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UIM X-Cat World Powerboat Series 2012 third heat kicks off on 4th February off the Mina Seyahi waters of the Dubai International Marine Club. The Extreme Marine duo of Rashid Khalifah Al Marri and Salem Fadhel Al Hamli will be the team to beat this weekend.
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UIM F1 H2O World Powerboat Championship - One of the most dynamic and popular drivers in the history of the championship, Marit Stromoy of Norway, continues to build on her ever growing notoriety on and off the water by adding a new partner in sponsorship with Eurolotto for the upcoming 2012 campaign.
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The political leader of Australia's most populous state, NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell announced on Monday night that his cabinet had scrapped an unpopular ban on regular unleaded petrol, which critics had claimed would drive up prices. But marine industry pundits are convinced there are only dangers to boats and increased expense for boaties in ethanol blended fuels.
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GPS-enabled devices could be compromised if a plan to expand the United States’ broadband system goes forward, yet the company that proposes to build a broadband cell-phone communications network it calls LightSquared, 4G-LTE wireless broadband, seems to be as yet completely undaunted by marine industry concern that the vital GPS system is under threat
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24 Heures Motoautiques Rouen – With a mere 18 weeks remaining until this year’s event the International Women’s Team is preparing hard. The goal is to take the top international female inshore pilots and compete in arguably the most grueling boat race in the world. A total of 24 hours of action, driver changes every two hours in extremely rough water.
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There has been a new world record set on the waters off Tasmania's west coast. One hundred and forty five water skiers converged on the West Coast town of Strahan to test the record for the largest number of water skiers to be towed behind a boat.
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Marquis Yachts, LLC (Marquis Yachts) with manufacturing and offices located in Wisconsin (wholly-owned subsidiary of J&D Acquisitions, LLC) has formed an exclusive partnership in China with one of China’s largest and most important state-owned companies, the Poly Technologies Inc. (Poly) for the sales and distribution rights for Marquis Yachts throughout China.
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UIM F1 H2O World Powerboat Championship 2012 - Last years UIM F1 H2O World Championship sensational rookie Shaun Torrente of the Qatar Team is out to prove to his new team and the rest of the world that he is ready to make the next big move in the sport, challenging for wins and podium finishes in 2012.
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Around the world, as internet connectivity leaps ahead with the popularity of Smart phones and tablet technology, as well as soon to be commonplace web-enabled TV, online advertising is outstripping all print media.
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The fact that it occurred at first light must be the excuse for a skiff full of suspected pirates who opened fire and commenced boarding a target ship this week. What a surprise when the 'target' fired back and launched a helicopter. As the light increased they learned why. Rather than a commercial ship which they could have hijacked, it was the flagship of EU NAVFOR itself, the ESPS Patino.
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Sail-World.com is the largest sailing news network in the world. Around the world each day on www.Sail-World.com, we publish up to fifty stories; but, because the site uses geo-location, (meaning that it knows where you are), we only deliver U.S. interest stories to U.S. based audiences and UK interest stories to UK readers for example and as such, most of us only see about 20 new stories each day
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The US-registered maxi, Rambler 100, with a crew of 21, had just passed the Fastnet Rock at around 6.30pm on August 15th when disaster struck. In relatively calm but foggy conditions, Rambler’s keel snapped, causing it to capsize within 15 seconds, throwing the entire crew overboard. Did you know that tragedy, was however prevented in the 2011 race by an Australian made GME PLB?
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24 Heures Motoautiques Rouen - We are pleased to announce the first international all female team competing at the 48th edition of this annual event will be racing with Norways’ Mette Bjerknaes.
The 23-year old has been racing in Formula 2 for two years and is currently the youngest and only female athlete in the World Championship. Mette qualified for an International Super License in 2011
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The Italian driver of the Qatar Team utilized both his skills and youthful exuberance to take the victory over his wily veteran teammate Jay Price of the U.S. with his win in Abu Dhabi early in December that earned him the 2011 UIM F1 H20 World Championship title for power boating for the very first time and in what was only his second season in the series.
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UIM F1 H2O World Championship two time runner-up for the past two seasons and 2008 World Champion Jay Price of New Orleans, Louisiana is announcing he has officially resigned from the championship Qatar Team as of today. 'I am announcing my resignation, the final day of 2011 and will be searching for new goals with the start of a new year tomorrow,' said the American.
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For the first time in the 48-year history of the 24 Heures Motoautiques Rouen an all-female racing team will compete to conquer the River Seine
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Geoff Cropley, trimmer of Betchoice.com Lahana, bets on their post facelift super maxi at the Cruising Yacht Club Of Australia, on 23 December 2011
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Did you know that all of sailing navigation starts with the boat log? And that this vital document can be used in a court of law? Captain John shows you how to make sure your boat log includes these entries for safety's sake!
