http://www.worldregattas.com/ Sailing and Regatta Event Schedules and Information en-us Copyright (c) 2010 World Regattas. All rights reserved. http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=488 By Lynn FitzpatrickMat Belcher and Malcolm Page, Australia’s Golden Boys, are returning from Europe having accomplished everything that Australia’s best hopes for an Olympic gold medal in sailing could hope for two years prior to the next Olympic Games in London. They have closed out Olympic Class sailing’s rigorous2010 calendar by claiming the Men’s...]]> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:22:58 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=488 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=487 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:06:21 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=487 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=486 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:25:26 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=486 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=485 By Lynn FitzpatrickJuly 18, 2010 (Scheveningen, Netherlands) – Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS) won the 2010 Delta Lloyd 470 World Championship. Australia’s Golden Boys have been filling up their treasure chest this year and today they captured the most coveted bounty of the year, all of the gold and silver that goes along with convincingly winning the...]]> Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:43:04 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=485 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=484 By Lynn FitzpatrickMatBelcher's sailing career wouldn't be the same if it weren't for hisolder brother Dan. Not only did they sail together, the brothers sharedone of the crowning achievements of a sailing career by winning the2000 420 World Championship together. They graduated into the 470together before Dan pursued his MBA and a business career. Mat finis...]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:24:00 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=484 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=483 By Lynn Fitzpatrick Martin Hill is CEO of Estate Master and one of the greatest Belcher & PageLondon Challenge 2012 supporters. Malcolm Page is the logistics managerand trimmer for Estate Master's flagship marketing vehicle, its Farr 40team. Both teams compete in Asia, the Middle East, Australia and Europewhere over 1,300 companies use Estate Master's re...]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:21:19 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=483 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=482 By Lynn FitzpatrickJuly 13, 2010 (Scheveningen, Netherlands) –Australia's Golden Boys Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page started the 2010Delta Lloyd 470 World Championship the same way that they started theirlast ISAF Grade 1 regatta at Kiel Week, with a perfect score. With the first three races of the 2010 Delta Lloyd 470World Championship under their belt, Mat...]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:17:15 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=482 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=481 By Lynn Fitzpatrick July 9, 2010 (Scheveningen, Holland) - The ISAF World Cup Champion in the Men's 470Class, Australia's Mat Belcher, has competed in 11 ranking regattasincluding the 2009 World Championship, during the past year. Belcher has always been at the helm and Malcolm Page has been the crew for amajority of the events. Throughout the year the team'...]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:16:39 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=481 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=480 >By Lynn FitzpatrickJuly 6, 2010 (The Hague, Netherlands) – The Medal Maker, coach Victor Kovalenko is preparing for his 13th 470 World Championship victory with his Australian Men’s 470 team of Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page.Kovalenko, the former Ukrainian and Soviet Union coach is now the Australian Sailing Team’s head coach and has 12 470 World Champi...]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:00:24 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=480 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=479 By Lynn FitzpatrickJune 23, 2010 (Kiel, Germany) – By winning the sixth event of ISAF’s 2010 World Cup, Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS) are this year’s overall 470 Men’s ISAF World Cup champions. With two firsts, two seconds, a fourth and a sixth in this year’s World Cup events, Australia’s Golden Boys have claimed the World Cup title without ...]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:09:14 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=479 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=478 By Lynn FitzpatrickJune 22, 2010 (Kiel, Germany) – Four days of sailing, four races, four bullets. Australia’s Golden Boys, Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page held on to their perfect score for yet another day and lead the 81-boat Men’s 470 fleet going into the final day of racing at Kiel Week, the sixth stop on the 2010 ISAF World Cup tour.Today’s wind co...]]> Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:38:20 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=478 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=477 By Lynn FitzpatrickJune 19, 2010 (Kiel, Germany) – Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page sprinted out of the starting blocks during the first day of racing in the Men’s 470 division at Kiel Week. Australia’s Golden Boys have a perfect score, a total of three points, following three races in the 81-boat fleet. Belcher and Page have won two regattas in the past y...]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:30:30 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=477 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=476 June 21, 2010 (Hamilton, Bermuda) - Alex Jackson's Speedboat reached the transit off the St. David's Lighthouse in the wee hours of the morning and streamed over Bermuda's north shore, through Great Sound, past Two Rock and the Hamilton Princess to take the prime position at Royal Bermuda Yacht Club by 7:00 Monday morning. She docks out on Tuesday ... before...]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:14:50 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=476 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=475 By Mat BelcherLynn Fitzpatrick interviewed our coach, Victor Kovalenko, for a Seahorse International Sailing magazine article, and before we knew it, all of us were involved in a PR and marketing experiment that is benefitting our 470 Olympic campaign."One of the organizers of the 2010 470 World Championship asked me if I could help with advance publicity fo...]]> Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:12:40 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=475 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=474 Sat, 29 May 2010 15:25:08 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=474 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=473 By Lynn Fitzpatrick May 28, 2010 (Medemblik, Holland) – Australians Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page bested the rest of the 81-boat fleet in the Men’s 470 at the Delta Lloyd Regatta today. Their consistent and spectacular performance leapfrogged them into fourth place overall, having started the day in 14th place. They’ll be off to an early start on Saturd...]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 18:44:35 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=473 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=472 May 27, 2010 (Shoreacres, TX) – Pete Melvin and Nat Shaver clinched the 2010 US Sailing Multihull Championship for the Alter Cup. Pete Melvin’s first Alter Cup victory was in 1998 with Roger Jenkins. The Morrelli & Melvin team has been extremely busy with the heightened interest in multihulls that accompanied the last America’s Cup, but these tale...]