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26 Nov, 2008
The Vendee Globe is probably the worlds most famous round the world race. The challenge is to sail around the world single-handed without any stopovers. There are very few boats and even fewer sailors that are
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20 Nov, 2008
The recent sportboat demo day at Stonington Harbor Yacht Club was a great success. It not only introduced the latest generation of sportboats to it's members and friends, it opened everyone's eyes to the future of sailing. The venue w
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28 Oct, 2008
On Saturday, October 25th, on the Stonington Harbor Yacht Club Docks, there was a gathering of hot performance boats: Open 5.70; Viper 640; Melges 20; Laser
SB3; RS K-6; and J22 and J80. This was a unique opportunity giving e
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10 Oct, 2008
"For the past quarter-century, the sailboat industry has recognized the best in sailboat building through Sailing World and Cruising World's
annual Boat of the Year awards. At the United States Sailboat
Sho
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16 Oct, 2008
At the Annapolis Boat Show in Maryland we had the privilege of going sailing on the Open 5.70 with "Mr. Clean" from Sailing Anarchy. He shot some video while on the boat and here is what he had to say...
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09 Oct, 2008
Open Sailing will be at the Annapolis Boat Show in Maryland starting on October 9th until the 13th. This is the premier of the newly imported Open 6.50 - the full carbon boat with a beautiful red hull is a real head turner and needs to be seen to be
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12 Sep, 2008
The Open 5.70 is currently at the International Newport Boat Show in Rhode Island. We'll be at space A17 from September 11th - 14th. All the other sport boats will also be in that area and
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29 Jul, 2008
Dear Open Sailing Fans !
Thank you to all of you again for all the support !
June and July were some terrific racing months for the Open 570 fleet: our west coast championship was a real success with 7 boats on the water and clo
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19 Jun, 2008
Some great news again!
We have 4 more owners in the fleet! The fleet is expanding in Rhode Island, Texas, Oklahoma and California!
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16 May, 2008
Hi everyone,We can defin
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06 May, 2008
Hi Everyone,
Really, the fleet in the US is starting to take off at an EXPONENTIAL rate !!!
For those of you who follow us, you must know we have been busy promoting the boat around the country.
Last month, we were at the Oakland
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22 Mar, 2008
Hello everyone,Sailing Sportboats is proud to announce that the Open 5.70 is on the way to be built in the USA !!!
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22 Feb, 2008
Hi everyone,
It is now clear that the Open 5.70 fleet is one of the strongest OD fleet in Los Angeles. For the past 2 races, the Open 5.70 fleet had its own start with 5 or more boats !
We are happy to announce that the first Open 5.70 in S
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30 Jan, 2008
The Champagne Series is, in Marina Del Rey, the first large buoy race of the season. With 35 boats entered this year, it was 2 great Saturdays of racing organized by South Bay Yacht Racing Club.
The first Saturday was very ligh
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17 Dec, 2007
The Holidays have started at SAILING SPORTBOATS!
If
you want to get ready for the new 2008 racing and sailing season,
the holidays season might be a good time for you to get some new sailing gear or
even a new boat !
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12 Dec, 2007
Hello Everyone,
For the second time in U.S. history, the
Open 5.70 will have an Annual Meeting / End of the Year party at South
Coast Corinthian Yacht Club on Saturday the 15th of December from 2pm
to 5pm.
All Open 5.
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06 Dec, 2007
Sailing Sportboats figured that after a long year working and sailing around, it was time to go to the Paris Boat Show.
This past week, Brendan (Sailing Sportboats rep for the Open 5.70) and
Jerome have been working along the aisles&nbs
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09 Nov, 2007
A few weeks ago, Nauteek Tactical Electronics contacted us and asked if we could try their new instruments.
Oh by the way, there are already quite a few r
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02 Nov, 2007
We have a new boat in town, bringing to 7 the number of Open 5.70 in Los Angeles.
This blue Open 5.70 is hull # 208...still fresh out of the mold and ready to play with us in So. Cal and beyond.
The new owner, Mike, will keep his boat in Marina
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16 Oct, 2007
On October 15th, I was invited to sail on a POGO 40, another JM FINOT design. The POGO 40 belongs to the Class 40 and is a single handed / short handed ocean racer.
If you are familiar with the Open boats, well the POGO is basically the sa
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15 Oct, 2007
This month, Sailing Sportboats has decided to race single handed...why? mostly for the fun of it.
The first race, saturday the 6th was a lot of fun. Although racing in a PHRF band from 90 to 222, the race was fun and very casual. I finished 4th ou
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15 Oct, 2007
So, once in a while, we look at our website. Yesterday we noticed that we did not put any news since our last trip to the bay area (SF) which was at the end of August.
It's not like we are getting too lazy. "Au contraire", we have b
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28 Aug, 2007
Last weekend, we raced out of Richmond YC for the Sport Fest Invitation Regatta. We had planned to be 4-5 Open 5.70s at the start, but the race was not on our calendar and 2 OD races were already schedule. 'Chupacabric' was therefore the 'ugl
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28 Aug, 2007
Sailing Sportboats just spent 4 days in the Bay area and had a terrific time.
On Thursday, the Open 5.70 arrived at Berkeley Yacht Club. Brian, local racer and Andrew, from New Mexico went out on a demo ride with Jerome. As you know, BYC i
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21 Aug, 2007
We just came back from Santa Barbara!