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Kiwi Yachting Consultants announces a major extension to their product range by acquiring Auto Anchor from RMSD Ltd.
Auto Anchor manufactures electronic windlass controls and rode counters that make anchoring safe and easy. The Auto Anchor system has been nominated for the prestigious 'DAME' award for its intelligent monitoring system of chain and rope released from the windlass.
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F1 H2O Grand Prix of Sharjah - What was expected to be a 37-lap battle for the 2011 UIM F1 H2O World Championship ended three corners into the opening lap when Qatar Team driver Jay Price got tangled up with his teammate Alex Carella going into the circuits tightest turn crashing out in spectacular fashion
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Skydive Dubai and Dubai Duty Free Grand Prix - Al Zafeen and Al Marri produced another faultless display to win the second race and clinch the 2011 UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship.
In what has been a difficult week for the Dubai team the scratch pairing of Al Zafeen and Al Marri, racing together for the first time, responded in the best way possible to complete a hat-trick of wins
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Competitors at the 2011 Australian Offshore Superboat Championships (OSC) were greeted with a ‘Tough day at the office’ last weekend by howling southerlies and temperatures that were more reminiscent of winter rather than summer, in addition to a rolling chop.
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F1 H20 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi – Italian Alex Carella of the Qatar Team held off rival Ahmed Al Hameli of Team Abu Dhabi and teammate Jay Price to move into first overall in the UIM F1 H2O World Championship drivers standings going into the final race of the 2011 season next Friday in the United Arab Emirates city of Sharjah.
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Skydive Dubai and Dubai Duty Free Grand Prix - Arif Al Zafeen and Mohammed Al Marri produced a command performance to win race 1 and clinch the UIM Class 1 Middle East Championship.
The Victory 3 crew were simply in a class of their own and led the 12 lap, 56.20Nm race from start-to-finish to win by over a minute and put themselves right back into contention in the fight for the World title
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Arif Al Zafeen and Mohammed Al Marri will start race 1 of the Skydive Dubai & Dubai Duty Free Grand Prix in pole position. It was an emphatic performance and statement by Victory 3’s ‘scratch’ pairing who clearly have not given up on looking to try to retain the team’s World title.
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please be informed that following an Adverse Analytic Finding in the In-Competition Anti–Doping testing during the Class 1 World Championship event of Cernobbio, Italy 15th-16th October 2011, Mr. Nadir Bin Hendi / boat n° 3, is disqualified from all results/points obtained in the races and other competitions at that event. Mr. Nadir Bin Hendi remains provisional suspended.
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F1 H20 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi – Italian Alex Carella fought off sickness and seventeen other drivers to capture his second pole position of the season and his fourth of his career with a 49.66 second lap and a speed of 166.73 kph and will lead the field for tomorrow's 20th Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi along the edge of the Gulf in what is expected to be in front of thousands of race fans.
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Class 1 Powerboat Skydive Dubai and Dubai Duty Free Grand Prix. Victory Team has confirmed that defending World Champion Nadir bin Hendi will not race in the final Grand Prix of the year and is replaced by double World Champion Mohammed Al Marri – the team stating that ‘we have an internal issue regarding Nadir’.
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Rarely does life – cruel mother beach that it is – allow us to enjoy the best of all worlds.
The biggest fish gets away. Hit a sweet golf drive and you’ll duff the approach shot. Hit a half-century at cricket and you’re sure to drop the match-winning catch. Meet someone with an attractive personality and they’ll be lacking in looks … and vice versa.
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F1 H20 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi - It's taken weeks of planning, a trip to Canada and a flight halfway around the world for both boat and driver but Rookie-of-the-Year front runner Shaun Torrente arrives from Miami to race for the Qatar Team looking to change his luck for this weekend's Grand Prix.
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The teams of the UIM F1 H20 World Championship are rolling into the paddock area that is encompassed by the pristine area around the city of Abu Dhabi whilst two things begin to emerge as story lines for this provisional round of the championship that will run this Friday at 15:30 (11:30 GMT).
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The Skydive Dubai & Dubai Duty Free Grand Prix are set to take place from the 8-10 December. The current World Champions Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi are prepared to line up for the final races of the year in their bid to become the very first Victory pairing to win the grand slam of all four titles in a single season.
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Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing, five times the ISAF Match Racing World Champion and twice the Monsoon Cup winner, faced Jesper Radich (DEN) Adrian Lee & Partners in the Petit Final of the 2011 Monsoon Cup.
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