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 18:35:20 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=472 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=471 Wed, 26 May 2010 20:49:06 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=471 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=470 By Lynn FitzpatrickWhile sailing in his first 470 World Championship in Tel Aviv in 1997, Australia’s Malcolm Page set his sight on the Olympics. “I loved it. The depth at the top of the International 470 Class has always been really great. They are technical boats and the racing is very challenging tactically. For those reasons, the 470’s represent th...]]> Wed, 26 May 2010 07:40:43 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=470 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=469 By Lynn FitzpatrickMat Belcher won a Gold medal in 2000. It wasn’t an Olympic Gold Medal, however it was enough to get him to the Olympics. By winning the 420 World Championship Belcher impressed Australia’s Olympic Committee so much that the young athlete carried the Olympic flag during the Closing Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.“It gave me...]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 14:30:07 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=469 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=468 May 25, 2010 (Medemblik, Holland)Warmed Up for ISAF’s World Cup Delta Lloyd RegattaAustralia’s Golden Boys, Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page are warmed up and ready to sail their fourth ISAF World Cup Sailing event this year. The team is #1 in the World Cup standings and ready to take on a 93-boat fleet of the world’s top 470 Men’s teams.From Mat Belc...]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 14:26:03 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=468 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=467 By Lynn FitzpatrickMay 2, 2010 (San Diego, CA) – Nearly 100 keelboats and over 700 sailors participated in San Diego Yacht Club’s Yachting Cup this weekend. The winner of the Yachting Cup, which is awarded to the winner of the most competitive fleet, went to Chuck Nichols and his J/120 team on CC Rider. Said Nichols, “It was a difficult weekend because...]]> Sun, 02 May 2010 21:11:26 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=467 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=466 By Lynn FitzpatarickApril 30, 2010 (San Diego, CA) – The first three races of the inaugural Melges California Cup were sailed today in a brisk westerly in San Diego’s South Bay. Brian Porter, Vince Brun, Brian’s son and nephew, Bri and Clifford, won all three races on the protected and flat waters of the South Bay today. The California Cup is part of S...]]> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:31:09 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=466 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=465 April 30, 2010, (San Diego, CA) – While horses jockey for a passing lane at Churchill Downs during the Kentucky Derby on May 1st, crews will be fighting for clear air off the starting lines and around the buoys set by San Diego Yacht Club during Yachting Cup. With fifteen boats, the J105’s will turnout the largest one-design fleet in the regatta and the ...]]> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:51:53 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=465 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=464 April 19, 2010 (Miami, FL) - Doctors at Sea remain a dock in Miami, and luck is on their side. The weather forecast looks perfect for their voyage to Haiti. If luck remains on their side, everyone will tie up loose ends on Tuesday and Southern Wind will cast off its lines and pull away from the dock on Wednesday morning.Thanks a development team member of on...]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:11:19 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=464 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=463 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:13:57 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=463 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=462 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:50:12 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=462 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=461 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:37:43 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=461 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=460 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:20:33 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=460 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=459 This article appeared in the April 12 th issue of Mad Mariner.Sailors Offer ReliefBy Annie GowenWith the rainyseason in Haiti begun,sailors around the country are collecting usedsails to help shelter some of the estimated 1.2 million families stillhomeless after the devastating January 12 earthquake. "It's a gigantic need. It's not going to go away for a lon...]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:22:43 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=459 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=458 By Lynn FitzpatrickApril 12, 2010 (San Diego, CA) - Pete and James Melvin won the Area J qualifier for the 2011 Alter Cup, part of the Cat Fight regatta hosted by Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego. The win qualifies them for next year’s Alter Cup, US Sailing’s Multihull Championship. The father and son team went into the final race of a seven-race, on...]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:40:26 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=458 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=457 By Lynn FitzpatrickToday is Good Friday, and Bermuda has a colorful tradition of kite flying on Good Friday and throughout Easter weekend. Each year, Bermudians pull out their supplies of tissue paper, sticks, bamboo, glue, tape, wire, string, ribbons and rags to make kites.Throughout the day, from early morning through sunset, kites are flown high. Great ga...]]> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:50:23 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=457 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=456 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:07:46 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=456 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=455 By Lynn FitzpatrickMarch 22, 2010 – Since the UN's declaration in 1992, March 22nd has been World Water Day. We are also in the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015. This year’s theme is Clean Water for a Healthy World.Water trickling over a parched riverbed of disintegrating plastic bottles toward an outlet in the turquoise Atlantic off of Port au Prince, Ha...]]> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:26:15 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=455 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=454 Photo by Lynn Fitzpatrick of dump site on the shore of Port au Prince. If they are willing to scramble over the debris even before the dust settles to collect scrap metal to the tune of 2 gourdes per five pounds (less than a penny) do you think they could be motivated to collect plastic?]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:05:20 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=454 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=453 Photo by Lynn Fitzpatrick of ingenious toy trucks in Haiti by Lynn Fitzpatrick. Not to be reproduce without permission of Lynn Fitzpatrick and World Regattas.]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:58:20 -0400 http://www.worldregattas.com/ViewInfo.php?ContentID=453