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As Tom Slingsby scooted into first place in the 2010 Laser World Championships I ventured to the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy to chat with the guys who run the learn to sail program and to check out the location of the 2012 Olympic Games.

I fell in love with Weymouth. It’s such a beautiful seaside town with a magnificent Victorian feel. Definitely a place to visit if anyone is ever down that way.

So I really have no idea what happened at the Worlds today apart from knowing that an Aussie is leading (woo!!!!!)

Back at Hayling Island Sailing Club tomorrow.

Until then!

OG OUT.

Overall leader Tom Slingsby carries forward his consistent momentum into the critical six race Finals phase of the Laser World Championships buoyed by his fourth race win and a fifth from the last day of Qualifying heats in Hayling ...

BYM News additions to Photo Gallery Dame Ellen MacArthur - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=562 CG responds to downed aircraft - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=307 Italian Youth Championship -  http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=870 Finn Gold Cup - San Francisco - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=720 St Moritz Match Race - http://www.bymnews.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=303 Campeonato de ...

Dear Classic Yacht Regatta participants. MoY, Sail Newport and our Race Management Team have developed a contingency plan for the Classic Yacht Regatta that will allow for racing on Sunday. Saturday’s Racing Schedule has been abandoned due to the ...

Showing that experience pays in this class, so today veteran windsurfer and quadruple Olympic medallist Alessandra Sensini from Italy pulled into the lead at the RS:X World Championships, being held at Kerteminde, Denmark. Following Wednesday’s layday, today was the ...

Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team was the aggressor on day two of The St. Moritz Match Race in Switzerland, storming through a run of five successive victories including a comprehensive defeat of the reigning ‘King of the ...

The Royal Ocean Racing Club confirmed this morning at 1100 BST that the IMOCA 60 Artemis Ocean Racing had claimed overall victory in the 2010 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. RORC Racing Manager, Ian Loffhagen announced: “Whilst there ...

The VELUX 5 OCEANS has teamed up with marine forecast service PredictWind to ensure skippers and race management have the most accurate weather information available to them. PredictWind combines local topography maps to create the highest resolution wind forecast ...

Team Boskalis (NED) announces crew changes for the Dutch F18 Nationals 2010, to be sailed on September 4-5 in Noordwijk/Netherlands. Gunnar Larsen (NED) joins forces with former member of the Dutch Olympic Match Racing squad Marja van Helden. Ferdinand ...

Whilst the major noise surrounding the 2010 Rolex Middle Sea Race will resonate around Esimit Europa 2’s anticipated assault on the course record, there is much more to the race than the maxi component. The Maltese participation is a ...

Ed Wright (GBR) has taken a comfortable lead at the 2010 Finn Gold Cup in San Francisco after another outstanding day, placing first and third in the two races. Rafa Trujillo (ESP) won the second race of the day to climb to second, while a string of top 10 placings leaves Giles Scott (GBR) in third.

It was a crazy, confusing day at the 2010 Open 470 European Championships in Istanbul, yet somehow Gideon Kliger and Eran Sela emerged from their side of the men's qualifying with two first places.

The Steiner X-Yachts Gold Cup kicked off at Marina di Scarlino in Maremma Tuscany with the first day of racing of the X-35 World Championship and the X-41 European Championship, the X-Yachts Gold Cup organized by the Yacht Club Italiano and the Club Nautico Scarlino, in collaboration with X-Yachts Italia and in partnership with Steiner.

The opening day of racing at the St. Moritz Match Race dawned bright but cold, with the surface of the lake covered in a thin layer of picturesque mist. However, the tranquil setting belied the intensity of racing that was to come most notably between the British and French teams

On the strength of two impressive race wins in slightly stronger breezes today off Hayling Island, Australia's double world champion Tom Slingsby stepped four points clear at the top of the Laser World Championships leaderboard after six of the eight scheduled Qualifying Races have been sailed.

Dutch sailor Dorian van Rijsselberge has launched himself into the lead at the RS:X World Championship, with the final two qualification series races held off Kerteminde, in the centre of Denmark.

The Steiner X-Yachts Gold Cup kicked off today at Marina di Scarlino in Maremma Tuscany with the first day of racing of the X-35 World Championship and the X-41 European Championship, the X-Yachts Gold Cup organized by the Yacht ...