Helly Hansen

The world's elite of Olympic sailing will be meeting for the 127 years old Kieler Woche (20-28 June) - a part of the ISAF Sailing World Cup. Kieler Woche has even more to offer: three high class international championships (the X-35 Worlds, the X-41 Europeans and the SAP Europeans of the 505), the debut of the new Olympic women's class Elliott 6m and the virtual Kieler Woche online are the highlights of this year. Around 5,000 sailors from all over the World will attend parts of the event. Helly Hansen is for the 11th year in a row the official ...

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Hannah made it across the Atlantic - solo!Hannah White was the first woman to cross the finish line this morning at 07.52 (EDT) in the 2009 OSTAR race; single handed from UK to Newport, USA. Twenty six year old Hannah, from Lymington, was the fourth skipper over the finish line after 17 days alone in the North Atlantic.Hannah narrowly missed breaking Mary Falk’s record for 35 foot and under boats. Hannah reports that about one and a half miles from the finish, she had to drop her spinnaker and change course to avoid colliding with a large cargo vessel. She ...

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In one of the closest finishes in the race to date, Ericsson 4 held off the recently resurgent PUMA and Green Dragon teams to win Leg 8 into Marstrand (Sweden), and claim their third consecutive leg win and fifth in the race so far. The victory puts Ericsson 4 in an all but unassailable position on the leaderboard.
"We're very close to winning the race," admitted Ericsson 4 skipper Torben Grael. "But we're not there yet."
His team now holds a 15-point lead with just three scoring opportunities left (for a maximum 20 points) before the finish in St. Petersburg

A couple of weeks ago, Dav, Lorraine Huber (our fellow Kastle rider) and I got to go on this amazing trip to the Lyngen Alps and film with Warren Miller. We met up in Tromsø city, located 350 kilometers inside the Artic Circle, so we were definitely pretty far north. We got to eat some delicious fish soup and check out town for one day before heading out to Lyngen Lodge the next day, about 3hrs away. Lyngen Lodge was built about a year ago, located on the spectacular Lyngen Fjord of Northern Norway and is surrounded by magnificent mountains ...

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