Nik and I had a blast taking some sailors for a ride with our boats.
The wind was great, blowing most of the weekend between 10-12 knots. Just enough to get the 570 on a plane and have fun!
Thank
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19 Aug, 2007
This weekend, Nik and Jerome organize demo rides on their Opern 5.70. On Saturday, with a nice breeze of 10-12 knots, Nik and Jerome introduced the boat to 6 sailors from Santa Barbara.
We all had a blast, match racing outside the harbor.
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16 Aug, 2007
The popularity of the Open 5.70 sportboat in the
United States continues to grow as boats are popping up in pockets all
across the country. Just over a year ago there were no 5.70s in the
country and now there are 23 boats sold
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05 Jul, 2007
Last week, we delivered "Pirouette", the Open 5.70 that will now sail out of Jackson Yacht Club, near Ridgeland in Mississippi. The boat is rubis red with a white racing bottom paint as the owner, Marcus will keep the boat in the water, for most of t
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19 Jun, 2007
Congratulations to Roy who just bought the first Open 5.70 in Northern California.
Roy will be mostly sailing this summer in Lake Tahoe.
His boat is a light blue hull...and the spinnaker is lime green!
Thanks Roy and see you
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04 Jun, 2007
Last weekend was again a great One Design weekend for the Open 5.70 fleet in Southern California.
With 5 boats at the start, we are all proud to play around during a good weekend of breeze going from 10 to 15 knots, mostly south west.
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31 May, 2007
Rich Festa, member of California Yacht Club became this week the proud owner of Chupacabric...Although he will change the name of the boat, he will race with us in PHRF and One Design, starting this weekend for Cal Race Week.
Rich, Ton
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10 May, 2007
As you know, one of the Idaho's specialty is their famous potatoe (correct me if I am wrong...after all, I am French and still learning the American culture).
Well, the second specialty will become soon (it's good to dream) the Open 5.70.
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10 May, 2007
Here we go! USA 189 (Sailing Sportboats team) with spinnaker up 15 minutes before the gun of last beer can race wednesday 9th of May.
Three Open 5.70s were out playing.
It seems that our rating (in typical southern california) racing condit
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10 May, 2007
Sailing Sportboats is happy and proud to announce LAYLINE as the new Distributor of the Open 5.70 in the South East of the USA.
Layline is definitely one of the top Yacht Racing Equipment company in the USA and is managed by a real sailors and
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10 May, 2007
Rubic is ready to go!!!
Yesterday, Kathy and Bruce finished the last little things on their boat and were hoping to splash Rubic for the first time for the Wednesday night race. Unfortunately, the insurance for the boat was only going
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08 May, 2007
Well, as you have probably heard everywhere, the N2E race was stranger than any previous years. Not only we had light air but the wind was mostly blowing south - south east the entire race.
We sailed /raced until 9:00 am saturday and decided t
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20 Apr, 2007
Sailing Sportboats is currently at the Oakland Boat Show. If you are in the area, just give us a call at 310-500-6216 and we will let you in for free...we still have some "complimentary passes" to be used.
We have two Open 5.70: one on display
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14 Apr, 2007
That's it! We are participating to the Newport Beach, CA to Ensenada Race starting April 27th!!
YEAH! Can't wait and hope for screaming wind!
and NO NO...we are not racing on an Open 5.70 but are using our good old screa
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12 Apr, 2007
You have probably noticed that we have a VIDEO GALLERY on the website...we are still trying to figure out the best way to put some videos up...
We finally found the right type of file, the one everyone can view from any computer and without waitin
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08 Apr, 2007
Welcome to Marcus from Jackson, Mississippi who bought last Friday the first Open 5.70 in the South East of the USA.
The boat will be the same color than Scot's in Oregon - rubis red - with a white spinnaker.
Marcus's boat will be delivered
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25 Mar, 2007
With three 1st place, one 2nd place and one DSQ, Sailing Sportboats still wins the 1st place in the One Design Open 5.70 race out of SCCYC last weekend!!
Yeah!
More pictures and info about the race itself coming soon!
Jer
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25 Mar, 2007
David, driving his brand new boat in the main channel of Marina Del Rey, CA!
Nice breeze! Great looking boat!
David had a great time and about 20,000 questions when returning from his first time out on the boat!!
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Good luck David a
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16 Mar, 2007
Sailing Sportboats is pround to announce that the Fifth Element missing to our Southern California Fleet has just found a new owner.
Today, Rebecca and David bought the red Open 5.70 that we had in stock taking the flee
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09 Mar, 2007
Two new boats arrived in Marina Del Rey early February...I know, that sounds like old news...
Our demo boat is sold to Brendan out of RI and the white (see photos) therefore becomes our new demo boat ('Chupacabric').
The red is for sal
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09 Mar, 2007
Back in 2006, Sailing Sportboats won the Midwinter Regatta in the Sportboats Class against Melges 24 & 30, Viper 830, Cheetah 30! Sailing Sportboats was racing on 'Chupacabra' ('Goat Sucker'), Martin 243...still the fastest 24 foot boat in North
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07 Mar, 2007
The
SCYA Midwinter Regatta is considered by most to be the first race of
the season. For us it wa
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06 Mar, 2007
Many of you are looking for a raceboat that's simple, stable, and sensational to sail, and we found it in the Open 5.70. My fellow judges agree that this Open 60-like craft is one of the best new European-bred one-designs we'v
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