany who came away victorious being crowned champion of champions taking first place in both the Continental and World Championships, as well as being presented with the Ralph Froeling Challenge Cup.
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Great Lakes Super Boat GP proves a winner
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
10:40 AM Thu GMT
There was some drama in the event when Popeye's Super Cat throttled by Stan Ware and driven by Lisa Matthews experienced a wild roll over near the end of the race.
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Class 1 World Powerboat Championship - Relekta repairs underway
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Class-1 Powerboat,
1:34 AM Thu GMT
Class 1 World Powerboat Championship - Relekta repairs underway - The heart-stopping moment happened when Relekta’s Paul Gaiser and Christian Zaborowski hooked their boat going into the first turn after the re-start of race one.
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Class 1 World Powerboat Championship - Time penalty changes winner
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Class-1.com,
1:40 AM Mon GMT
UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship Winner - Team Abu Dhabi will walk away with maximum points from this weekend’s Swedish Grand Prix, after today’s race winners’, Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Nendi, were handed a post-race time penalty for an overtaking infringement on the start-lap.
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Class 1 World Powerboat Championship - Fazza takes the win
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Class-1.com,
12:17 AM Mon GMT
UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship - Fazza's Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi put yesterday's race-retirement behind them to ease to a comfortable win in race 2 of the Swedish Grand Prix.
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Revolutionary communications system's new Untethered Undersea vehicles
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Istitution,
11:03 PM Sat GMT
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) engineers and scientists are employing a combination of new undersea technologies to re-define how we think of tethered, remotely operated vehicles.
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Class 1 Swedish Grand Prix - Incident filled race one
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UIM Class One,
9:39 PM Sat GMT
Class 1 Powerboat Swedish Grand Prix - Team Abu Dhabi’s Giovanni Carpitella and Rashed Al Tayer celebrated their maiden Grand Prix win in a dramatic and incident-filled first race, which saw the race red-flagged twice, with pole-sitters Welmax crashing out on lap 1 and both Relekta and Fazza going-out on lap 1 of the re-start.
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Class 1 Powerboat Swedish Grand Prix - Welmax wins Aspen Speed Run
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UIM Class One,
8:05 PM Sat GMT
Class 1 Powerboat Swedish Grand Prix - Welmax duo, Jorn Tandberg and Kolbjorn Selmer, followed up their impressive showing in practice to win the Class 1 Aspen Speed run over the flying kilometre – setting identical times on both their runs.
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Class One Swedish Grand Prix - Welmax quickest in practice
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UIM Class One,
10:54 PM Fri GMT
Swedish Grand Prix - Welmax laid down their marker of intent ahead of this weekend, topping the standings in today’s first official practice session on Uddevalla’s Byfjorden.
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Super Boats ready to rock Michigan City
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Rodrick Cox, Gold Coast ,
4:14 AM Thu GMT
Catamarans and vee bottoms go head to head on Lake Michigan.
Hometown favourite, Dan Davies, at the wheel of ‘Global Warmer', Martin Sanborn on throttles, will be contesting Superboat Vee Unlimited, and says he 'can't wait' for the flag to drop.
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Class 1 Powerboat Swedish GP - Fazza 3 chasing win-double hatrick
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Class 1,
1:10 AM Thu GMT
UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship makes its Grand Prix debut in Sweden this weekend. The defending World Champions, Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi, are in imperious form and seemingly unbeatable.
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Greenland Ice Core team reaches bedrock
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British Antarctic Survey,
7:04 AM Wed GMT
Bedrock has been reached, Tuesday July 27 2010 at the deep ice core drilling site North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) on the Greenland Ice Sheet at the depth 2537.36m.
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UIM Formula Future World and Continental Youths come to the UK
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Emma Slater / RYA,
5:01 PM Mon GMT
UIM Formula Future World and Continental Championship is coming to the UK for the first time ever, with junior power boat racers from across the globe battling it out for a place on the winners’ podium.
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US Sailing receives grant from U.S. Coast Guard in support
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Jake Fish,
9:26 PM Fri GMT
US Sailing, the National Governing Body of the sport, and the U.S. Coast Guard have strengthened their partnership in support of US Sailing’s Small Powerboat Handling program. The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded US Sailing with a significant one-year Drivers Education for Boaters™ grant.
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Super rare Elkhorn Coral found in the Pacific
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies,
12:08 AM Wed GMT
An Australian scientist has discovered what could be the world’s rarest coral in the remote North Pacific Ocean. The Pacific elkhorn coral has regular divergent blade-like branches that radiate out from single or multiple large central stalks.
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Algae to Oil - OriginOil gains from Australian Coal fired research
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OriginOil,
7:42 PM Tue GMT
Algae-to-oil technology is one step closer with Australian company, MBD - USA's OriginOil's first customer - purchasing equipment for its James Cook University facilities.
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Hauenstein and Gillman voted into F1 'Lap Of Honor' Class of 2010
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Philippe Stiernon, ,
3:22 PM Tue GMT
UIM F1 H2O World Championship for powerboating has it's second 'Lap of Honor' recipients for 2010. Fred Hauenstein, a tireless ambassador and true builder of the sport for almost 50 years, along with four time World Champion Scott Gillman, winner of 23 races in just 89 starts, have been elected into the UIM F1 H2O Hall Of Fame
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Internet Images Rules for Events, Sponsors and Event Photographers
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Brendan Maxwell - TetraMedia,
1:52 AM Sun GMT
Sailing is one of those sports which is much more followed on the Internet, than in magazines, newspapers or on television. It is therefore vital that marine events and marine industry professionals pay careful attention to the needs of Internet consumers.
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U.I.M. President vows to unify Class 1
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Class 1,
5:31 AM Fri GMT
Raffaele Chiulli, President of the Union Internationale Motonautique (U.I.M.), the world governing body of marine motorsport, has vowed to spare no effort in unifying Class 1.
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UIM F1 - 8th Grand Prix of Russia - New And Old 'Hero's' make a mark
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Phillipe Stiernon,
8:58 PM Thu GMT
UIM F1 - eighth Grand Prix of Russia - The recently completed eighth Grand Prix of Russia in St. Petersburg witnessed by the tens of thousands of fans along the Neva River saw five of the worlds most talented drivers battle for the final three podium positions in a titanic struggle during the season's only night event.
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Chris-Craft unveils 2011 model range
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
6:29 AM Thu GMT
Latest models show more than 135-years of boat building expertise.
Seven new models scheduled for a 2011 release were on show; they comprised the Launch 20, Launch 25, Launch 28, the Silver Bullet, Corsair 25, Corsair 28 and the Catalina 29 Sun Tender.
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UIM Unlimited Displacement World titles looming
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
4:29 AM Thu GMT
Australia, the United States and New Zealand go head-to-head.
The October meeting will see the largest entry list of Unlimited Displacement Cell boats ever brought together, among them the ‘big bangers' of powerboat racing, boats with engines of 2000hp-plus and speeds in the region of 150mph (241km/hr).
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Whale dismasts yacht - investigation pending
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Sail-World Cruising,
9:25 PM Wed GMT
The advice to stay several hundred metres away from a whale took on new resonance after the latest incident in South African waters. The owners of a well known Cape Town Sailing Academy were dismasted this week by a whale who apparently didn't notice the yacht and breached virtually on top of them.
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