MURRAY HARBOUR PEI

Due to Urduja, Cebu Coast Guard will be the halt for an immense of the vessels for sailing. The weather is the most unpredictable thing that one cannot judge about. This affect in several ways, also when it is some sports event. Recently, because of Tropical Storm Urduja the stationary movement, various larger passenger vessels from Cebu jumped onto Luzon and Mindanao by skipping their specific voyages which are scheduled on Friday. This is completely an understandable situation as far as sports are concerned because one cannot predict about weather condition. At the 5 a.m. in the morning, the Philippine Coast Guard located in Cebu collected thirty-nine grounded passenger vessels and it is not vessels but 9 cargos as well.

Because of unexpected Urduja, Jerome Cayabyab, Cebu Commander cleared the cloud of doubts by saying about the higher chances of cancellation of more trips in order to make landfall on Eastern Samar next day morning.
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Walpole Yacht Club (WYC) has been hosting learn to sail sessions in the month of December and January.

This is the first time that the club is holding this kind of program and it’s going to be the 12-hour Start Sailing 1 course was run. The program will provide beginners the basic skills of sailing and it include rigging, knot-tying, capsize recovery and safety.

 

 

To join the first weeklong program starting from mid-December, novices starting from the six years of age through to adulthood are coming from the places like Denmark, Kent River, Nornalup and Manjimup.
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The Feng Shui racing team from New Zealand comprising of Anatole Masfen, Matthew Kelway and Andrew Mills has lifted the 2016 Etchells Open European Championship.  All the members of the New Zealand Feng Shui racing team were from Auckland and it looks like their chemistry was brought to the fore on the tricky and breezy conditions in the Solent.

This race has over 50 fleets participating that include World champions, Olympians as well as American Cup winners. The British National Champion, Ante Razmilovic, came second in the race and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club Connecticut, USA team under Steve Benjamin came in a close third. The last race of the series saw the former Etchells World Champion and the current America’s Cup winner John Bertrand winning the race. (more…)