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Adventures Weekly: The Original SINS

1 June 2020
This week on Adventures Weekly the Sailor Girl, Nic Douglass took on the challenge of chatting with two incredible sailors and journalists, as well as being two of the founding members of the Society of International Scribes (SINS); Bob Fisher and Rob Mundle. With 35 books, four world championship wins, and a serious and renowned passion for the America’s Cup, it is no doubt that many refer…
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Adventures Weekly: Tracy Edwards

15 May 2020
What a show…! For Adventures Weekly on 15 May 2020 the Sailor Girl welcomed Tracy Edwards MBE, direct from the UK to chat about her inspiring journey with Maiden, andThe Maiden Factor.For a full sixty minutes we chatted about the early days, the Whitbread, the Maiden movie, her motivation(s), the tough times, the good times, and now why she is so motivated to support the…
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Adventures Weekly - 27 March 2020

27 March 2020
Sailing News in 60 Secondsish is back – with the Bad, the Sad and the Good! The Bad were a list of cancellations that Nic couldn’t finish, the Sad was a tribute to John Fisher, or Fish, two years to the day of his passing. The Good, was Sailor Girl’s new “videos of the week” segment – including training inventions while in lockdown, and innovative…
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Sail Paradise 2020

1 January 2020
Day One: Bartercard Sail Paradise Regatta kicks off from Southport Yacht Club To kick off the new decade, the 11thBartercard Sail Paradise Regatta got underway today under a sunny sky in a building nor’easterly breeze with a fleet of 33 yachts. The Race Officer, Southport Yacht Club’s own Mark Dingley opted to start the boats off on a Course 12, the Q1 extended course. Taking…
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#KeepingYouCovered

21 December 2019
64 videos in total, a three-hour pre-start live show talking with over 35 boats through the fleet, start commentary for ABC Grandstand, a world first with live offshore drone coverage of the middle to smaller sized yachts off the coast of Sydney, over 15 hours of live coverage including finishes with over 50 yachts right throughout the fleet in Hobart… This was the core of the “Keeping…
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Smoke on the water

10 December 2019
For the first time in the 26-year-history of the Big Boat Challenge, the race has been abandoned due to safety concerns following the settling of thick smoke from the Australian bushfires over the Sydney basin and a serious lack of visibility. “It was really suggested to us from harbour control that perhaps we shouldn’t be racing” said Race Officer, Denis Thompson. “The smoke…
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40th Edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race wraps up in Malta!

27 October 2019
Over the past few days I have managed to wrap all of the stories that we looked into at the start of the race, and in the case of the first all-female team, a story that I looked into at the conclusion of the Rolex Fastnet Race. Black Sheep take RORC Overall Season I caught up with Jake and Trevor from Black Sheep as they docked and startedcelebrating their Royal Ocean Racing Club…
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Wizard, Wild Joe and the waiting game...

24 October 2019
As our attention starts to turn from line honours bringing the overall and IRC winner back into primary focus, it is becoming more clear that the 40th Edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race will be a small boat race. IRC Divisions 3, 4 and 5 are pushing back to the top of the leaderboard, with BeWild the Swan42 currently leading IRC Overall and Division 4, with last year’s overall winner…
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Rambler 88 take the gun - will they take the double?!

22 October 2019
While they finished 160 nautical miles in front of the next boat, the team were well behind their own record time set in 2007 when they took both line honours and IRC of 1 day 13 hours 55 minutes and 3 seconds. Live line honours finish – Rambler 88 Nic Douglass, the Sailor Girl was live at the finish thanks to the Royal Malta Yacht Club and the Rolex Middle Sea Race.
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