Saturday, March 26, 2011

CS 30

Boat: CS 30

Builder: CS Yachts (Canadian Sailcraft)

Designer: Tony Castro

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News:

Kingfisher & GBR Challenge join forces for Fecamp regatta


Author: Mark Bullingham

Two of Britain's sailing stars are to unite for next week's Fecamp regatta as Ian Walker, Sailing Manager of Peter Harrison's GBR Challenge, is to join Ellen MacArthur's Kingfisher crew for the event.

Completing the crew are Nick Moloney, Simon Fry (also from GBR Challenge), Mark Turner, Anthony Merrington, Philipe Cairo and Ellen MacArthur.

At the regatta, to be held from the 30th April to 5th May, Kingfisher will face competition from some of the top single handed sailors in the world, including: Thierry Dubois, Thomas Coville, Bernard Stamm, Bernard Gallay and Roland Jourdain.

Walker outlined the benefits to both programmes "We're really looking forward to sailing with Ellen, and on board Kingfisher. It's great that two of the high profile sailing projects in Britain can work together. There's much that we can learn from the way Ellen and Mark Turner ran their programme and from the technology involved in Kingfisher. I also hope that we might be able to benefit their project and come up with some new ideas for Ellen and Nick."

Ellen commented "It will be great to be back on Kingfisher and will be interesting to race with a crew in a close quarters situation, in particular just to see the results of the improvements that Nick Moloney and the crew have been overseeing during the refit.

What better way to test Kingfisher than to sail with Ian Walker and Simon Fry from GBR Challenge onboard to teach us a few tricks about sailing closer to land! It's fantastic that we are bringing these two different areas of professional sailing together "

More Information:

  • GBR Challenge Website
  • Kingfisher Challenges

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