French Single: The Independent: Sailing: Golding fights to finish with Jourdain in sights
A PARTY at midnight was on the cards for Mike Golding and the crew of his Open 60 Ecover as he raced the final few miles to Calais last night. At the end of the 1,850-mile Calais Round Britain race, he was still fighting all the way. Hanging on to a place on the podium in third position, he still had hopes of overtaking the second-placed French single- handed specialist Roland Jourdain, whose yacht has been in his sights for days.In the lead, by 14 miles, was Vincent Riou in PRB. In fourth...
French Single: Let's unite and help our OAPs
Old age is taken for granted in this country where thousands of elderly people die each year because of fuel poverty created by a lack of income because the UK's basic state pension is a pittance at just £82 per week.Utility bills are forever increasing. These deaths among our elderly people are a national disgrace and should shame us all, but the British just do not stand and be counted, unlike the people of continental Europe who do.Link-Age, based in Devon...
French Single: AZAB race 2003 up and running
THE famous Azores and Back yacht race was officially launched on Friday with a reception at the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club in Falmouth.Fifty boats are set to take part in the two-handed and single handed race, including one team from Germany and one from the Azores itself.They will set off from Falmouth on June 7, next year, and sail across nearly 2, 500 miles of ocean to the Azores archipelago and back.Colin Drummond, chairman of the AZAB committee, said the event was becoming...
French Single: Foxhall claws back deficit,
Sailing
Irishman recovers after early mistake in single-handed classic THE first leg of La Solitaire du Figaro turned into the longest stage in the history of the race as 47 skippers battled windless conditions and spring tides on the 385-mile course between Cherbourg and Dublin.The leg, which was won on Tuesday by Michel Desjoyeaux, of France, in TBS after 109 hours at sea, proved to be an enormous test of stamina and willpower, with many skippers arriving over the following 24 hours exhausted...